“Christmas Past”
A drabble of 100 words
By December21st
Fandom: Castle
Rating: G
Pairing: None
Warnings: None
Summary: It’s nice to spend Christmas with loved ones. Response to
castle100 challenge mistletoe.
The festivities are winding down at Castle’s Christmas party when the remaining partygoers, all denizens of the 12th Precinct, start exchanging stories of their worst Christmases.
Esposito evokes laughter at his story of being snowbound with his cousin’s children. Mrs. Montgomery tells of once being the only nurse on duty during a snowstorm. Beckett spins a tale of spending Christmas in the hospital when she was four years old because she ate mistletoe berries, stuck in a hospital room with a bored teenager who broke his leg skiing down a staircase.
Castle stares at her in amazement. “That was you?”