Okay, I need to come out of the tags for a moment for this. Can we talk about how I don’t think I would trade in this moment for a hug? Like, I wanted a hug, and the more body contact the better, but if they had hugged, they wouldn’t have been able to see each others faces looking like this, and Martha wouldn’t have been able to witness this moment (which I think is actually really important because she never gets to see Beckett with Castle, she only sees Castle reacting to her at home and now she knows Beckett feels the same way as her son, saw it on her face.) Beckett’s tone of voice when she asks “how are you?” and that hand she keeps on his collar the entire time also kill me when you can see their faces reacting all over the place.

BASICALLY I’M JUST NOT FEELING LIKE THIS WAS A DOWNGRADE FROM A HUG, which is awesome since I thought I would feel like that without one, and I don’t.

(Source: katiebeckett, via det-katherinegrey)