A/N: Hi hi friends! Thank you all so so much for the reviews and the likes and follows and such. It means so much to me! I've never had this many people follow at one time. It makes me so happy. Anyways, someone had said that I should have given Kate a walker or a wheelchair during her pregnancy. Yeah, it does make sense, but forearm crutches are different from regular crutches, and Kate's PT and Kate knew that a wheelchair would set her back a lot which is not something stubborn Kate would go for. You should look up forearm crutches; they are quite cool. Anyways, enough of my rambling. Onward!

Kate feels as though she's been awake for five years. Lily was now five months and finally sleeping through the night. She'd been standing at the crib watching the little girl stir. She cries a little and Kate is quick to pick her up. Holding her tightly she kisses her head and smiles softly.

"Hi, lily-pad. You have a good nap?" Kate asks, walking over carefully to the rocker and sitting down with her daughter. She almost falls but catches herself.

"Are you hungry?" Kate smiles and lifts her shirt up and unhooks the flap on her nursing bra. She lets her latch on and holds her carefully, watching as she starts to feed. Kate is so engrossed in her daughter she does not see Castle standing at the door. He stands there for a while before making himself known.

"We have to go soon," Castle says, watching as Kate ignores him.

"Kate..."

She continues to ignore him.

"Katherine,"

"Don't wanna go."

"You know I'm going to be there."

"I'm done trying to fix something that can't be fixed."

"Come on; you are so close to not needing the crutches."

"I'm not and you know I'm not, having Lily set me back!"

"She did not ok? Don't you remember, today we are working on walking with the stroller, you are good at this, just trust me please?"

"We can always go home if it hurts, I'll be by your side the whole time, let's go before we are late."

The two clean up and Castle makes sure he loads the stroller. He hooks Lily into her car seat and carries her out to the car with Kate. He can tell she's frustrated. She's been doing therapy for longer than she had wanted, but Castle knew she was so close to being done. So close to being able to walk on her own. Something Kate's been wanting to do since she woke up in the hospital. Placing the car seat into the base, Castle turns back to help Kate into the car.

"Hey, I love you ok? And I'll always be here for you. For whatever you want, you just tell me."

"I want to be walking on my own, is what I want." Kate sighs softly, swinging her legs into the car.

"I know, and that's why we have to continue with your therapy. I know you feel like Lily set you back, but you are still moving forward. Sometimes, you need a little setback to continue faster. It's life, Kate." Castle sighs, sitting in the drivers seat.

"Let's just go, and like I said if you need to be done or take a break you just tell me. I know it hurts, but you got this."

"You are my superhero wife, you can do anything, you gave birth remember? Not to mention, shot twice. I know you got this."

Kate can't help but smile softly as Castle reaches for her hand. He was right. She's pretty good at getting through things. Once they arrive, Castle helps Kate out and hands her, her crutches before getting the stroller out and putting Lily's car seat in it. They walk up to the building and take the elevator up to the floor they had needed. Kate signs them in as Castle walks behind her, watching as she walks with her crutches. He can tell she's improved a lot. She may not see it, but he does. She walks with a lot of grace, rather than her struggled walk she'd started with.

Kate is called back and castle followers her. They start with some stretches to get Kate warmed up before working with the stroller. Helping her up off the floor, Karla hands Kate her crutches, and she walks behind her and holds her carefully as she walks from the first tape line to the next.

"OK, let's turn around and go back, but stand up taller Kate, you know better."

Kate now has it in her head that she can't do it, and so she's struggling. She's turned off the part of her brain that has asked her to keep on trucking.

"Ok Kate, what's going on?" Karla asks, stoping Kate and standing in front of her.

"We go forwards here, not backwards."

"I can't do it." Kate sighs.

"Oh, so your telling me that after all the work you've done you are just going to throw it all away?"

Kate shrugs as she looks over at Castle, who had pulled Lily out of her car seat and was rocking her. Castle looks back but gives her a look as if to say, "this is your problem not mine."

"I have faith in you, Kate, just two weeks ago you walked almost perfectly, you barely used your crutches."

"Why don't we take a break. You look like you need one."

"No, keep going," Kate replies, pushing hair out of her face.

"Ah, see? That's the spirit!" Karla smiles.

The two work more on going back and forth with the crutches before putting Lily back in the stroller. They would of let Castle hold her but Karla wanted the weight in the stroller, so Kate had the right weight and the stroller would not tip over as she pushed it. She also knew that having her babbling daughter to look at would most definitely help Kate.

Pushing the stroller over, Castle take's Kate's crutches and goes to stand on the sideline. He's cheering the whole time as Kate walks with the stroller from one tape line to the other. She's not perfect but is doing rather awesome.

"Go Kate! You got this!" Castle smiles as she looks over at him and smiles for a quick second.

"Ok, one more lap and we will call it a day," Karla smiles as she puts a hand on Kate's back to steady her. She can tell her legs are starting to get weak.

It was a bright sunny New York afternoon. Kate and Castle had just come back from taking Lily to the park. Kate had been relaxing on the couch. All the walking and standing really took a toll on Kate's legs. Kissing her daughter on the head, Kate lets out a gasp as she hears a word come from her daughter.

"Mama!" Lily beams, reaching out to pull on her mother's hair.

"Castle! Get the camera!" Kate yells, hoping to catch her do it again.

"Mama!" She giggles, pulling on the few strands of hair she'd managed to grab. Castle is quick to the living room with the camera on as he waits for Lily.

"She said her first word!" Kate beams, kissing her daughter again.

"Mama!"

"See?" Kate smiles again.

"Way to go, Lily-pad!" Castle smiles at his daughter.

"What about dada, can you say that?"

"Mama!"

"No, dada!"

"Mama!" She giggles.

"She hate's me!" Castle frowns.

"She does not, she's nine months Castle, this is her first word, we need to keep working on it. You know, like my walking." Kate replies.

"Yeah I guess." Castle sighs as the little girl yawns and rubs her eyes.

"Someone's sleepy," Kate smiles.

"Why don't you go put her down, I'll go make lunch," Castle suggests, standing to help Kate up. With Lily in one arm, she uses her other arm with the crutch to walk to the little girls bedroom. Putting her down she plants a kiss on her as she watches her fall asleep.

"Happy Nappy, Lily-Pad," Kate smiles.

It's late; Lily can't sleep, and Kate can't figure out why. The two are in the rocker as Kate tries to soothe her daughter. She's also got her phone in hand so she can do some online research. It isn't till a few articles later, Kate realizes how old Lily is and that she must be teething. She's a little late on this bandwagon, and it had started to scare Kate, but not anymore.

"Shh..." Kate soothes as she rocks her back and forth.

"Let me call Daddy to get a teething ring; that will help."

Turning her phone back on, Kate sends a text to Castle, hoping he will see it as he writes.

Kate BC: Lil is teething. Bring me the ring, please?

Hubbin: sure thing.

Castle is quick with a teething ring. The couple had a few in the fridge. Mostly generic ones from the baby store but this one was different. It was shaped like the ring from the Lord of The Rings. Kate couldn't help but chuckle as she gave it to her daughter.

"You really bought that?"

"Sure did, I knew she needed it." Castle chuckles, watching his daughter chew on it.

"See, look, it's working. Maybe now she will sleep, and we can get some sleep."

"I would hope so." Kate sighs.

"I'm exhausted."

It does not take long before Lily is out. The ring had helped her soothe the pain and allow her to sleep. Putting her back in the crib, Castle helps his wife up, and they head to bed themselves. Castle was ready for a long winters nap. His daughter was crawling now, and he felt like he couldn't keep up with his two women who were learning to walk.