"Hello …Mom..Mommy. Mommy. Hey I'm here. Would you put the beer down and listen to me for a minute." The child waited patiently for a response. "Mom you're so stubborn. How many hints do I have to give you before you realize I'm here. Come on mom, you're a detective figure it out. That was not the stomach bug you had two months ago, it was me. Sorry about that by the way." The child started getting impatient trying to make its presence known, "Mommy stop talking to Aunt Lanie and listen to me. Put the beer down I don't want anymore. Hey, Auntie Lanie? Auntie Lanie?" the child called. "You're a doctor, tell mommy I'm here. Auntie Lanie? Can't you tell I'm here?" the child realized it was not getting anywhere and called out, "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy! Humph." The child sat still and thought about what to do to make its presence known. "Mommy, where's daddy? Go get Daddy. He will hear me. Mommy I want to talk to daddy. Please get daddy."
Kate and Lanie sat together chatting away at the bar in the Old Haunt when the boys arrived. "Hey we told you it was girl's night. No boys allowed," Kate stated.
"No worries ladies we just came by to pick up a bottle of scotch before heading to my place to play some poker," Rick said.
"Get your bottle and get gone," Lanie threw back.
"Watch yourself or the drinks won't be free here anymore," Rick said with a sly smile.
Kate stood up to move toward Castle and make a smart remark, but before she could Castle was pulling the beer from her hand. "Hey, what the hell are you doing? Jeesh Castle, what's wrong with you? If you want me to pay all you have to do is tell me." She snatched the beer back from his hand and took a swig.
"No Kate don't!" he snatched the beer away from her again and went behind the bar to dispose of it.
"Castle!" Kate yelled as she glared at Rick.
"Beckett we need to talk."
"I don't wanna talk to you right now your pissing me off," she said as she sat down and turned to Lanie.
"Sorry, but there is something I need to tell you," he grabbed her wrist, "come with me."
"Don't touch me," she said breaking away from his grasp.
"I don't want to tell you here Beckett."
"Whatever you need to tell me, you can tell me here."
"I really don't think you want me to tell you here." He looked into her eyes and then down to her abdomen then back to her eyes again trying to tell her what he just discovered.
"Castle don't look at me like that."
"But Kate I need to talk to you now."
Snapping back around to face Rick, "Can't it wait until tomorrow?"
"No."
"What is it that is soooo important that it can't wait until tomorrow?" Just then Kate felt a strange sensation in her lower abdomen and pressed a finger into it with a puzzled look on her face.
"Hey what are you doing? Stop poking me. Wait did you feel that. Can you feel me mommy? Let me do it again."
Feeling fluttering in her lower abdomen, Kate pressed her palm into her stomach again.
"Hey you felt me. Hi mommy. Hi."
Kate drew in a quick breath, "We need to talk now!" she said with her eyes wide as she snatched Rick's hand and drug him to the basement.
"Does anyone know what just happened?" Ryan asked.
"Not a clue," Esposito said
"Lanie are those two finally getting together?" Ryan questioned.
"She hasn't said anything to me about it. Have the two of you noticed them acting any different?"
"No" both men responded.
"Rick how could you tell?"
"The way your shirt was clinging to your stomach when you stood up. You've got a bump!"
"I thought my pants were getting tight because I put on a couple of pound. I figured it was from all of the junk I've been eating lately. The stomach bug I had two months ago, that wasn't the stomach bug after all. Why didn't I figure it out sooner?"
They looked into each other's eyes. "Kate you're going to be a mom," he said to her with a huge grin on his face.
"I'm going to be a mom," she said as a whisper. Then realization hit. "I'm going to be a mom! Rick! You knocked me up!" she said slapping him across the face. She ran up the stairs and Rick quickly followed.
"Wait. Kate you can't put all of the blame on me."
She turned back to him poking him in the chest, "yes, yes I can. I was on antibiotics because you got me sick."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Everything Rick!" she stormed out of the Old Haunt.
Hearing this information Lanie put the pieces of the puzzle together. "Castle you better hope she is not getting her gun."
"You don't think she will shoot me do you?"
Just then Kate came crashing through the doors of the Old Haunt; she ran toward Rick.
"Kate please don't kill me."
"I don't want to kill you. I wanna kiss you. This is the happiest day of my life Rick and I have you to thank." She then leaned in and gave him a kiss. Pulling away, "my Dad on the other hand may try to kill you for knocking up his little girl." Rick swallowed hard. "Rick I'm kidding he's going to be ecstatic. He has been asking for grandchildren ever since he caught us making out. I've gotta call my dad."
"Kate wait I want to tell my Mom and Alexis too."
"I can't wait Rick. I'm too excited."
"I've got an idea. I'll call my Mom and Alexis and you call your Dad. Put it on speaker phone so we can tell them together.
"Alright," she said as she pulled out her phone.
"Hey Alexis is Gram there with you?"
"Yeah. Why?" Alexis questioned.
"There is something I need to tell the two of you," he said in a somber voice.
"Dad what's wrong?"
"Nothing just get Gram and put it on speaker phone so both of you can hear me."
"Ok." Alexis responded.
"Hey Dad," Kate bubbled.
"Hi Katie, What are you up to? I thought you were supposed to be having a girl's night with Lanie."
"I was until the boys came and ruined it. The reason I'm calling is because there is something I need to tell you."
"What is it Katie?"
"Rick are you ready?"
He shook his head yes in response.
"Hey is that Kate, Dad?" Alexis asked.
"Yes."
"Katie please tell me you didn't elope."
"Jeez dad, no."
"Sorry I had to ask. You did have a rather wild side in your teen years. So what did you want to tell me?"
"Dad this is the happiest day of my life. I can't believe this is happening." She started to cry. Rick embraced her.
"Kate, it's ok."
"I can't believe that we're having …"
"a baby," Rick finished.
"Oh it's so cute when they do that," Lanie interjected.
"It's about time."
"Congratulations!"
"I call not it for diaper duty," Alexis stated.
Everyone started laughing at the girl's statement.
"Dad are you at the Old Haunt? I want to see you and Kate."
"Yes, come on over."
"Gram and I will be right there," Alexis hung up the phone but not before Rick heard an excited squeal out of the girl.
"Dad can you come over for dinner tomorrow?" Kate asked.
"Of course Katie. I can't wait to see you love bug."
"Me either dad. I love you. See you tomorrow."
"I love you to Katie. See you tomorrow." As soon as Kate hung up her phone she was ambushed by Lanie.
"Congratulations sweetie," Lanie said as she wrapped Kate in a warm embrace.
"Thanks Lanie"
As soon as Alexis and Martha arrived Kate was again wrapped in warm embraces.
"Kate is it ok if I feel you're stomach?" Alexis asked.
"Um, I don't think you'll feel anything, but sure," Kate replied.
"Oh wow. You've already got a bump."
"She does?" Lanie asked as she walked over to touch Kate's stomach.
Within seconds everyone was kneeling around Kate pressing their hands into her stomach. "Hey guys," Kate said laughing at the ridiculous scene. Everyone looked up at her. "Really? Are you all going to do this every time you see me now?"
"Yes!" They all exclaimed.
"Better get used to it," Rick said as everyone started to poke and push on Kate's belly again.
"Hey what's going on out there? Stop pushing on me. Oh man, what have I done?"