Authors note: This is my first try of a fanfiction, so please don't be to harsh xD Haha no, actually I would love some critic that I can use ;) English is my second language and although I know it's not that bad, I know that there are still some grammatical mistakes and maybe even others, so forgive me ;) If you're a native English speaker, just point the mistakes out and I'll try to remember.

For this first part you will have to know that I've tried to figure out how old Castle is...We know Beckett is 32 (or 33, I can't quite remember). Castle became a father when he was rather young and I'm guessing he would have been 20-22 or so. That would make him between 38 and 40 now and therefore 5 to 7 years older than Beckett.

And yeah, the prologue seems short...the next parts will be longer...

I don't own the characters!

Prologue

There was a lot of laughing going on inside the shop that the thirteen year old girl entered with a huge smile on her face. A lot of people were inside looking at all the amazing stuff that was for sale. In one corner a crowd had come together, forming a circle around someone. Curious the girl stepped closer and saw the owner of the shop performing some magic tricks, one of his sons carefully observing him.

"Katie" a voice behind her called out and the girl turned around to smile at her grandfather.

"I'm here, don't worry!" she said and continued to watch the magicians little show.

She loved the stuff he could do, pulling a flower bouquet out of nowhere, letting his son vanish or making a tissue disappear in his hand and letting it reappear in the audience. Of course she knew those were all just tricks and she also knew most of them herself but it was still fun to watch. After a few minutes the owner of Drake's Magic Shop bowed in front of his audience and welcomed them to have a look around, he would be happily helping them choose whatever trick toy they wanted to buy. Katie smiled and started to roam the shop, looking here and there at all the toys, the boxes, the just magical looking things when suddenly she bumped into someone in front of her.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, sir," she apologized under her breath, blushing. "I didn't pay attention."

The young man standing in front of her smiled.

"Nothing to worry, pretty lady," he said nonchalantly, "I'm happy to be bumped into anytime."

Katie laughed shyly. "No, no, it won't happen again," she gave back and was on her way to her grandfather when the young man called her back.

"Wait, you forgot something," he said, stepping up to her and skilfully conjured a coin from behind her ear.

"Very good," she teased, "but I know that trick and I'm sure I can do it better than you".

He did not expect that and laughed. "You are a clever girl with gorgeous eyes. Now take the coin and learn some more magic tricks," he told her before turning around and going back to the things he was looking back before the girl had bumped into him.

Satisfied with herself, Katie went up to her grandfather.

"I could spend ages in here," she sighed and he nodded his agreement.

"But, we have everything for today, so let's go, sweet girl."

Katie shrugged and walked to the counter. "Grandpa, can I have one of these?" she asked and pointed at some of the fake bugs on the counter.

"I can pay them myself," she added and her grandfather looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"How come, you didn't bring any money…?" he wondered and Katie showed him the coin.

"He gave it to me because I bumped into him…," she said and pointed at the young man from before.

Her grandfather was about to say something when shop's owner showed up behind the counter and smiled. "Nice man, young Ricky, isn't he", he stated and let Katie pay her bugs.

When Katie and her grandfather left the shop, she quickly turned back to see Rick watching her. She waved good bye as the door slowly closed behind her.