Haha, so…I feel bad for Beckett. Looking up all this stuff that happens when you're having a baby and stuff…yeesh, pregnancy doesn't sound fun…at. All.

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Month 4

"Yellow?" Kate asked him as they browsed through paint colors.

"Maybe…but yellow almost screams 'I didn't know the gender'," Rick said.

"Is that such a bad thing? As of now, we don't know the gender…" She said back.

"True…" He stared at the yellow paint sample again, "Well…maybe we should just hold off on painting until we do know. I mean, we wouldn't want the baby mad at us for painting their room before we even knew what they were.

Kate rolled her eyes at him, but agreed. As they were walking out, he reached for her hand, but she neatly dodged it, sending him a warning look.

"Castle, you already know I don't like going out in public together…most people don't even know yet."

"I know," He sighed, giving her a puppy dog face, "But, come on…we're in a low populated part of town… the only people that will see us are the residents who would most likely not even care."

She groaned, but couldn't disagree with him. The odds of anybody around here having a camera with them was very low…and odds of them actually using the camera to take a picture to send to any magazines was even lower.

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"Dude, look…" A gangly looking teenager on vacation punched his friend in the arm to get his attention.

"Wait…that's that author, isn't it?" His friend asked, watching as the celebrity walked out of the hardware store.

"Yah, Richard Castle, the magazines have been all over his and his muses relationship lately." His friend told him, "I wouldn't know, but my sister is all over it and keeps blabbering about it."

His friend rolled his eyes, "So what's the point?"

"The point, is that the two of them had seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. And, now…that chick is knocked up. Think about how much money we could get if we sold a picture of them to the press?"

His friends eyes widened, and he shot his hand into his pocket to grab his camera phone. He steadied it at the couple, then snapped a quick photo, shutting his phone quickly and stuffing it back into his pocket.

"We're flying back first class," His friend said, grinning happily.

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"Crap," Beckett muttered. She was stopped at a red light on her way to work, and right next to her was a magazine booth, and right in the middle was a bug picture of her, very obviously pregnant, and a smiling Castle, holding hands.

She pulled her phone out and quickly dialed Castle's number.

"Hello," the cheery voice answered.

"Have you seen the magazine stands this morning, Mr. Nobody-will-take-a-picture?" She asked him.

"…Really?" He groaned into the phone, "Dang it! Where do these people come from?"

She sighed, reminding herself that it was just as much her fault as it was his.

"Well…would you like to know some good news?" He asked, his voice happier than it had been.

"Sure," She sighed, ever impressed at how easily he changed subjects.

"They just confirmed the name for the new Nikki Heat book; OverHeat."

"OverHeat…" She repeated, "And when is this one set to be published?"

"As of now, next March," He said, "But, hey, you know how well I meet those publication dates.

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"So, did you two want to know the genders?" The doctor asked Kate and Rick as they sat in the dark room, staring at the ultrasound screen. Rick looked down at Kate, and she nodded her head, still staring at the screen.

"They're both girls, identical girls." The doctor told them, then proceeded to point out certain things on the screen.

"So, now that we know the gender," Castle said as they walked out of the office, "What do you say we go shopping?"

Beckett rolled her eyes, never having seen a man so excited to shop, but she complied.

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The living room of the loft had been full of bags stuffed with clothes, toys, diapers, and various other baby items for almost a week. The second story was almost impossible to walk through, due to the scattered furniture occupying the hallway. The room previously used as the guest room was empty, the floor covered with tarps, and the windows and doors all taped up. The bright yellow paint Kate had Rick had ended up deciding on had finally finished drying, and the two now stood in the center of the room in old clothes. Kate held a can of pastel pink paint, Rick baby blue.

After much discussing in the paint aisle of the hardware store, they had eventually decided on yellow for the base color of the nursery, and splatter painting the rest pink and blue.

"Ready?" Rick asked her with a smile.

"Ready." She said with a smile and a determined look in her eyes.

They both dipped their hands into the paint buckets and started flinging the colors at the walls. They spun around, rotating to different walls so that both colors were on each wall equally. Multiple times, they aimed their handfuls of paint more at each other than at the walls themselves.

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Month 5

"I feel like an old woman." Beckett groaned as she walked into the loft with Castle, "A fat old woman."

"You're not fat," Castle said with a chuckle, then nodded down at her stomach, "The girls are."

She then stopped for a moment, putting her hand on her stomach and smiling, "I think they heard you…" She said, reaching over to his hand and placing it just under hers. She felt the thump against her stomach again, and watched as his eyes lit up, "Let that be a lesson to you…no calling them fat."

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Month 6

Kate walked into the small grocery store, glancing at the clock on the wall; 2:46am.

She had awoken hungry, and when she snuck out of bed and went downstairs to find herself a midnight snack, there had been none of the cherry popsicles left. So, she slipped on a pair of shoes, grabbed her keys, and silently slipped out of the loft.

So she was now wandering the aisles of the store, searching for the frozen treat. When she got to the frozen foods aisle, she quickly grabbed a few of the boxes, and made her way to the checkout line.

The clerk was missing, and the only other person around was another pregnant woman, waiting in line with multiple bags of potato chips.

"Cravings bugging you too?" The woman asked Kate as she walked up behind her.

"Yah," She said, chuckling slightly.

"I'm Haley," The woman said, holding her hand out with a smile.

"Kate," Beckett greeted her, shaking her hand.

"When are you due?" Haley asked her.

"April 4th," Kate told her, "You?"

"March 23rd," She said, "That's weird that we're so close together…you look so much bigger than I am."

"Yah, well, I've got twins," Kate told her with a smile

"Really? Wow, and are they your first?" Haley asked her.

"Yah,"

"Oh wow…good luck," Haley told her with a chuckle, "I'm worried enough with just one."

The clerk came scurrying out of a back room, apologizing to the women for the wait, then checked them out speedily.

"It was nice to meet you," Kate told the girl as they left the store, each heading for their cars.

"You too," Haley said, rushing back to her car and waving as she drove away.

As soon as she was in her car, Kate opened one of the Popsicle boxes, dug a cherry flavored one out, and just sat in the parking lot of the grocery store indulging herself in it.

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Ackkkk! I hated this chapter. It took me like…foorreeevvveeerrrr to write…and it was just bad. :(

I'm in need of motivation…..haha :)