Well I did plan on getting this up yesterday, but real life got in the way. But here is the next chapter, hope you like it.

Disclaimer: Any mistakes are mine and that is all.

It had been a week since Kate had moved in and it had been quiet so far, there had been a quick open and shut case and catching up on paperwork. It was her day off and she was currently sleeping in her and Rick's bedroom when the sound of her phone had woken her up.

She yawned and reached over to get it. "Beckett."

"Hey girl." Lanie said on the other end of the phone. "I didn't wake you did I?"

Beckett glanced over at the clock on the side of her bed and focused her eyes on the blaring numbers as it informed her that it was nine am. "No worries Lanie, I was going to get up soon anyway. What's up?"

"Well I was going to ask if you had seen the paper today, but since you've only just got up I'm going to say no. Where's writer boy?"

Kate glanced to her right and noted that he wasn't there, it was cool so he had been up for awhile. "He's around somewhere I'll go find him, wait a second."

Still holding the phone to her ear she lifted the quilt up shivering as the cold breeze hit her and slipped his shirt from the floor over her head. She let out a small yawn as she walked through to his study, not seeing him writing she figured he would be making breakfast. She walked out of the study and didn't see him in the kitchen either.

"That's odd." She said down the phone.

"What's odd?"

"Rick's not in the study or the kitchen." She walked towards the kitchen counter where the paper was put along with a note and coffee brewing. She read the note from Rick which informed her that they had run out of milk and a few other essentials so he had run to the store and would be back as soon as he could. "Never mind, he's run to the store. So what am I looking for in the paper?"

She sat on the stool and picked up the paper, not noticing anything exactly eye catching on the front she flipped it open to the next page scanning the articles.

"Flip to the celebrity news." Lanie said waiting for the reaction.

Just as Kate flipped to the required page Rick walked through the door. "Hey Kate, you're up."

She hummed at him and looked over the paper. "So what am I looking-" She trailed off as she caught sight of a picture.

"I'm guessing you know what I called for then?" Lanie asked.

Noticing the look on her face Rick went behind Kate and looked over her shoulder to see what she was reading. He glanced over the page until he noticed the same picture Kate was looking at in the top left hand corner of the paper.

The headline above read New Queen of the Castle? It went on to show a picture of her and Rick walking down the pavement and a close up of her hand where her engagement ring sat. They hadn't made an announcement to the press or the public and since there was now a picture they obviously didn't need to. Luckily Kate had been wearing a loose fitting top that day so the baby bump that had been making an appearance wasn't shown.

The small article that had been printed went on to explain how the engagement had only been made recently since the couple had recently been spotted a couple of weeks before and she had been wearing no ring. There was even the small rumour that she had moved in, which was true anyway, since Rick had been sited moving boxes into the place.

"When did they get that?" He asked.

"I have no clue." Kate said.

"So what are you going to do?" Lanie asked.

"Well there's no real damage done really, they're only pointing out the obvious." Kate said.

"I'll give Paula a ring later."

"Lanie I'll call you back later." Kate said. "I'm going to have some breakfast and figure this out, and I'm sure that you have to get back to work."

Lanie gave a small sigh down the phone. "You're right, I should probably get back. Catcha later girl."

With another quick goodbye Kate hung up the phone.

"There's no reason to worry over this you know." Kate said turning to face Rick. "I really don't mind if that's what you think."

"You don't mind?" He asked looking at her to make sure.

"Rick, I knew when I got with you what was involved. If that means I have to have my picture taken every now and then so be it. I mean it's not like we have the press camping outside." She smiled. "Besides when I told Natalie Rhodes that your status didn't come up much I meant it." She smirked a little.

"Way to hurt a guys reputation." Rick smiled feigning hurt.

"You'll get over it, now I was being serious about breakfast." She gave him a gentle shove towards the kitchen before taking the milk from out of the bag and making herself a drink.

Later that morning Rick was sat in the study, typing away softly for the new chapter of his book. He was halfway through the sentence when his phone rang. He picked it up and checked the called I.D.

"Good morning Paula."

"Good morning to you too Rick." Paula said. "So when were you going to tell me?"

"You may have to be a little more specific than that."

"Well given that you haven't rang me up over this article in the paper I'm assuming that it's true."

"Yes it's true Paula. Kate convinced me that it would be more hassle to argue over that statement, besides they do a pretty good job of leaving me alone for long periods of time."

"Where has she been?" Paula murmured. "While I have you can I speak with Kate?"

Rick stood up and spotted Kate entranced in a show she was watching. He walked over and handed the phone to Kate.

"Paula wants a word with you."

She looked at him with a puzzled look, he shrugged in response.

"Hello?" Kate said.

"Hi Kate, nice to talk to you. Congratulations by the way, on the engagement."

"Thanks."

"So I was wondering, since you did such a good job over the press situation with Rick. How can I convince you to get him to do a signing?"

Kate bit her lip a little and thought for a minute. "If you seriously need him to do it I can convince him."

Rick was standing behind her and was listening to Kate's side of the conversation.

"That would be great. It wouldn't be much just a few book stores, maybe even a reading."

"I can do that Paula." Kate smiled. They said their goodbyes with Kate telling Paula that Rick would call with details if she was successful.

Rick sat beside her. "So what was that about?"

"Paula wants you to do a book signing." Kate said. "I told her I would convince you to do it."

"And how were you going to convince me exactly?" He asked smirking.

"I have my ways." Kate smiled.

"Please do try those on me."

It was later in the afternoon they were both snuggled together watching the TV when Kate turned her head and looked up at him.

"So are you going to do the book signing?"

"Only if you do it with me."

"Really? My powers of persuasion obviously didn't work good enough."

"Come on Kate it'll be fun." His eyes lit up and she rolled her eyes at him.

"I'll do one signing and you owe me big time."

If anything this would be fun, she thought. Like she had mentioned before to him if he could come and show her how to do her job it was only fair that she could do the same to him.

He leant down and kissed her lightly. "I always owe you big time."