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Title: When
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Always (for castle100)
Spoilers/Warnings: References to specific events from "Knockdown" (3x13). Set sometime after "Knockdown" and before "The Dead Pool."
Rating: PG
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Beckett, Castle/Beckett
Summary: At what point did if become when?
Author's Note: The similarity in addressing the if vs. when issue in this drabble and in effie214's amazing fic many's the time i ran with you is entirely coincidental. I wrote this the night before I read her fic, and after I read it (and when I was done flailing at its gorgeousness), I got her permission to post this. If you haven't read her fic, you should go do that right now. Huge thanks to Effie and to stardust_20 for being wonderful and encouraging.
Someday, she thinks, when she and Castle-
She pauses.
At what point did if become when?
She looks back over the months and years and can't pinpoint one moment. It wasn't only the haunted look in his eyes when he said "I thought you were hit," nor just the moment that an undercover ruse became a desperate and not entirely unexpected attempt to drink one another in.
It happened gradually, as his responses changed from "anytime" to "always," as he became the friend she could turn to in any difficulty.
And somehow, the inevitability of when no longer frightens her.
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Always (for castle100)
Spoilers/Warnings: References to specific events from "Knockdown" (3x13). Set sometime after "Knockdown" and before "The Dead Pool."
Rating: PG
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Beckett, Castle/Beckett
Summary: At what point did if become when?
Author's Note: The similarity in addressing the if vs. when issue in this drabble and in effie214's amazing fic many's the time i ran with you is entirely coincidental. I wrote this the night before I read her fic, and after I read it (and when I was done flailing at its gorgeousness), I got her permission to post this. If you haven't read her fic, you should go do that right now. Huge thanks to Effie and to stardust_20 for being wonderful and encouraging.
Someday, she thinks, when she and Castle-
She pauses.
At what point did if become when?
She looks back over the months and years and can't pinpoint one moment. It wasn't only the haunted look in his eyes when he said "I thought you were hit," nor just the moment that an undercover ruse became a desperate and not entirely unexpected attempt to drink one another in.
It happened gradually, as his responses changed from "anytime" to "always," as he became the friend she could turn to in any difficulty.
And somehow, the inevitability of when no longer frightens her.