Was watching Cuffed and the comment about the police picnic gave me this idea and since I hanv't written in a while I decided to try the idea.

To anyone who is reading my other stories, sorry they havn't been updated recently but my laptop broke and has had to go get fixed and my work is all on that. hopefull getting it back at the weekend so they should be updated soon.

Disclamer: don't own Castle or the characters

Beckett smiled, remembering when she had mentioned this. It had been a joke but Castle had taken it seriously, obviously.

She looked down at their tied legs. They were doing the three-legged race at the police picnic. Castle looked at her and, seeing the smile on her face, asked, "Something funny Beckett."

She shrugged, "Just remembering when I mentioned doing this."

Castle nodded but instead of smiling her shivered, "I still can't go to the zoo you know, for some reason tigers now scare the hell out of me."

Beckett laughed and soon Castle was laughing along with her. They were still laughing when a joined Esposito and Ryan hobbled over. "What's so funny guys?"

Beckett and Castle managed to stop laughing, although both of them had tears streaming down their faces they'd been laughing so hard. Castle looked at Beckett and then at the boys, "Just reminiscing about Tony?"

"Tony?" Ryan asked, looking puzzled.

"The tiger," Beckett said, wiping the tears off her face, "Castle was just saying how much they scare him now, he's such a little girl." She smirked and Castle looked at her, raising his eyebrow.

"Oh come on, you can't tell me that you're completely happy with tigers now."

She shrugged, "Not really."

They looked at each other, staring into each other's eyes, until Esposito cleared his throat, "Come on guys, the race is about to start."

The four of them walked, with varying degrees of success, to the start line. When they were standing on the line Castle put his arm around Beckett's shoulder and she put hers around his waist.

It felt weird to the both of them but it also felt right, but before either of them could think any further than that the police chief stepped forward and pointed the start gun into the air.

"Let's go partner," Beckett said, giving Castle a smile and then looking down the track.

The chief fired the gun and they started. Looking around Beckett could see that her and Castle were by far the most coordinated, and she guessed it showed how much time they spent together and how well they knew each other, that they were able to move in perfect synchronization. Looking behind them she saw that Ryan and Esposito were on a heap on the floor, right at the start, having tried to both move their right legs at the same time. Beckett laughed and then faced forward again. "Look back quickly, Esposito and Ryan are already on floor."

Castle turned his head, and catching sight of the Detectives, laughed. He turned back to face forwards so he and his partner didn't end up in a hopeless heap as well.

"Nearly there Castle," Beckett said. Their rhythm was still good and they were still first and first by a long way.

They crossed the finish line, and saw Lanie laughing at them. Lanie looked down at their feet and began to say something, her laughter dying down.