Loved your story! You are a great writer!

very good

So should have been a part of the show.
Thanks good start of the day.

Random re-read (think I've read this one a few times)...you do these two so damn well.

The "I can tell" and "Don't be smu-" exchange gets me every time.

Beautiful... and moving... and hot.

...and the bed smells like her! :D

Oh, nice, this could have very much happened in canon. The depth of the situation with the side of usual Caskett banter are spot-on. I loved your wording of Castle's thoughts in the beginning: "He still steps over the spot in the middle of the bedroom where she always kicked off her heels..." - beautiful imagery.

Awesome work!

Not usually one for the M section, but I really liked this! I loved the detail you paid in referring specific set pieces (the elephants, the bird, the paperweight), since I knew immediately what you were talking about. Also, I'm just a general sucker for between scenes.

There were a few lines in particular I liked (though since when do I need to use inspect element to grab a quote off FF?).

"He wishes he had insisted on it because he can't feel her here. Standing in a sea of half-unpacked boxes, her possessions surrounding him, and still he can't feel her.”
...
"He realized it that afternoon, her "emI love you /em"still playing in his mind as he pulled his suitcase into the bedroom to unpack. The comforter gave under his weight, a stale puff of air smelling of dryer sheets and his own cologne floating up to meet him. His ribs still ache from the painful kick of his heart, the tight pull of his lungs as he searched in vain for even the tiniest suggestion of Kate."

There's something vaguely soft and sad about them; really made me feel his mind-frame.
Anyway, really enjoyed!

oh god, this was so very very amazing!

it was a perfect episode filler. absolutely perfect.

like you always write.

perfect :))

That is probably how it happened, but something tells me that Caskett probably has a lot of experience against the wall and or door. Just seems like them lol. That was a sexy, yet hot, yet a classic Caskett story. Kudos, loved it!

Thanks for sharing!

Amazing. I loved his realization that he couldn't smell her around him anymore... booking tickets for two hours later... and then the ultimate resolution in the last line. Perfect as usual.

you can actually feel their longing and passion in this short story which I really enjoyed

Sexy and emotional and a perfect last line.

You did it again, sweet and hot and heartbreaking at the same time, and all while keeping them so beautifully in character.
Thank you. Please keep writing them.

I LOVED this. so great. I love that he missed her smell and went to go find it. : )