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That night, Alexis had stayed up later than she normally would. Liam, Harley, Avery and Aria stayed up later a bit pass dinner time so that the whole family could spend some time together. Rick and Kate had both figured that Alexis needed to be surrounded by family right now. They knew that Alexis had enjoyed spending time with her younger siblings.

Prior to dinner that night, Phoenix had sent Alexis a text saying that he had to reschedule their coffee date for another day since he had to go to his hometown in Upstate New York for his nephews' baptism. Phoenix's sister and brother in law had asked Phoenix to be their twin sons' godfather on top of being their uncle.

What are your nephews' names?

Noah and Nate. My sister; Charlie and her husband, Andy went through the whole alphabet to choose one letter of the alphabet to use a jumping point for our kids' names.

Ah. Those are cute names.

"Are you sure that you guys have all of that under control?" Alexis asked after dinner.

Kate had said that she and Rick would take care of the post dinner clean up while Alexis played with her siblings.

"We got this. Don't worry about us, just keep playing with the kids." Beckett said in response.

"Lexie, Lexie!" Harley called.

When Alexis had turned her head to where her sister was. Harley had found a way to get around the baby gate and was standing on the stairs that led up to the bedrooms. She was standing in front of the railing.

"Harley!" Alexis said.

Once Kate heard Alexis utter Harley's name, she wasted no time in getting over to her daughter. Rick wasn't that far behind Kate when it came to getting to Harley.

"Harley Addallee, what in the world were you thinking?" Beckett asked as soon as she had Harley in her arms.

"I wanted to be a superhero like you and Nikki Heat." Harley replied.

Kate turned to Rick. "How does she know about Nikki freaking Heat?"

"I don't know. Harley is very smart girl like her mother." Castle said.

With that being said, Kate and Rick took a break from the clean up to spend time with the kids. When Martha had come in from a date later on, she had found her family all fast asleep in the living room.