Title: Zoo

Author's Note: It's thunderstorming here! Or at least, it was...

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"Is it weird for a father to take their grown daughter to the zoo?" the writer asks his partner one day while looking at the Central Park Zoo.

Beckett shrugs. "I don't think it's that strange. Alexis likes it?"

"Why wouldn't she?" he asks.

"I don't know; she seems more like a museum girl."

Castle nods. "Yeah, but surprisingly, she always loved the reptiles."

Beckett smiles at the thought of a smaller Alexis looking at snakes with her dad. Then a picture of Castle and a grown Alexis, accompanied by herself and a little baby boy, forms in its place.