Night Falls: Chapter 10

They took the taxi home that night-after Beckett had finally convince the Captain that they would be safe and would call him if anything at all seemed suspicious. Not only that, but as Rick had mentioned to him that he had warned the security in his building what was going on and they had upped it especially for him. They watched TV, after all, and had seen what had been on the news for the past week or so and being the famous author that he was, they were more than happy to assist.

Kate hated to admit it, even to herself, but the fact that there was a serial killer out there, still roaming the streets did put her on the alarm. She began to double check the doors and windows sometimes at night before they went to bed. She didn't think he would, but Rick noticed. He was grateful that the Captain had recognized it too and had given them that day off to just relax with their friends. It felt good and he could tell by the way Kate was leaning against him in the taxi as they were making their way back to his place that she was beginning to unwind.

He smiled and leaned his cheek down to the top of her head. "That was nice." He told her as he ran his hand down, soothing her arm.

"It was. We haven't done that in so long-go out with just the precinct I mean, I forgot how fun it could be."

"We should do it more often." He replied then smiled. "Oh, I know. We could invite the whole precinct over one day for a party. Like the Halloween party I had a year ago. If I remember correctly, you didn't dress up for that."

"No, I didn't." She replied, then glanced up at him and smiled. "But the look on your face made it worth it."

"How was I to know that that 'thing' was going to pop out at me? For all I knew, I thought that my wildest dreams had come true and you were indeed wearing nothing under that coat of yours."

"You have too many sexual fantasies to keep up with." She teased him. "Next, you're going to tell me about some fantasy you've had in your office while you're writing."

He just looked down at her and smirked.

"I think I might know you too well." She said and leaned her head back on his chest once more. "Who knows, maybe we'll act out some of the fantasies eventually."

"I would be more than grateful if you wanted to help act those out." They were silent for a couple of seconds and Castle glanced out the window to see all the buildings they were passing by. "Now that you know my dark secrets, what are some of yours?" He asked seductively. He nearly made her jump when he suddenly shifted, causing her to look up at him. "Let me guess. One of me and you in the bathtub; you reading a copy of Heat Wave or better yet, I'm reading it to you. We could read the pages with the incredibly hot sex scene between Rook and Nikki together." He told her suggestively. "Then act out the parts afterwards."

"Are you sure those aren't some of your fantasies?" She asked once the taxi had stopped Rick's place.

They both got out and walked in hand in hand, greeting the doorman as they made their way inside. Kate was still a little tipsy, Castle noted, as they walked towards the elevators, taking them up to his floor.

"Careful there, detective." He said as she staggered once the elevator had begun its lift. "I think someone had a little too much fun tonight." She glanced over in his direction, like she had said, the whole precinct had never really gone out before as a whole, so she decided to have her fun while she could. "It's ok." He promised her. "I promise not to take advantage of you." Then added a couple of seconds later, "Unless you want me to."

She couldn't help the smile that spread upon her face. "Is Alexis home tonight?"

"No. She went to stay at one of her friends. They have a big project or something coming up and thought it'd be better to work on it over there. Apparently I can be some sort of an annoyance for her whenever she's trying to do homework."

"Can you believe that?" She asked sarcastically.

"I know. It hurts me, it truly does." He told her playing along. "And mother is not here as well. Although, I'm not entirely sure what she's doing."

The elevator dinged its arrival and they made their way towards his door. She watched as he expertly fished out the right key and put it into the lock, turning it and swinging the door open. He moved aside, allowing her to enter first before he retrieved his keys and locked the door behind him. Kate glanced around, just making sure that nothing was out of place or looked different from the way they had last left things. Everything looked fine, so she slowly made her way over to the couch, being careful as to not bump into anything. Rick came up behind her once she had sat down.

"Can I get you anything?" he asked, stepping in front of her and taking off his jacket. He laid it carelessly on the chair opposite of them before taking a seat beside her. "We didn't really eat anything, it was mostly just drinks." He pointed out. "I could make something or we could order in?"

"Order in is fine with me." She told him.

"Alright." He said and patted her leg before he got up and made his way towards the kitchen.

He made a call to one of their favorite Chinese restaurants and soon came back to join her.

"It should be here, thirty minutes tops." He sat back down with her again, grabbing the remote from the table and turned the television on. He brought his hand up on her shoulder and carefully brought her down on top of him, with her head resting against his chest. "Do we need to talk about it?" he asked after a couple of minutes of flipping through the different channels.

"Talk about what?" she asked him.

He knew that she knew what he was talking about, but decided to explain anyways. "About the press, about what it means for us?"

She let the question hang in the air for a couple of minutes, knowing that he was patiently waiting for her reply. They had gone through the whole press argument before, but now they were a couple and he knew that it was probably bothering her. Especially with the news that came on tonight. She had tried to play it off, yes. Bu he knew how she truly felt about it, she had told him after all that she would hate to have to deal with it on a day to day basis which was almost what she was doing now.

"It doesn't change anything." She said after a while. "They're going to keep doing what they're doing, no matter what we say."

"I know." He sighed heavily, that was what he hated about the press. If you asked them to stop, they were just going to push further. "But like you said earlier tonight…do you want us to tell them? That we're a couple I mean?"

"I think they'll be able to figure it out eventually. Especially when they keep seeing the two of us together when we're not working a case."

He smiled at this. "Alright." He told her and kissed the top of her head. "Kate," he said seriously getting her attention. "I want you tell me if there's anything that's ever bothering you. I know I've probably said this a lot, but I mean it, you're special to me and I want us to last. Which means that if anything is ever bothering you, I'm going to do everything within my power to fix it. You'd be surprised how much power I actually have." He told her, smiling.

She smiled back and slowly lowered her hand down to the tops of his pants. "I think I might have an idea, actually."

"Would you like me to show you again?"

Her smile broadened, "Trying to take advantage of me?"

"Only if you'll let me." He replied, then brought his hand up to tuck her hair behind her ear, giving him a clear view into her eyes.

"And the food?" she asked as she moved her mouth closer to his.

"I'll leave a note, telling them to leave it outside the door." He replied as his mouth met with hers.

So I feel like I owe a bit of explanation here... School's been CRAZY! Not only that, but I've been doing some solo projects of my own that involve A LOT of writing, and that's why i haven't updated in forever. Not to mention that for some dumb reason I can't log into fanfiction at my school-stupid right? Anyways, I hope you guys didn't lose interest in this story and maybe you'll even re-read it and it will give you something to do? Well, I hope so =)

Don't expect the next chapter anytime too soon-exams are coming up, but what I can tell you is that I've started working on it =) oh and I've started another fanfic that I think you'll enjoy!

That's it! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! :D