Beckett's back in the loft a couple of hours later, right in time for lunch. She finds Alexis sitting on the couch reading a book. The young girl looks up and smiles at the detective as she closes the door and walks inside.

"Dad's still at his meeting" Alexis answers the unasked question and puts the book down.

A smell assaults Beckett's nostrils and she starts feeling sick.

"Grams is making lunch" the teen says almost apologetically as she sees the change on Beckett's face.

Beckett tries to keep it together. This would be the first time she was actually sick since she found out she was pregnant. Breathe in and out, but it becomes too much and she runs to the bathroom.

"Kate?" Concern clouds Alexis' face as she follows the older woman and stands outside of the bathroom. "Kate? You okay?"

"What's wrong dear?" Martha hears the fuss and gets out of the kitchen to find out what's going on. She hears Beckett throwing up and immediately grows concerned. "Is that Katherine?"

"Yeah... She came in, asked for dad and then ran to the bathroom..."

In that moment, Beckett comes out of the bathroom feeling terrible and is surprised to find Alexis and Martha standing there.

"Katherine, dear. Are you alright?" The older woman asks worriedly.

"Yeah..." She sighs. She starts to sway a bit. She hadn't had much for breakfast, and what she did eat, had just come back out.

Martha puts her arm around Beckett for support and they slide down the wall and sit on the floor. "Alexis, would you mind getting a glass of water?" The young girl goes into the kitchen without a word. She's not used to seeing Beckett like this. She just hopes that nothing's wrong.

Beckett puts her head against the wall and closes her eyes. She just feels bad. She hopes that the sickness doesn't get too bad for her.

"What's wrong, dear?" Martha asks softly.

Beckett just sighs, she's not sure she wants to share the news yet, even less without Castle there.

"Are you kids hiding something?" Realization dawns on Martha.

She's saved from answering when Castle comes in. His smile disappears the moment he sees Beckett sitting on the floor with his mother. Next thing you know he's kneeling in front them. "What's wrong?" Concern's covering his features.

Beckett opens her mouth to answer but is cut off by Martha. "Everything's alright, except for the fact that you children are hiding something from me" there's a mild reproach in her voice.

"I'm pregnant" Castle was ready to tell his mother to back off a bit, that they would tell her only when she needed to know, when he hears Beckett whisper those words. His eyes widen at the confession.

They hear a thud and a splash, and they turn to see Alexis, who just dropped the glass of water on the floor. The teen's jaw is almost on the floor too.

Beckett covers her face with her hands. She wasn't entirely sure why she had said it. But she had, and now she was surrounded by three Castles - well, two Castles and a Rodgers - with expressions of shock on their faces. She was just not used to being part of a family and having people around her that support her and are there for her. She didn't feel right hiding something so important from the people that care so much about her.

The first one to recover is Rick, who scoots over to Beckett's side and takes her into his arms. Next one is Martha.

"That is wonderful news!" She's ecstatic about it and has a huge smile on her face.

Out of nowhere, Castle and Beckett feel a couple of arms trying to wrap around them.

Beckett lets out a breath she didn't realize she was holding. She wasn't sure how Alexis would take the news, but the smile on her face and the twinkle in her eyes told her everything she needed to know.

Castle couldn't be more proud. He was going to be a father for the second time and now his family knew. He was over the moon.

"Wow you guys!" Alexis breaks the embrace. "This is so cool!" The smile on her face disappears and she gets up. "And I kind of made a mess…" She looks at them apologetically.

"It's okay, Alexis" the brunette slowly gets up, and so do Castle and Martha. "I'm feeling much better, I can get the water myself"

"And I'll help you clean this" Martha says.

"Hey guys..." Beckett calls them uncertainly, and they stop what they're doing to look at her. Castle wonders what she has to say. "I'm only like, 7 weeks along so... Would you mind keeping this to yourselves?" She asks carefully.

"Everything's going to be alright kiddo" Martha says softly, sensing the silent plea in Beckett's voice. She was thinking about the worst case scenario, all the things that could go wrong. The older woman didn't really like the idea that she was thinking like that, but she also couldn't blame her.

Castle hears it too, so he takes her hand and gives her a gentle squeeze. "Come on, let's get you to bed"

"I don't want to go to bed, besides, I was going to get some water" Beckett regains her spirits.

"Well, then go to the couch, and I will get you your water"

She settles for that and makes herself comfortable on the couch.

As soon as Castle walks into the kitchen he sees the probable cause of Beckett's malaise. "Mother" he says as Martha walks into the kitchen. "What did I tell you about cooking?"

"Oh, Richard, that's nonsense. I just wanted to help. Isn't your mother allowed to do that once in a while?" Martha says unbothered.

"Of course mother, but please, for everybody's sake, leave the cooking to the rest of us" he goes out of the kitchen holding Beckett's glass of water. He sits by her side and notices that both Alexis and Martha are giving them some privacy.

She takes a few sips of the water and then starts turning the glass in her hands. "I'm sorry. I kind of blurted the news out…" she's feeling foolish. She wanted that moment to be special, with his family and her father there, around dinner… Not on the floor outside of the bathroom after having thrown up and in the middle of a hormone war within her body.

"Maybe it wasn't ideal, but it was done. And I'm so glad it was!" he can't contain his excitement. "Now we just have to figure out when to tell your dad"

"Now that Martha and Alexis know, I think it would be unfair to keep him out of the loop"

"I agree. Give him a call, we'll have dinner"

"Mmm-hmm"

"You hungry?"

"Yep"

"Mother! Alexis! We're going to have lunch, wanna come with us?" he calls out and he hears two affirmative responses. "Then let's go."