114. Chapter 114

After Cuffed

By

UCSBdad

Disclaimer: May I be fed to a tiger if I claim to own Castle. Rating: M Time: See above.

When Rick Castle got back to his loft, he was tired, hot and very, very unhappy. A routine trip to a convention of booksellers in Pittsburgh had turned into a nightmare. He had risen early so that he could get back to New York in time to have lunch with his wife. However, between the hotel and the airport, an eighteen wheeler had jackknifed closing the freeway until well after his plane's scheduled departure.

When he arrive at the airport, he found that his plane hadn't left after all. In fact, it hadn't arrived. An earlier aircraft had been unable to get its nose gear down and the damaged aircraft had blocked the Pittsburgh runway for so long that incoming aircraft were diverted elsewhere. His airplane and many other people's airplanes were scattered up and down the East Coast, waiting for the Pittsburgh airport to reopen.

Eventually he got a seat on a commuter airplane that would, after five other stops, arrive in New York City. He found himself seated next to a proctologist from Long Island, who turned out to be a huge Richard Castle fan. He had also spent the morning in the airport bar and was drunk. He was positive that Nikki Heat should drop her relationship with Jameson Rook and take up with a proctologist since he felt that proctology wasn't given the respect it deserved. The proctologist even had an outline of a Nikki Heat novel that he insisted on sharing with Rick. Rick somehow avoided murdering him.

Upon landing in New York, Castle found that the transit workers and garbage workers strike that the TV news had assured him was all but over, was in fact, far from over. With the subway and buses not running, he stood for nearly an hour by a huge pile of rotting trash waiting his turn for a taxi. He had to share the cab with four other people and was the last of them to arrive at his destination.

He opened his door and walked into the loft, breathing a sigh of relief. "Kate?" He called. He had kept her advised of his travels all day, so she should be expecting him. "Kate?" No reply.

Then he saw a large box on the kitchen island, wrapped in colorful paper and featuring a huge red bow. He walked over and looked at it. There was a card attached to it that read, "To my gr-r-r-r-r-eat husband." Rick opened the box and found a stuffed tiger inside. He pulled it out and looked at it. He decided that his new tiger was a high end, and very expensive toy.

"Do you like him?" Kate asked, peeking out from the bedroom.

"Like him? I love him."

Kate walked over and gave Castle a long, slow, sweet kiss. She didn't know another man who would be genuinely excited about getting a stuffed toy tiger as a gift. It was one of the many reason she loved him.

"What's the occasion? International Tiger Day?"

She shook her head. "I saw her yesterday while working on a case, just sitting there in a toy store window and when I saw her, I knew she wanted to come and live with us."

Castle held the tiger against Kate, as if hugging her, and said, in a voice that he hoped sounded tigerish, "I want to live with Rick and Kate because they're g-r-r-r-r-eat!"

Kate laughed. "I knew you'd love her."

"What's not to love? But how do you know it's a she?"

"She's not anatomically correct for a male and she reminded me of the tiger we met once. Her name is Toni, with an "I"."

"Thank you." He returned her kiss. "I love Toni and I love you."

Kate stepped back and held up her handcuffs. "And to you remember what I said after that was over?"

"About wanting to be hitched to me?" He teased.

"No." She took hold of his tie and pulled him to the bedroom." Are you coming, Castle?" She said in a low, sexy voice.

Rick grabbed Toni and followed her.

"You're taking the tiger with you?" She laughed. "I thought you didn't want a tiger this time?"

"Toni is a very civilized little girl tiger. She'll be fine."

Kate just shook her head.

Kate had gotten ready and was wearing only a blouse and her jeans. She was naked in seconds. "Come on, Castle. Do I have to do everything for you?" She said as she undid his belt.

"Sounds good to me."

While he finished undressing, Kate put one cuff on her wrist and then put her hands behind her back and cuffed her hands behind her. Rick was surprised that they weren't cuffed together, and more surprised when she pushed him onto the bed and then sprawled across his lap, face down. "Spank me, Rick. I've been a very bad girl. A very, very bad girl."

Rock looked down at her magnificent ass and gently stroked one cheek. "No. You've never been a bad girl, Kate."

She wiggled seductively on his lap. "Yes, I have. I pushed you away for years, thinking if I loved you, I couldn't concentrate on my mom's murder. I was wrong. I thought you'd never love some cop, and I was wrong. I could have been your girlfriend, your lover, your wife for years if I hadn't been so afraid, if I had just listened to my heart. That was so bad of me, Rick."

"I saw Dr. Burke just before we met the tiger. I told him I wanted to be more. More than just a cop trying to get justice. I wanted to be yours. I wanted it so badly, but when we were cuffed together, I went back to being the Beckett I had been for years. I pushed you away. I told you I didn't want you to have fun touching me. There's nothing I want more than for you to touch me. I've been s-o-o-o bad, Rick. I should be punished. Spank me. Punish me. Come on."

Kate was wiggling madly against Rick and he was very aroused. He patted her lightly, then resumed stroking her perfect ass. "I know how much you've been hurt in the past, Kate. I can't intentionally hurt you. I can't do it. I'd never forgive myself if I hurt you on purpose."

She rolled over and sat beside him. "That's so sweet, Rick. It's another reason I love you. So can we make love?"

"You know we can. Do you want help taking the cuffs off?"

"No. Of course not. I want the cuffs on."

He shook his head. "You're the biggest control freak I know. And you want us to make love while you're in cuffs? Be serious."

She rolled over and moved to the middle of the bed, spreading her legs and pushing her boobs up. "That's exactly what I want. I've been in control for too long. It's your turn. Come one, Castle. I need you. I need you terribly."

Rick moved over next to Kate and kissed her lips. She kissed back hungrily. He moved down her neck and stopped at her boobs, taking first one and then the other as far into his mouth as he could get them. He kissed her bullet scar tenderly, as he always did, then he moved to her flat stomach kissing the long surgical scar until he reached her clit. He flicked it with his tongue getting a long moan from Kate. Then he slid his tongue along her slit, going up and down.

Suddenly, he raised his head. "I'm not going to do this."

Kate lifted her head and glared at him. "Now you decide to punish me?" She said raising an eyebrow.

"No. I'm not punishing you. I love you. You are my partner in everything, Kate. In every thing, including this. Now roll over and let me take the cuffs off."

"Rick, I really do want this and…"

"I know you do, and I appreciate what you're trying to do. But marriage isn't about dominance, it's about partnership. The cuffs, Honey."

Kate rolled over and he took the cuffs off. Kate put her arms around him and pulled him to her. "Inside me, right now. I've been waiting forever for you."

He entered her with one long, smooth stroke and pushed himself as far into her as he could get. "Was that what you had in mind?"

"Yes, but faster and harder."

Faster and harder it was until they both climaxed. Sated for the moment, they lay beside each other.

"See, Toni was no problem at all, were you, girl?"

Toni, sitting on the nightstand made no reply.

Kate snuggled next to Rick. "Was that a Freudian slip when you said you wouldn't mind being hitched to me?"

"Absolutely. You know I'd been in love with you for years before that."

"And I was in love with you. If I had gone to the Hamptons with you the first time you asked me, we'd have gotten together a lot sooner, wouldn't we?"

"Yes. The Universe had plans for us. It was inevitable. It was fate. Karma. Destiny. Whatever you want to call it."

She rolled over, presently her perfect ass to him. "So it was my fault. You do need to punish me."

He grabbed Toni and swatted her lightly with the stuffed tiger. "I don't, but Toni just did."

"You won't?"

"No, but Toni gave me an idea. I'm going to eat you."

"Thank you, Toni." She giggled.