I don't own the show or recognizable characters-

AN: This is Fiction, I would never do, encourage or support any kind of illegal behavior at any country, but this is just a fairytale where two people got married first and fall in love later but it is not real and never will be. Also seems that at real life she couldn't be a police officer but thank God this is just a story so in this world everything is possible.

The next days passed by so fast because they really enjoy each other company, always that Kate comes back from the precinct Rick has their meal ready, they talk and laugh a lot every day and both feel like they have known one another for years; and tomorrow finally Lexie will come back home and both are a little nervous about her reaction.

So that night at the loft:

K: "is not too late to change your mind, you know, we can't get the divorce and I can go…" but he interrupts her before she finishes the sentence

R: "No, Kate we have talked about this, and even when I understand your point I think you deserve a closure to solve your Mom's murder and I also told you than Lexie needs a female role model and you are the best I could find, she will adore you, so this is good for all of us, not just for you, O.K?"

K: "O.K but ¿are you sure Rick?"

R: "Of course I am, ¿do you know why? Because you have even met her and you are already worry about her, that how I know I chose well when I chose you like her role model"

K: "Fine but don't complain later if you have second thoughts I give you a way out of this and you didn't take it"

R: "I promise I won't"

Kate took the day off to be there when Rick's daughter come to home, so they spend the morning cleaning the loft and they hang a "Welcome back home Lexie" signal at the living room, and Kate brought some flowers to decorate the whole loft.

R: "Ready?"

K: "Yes, but I'm nervous, ¿what if she doesn't like me?"

R: "I know she will, don't worry about her, maybe about my Mom but not for Lexie"

K: "Thanks Rick, I haven't thought in her, now I am more worried"

R: "Shhhhh" and he puts a finger in her mouth and starts to massage her back while he looks at her eyes, "everything is going to be fine as long we do it together like we promised, ¿O. K?"

Then they stare at each other's eyes and they both want to kiss each other so badly that they lean a little bit but when they are about to touch each other lips the door opens and there are Martha and Lexie with some bags.

M: "we are home darliiiiing, oh, Richard you did know we were coming back today, is not good for the child to see all your girlfriends; we have discussed this before"

Beckett blushes and at the same time Rick takes her hand and:

R: "Mom, Lexie, I'm so glad you are at home; I want you both to meet my beautiful wife, this is Kate Beckett"

M, L: "Wiiifeee?"

R: "Yes, Lexie ¿Do you remember I told you I had a surprise for you? This is it, hope you help Kate to feel at home"

L: "She lives with us now?"

R: "of course, she is my wife, that means that I can't have any more girlfriends just her"

L: "You won't?"

R: "No, I'm married now"

Then Lexie looks up and down to Kate, stares at her then at Rick and repeat for some minutes until she finally says "O.K"

Then Kate kneels to be at the child's eye level and says, "Hi Lexie, I'm so happy to meet you, your dad has told me a lot about you, and I feel like I already know you, I'm Kate"

L: "Nice to meet you Kate, but you married my dad and ¿why I wasn't invited to the wedding?"

K: "I'm so sorry sweetie, we didn't plan it, it just happened, but we bought you a cake to celebrate with you if you forgive us"

L: "O.K. then I do"

K: "Can I hug you?"

And instead of answer Lexie hugs her then hugs her dad "I missed you daddy"

R: "I missed you too sweetie"

Then Rick send her to her room to change.

The whole time Martha is watching them so angry, Kate had indented to shake her hand but Martha was so frozen that she had concentrated in the little girl first, when Lexie went she offers her hand to Martha again, and this time she does shake her hand.

But at the same time says: "I can't lie to you, I'm not happy about this"

K: "I'm sorry Mrs. Rogers, I…"

R: "You don't have anything to be sorry about Kate, I was the one who asked you to marry me, and I have never been so happy in my entire life than this few weeks with you, so Mom I know this was sudden for you and I didn't tell you anything but that doesn't give you the right to take it on Kate, she is my wife, like it or not"

K: "Rick, please is O.K. I understand"

M: "Oh, my God, now I do, are you pregnant that's why you did this?"

K, R: "Pregnant?" then they look at each other and then to Martha "Noooo"

M: "if you are not, this have no sense"

K: "Maybe is better if you talk alone I'm going to be at our bedroom, Martha I know you don't believe it right know but I promise you, I'll make your son and Lexie happy, it was a pleasure to meet you"

When they are alone

M: "That's why you allow me to take the child with me for you to be able to get married without us, when you have never mention Kate before, and last I knew you were with Gina, what happened Rick? I deserve an explication"

R: "Gina and I broke up, and I met Kate, and she is gorgeous, and we didn't think much we just did it, we realized that we need each other so that's it"

M: "What? Are you telling me you didn't knew Kate before, you bring a stranger to your home to live with your daughter ¿are you out of your mind or what?"

R: "I didn't say that, but I'm an adult and I did think in my daughter and I know what is the best for her, besides as long as I remembered you had a lot of husbands and boyfriends and I met most of them, and you weren't that worried by then but now you want to pretend you care about my child more than I do? I'm not going to allow that, and if you want to be part of my life you must accept my wife.

Martha looks at him so furious and then she goes out of the loft.

Then Rick comes to the bedroom and sees Kate sitting in the bed and she really wants to cry, so he sits next to her and holds her hand

R: "everything is O.K, remember?"

K: "Rick your Mom is right I'm a stranger for you, you don't know me, you should think in your daughter first"

R: "Don't tell me that, I know this was crazy, but I know I did the right thing because it was with you, I didn't know you at the beginning but now I do"

K: "After a few weeks?"

R: "Yes, I do, and you know me too, and I know this could be absurd for others but it has sense to me, and I know you would never hurt my kid, and I told you she needs someone like you in her life"

K: "¿are you sure? And ¿what about your Mom?"

R: "She will get used to otherwise she won't be part of our lives for some time, just to give her time to understand that I'm an adult, I take my own decisions, right or wrong is my choice, not hers; she can't middle in that"

K: "I don't like to be the reason you take distance from her"

R: "You are not, we have a complicated relationship, truth is she was far from perfect, and I do love her and now I understand her, but she had a lot of boyfriends and husbands, I have never had a father figure to look up to, and I realized I was doing the same thing to Lexie, and I don't want to, this way the only female figure she will have will be you, and I know you are the best one for that"

K: "and what about Gina?"

R: "I told you we didn't broke up but we are not in good terms either, I wanted to end things with her but I don't want to hurt her more that I already did with the wedding and she wants to try, so as long nobody knows about it, we are good"

K: "O.K, then maybe you should go to cheek on Lexie, while I finish our meal"

When Rick comes to Lexie's bedroom

R: "What do you really think?"

L: "I don't know, it really was a surprise, I have never expected it"

R: "good or bad?"

L: "I'm not sure yet, I guess it depends"

R: "On if you get along with Kate or not"

L: "Yeah"

R: "So far what do you think of her"

L: "She is pretty, and she was nice to me, but I still mad at both for not to invite me to the wedding"

R: "I know, but I told you we didn't planned it, you are very little to understand some things, but Kate needs our help and we need her to, that have sense to you? ¿could you help her by been nice to her and make her feel welcome to our home?"

Lexie thinks about it for some minutes until she says "yes, I can do that daddy, besides I like the idea of not to see you with more women just her for the rest of your life, right?"

Rick opens his eyes and almost fells from the chair he is sitting at, he blushes and then he says "Of course, just her, at least until you grow up"

L: "Dad, that is not funny"

R: "Sorry, right, I promise you that I'm going to do my best to keep Kate at our lives, I can't predict the future but that is what I want, I want her to stay with us for a long time ¿O.K?"

L: "Let's go daddy, she is alone in the kitchen, ¿what is she going to think about us?"

And they go and help Kate to finish their meal and have dinner together, Lexie told them about her vacation with grandma and all they laugh a lot, then they watch a movie until Lexie falls sleep and Rick gets her to her room; that is the first night with the kid at home which means they should start to share their room and both know it.

K: "So, let's go to our room then"

R: "Yeah, don't worry she is sleep so I will sleep in the couch like we agreed to, we only will have to share the bathroom, and we will be neighbors at nights"

K: "O.K. neighbor, I mean, hus, I'm really tired so good night"

R: "Until tomorrow Kate"

They have a wonderful weekend together, and Monday Kate comes with them to take Lexie to school, then she goes to the precinct.

Then after 4 weeks of marriage is the first time that they have to meet with the IA who is a woman called Tania, she is very serious, almost never smiles and looks at them like she knew they are keeping a secret; both are very nervous, especially Kate who asked again if this was a good idea, and Castle had to convince her again that they were doing the right thing for their family, also told her his country still needed her to catch bad guys and she needed to close her Mom's case.

T: "O.K, then tell me ¿why did you get married?"

Both: "Because we are in love"

T: "So, you suddenly fall in love, out of nowhere?"

Both: "Yess"

R: "and wasn't that suddenly like you think Kate and I met like 6 months ago in a mutual friend's party and she stole my heart that day, we were friends for sometimes until we become a couple, and we would have waited more time but you guys threated me with take her away, and I can live without her so I asked to marry me and she said yes, and here we are"

T: "Maybe is better if you tell the story Mrs. Castle"

K: "Yeah, like Rick say we met in Montgomery's house some months ago, and we keep in touch since then and we fall in love with each other and I was ready to say good-bye but when he asked me to marry him, there was only one right answer so I say yes, and even if I must come back to my country, now I'm Rick's wife and I won't leave him or my step daughter"

T: "And how are you planning to do that?"

K: "I will take them with me, of course"

T: "Are you agree to that Mr. Castle"

R: "Of course, she is my wife and I will follow her until the end of the world as long we stay together everything else doesn't matter, we can find a new school for Lexie wherever we live, besides I love Australia and I have heard that there are really great schools"

T: "If that is the case why are you doing this?"

R: "Because if you allow us to stay here would be great too, that's your decision and we are going to respect it"

T: "There is a process where I'm going to see you often in a period of a few years, we are going to investigate further and we will see"

Kate and Rick are holding hands along the entire interview, then Rick kisses hers, and she smiles and looks to his eyes and they stare at each other with love eyes.

T: "mhhh. You don't need to do that, I will see if you deserve to stay here or not"

Both: "Do, what?"

T: "I have to be sure that you are not pretending, O.K. and if you are Mrs. Beckett will have to go to her country and I might could present charges again Mr. Castle so you won't be able to follow her soon, and the children, I could send her to child care if you don't have more family"

R: "That won't be necessary, we are a family, you can dig all you want we are not afraid because we will stay together, no matter what"

K: "Rick, honey don't get mad, she is just doing her job" and she touches his cheek and he breaths deep and smile at her.

T: "I'm in fact, I'm not here to be your friend or for you to like me, I'm here to know the truth"

K: "And we just told you the truth, we are in love, and happily married for the rest of our lives without matter what happen with this"

R: "Yes, believe it or not we are a family now and always will, we made a promise at the altar and we promised to our daughter too"

T: "So how the kid calls you, Kate?"

K: "She still calls me Kate, and I'm not pretend to take Meredith's place but I do love her like she was my own"

T: "¿How do you know that if you have never had kids?"

K: "I just do, because I feel it in my heart, that child is part of the love of my life so now she is a part of me too, and I'm sure when we have kids I will love all the same"

T: "So, are you already planning to have children?"

K: "Not yet, but when the right time comes we will"

R: "Yeah we have talked about it and both of us want to have more kids"

T: "so when this talked happened"

Both: "After we got engaged"

T: "So did you practiced your answers because I have never had a couple in this kind of sync?"

Both: "What, Noooo"

R: "We didn't, if we are in sync is because we are in love"

K: "Exactly, we don't have to practice anything"

T: "O.K. the next time I will see you will be a surprise so you won't have any time to do this, you can go now"

After the interview, they go to a restaurant to eat, Lexie is at Paige's and she is going to sleep there so they have time.

K: "I told you Rick, this was a bad idea"

R: "No, it wasn't, the IA is hard but we will be harder, I don't want to lose you Kate, not after this weeks with you, please don't give up on us"

K: "I won't, I want to be here for Lexie and you, it is the least I can do after what you did for me"

They are holding hands again and Rick Kisses Kate's cheek and she kisses his then their heads rest at each other's and they stay like this a few minutes until the waitress comes with their food; that was a hard and a sad day for them but they support each other and that somehow make things better for both.

To be continued…

bea0333b