What would you do if you went to sleep knowing your family, your fiancée, your life and yourself, but woke to strangers? When you strip away everything that you know, what is left? A Season 7 A/U set several weeks after Driven. As always, Andrew Marlowe's characters are unforgettable. A 2016 Castle Summer Hiatus Ficathon story.

His heart is broken and he feels so rejected, but he couldn't have just imagined everything they had, the connection they have. "Talk to me. Kate, I was just, just trying to keep you safe." -She runs, it's what she does. What happens if she runs this time? What about everything they have been working towards? What about partners? What about being more?

Prompt: What if Castle had been sent into the future when he picked up Doyle's machine and jogged to give it back in 6x05 Time Will Tell. Requested by kweigl on twitter. Thanks Kim! Strong T-rating due to some choice of language.

Castle gets disturbing news while Kate is at her dads cabin recuperating. He decides a change is in order for his life. How will Kate cope with this news. Can Caskett even happen? We will have to wait and see, but I don't think Beckson or Davidett has a ring to it. Do you?

#CastleFicathon2018 "Kate's fingers were slipping, and her feet could find no purchase. The man who had put a bullet in her chest had thrown her over the edge of the roof like a rag doll, but right now her thoughts were far from him. They were only of the man who said he loved her; the man who'd tried to keep her from plunging into the abyss; the man she'd pushed away."

(S3 AU) "Brattleboro, Vermont?" Beckett asks. "Yes, ma'am. I'm calling because you're listed as the emergency contact for a Richard Castle. I'm afraid we have some bad news." *COMPLETE*

Post 8x07 'The Last Seduction.' The story will start in canon for that episode, but will move into AU territory after Kate receives the mysterious text from Vikram. Kate vanishes the morning after she and Castle celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Where has she gone and why? I want to thank Angie (at dtrekker) for the fantastic cover art. Contains spoilers for Season 8.

It took her a daunting thirty-storey drop to realize she needed him, a torrential downpour to realize she wanted him, and a relentless ache to realize she just couldn't take it anymore.

"I don't know. Somewhere along the line, Castle lost faith in me. He stopped trusting me. He's always been so accepting of me that I... I guess I never considered what would happen when I came back. And now that I am back, I don't know if there's a way I can convince him that what we had was worth fighting for." Post 8x02 (Complete w/ Epilogue)

Forgiveness isn't something you are only granted by others. Forgiveness is something that you also have to grant to yourself. An AU starting about six months earlier than canon did, and in part a Christmas story. Please see warning in Ch1. COMPLETE.

This is the sequel to the story "The Bear and I". It will continue the adventures and lives of the shape shifting Rodgers family. It would be best if you read that story first. Likely will be updated every other day till the end. - NOW COMPLETE

This story begins when Kate and Rick are lying bleeding on the floor and holding hands in Ep 8-22. It is meant to fill in the seven year gap left by the writers. Kate wants to do bigger things to clean up the kind of corruption that allowed LokSat to happen. Of course I own nothing Castle, but soldier on with it's passing. CastleFicathon2016

"The call comes at nine in the evening. They've had nothing, literally nothing, not a single, solitary lead, and then suddenly, everything moves so fast, it makes her head spin." Spoilers for the - gasp - 6x23 finale. Enjoy. Chapter 35.

An elderly Richard Castle travels to the past to give himself and Beckett a brighter future. Does he manage?

'It's been over a year since he last saw her and after all this time, of all places, he's literally bumped into her in the middle of Paris.' A post 3x24, Knockout, AU.

The last person Kate Beckett expects to bump into in an airport is Richard Castle and of course he's on her flight, too. AU After Season 1.

Segunda parte de 1más1son5...La vida sigue para Tommy y Sophia una vez graduados cada uno por su propio camino, dejando a su hermana en casa. Para Castle y Beckett las cosas no estan tampoco faciles, después de todo, estan demasiado ocupados para darse cuenta y necesitaran ayuda de sus hijos y tal vez de alguien más... 'Ese 1 más'...

'Kate Beckett may have slid beneath his skin, threaded herself through his veins and leaked into his bloodstream, but maybe it was a good thing, for now, for the sake of the mission. He'd have her out of his system by the time it was all over with.' A roughly season 8 inspired AU.

By walking out on her marriage with no notice, by excluding her husband from all parts of her life with no explanation, Kate Beckett has broken something precious and fragile – Rick Castle's belief in their always and forever. Can she find him to fix it? Written for the Castle 2015 Winter Hiatus Ficathon. Gorgeous cover art by the wonderful Angie @dtrekker COMPLETE

That's what the great love stories are about, beating the odds. Set immediately before the time jump. 8x22

They'd been stranded on an island for almost 5 months, and now it's time to go home... where everything has changed. Sequel to SOLID GROUND. Rated M. NOW COMPLETE.

Beckett's homecoming one cold Thanksgiving night in the future. Some Spoilers for 6 x 10. This story has expanded to include several Thanksgiving as we follow the lives of the Caskett family into the future

Short fic-lett. "You don't smile anymore..."

Kate wakes up in the hospital after terrible accident only to learn her whole world has been turned upside down. But is this truly her new reality or are there greater forces at play? Assume Cannon up to 6x22. My take on 6x23. Another explanation for Castle's disappearance.

Post 6x23 Caskett AU. "Sterile white and cream walls assault her vision when she walks in the building. The world so much like one she remembers from her own history blurs in its motion around her. Nurses, patients, beeps, cries of pain and anguish all blend around her to distract her from what she is here for. She is on a mission."

After a case goes wrong, Kate Beckett experiences an attempted rape. With the help of her friends and Castle, she works to overcome the after effects. Can Castle help her to overcome this? What does this mean for their future?

2014 Ficathon Entry. AU from 4x01. Three months after her shooting, Beckett is back - but Castle isn't. He's had enough and isn't following her anymore - and if she wants the happy ending then she's going to need to do the chasing, even if Castle is adamant he doesn't want her to. Now complete.

Kate has just made detective when she finds out her mother's murderer was caught. Distraught, she runs into Richard Castle and brings him home.

She woke early to the sun kissing her eyelids at an unfamiliar angle, and her body still humming with restless energy, alive and vibrant with need. Episode insert for 5x01, 'After the Storm.'

Set late season three. Castle is off on a book tour. Kate is left behind. They connect with a series of phone calls.

A sequel to 'Coming Home'. "She thinks she understands – the life she led here for three solitary months is still a mystery to him. So she gives him latitude to catch-up, to ease into the small space she made for herself: the sharply delineated edges that her DC life was defined and constrained by. She resolves to show him that he missed nothing, while all she missed was him."

It was all about looking forward to the next day. Rising from the ashes, fighting against the odds... And Kate won't be struggling alone.

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

"Kate," he calls softly, his voice so gentle. "Look at me."