Wow you guys were so awesome in your reviews for my first Castle story! Many of you wanted me to continue it but I had only planned for it to just be a oneshot that kind of fits in with the series storyline.

So I sat down today and came up with this.

You could say that this takes place after the Career or Family oneshot but it can stand alone as well.

No I don't own Castle.


They were everywhere. Every single place she went they were there. She wasn't even safe in her own apartment since she could hear them through the thin walls of her new apartment.

Who is this "they" that Detective Kate Beckett is currently trying to escape from? Mass murderers? Serial rapists? Rabid reporters? No. They are a considerable bit smaller than any of those.

After having to listen to them most of the night, Kate Beckett was very glad to be heading to work since that was the once place they had yet to appear. After all, a police department is not exactly a good place for them.

She walked into the precinct and immediately wanted to walk right back out. From deep within the building, probably near where her desk was, she could hear the crying of one of them.

Steeling her nerves and trying to tell herself to calm down, that she was clearly over reacting to this, she continued through the building until she got to her desk and found that she was right. The crying had been coming from this area. She made her way to her desk, absently noting that Castle wasn't there yet, and immediately Detective Ryan was handing her the crying bundle of blankets that was one of them.

"Yo, Beckett! Glad you're here! Esposito and I are working a case that came in earlier, really simple so we didn't call you, but anyway our main witness who saw everything is talking to Esposito now but she didn't feel right about talking about a murder with her baby in the room so she made me take care of him. But now since you are here, I think I'll go help Esposito." He was walking backwards, towards the interrogation room, the whole time he was talking and before she could even get out a word he was out of sight and she was left alone with one of them.

Yes. The very thing that Kate was trying to escape from was a cute and innocent baby. It wasn't that she disliked babies, no it was quite the opposite really. In fact lately she had been liking them a little too much and found herself thinking of things that she really shouldn't be. She blamed all these strange feelings she had been having lately on the conversation she had with Agent Shaw a couple of weeks ago.

Ever since then she had been noticing that babies were everywhere. Even at home. It was only a few days after she had gotten moved in that she realized that her neighbors had a baby that loved to scream at night.

She couldn't even go shopping or go eat out without seeing at least one baby anymore. Each and every time she saw one of those cute babies, a feeling of something she didn't really understand bubbled in her chest and threatened to overwhelm her.

Kate had talked about this with Lanie a week ago but she only gave her a useless suggestion.

"You know, Kate, you are going to hit the big three oh soon… Maybe its your body's way of reminding you that it is not getting any younger and that its time to settle down and start a family?"

Of course Kate only scoffed at the idea, not paying any attention to it at the time. But now, as she sat there at her desk holding the small bundle, that had stopped screaming after she had let him grab one of her fingers, she couldn't help but think maybe Lanie was right.

Kate was completely lost in her thoughts while holding the baby so she didn't notice Castle until he spoke up and she finally noticed that he was standing right in front of her.

"Oooooh, I do believe that I just peeled another layer off of the Beckett Onion! Hmm who would have thought that you had a maternal side to you."

"Yeah, well, there are many things you don't know about me, Castle."

She spun her chair around so that she wouldn't have to look at his grinning face but he spun her back around and took the baby from her before she could protest.

"So what's the deal with this little guy?"

Castle held the baby up near his face and twisted his face into the one face that had always made Alexis laugh when she was a baby, and apparently it worked on this little boy too as he started laughing like crazy.

Kate smiled at the sight in front of her for a little bit before remembering that he had asked a question.

"Apparently Esposito and Ryan took a case and didn't bother to tell me about it. They are questioning the witness now but she didn't want her son around all the murder talk."

Castle nodded then went back to making funny faces at the baby. Kate watched them with a smile on her face and her smile only grew when the baby caught sight of her and decided that he was done with Castle and wanted to go back to her. Castle pouted as he handed the baby to her and then started whining when she said that obviously he liked her better than him.

They bantered back and forth like normal though this time the baby was the main focus as he would go back and forth between the two of them.

A little later, Kate sat back in her chair as she watched Castle play "pattycake" with the baby on his lap.

'Wow, he is really good with babies. I knew he took care of Alexis but still, I never imagined this. I wonder… is this what a family with Castle would be like?' A look of horror fell across her face as she realized what she had just thought. She couldn't possibly be considering? No, she shook her head, trying to rid herself of those thoughts. It was simply a lack of sleep that's all.

But as she watched Castle make the baby laugh one more time before handing him back to his mother she couldn't stop one last thought from making its way into her mind.

'Would a life with Castle really be that bad?'

Her cell phone rang and she answered it, quickly getting the location of the murder. Kate pushed her previous thoughts out of her head, determined to figure them out later. Right now, she had a murder to solve.

So, I plan to have a few more chapters to this but that depends on if anyone actually likes this or not lol!