Guinevere's Terror

Guinevere's Terror by Angel-Dressed-In-Red

Rating K will warn you if any chapter needs higher rating but don't plan on it.

I don't own any of the recognisable characters, am just trying to create some entertainment with them. It's the only thing I get out of this.

Fits in around early season 2 just before Vampire Weekend, Kate tells Castle about someone rather special to her just hours before all their lives are turned upside down.

Ok, I warn you now, I don't have a beta reader, if anyone would like to volunteer please do, I would appreciate it so much.

Please enjoy.


It is late one night and having been asleep on the lounge sofa for the last half hour, Richard Castle is beginning to ache. Stretching to shake away the pain, Castle stood, still revelling in the last of his dreams. Realising the time he decides to go home but is stopped at the door when he finds that he is not the only one to have fallen asleep.

His muse, the extraordinary Kate Beckett lies over her desk, her arms stretching out over to the other side and a soft, unguarded smile upon her face. She looks happy and Castle hopes for a minute that she is dreaming of him. She gently shifts in her sleep and he watches as her long back curves into an arch as her sub-conscious makes her more comfortable.

Castle hesitates, unsure whether to wake her and take her home or to leave her in her chair till morning. He is caught between the choices and watches her as she sleeps, he is glad to see her as her, without all the walls, and not the detective she shows the world.

Before his eyes she changes and confusion and pain erase the quiet happiness of before and she begins to panic, thrashing around in her sleep and crying out words to soft for him to hear. She is tormented and his heart breaks watching as he hurries over to her side, trying to calm his friend.

He holds her close in a way he hasn't before, and whispers into her ear, calling for her to wake and telling her she is safe. He knows the second she wakes up. Her sobbing ends and she takes deep breaths as she tries to calm herself. His heart has never beaten to fast as it does now as she slowly stops the rocking motion he is using to calm her. She clutches on to him despite herself, she knows she is safe with him and that she shouldn't be ashamed for letting him see her like this but she is.

Castle knows this and a million emotions he doesn't dare to mention attack him as he watches her try to rebuild her walls. He lets her begin, knowing better than to interrupt but he also knows he can't let her put them all back up.

"Kate, don't run, I won't pry, talk to me about anything, I 'm not leaving you to be by yourself right now, ok?"

"You won't pry? That's possible?"

"Yeah though it's killing me, but I know that when you realise you need to talk that you know that I'll listen and that am not the only one who wants to help. Right now though my mission is to make you smile. Will you let me?"

"Castle, Rick...There's something I need to tell you, something that only the Caption and Lanie know about. Rick I have a daughter, she's just a bit younger than Alexis."

To say that Castle is stunned is an understatement, he can't talk, he can't think. Kate knows this and continues because she is feeling things that she swore she would never feel for Castle. She finds herself needing him to understand and to accept the news.

"After my Mom died I was devastated and aside from reading your books I began hanging out in bars and clubs, I'd flirt with all the guy's but never got close to them except one.

"I remember sitting in the bar, feeling rather sorry for myself when a voice asked if he could join me. HE was a handsome man who looked like he was having a rough time so I let him. We started talking and soon I was falling in love. That night it took me twice as long to get drunk and those hours were the best I've ever had, he made me drink slower and that night I accepted that my Mom was really gone, that I could move on.

"When I woke up the next morning his arm was draped round me and nothing had ever felt more right, I loved him but I'd woken because of the nightmare, I was lucky I hadn't woken him.

"For weeks I had dreamt of finding my Mom, just as she was dying and watching her go in my arms, then her body would change and it'd be my Dad. That night there was a third body and that scared me. I knew him all of five hours, not including the hours I spent asleep, and yet he was in my dream. I got scared and did what I do best. I ran.

"I left him a note on the way out, he had just gotten divorced and became a single parent, he didn't need a wreck of a girl to look after while he got back on his own feet. I couldn't do that to him. So I left. Three weeks later I found out I was pregnant, I moved to Scotland to have the baby, oh Castle she was so beautiful when she was born, I named her Gwen."

Castle had taken everything in by now and finds that he understood but a mild tingling sensation has began to prickle at his heart. He realises he needs to speak to explain his thoughts to the now rather vulnerable feeling Kate Beckett.

"I bet she's gorgeous and strong, just like you. I'm glad you trust me enough to tell me about her. I won't tell anyone, not even Alexis."

"Yeah, she's strong she has to be, I left her on Scotland with my cousin Paul, I couldn't bring her back to this place, not with all the violence, and Scotland was so peaceful and beautiful. I wanted her to be safe, and happy. I couldn't give her that.

"She was happy, really happy but then Paul died in a car accident when she was 10, she was heartbroken, I should have brought her here then but what if I died or got shot, so my other cousin Amy took her in. After a while Gwen was happy again but just before we met, Amy died. Cancer. Gwen was so hurt, but she was sixteen so I told her the truth and asked her to come with me. She went crazy and I've only just managed to get her talking to me again."

Castle takes her in his arms and comforts her, he suggests she phones her, saying that sometimes a child forgives faster when they realise just how human their parent is. She reluctantly agrees and turns to her watch to figure out the time difference. That was when she realises that it's half six, the gasp behind her showing that Castle was just realising too. They'd been there all night.

"Now I must admit that hug was just so heart warming, Kate, mind if I ask what's going on?"

It's the captain and Kate knows just the answer.

"I just told him about Gwen"

"I'll be in my office if you need me then, and next time you talk to her please send my love."

"Of course, I was actually just about to phone her, I can't remember if she has college today but she should be up, it's half eleven there."

Roy just nods and heads for his office, unaware of what had previously happened in Scotland.

"Katie, can I talk to her sometime, not necessary today but sometime?"

"Castle, man did you just call her Katie, and she didn't kill you?"

"Yeah am kind of in shock, I was ready to run but I guess she's letting me away with it. How long do you think I can manage it?"

The boys just laughed and entered the lounge for their morning coffee

"Castle, let's go to Remy's, I need food."

They got up and left before the boy's came back, sharing a confused look the boys just shrug their shoulders and go to their desks.


So, reviews please; is this worth continuing or does anyone have any ideas. I'm worried about them being OOC . IT's only my second fic and first for Castle so be blunt, I will take all truths. Good or Bad.