And there it was. In that moment, she knew. It was so obvious, it almost screamed at her. Why had she never seen...never realised?

Kate shook her head slowly. Everything was spinning out of control - in a moment, one moment of realisation, everything had changed. Wait! Was it a only a moment? Or the inevitable conclusion of 4 years of (almost constant) denial?

She sat on the swing, not even noticing the storm as it raged around her, and replayed some of the moments from the last 4 years of her life A.C...After Castle..