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When; Valentines Evening
Rating; PG-13 Alexis is there
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cuffmetwice
Summary; Valentines Evening//Chinese New Year on the roof of building 6
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Castle has been planning for this for a few days and he's pretty excited. He's got both his girls with him for Valentines Day and the City has planned fireworks. He's got the roof fixed up with candles, chairs and one of those copper fire pits. There's a little table full of smores ingredients, cookies and cupcakes along with chips and pizza. On one chair there's a pink snuggie and bag of pink and red m&m's with love messages on it. On the other chair is a red snuggie with a bag of green m&m's with love messages. Castle's chair is in the center and he's got a black snuggie (mostly so he can play Harry Potter when he gets bored//writer's block//wants to make Alexis laugh). Each chair has it's own little gift bag. Alexis has a giant magnetic poetry set in hers. Beckett has a messily wrapped Bullhorn.

Castle is standing on the roof in his snuggie and he might have a stick with him. He's making up his own magic spells while he waits for the girls to get their invitations and show up.

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Alexis knew that her dad had something planned. He'd left her a little note to go up to the roof. She changed out of the pajamas she's been lounging in all day and into a pair of jeans and a lime greet fitted tee with yellow lettering on it that read 'Limes vs. Lemons - who wins?' She put on a gray and pink wool cap and headed upstairs to the roof...

...where she exploded in a fit of giggles when she saw her dad. Of course he was wearing the black snuggie. "Dad, you can't expelliarmus the air, okay? Who're you battling up here?"

Castle turned on his heel, nearly stumbling when he heard Alexis. He was bashful for about 2.5 seconds then grinned widely at her. "Draco of course! Who else? I figure I'm not quite Voldemort or even Snape level yet. I'll duel Malfoy first."

Then he walked over and hugged her, picking her up off her feet a moment before setting her back down. "You have a pink snuggie and other Valentine's Day stuff over there."

"Aww Dad. You're the best Valentine ever. I always know I can count on you." Even if this year she had actually hoped to have a real boyfriend valentine. It didn't pan out with her whole trip into crazy land and her only prospect back home really gunning for her best friend. At the end of the day, she always had her dad and no one could take the place of him.

She bounded over to the snuggie and put it on before picking up the bag. "So here's a question. What would your Patronus be? In Harry Potter land..."

She'd have real boyfriend valentines soon enough, even if Castle hated it. He grinned at her and waggled his eyebrows at her. "I'll remind you of that in a few years," he teased her.

He pondered Alexis' question a moment before answering. "Something noble, regal and awe inspiring. By which of course I mean a monkey. Yours?"

"Yeah and next time you have a date I'll play the bratty kid who's really just acting out to cover up her deeply-seeded fear that her dad is about to lead them both off of the cliff of love. Although I'm probably too young to be cynical about love."

All of this is said in a speedy ramble as she digs through her goody bag. "Magnets! I love magnets. And I'd be an eagle. They look smart, don't they? Or should I be something more girly? Eagle's aren't girly, huh? But there are girl eagles. Yeah. My patronus would be an eagle."

"Deal," Castle grinned at Alexis. He was pretty sure that Alexis wouldn't know how to be bratty if she tried. It just wasn't in her. "And you're entirely too young to be cynical about love."

"I think you'd make a great eagle," he assured her as he walked over to watch her dig through the bag. "You can leave poetic messages for your dear old Dad on the fridge."

"Which has no potential for creepiness at all. My eagle would totally protect your monkey from Draco." Alexis moves to the table to pick out a cupcake. "Did you invite Beckett? Cause you might have a daughter soon who's hyper up on sugar. Which means I'll totally play Harry Potter with you. But only if I can be Luna Lovegood cause I like her better than Hermoine."

"You can write my ransom notes for me when your eagle and my monkey kidnap Draco," Castle said with a cackle. "I did invite Beckett. She'll be here in a little while. If we feed her enough sugar she might play Professor MacGonagall with us."

"Which is kind of like playing the fish from The Cat in the Hat. You need to do this. You can't do that. She's all about the rules so she probably has that part down without any sugar." Alexis joked, licking the icing off of the cupcake. It was how she's always eaten them, icing first, cupcake last. "Plus if she refuses we can just pout. It might be effective."

"But without the accent," Castle waggled his eyebrows at her and picked up a cupcake of his own. "You pout. I'll be incredibly charming."

"I guess I should be glad I'm not Trelawney." Beckett was leaning against the jam of the door up to the roof with a tired but amused smile. "And you might want to be careful how loudly you say all of this. Harry Potter used to be in the City, apparently."

She closed the distance between them, tote bag slung over her shoulder; days at the office were getting longer though it wasn't exactly through necessity. Luckily, she'd seen this coming a mile away. Beckett tossed them each a small package wrapped in plain red paper before moving to her own little corner of love.

Clumsy Alexis. Her package fell to the ground although she did make a great effort to catch it. She sucked at sports. Plus she had a cupcake in her hand to distract her from playing catch. "Ooops! Oh god I hope it isn't breakable! Is it breakable? Cause... man I suck. Is it breakable?" She rambled quickly as she leaned over to pick up the package.

"So I've heard," Castle grinned when he saw Beckett. He stuffed the entire cupcake in his mouth and managed to catch the box she tossed. "Glad you could make it and thanks," he mumbled with half a mouth full of cupcake while he started unwrapping the box.

"Nope, not breakable. And we're going to work on your catches," she grinned, to try to assure her. She was a fast learner, Beckett was sure Alexis could learn pretty much anything.

She started scarfing on a slice before plopping down into her designated by its vacancy chair with a sigh of relief. The tote was situated beside her safely, more like a security blanket than for any real security itself. Her gun didn't give her as much solace as it used to within the confines of their prison. "You're very welcome. Just...use it wisely."

Alexis took the mace out of the bag and eyed it skeptically for a moment before her eyebrows arched up and she shrugged. "Thanks. Does this work on aliens? Vampires? Demons? Robots? Cause I've met some really... different people here." She sets it aside and continues to work on her cupcake.

Castle chuckled as he opened his mace then smoothed a hand over Alexis' hair. Mace was Beckett's way of telling them to be safe. "We're staying away from the aliens, vampires, demons and robots. Very far away."

He walked over to Beckett, picked up the valentine's wrapped Bullhorn and handed it to her. "You have a red snuggie and the m&ms," he pointed. "They're all green." Yes that was a shit eating grin on his face.

"Bullets don't work on everything, but as far as I know, mace works on eyes. And everything I've seen so far? Has at least one," she answered. As Castle approached, she sat up a little straighter, curious about her own messy gift. Once she had all the paper off of it, she grinned, a little lopsided. Oh, she had ideas for this.

"Castle, you shouldn't have. Practical and romantic." She was teasing him, but still smiling. And then dug into her bag of M&Ms like chocolate was going to fix life.

"That's my dad, covering all the bases." Alexis said with a nod as she picked up another cupcake. Again she was eating the icing before the actual cupcake itself. "And after tonight, I'm gonna have to find a gym or jog around the block a few times or something."

"you're welcome," Castle told Beckett then he scoffed at Alexis. "Honey, you're gorgeous but we'll go jogging in the morning if you want to."

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protip: happy v day castle family, you get super duty MACE xD

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