Chapter One

She was left standing there in the interrogation room after Castle confronted her. She let Javi and Ryan take care of the bust. "…deep down inside you like being broken." It just kept playing over and over in her head. She really wanted Castle to help her with all of this. But if LokSat found out that he was involved, Castle would have been killed. And she would not have been able to live with that. But she could not lose her marriage either. So she had to go make things right.

*Later that evening*

There was a knock at the door. Castle went to go open it.

"You were right," she said as she walked into the loft.

"Okay," said Castle.

"Everything that you said, you were absolutely right."

Castle was so confused. "Could you be more specific?"

What did he not understand? Did she have to spell this out for him? "That our breakup could have just been a cover so that we could bring LokSat down together."

"Yeah. I wish you would have come to me." Castle said. He did not understand why she didn't go to him. He would do anything for her and he thought that she knew this.

"Well I'm here now. So let's do it."

Castle was shocked. Did she really think that he would just welcome her with open arms again? "It's not that easy."

Kate looked confused. "Uh I thought that you would-"

"-just take you back in spite of what you put me through?"

"Look Castle, I am sorry I hate that I hurt you. That was never what I wanted." The look on his face was killing her. He looked so wounded.

"Well you did hurt me Kate and what's worse, you lost faith in me."

"No I never." She needed him to know this. How important he was in her life. "I need you Rick. I didn't realize even how much I needed you until this happened. Please…..just don't make me do this without you."

The look in her eyes. She looked so broken. "Of course I am not going to let you do this on your own Kate. I would never." He loved her too much to let her do this by herself. It didn't seem right to him. "But I am going to need some time. What you put me through was unbearable. You crushed my heart and it is going to take some time for it to heal; for me to heal."

"Okay Rick. I get it. But I need you to know that it was never my intention to hurt you this much. I just wanted to keep you safe. I don't know what I would do if I ever lost you…so I honestly had no choice."

"I get that Kate but like I said I just need time." And he did but he wasn't sure how much time he needed.

"Okay well just let me know. I will be around." And with that, she grabbed her coat and was getting ready to leave. But he grabbed her arm, pulled her close and kissed her. While they were kissing, all the bad was forgotten and all the good memories and love came back. He missed her so much.

He pulled away. "Kate, please don't leave. Stay."

She wasn't sure if he truly meant it. But the look in his eyes said it all. "Okay. I will."

"Good. It gets kind of lonely here since I was the only one here. Plus Lucy just isn't the same as talking to an actual person." She laughed a little. She missed this. She missed them. She missed him. He held out his hand, she grabbed it and they walked towards the bedroom. They needed to sleep everything off so that tomorrow they could talk about what their future looked like.

Castle woke up the next morning with his wife laying right next to him. Just like old times. He really missed waking up to her. He was just staring at her. She is so beautiful. He missed being able to do this.

"You do know that staring is creepy Castle." she said laughing.

"Sorry," he said. "I just missed waking up and seeing your beautiful face." He really did. She looked at him and just smiled. She felt the exact same way.

"Castle?"

"Yeah?"

She hated the fact that she even had to ask this question. "Where do we go from here? How are we going to move forward?"

"Um, I am not sure." Honestly, he never really thought about it. "Maybe we should go talk to Dr. Burke? I think that might be out best bet."

Therapy? Really? That was what he wanted to do? "I mean I guess. If that is what you want to do…if you think it will help us move forward then I am on board." Kate said with a small smile.

"Okay great! I will call Dr. Burke right now and see if he has some free time today." He jumped out of bed and went into his office to ring for Dr. Burke. Kate was not so sure about therapy. She thought that it was going to make things worse. But she just wanted things to go back to normal. So she was willing to do anything. Castle popped his head back into their room. "We have an appointment in 30 minutes. So get dressed and I will make us some breakfast."

"Okay I will be out in 5 minutes."

"Okay great!" he said happily.

"Wait Castle!"

"What's up?"

She hated that she had to ask this question but she did anyway. "Um. Are my clothes still in the dresser?"

He looked at her like she had three heads. He was confused. How could she even ask him that? He walked over to bed where she was sitting and stood right in front of her. He looked right into her eyes and he saw that she was seriously asking him this question. He then bent down, grabbed her face and kissed her. A soft, sweet, and tender kiss. They pulled apart, he smiled at her and went back to the kitchen so that he could make breakfast. He gave her the answer to her question. She had the biggest smile on her face, from ear to ear. She got up, went to the dresser and pulled out a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and one of Castle's sweatshirts. She threw on some make-up and put her hair in a messy bun and went out into the kitchen. Castle made pancakes and bacon. While Kate started to eat, Castle went into the bedroom and threw some clothes on. He came back out and finished having breakfast with her. They finished eating and put their plates in the sink.

Castle headed to the door. "You ready to go?" he asked her while holding out his hand for her.

She looked at him with a look of hope on her face. It was time to get things back to normal. She wanted them to have a chance at their happily ever after. She smiled and grabbed his hand. "Yeah…let's go." And off they went.

Little did they know what they were getting in to.