Good News
A few days later and the world seemed to get a bit brighter for Beckett. The hospital had called to say that the twins could come home finally. Beckett was beyond ecstatic. So Castle made sure that they had everything they needed to bring the twins home. Alexis and Johanna Martha wanted to tag along. Martha stayed at the loft with Jake and Jim to get things ready for the twins.
"Didn't think this day would ever come." Beckett said on the drive to the hospital.
"Well it has; Kate. They are coming home today."
Beckett smiled.
Everything was perfect now, her family was complete. It was hard to imagine that six years ago things were completely opposite; but then she met Castle and everything changed for what ended up being for the better.
"Just once I'd like someone to come up to me and say something new."
"Mr. Castle?"
"Where would you like it?"
"Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD, we need to ask you a few questions about a murder that took place earlier tonight." "That's new."
Little did Beckett know back in 2009 was that she would marry Castle and have children with him. Her life then had been guided by the loss of her mother a decade before Beckett had first met Castle.
Just as he had been there for her with the roller coaster of the twins being premature; Castle had been there for her as they solved her mother's murder. As they pulled into the hospital parking lot; Beckett wondered what she did to deserve a perfect life like the one she had.
"Babies, babies,babies!" Johanna Martha exclaimed.
Johanna Martha's excitement about her little sister and brother snapped Beckett out of her reverie.
"Yes, Jojo; we're going to see JJ and Kat." Alexis said.
Alexis had her own little nicknames for her younger sisters. Since JJ's name had already been shortened from Jackson James to JJ by their parents so Alexis just called her little brother by is nickname. Everyone had adopted Kat as Katherine Mae's nickname; this way she didn't have to go by her full name like Johanna Martha and she would get confused with her mother.
The quartet took the elevator up to the NICU where the nurses had Kat and JJ all set for them when they had arrived.
For a brief moment after the twins were in their car seats; Beckett turned to Castle.
"JJ is ruggedly handsome like his daddy." Beckett said with a smile on her face.
"And Kat is absolutely beautiful like her mommy and her sisters."
With that the family of six left the hospital and headed home where Martha, Jake and Jim waited for them.
The sun came down from and danced around on Beckett's skin. In Beckett's mind; she knew the sun shining was her mother smiling from heaven as she watched her daughter head home with her family. In that moment Beckett knew that her mother was proud of her.
Beckett then recalled something her dad said to her when she had told him about the job in DC she had been offered a few years ago. The one that was short lived.
"Your mom would be proud. Hell, I'm proud."
That made Beckett smile.