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At the beginning Kate was in shock because she finally found Rick, and because he didn't lie to her, she thought he was an Idiot, that he has used her and nothing else, she dreamed about this a lot of times, but now she was so happy with her life, she has a stable relationship with a gorgeous man, who respects her, who wants to be part of her son's life, she is happy with her work, she likes what she is studding but she also adores to be a top model, the fashion, the glamour, all the travels, all those things she wasn't found to some years ago, but now are part of her daily life, and thanks to all this she has the chance to give her son a comfortable life, she can afford any school she wants, she has a nice place at New York, a beautiful house at Paris, she is used to the best hotels when she travels around the world, she is not a superficial girl despite all her success she is the same Kate Beckett she was years ago, but at the same time she is aware she is different than how she would have been if she wouldn't have got pregnant when she was a teenager, she had to grow up faster than she supposed to, she became more responsible, she had to face motherhood, she focused on her son and her model career a lot, also in her studies, she didn't have a lot of time to herself, she dated a little bit, but nothing important until she met will, at one of her fashion events, where it was a murder of another model. Will interviewed Kate and they like each other instantly, but he asked her out until he was sure Kate was innocent and the case was closed. Kate didn't want to accept him but he persuaded her with his beautiful smile, since then they have been together and she loves him, and he loves her, but now with Rick's reappearance she feels confused, Rick was the love of her life even when it was just for a night, but the truth is that she doesn't really know him, maybe all was part of her dream, an invent of her mind to make Rick look so perfect at the beginning and after like a villain who played with her, who didn't care about her at all, now she doesn't know which Rick is the real one, the love of her life who was perfect or the villain who harmed her; maybe he wasn't either of them, just a regular man with qualities and flaws. But ¿how she feels about him now? ¿Does she still love him? ¿does she hate him? She forgave him because she adores Ricky, and because her son is a part of both and she can't hate any part of her baby, she is a nice person and she can't hate anybody ever. But ¿what she supposed to do now? She just knows that Ricky deserves she gives his dad a chance to be part of his life even when she is aware that this could bring trouble to her relationship, Will is nice but he is a little jealous when he finds out about her old boyfriends, also he is understanding with her career, he never gets mad when she travels, neither does she when he does, he is never jealous of her career or her success, or her son, he conforms with so little, little time, a few calls, that's why she loves him, he doesn't demand more than she can give. She is happy but she never felt for him what she felt for Rick and that scares her a lot, what if she does something stupid and ruin her life for something that could be worthless, she can't take that risk, not now when everything was perfect until now, but maybe to her son this will be the best. Have his two parents at his life, instead of just her mom and a stepfather. Now he will have the three of them, because she is going to introduce Will to him. She already decided it and Rick will not change that. Just not today.
Ricky thinks Rick is so cool, he likes him, he is fun, he has his grandfather Jim who always takes him to baseball games, and teaches him how to play, he adores Jim but he would like to meet his dad, to know something about him, he doesn't know anything, just that his Mommy felt in love with him at first sight, they date and broke apart before her Mommy knew she was pregnant, so his daddy doesn't know he has a son, and her mommy has never tell him his name, he doesn't know why, he just knows she never saw him again even when she looked for him for a lot of time. So he dreams with meet him one day, even when he doesn't have idea what his name is or how he looks, he likes to imagine that his dad is superman, or sometimes that he is Clark and his dad is Jonathan Kent, or another superhero who is saving the world and that's why his mom never found him because he travels more than them, which must be a lot because they travel often, they go with her nanny who is with them since he can remember, her name is Natalia, and she is so nice, she takes care of him when Kate has to work, but they always are close to Kate. Sometimes he misses kinder garden but it is fine because he is very smart, he goes when they are at NY, and he likes his life. Bur Rick is a nice adhesion to it, he didn't know he needs somebody else to look up, not just his grandpa and he chooses Rick for that, he has the same name, and he also likes and knows about superheroes, which is so cool. Other times Ricky imagines his daddy is a famous baseball player, he looks the stamps and sometimes he asks Kate if any of them look familiar to her, she always tells him the same, that she doesn't know any of them in person and she is very sure of it.
Richard is scared because his life changed in just a day, he was a single play boy writer yesterday (well kind of because he is no single, he is engaged to his editor) and today he has a four-and-a-half-year-old son, he never met him before, he missed his first years of live and he can't forgive himself for that, he knows it wasn't Kate's fault, she looked for him as much as he did for her. But now he wants to recover some of the lost time. He wants to make up for his son, he wants to be the best dad of the world, but he doesn't even know if he can be a dad, he never had one, he didn't have that, and his son either have one until today, he will change that. Also, he has to help Kate, he remembers how she was that day when he met her, she was happy, fun, free with no responsibilities or wounds, she was perfect and now she is more glamorous, she is still fun but she is an adult in every sense, she is more mature than him even when she is younger than him and he knows that it is his fault, he got her pregnant and he wasn't there for her, she had to mature so young when he kept with the easy life, parties, girlfriends, no responsibilities, a lot of money, fame, he just was learning to manage that, that was why he got engaged, he was tired of the playboy life, he wanted something else and Gina was his best friend. Funny thing is that even when Gina is a publicist and Kate Beckett is a model but Gina is colder than Kate, Kate is real, Gina not so much, but she was the best Rick could find until now.
At Kate's parents' home:
K: "Mom, I found him. I finally found Rick"
J: "¿Your Rick?"
K: "He is not mine anymore, and I have another boyfriend, Ricky's dad"
J: "¿How? I didn't know you were looking for him again"
K: "I wasn't, and Ricky found him, he ran away from me at the museum, he was playing he was superman and Rick caught him, I was worried for my little boy I didn't notice him until later and then I saw him, it was like relive everything again, he looks great"
J: "Did you tell him?"
K: "No, I only wanted to run away then Ricky told him his age and he just knew, he didn't doubt about it, he was so sweet, he cried and hugged Ricky, then he went with us to the Park and walked us home"
J: "¿So he wants to be his dad for real?"
K: "Yeah, he said if we wouldn't have been apart from each other he would have asked me to marry him when I would have told him I was pregnant"
J: "Aww. And ¿what would you have said?"
K: "I don't know, I think yes, I was very in love with this amazing man, a part of me still loves him but it is just a dream"
J: "If you say so, so ¿he told you his real name?"
K: "Yeah, Richard Castle, he didn't lie to me after all"
J: "¿What? ¿Richard Castle? ¿The author?"
K: "Yeah, he is a writer, I haven't read his books, maybe I will"
J: "Oh, honey if you would have listened me, you would have found him sooner, he is the one that gave me the superman at the store before my grandson was born, and I tried make you to read his books but you didn't want to, and I asked you to join me to the library for his autograph a year later but you were so tired and didn't want to go either, and we met her mother at the coffee shop when you were pregnant and she offered you to introduced him to you and you refused, I told you so, next time you should listening me"
K: "Oh, God, please, ¿really? Don't tell me we were so close to each other after all and we never found each other, he said he looked for me too, that I was important to him, but maybe he told me that because he knows now that we have a son"
J: "Wow, I guess destiny played with you a little bit, I don't think he lied"
K: "I'd say that, life played with us but like too much, and sadly it is a little late for us, I am with somebody else and he probably is too, I don't know, I didn't ask him about it"
J: "I heard he is engaged to his publisher, so he isn't free either, but who knows maybe it is not too late, real love always finds its way"
K: "I was a teenager a very irresponsible one, now I am an adult and I am not going to change my life for him but I am glad he met his son, both have the right to know each other, and he wants to be part of his son's life, he wants to give him his name, and he offered me money, but I told him we don't need anything, and he said it is his responsibility too so he is going to open an account for Ricky, I refused but he insisted"
J: "Wow, I still can't believe you slept with my favorite author, all this time talking about him and looking for him when we just needed that you watch some celebrity news"
K: "Yeah, I have never watched those, If I would have maybe my life would be so different by now and I'd be married to him and we would have rose our son together, probably I would be a housewife and not a model, I don't know"
J: "I know you Kate, you wouldn't have settled with that, probably you would be a lawyer by now"
K: "Maybe, still I am going to be a lawyer soon, but I don't have much time, I want to be a model for a couple of years more"
J: "Then the only difference it is the time, the glamour, your travels, don't tell me you regret it"
K: "No, I love my life, I'm grateful for all, but especially for you and my dad, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have made it thought it, I am really lucky"
J: "But you love Rick and you know you would be with him, and now you don't know, it can be painful sweetie, you have the right to miss what you deserved, a happy life with him"
K: "Maybe but I am happy, our son is happy and he looks fine so I guess it is o.k. the way things turned out"
At the loft:
R: "I have a son"
M: "¿What?"
R: "Yeah, remember the only girl I have loved for real and the dream I used to have, it is truth, she got pregnant that night, and we have a little boy, his name is Richard too, seems like she loved me back by then, but she never found me either, she is a top model, she looks even better than before, and she is an amazing mother, I wish I could offered her a life together but I can't anymore"
M: "Maybe it is great you found them before you get married, I want to meet them"
R: "Sure but I need some time to adjust, and I am sure Kate too, I have to show her I am not the playboy from the news I can be a father, I just hope not to disappoint them"
M: "I am sure you will be a great dad, but you should have been more responsible, you leaved the poor girl to rise your son alone Richard"
R: "I didn't know"
M: "Yeah but still. It is not fair to them, you didn't plane it but maybe next time you could be more responsible when you have sex, and before to leave the girl you could stay close until you are sure she is not pregnant with your kid"
R: "Mom, that was years ago, and I am an adult, I do know how to take care of myself, and I am responsible, the only time I wasn't was with her, and I didn't leave her, she was hurry because she had to study and when she came back to see me I wasn't there anymore, maybe if I should have stayed a day longer, we would have found each other, but I didn't, and I miss a lot of time with both, I have a family with her, I always wanted a real one, and now I am a stranger to my own son"
M: "Just don't do it again, same thing happened to me, of course we never found your father, so you are lucky because you find them when your boy is still little. Don't regret the pass, you can't change it, better to do something in your present. I have to get back to my apartment but first tell me more about him"
Next day morning at Kate's place:
Castle and Beckett are drinking coffee at the Kitchen when Ricky finally wakes up and sees them, Castle wanted to see them again so he came very early, Beckett was already awake when the knocked the door, she wasn't surprised to see him because at some way she was waiting for him, she wanted Richard wanted to be with them, that he wanted to be there for their son, so when she opened the door and saw him with all the things he bought, she smiled at him, she let him in, and she offered coffee, they talked for a while, because they didn't want to wake Ricky up, they enjoyed remembering some things of that party, they were having fun when Ricky surprised them laughing.
RB: "What are you doing here?"
R: "I bring you some stuff, hope you like them" Castle bought him a lot of things, clothes, some toys, teddy bears, balls, all he could and he thinks it is not enough. Kate laughed when she saw the things and told him it wasn't necessary but she thanked him and made him a coffee.
RB: "¿Why? It is not my birthday"
K: "Honey he is just being nice, so ¿what do you say?"
RB: "Thanks Rick"
When Ricky is playing with his new toys the bell rings
R: "Are you waiting for somebody?"
K: "No really" and she opens the door and there is Will with flowers for Kate and a gift for Ricky "Will, hi, ¿what are you doing here?"
W: "Hope you don't mind but you canceled on me last night and I can't wait any more, I need to meet him"
K: "Yeah, o.k. come in"
R: "¿who are you"
W: "Will Sorenson, Kate's boyfriend, I bring you this Ricky (he is holding a present for the boy) and ¿who are you? And ¿what are you doing with my family?"
RB: "Hi Will, nice to meet you, thank you, then you are my mommy's boyfriend she talked me about you" and he opens the present and it is a superman costume, "it is awesome" and he is running around with the cape.
R: "Richard Castle, I am old friend" They shake hands
And Kate's whispers to Will ears "He is Ricky's father I'll explained you later"
W: "What" "The son of…"
K: "Will, Ricky is here"
W: "Sorry, but I can't understand, ¿why after all this time?"
R: "I looked for Kate years ago but I didn't find her until yesterday, and I didn't know about you know what but now I am here to stay for the rest of my life"
W: "Did you slept here?"
K, R: "Nooo"
R: "I wanted to invite you to the Zoo but maybe another day" Ricky hears the last part of the talk
RB: "Let's go to the Zoo with Rick Mommy please"
K: "But we have visitors"
W: "It is fine, I'll go too, wherever is my family I am too"
K: "Oh, God, I am not sure if it is a good idea"
R: "Please Kate"
And the 4 of them go to the Zoo together, of course the only one who has fun is Ricky because the adults not at all, Richard and Will don't get along and both are jealous of Kate, and she doesn't know what to do, Will is her boyfriend but Rick is the father of her son, both are important and she tries to give each his place, but they are not happy with sharing.
To be continued…
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