This is going to be a collection of one shots based on prompts I've found on tumblr, but I will also be accepting prompts. You can leave me prompts by reviewing or in a PM, and I will try my best to fill them. I have a ton of ideas and prompts saved, and have even started some other fills, so I'm excited to see how this plays out. There may be a few M-rated prompts, but I will have a warning before each one.

Prompt: "How can you think I'm anything but hopelessly in love with you?"

He was about halfway towards drunk, and not for the first time in the past couple of weeks either. Thank God his mother and daughter weren't home to see him.

The sharp series of knocks at his front door broke him out of his cloud of self deprecation and back to the real world. Setting down the bottle of whiskey that was half empty anyway, he made his way to the door, already knowing who was on the other side. He considered ignoring her, not quite drunk enough to deal with Kate Beckett, but when the knocking grew louder he knew he had no choice.

When he swung open the door, as expected, there was a fuming Beckett on the other side.

"We need to talk."

He scoffed, but replied all the same.

"There's nothing to talk about, Beckett."

"Yes, Castle, yes there is." She all but growled, plopping down on his couch.

"Please, make yourself at home." He spat out sarcastically, his anger level rising.

"What happened?" She ignored him.

"I don't know what you're talking about." He narrowed his eyes at her, daring her to continue. But it appeared she was as fed up with his bullshit as he was hers because she didn't back down, instead, she got up from her spot on the couch and approached him. She stopped when they were toe to toe, her angry gaze locked with his own, both of them too stubborn to look away.

"Don't give me that, Rick. Something changed and we both know it." Her voice cracked at the end of the sentence, and no, she did not get to be hurt. She's the one that lied. She's the one who didn't feel the same way.

"You're right, something did change. I realized I was wasting my time chasing after someone who didn't love me."

"What are you talking about?" Her voice was resigned when she answered him, and when he looked up from the floor he saw that all the fight had left her. She just looked...broken. Because of him.

"You lied to me for almost a year-"

"Rick, I can explain." She interrupted him.

"-because you didn't feel the same, and you couldn't just admit that."

Her eyes narrowed.

"Wait a minute. You think I don't feel the same?" She looked genuinely shocked.

"Well you don't."

He opened his mouth to say more, but was met with her own lips crashing down to his. The kiss lasted a mere moment before she was pulling away, letting out a a humorless laugh.

"How can you think I'm anything other than hopelessly in love with you?" Sbe asked before lowering her lips to his once again, this kiss much more gentle than the one before. When his tongue prodded against her closed lips she opened for him, letting him take control of the kiss. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer to her, feeling him wedge a thigh between hers.

She moaned when one palm slipped down to squeeze her ass, arching into the kiss. She undulated her hips against his, feeling his erection pressing against her stomach through both of their pants.

"Bedroom." She mumbled in between kisses.

"Wait, Kate." He leaned back in to give her a quick kiss when he saw the hurt expression that had taken over her features. "We need to actually talk. I have a lot of questions."

She reached down to grab onto his hand, weaving her fingers into the gaps between his.

She sighed, "Sit with me?"

He nodded, letting her lead them back over to the couch with the tangle of their fingers.

"Castle..." She started.

"Why did you lie?" He forced out, beating her to the chase.

"When you told me you loved me, it gave me something to hold onto. But then when I woke up in the hospital, I was so disorientated. I couldn't tell if any of it was real or if I had just made it all up. And when I figured out it was real, I was scared. Terrified, actually. I've messed up every serious relationship I've been in with my damn wall, and I didn't want to be the one to ruin us. I knew that if I wanted us to have a real shot, I had to work on myself; become better for you-"

"Wait a second...become better for me?" He inturrupted her, continuing at her nod, "Kate, everyone has flaws and baggage, but you never had to be anything more than who you are for me. I love you, I love all of you. You don't have to change for anyone, least of all me."

"And I love you, too, but you deserve so much more than me." Kate broke their eye contact at that, not able to look him in the eyes any longer.

He pulled her into his arms, letting her curl into his chest before he continued.

"Oh, Kate." His heart broke when he heard the sniffles coming from her, "Shh, I'm the one that doesn't deserve you."

She pulled away after a few moments of silence, looking up at him with a watery smile.

This time, he was the one to kiss her.

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