Hi Guys, New Story from Me. I know it's been ages since I updated Second Chances and I have two chapters written, I just have to type them up and upload them :) This one just kept annoying me and I had to get it down. Please Read and Review.

Chapter 1

It was a crisp fall morning in New York, but nothing out of the ordinary for October in the large city. The clock read 6:30am and Kate was waking up to the sound of her newborn twin girls wanting a feed and change of nappy. Being a cop, Kate was used to wake up calls at all hours of the night and morning for dead bodies so having to wake up every 3 – 4 hours was nothing extra to adjust to.

But Kate was still struggling. She was struggling at 25 years old, with an abusive relationship in her past and a single mother to her 3 week old, gorgeous baby girls. Not to mention the murder of her mother 5 years ago, her alcoholic father and only her co-workers at the 12th and Lanie, the ME as friends. After the death of her mother, Kate pushed a lot of her high school friends away. The rest of them were driven away by her ex boyfriend. Her co workers didn't know about the abuse she suffered with at home for a little over a year, all they knew was that she had left him because he was never there for here when she found out she was 10 weeks pregnant.

Dragging herself out of bed, Kate went across the small hall to her daughter's bedroom. When she crossed the room to their cribs they were both wide awake and looking up at her with their big green eyes reading for breakfast, a nappy change and a warm set of clothes.

"How are we this morning my darling baby girls? Are we ready for some num-num?" Kate cooed picking the smaller of the two up first and putting her on the changing table. Pulling her legs out of the pyjama suit and getting a clean diaper Kate blew raspberries on her daughter's bare belly. After a change it was time for some food and a burp. Once the first was finished and back in her crib she repeated the same process with the second baby girl. Tucking both babies back into bed for a little longer Kate grabbed the hand held baby monitor and took it to the bathroom with her so she could have a shower and then down to the kitchen for breakfast to start her daily routine. By the time she was finished it was 8:00am. Walking back into the girls' room it was time to get them dressed and strapped into the stroller and go for their usual walk.

After giving birth the doctor had told Kate 'No strenuous exercise' but the detective still wanted to keep in shape for when she returned back to work so she decided to walk every morning and every second to third night. This morning Kate decided to walk a little further and head down to Central Park. As part of her daily routine she stopped at a small bakery down the street from where she lived for a small coffee and a bear claw the carried on her journey.

Her daughters were usually very quiet and most of the time they were asleep during her walk but this morning they were a little fussier. By the time the trio arrived is was 8:45 and being a weekend the park was bustling with people. Young kids running around and playing together, a few couples walking arm in arm, parents sitting at the tables talking and checking on their kids every now and again but one family stood out. It was a man and his young daughter; Kate couldn't pin point where exactly she had seen the man but she recognized him from a distance. They were playing together in the autumn leaves, jumping and crunching on them. Laughing their guts out at each other, they looked extremely happy together.

After watching the two for a little while Kate continued her journey up the path a little bit and found a bench to sit on. Turning the pram around she found her girls wide awake and smiling. Cooing and talking to them she didn't see the man and his daughter slowly getting closer in their mission to crush all the leaves in the park. Her daughters were identical in looks but one was a lot smaller than the other due to complications during the pregnancy that almost killed her. The little one had started to grizzle letting Kate know that it was snack time.

"You want some more num-num, hey sweetie pie?" Cooed Kate as she unstrapped her daughter from the pram and pulled out the bottle to start feeding her child. While feeding baby number 1, her other little girl started to cry, this wasn't just a grizzle but a full on howl. Kate started to rock the stroller with her foot; this normally calmed both babies down but didn't have a soothing effect today.

"What's the matter baby?" Kate asked trying to feed one child and calm the other.

The man had noticed the young brunette with the stroller as she walked into the park and watched him play with his daughter. He tried to move inconspicuously closer noticing she had a child as well. What had surprised him was while one baby had a bottle in her mouth another started to cry.

'Twins, geez, how does she do it?' he thought.

He could see the woman starting to struggle with both babies needing attention at the same time and in public but he didn't want to startle her or embarrass her by going over there and offering but he wanted to help her out. So he roped his daughter into it.

"Alexis" he called getting her attention and signalling for her to come to him.

"Yes Daddy" the little red head responded.

Getting down on one knee and looking her in the eye he started with her instructions. "She that lady over there on the bench with the pram" waiting for her to look and nod. Once he got the desired answer he continued "Well, she is trying to feed one of her babies and the other one is crying really loudly. I want you to go and ask her if she would like someone to play with the baby in the pram while she continues feeding. Okay?"

"Okay Daddy" she replied and started skipping across the grass towards the stranger.

"Excuse me" she asked quietly trying to get Kate's attention but not wanting to scare the babies.

When Kate didn't answer she tried a little louder "Excuse Me" and Kate looked up at her a little surprised.

"You're not lost are you, sweetie" Cop mode kicked in instantly.

"No, my Daddy is over there" Alexis turned around and pointed at the tall brown haired man she had been watching play with the little girl before.

"My name is Alexis Maria Castle and I'm 7" she said and was holding up seven fingers "What is your name"

Kate was still a little surprised at this girl coming up to her in the middle of Central Park "Uhh, My name is Kate"

"Are these your kids? Are they twins" asked the little girl confidently, trying to stretch over the stroller lid to see the little bundles wrapped in pink and purple.

"Yes and Yes" came Kate's answer. Distracted with the little girl, trying to feed one and calm the other Kate didn't notice the man moving around.

"What are their name's"

"Mackenzie and Michaela" Kate said quietly.

"How old are they? They are only tiny" Alexis asked and looked a little confused moving towards the bench slowly "I don't want to sound rude but which is which" asked the little girl quietly.

Laughing a little at the girls question "They are 3 weeks old and little fussy over there is Michaela and gobble guts here is Mackenzie. Sweetie, does your daddy know that you're over here"

"Would you mind if I played with Michaela in the pram? I don't have any brothers or sisters but I really want at least one" she asked shyly ignoring Kate's last question.

"Alexis, does your daddy know you're over here talking to me. I have like speaking to you but little girls should not be talking to strangers in the park" again cop mode had kicked in fearing for the girls safety if she had spoken to strangers before.

"Yes, he does" came a deep voice from behind making her jump a little in the seat. "We saw the little one in the pram fussing while you were preoccupied with this little cutie and Alexis wanted to see if you would let her play with one of them" knowing this wasn't exactly true but hearing his daughters story.

Looking around, she properly took in the man talking to her. 'Holy cow that is Richard Freaking Castle' went through her mind 'I have just been making friends with Richard Castle's daughter and now he is speaking to me'

"Rick, Rick Castle" he broke her out of her thoughts and held out his hand

"I know" Kate smiled shyly "Kate Beckett" introducing herself and trying to juggle the baby and the bottle to shake his hand.

When her father started talking Alexis had bent down to play with the baby in the pram while the other one was ready to be burped and by the time the introductions had happened the pram was silent.

"Look daddy, Michaela likes me. I got her to stop crying. See, see."

"Very good, Pumpkin" replied the tall man. "I'm sorry if we overstepped; we just wanted to help. You seemed like you were struggling a little"

"Yeah, just a little. They are normally pretty good and I can handle a walk on my own with the two of them" admitted a slightly embarrassed detective turning a light shade of pink.

"Hey, don't feel embarrassed. When Alexis was a baby I had no idea of what I was doing on my own. There were days when she just screamed her little head off and no matter what I tried she just kept going. Where is your partner on this fine Saturday afternoon, if I was that lucky fella I would be stuck to you like glue" the writer asked and flirting a little.

"There is no partner. It's complicated. But he hasn't been around for 8 months now. Since just after I found out I was pregnant." Realising she still needed to burp Mackenzie while Alexis kept Michaela occupied she threw the wash cloth over her shoulder and went to hold the baby up there too.

"Would you mind if I had a go? It's been a while since I held a baby that small"

"Uhh" Kate hesitated, unsure. After her last relationship she still found it hard to trust new people, but this was Rick Castle, famous writer, her favourite writer. "Sure" she eventually decided. Handing the baby over to Rick and standing up to take Michaela out of the pram "Aww" Alexis pouted.

"Sorry Alexis but Michaela here would be getting a little hungry now too" she hesitated in the next question but decided to ask anyway "would you like to help feed her?"

Alexis looked towards her father for permission and once he nodded she did to climbing on the seat next to Kate "Okay, what can I do?"

"How about you help me hold Michie's bottle?" smiling at the babies nickname Alexis nodded "Okay" she squeaked and leaned over, putting her head on Kate's arm.

Rick managed to get a few good burps out of Mackenzie and smiled at the scene before him, his daughter snuggling up to Kate. He thought she had gorgeous eyes and was hoping she would let him get to know her and that she wanted to get to know him. She seemed caring, loving, liked Alexis, she was gorgeous and was unaffected by his fame and fortune; the perfect woman.

"So, if that one is Michie who is this little one"

Realising he was there to hear her twins' names he repeated herself. "This one in Michaela, we all call her Michie though and that one is Mackenzie. I call her Mac; sometimes she gets Kenzie from her Aunts and Uncles at the 12th"

"The 12th?" he asked.

"Oh, I'm a homicide detective. The 12th is the precinct I work at"

"Oh okay, that seems like a cool job" he said really interested in her line of work. "Do you read my books?"

Going a little shy at his question she nodded.

"I'm impressed. I am so pleased there are some women out there that I can talk to without them swooning. I really hate that part of my job. But that's getting of topic. You deal with death and murder all day, every day, the real thing. Answer me this, how can you go from that to reading more murder mysteries, fake ones, once you go home at night?"

Kate went wide eyed, not really wanting to answer that question to someone she had only just met. Heck her friends at the 12th didn't even know that answer; looking down towards her daughter and the little red head feeding her she answered "the boys I work with ask me the same thing" she smiled and left it at that.