Healing Hearts (The Sequel)

Chapter 35

Chapter 35

"Oh my god! Castle! How did we forget our own anniversary!?"

Kate was pacing the floor, Castle laughed form the stool he was sitting on near the kitchen counter.

"Hey, technically, it's not our anniversary yet, and apparently, our kids have it all sorted out for us."

Kate stopped to look at him, she was deep in thought, biting down on her lip. Castle got off the stool, and walked to her, he put his hands on her waist and spoke to her

"Hey, it's alright, both of us got busy and it slipped our mind, we're only human. At least it's not one of us who forgot, that would have been horrible"

Kate laughed at that. "Yea, I would have never forgiven you if I remembered and you forgot."

Rick laughed "see, we're even. Let's just pretend we knew all along, huh?" Kate laughed and nodded her head.

"Okay, how about we call your dad's place, and then you'll feel much better and maybe then we can go make good use of those tickets our daughters bought us"

Kate nodded and kissed him, and then quickly dialed her dad's number.

"Dad, are my kids with you?"

He laughed "yes Kate, I kidnapped them on their own wishes. I'm sorry, I know it must have scared you, I told them, but Avril insisted."

"It's alright dad, could you put one of them on"

Alexis came on

"Hey mom!"

"Alexis, what you did today.." she began to scold, her frustration from earlier making its way through her tone, but then she heard the phone shuffle between hands on the other end and that's when she heard Avril come on the phone.

"Mom, you can yell at us later, after you've enjoyed everything we got planned for you, we're all okay here, even Jamie's having the time of his life. Go, have fun! You'll get late" she urged.

Kate sighed "okay, but after all of this is done, we're going to have a long discussion"

"I love you mom, have a happy pre-anniversary"

"Thank you baby" Kate finally smiled, feeling a lot better after hearing her daughter's voice. Avril was just about to put the phone down when Kate said

"Avril wait, could you just put Kaylee on for a second please"

Avril understood. Kate had really been scared for her. She quickly called out to Kaylee

"Kaylee! Mom's on the phone!"

There was a shuffling sound on the phone and then suddenly her little girl's voice sounded "Hi mommy! Did you like the surprise we left you?"

Kate couldn't help but smile, relief washed over her at hearing her voice, all happy and excited. "Yes baby I did. Thank you so much. Now be a good girl okay, and give Jamie a nice kiss from us. I'll call you."

With that, Kate ended the call, and turned to find Castle walking to her, all dressed up to go out, with the two tickets in his hand.

"I don't know how much they paid to arrange this, a private screening of a classic movie, but I know I can't wait to watch it with you." he said.

Kate linked her arm through his and they walked towards the door.

"Happy pre- anniversary babe" She said and Rick leaned down and kissed her passionately.

Their time spent watching their favorite movie on the big screen, while tucked together on a couch, munching on popcorn and sipping coke reminded them of the time when they were dating. Half way through the movie, Rick looked at Kate and saw the smile on her face, she was beautiful, and here they were, celebrating their anniversary, another year married to this beauty. He leaned in and kissed her cheek.

She looked at him and smiled, then leaned in and kissed his lips, slowly and beautifully, brushing her lips against his "I love you" she said.

"I love you too" he replied. And they spent the rest of the movie kissing, cuddling, he whispered words of affection into her ears now and then and it put a huge smile on her face, her husband was the most romantic man she's ever known. He always knew how to make her blush.

They knew most of the dialogue in the movie, and were able to say them out loud, they laughed at their silliness when they had both said a line out loud together and he kissed her senseless.

Soon enough, the credits began to roll in, and the two of them were lost in each other's worlds.

When they stumbled out of the theatre, it was early evening, Castle's arm around her shoulders, holding her close to him, they were laughing at some joke he had cracked when the guard outside called out to him "Mr. Castle?" both of them turned to look at the man, he handed them an envelope and said "I was asked to give this to you"

"Thank you" Castle said to the man, and he smiled and walked away. Rick looked at Kate and she had this excited smile on her face, she nodded and urged him to open it.

They read

"Dad, remember that prom weekend when after finding the perfect outfit and shoes, I was losing my cool and none of you could understand why. And you came up to me, and asked me what's wrong…"

Rick smiled, he already knew where this was going.

"I was ashamed to tell you that I didn't know how to jive, that I never had the chance, or a father to teach me, and you knew I was so ashamed of it that I didn't' even want to tell mom, so you told her that we were going out to buy some stuff, and that evening you took me to this underground studio, where couples meet just to dance the night away, jiving to their hearts content. And there you taught me how to jive. I had the time of my life, and it was there that I knew I had the best father in the world.

It was our little secret, but now I want you to share it with mom. They're having a dance night there right now, take my mom dancing, go and have fun, I told them to expect you there, and before you leave, you will get your next note.

I love you both to the moon and back, happy pre-anniversary!

Love,

Your little rascal, Avril."

Kate looked up at Castle with a smile and a raised eyebrow. He all but folded the note, put it into his pocket and took Kate's hand and began leading her to the road where he called out for a cab. As an empty cab made its way to them, she asked "Rick?"

"You are going to love this!" he said, his excitement written all over his face, and she couldn't help but feel the rush of adrenaline he was feeling. They were going dancing. She'd always loved dancing with Rick. They only ever jived at parties and wedding receptions, the idea of just dancing the evening away with her husband had her feeling impatient to reach this place.

On their way there he had his hand on her thigh. He kept looking out the windows, looking for the place he needed to tell the driver to stop. Kate had never been down this lane. She didn't' even know this place existed. She suddenly looked at herself and found she was a little too formally dressed for a dance night with her husband. She quickly took off her coat, and it caught Castle's attention.

"What are you doing? Not yet! We can have sex later, dance first!" he said

And she laughed.

"I'm just getting myself ready to dance Castle" with a naughty smirk and he smiled. She undid two of her top buttons and frizzed up her hair a bit.

He looked at her, and she stopped

"What?" she asked

"You look gorgeous. I'm now considering forgetting all about this dance and just turning the cab around to take you to our quiet home and make love to you."

Kate laughed. "You can go home on your own. I want to dance, and if you don't want to dance with me, I'll find someone else to dance with me" she said with a playful glare

"Ouch!" He said "you sure do know how to wound a man's ego"