Strength

From a prompt from RoS13:I'd love to see one where Espo has to rescue Alexis (maybe it was something traumatic, or maybe in the course of defending herself and escaping with Espo she has to kill someone) and even though he totally fights the attraction (for all the usual and obvious reasons) she keeps coming back to him because she feels like he's the only one who would understand what she feels like since he was there with her and he served in the Special Forces before being a cop and he's seen a lot of death etc. (She obviously can't talk to Castle because, duh, he's her father and that's just AWK-WARD). So eventually Espo realises that Alexis and her youthfulness and sense of purpose and vision for what's right helps him feel less like his usual cynical self and Alexis finds the right level of understanding and support in Espo, so queue some h/c and loving and a growing relationship.