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Telling Kaylie

"I'd love to be able to call you my boyfriend," Kate began.

"So you'll be my girlfriend?" Castle asked hopefully. A bright smile adorning his face.

"I wasn't finished," Kate smiled up at him. "I'd love to be able to call you my boyfriend, but," Kate repeated. Upon hearing the 'but' Castle deflated. Kate could tell by the look on his face that he was thinking something along the lines of 'there's always a but.' He dropped his head in defeat. For her part, Kate put a hand on each cheek and lifted his face to meet her eyes. "But if you want to keep working with me at the precinct we can't be in a relationship. At least, not a public one. So, that means there will be nobody for me to call you my boyfriend to, because all of my friends, at least the ones I'm close with, work at the precinct."

Castle was shocked stiff for a moment. Then he leaned down and placed a tender kiss upon her lips. "But, you'd still like to be my girlfriend?" he asked, filled with hope once more.

"Well, I don't go around kissing random guys and letting them sleep in my bed. I think I have to make you my boyfriend after all of this. But, we have to remain professional at the precinct and we can't be super obvious out in public."

"So we are sneaking around? That's so hot!"

"Castle!" Kate exclaimed, slapping her hand to her forehead.

"It's true, though, isn't it? We are going to be sneaking around. No one at work will know, none of our friends. What about family?" Castle couldn't fathom not telling Alexis or his mother. Plus, there was Kaylie to consider as well. She, after all, was the whole reason they were having this conversation in the first place. He didn't want to lie or sneak around her, but he also didn't know if she would be able to keep it secret at the precinct.

"I don't think we should lie to our families. I mean Kaylie and Alexis definitely need to know. And we will probably spend time at your place, so I doubt we'll be able to hide it from your mother. Also, I don't want any more secrets between my dad and I. We've had enough distance between us and I don't want any more, you understand?"

"I agree. I don't want to lie to the girls or mother. Plus, I don't think I'd ever be able to face your father in the future if we hid this from him now."

"Thank you so much. This is why I want to be with you," Kate smiled. She hugged Castle once again, truly happy to be able to call this man her boyfriend, even if it was only to her family.


Later that day, Kate and Castle sat Kaylie down to talk to her about the situation. They knew she wouldn't fully understand what dating meant, but they still wanted to tell her as soon as possible.

"Sweetie, Mommy and Mr. Castle want to talk to you about something."

"But Mommy! Dragon Tales is on!"

"I know, but this is important and won't take long," Kate said, waiting for Kaylie to respond, only then would she be sure that she was truly listening.

Kaylie sighed. "Fine. What is it?"

"Well, we are dating now. Do you know what that means?"

"Do I get to call him Uncle Rick now?"

Kate and Rick shared a look of confusion. They had discussed it and were both fine with whatever she wanted to call him. If she wanted to call him Uncle Rick, that was fine, but where she got that idea was a mystery. "If you want to. You can call him anything you want, but why do you want to call him Uncle Rick?"

"Marissa's mom started dating a guy and she had to call him Uncle Bobby. I think it'd be cool for Mr. Castle to be Uncle Rick because he's like Uncle Kevin and Tío Javi. What else does 'dating' mean?"

Kate sighed, at least everything made sense now. "Well, Rick might be staying over once in awhile, and sometimes we might stay over at his loft. We will likely be spending a lot of time with Rick and Alexis. We will also spend some time with Alexis' grandma. Would you like that?"

"Cool! I love spending time with Alexis. She is so awesome!"

"Good, we will let you get back to your show now," Castle said.

Kaylie smiled widely and turned back to the TV, effectively tuning the two adults out.

Kate and Castle simply sat back and watched the TV with Kaylie. Both were relieved that she had taken it so well. Hopefully the rest of the family would take it as well as she did.


Castle had to be back at his loft at three that afternoon to reclaim Alexis from her spa day with Martha. Before he left, he and Kate made plans to tell Martha and Alexis about their new relationship status at dinner that night. They would worry about telling Kate's father later.

In the meantime, Castle was busy preparing the loft with Alexis' help. Together, they tidied up and began making dinner. Since he didn't want to make the idea of Kate and him dating seem like too big of a deal (he wanted it to seem natural), he didn't want to make dinner seem like too big of a deal either. He decided they would make a simple pasta with two choices of sauce, spaghetti sauce with meatballs and a lobster cream sauce.

"Why are we making so much food Daddy? We are going to have a bunch of leftovers. Are you going on a book tour again?"

"No, pumpkin. We have guests coming tonight."

Alexis' face scrunched up into a look of disgust at the idea. It was most likely going to be Gina and other publishing people, maybe Paula. It wasn't that she disliked those people, it was more that she was never included in conversations when they came over for dinner. It seemed that she was in for a boring night, but she wanted to check just how boring it was going to be. "Who is coming?"

"Don't make that face. I think you're going to like this get together. You like Kate and Kaylie, don't you?" Castle asked with a smirk, stirring the pasta.

"Kaylie's coming? And Kate? This is going to be so much fun!" Alexis exclaimed. She turned to the stove and stirred the sauce with renewed vigor.


"What do you want to wear to dinner tonight?" Kate asked.

"Where're we goin'?" Kaylie asked, staring into her closet.

"We're going to Castle's. We are having dinner with him and his family. We are going to tell Martha and Alexis that Castle and I are dating. That means that you can't say anything about it until we say something. Do you think you can do that?"

"Sure. I wanna wear the purple sweater."

"You really like that one don't you?"

"Yep, it's my favorite 'cause I love purple."

"Well, it looks very nice on you."

Once she picked out pants and shoes for Kaylie to wear, Kate put Kaylie into the bathtub. She helped Kaylie wash up before getting her out of the tub. She helped dry her off with a fluffy towel and then helped her into her clothes. She put Kaylie's hair in a ponytail and led Kaylie out to her room.

Kate rushed off to her own bathroom and took a quick shower. She put on the clothes she had laid out before helping Kaylie and threw her hair up into a ponytail similar to Kaylie's.

They bundled themselves in their coats and were soon out the door and on their way to Castle's loft.

Well there you have it, Caskett is officially happening now:) In the next chapter they will tell Martha and Alexis, possibly Jim as well. Please leave me a review letting me know what you thought, any mistakes you find, and any requests/questions/suggestions. Thanks and love you all:)