Here's the next chapter! Thank you all for the reviews! :)

Forget to do a disclaimer on the first chapter, so: I unfortunately do not own Castle.

Five Months Ago

The case they had just finished was simple, having been solved in a matter of hours and was, what Castle had pointed out, a cliché as the girlfriend of their victim had shot her boyfriend of two years because he had gotten a new job offer and was moving out of the city.

The young women was behind bars and all the case paperwork was done before five, and Captain Gates had graciously allowed the three detectives and writer an early start on their weekend after a long week.

"Hey Espo, Ryan drinks at the Old Haunt? Call Lanie and Jenny, see if they're game?" Castle directed the last part at Esposito with a smirk on his face.

The partners nodded to each other and then to Castle as both pulled out their phones, calling the two as Castle had suggested. Seeing their affirmative nods Castle turned back to Kate, checking to see if she was ready yet. Tangling his finger with hers and returning the grin on her face, he called out to the boys that they needed to hurry up if they wanted a ride (the two had taken the subway to work that morning).

Castle grinned as Kate laughed as the boys ran towards the elevator as the doors began to close, Esposito barely making it through the metal doors and punching Ryan in the shoulder because he had inadvertently tripped Esposito by their desks. Ryan rubbed his shoulder and grumbled an apology as Javier glared and Beckett and Castle chuckled, the elevator beginning its descent towards the garage.

None of them knew they wouldn't get that drink that night, or that lives would all change.

After a brief argument and three games of rock, paper, scissors Rick triumphantly grabbed the keys from Kate's hand and twirled them on his finger. Kate groaned, knowing that Rick would gloat about finally beating her in a game of rock, paper, scissors. She hopped into the passenger's seat of Castle's SUV, laughing out loud as the two other detectives fought to get into the backseat before the other after she called shotgun, stating that it was her fiancé's car and she was not going to be in the backseat.

Kate called out, "Boys, don't make me ground you!"

Grumbling among each other the two finally got themselves situated as Castle leaned towards Kate, whispering, "I feel like we already have two children to take care of."

His observation was proved when after he not-so-quickly kissed Kate on the lips and the two men/children in the backseat groaned and whined, "Ewww!"

Kate laughed and Castle shifted the car gear into drive, pulling out of the precinct's parking garage.

After work rush hour traffic on a Friday was terrible, and only two blocks from the precinct, Rick had already been forced to slam on the brakes to avoid rear ending someone five times as every car on the road did the same. Muttering angrily at the newest idiot who had cut him off, he glanced in the rear view mirror to see Ryan and Esposito taping away at their phones, and a quick glance at Kate confirmed that she was doing the same.

"Hey, babe." Rick said as he turned his eyes back towards the road. Getting no response from his fiancé even though she still wasn't fond of being called pet names, he tried again to get her attention. "Hey. Kate. Earth to Beckett!" Once again gaining no response he tried to think of what would get her attention away from her phone.

Grinning he continued to drive until traffic was again stopped and backed up from a red light. Castle quickly reached across the center console and squeezed right above Kate's knee, having recently found she was ticklish there. Her response was immediate. "Castle!" Kate screeched as she tried not to giggle in front of the boys. That was something they would never live down.

"What was that about?" Kate said while slapping his shoulder. She tried to smother her laugh as Castle dramatically pouted at being hit. "You and those two were zoned out at your phones and I wanted someone to talk to." He stated while still pulling off his fake pout. Kate shot him an equally fake glare, saying "And you couldn't have bugged of them? I'll have you know Alexis and I were discussing when we should go look at dresses, and I was telling her I'd ask when Lanie is free."

Castle smiled as he thought of his daughter's enthusiasm about the wedding planning, and about how Kate included her in everything she could. His smile turned to a frown though when they hit yet another red light. They were only a couple blocks away from the Old Haunt, and they were all ready for their post work drink. When the light finally turned green, Castle stepped on the gas, hopeful that would be the last red they encountered. When he heard Esposito, who was on the passenger side, yell and Kate let out a scared, "Castle!", his head turned quickly their way, only to see a large truck coming their way. He yelled out a quick "Kate!" before everything went black.

She could hear yelling. And sirens. Everything hurt and someone was shouting her name over and over and another voice was calling for a medic and everything hurt. She blinked her eyes open and immediately wished she hadn't. She could see smoke coming from the car's hood and why her door pushed so far in? She looked to her right and saw the crumpled front end of a truck and then looked down when she realized her leg felt like it was on fire. Well, more on fire than the rest of her body.

She thought it was strange for the metal to be bent that way around her leg, and why did everything hurt so much. She looked around for Castle hoping he could make it stop hurting when she realized he was still shouting her name.

His door was open and he was yelling out the windshield towards two medics who were unloading their gear from an ambulance. He had turned to yell again when she had finally looked at him, and she was trying to get his attention but was only able to rasp out a quiet "C-Castle." But it was enough. He turned back towards her and brought her hand up to his lips.

"Hey, everything is going to be okay, okay? Kate, we're going to get you out of here." He turned again and yelled, "Dammit get over here!" at the medics who were finally running towards them. "Castle, h-hurts. Make it stop hurting." She was in tears, but as soon as she stopped talking, her eyes rolled back into her head and she was unconscious again.

Castle felt two pairs of hands pull his out of the driver's seat as the medics reached the SUV and fought them until he realized it was Ryan and Esposito who, like his had some scratches and bruises but nothing to serious. Unlike Kate. He strained against the boys' arms until they managed to get Kate out of the SUV, something that seemed to take forever. As they load her onto a gurney he ran up to the ambulance yelling, "I'm her fiancé! You have to let me go with you! Please!"

The two paramedics nodded at each other and finished loading Kate into the back. Castle hopped in after her and told Ryan and Esposito he would see them at the hospital before the doors slammed and the ambulance was off.

Wrote this during the Superbowl cause let's be honest that game was an absolute joke. Hope you all like this! Reviews are appreciated! :)