One "missed moment" from each and every episode of Castle. Moments that I think could have taken a slightly more M-rated route.

Rick is beaten almost daily by the man supposed to be his father. Kate just wants the pain to stop. Who protects you when your own parents are the monsters? Very AU / OOC / adult themes / Caskett / very dark fic /

AU. 'Getting his new book signed had been on her to-do list for a long time now, but she never really got the chance. And since he was in New York again and the case she was working on didn't really have any progress, she couldn't help it but give into the opportunity.' - Castle and Beckett meet at one of his book signings. COMPLETED

"She's falling down the rabbit hole of her obsession, but completely unable to stop." Her mother's case haunts Beckett's sleep and the only thing stopping her nightmares is being with Castle. Season Two, post the almost kiss in Vampire Weekend. NOW COMPLETE.

When he walked into the 12th Precinct, he had expected dead bodies, trash cans, and paperwork. But what young Detective Richard Rodgers was not expecting, however, was his new partner, Detective Kate Beckett. Caskett/AU.

"They didn't notice the reporters, but the next morning they're on the front page of the paper."

*Finally Complete!* When she woke that morning, she'd been filled with joy and hope and the knowledge that they had their whole lives in front of them. She knows this for a naïve dream when she wakes up that night to blood on her hands and a gun to her head. S5 speculation.

A look at the lives of Richard Castle and Kate Beckett through the eyes of a relatively objective outside source. A complete experiment.

Beckett goes into witness protection without Castle, with disastrous results. NOW COMPLETE!

Maddox might be employed to kill, but he's not a monster, he only kills those whose death he can justify. Granted, he's yet to be hired to kill someone who he hasn't deemed worthy of death.