Author's Note: I took a couple liberties with the timeline for this story. I have Castle and Beckett beginning their partnership in 2007, and getting married in 2012. This story is therefor a future fic, set in 2017. Morgan and Ryan are Kate's biological kids, Alexis is still biologically Rick's, and Kelly is Kate and Rick's daughter. This story may seem to start out slow, but I promise I know where I'm going with it and have some chapters already written out, so please be kind and stick around to see where it goes. I will explain a lot in the first couple chapters.

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Morgan was laying on her bed reading the book that her class had been assigned that day in English, when she heard the front door open and shut loudly, rationally knowing the only person it could be was her mom. Morgan shut her eyes tightly knowing exactly what was coming next. She put her bookmark in her book and laid it on her nightstand waiting for the inevitable.

"Morgan Johanna Beckett!" Came up through the hall of the stairwell and Morgan knew it was time, "Get your ass down these stairs immediately!"

Morgan quickly hopped off her bed and raced across the hallway to her sister's room. She burst through the door to find Kelly playing on the floor with her dolls and Legos.

"Hey Kel!" Morgan exclaimed knowing time was of the essence.

"Sissy!" Kelly said with her cute 2-almost-3-year-old lisp.

"Wanna help your favorite sister out?"

Kelly just cocked her head to the side, obviously confused.

"Look, Kel, all you have to do is go downstairs with me and turn the charm on to mom."

"Mama downstairs?" Kelly asked.

"Yeah! Mom's home! And she wants to see your cute face!" Morgan told her and knew she had her convinced when she saw Kelly's smile at the mention of their mom.

"Okay." Kelly said with a shrug as she got up and stood in front of her sister with her arms up, clearly wanting to be carried down the stairs.

"Morgan! Now!" They heard as they made their way out of Kelly's room.

"Mama mad!" Kelly tried to whisper in her sister's ear as they descended the stairs to find their mom waiting at the bottom.

"Oh, you're darn right she is, little miss," Kate said as she reached out to take Kelly out of Morgan's arms, "And your sister tying to use you as a shield isn't going to work this time," Kate finished with a pointed glare at Morgan.

"Shit." Morgan said, defeated.

"You're just asking for more trouble, aren't you?" Kate scolded her as they walked into the living room.

"Sit." Kate told Morgan as she pointed at the couch, "Don't even think about moving."

"Wouldn't dream of it," Morgan replied sarcastically.

"Rick!" Kate yelled throughout the loft to get her husband, "Come get the only child we have that isn't going to send me to an early grave!"

Rick Castle walked out of his office dazed after spending his day cooped up trying to finish his latest book.

"Uh oh," Rick sing-singed as he took in the situation in front of him, "What'd you do this time, little B?"

"I think, until I've heard exactly what mom has to say, I'd rather not incriminate myself."

"Oooh, smart move," Rick replied as he gathered Kelly out of her mom's arms and made his way to the kitchen to start dinner.

"Do I need a lawyer?" Morgan asked trying to lighten the mood.

Kate gave her a hardened glare that had her shrinking in her seat.

"Now, would you like to explain to me why I got a call from Principal Lewis today?"

"Cause she's got a massive hard on for you and wants you to leave Rick and run away with her?"

"Morgan. Be serious, please!"

"You can't tell me it's not true, Mom! Even Rick can see it!"

"It's totally true," Rick piped in from the kitchen, which made Morgan smirk and Kate roll her eyes.

"Whatever." Kate replied, not having a proper comeback, "At least Principal Lewis's supposed infatuation with me doesn't distract her from punishing my daughter!"

"Oh come on, mom! She totally overreacted!"

"Oh, so you didn't ditch history to go to the gym and shoot?"

"Well, I mean, yeah, I did. But at least I didn't leave school grounds!"

"So that makes it ok to skip class?"

"Yes!" Morgan replied emphatically before seeing Kate's glare harden even more, "I mean…No… Not at all…"

"You're grounded for the week. Home and school, that's it. No basketball."

"What? Mom, come on, that's totally unfair!"

"You wanna make it 2?"

"No…"

"Good answer, sweets," Kate smirked.

"What about going to school early to get some shots in?" Morgan asked.

"What part of no basketball did you not understand?"

"But mom! Season starts in less than a month and me and Coach have been working on my step back jumper!"

"And I'm sure it will still be there after a week."

"You're gonna feel really bad if I've lost all of my athletic ability by next week…"

"You're right, I will, because that means you'd be home more and I'll have to put up with you for longer periods of time," Kate laughed as she stood up and smacked her daughter lightly upside the head.

"Hey! That's child abuse, Detective!" Morgan teased, "Rick! You saw! Call Tío and Uncle Ryan to come and arrest her!"

"Oh, nuh uh! I'm not going anywhere near that," Rick replied.

"Good answer, babe" Kate said as she patted his cheek.

Rick flashed a huge grin her way before turning towards Morgan and sticking his tongue out at her, making her and Kelly laugh.

"What's so funny, missy?" Kate asked as she walked around the kitchen island to get her daughter out of her high chair.

"Daddy" Kelly exclaimed before sticking her tongue out just like her father had done.

"Oh! Did daddy stick his tongue out? Even though he knows he's not supposed to?" Kate teased.

"Busted by my own flesh and blood," Castle added dramatically.

"Oh cheer up, Rick! It could always be worse," Morgan declared.

"What could be worse?" Alexis asked walking down the stairs and joining the family in the kitchen.

"Your dad being betrayed by his youngest," Kate answered with a laugh.

Castle continued pouting while the rest laughed, even getting Kelly involved before Kate walked up to him and kissed the pout off his face.

"Cheer up, buttercup," Kate cooed.

"You could always make it up to me later," Castle smirked.

Twin shouts of "Dad!" and "Rick!" were heard throughout the loft followed by groans and mumbles.

"Oh, like you're under the impression we don't have sex," Kate insisted before turning back to her husband, "And you can count on it, stud."

Castle's smile couldn't have got any bigger as both girls groaned and Morgan made fake gagging sounds.

"Hey! Where's Ryan?" Kate asked the rest of the family.

"Probably upstairs watching porn like a normal 14 year old boy," Morgan answered nonchalantly with a smirk.

"Oh geez, Morgan. Could you maybe turn down the sarcasm?" Kate groaned to her daughter as she grimaced, "Nobody needs to have that image forced into their mind!"

Kate looked toward her husband silently asking him to go upstairs and get their son.

"You have had the talk with him, haven't you?" Morgan asked her mom.

"Of course we have! Like 3 years go when he started going through puberty."

"And you haven't mentioned it since?" Alexis asked getting into the conversation.

"No? Why? Should we? Do you two know something I don't?"

"No... nothing at all," Morgan answered while Alexis shook her head. The corner of both of their mouth's threatening to turn up into a smirk.

Kate turned on her best detective face before addressing both girls, "Tell me what you know, now!"

"All I know is that he is quite the talk of the freshman ladies these days…" Morgan admitted.

"What kind of talk?"

"Oh you know, the usual," Morgan answered before using her high-pitch voice to continue, "Oh my gosh, Ryan Beckett is so hot! He looks so big and strong!" she finished before her and Alexis busted out laughing.

"You guys really think we need to talk to him again? Honestly?"

"Uhm, yeah, probably," Alexis murmured with a nod.

"Oh god, why did I have to have a boy?"

"I don't know," Morgan declared, "It's too bad you didn't have another girl just like me!"

"Yeah then we'd all be in trouble," Alexis teased her sister.

"Hey!" Morgan gasped before throwing a dishtowel at her.

Before anybody could retaliate, Rick and Ryan came walking down the stairs with matching horrified expressions on their faces. All three girls looked on in wonder with Kelly playing with her toys in front of the TV.

Kate quickly tried to diffuse the situation that had yet to escalate to what she was afraid of happening, "Let's eat!" she announced.

"Wait! Aren't we gonna hear the story of why these two walked down the stairs looking like they just killed somebody?" Morgan asked indignantly.

"No, Morgan," Kate chastised her daughter, trying to get everyone wrangled to the dinner table.

The family quickly dug into dinner, with Morgan and Alexis sharing looks across the table, while Rick and Ryan still looked traumatized and Kate was trying to get Kelly to eat her food rather than throw it all over the place.

Finally Morgan broke the awkward silence, "Come on, bro! What'd you do? Get caught whacking to porn?" Morgan ended with a laugh as Alexis let a small chuckle escape.

"Oh my god! Morgan!" Kate yelled across the table, "There is no reason to talk like that at the dinner table!"

Before Kate could chastise Morgan anymore Ryan started sticking up for himself, "No Morgan, unlike you, I don't have to do... that..." He finished looking up at his mom embarrassed.

"Sweetie, it's a totally natural thing, nothing to be embarrassed about," Kate said quietly, concerned about her son.

"Oh my god!" Ryan exclaimed burying his head in his hands, "Can we please not talk about this? Like ever!" He pleaded finally looking up into his mother's eyes.

Kate looked across the table at Rick silently asking him to fix this.

"Uhm, I really don't think we need to have this conversation right now," He commented.

"Ugh, fine. Take all my fun away," Morgan whined.

Kate lightly smacked her arm, "Respect your family, Mo."

The rest of the dinner passed uneventfully with awkward glances between all of them and after everybody was finished eating the three kids cleared the table and did the dishes while Kate and Rick took Kelly upstairs to get ready for bed.

"So what did you actually walk in on?" Kate asked Rick while Kelly was busy playing in the tub.

"Uhh, well, you know how sometimes when I have to go on a book tour for a while and we both get lonely and some picture might get sent?"

"Yeah…." Kate replied thoroughly confused.

"He may or may not have been taking a picture to send…"

"Oh dear god. Why do our kids set out to make our lives miserable?" Kate complained.

"What are you gonna do?" Rick asked.

"Oh no, not just me, we! We are going to talk to him about respecting himself."

Rick turned to Kelly who was still oblivious to everything around her, "You'll never put me through anything like this, will you bug?"

"Dada pay!" Kelly exclaimed while splashing in the water.

Kate and Rick laughed at her before grabbing her out of the tub and drying her off to put her in her pajamas and get her in bed.

The two walked downstairs after putting Kelly to bed to find their other three kids sitting on the couch watching TV.

They walked over to the trio and Kate grabbed the remote to shut the TV off before her and Rick sat down on the coffee table to talk to them.

"Oh no! Who did it?" Morgan asked quickly.

"Uh, I think that was you, Morg." Alexis replied.

"None of you did anything." Kate told them to shut them up, "Rick and I thought it was time to address, and re-address, some things."

The three kids shared scared looks between them before looking back at their parents.

"We feel that it is important to talk to you guys about respecting your bodies and how nothing that is sent to someone, whether it is through text message or that snappy thing you guys do is ever actually gone. It can stay out there forever, in the cloud or sky or whatever," Kate finished.

"Ok, 1. Mom it's snapchat, and 2. Why are you lecturing us on sending nudes? That's just stupid," Morgan said with disgust.

Kate just looked at Castle and then to Ryan hoping that he was getting the message they were sending.

"Ooohhh…" Alexis said when she finally put the pieces together, she then softly chuckled.

"What?" Morgan asked, still oblivious to what was going on.

Alexis looked at her stepbrother, who looked like he was about to die of embarrassment, and then looked back at Morgan as she finally caught on.

"Oh-ho, this is too good!" Morgan exclaimed excitedly before getting a glare from both of her parents. She quickly ignored their pleading looks before throwing her arm over her brother's shoulder, "Bro, we need to talk about a couple things. Girl to guy here, no girl should ever want to get a dick pic, if she does, she's not someone you should ever want to associate with."

"Morgan," her mom pleaded, "Please don't make things worse."

"What? I'm just telling him the truth! Am I not right, Alexis?"

Alexis nodded shyly before trying to cheer her brother up, "Look, Ry, I'm sure that whoever the girl is, is a very sweet girl, but you don't know who else she's gonna show that picture to. You can never trust anybody."

"Yeah dude, look what happened to all those celebrities a couple years ago. Those were some freaky pics that I'm sure none of them ever thought would get out. Even Mom's arch nemesis Natalie Rhodes had some pictures in there."

"Wait, how do you know what those pictures were like?" Rick asked curiously.

"I, uh, don't. You know just people talk…" Morgan tried to backtrack before realizing it was futile, "Fine, I was curious. Sue me!"

That made the family laugh, which quickly eased most of the tension out of the room.

"Do you get what they're trying to say though, bud?" Kate asked her son as she ran her hand through his hair tenderly.

"Yeah, it's just that Emma had been taking about it for so long and I finally got the nerve up to do it."

"Finally got it up to do it, eh?" Morgan joked at her brother before laughing, then realizing she was the only one that was laughing and stopped, "Wait! Emma? As in Emma Woods, Emma?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Uh cause Emma's my age, dude! Going for the older women, eh?"

"OK, Morgan. I think your brother has endured enough teasing. Let's just all remember the lesson from tonight, yeah?"

"Don't get caught sending nudes by your stepdad?" Morgan joked.

"Not funny, Morgan."

"Yeah, ok mom, we get it. Now can we please get back to the Bachelor? He was just about to take someone on a solo date!"

"Fine," Kate approved before handing the remote back to the group as she got up to go take a shower.

Rick quickly got up and follower her into their room to see her stripping off her clothes on her way to the bathroom. He walked in behind her following her every move.

"Soooo that was fun," Rick started she reached into the shower to turn it on.

"I don't think fun is the word I would use," she countered.

"Okay, so not fun. But definitely informative."

Kate stepped into the shower and closed the glass door, "Are you talking about Morgan? Or the useless information that the girls gave to Ryan?"

"Uh, well both, but mainly Morgan. I can't believe she went online and looked at those pictures."

"Oh, come on, Castle. Don't be a hypocrite, I know you looked at them as well, even the ones of Natalie Rhodes."

"Yeah, but I'm a man… and like her father, so yeah, it's weird," He laughed with Kate.

Kate was finishing washing the shampoo out of her hair when she felt the rush of cold air hit her that let her know her husband had entered the shower with her. He came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her before leaning his head down and kissing her neck.

Kate sighed happily, "Look, you know Morgan, chances are she really was just curious and wanted to have a good laugh. Don't think too much into things."

"Yeah, okay, I get it. But can we please not talk about the kids when we're naked together in the shower?"

"Oh yeah, I'm all for less talking…" Kate grinned as she turned around and wrapped her arms around Rick's neck before leaning up on her toes to kiss him.

While their parents where doing whatever in their room, the three teenagers were enjoying laughing and making fun of the Bachelor.

"I can't imagine being in a house full of girls that were all kissing the same guy for that long," Alexis commented as they watched another girl start to kiss the bachelor on the screen.

"Oh, I know. It's completely disgusting," Morgan agreed, "But it makes for some damn good TV."

"I don't think I'd mind being the Bachelor," Ryan commented.

"Of course you wouldn't, nude boy," Morgan teased her brother with a laugh.

"Ha-ha, very funny, sis!"

The show came to an end and the three teens made their way upstairs to get ready for bed.

Morgan walked into her room after showering and brushing her teeth and picked up her phone from where it had been charging on her nightstand. She woke the phone up to find she had multiple texts; a couple from friends, but one from the person she wanted to talk to most.

She read the text, which simply said: Hey babe. Hope you didn't get in too much trouble! Do you think you're gonna be able to get away tomorrow?

Morgan instantly smirked and got giddy inside when she read the text. She quickly thought about what excuse she could use with her coach to get out of weight training. It had become a regular occurrence for Morgan to talk her coach, who also happened to be the weight training teacher, into letting her skip class to go do whatever for the period, as long as she was back before her next class and got a workout in outside of school.

Morgan had since taken that time to walk to the coffee shop across the street from school to meet up with her secret significant other. She wasn't sure how she had gotten away with it for as long as she had, but here they were almost three months into the semester and she had yet to get caught.

She quickly typed a text back saying that she was pretty sure she could get out tomorrow and that she wasn't in too much trouble, although she was grounded for a week.

Morgan laid back in her bed thinking about how and when exactly she was going to tell her parents she had started seeing someone. With the feelings she was feeling, she knew it had to be soon. She had only had two boyfriends before, only one of the two actually getting to meet her parents. But this time it was different, not only had she been seeing this person for three months, this time, it was a girl.


Sorry for any mistakes. I did try and proof read it multiple times, but I'm sure some things snuck through. Let me know what you think!