hey guys,so his just a bit of an update.

lift of horrors-deleted.

moving on-completed for the moment,have writters block on the story,I'll come back to it.

nothing to lose,more to gain-Still working on it with ladyash.

The Castles-taking prompts since it is a one shot story,about Caskett,Gracie,Martha and Alexis.

always(one shots),leave that for awhile so I can finsh up my other stories

WARNING THIS IS NOT A FLUFFY STORY LIKE MY OTHERS.

Thank you to my beta don't know what I would do without you girly.

Beckett stood leaning against the door frame of Castle's office. "We have a case."

He barely looked up from his computer. "I'll come later, I'm doing something."

"You're coming." She took a step towards him. "If you're looking up that case."

He cut her off. "'I'm not." Castle tilted the screen of his computer down to hide what he was doing.

"Well come on." She motioned towards the door and strutted out to wait for him.

He breathed out, shutting his laptop all the way. "I'm coming."

"Hey, Lanie, what do we got?" Beckett asked, walking into the morgue.

"Hey, girl. Hey, Castle."

"Hi, Lanie. Got anything?" Castle acknowledged, but still seemed pre-occupied.

"Yes. Our vic was pregnant. Only a month by the looks of it." Lanie showed Beckett a chart and pointed to a specific line.

Kate glanced at Castle as if saying "At least someone was." She breathed out before looking back at the page.

Castle looked at her fully, then. "I'm getting real sick of you bringing it up, Kate."

Lanie raised an eyebrow at the two. "Trouble in paradise much?"

Kate rolled her eyes. "Got anything else?"

"Don't change the subject, Kate." Castle narrowed his eyes.

She turned and looked at him with wide eyes, getting irritated with his obsessive behavior recently. "Well I did." She turned back to her friend to have her question answered. "Lanie?"

"No, that was it."

"Okay, we'll talk to you later." Kate smiled at her friend and walked out of the double doors and back to solving her case.

When they finally got home after a mostly silent car ride, Alexis was sitting in the living room, flipping channels. She turned to greet them when they entered the room. "Hey guys."

"Hey, Alexis." Kate smiled and shrugged he coat off.

"Hey, sweetie." Castle gave her a smile and then walked into the bedroom.

When Kate heard the door close, she went to sit next to Alexis.

"Did you talk to dad?"

Kate rubbed her forehead. "I tried, Lex."

"Are you two fighting?"

"I don't know." She shook her head.

Alexis placed a hand on Kate's. "I'm not a kid anymore, Kate. If you need to, you can tell me."

Kate smiled at her step daughter. "Thanks, I'll remember that. But it's nothing, honestly."

"What are you two talking about?" Castle stood in the door way looking at them.

"Why are you two fighting?" Alexis blurted out. She was getting to the bottom of this. Kate just sat silently, waiting to see what he would say.

"We're not." He looked confused.

"Why are you two treating me like a kid? I know something is up, and I'm pretty sure I know what it is."

Castle raised his voice. "Well I'm sorry for caring about everyone's safety."

"No, darling, you're being paranoid." Martha stood on the stairs, looking at the three in the living room below her.

"I'm not being paranoid?" Castle wrinkled his eyebrows.

"Castle, we're just trying to help. You're making it seem like we're torturing you. Maybe we just won't care the next time." Kate crossed her arms over her chest, a sadness floating in her eyes.

Castle ran a hand through his hair. "Kate, there is no reason to be difficult."

"I'm not being difficult." She breathed out heavily again, closing her eyes for a moment.

"Yes you are!"

"Yeah, cause that's all I ever am anymore!" Kate stood, opening her arms to the room.

"Darlings, let's not fight about this." Martha stood in the middle of the group, splitting her eye contact between the three.

Castle glanced at his wife again. "I'm going to go write." With that, he turned and left the three in the living room, shutting the door behind him.

Martha and Alexis looked at Kate. "He'll come around." Martha squeezed her shoulders and Alexis hugged her before they went into the kitchen to make dinner. Kate looked back to the closed door and bit her lip. "I hope."