Years pass and memories fade with time but his words never will because he wrote them down, every chapter of their story inked across the page for eternity. Sequel to Spiral Bound.

A chance meeting leads to a grand scheme. Set during S3.

Kate and Rick opened a door. Shared secrets. But the next step in coming together may prove more difficult than that first leap of faith. As the nor'easter 'Harbinger' races destructively towards NYC, they'll have a narrow window available to hunt down what may be the most prolific killer in the city's long, bloody history. Case and character story. T for language and violence.

"Are you in love with Detective Beckett?" He wasn't. He couldn't be. Could he? A fix-it fic for the summer after S2.

Begins six days after Castle and Beckett are shot. How do they move on with their lives?

A first-meeting AU story: Attorneys, Katherine Beckett and Richard Castle, who seemingly have little in common, find themselves on opposite sides of a divorce case and, to their surprise, with a very similar interest-namely each other. (Rating is precautionary, but likely applicable)

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.

A/U For years, he thought she was dead. Murdered - he had been a suspect. He loved her. He mourned her, but the problem was that that person didn't even exist. The Castle characters aren't mine, but I raise my glass in Auld Lang Syne to Marlowe and company.

Her mother's murder- the case had torn them apart and brought them together before, but never quite like this. That was before love had entered the game. That was before she had to decide which was worth fighting for. AU

A wee follow-up to a previous story, "Behind the Scenes," that finds Rick and Kate finally reuniting after a lengthy period apart. Fluff ensues.

She needed a break after what was just dropped on her. He was out saving the world from an invisible foe. What will happen when their worlds collide? Rated T, for now, ratings will change when needed.

It's National Donut Day. Castle knows how much Beckett loves donuts.

One shot, based on season 3 finale.

(4x01 AU) "You don't remember... the gunshot?" Rick says, letting cowardice guide him as it always does with her. "No, I remember I was giving the speech and everything just went black." What if she was being honest and really didn't remember her shooting? [COMPLETE W/ EPILOGUE]

20 prompts. 20 moments in time. All can be read as separate pieces of work. Drabble-fic.

She should be dead. Again. And so should he. She had not been able to save him. He saved her. Again. She had thought him dead and she had given up. He never gave up. Takes place after Pandora/Linchpin.

These are all one-shots that I've written but never uploaded over the past few years. They're all family fics and quite fluffy, so if that isn't your thing you're not going to be happy reading these :) There will be a new one-shot each Sunday!

Post Season 2. Beckett goes on vacation while Castle is writing in the Hamptons. Circumstances cross their paths and they end up spending some of that time together.

"Suddenly it occurred to her that Castle was a wordsmith. A man who used language... And, therefore, she should be looking at the meaning of the plants he'd picked." Castle tries to win Beckett's heart in the oldest way possible. S1 AU, with flowers.

One-shot based on the end scene in 3x21: Dead Pool when Beckett tells Castle that from now on she's a one-writer girl. COMPLETE

"She'd begrudgingly promised Castle she'd accompany him to some fancy gala event if work permitted. And it appears murder isn't on her side tonight." One shot inspired by Bruno Mars' Versace on the Floor. Rated M.

Rick has been on a 2 month book tour and their 8 month anniversary is approaching. Everything is fine until his calls and texts suddenly stops coming. Where is he and what is he up to?

(Fr) - Someone who starts building something with no clear plan, adding bits here and there, cobbling together a whole while flying by the seat of their pants. Post Series Finale - A series of connected one-shots, of life in progress, the way we see it.

Furious at Castle for showing evidence to an outsider–a flight attendant–and hurt by his dismissal of her, Beckett decides to take action. But so does he. AU set immediately after 4x20, "The Limey." Complete.

Season 8 AU without the whole Locksat storyline. Castle and Beckett face the unexpected and are forced to mould their lives around it.

A what-if from "47 Seconds." What if Kate had sent Ryan away when he interrupted Castle's speech about the victims and missed opportunities. One-shot. COMPLETE.

(Post 47 Seconds) She knows she made a mistake, one that she was hoping would fix itself over time. But her first case comes back to haunt her and she's up against too much to go it alone. She needs him back. {COMPLETE W/ EPILOGUE}

Still trying to fix that heartrending Season 2 finale all these years later. Two-shot.

Revamping this romp through the lighter and darker sides of the Kate Beckett and Richard Castle relationship with this exercise in converting selected screen play canon into a novel. Find out about Castle's summer in the Hamptons, more of Kate's inner feelings, how she met DMB, and those Kate and Lanie conversations we never got to hear. Can this relationship last?

Chapter 21. Alternate title: Why oh why did I eat that pie? Conclusion to the story. Lanie and Kate meet at the Old Haunt a couple of years after the series finale.

Kate said she feels magic when she hears Coltrane. Here are some more vignettes based on songs from albums from the John Coltrane discography such as "The Gentle Side of John Coltrane." Some spoilers for various episodes noted at the beginning of each vignette.

Kate Beckett had almost given up hope on seeing her fiance again-almost. But now he was back, and that was wonderful, but things were also complicated for them and for their family. Caskett S7 AU

Nothing else exists in this world after Kate Beckett utters the words, "Castle, if we were getting married " with that open, adult look in her eye. AU set during 4x11: "Til Death Do Us Part"

My collection of Non-Canon Caskett stories. Each story features a what-if scenario about this pairing and different times their relationship could have taken a turn toward the romantic. 2 Complete Stories: "Flowers for your Confusion" &"The Conspiracy." Began posting new seasons as separate stories marked as part of the series.

Kate remembers all of their coffee firsts. Caskett.

When Richard Castle attempts to save a damsel in distress, he winds up in the middle of a murder investigation, but that won't stop him from what he's set his mind to do. He has a particular set of skills, more than enough to pay the bills, and he wants to put them to good use - as long as he's home in time to watch Vampire Diaries with Alexis. Pre-season 1 AU.

This is wrong, this is all wrong...she wants her husband.

What happens when Gates finds out about Beckett and Castle's relationship? How does Castle prove his worth to the Captain? Will he be able to stay at the 12th Precinct or will the partnership be broken? Starting sometime in mid Season 5 - pretty much fully AU from then on.

The murder of a student rocks a small art college in New York, so Beckett, Castle, and the team must figure out who the culprit is, which is easier said than done. Will the 12th be able to figure out who did this heinous act in time, or will there be more tragedy in its wake?

Set mid-season 3 shortly after Poof! You're Dead. Castle is shot while chasing down a suspect, causing Beckett to reveal her feelings for him as he bleeds out in front of her. What happens when Castle remembers her confession?

'"You're a really good father," she mumbles, words he already knows, has heard countless times from her before. But after watching him work so persistently with their son, whispering endless encouragements into his ear, and picking him up each time he falls, she can't help speaking the truth again. "Just in case I hadn't said that today."'

"Kate, I've spent five years following you around. I know you, and I don't think you could ever be anything less than extraordinary." Post-ep for Watershed, which will explore season 6 territory. Rating may change. Entry for the 2013 Hiatus Ficathon Challenge. Updated January 2019!

Castle didn't think 'laughingstock' was what Beckett would be. More...um...pin-up. And he'd have a set of the pictures for his very own. If he couldn't have the real thing – and she was as unobtainable as ever, which was just not fair – then at least he'd have some really good pictures. Three shot.

An entry for the Castle Ficathon Winter 2018: Kate accepted the task force job in D.C. and she and Rick haven't spoken since, but when he becomes the victim of a violent attack and she rushes to the city in its aftermath, will it pave the road back to one another? (Hint: Yes)

Set weeks after Lily was born. Castle's losing battle with his overprotectiveness and paranoia has Beckett wanting to get out. Unfortunately, she runs into trouble. Originally published as a part of Castle Season 9 MOA project. A great bunch of stories written by an awesome bunch of writers. Check them out! Marlowe owns the characters, but the characters own my heart.

A creepy case in the autumn following Beckett's return to the precinct exposes secrets within the Homicide team. An AU story for a Castle Halloween Bash 2018 Entry.

Kate and Rick had been through the worst investigating this case. Frostbitten and barely alive, Kate had made a choice in that freezer. If she made it out alive, she'd work on them. She would drop her walls. But by the time the case was solved she had something else to worry about and it looked like they were never going to get their happy ending.

A/U just before "After the Storm." Complete.

"It's time to make the most of their lives. Starting with embracing the season, embracing the fun they can have with one another and their friends and family." A collection of holiday moments. Caskett. For the 2018 Castle Winter Ficathon. Complete.

Christmas morning in the Castle household. Pure fluff!

"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.

Cooking was not Beckett's favourite pastime. Unfortunately, it was a bullpen tradition that each year everyone had to bring in home-made treats. She had subverted it every year. But this year, there was Castle, who could, famously, cook...

Sequel to Fallen Angel, Please read that before reading this. Pre series Castle, Rick has graduated and served time in the USMC, fulfilling his ROTC commitment, Beckett has gone on to become a lawyer, Johanna is alive I'm sure many military protocols will be broken again IT'S FICTION. NOTE: AU not canon

This story begins right after Kate and Rachel recover the antidote in Dreamworld. It will fill in some gaps in the Castle saga and become more AU as it goes along. The cover is a picture I took of an original that Artifex Prime sent me for Christmas a couple of years ago.

Could a tragic event nudge Det. Kate Beckett and her partner, Richard Castle, PI, into being more than just coworkers? Caskett AU.

Because I read a prompt about Kate Beckett being an actress, cast in a new role as a detective, who, for character research, is paired up w/ NYPD partners Rick Castle & Jordan Shaw to observe and learn the ropes. And, of course, there's a spark between Kate & Rick, but he's currently seeing his on-again, off-again Kyra Blaine, which makes things a bit more complicated.

This is my AU version of events as the show picks up with Episode 4-01. Dr. MB has already been sent packing just days before, Rick picks up on Kate's lie, he knows she remembers, and calls her on it. Some Angst, some canon but mostly AU. Dedicated to one of my followers Cece AKA Dreamwriter08 with gratitude for all her support.

Castle gets more than he bargained for when fate throws an old friend back into his life.

A collection of stand alone Halloween themed stories written as a Castle Halloween Bash 2018 entry. Ratings and Genre may change with each chapter.

The family saga continues, narrated by Eliot Beckett-Castle, who previously appeared in "Womb with a View," "Hi. I'm Eliot," and "Hi. I'm Your Brother," or as reviewer sillylissy calls it, "The Hi Series."

This is a one shot, strictly for fun, entry into the Castle Halloween Bash 2018. It can take place any time while Rick and Kate are living together at the loft. A dimensional warp?

Rick and Kate prepare to take the twins and Lily trick or treating. One Shot Caskett fluff Castle Halloween Bash 2018 Entry

"Getting dressed. Now there was her current problem." Beckett has an unexpected issue when getting ready for a definitely-not-a-date. Definitely. Three shot fluff, set some time after Vampire Weekend, 2.06.

"How the hell can you ask me something like that? Think about how much you love Alexis, and that is how much I love you, and don't you dare ask me where this is coming from!" A study of Martha and how she raises Rick and how their experiences shape him into the man we know today. Bless the characters created by Andrew Marlowe. His creation inspires and I am indebted to his genius.

A follow-up to "Falling Down," which picks up the morning after that story ended and will finish seven and a half months later. Complete.

"You're still here. I thought… I said I'd call you." Her words hurt him; pierced his carapace of calm. "Yeah. But it sounded like you wouldn't," he said bluntly. "So before I go, answer me just one thing. How much do you really remember?" AU, after Beckett was shot in s3. #Castleficathon2018

This is an AU story that begins right after "the scene" in Always. The story is told through Castle's eyes. There will be unintended consequences of their passion. The cover image is by Artifex Prime. I call it "Rode Hard and Put Away Wet."

Post 8x22. When Kate and Rick are shot in their own home, it's only the beginning of a journey that changes everything, not just for them, but for their friends and loved ones. New paths open up, while the bonds of love and friendship only grow stronger. The future is everyone's to decide.

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.

AU set in the summer after S4. Castle and Beckett have left the precinct, but not together. Complete.

This story is told from the viewpoint of Jim Beckett. He is writing it in his journal to Johanna. It begins right after Kate and Rick have been shot in Crossfire. This is a future history, but not the same universe as in Life Goes On. Jim will tell us about the fallout from the shooting and where things go from there.

Castle's losing battle with his overprotectiveness and paranoia has Beckett wanting to get out. Unfortunately, she runs into trouble. Written by GeekMom for the Castle Season 9 "Moments of Always" project.

I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. Semi-AU, maybe.

I don't know what happened. I don't even know how. One minute, I'm in the best relationship of my life and the next... I feel as if I'm on the verge of losing him altogether. All over this Erica Vaughn. (Role reversal of 5x22 and AU)

Kate Beckett seeks advice from some luminaries. Caskett, oneshot.

(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*

He only needs to keep seeing her. To listen to her stories. He doesn't need to tell her about his missing book, because if he can only hear her brisk, uptown tones then the story is going to be there. He only needs to keep her near. AU, shortly before 1.1

Castle and Beckett find themselves stuck in the precinct elevator. As they wait together up close and personal they soon discover there's more to it than just a broken elevator & could be in the middle of something a lot more sinister. Waiting is set right after episode 3x11 Nikki heat & before 3x12 Poof you're dead & stays true to the original plot of the show.

A/U Meeting. Richard Castle is talented handing figures, but he didn't know he was missing a past part of his life until he met Detective Kate Beckett. I give all the credit to the original owners of Castle, but claim interest in their characters' unrealized appreciation. *No Accountants were harmed in the writing of this fic. #TaxFic

Lanie does Christmas like it's going out of fashion (oh, if only!) and invariably, and as inevitably as death and taxes, hauls Beckett along behind her, kicking, screaming and threatening. Beckett does not do Christmas. Ever. She does not do festivity. Castle, on the other hand, does. But not quite like Lanie. Not at all like Lanie, in fact.

He hadn't seen her in weeks but he suddenly wondered, no matter what happened with Bond, if he was really ready to walk away from Nikki Heat, walk away from her. AU for 2x5 "When the Bough Breaks."

On an ordinary day in a mundane week in a forgetful month, she was somebody's mom.

A series of firsts, written as a through story, from 1x01 to 4x23.

The days bleed one into the next for ME's at the OCME's office. The heat is unbearable which raises tempers in the city. People are being murdered at an alarming rate. That is until many people are murdered in a similar way from a case long ago. Is there a connection or is something more happening that they don't know about? Something they can't stop?

Castle's adventurous and creative courtship of Katherine Beckett. Just like Castle, Andrew Marlowe and his band of cronies have wooed us into playing in his adventure park. Thanks for your inspirational characters and for letting me hang around the sand box. Set during season five.

Entry Castle 2015 Summer Hiatus Ficathon. Kate has been recuperating from her shooting at Jim's cabin. Kate is having nightmares about her shooting and misses Castle. What if Jim confronts her about her feelings for him? Will she be able to deny them? This story will end after chapter 12, but there is a sequel in Return To Maine

What happens after Castle and Beckett are shot? This is those seven years we don't get to see.

A s7 one-shot for the following prompt: "Castle finds the letter that Royce sent now that they're married. They talk about their feelings etc and adorableness happens."

Number 9 Kate is invited to her High School Class Reunion. Do these two EVER get a break? NO! What could go wrong here? A Lot if Rick gets to peel more of the Beckett onion

The disappearance of a tennis superstar is finally found to be murder. Can Rick and Kate solve a murder nearly forty years old?

In 4x21, "Headhunters," Castle and Beckett are compelled to do something they're loath to. Complete.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

In a memory box, on a shelf in their closet, Kate keeps a stack of sealed letters. What Castle doesn't know, is that they were all written for him.

What happens in the ambulance, and the first few days in the hospital, after Beckett is shot at Montgomery's funeral. AU end of S3, beginning of S4. Complete.

Tonight is special. She wants it to be special. Between work at the precinct, him trying to find time to write for his upcoming deadline and Lily at home, they've seldom found much time to themselves. And tonight she wants him, has been thinking of this all day really, his hands and his mouth. Late Valentine's Day Fic!

Kate overhears something that changes everything. Post The Limey. Written for Castle Fanfic Monday. Cover art by the delightful Angie @dtrekker. COMPLETE

'She's still dressed in her precinct clothes. The ones she took from her locker when she disappeared into the rest rooms with dried blood on her hands and the look of loss in her eyes.' Post 2x13 'Sucker Punch' one shot.

A look at the "off-screen" action from the 100th episode, "The Lives of Others".

AU episode insert for 4x9 "Kill Shot." Castle finds Beckett having a panic attack.

Trouble on the home front, set early in Season 5. Complete.

An entry for the #Castle28 writing event (please note that some circumstances and characters have been altered or eliminated): A variation on a moment after Kate's shooting and its resulting effect on Rick and Kate's relationship.

There are many kinds of morning, but this may just be one of the best. Post 7x06 'The Time of Our Lives'. Canon-compliant. One-shot.

Set in season Seven, Castle and Beckett have to investigate the long ago shooting of three police officers. The dead officers, like many others in this story, may not be what they seem to be. COMPLETE!

Set in the summer between S2 and S3. Castle has broken up with Gina. Suffering from a terrible case of writer's block, he comes back to Manhattan to try to shake himself out of it. Complete.

Kate and Rick watch Lily sleep. Inspired by the many wonderful pictures of sleeping babies that come across my Tumblr. And I think we could all use a sappy story. I don't own Castle, I just wish I did.

Castle has an unusual midnight visitor. One-shot. Complete.

"It doesn't matter, though, does it? The fact is I'm no closer to figuring out who's hurting Castle or why he's allowing it." Beckett notices some disturbing changes in her partner after her return to the 12th. An AU set early in Season 4 after Rise.

Number 8. I can't believe it is here Castle and Beckett have been married for almost 8 years and try to vacation as a family. But as if a magnet is around them, murders seem to show up everywhere. Except I think I will make this one a little silly

One-shot. Post-1x05: "A Chill Goes Through Her Veins". Kate tells Castle all about the night her mother died and how her life changed in the aftermath. COMPLETE

Set during 4x19: "47 Seconds." Goes AU after Castle overhears Beckett tell Bobby Lopez, "I was shot in the chest and I remember every second of it."

Castle has to cancel his annual Halloween party at the last minute. A late Castle Halloween Bash 2016 Entry. Oh, what a horror it would have been had we never had Castle. Thanks to Mr. Marlowe and all his ghouls for their inspiring creations.

With a serial killer on the loose, the investigation uncovers a lead that will put some of the team in grave danger, and forces Castle to confront his deepest fears. Season 9, episode 4.

Beckett is suddenly writing letters, and so is Castle. Complete.

A sequel to Living is Easy and Living Out in the Snow. Castle, Beckett, and the kids at the cabin. My Castle Summer Hiatus 2016 Ficathon entry. As always, this is intended to fit with canon.

"Oh my god, do those pants unzip into shorts?" Kate and Castle go camping. A prompt fill for the #GoodLuckStana fundraiser.

After being held hostage by a fan and getting fired from the AG's office, Castle and Beckett finally make it to Bora Bora for some sun and relaxation. But it's never that simple... A prompt fill for GoodLuckStana.

AU post-3x15 "The Final Nail." Takes place after Kate goes for a drink with Castle before her dinner with Josh on Valentine's Day.

Number 6 in the series... Read them first. This keeps you up on how we arrived here. Richard Castle is asked to teach at a prestigious university. There is, of course, a murder. Kate and Rick have been now married for several years.

"A huge sheet of paper rolled out across the floor, smudges of various colors of paint on the hardwood and their messy little girl, betray exactly what they were up to." A post-finale fic.

Set during 4x11: "Till Death Do Us Part" Jenny is in need of an extra bridesmaid. Three-shot.

A heavily medicated Beckett, recovering from her shooting at her father's cabin, starts texting. Set in the summer after 3x24 "Knockout." Complete.

Being a cop in NYC is dangerous, and no one knows this better than Kevin Ryan. Whump! (A to Z) – starts when he is an officer and continues on, as he becomes a detective in narcotics, undercover in the mob, and a detective in homicide.

A new story in the "Seven Pointed Star" universe. A number of murders in Atlantic City and New York challenges Auxiliary Detective Castle, Captain Beckett-Castle and the Special Investigations Taskforce while at the same time some of our characters face other challenges in their lives.

Set around "Headhunters". -The hammer blow comes when she least expects it, and it's devastating. He wants to follow another cop, and not just any other cop. He wants to follow Ethan Slaughter, this uncouth meathead from Gangs whose last three partners all died on the job under questionable circumstances, earning Slaughter the unfortunate nickname: "The Widowmaker."

Castle Halloween Bash 2015 Entry. Richard Castle has certain abilities. If only one of them was making a particular NYPD Detective fall in love with him. Season 3. A/U. Supernatural. Grateful acknowledgement to the great and mighty wizard, Marlowe and his familiars for creating this wonderful magic. I am under their spell.

Rick Castle has a fan - a mother whose daughter is embarrassed by and impatient with her mom's fan-girling until she's not. Thanks and credit to Andrew Marlowe for creating the characters, backstories and mythologies for which I fan-girl.

Castle's had a few watches, down the last few years. Beckett has one watch. It has, according to her, been hers for the last five years. He's never seen her wear another. And now it's in pieces in her wrecked apartment.

This is the Caskett love story told through song lyrics. Not a series, but each new chapter is a different song. Rated T just to be on the safe side.

Castle is recounting his losses. I am grateful to Andrew Marlowe for bringing Castle to life, sadly I never got the call to help, so I don't own Castle. Just having some fun.

Castle Summer Hiatus 2015 Ficathon Entry. Castle's first time at the Becketts' cabin, summer after season four.

Written for NonnaSo, a 5x19 "The Lives of Others" insert because there are plans that sometimes go awry and then there are perfect ones.