C: Clowns - a person who dresses in brightly-colored, floppy clothes and oversized shoes to entertain children by doing silly tricks

Kate has a surprise for him. She feels giddy for him to find out about it. They will be taking their little girl as well, because she will love it as well. The girl adores her mom and whenever she enters the room, Kate almost feels guilty, that the little girls' attention immediately shifts away from her dad and to her. So Kate thought this could be something daddy and daughter could share.

Telling Castle to strap their baby girl into her car seat and wait for her in the car so they could leave, she snatched the tickets she had preordered and followed them outside.

"Kaaaaate, please, tell me, where we are going!" Castle started to whine again, as soon as she entered the car. "Castle, be patient, it's a surprise! If you keep whining like that I'll blindfold you for the rest of the way!" Smirking, Rick looked at her, murmuring "Mmmh, kinki!"

Rolling her eyes, Kate kept driving, until they reached their destination. When Rick realized where they were going, his eyes got huge and a broad smile appeared on his face. "Kate, you are taking us to the circus? Oh my god, I love the circus! Thank you!" he leaned over, pecking her on the cheek, and then turning around looking at their baby girl in wonder as she was looking out of the window, her eyes wide with curiosity at this new surrounding.

"Kate, look, she loves it as well!" Rick beamed at his wife, sighing happily, as he leaned back into his seat, taking everything in.

Once they had parked the car, Rick held their baby girl close to his chest, as he took Kate's hand with his other. As he looked down at his little girl and then at his beautiful wife, his heart started to beat faster, and he still couldn't believe that this was his reality now. Kate was his and they had a beautiful baby, who looked so much like her mother already and had both of his parents wrapped around her little fingers. He would do anything for her, for both of them.

Once inside, they found their seats and positioned the infant on his lap so she could watch the show, that was about to unfold in front of them. As the show started, Kate couldn't concentrate on it but she was looking tenderly at her husband and their little miracle they had created in his lap. Both of them having similar expressions of wonder and excitement on their faces, clapping along with everybody else, when someone did good on stage. Her heart swelled with love for her little family and she couldn't help herself, leaning over, and leaving a sweet kiss on both of their heads, afterwards sharing a loving smile with Rick.

Soon the show was over and they left the tent, to look around outside, when she saw something, grabbing Rick's hand, pulling him to the left. Stopping suddenly, she pushed Castle forward, leaving him face to face with a funny looking clown, who was making balloon figures for the children around him.

Castle looked at the clown in front of him and suddenly the smile fell off of his face, a panicked look taking over. Turning, so that he wasn't directly facing the clown anymore, he tried to take a step back, to get away from it, but Kate was blocking his path, gently pushing his closer as their baby girl giggled in excitement.

When Rick didn't move, she walked around him, seeing the panicked expression on his face, begging her with his eyes to help him, their baby girl tightly clutched to his chest, between him and the clown.

She couldn't believe this was happening. The biggest man-child she knew was afraid of clowns. Why did this surprise her so much? It was after all a very child like fear to have. Sure some adults found clowns creepy, but Castle was actually afraid of them. So afraid, that he didn't hesitate to put their little daughter in front of himself to get away from the clown. Kate couldn't control her giggles anymore and burst out laughing, especially when their baby girl happily weaved her hands at the clown, trying to squeeze his red nose, clearly enjoying the funny man with the weird make-up in front of them.

Taking pitty on him, Kate took their baby girl out of his arms, giving him a little nos with her head, that it was ok, to take a few steps back and that she would go to the clown to get a balloon for their baby. Kissing him softly on the cheek, she whispered in his ear „Castle, I love you and that's why I will even protect you from the big bad clown!"

And aren't you all as excited as I am for the promo we are getting tonight? *sueeeeel* I mean, they better not screw this up and forget to air it or something similar!

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