And there it was, Kate thought to herself. The little kid that lived inside a grown man who had a level of enthusiasm that still managed to surprise her so many years later. She was pretty much convinced that no one else in the world could match Castle for the level of devoted fanboying that he had for practically everything.
But it was one of the things that she thought was most adorable about her husband. It was that exact sort of childlike joy that made it so easy for her to forget the pain of losing her mom, the fact that her job was so hard and so often emotionally draining.
"He was real," Kate confirmed with a laugh, hoping up on her toes to brush a quick kiss against his lips. "Leia left a comment on something I posted on the network once, and I nearly squealed because I was so excited."
And for anyone who knew Kate Beckett, squealing wasn't something that she did often. She was a sci-fi nerd just like her husband, unapologetically so, but she didn't tend to broadcast her love of it all for the entire world. Usually just Castle.