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Chapter 2: Live

The last time she spent a night in the hospital was nearly two years ago and in such contrasting circumstances. That time she was recovering after losing their unborn son, now she has just given birth to their daughter. The last few hours have been of utter joy and relief that they had made it.

Eight months ago when he found her on the bathroom floor crying she had been so scared of his reaction. After what happened he might not want to have a child with her, he could have left her or made her have an abortion. All the things that went through her mind when she was on the floor were ludicrous in hindsight. He had been overjoyed at the news and relieved that in the fact that she wasn't self-harming or going back to the dark days.

Together they embraced her pregnancy and made everything as good as it could be. It felt to her as if a massive weight had been lifted, they'd never forget their son but somehow this child made things better between them.

It hadn't taken long to get everything sorted for the new baby, they still had all of James' stuff and hadn't got anything that was obviously for a boy because they had only just found out about his gender a week before the crash because he refused to cooperate at the previous scans. They had decided early on that if it was a boy they wouldn't call him James. She still thought about the accident and had the guilt everyday which was getting more bearable.

There were still scars on her arm that hadn't healed well but unless you looked closely they weren't clearly visible. She hadn't even thought about it for over a year.

So here she is, sat in her hospital bed nursing her daughter with her husband looking in awe at them. It makes her blush but she doesn't want to hide her smile so instead looks at him lovingly. They have a child who is a perfect feminine mix of them. She was exhausted after a long labour but didn't want to go to sleep, her daughter was too precious and she didn't want to take her eyes off of her. Kate hadn't noticed that her daughter had finished feeding because she was lost in her eyes.

"Kate." Rick said, "Do you want me to take her?"

"Huh?" She looked down and saw her daughter resting against her chest. "Yes, please." Rick took Charlotte and patted her back. Kate followed his eyes and when their gaze met no words needed to be said to express their love and happiness just their smiles.

"I'm so proud of you, you know that don't you?"

"Yeah, well I finally did something right." She said avoiding his eye straightening her gown up and flattening the blanket.

"You do lots of things right."

"I'd rather do lots of things wrong and get big ones right."

"Kate, c'mon. We both know what happened that day and I know you would go back and change it if you could but we can't. We've made, you've made this little girl, with some of my input." Which earned him a discerning look, "If what has happened, didn't happen we wouldn't be here now. Let's focus on Charlotte and go from there. Okay?"

"Yes" she replied quietly.

"Just promise me one thing."

"What's that?"

"That you'll never go back to self-harming; if you ever feel the need to, come to me or anyone or just hold our daughter."

"I promise." She goes to swing her legs around so she can stand to hug him but is immediately reminded of the stitches which cause her to gasp in pain causing her to fall back against the pillows.

"Whoa, Kate." He puts his hand on her shoulder to tell her to stop and he moves to sit down beside her. "The doctor said rest."

"I know, I just wanted to..."

"What?"

"Hold you both, be in the cuddle. I don't know just with you."

"Well we came to you instead."

"Thank you, for everything. You really are one in seven billion." She said with a smile.

"It doesn't quite roll off of the tongue quite the same as one in a million."

"No but then that would mean there's 7000 of you which there definitely isn't. Not even one like you."

"No, there definitely isn't."

"I love you." She leans in to kiss him sweetly then pulls back to look at their daughter resting on his shoulder, "I love you too little Miss Charlotte." She said softly stroking Charlotte's cheek. "We'll be alright Castle. We always are."

"I love you too." Rick watched his wife drift off to sleep quickly, they had had a long day the long labour for which Kate required stitches and the distinct lack of sleep for the past few days. Charlotte too had gone to sleep quickly so Rick stood so he could place her in the bassinet by the side of the bed. Once happy that she was okay he sat in the chair in between the bed and the bassinet looking over at two of his girls before himself falling asleep.

This one is kind of short but the next one is longer, it's when Charlotte goes through something similar and Kate talks with her.

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