New York had been snowed in for weeks. It was the storm of the century. People rarely went out unless to get food or go to work if they had to. It was so cold as well that kids wouldn't even go out to play. Even schools had been closed.

The Castle's had not been snowed in per say but with it being so cold they had asked people to stay inside and keep warm.

There was five of them. Castle, Kate, Marcus, McKenna, and little Joey. It had been a struggle lately with everyone under one roof for going on about a week but today had been the worst. When Marcus had turned six he'd been put on the autism spectrum. He was a little rough around the edges but was well loved by the whole family. That was until the snow showed up. Yeah, they still loved him but he did not like being cooped up in the house. He'd been on edge until today.

"Good morning Marcus." Kate smiles at the ten-year-old as he walked into the kitchen. Kate had one-year-old Joey on her hip while four-year-old McKenna hung onto her leg begging for breakfast.

"I'm coming Kenna, hold on."

"Eat now mommy."

"I'm a starving marving."

"It's starvin' marvin." Castle appears from the bedroom correcting his daughter as she runs over to him. Marcus had not answered his mother but she was ok with that. She knew everyone was on edge.

"Marcus gets his eggs and then you get yours, I just have to scramble his, remember he only eats yellow food, unlike you, you eat all the foods."

She pouts as Castle picks her up and swings her around. She giggles softly as she plays with her father's hair.

"Mommy is right, just wait a little and she will be done, I know you are hungry, why don't we go read a book, we can take Joey with us and that will help mommy be faster."

McKenna nods as she kissed her father as Castle moves to Kate and lifts Joey from her. He cries a little but quickly settled into his father. The three of them go sit on the couch and Castle tells McKenna to go pick out a book.

"What'd ya pick?" He asks settling Joey into his lap.

"Hopped on poppted." She grins, forcing the book into her dad's face. He takes it and opens it up and clears his throat so he can read the voices.

Kate is in the kitchen having finished Marcus' eggs and putting them on his favorite plate. She knows he's on edge and this is the only way he will eat so it has to be perfect. She sets the plate down on the table ushering him to his food. He takes one look at it and practically gags.

"No," He tells his mother shaking his head.

"But I made it just like you like it, even on your plate, and I even put it in the middle. I did everything right."

"No."

"Please, you need to eat."

"No."

His hands are starting to shake. The time being cooped up in the house was finally getting to him. The last time he had a fit was a month or so ago when he had a rock in his shoe and freaked out, all the way down the elevator until we could get it cleaned out. He was almost at a cry now as he continued to fight over his food. It was perfect but he was so ready to be done with the inside. He wanted a walk outside but it had been so cold outside anyone that dared it barely got five feet before running back inside.

"Marcus, why don't we go watch your movie," Kate suggests putting an arm around her son trying to walk him to the living room where Castle Kenna and Joey had been reading hop on pop for the fifth time.

"No!" He cries pushing at Kate to let him go. He falls to the ground and pulls himself into a ball. He's sobbing now as Kate quickly slides to the floor and pulls him into her arms. He's going to fight it but she's not going to let him go until he can calm down.

"I have you, Marcus, it's ok mommas got you, take deep breathes."

"Kenna, let's go have breakfast, daddy will make emergency pancakes," Castle says lifting the two kids up and head towards the kitchen. He knows what's going on and wants to leave the two alone.

"I help you, daddy?" McKenna asks happy to be having food now but sad to see her brother like that. She knows he's different but not all the details. The parents are ok with that and figured she would be too. When she had questions they would answer them to the best of their ability.

"Yeah, that's a great idea, you can help me make the batter." He smiles and sets Joey into the high chair. Castle gives him a kiss and then pulls up the stool for McKenna to stand on.

"I love that part!" She giggles bouncing up and down on the stool.

A few hours later, breakfast had been finished and finally Marcus had calmed. That was just barely, though. They needed to get out. They needed to do something to release some of the kids' energy.

"We could go to that play place in midtown," Kate suggests.

"Yeah but so would every other family in the city." Castle sighs as Kate nods in agreement.

"We could bundle up and go have a snowball fight on the roof. I know Marcus is not one for bundling up but I'm sure he'd have a blast if we told him how fun we'd have.

"Come on, let's go, the longer we wait the less sun we have."

A/N: Ok, so I want to branch out a bit for when I'm in a slump of writing. These will have no set time to be posted or length or whatever but this will be my collection of One-Shots and prompts. Feel free to send me prompt ideas here, on Twitter MommaKateCastle or on my Tumblr MsThomEGemcity. I will try my best to write them but there are no guarantees. If you want something done in one of my universes please state which universe you want with the title of the fanfic. Prompt away!