Just a little fluff to help us all as we wait for the next episode


"So…cool" Are Castle's first words after the disappearance of Agent Gray

"Castle! What is this all about? This Agent Gray fellow?" Kate asks

"I met him by chance at a book signing. I had mentioned to the group that I wanted to do a story about the CIA and after the reading he just appeared from behind a bookshelf and began talking to me"

"Oh I am sure you were totally enthralled by his stories" Kate almost laughs when she asks

With his standard little boy look on his face he answers "UH? Well Yeah?"

"Castle how can you be so sure he is a real agent? I mean look at him. He does not look threatening at all. No one would be afraid of him"

"Oh really? Did you see Officer Jenkins leave the room with his head between his legs? Go and ask him if he was intimidated or not. He looked plenty scared to me. And anyway where did he come from after my call and where did he go?"

"Yeah" Kate responds grudgingly thinking about how he just seemed to disappear

"And besides how did he get a copy of the book? Gina has not even released it to printing yet. It is still in final proof right now"

Kate turns to look her husband directly in the eyes. She rises to her tip toes and gets as close to his face as possible

"And tell me about this sex scene in your book" She says with voice filled with fierce determination

GULP!

"Uh it is just a fantasy scene"

"Oh you mean it is a scene you fantasize about doing with me? Something that we haven't done already?"

"NO! No! I mean it is strictly from my imagination"

"OK then. It is a coupling you imagined us having but it has only happened in your mind?"

"No Wait. I dreamed it up"

"OH! So you go around all the time dreaming about having sex with me?"

"UH…" With his mouth open, Castle decides that it is best to close the opening and not place his foot any further inside

Since they are in the seclusion of the break room, Castle places his arms around his wife and pulls her close

She then pulls his face closer to hers "Let me say this about that. After we get home tonight we can work on any and all fantasizes you might still have relating to what you want to do to me"

Castle can only stare at those eyes he loves so much when she finishes her question.

"Deal?"

Castle puts his best face on "It will be torture but…OK. Deal!"

"Wait till we get home and I will show you torture"

Kate slips her arms off her husband and drops back down flat on the floor. "But right now you promised to help the girls with their science project, so you better get home"

With a dejected look Castle agrees that he did make that promise to his daughters and the pair walk back out to the bull pin

"Guys, Rick's heading home and I am going out for drinks with an old high school friend who just opened a new restaurant. We will get started on our John Doe first thing in the morning"

Kate grabs her jacket and bag and the group all step into the elevator for the trip to the parking garage


Castle arrives home to find his girls have turned the dining room into a science lab. Alexis is working on a final poster on DNA.

Susie has a poster detailing the technology of fingerprint identification and the AFIS system to locate suspects and victims from their fingerprints.

Finally Sherri's project is showing how ballistics are used to match slugs from shootings with the weapon that was used to fire them

Rick walks over to his daughters and simply smiles. Each one has selected a project that relates to their step mothers job.

"Hello girls"

"OH! Hi dad. Is mom going to be home soon?" Sherri asks

No. She is having drinks with an old friend" Castle begins "I see Kate has rubbed off on you a little. What is all this?"

Susie speaks up next "Good. Mom is so involved in crime fighting we are doing this to honor her" she says while pointing around the table to all three projects

"She solves crimes using all three of these tools" Alexis responds

"Yeah, she makes us proud" Sherri finishes

Now it is not just the twins finishing each others sentences, Alexis is in tune with the other two as well

Castle is so moved by what he is seeing and what was just said about Kate. This is the first time that he has heard any one of the girls call Kate, 'mom'. This tells him that they have accepted her as their parent. Not just a step mother, but that most important term of endearment

'Mom'

"So when were you going to tell her about this?" Castle asks

"We are going to wait and show her at the Science Fair this weekend" Alexis answers "Dad, will you not tell her what we are doing?"

Castle just smiles "Of course. This is your special present to Kate…I mean your mom"


"Maddie! This place is fantastic" Kate is looking all around the bar trying to accept the fact that this place is the hottest spot in town right now and her old high school best friend is a partner

"I know Bex. I can't hardly believe it" She responds "But I what to know about is all about today's Kathertie Beckett. What has she been doing these last ten plus years?

Kate smile a little before answering

"Instead of hanging out with bad boys I'm chasing bad guys instead" Kate finally responds

"OK so what's different then? you are still in the chase "

"Now when I catch them I put them in handcuffs" Beckett states

"Oh not much different from our senior year when you caught Tommy Scott and tied him to the goal post at the football field and took all of his clothes?" Maddie responds

Kate's face turns red at that memory. "I tried to forget about that. Besides, he told me that he wanted to go out with me and then I caught him kissing the head cheerleader, Peggy Brown"

"Those days were fun Kate" Maddie finally says

"Yeah, they were"

"Beckett I am sorry about your mother. I just heard about it last year and I haven't had a chance to say anything to you"

Kate looks off into the distance "Thanks. But I am dealing with it"

"You do seem happy though. You have a glow around you. I figured being a homicide cop you would be…I don't know…less…"

"Less happy?" Kate smiles to her old friend "Maddie, I am happy. Very, Very happy. I am married to a great guy"

"Married? WHAT? I didn't see a ring so I thought…"

"I was single? No, I don't wear my rings at work. They are too expensive to wear in public with the kind of work I do"

"Expensive? Who did you marry? A banker?"

"Richard Castle"

There is a brief pause

"Are you talking about the writer Castle? The one your mother loved his books? That Richard Castle?"

"Yeah. That Richard Castle"

"Wow! How? When? What?" Madison stutters trying to find the words to say "I started reading his books too and got hooked myself. How in the world did you catch him?"

"He caught me actually" Kate responds "He helped me solve several cases and just kept coming around pestering me until I just gave up and let him catch me. We've been married almost a year. He already had a daughter and we adopted twin girls. So I have three step daughters now. All teenagers"

"Oh this has to be good. The original rebel, wild child, Juvenile Delinquent Kate Beckett raising teenagers? There is justice in the world after all" Madison says with firm determination in her voice.

The two both laugh at the truth in her words

"So Beckett, are you ready to make little Castle Babies?"