A four-year-old, a mall, and finding something you didn't even know you'd lost. Sometimes all it takes is a chance encounter for everything to fall into place. AU with echoes of canon.

For five months he's been missing, but she refuses to believe it's hopeless . . . Consider this canon until 'Always', and AU from there. Complete.

A young Kate Beckett spends her summer waitressing at a local shack on a Jersey beach, tending to her alcoholic father and paying her way through the academy. One night, her world turns on its feet when Rick Castle enters the door...and her heart. AU. COMPLETE.

"Apparently there was really only so much of the Castle-Rogers family Kate could take on any given holiday." A Thanksgiving chapter of my sequel to "Enlightenment."

Dash Series Epic #3 - read Dash Away and Dash It All first. COMPLETE at 100.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens —Charlie Brown

Castle thinks he and Kate are done. A thing of the past. At least that's what he thinks until the writer receives a news that changes everything, forcing him to confront his greatest fear once again. SPOILERS up to Headhunters.

When the Dragon is slain, there's just a life to be lived. And sometimes there's more to learn in peace than in war. Complete. Separate epilogue pending.

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.

For months she's been gone. Months in which Castle's been forced to believe that Kate Beckett was dead. Eight full months in which he's missed her, craved her, mourned her. Now she's standing on his doorstep, two coffees in slightly shaking hands and Castle's world collapses. Direct spoilers for 4x23 Always, but most probably AU from there.

What if Castle didn't open the door in Always? Time jump after Chapter 1.

Chapter 28. Life goes on and Kate discovers magic is real.

*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.

Set after Always. Following the morning after and how Kate and Rick deal with it. Will Kate go back to the precinct? How does Alexis handle her dad and Kate in a relationship?

A week after the end of Season 4, Kate and Rick talk about what happens next, and Martha becomes embroiled in a mystery of her own, finding she needs help from a certain ex-cop and her writer son. My usual hiatus-infill story! Read, enjoy, review! Now complete, just in time for Season 5!

The everyday journey from friendship to a relationship. Post Always.

A series of stand alone stories meant to be snapshots into Brennan and Christine's summer on the run from the FBI.

A post-S7 finale fic. Brennan is on the run. Booth is left behind. What happened during those eighteen long weeks spent apart? How did they find their way back to each other?

Sequel to 247 Days. Kate and Rick headed to the alter. There will be flashbacks to fill in some of the blanks from the ending of 247 Days to getting to the alter. Chapter 1 is a tiny teaser to get you in the mood. Enjoy.

"She gave him her body. She gave him her body and her words and her heart. She gave him all her rain-soaked skin could allow." How they spend their summer. 'Always' spoilers. COMPLETE

When, after another brush with death, Kate still refuses to stop investigating her mother's murder, Castle leaves - for three years. This is the story of Kate Beckett's quest to earn his forgiveness and recapture his heart. Romance/Angst/Crime.

Always SPOILERS. Co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. How Kate Beckett and Rick Castle spend their summer.

Castle picks up his phone, expecting to hear Beckett's voice. Instead, it's Ryan, reporting something that shakes the foundations of Castle's world - Beckett's missing.

"I haven't been able to resist you since the day we first met. Even if you were hostile and rude." - The only post-"Always" fic you're likely to see where they don't immediately sleep together. Light on angst. Spoilers for anything through 4x20. - NOW COMPLETE.

The story of how Castle and Beckett get totally busted by literally every person they know.

With no quest and no job there is still a summer to fill, for Kate Beckett that means everything right now is just . . . Castle. Expect snippets of a summer, of a relationship evolving and a love growing confident.

Set in a post Always world in which Rick and Kate are back on the beat and hiding their relationship. Investigating a murder of two reality stars from The One, a dating show, they soon realise secret relationships can be both fun and dangerous. Reviews/Feedback are the second best thing to Nathan Fillion's smile, I'll accept both.

When it's broken, but you don't know why, is it possible to find the fix? Chapter 6 up now.

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

In retrospect, maybe keeping their relationship a secret wasn't such a great idea. A sort-of sequel to Waiting Game.

Just because the walls are down doesn't mean there's not rubble to clear away. Beckett works through the decisions made in 'Always' and their repercussions - both good and bad - Castle at her side. Inspired by The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition'. A hopefully balanced mix of seriousness and fluff. Chapter 6 now up: Kate and Castle let loose in a battle of emotions and firearms...

She knocks on the door until she can feel her knuckles start to bruise, but he isn't there. Apparently their timing could use some work. Season finale AU.

Early season five. Only one thing could get Kate to return to the 12th. Someone's after Castle.

What sort of mischief will one writer and his muse encounter and create in Twenty-four little hours? Co-authored with AlwaysCastle.

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

Sometimes creating a mystery is more fun than solving one. The plot thickens as the Dynamic Duo piece together what happened in her apartment and form a plan of action. Sequel to Dotting the I's, and considers Intervention and Sugarcoated Risks as cannon. Chapter 3 now up!

Saying she was sorry was necessary, but it's not enough. She still needs to say she loves him. There are so many ways it could happen. A series of unconnected one-shots with ways she can say the words. MULTI-AUTHOR

Kate was only looking to spend time with her son at the park, but what found her there was a chance to meet the man that saved her years ago. AU. Complete.

Alexis is out of patience. She and Detective Beckett have a conversation. Takes place near the end of S4. Now a sort of ersatz series about conversations Alexis and Kate have in the future...

Kate knew that Castle would never get over it, would never forgive her for letting this happen. She had to get Alexis back safely. Nothing else mattered.

All he knows is that he has to talk to her. He has to talk to her before they find him. For ER, who begged me. A companion to Sweetheart. Complete.

"Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege." -J.M. Barrie. One shot. Complete.

"We've got to find her." "You won't have to look far." Post-Always. Chapter 4 up now. Now M-Rated.

47 Seconds is less than a minute, but can it set the ground work for a life time? Rated T/M for later chapters. This story may contain spoilers from promos but I don't watch sneak peaks.

Very late Post Always-fic, and yes, darling, there are spoilers. Fairly high T-rating, but I'm not going to call it M-cursing and some sexuality. What happens after...

Because maybe it should be a scary thing to judge your sanity against Richard Castle's. COMPLETE.

Set 18 months after 'Always' and things have changed. Meredith attempts to sweep back into Castle's life but she is in for a big surprise!

He stands in stunned disbelief, his hand over his mouth as he stares at her shocked face. She sort of looks as stunned as he does as he watches her within the elevator, waiting for it to move. Because this gorgeous, frustrating, love of his life woman, she just...grinned and blurted it out.

She looks nervous when he glances at her, lip between her teeth and worry in her eyes. And he shakes his head because – no. No, this is good. This is a good thing. Fluffy Fluff. No Spoilers. For liviafan1.

The title says it all. Co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. Spoilers for season four, but as you will see, quite a lot of it is. . .missing.

If this was what really being in love felt like Kate wasn't sure she was going to survive it. Not like this was news, but obviously something was seriously wrong with her. Winner of FanFic: Best Humor in the 2012 Castle Fan Awards

How could anyone be better than the image in his head? Meeting anyone but the head of the CIA would be a let down. A co-authored story from Chezchuckles and FanficwriterGHC.

Castle/Beckett. The first time Alexis finds them, she knows she wasn't supposed to find them at all.

Rick and Kate find themselves quarantined and alone. With no contact allowed with their families or friends, how will they handle it. FINAL CHAPTER IS NOW UP!

One year has passed. B&B are meeting at the Reflecting Pool in DC, but one of them will not arrive alone. Who is this Australian? Pure fluff on what we wish had happened during their time apart. NOW COMPLETE. Reviews still welcomed!

Conundrums, among other things - irony, hyperbole, conceit – and unrelated to literature: Rubik's cubes - are inherently intriguing to Richard Castle. Beckett/Castle, and how he's learned to read between her lines.