A/N- Hey guys! I've missed you! wow it's been a while since i last talked to y'all. let me tell you, this chapter is not my best work. The muse and have been having issues these past couple of weeks, so blame her. Anyway, hopw you like it. And now, drumroll please, the winner of our un-official, official baby pool is... Conservativegirl who got the numbers right, just reversed who they belong too. So congrats to you!

Enjoy!

November- seventeen weeks pregnant

Even through her gloves, Kate Beckett still felt the freezing early November wind. She was supposed to be out on her daily walk, but after taking two steps outside and feeling the cold, she turned tail and went right back to her nice warm husband. . . I mean bed.

The door clicked shut, and Castle looked up from his paper to see his pregnant wife shedding her coat.

"Hey, that was fast," he said wrapping his arm around her waist as she got closer to his perch on one of the bar stools.

"I never went. It was too cold," she said feeling his warm hands through her shirt.

Castle smiled and rolled his eyes. The tough as nails, lived through a gunshot to the heart, Kate Beckett couldn't even walk in the winter wind.

She quickly kisses his lips before turning for the shower, calling over her shoulder that they were leaving in an hour, weather he was ready or not.

He would be ready. He had been ready for the past four months. Today was the day they would find out the sex of their five babies.

There was a slight collision in the bathroom, when Rick tried to get by and start the shower, and Kate was standing in front of the sink brushing her teeth, but finally both of them were clean, dressed and ready to go with ten minutes to spare.

Castle was standing out in the living room checking his many beloved social media sites, when Kate came out of their room, her slippered feet sliding on the hardwood floor. For the past month and a half, they were the only shoes she could wear comfortably, her feet had swollen and it was just too hard to get other shoes on.

They both grabbed phones, coats, keys and wallets and headed out for their appointment.

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"It's like they've never seen snow before. Move!" They were stuck in traffic. It had started snowing lightly, and every single person out on the roads was driving as slow as snails. "Finally!" Castle gasped as they crossed the intersection they had been sitting at for the past twenty minutes.

It they booked it, they would just make their appointment.

Kate could only roll her eyes. The sky had been threatening snow for the past week. People were like this every year during the first snow, it never changed. She stayed quiet, letting Castle have his moment. She looked out the window at the people walking down the street, bundled up against the wind, glad that she wasn't one of them.

They pulled into the parking garage, and, after thanking the man working the gate, Castle set off to find a spot. It seemed was though every person in lower Manhattan was at the same office building as Castle and Beckett were because the only spot Castle could find was as far from the door as you could get without being out on the street.

After a bit of a walk, they made it inside, grateful for the warmth.

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There he was, in all his glory; a fuzzy black and white picture on a computer screen.

Castle and Beckett had found calling all five of the babies 'he' was easiest, until they found out what they were. So up until today, all five of them were boys, no matter if they weren't.

He was perfect: ten fingers, ten toes. The first to be shown, baby A. When the nurse found him on the ultrasound, he was in the middle of a forward roll, and as he turned, in front of God and everyone, they could see plain as day that 'he' was a 'she.' It's a girl.

"She's already like her dad," Kate says smiling at her daughter's picture on the screen, "Likes to do things in a big way."

Castle laughed, he was very happy, grinning from ear to ear, and they had just started.

Next came the twins, identical twins. Castle and Beckett didn't care what they were so long as they were both healthy.

The nurse moved the probe over Kate's belly trying to get a better look.

"These guys are making my job difficult," she joked.

"Come on guys; work with us for a minute here, will you?" Castle asked looking at the picture of the two babies.

"There we go," the nurse said, finally settling the picture on one spot. The babies only stayed still for a fraction of a second, just long enough for both mom and dad to get a look before they were back to wiggling and kicking each other.

Kate turned her head to look at a now quiet Castle.

"Hey," she started, reaching out to touch his arm. "Are you alright?"

He smiled at her, tears in his eyes. He was more than alright. Things were perfect. He was with the woman of his dreams, had the best most perfect grown-up daughter a guy could ask for, and now he was having five more babies, all of whom, Castle was convinced, were going to be as perfect as their older sister.

"Yes I'm fine," he said smiling again and giving her hand a squeeze.

"Good," Kate said. She watched as they two babies moved around on the monitor, and she could feel them move, under her skin.

"Now are you sure that's what you saw?" Castle asked, making perfectly sure he had heard the nurse correctly.

"Yes I am positive," she said smiling.

"Ok good," His smiled was even bigger than it was before, if that was even possible. All three of the people in the room had seen and heard it correctly-the twins were boys.

It was easier to tell what the fourth baby was. They just looked for something between her legs and when they didn't see it, they knew she was a girl.

Baby E, the second smallest of the five (baby B was the smallest of them all), was hidden low in Kate's pelvis, curled into a ball and was sucking her thumb. After a minute of observation, it was determined that she was most definitely a girl.

They were all doing fine. Growing and maturing like they should be. All with the right amount of fingers and toes.

There wasn't much left to her appointment after the ultrasound. The doctor came in and checked Kate out, making sure she was growing with her babies, and that she was healthy.

"How does it feel to finally know what you're having?" Dr. Lee asked a still smiling Kate and Rick.

"It feels really good," Kate said. She didn't know what to say. She couldn't put into words what she was feeling. She had three daughters and two sons, all of whom were practically perfect in every way.

"Well everything seems good here. Keep doing everything you're doing-drinking lots of water, eating right, getting exercise. And dad," she said turning to Castle. "Make sure she doesn't get too crazy being cooped up inside all winter. And enjoy the rest of your pregnancy. Because before you know it, these babies will be here."

Castle and Beckett nodded and got up to leave. They made it to the door before Beckett stopped in her tracks.

"Have you texted Lanie and the boys yet?" she asked turning towards Castle.

His eyes bugged out and he quickly reached into his pocket for his phone. . .

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Javier Esposito looked up from the pages and pages of phone records he had been looking at for the past hour. He reached for his ringing cell phone, typing in the code to unlock it and get to the new text message he had gotten.

"Yo Ryan!" he called to his partner, holding up his phone.

Ryan came over, excited to find out what Castle had said.

Castle and Beckett had promised to either text or call the boys once they knew what the babies were.

Javi opened the text message, as Ryan read over his shoulder.

Three girls, two boys. All doing fine. Kate says hi and wants her money ASAP

"Damn it!" Ryan said, pulling out his wallet. He had bet a lot of money in the baby pool, and lost all of it. He was sure there was going to be more boys than girls.

Esposito was happy. He hadn't lost all of the money he had bet, just a chunk of it.

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The next night during dinner at the Castle house, the money was divided up between the winners. Esposito and Lanie had tied for first with the most correct guesses-three out of the five.

"So now that you know, it will make picking their names easier right?" Lanie asked, taking a sip of her glass of wine.

Kate just shrugged. "Not really. We can't agree on any of the names so far," she confessed.

"Oh I remember that," Jenny said smiling. "Kevin and I fought for months over Grace's name."

"How did you finally pick?" Kate asked, really curious as to how her friend's baby name debate was ended.

"I picked it," Ryan said, with a slight cocky edge to his voice. "the nurses needed a name for her, and we couldn't decide, so I closed my eyes and pointed at a name on our list, and the rest as they say, is history," Jenny rolled her eyes, clearly not remembering that side of the story.

"Right after she was born and the doctor put her on my chest, I looked at her face and her name came to me. It was perfect," Jenny said, giving the right side of the story. She got a little emotional, remembering the day her daughter was born.

Now Kate was scared. She knew she couldn't have her babies like her mom or friends did, and she also knew that most likely they would be born early. She needed to decide on all of their names before they were born. She needed to know that at least that item was crossed off her list, just in case something were to happen.

"What do you think Beckett?" Esposito asked.

Kate looked at her friend, pulled back into the real world by her friends voice.

"What?" she asked.

"I was just saying, wouldn't Javier Junior be a perfect name for one of the baby boys?" he said re-stating his question.

"In you strange and twisted dreams," Kate said laughing, smacking Javier on his arm.

Everyone laughed, and continued talking, and passing around baby name ideas. Kate joined in, laughing and enjoying time with her family.