Title: One Love In A Lifetime

Disclaimer: I do not own Castle, Andrew W. Marlowe and ABC do.

Author's Note: Sorry there is not much dialogue but it's a set up for what comes next.

Genre: Romance/Angst

Rating: T

Beta'd by: Beckett NYPD

Chapter 2: The Ensuing Events

Mentions of: Random Episodes from Flowers for Your Grave to Sucker Punch (1.1 to 2.13)


-March, 2009-

NYPD Detective Kate Beckett never thought her life would change when she arrive at the latest crime scene, but when she saw the Allison Tisdale crime scene she knew where she had seen it before, Richard Castle's Flowers For Your Grave.

It had been nearly nine years since Kate went to one of Rick Caste's book singings. Since that time she had been promoted to Detective (She and Royce tried to keep in touch when he left the force yet they didn't).

After getting the facts of the crime she knew she had to locate Richard Castle and need to him at the station for questioning.

When she arrived at the location of the book launch for Storm Fall she immediately spotted him.

"Mr. Castle?"

Rick briefly froze for a second when he saw who talked to him.

Oh my word where have I seen her before?

Rick recovered and asked, "Where would you like it?"

"Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD. We need to ask you a few questions about a murder that took place earlier tonight."

So Rick went with Kate to the 12th precinct.

Subsequent to the initial one-sided flirting and squabbling they managed to solve the copycat cases. It was then Rick remembered where he had seen the detective before, at a book signing a few years back.

From that moment on he realized who he knew the person to base his new character on, one Detective Beckett and had the way to do it, talk to his friend, Mayor Bob.

Kate was peeved to say the least when Captain Montgomery told her. During the case she found out he was an immature man-child. However, as time went on and they solved cases with more speed, she began to realize how much she and her team value Rick's expertise.

There was also a lot of flirting going on; the most important was he was also becoming her best friend, even if he had betrayed her when he looked into her mother's case after she had asked him not to.

Nevertheless even though she was upset with him, she still managed to forgive him when he apologized and the partnership continued.

They continued to solve case after case without trouble. Then came a case of the murdered bridesmaid. At the start of the case, Kate found out the bride-to-be was Rick's ex and "the one who got away". During the time they pieced together the clues she had no trouble giving Rick a hard time when he was getting to close to the Kyra who was a potential murder suspect.

In the end Kyra had been cleared and both Kate and Rick were invited to witness a smaller ceremony for her and Greg.

When Kate caught Kyra's bouquet, neither she nor anyone else, realize that someone from her past re-enter her life.

Shortly after the case of the murdered bridesmaid was solved, another case came; the murder of a local Irish gang enforcer.

However, during the case a big bombshell was dropped on them; the killer was the same person who murdered Kate's mother.

Kate had found out that the hit man was, it was none other than Dick Coonan. She came close to finding out who ordered the murder on her mother but had to kill Coonan so she could save Castle's life.

Rick along with the rest of the precinct watched with a sad face as Kate tried to keep Coonan alive but to no avail.

"Come on. Stay with me. Come on. Stay with me, no come on, stay with me, one, two, three."

Castle spent sometime with Kate afterwards and that's when she said to him, "I have gotten used you pulling my pigtails."

That night after Kate got home she got a surprising phone call.


A/N 2: Okay I tried to make it more dialogue and less summary, and didn't work out very well. Just warning the next few chapters the Kate/Mike relationship will have gag moments in it, so consider yourselves warned. But hey at least it provides a plot for to get our favorite duo together.

A/N 3: Thanks for reading Chapter 2 of "One Love In A Lifetime". Reviews are appreciated!