American Idle
“American Idle”
By December21st
Fandom: Castle
Rating: G
Pairing: None
Warnings: Vague spoilers for “Last Call”.
Summary: Beckett wants to arrest someone, and it isn’t Castle.
In this castleland writing challenge, titled "Prompt", we were asked to write two short fics each inspired by one of four prompts. This was written for the prompt “Music.” I won Second Place in this challenge.
“Beckett!”
“Hmmm … wha? What do you want, Castle?”
“Rise and shine, Sleeping Beauty.”
“I wasn’t sleeping.”
“Of course not. You were just memorizing the patterns on the insides of your eyelids for ten minutes.”
“I’m going to arrest that little creep.”
“Oh good. Who exactly are we arresting?”
“Billy Joel.”
“Billy Joel the musician? This ought to be entertaining. And here I thought you said that you get too much publicity as it is with the Nikki Heat books.”
“What? No, not that Billy Joel. It’s my new neighbor. Mrs. Krupitski across the hall said that he wants to be on American Idol, but she couldn’t remember his name, so she called him Billy Joel.”
“And trying out for American Idol is an arrestable offense now? Not that I’d really be opposed to that for some of the contestants, but it seems a little extreme.”
“Because he stays up until two a.m. every morning practicing. Stop laughing, Castle, it’s not funny.”
“Oh, come on, it’s a little funny.”
“If I never hear Piano Man again, it will be too soon.”
By December21st
Fandom: Castle
Rating: G
Pairing: None
Warnings: Vague spoilers for “Last Call”.
Summary: Beckett wants to arrest someone, and it isn’t Castle.
In this castleland writing challenge, titled "Prompt", we were asked to write two short fics each inspired by one of four prompts. This was written for the prompt “Music.” I won Second Place in this challenge.
“Beckett!”
“Hmmm … wha? What do you want, Castle?”
“Rise and shine, Sleeping Beauty.”
“I wasn’t sleeping.”
“Of course not. You were just memorizing the patterns on the insides of your eyelids for ten minutes.”
“I’m going to arrest that little creep.”
“Oh good. Who exactly are we arresting?”
“Billy Joel.”
“Billy Joel the musician? This ought to be entertaining. And here I thought you said that you get too much publicity as it is with the Nikki Heat books.”
“What? No, not that Billy Joel. It’s my new neighbor. Mrs. Krupitski across the hall said that he wants to be on American Idol, but she couldn’t remember his name, so she called him Billy Joel.”
“And trying out for American Idol is an arrestable offense now? Not that I’d really be opposed to that for some of the contestants, but it seems a little extreme.”
“Because he stays up until two a.m. every morning practicing. Stop laughing, Castle, it’s not funny.”
“Oh, come on, it’s a little funny.”
“If I never hear Piano Man again, it will be too soon.”