Disclaimer: I don't own Castle. The talented writers and producers do, I am just borrowing the characters for a bit of fun.

This takes place over the summer after season 3 but the finale never happened. I was thinking of changing my story to make it fit but realized that I didn't really want to. Spoilers may be in here, from any episode up to and including Pretty Dead. Please read the author's note at the end also. Thanks!

The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend

"So guys, what are your plans for this weekend?"

"Gee Castle, the Captain, just gave us the weekend off two minutes ago," Beckett said as they all walked back to their desks in the bullpen.

"I was just thinking that since Alexis is going to be off with Ashley's family and Mother is doing her summer stock again, maybe you all would like to come to the Hampton's with me for the weekend."

"You all meaning who all?" Ryan asked.

"You, Jenny, Beckett, Esposito and Lanie."

"Jenny was talking about wanting to do something this weekend."

"Yeah, Lanie would love to go to the beach," Esposito said, his mind immediately going to thoughts of her in a swimsuit.

"I thought you needed to finish the next book, Castle," Beckett said.

"I do but I don't have too much left. I was going to tell you all later that I was going to go and just stay there for a week or two to finish it up."

"If you don't have much left, why ask us to be there? Won't we distract you?" Esposito asked.

"Not at all. I work better with some distractions. Come on you guys," he said knowing Beckett was the only hold out. "It's right on the beach. There are plenty of rooms, a pool and a hot tub. I'll probably be writing most of the time so you will have to entertain yourselves but there so much to do, that shouldn't be a problem."

"I'll think about it," Beckett said as she turned to go to the break room.

"So are we still invited if she doesn't go," Esposito asked.

"Of course," Castle said as he turned to follow Beckett, pausing only to tap a few buttons on his phone. He walked up behind her and held out his phone showing her the picture of the view from the porch. "This would be a great spot to catch up on some of the books that you've wanted to read. There's a porch swing."

"I don't know, Castle."

"I promise. I'll be on my best behavior."

"Yeah, you've said that before," she said with a smile.

"I mean it. I'd like to have someone to talk to that isn't making lovey- dovey eyes at someone else. Please it would be cruel of you to make me deal with those four on my own."

"Maybe you should have thought of that before you invited then," she said as she went back to her desk.

He sighed and poured some more coffee, taking his time fixing it just right before he walked back to the bullpen.

"So you going, Boss?" Ryan asked.

"Sure, just can't let Castle think it's that easy," she grinned as she watched him walk in the bullpen with a sad face. Ryan and Esposito also grinned when they saw his expression.

"So Castle, is there anything Jenny and I can bring?"

"Just yourselves," he said.

"You sure we can't bring anything?" Beckett asked.

"You're going to come?" A excited smile broke out on the writers face.

"Sure, why not. I have wanted to catch up on Patterson's newest books anyway."

"Harsh, Beckett," Esposito laughed.

"Well, someone won't let me read his books until he's done with them," she joked.

"There will be a copy printed out waiting for you at the house," Castle replied seriously.

"You don't have to do that Castle," she said surprised at the offer.

"As I said, don't worry about bringing anything unless it can only be gotten here in the city. We can stop at the store and get anything else we need while we are there. I'll email you directions. Beckett, what time would you like me to pick you up?"

"I can drive myself," she insisted.

"I know but I don't want to take four different cars. Are you both going to drive?" he asked Ryan and Esposito.

"We'll go together," Ryan said.

"Good. The key is in a lock box by the back door. The password is 012945. Call me when you get there and I'll make sure the alarm is off," he said wiggling his phone.

"You can turn your alarm off with your phone?" Esposito asked. "I need to get one of those phones."

"Dude, you need to get an alarm," Ryan commented as they walked back to his desk.

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"Hand me your bags," Castle said to Beckett after he knocked on her door at 2pm the following day.

"I can carry them."

"Humor me," he said as reached for the larger bag. She simply rolled her eyes at him and let go of the bag.

"Let me just make sure everything is secure," she said as she slipped into her bedroom. He looked around her apartment but didn't try to go in more than the foyer. Moments later, she returned, grabbed a book from the coffee table, stuffed it in her small bag then opened the door.

"So I figure that once we get to the house, we can all get settled in then run to the store and get the stuff that we need."

"Sounds good," she said as they walked out of the apartment building. Castle popped the trunk on his Ferrari and once her bags were stowed, he just handed her the keys. "Really? You're going to let me drive?"

"You were not asking very loudly," he grinned.

"I didn't think you would let me drive it again," she said with a smile as she sat in the car.

"I figured that I would bring it and let Esposito take it for a drive later."

"Oh, you know he is going to love that."

"I set the GPS for you in case I get distracted. I tend to do that when I'm not driving."

"Really? I hadn't noticed," she said with sarcasm, earning her a glare from him.

They fell silent as Kate drove through the Friday afternoon traffic. Rick's attention soon turned to his phone, which he considerately turned the sounds off on. As much as he liked to pester Kate with making noises and such, he didn't really want to do that while she was driving his car in New York City traffic.

"Are we there already?" he asked as Kate stopped the car. He rubbed his eyes, surprised that he had fallen asleep.

"Not exactly," she said looking in the rearview mirror. "Can you hand me the registration and insurance card?"

"What?" Rick asked as he finally looked behind them and saw the blue and red flashing lights of a local police car.

"Just hand me the registration and insurance card," she said crankily.

He tried to hide his smile as he got out the necessary paperwork as the office walked up to the car.

"License, registration, and proof of insurance, please."

Kate handed the papers over then waited until he walked back to his cruiser before speaking. "Not a word, Castle. Don't say a word."

He opened his mouth, closed it then just smiled at her and did as she said by not speaking. Minutes later the officer came back to the car.

"Try to keep the speed to the posted limits, Detective Beckett," the officer said as he handed her license and other paperwork back to her.

"Will do, Officer Reed," she said as he walked back to his cruiser with a smile on his face. She just knew that it was going to be all over his precinct that he pulled over an NYPD detective for speeding.

"Beckett-"

"I told you not a word."

"How long was I asleep?" he asked.

"About an hour and a half," she replied surprised that he wasn't going to mention the speeding.

"I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I was that tired. I was up late working on the book."

"It's okay. I was enjoying the drive. Did you want to stop at the store first or the house?"

"The house. We can get the other car, there's more room for groceries."

Soon they arrived at his beach house and she pulled up to the garage. He hopped out and punched in the code on the door and stood aside as she pulled in beside the SUV. They soon had the car unpacked and were in the house. Rick dropped his small bag off at the door of his room downstairs and offered to give Kate a tour of the house. There were four bedrooms upstairs and three bathrooms. Kate decided to take the room that shared a bathroom with what was obviously Alexis's room.

"You could take one of the other rooms, you don't have to share a bathroom."

"I won't be. Alexis won't be here and even if she was, I bet she would rather share a bathroom with me than a couple."

"Good point. Want to go get groceries?"

"Sure, are you going to let me drive again?"

"Nope but that does remind me of something," he said as he grabbed a piece of paper, pen and paper clip and quickly wrote a note. He led the way out to the garage and stopped briefly at the Ferrari putting the note in the glove box and a garage door opener on the visor.

"What are you doing?" she asked suspiciously.

"Just a little fun," he replied.

Author's Notes: I am going to need your help with this one. This originally was going to be much shorter but I kept adding more to the back-story and it went nuts from there. Eventually, this story will have two ratings, T and M, but you can read only the T rated part and understand it all. Now for the help, if you all can think of any good questions that you would like Castle, Beckett or the rest of the gang to answer, post them in a review or send me a private message and I will see about adding that to the story. This part is shorter for now (some people were concerned about chapters being too long on my last story) but if you would rather, I'll try to make them longer.

Hope you enjoy! Disclaimer: Castle doesn't belong to me.