The next morning Castle, Kate, and Victoria are discharged and able to go home. They make it home and the three come inside.
"Welcome home!" They smile as they bring the carrier in the house. Martha comes running down as she hears the voices coming from the door.
"Oh Oh Oh!" She smiles and scurries over to get a good look at the baby.
"How are you feeling?" Martha asks looking up from the baby to Kate.
"I feel great, just a little sore but thats about it. Should be back in no time." She chuckles softly as Castle takes the carrier and sets it on the couch.
"The kids are upstairs. Sidney is sleeping and I put a movie on for Nate and Jo." Martha smiles softly.
"Jo?" Castle asks puzzled as both Kate and Castle look at Martha.
"She told me, that being a big sister required a sophisticated name, she insisted I call her Jo." Martha chuckled softly reaching to lift the baby out of the carrier.
"Hi little one." Martha smiles down at the baby.
"I'll take the baby for a little, you guys go shower and get changed, I know you must feel nasty." She says oohing over her newest granddaughter. They shower and the rest of the clan is up from their naps and movie. Kate and Castle come down the stairs and Kate takes the baby. She wants to be with her daughter. The other kids make their way down and Johanna is helping Sidney slowly come down the stairs. They show off the baby and Castle heads into the kitchen to start dinner.
"Do you want to help me Hannie?" Castle asks seeing his daughter watch over the baby.
"Jo wants to watch the baby." She says not taking her eyes of the baby.
"Ok, then Jo." Castle sighs rolling his eyes. Castle finishes making dinner and serves it up. it takes them about an hour to eat and finish cleaning up. Four kids was quite a challenge now that they had brought Victoria home. Martha helps the kids get baths and to bed. Victoria is due for a feeding and Castle helps Kate up to their bedroom. She's sitting on the bed, her top down and bra off as she tries to get Victoria to latch on. She's struggling for the first time since she was born and its killing Kate. It's also killing Kate that she just happened to look down and see the scar from the bullet shot. She's seen it plenty of times before but tonight it just seemed to hit her. Castle sighs and comes over to sit next to Kate on the bed and put his arms around her. Victoria finally latches on and Kate is feeling a little better.
"You saw it again didn't you." Castle sighs looking at his wife. She nods and sighs softly.
"I know its tough sometimes and I'm sorry you have to deal with it everyday." He says and kisses his wife. Kate is quiet as she listens to him, she's trying not to cry.
"Hey, don't be sad babe, just think of the baby. Its the holiday season and soon we will get to see the kids and their joy on christmas, you know how much that makes you happy." He smiles and kisses his wife again, wiping his wives tears.
"Thank you." Kate barely smiles sighing. She finishes feeding Victoria and puts her to sleep in the Co-Sleeper set up on her side of the bed. She sighs again and snuggles up close to Castle as they fall asleep. They wake up a few hours later for a diaper change and another feeding. Sighing Kate rolls over and groans before sitting up.
"I forgot what it's like to have a newborn." She chuckles and picks up the crying baby. She feeds Victoria and changes the babies diaper before laying her back down to sleep. They have to get up a few more times before Castle's alarm goes off. It doesn't take but minutes for the noise in the house to get louder. It was the one day a week Hannie and Nate had play group and needed to be out of the house on time. Groaning Castle gets up and rubs his eyes slowly getting out of bed.
"Can't we just cancel?" Castle asks looking at Kate as he throws on a shirt.
"Hannie will hate you, you know." Kate chuckles slowly getting up and throwing on some clothes.
"Right right." Castle sighs softly and picks up some pants and puts them on. Kate walks over and picks up Victoria from her bed and cradles her in her arms. Castle grabs his wallet and keys and helps Kate down the stairs. They reach the bottom and open the gate carefully trying to step over toys. The house was a mess and it killed Kate but she was exhausted.
"I AM SUPER NATE!" Nate yells running past his parents. He had the typical towel cape on his back as his sister ran after him.
"And I'M SUPER COP!" Johanna giggles following him.
"Ok, you super cops, we gotta eat!" She giggles watching her kids as Sidney comes toddling after them a little to late.
"Wait! Me super writer!" Sid giggles running after his siblings.
"Awe man! Was just getting to the good part! Super Nate was going to rescue Super Cop!" Nate pouts as Johanna stops running and coming over.
"You can finish later, we have to eat so we can get to play group on time. Kitchen please." Kate says leading her son into the kitchen. Nate pouts softly and goes into the kitchen as he's asked and sits down.
"That means you too Johanna!" Kate yells from the kitchen. Shifting she puts Victoria in the swing and turns it on. Martha had just left a few minutes ago to finish some things up at her place and would over at a calls notice. Moments later Johanna makes her way into the kitchen dragging Sidney.
"STOOPPP Hannie!" He cries.
"Johanna May, let go and please sit down." Kate groans and helps Sidney into his high chair.
"Fine!" Johanna pouts and makes her way to the table.
"Sorry buddy." Kate sighs and kisses her sons head.
"Hey! If you keep that act up we won't go!" Kate huffs as Castle comes in a little late going over to start the Eggo's in the toaster. By now Johanna is in a sour mood and Victoria had stared to cry because of the noise. Kate was not sure she'd make it through the day. Picking up the baby she sighs and cradles her carefully rocking her.
"This morning is waffles, eat them or starve." Kate says rocking Victoria to try and sooth her. Castle gets some plates out and is serving up the waffles for the kids. He pulls out the milk and pours a sippy cup for Sid and regular cups for the other two. He smile softly and takes them to the table and serves up the waffles. He takes one for himself and then hands one to Kate. She opens up her mouth and grabs it with her teeth as she moves to carefully put Victoria down in the swing again. They finish eating and Kate packs the diaper bag as Castle makes sure the kids are ready. He helps them to the front door and Kate slings the diaper bag over her shoulder and takes the infant carrier in her hand and walks out the door setting the baby down locking the door and picking the carrier back up. They get to the van and the family is loaded up. Castle turns on the iPod and pulls out of the parking garage driving to the house of the play group. They drop Johanna and Nate off to play with friends. Going back to the car Kate and Castle take sidney to the park so he can play a little. They park and Castle helps Sidney out of the car. Kate gets the stroller out and outs the carseat in the stroller, puts the diaper bag in the basket, and grabs the Ergo baby. They get inside the gate and Kate straps up Victoria in the Ergo baby so she can play with Sidney. Sidney is on the swing as Castle pushes him and Kate stands next to Castle watching.
"I was thinking." Castle smiles.
"And how was that for you?" Kate asks chuckling softly.
"You're going to hate me but I wanted to give Victoria a nickname." He smiles pushing Sidney a little higher.
"Like what? Vickie?" Kate asks. watching him.
"Uh, no." He sighs softly.
"I was thinking of, 'Baby Gates'." He chuckles softly.
"You want to call our baby 'Baby Gates'?" Kate blurts out.
"You dont get the joke do you?" He asks watching Kate.
"I do, I mean, you're thinking of Captain Gates." She says looking at him.
"I am." He smiles softly.
"Just give me a few days, I'll think about it," Kate says watching Castle push Sidney.
"Higher daddy!" He giggles as Castle moves and gives the boy an under dog grabbing at his feet. Kate is holding on to Victoria smiling at her. She had to admit, the nickname was kinda cute. She smiles kissing her daughter head and going to sit down and watch castle with Sidney. She was happy.
A/N: what do you think of the NickName "Baby Gates" it came to me while I was at work. Haha. Oh and BTW While I was writing this chapter I also worked on a few shirt designs for the super hero's you can buy them along with some other work of mine on Redbubble. My username is MsThomEgemcity. Oh and for when I'm not writing I gave both Kate and Castle twitters. PapaRickCastle and MommaKateCastle. Enjoy!
