Chapter five [video]

[bloody_pens]

[Castle is trying not to sound desperate, but a little nervousness is seeping into his tone.]If you'd believe it, I'm still available to go to the dance! I know, it's quite the shocker. Me. Without a date. To the mandatory dance. So if anybody is still in need of a date, I would be more than happy to oblige. I am told I'm quite the dancer, and I

Comments

[insurgere]

... This definitely must be what going mad feels like.

[bloody_pens]

I know, right?

[insurgere]

You're ... you're not well. That must be it.

[bloody_pens]

What?

[Castle makes a show of examining himself briefly, then feeling his forehead.]

Nope, I feel perfectly fine! Do I look a little peaky?

[insurgere]

You look a little ... um ... not yourself, Captain.

[bloody_pens]

... Captain?

[insurgere]

Captain Malcolm Reynolds. That's ... you must have suffered some sort of brain trauma.

[bloody_pens]

Pretty sure my name's Richard Castle, actually. Unless I dreamt being a famous novelist. Of course, that IS kinda what they told me when I got here.