Castle returned a few minuets later to find Kate sitting on sofa in the living room. "Is she asleep?" Kate asked when she saw Castle return.

"She is out like a light." He replied.

"She is a sweet girl." Kate said.

"Sorry that it got so late, I am glad you agreed to stay." Castle said.

"Well seeing as you picked me up; I don't really have a choice." She said with a joking tone.

"I'd be happy to let you take the car if you would prefer." He said with his trade mark grin.

"I like it here." Kate said.

"Good cause we like you here." Castle said.

There was a silence between the two of them for a few minuets then Castle spoke up, "Thank you for today." Castle said.

"I think that was supposed to be line." Kate said.

"Watching you with Alexis was incredible. I have never seen her take to anyone the way she has you."

"I don't know what is so special about me."

"I do." Castle said as he sat back on the couch. Kate smiled and laid her head on his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on the forehead.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Anything you want." Castle said.

"What happened with her mother?" Kate questioned.

"Meredith was very young when she had Alexis, well we both were honestly. I had just turned 21 and Meredith was barely 19 when we found out she was pregnant. She and I had been on again off again since high school, so when she told me about Alexis I did the only thing I knew to do." Castle explained.

"You married her." Kate replied.

"It seemed like the right thing to do at the time; but the older we got the more we knew we were not meant to married. We were and still are two completely different people. Meredith is a good person, and she loves Alexis very much, but she is not ready to grow up. She still thinks everything in this world is about her." Castle said.

"And you changed the moment she was born didn't you?" Kate asked.

"I knew the moment I held her the second they handed me this tiny sleeping baby that my life would never be the same again. That from this day on nothing was ever going to be about me again my whole world was for her and her alone." Castle explained.

"You have the biggest heart of anyone I have ever known." Kate said hearing his declaration of love for his daughter.

"Now since we are asking stuff tonight, can I ask you something?"

"That seems fair." Kate replied.

"The night we met you said your mother was murdered, what happened to her?" He questioned.

Castle felt Kate's body tense in his arms, then she sighed before she spoke, "My mother was investigating in politicians who were using their money to hire people to perform hits on people who got in their way. My mom got a call from a prison inmate with information on a certain person that my mother had been looking into for almost two years. She followed the lead and apparently she must have found something because she was killed for what she knew. The police closed the case they couldn't find anything, no leads, no witness nothing. My mom died in an alley alone like an animal and no one will speak out or come forward because they are all scared of someone. Someone with so much power they can get away with murder." Kate explained.

"And you think there are others like your mother who got murdered by this person?"

"Four more people had the same kind of injuries my mother did, the same blow that killed them. They were all stabbed six times to make it look like a robbing gone wrong, only thing is when they found my mother's body none of her stuff was missing, her money, her credit card, and even this." Kate said as she pulled the chain out from her around her neck and showed Castle the ring on it. "Her wedding ring was still on her finger. One blow killed her first one, and all the stab wounds were just a cover." She explained.

"And how do you know all this?" He questioned.

"My father is a lawyer for one thing and for two, Lanie's boyfriend is a cop at the 54th he might of got me the files on my mother's case." She explained.

"Espo a cop? Isn't he like five minuets older then you?" Castle asked shocked.

Kate laughed, "Shocker right? He is three years old then me. He is had a hard life. He came to a point to in his life when being a cop or going to jail was his only future. Despite the way he grew up and the way his father treated him, he became the better person. The person no one thought he could become." Kate explained.

"Got to admit I didn't see that one coming." Castle replied.

"No one ever does." Kate said.

"You ready to get to bed its getting late?" Castle asked her.

"Can we just stay like this a little while longer?" Kate asked as she nestled her body into the crock of his arm.

"We can stay like this forever." He said kissing her on her forehead. Castle reached behind them grabbing the throw blanket off the back of the sofa and covered Kate with it.

A/N: So here is another chapter for you all. Hope everyone is still enjoying this and if I don't get another chapter up before Christmas I hope each and everyone of you that celebrate have a wonderful holiday. And someone asked if we would find out about Castle knowing more about her mother, yes you will more is coming to do with that.