This is my vision of how Castle should end the series. Has a happy ending for all. Wrote this on 5/4/16. Hopefully get it all posted before the ending airs. No one was told that Castle and Beckett were back together yet only they know. So some of the characters might seem out of character with the show. Hope that someone enjoys this work. Please tell me what you think of it. I love feedback.

Fighting for my family
5/4/16

Chapter one

Castle's loft-bedroom: AM

Beckett in her pjs, which really was only a long t-shirt and underwear, slips from under Castle's strong warm arms. Hoping not to wake him up again. It was the third time this week that she had to get up cause she felt sick. She enters the bathroom and checks herself in the mirror. "Looking good, you are Beckett." her mind told her. "Oh shut up," she responded out loud. "ugh..." She swiped her hands down her face, then splashed water up there. Letting it dripping down and onto the counter top of the sink. "Relax, Beckett there's nothing wrong with you."

"Tell that to my..." she didn't get to finish that talking out loud to herself before she was once again hanging over the toilet barfing.

"You know what I like?" she heard her husband call from the other room. He turns over to find that Beckett was not in the bed with him anymore.

"Beckett," he swivels his head around looking for her, no answer was given to him. "Kate?" he calls louder thinking that she had gone to start the coffee machine like she did on occasion while she was staying with him, secretly of course. The secrecy was taking it's toll on him. Yes he knew that he had to keep it up for appearances but he wanted his old life back where he didn't have to hide his love for her. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops that she was his and only his. But this sneaking her into his room at night when no one was looking and having her to use the back way to go out in the morning just wasn't working anymore. He didn't know how much longer he could hold on. Not that he wanted to divorce her but just to say screw it and forget the whole thing. But he loved her too much to turn his back on her now. He would have to see this through. It was a test of his devotion to her. One that he was losing at. He swallows, shaking his head.

"What's that?" he finally got an answer coming from the bedroom bath. "Waking up next to you." Castle smiles at hearing her voice, that she was still there in his house with him. He sits up against the headboard of the bed. "Which I am not today. where are you?" He questions why she had abruptly left the bed.

"Just a minute sweetie," she calls as sweet as she can at him, but wasn't feeling it. She wasn't feeling good at all. Her head was spinning once again as another wave of nausea was coming up.

"Are you okay?" He got a gut feeling that something was not right with her but he couldn't put his finger on it. Then he remembers that this was not the first time that this happened this week. "Are you sure everything's okay?"

"Yes, everything's fine." he knew that by the tone of her voice she was not telling him the whole truth but he wasn't going to push it, he didn't want to. He knew that something wasn't right. He was hoping that she would just tell him. To confide in him, and together they would handle it. But he also knew that she didn't like to ask for anyone's help.
"Just go back to sleep." he heard her say, but how could he now with the way that he was feeling. He sighs, I have to trust her, that she's telling me the truth. Oh how I want to do that, it just hard. He closes his eyes, trying to block all of that out of his mind.

She was lying to him of course, not everything was right. She didn't really know what was going on with her. She sat down on the edge of tub staring at the pregnancy test she had just taken. Waiting for it to hurry up and tell her something that she thought might be why she was having her restless nights and trips to well here. Hurry up you...

"What's taking so long in there." she heard him call out. This time his tone had changed, it sounded like it had a hint of anger in it. Or was she just imagining that. He seemed to be closer to the door too. She didn't him to come in while she was still waiting. She was thinking the same thing though. What was taking so long, you either are or you're not. "Just washing up?" she responds to him hoping that would satisfy his curiosity for now.

"Can I help with that?" his voice turns to a loving husband who knew that she might need his help.

"No," she didn't mean to have a deep angry voice. She was just annoyed right now, great now I'm taking it out on my husband. She just wanted to throw the test across the room.

"No," Oh the pain, she heard but this was something that she wanted to do alone. She would share the news with him though, whichever way that would go.

"Kate, I know that voice, what's really going on, is something seriously wrong?" he sighs, "I need to know," He waits staring at the door to his bathroom.

"No no, I'm fine," She looks at the test, sure enough she was pregnant. "You'll ruin the surprise." she calls to him, "And that it will be." she says under her breath. I know I am.

"Okay, well, hurry back with that surprise so I can wrap my arms around you before you have to leave again." he sighs at those words, leave again. He wanted so bad to kick Locksat ass for all of this. It was his or her, he thought fault that his wife had to run around secretly.

"Oh you will have to wait a few months for that." she whispers, still shocked at the news that she was going to be a mother, something that she always wanted in her life. She never thought it would happen and now... She smiles, her dream was coming true. She couldn't believe it. Just to make sure that she wasn't dreaming she splashing water in her face again. She glances over at the test again. Nope the test still says that I am but... in the back of her mind was a cloud a dark one. Locksat What is that going to do to me? I can't give up no after coming this far but if I continue, I risk it all. I risk my family. She looks over at the still closed wooden door. I risk it all.

To be continued...