A/N: So many awesome post-watershed fics out already, but the following scenes keep floating about in my head. Honestly, I'd love to write the kinda long fic I have in my head from these fragments, but as I'm currently hardcore into my dissertation I don't see that happening anytime soon. Now, if you like any of these fragments and want to gift me with a "you can do it, your Ph.D is within your grasp" fic, then that's awesome. You have my blessing to create angsty goodness with anything below if you like it.
"Last time you picked your mom's case over me, this time you picked the job. When is it my turn to be first Kate? "
"Justice always wins. First with your mom and now with the masses. I never thought the very thing that makes you extraordinary, your drive for justice, would be the thing that makes me want to hate you."
"I love my mother, but she chose the stage over me and shipped me off to boarding school. My father chose the CIA. Kyra chose her family's wishes, Meredith chose her director…and various other cast mates; I guess you could say she chose the stage as well. Gina chose my career over me and you're choosing your career over me. So that makes it what, disapproving parents 1, career 5, and Richard Castle 0."
"The fundamental weakness in your argument Castle, is that you think it's a choice. Why can't it be both?
"There are two fundamental flaws in your statement, Kate. One, that this is an argument with strengths and weaknesses. That you can "win" by invalidating my words, my thoughts, or my feelings. Two, that you think it's not."
"Weekends and holiday aren't always Kate. They're just sometimes…"