Introduction
Author's Notes:
Thank you for reading my story, I hope you enjoy it.
It takes place somewhere early in the fifth season time frame.
No particular reference points needed.
No spoilers.
By all means, please leave me feedback/reviews on this or any of the other stories I've posted here.
Story Notes:
This started out as a mish-mash of ideas in one big file. I finally figured out how to distill it down to this. These three key ideas have been simmering in my brain for a long time, since right after I wrote my first FanFic, and I just had no idea what to do with them until now.
The three key ideas were/are:
1) Kate getting recognized and gushed over as Nikki Heat in front of her father.
2) Kate doing some reminiscing about Royce to Rick.
3) (In an effort to avoid a spoiler, let me say "The gift that Royce left Kate.")
And lastly, some thanks and acknowledgements:
Thank you to these writers for their indulgences and thank you to the readers and the reviewers!
I stole... er... borrow... um... plagiarized... the idea of Kate's Nana (Beckett) and the family gatherings from the delightful story
"Precious Things" by The Little Monster 1024
because I just think the character(s) were nice and well-developed and she did a damn good job.
The character Martin Fitch and his shop mentioned here is from "Seeds of Significance" by Bridlin and used with permission. It's such a great character (and story) it deserves more recognition and it seemed so right for this use.
The character Jess and the Java Hut location are from the wonderful story "Percolate" by KyinHI and used with permission.
(Author: /u/2920568/KyinHI - Story: /s/9398914/1/)