Emily Johanna (EJ) Castle
Genre: Family, Romance, Christmas
Disclaimer: I do not own anything than Emily Johanna and the idea for this FanFiction.
Beta-Reader: my friend Nina :)
Four days before Christmas...
"Mommy!", the little girl called out as she stepped out of the elevator with her father. The brown haired Detective and a few other Detectives turned her heads towards the noise. Seconds later the three year old crashed into her legs.
"Whoa little girl", she said laughing and picked her up. "How is mommy's little angel?"
"I'm fine, mommy. We want to pick you up. We want to go and pick out a Christmas tree!", she explained.
Kate kissed her on the cheek lightly. "Okay, fine. I'll grab my jacket and we can go, pick out a tree."
"Yay!" The little girl jumped out of her mother's arms and ran towards her uncles.
They greeted her and Javier pulled her into his lap. "How is New York's Best Detective?"
"Mommy is fine."
That made them all laugh.
"And how is the daughter of that famous Detective?"
"I'm fine uncle Javi", she said giggling. The girl leaned into her uncle and yawned. "Whatchya doing uncle Javi and Kevin?"
"We are searching something for your mom. You wanna help us Detective Castle?"
"Yeeees!", she said laughing and smiled at the two Detectives.
"Good."
"And I don't get a kiss, Detective?", Castle protested.
She smiled at him, then she cupped his cheeks with her hands and kissed him deeply. "You got your kiss, Castle. Are you happy now?"
"No", he said and kissed her again, "now I'm happy. You ready to go, 'cause I think Javi and Kevin may kidnap our kid otherwise."
"They won't. I'll talk to Gates and then we can go. That fine with you?"
"Sure, it is. Hurry up."
She left him standing near her desk.
She knocked on her Captain's door and stepped in.
"Kate, hi. What can I do for you? Is everything alright?", Victoria asked.
"Yes, everything is fine. I wanted to ask, whether or not I could leave work for today. EJ wants to go Christmas tree shopping."
"Of course you can go, Kate. I'll call you if I'll need you. Enjoy your time with that adorable sweet, little girl of yours."
"Thank you, Sir."
"Kate?"
"Yes?"
"I asked myself, if you want to take the holidays off? I didn't get any holiday requests."
"Yes, that's because I didn't gave you one. I can work, it's not a problem."
"Kate, I want you to take the holidays off. Spend some time with your family. Go to the Hamptons or whatever. That girl adores you. She needs her mom. The grow up fast, you know?"
"Yes, I do know. I can't believe she's already three years old."
"Good, keep that thought and give me your holiday request tomorrow. And don't even think about not giving me the damn request. Understood?"
"Yes, Sir."
"Fine. Now go. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Thank you, Sir." With that she left her Captain's office and joined Castle, who was talking to Javi and Kevin, holding their daughter in his arms.
When the little girl saw her mother, she forced her dad to let her down. She rsn towards her mother and hopped into her arms, as the young Detective bend down.
"There is my little angel."
The girl leaned into her mother and kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Can you grab your coat, so we can go, mommy?"
"Sure, I can do that. But you might need to hop off my arms, so I can go over to my desk and grab it."
The girl jumped to the ground and smiled at her mother.
Kate smiled back at the little, and already so clever, girl. Sometimes she wondered, if this kid was really their's. She was just too smart sometimes.
She walked to her desk and grabbed her coat. When she turned around, Castle was standing just inches away from her.
He grabbed her and kissed her. "Mistletoe", he mumbled and kissed her again.
She shook her head lightly. "EJ, let's go", she called out for their little daughter.
"I'm coming, mommy!" EJ looked at her uncles. "Bye uncle Javi, bye uncle Kevin!"
Javier tickled her one last time for today until she laughed and then let the girl go.
"Bye EJ", Espan said in union.
The girl ran over to her parents and crashed into her mother's legs. Kate had to grab hold on Castle.
"But Ms. Castle, in the middle of the Precinct?", he said laughing.
"I'm so sorry Castle, but our daughter just crashed into my legs and I had to stop myself from falling to the ground", she replied and picked her little girl up. "You think we can go and pick out a Christmas tree?"
"Yeeeees!"
"Great. You heard her Castle. Let's go."
Outside of the Precinct there was about one foot of snow and while they'd been into the Precinct, it had started to snow again. Little white snowflakes were falling from the grey sky.
EJ opened her mouth and tried to catch some snowflakes with her tongue. Her parents smiled proudly at her.
"She's a great kid."
"Yes, she is. Sometimes I can't believe I'm her mother, Castle."
"But you are, and you are a great mother." He tugged her up against himself and kissed her softly with the snow falling from the sky and melting on their warm faces, as a snowball hit his back.
They broke apart and their daughter stood there giggling 'till no end.
"Oh, youuuu!", Caste called out laughing, got to his daughter and started to tickle her, until they both had tears running down their cheeks from laughing so hard.
Kate smiled at her husband interacting with their daughter. "I thought we wanted to go and pick out a tree?", she asked.
EJ nodded her head. "Mommy's right. Stop tickling me and let's go."
"As you wish, Princess." He took his little daughter's hand and put his other arm around his wife's wrist.
"Mommy? Can we go to the Park? I wanna play with all the snow." The three year old looked at her with puppy eyes.
Kate shook her head laughing. "Later, okay? First, we pick out a Christmas tree, later, we go to the Park. Deal?"
"Deal, mommy! We go to the park later! Yaaay!"
"See, she always gets you with these gorgeous eyes of hers."
"Mmhh, she's got your eyes, Castle."
"And your wavy, brown curls and the nose and god, your beautiful smile." He kissed her. "We should make another perfect baby, Ms. Castle", he whispered into her ear.
If you'd know, she though to herself. "Yes, we should do that", she whispered back.
After they picked out a tree, they hailed a cab that drove them to Central Park. Castle paid the driver while Kate and EJ waited for him. Together they walked through the icy, white snow. The lamps lit up the Park enough for Kate and Rick to let their little girl run a little ahead of them. They stopped walking and Kate leaned into her husband, as they watched their daughter playing 'catch the snowflake with your tongue' again.
"I love you so much, Kate", he whispered against her lips, as he kissed her deeply and with such a passion, that it nearly knocked her off her feet.
"I love you, too, Castle. So so much", she whispered and kissed him back deeply.
"Mommy! Mommy, I caught a snowflake!", EJ called out and ran to her parents, to show it to them.
Four days later. Christmas Eve.
"When can I open my gifts, mommy?", the little girl asked. Shelooked towards all the large and small packages that lay under the beautifully decorated Christmas tree.
"Soon. Eat up your food and you can open one, okay? We will open the rest when Grandpa is here."
"Okay." The little girl ate up her food fast and then ran over to the tree to grab one large package.
Kate smiled knowingly at her husband and then watched her daughter ripping the gift out of the paper.
The eyes of the little girl grew wide, as she saw what was inside.
Three beautiful little dresses, she saw while going shopping with her mother. She thought her mother hadn't seen how much she liked them, because they were expensive. Very expensive.
"Thank you mommy", she said and smiled brightly. "Can I try one on? For grandpa?"
"Sure, they are yours. You can wear them whenever you want to."
The three year old smiled, took the red dress and walked up the stairs. Alexis stood up from the table, excused herself and went after her little sister.
Kate looked eagerly to one small gift. Castle would freak out. In a very positive way. Best Christmas ever. She couldn't wait for her father to arrive, so that she could just pass the gift to her husband.
Rescued by the bell, she stood up and walked towards the door. She greeted her father with a hug and smiled at him. She had just closed the door as she could hear her little daughter running down the stairs and calling out for her grandpa.
"Grandpa!"
Jim picked his granddaughter up and spun her around.
The little girl giggled and clung onto her grandpa's chest.
"It's great to see you EJ. I missed you."
"You just saw me last week", she said giggling.
"I know, but I missed you anyway. How have you been?"
"Great. I picked out the Christmas tree with mommy and daddy and after that we went to Central Park and had a snowball fight. Daddy lost the game."
"They ganged up against me! That was so not fair", castle tried to justified himself.
"Man up Castle, we were having a snowball fight", Kate said laughing and rolled her eyes a bit.
"Ya, you can say that easily, Ms. Castle, you won!"
"Can we open the gifts now?", EJ asked and looked at her grandpa with puppy eyes.
"Katie, did you show her that puppy eyes thing?"
"No, I didn't, dad. She also uses them against me. She knows it melts my heart and that I just have to say yes."
EJ giggled as her mother tickled her lightly and took her from Jim. She let her down to the ground and whispered something into her ear. The little girl nodded with her head and run to the Christmas tree.
"Let's go and sit down. You all should better sit down now", Kate said.
When they all were seated, EJ brought her mother a small package. Kate smiled at her daughter and told her to sit down. Kate smiled at the gift in her hands happily.
Castle looked nervously at his wife. "Kate?"
"Ya, right. Here, open it", she said and gave the gift to him.
She waited patiently while he opened it. He held a little shoe in his hand and had a puzzled look on is face.
"Read the letter, Castle", she said.
Castle did as asked and took the letter. He opened it and stared at the ultrasound picture. He looked at Kate and back to the picture. "You are pregnant! Oh my god, you are pregnant!" He got up and pulled her into a tight hug, before her kissed her deeply, until she softly moaned. "We're going to be parents again!" He danced around the living room with his wife.
"Yes, we are going to be parents again, Castle. I'm pregnant. But, take a closer look at the picture."
Before he could even take the picture, it was already in Alexis fingers and the 20 year old stared at it kinda shocked. Martha and Jim had similar expressions on their faces, but then smiled at each other brightly.
"Oh my god! You're going to have twins!", Alexis called out.
Castle scanned his partners face for any reaction. She had a bright smile on her lips. "Twins?", he asked.
"Twins", she confirmed. A second later his lips were crashing down on hers.
"Thank you Kate. Thank you so so much. This is the best Christmas ever", he said with tears in his eyes. "I love you so much, Katherine Houghton Castle."
"I love you, too, Richard Edgar Castle."
"Thank you."
"Always", she replied.
The End…?
I hope you liked the story. It's the first english FF I've written in a long time. I'm sorry if there are still some grammatically mistakes in the text. If you find one, tell me please?
Greetings,
OneWriterDetective :)
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