I dedicate this story to three of my friends.
Close friends.
Aufa, Cherry and Adrienne.
Thank you for your support girls!
One day we all are gonna meet!

A Promise Foreverafter

Prologue

July 14th, 2013

Washington D.C.

Special Agent Katherine Houghton Beckett sat on the couch in her apartment, a pregnancy test laying on the table in front of her. Tears were streaming down her cheeks, her hands clutched to the pillow she was pressing into her belly. Her eyes laid on the pregnancy test. Two tiny blue lines, which told her, her life would change forever. She was pregnant, about three months along. Why hadn't she known? How could she have missed that she had been late with her period? Probably because she had a new job at the FBI – the Federal Bureau of Investigation – and that she had moved to D.C. She had had a lot of stress, that's why she must have missed it. She sighed. She didn't know what to do now. First thing to do? She decided to call Lanie. She gabbed her cellphone and speed-dialed her number.

"Parish."

"Hi Lanie, it's me," Kate said, her voice full of tears.

"Kate? Hi! How are you? You sound like you've cried."

"I … no, I'm not fine … I don't know if I'm fine or not … "

"Girlfriend, what's the problem?" the M.E. asked softly.

"I think … I think I'm pregnant."

Silence on the other end of the line. "Are you serious?" she asked happily.

"Yes," Kate replied, "I've done a test."

"One only?"

"Yeah … shall I make another one?"

"Yes, and see a doctor maybe?", Lanie suggested.

"Mmhh … "

"Is it Castle's?"

"Huh?"

"If it is Castle's baby."

"Yes, of course, yes."

"You have to tell him."

"Yeah … I know … Lanie? I'm scared."

"I know girlfriend, I know."

Three days later …

New York City

Kate sat in a café, waiting for her best friend to arrive. She, being ten weeks pregnant, had bought herself a decaf version of her favorite Vanilla-Latte Coffee and a Cappuccino for Lanie. She smiled when Lanie walked through the doors of the café.

"Hi," she greeted.

"Hi!" Lanie greeted as well and pulled her into a bear hug. "How are you?" she asked after she had released the young woman.

"Honestly? Since I know I'm pregnant I feel like crap. Morning sickness, nausea, the full program. It's annoying."

Lanie smiled. "Have you seen a doctor yet?"

"Yes, yesterday. The baby is in perfect condition and so am I, but she told me to cut down my hours and stuff. Just to make sure, you know."

"Yes, that's good."

Kate grabbed her bag. "Do you want to see the pictures from the ultrasound?"

"Yes!"

Kate showed her the pictures of the small baby.

"Oh my god! Awww! This is so cute!"

"Cute, sweet. Yeah, it is, as long as it doesn't make you throw up six, seven or more times a day."

"Well, in six months you're going to have a little baby, right?"

"I'm ten weeks along," Kate replied and bit her lip.

"You don't want to keep it?!" Lanie asked in shock.

"What? No, I … I want to keep it, of course … I just have to speak to Castle now … see what he thinks."

"You two still haven't spoken, huh?"

Kate shook her head. "No."

Lanie nodded. "Okay, well, now you have to talk with him each other."

"I know … I'm just scared … what if … if he doesn't want a baby? I hurt him so badly, Lanie."

"Shall I go with you?"

Kate shook her head again. "No, I'll do it alone."

An hour later …

Kate stood in front of his door. How would he react to the news? Would he support her or send her away? She had to risk it, had no other choice.

She knocked on his door and waited. She heard steps towards the door and soon after the door opened. Rick stood in front of her.

"Kate?"

"Hi … "

"What do you want?"

She felt pulled back into the night more than a year ago, when they got together. She took a deep breath. "Firstly, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry … I hurt you so badly and … "

"Oh yes! Yes you hurt me badly!" he said angry.

She bit her lip. "Yes and you have every right to be angry with me, or to even hate me, but we need to talk. It's really important."

"Important? What shall be important after you turned me down?"

She sighed and pulled the pictures out of her bag. "This Rick, this is important," she said and gave the pictures of their baby to him.

Soooo? What do you think about my possible, but not very likely to happen, start of season 6? What do you think? How will Rick react?

xoxo,

OneWriterDetective

*Update on Wednesday*