A collection of Caskett drabbles, ficlets, and one-shots based on prompts. Today's offering: Observation - An outside perspective of a moment between Castle and his boys. Rated K.

"All I want this Christmas is just to be here, to remember. But if I can't do that… I want to make new memories, build new traditions to go with the old." An AU that takes place immediately after the events of 3x24, Knockout. Set during the Christmas season.

"After all, that's what he and Beckett do frequently now, whether it's sitting in a booth at Remy's or in his living room after a hard case. Nothing sexual about it, just two people enjoying each other's company. Right?" - A 2x20 Caskett AU

An entry for Castle Ficathon 2018: In this AU, you will meet Kate Beckett, a woman who long ago moved back to her small hometown to help care for her father, and you will meet Rick Castle, a famed mystery author at the lowest point in his career, and thanks to one arbitrary decision, they meet one another. Love ensues.

"Mistress Heat," Castle greets, entering the private room with the usual smug, self-satisfied grin strung across his lips, the spark in his eyes twinkling in the red glow of the private room. "How's business today?" AU for 2x16, 'The Mistress Always Spanks Twice'. One shot.

A collection of unrelated oneshots inspired by prompts received on tumblr.

"We should date. For Christmas." / AU

Photographer Kate Beckett and aspiring novelist Rick Rodgers are perfectly content in their solitary lives. But it's only after an unlikely matchmaker conspires to have them meet that they realize how extraordinary their lives could become. A Castle AU for Summer Ficathon 2016 co-written by airbefore and caffinate-me.

'He isn't sure where she has gone, but it's obvious she wants to be alone. Or at least, without him. Until nearly a month into the summer when his phone chirps with a new message. From Kate Beckett.' Set during the summer after Beckett's shooting.

They're both muddling through life. Her days are full of politics and paperwork. His are spent surfing the web in his underwear and buying gadgets to drive his mother crazy. Could a charity auction be what Captain Kate Beckett and novelist Richard Castle need to find their way together? Or will fumbles and stubbornness keep them apart? AU. A Castle 2015 Hiatus Ficathon story.

"Detective Castle, this is Katherine Beckett, famous mystery novelist with 26 bestsellers to date, perhaps 27 soon if this all works out. And your shadow for the foreseeable future." AU.

'Life hasn't exactly been going well for him throughout the last three years, but he hadn't expected dying lost, alone, and in the middle of New York's worst blizzard in decades, to be his fate.' An AU twist on season 8 that picks up from the end of 8x07, 'The Last Seduction'. Two shot.

'It shouldn't feel like he had abandoned her. She hadn't even wanted him around to begin with.' A post 2x05 AU for New Year's.

'Kate Beckett is simultaneously a mom and a homicide detective, in no way does she have time for a relationship, let alone with someone like Castle and definitely not now, during the hectic holiday season. Even if he could apparently make her daughter smile easier than anyone else has in a long time.' An AU story for Christmas.

On the anniversary of their kiss, Beckett takes a step to show Castle where she hopes they're going. A Season 4 AU two-shot. Now Complete for CastleFanficMonday: Tuesday Edition.

On a quiet, cool morning in early July, Jim Beckett steps out onto the knotted wood porch of his cabin and does what his daughter can't or won't do for herself: he calls Richard Castle.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin. Castle and Beckett have their first date. Set early season four. Might need to read the first two in this series.

It was just fatigue, the day catching up to her. It had nothing to do with the knowledge that his phone could ring in fifteen minutes and he would be on his way to parts unknown just a little while after that. - Castle and Beckett have a complicated past, but after two years, things may just be getting a little more simple. Meeting AU/Job AU.

One of the last things true crime writer Richard Castle expected when he took a meeting with convicted murderer Kate Beckett was to be sent on a quest for proof of her innocence, the other was to fall in love with her. A Castle AU. Written 2012. Revised 2016.

Castle and Beckett spent one night together and over a year apart. Now they were neighbors and they had a second chance for something extraordinary. Pre-Series AU, Meeting AU. Caskett. A prompt response written for CastleFanficMonday and continued for the 2015 Castle Hiatus Ficathon.

A collection of filled prompts.

She already feels like a prisoner and she wants out. :: Based on a story from Humans of New York.

He finds his match is smart, her humor sharp, and the desire just to meet her for real nearly overwhelms him. He doesn't. It isn't the right time. But he asks her to call him Rick, and in return, she asks him not to call her Katie any longer. It's Kate, she says. - A Caskett Meeting AU for CastleFanficMonday

Set about two years into the future (hypothetical season 10), apperception is having a full understanding of an event because of the conditions that inspire it. A story roughly prompted by tumblr's one-writer-girl: "Beckett tries to win them back."

Based upon a found Tumblr prompt: "AU – Castle and Beckett are both set up on blind dates at the same restaurant, but their dates don't show and they start talking and hitting it off."

"If Tyson wants to play, he can play with her. Alexis will come out of this intact if it's the last thing Kate Beckett does." Season 4 AU. TW for violence, assault, recovery, and mature themes.

An advent style story for the holiday season. Current with season eight, contains spoilers. For the soundtrack, visit my utube channel under chezchuckles. Thank you all for another blessing of a year.

"No matter what you do, no matter the obstacles that arise or the mistakes either of us make, I'll never be able to give up on us." After nearly two years apart, Castle and Beckett attempt to find their way back home in time for the holiday season. A season 8 AU.

A sort of AU post episode universe. Kate and Castle meeting in a coffee shop after each case, to talk things out and have a moment of closeness.

"Hey, is there any chance that smoking wife of yours is going to come hunting for me too?" Kate slows in her walk around the corner at the sound of the familiar voice, dulling the sharp click of her heels on the concrete, steeling herself and channeling every ounce of patience she has left to deal with Ethan Slaughter a second time around. AU insert for 8x06, 'Cool Boys'.

She'd been overwhelmed by it, that instant rush of love. That desire to envelop the girl and never let her go, to protect her and shelter her from the awful things she'd seen already in her short life. She hadn't carried Samara for nine months – she hasn't carried a child at all yet – but she understands now. She gets it. - Part of the Pictures of Us series.

"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance." A random event causes Beckett to rethink her strategy. Spoilers through 8x05 The Nose.

She comes to him in the middle of the night, her heels slipped off at the threshold of their bedroom so her feet make no noise against the hardwood floors. :: An episode insert for What Lies Beneath...

'She said it herself, it isn't fair, it doesn't erase what she's done, the new scars she's carving, but his love for her will always trump all else. His need to have her - in any way she will allow - will always win. It always has.' Another post-ep for 8x02, XX. For the tumblr anon.

"It's in the stars. It's been written in the scars on our hearts that we're not broken - just bent." A post ep for XX/XY 8x01 and 8x02.

Castle and Beckett go undercover at a gated community, to investigate a string of mysterious deaths. Set Christmastime of season four, after Cuffed.

"Hell. She was going to hell. It was sneaky and underhanded of her, and she was absolutely going to hell for it." Unable to stop herself, Beckett answers Castle's phone and takes Ellie Monroe's call. 2x20 AU.

[Early S3] They can't seem to let each other go, can't seem to move forward. He's a bad habit she just can't kick, and she's his willing drug.

Eight years later Richard Castle is found, and it's no longer his ring on her finger. AU from 6x23 "For Better Or Worse".

A Castle fanfiction for advent. Castle/Beckett AU meetings

The tires chew up the road, carrying him back to the city he escaped from less than two weeks ago. Back to the oppressive heat radiating from the sidewalks and the cold loneliness of an empty loft. Back to the haunted streets, where the ghosts of happy memories and what-might-have-beens lurk around far too many corners. Post season one AU.[Summer Hiatus Ficathon Entry]

Fluff Friday and National Poetry Month. "Could I concentrate/ on anything but your leg against mine /under the table?" -Marilyn Hacker, Runaways Cafe II; Set sometime after Still.

Post ep porn for 2x14 The Third Man. A birthday gift for BerkieLynn, who deserves everything I can give but apparently only wanted smut.

AU one-shot based on the Tumblr Prompt from toomuchwineornotenough: KB is a struggling single mom of 2 boys working part time at a pizza place to make ends meet. Castle starts buying pizza daily, then bringing her coffee every morning.

'He watches helplessly as she flattens herself against the nearest wall, her knuckles white between the smears of blood as she stares him down, and all he can think is that this is not his wife.' AU post-ep for 7x15, Reckoning.

An AU version of sorts for the events of Resurrection (7x14) and Reckoning (7x15), set in season 4.

'This isn't an adventure, it isn't fun. It's a nightmare. They're being hunted like foxes and there is no other option, no way to fight, to win. They can only run.' An AU twist on 6x22, Veritas. For Nadia.

He told her once that he had no clue what they were. He still has no idea. Not after so many nights spent in her bed, not after she's spent nights in his.

'Discouraging a very doped up Kate Beckett from doing anything other than what she wants is no small feat.' A season 4 insert of sorts set between 4x16, Linchpin, and 4x17, Once Upon A Crime.

A drunken Kate Beckett is not what he had expected for Christmas, but he's not complaining. A season 2 AU holiday oneshot.

Castle Christmas. Spoilers for current season seven of Castle (but not for tonight's episode in this specific chapter). Each day of the Advent calendar (December 1-25), please expect a chapter to be posted as my gift to you this holiday season, as well as a song from the playlist (youtube: chezchuckles).

A chance meeting between two people has the potential to change their lives forever. A Caskett Meeting AU.

A single chance meeting can change everything. AU. Cover art by ournorthstars.

Under Fire AU, set in season four. This time, it's Ryan and Castle stuck in the building. She wants her love to be the last thing he hears. COMPLETE.

"I love you, Kate," he murmurs softly, the words he's kept swallowed down for almost an entire year finally slipping from his lips. "And I promise if I make it out of this alive, I'll tell you when neither of us are on the brink of death, okay?" An AU version of 7x08, Kill Switch.

She crossed her toned, endlessly long legs, tugged down the edge of her tight skirt that had ridden up her thighs, checked her watch. Sadness, annoyance, resentment flashed across her face in quick succession, well hidden to anyone who wasn't watching closely, who was not as attuned, not used to observe quite as closely... An AU Caskett meeting.

'The strangled mewing sound that escapes the caving cardboard has her stopping in her tracks a mere step before she can reach him and she watches as Castle lowers the box to the ground, rising again with a tiny bundle of fur in his arms.' Post 7x06. Oneshot.

'Agreeing to drinks with him was probably a bad idea.' What if an AU twist had been taken in the alternative universe? Insert for 7x06, The Time Of Our Lives.

It's quiet. Just the rustle of fabric, quiet steps on the carpet and the soothing whisper of his voice. It's the small moments.

An AU twist on 7x04, Child's Play. Complete.

Just having a bit of fun with an alternate Rick Castle/Kate Beckett first meeting. *now complete*

Beckett's apartment is different now. So is Beckett. Post-ep for 7x01.

'It had been an accident. Nothing more than an accident.' Post-ep of sorts for 6x23, For Better or For Worse.

It's been nearly four years since the last time he heard her voice. AU. Oneshot.

Missing scenes from the series as a whole. For Alexis.

A direct follow up story to Inchoate by ColieMacKenzie. Castle and Beckett are both miserable following their divorce. Can they heal their broken relationship?

post-ep for Veritas, 6x22 "...on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge." 'Dulce Et Decorum Est', Wilfred Owen

kairos (ancient Greek) - (n) the perfect, delicate, crucial moment; the fleeting rightness of time and place that creates the opportune atmosphere for action, words, or movement; the time of possibility. COMPLETE

A birthday present for the extraordinary Audrey, whom is wonderful is every way. "You're willing to trade our daughter away for coffee?" COMPLETE

What if Kate had taken Castle up on that "debriefing" after their first case? Would that have been the end of them? Or would the writer simply have uncovered more clues to inspire him within the beautiful puzzle that was Detective Kate Beckett?

A series of unrelated tales about Beckett, Castle and their daughter Ava (who began her journey in auld lang syne, although you don't have to read that to read this.)

It wasn't planned, wasn't a date, but when he'd shown up looking striking in his suit and with his arm empty, she'd gravitated to him like she always did, her whole body orienting toward him as if he was her shining beacon in a dark, starless night. Follows episode 4x11, "Till Death Do Us Part." -COMPLETE-

Written for the 2013 Kink Meme, specifically for the prompt: "Castle catches Beckett masturbating. Author's choice is he joins, eats her out, and/or they have sex". The prompt asked for season one, but this...isn't. I hope you'll forgive me that little deviation.

What if he had never come back from the Hamptons? What if he hadn't seen her in years? AU. Oneshot.

A one shot post-episode piece for "Get A Clue." Beckett oversteps but someone has to say these things.

co-authored by beautyofsorrow and chezchuckles - a post episode for Need to Know (6x3). Warning: Some spoilers for the Frozen Heat and Deadly Heat books.

Based on a monologue from the play Crave by Sarah Kane. Set a couple of weeks after the season five Valentine's Day episode. The quiet ways they love each other. One shot.

He unpacks while he waits. Unwinds the bubble wrap from a few knickknacks he himself wrapped and boxed six weeks ago. The delicate little bird on rocker legs, a silver paperweight in the shape of an asterisk, the parade of elephants that sat on her desk at the precinct for five years. *6x01 post-ep/scene filler* Complete*

A direct continuation of the final scene of 6x01 Valkyrie, therefore containing spoilers. One shot.

He never thought it could hurt like this. AU for 5x05, "Probable Cause."

A series of unrelated one-shots.

An two-shot set in the More Than Together universe. How Kate handles the kids when Castle is away on a book tour.

Love, our light at night and shade at noon. Six scenes.

AU from season 4, in which Castle doesn't let Beckett run from him over the summer she recovers from the shooting. "She is sand slipping through your fingers. You need to hold on for one moment more." COMPLETE.

'He opened it immediately, a smirk playing on the corner of his lips, realizing that she had never moved away from the door, before he really looked at her, a wave of concern crashing over him.'

"This is not Manhattan. The thought runs through her head over and over again, drowning almost everything else out... She knows what she really means is This is not my home." Post Watershed. A story told in pieces.

"She doesn't try to hide it. She wants him to know, she wants him to see just how much this hurts." Spoilers for Watershed. A "What If?" scenario written for a lovely bunch of people who hinted not so subtly that they wanted it.

You Only Live Twice. The continuing adventures of Spy Castle and Beckett.

It's hours later, and she's on her back in his bed. Post-ep for 5x22, Still.

A post ep for Still. Tying up a couple of loose threads.

She lied. She did have regrets. **Post ep for Still**

She's shaking, her legs wobbly, fingers clamped around the doorknob as if it's the only thing keeping her upright. Her stomach tightens, with fear, with want, with everything she's so carefully held in check for months, years... What if for 3x22, 'To Love and Die in L.A.'. Happy Birthday, Joy! Winner of "The 12th" Fan Awards 2013 for best M-rated fanfic (under 10,000 words).

The ones that love us never truly leave us... For Alex.

Castle and Beckett are drifting apart, but will a sudden accident bring them back together? Told from both Castle and Beckett's perspectives. Picks up at 4x20. Lots of Caskett. M for future potential. *Now Complete*

They both show love in such different ways. oneshot.

Four years can make a world of difference. AU.

Holiday fic. A chapter a day. Spoilers for all US aired episodes.

Castle smiles, ruffling Ava's hair. She grunts softly but her little hands wrap around his back as if grounding herself to him, staying safe and warm. On the other end of the phone, Kate laughs, but there's something there; longing or regret and his eyes close. "You're not going to be home by midnight, are you?"

sometimes she just needs him to do this. fills for prompts from the 2012 kink meme on livejournal.

AU: Beckett is a uniform on the Vice squad at the 12th, five years before she and Castle actually meet in the show. Based on an idea of Cartographical - chezchuckles and I just liked it so much that we each wrote our own. Variations on the same theme, sort of.

So...it wasn't only his fault. - oneshot, set anytime during S5.

an AU from Cartographical's list: What if Richard Castle was a spy? with special thanks to mjsofter for the cover art

"You know, I don't typically hold hands on the first date." Because I couldn't stop myself from trying to tackle an old trope.

co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. inspired by the Richard Castle Bucket List on richardcastle dot net; set after 47 Seconds/The Limey. Chapter 9b is Bucket List in Paris, posted separately, and to be read before Chapter 10.

There are only these truths for him: Someone wants Kate dead. Kate wants him. He cannot let her walk out his door alone.

This is a monumental mistake. Earth shattering. Mind blowing. End of the world kind of mistake.

"I think the universe conspired for us to be together," he said softly after a minute of silence.

I hate to do it, but more angst after 47 Secs and The Limey. I can't help myself. It ends well.

Castle and Beckett get stuck inside of Castle's apartment during a snowstorm...

Castle and Beckett's entire life together in 27 frames, 100 words each.

Richard Castle writes Kate Beckett bestselling novels. He also writes her notes. This is their story.

And maybe that wall wasn't knocked down yet, but she knew eventually they'd get there. She had the best foreman for her emotional remodel, with a darn good aim... Valentine's Day chapter posted. Spoilers for Pandora and Linchpin

co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. Beckett and Castle are assigned to work a case undercover.

He really has to wonder how it is that they end up in these situations. It's like they're magnets for near-death. Complete. Sequel: More Than Them.

They have a deal.

Some games can make, break, or shake you. Kate's not sure what this game will do for them, but it's going to do something all right. She's just not sure Castle can handle it. Does he really want to know? Spoilers for 4x11.

Castle/Beckett. Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on... A night at The Old Haunt and a memory.

Beckett/Castle. I dare you to let me be your, your one and only.

When Kate Beckett went to get her book signed by Richard Castle, she never imagined that she'd end up meeting his daughter, much less offering to babysit for the afternoon. AU.

Castle/Beckett, "To Kate" universe. It's strange to hear her best friend talking this way, and Lanie realises it sounds strangely like she's talking about forever.

Alexis, after her rejection from Stanford, decides she needs to do more with her life than pad her transcript. Beckett and Castle help her organize a blood drive. ...kudos to Vandi for the twist in this story... COMPLETE at 2

Castle/Beckett, established relationship - "To Kate" universe. Detective Kate Beckett likes to be tied up. Romance, even though it might not sound it.

He sputters as she raises her eyebrow saucily, eyeing his desk. He's eyeing it too though, and she can almost see the fantasies flicking across his retinas.

He had flown too near the sun. His wax had melted, his wings had failed him, and he had fallen. But Icarus was not failing as he fell, just coming to the end of his triumph.

They thought this was his most remarkable dedication yet. But he didn't write it for them. He wrote it for her, and she would be the only one who'd never get to see it. One-shot, terribly sad, spoilers, major character death. But... give it a chance.

Part 10 - Despite the rocky beginning, it's always led to this. To them. Caskett smut.