AU set post 3x22: Unbeknownst to Kate, Castle already made a deal with her captain to shadow her. Unbeknownst to Castle, Kate has a huge secret. For Summer 2015/2016 Castle Ficathon.

Post-ep for 3x13 "Knockdown."

When Special Agent Kate Beckett is offered an interview for a Secret Service position at the White House she didn't know what to expect, but even less than the position as personal protection for the first daughter, she never expected him. President/SSA AU. COMPLETE.

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 time spent as a hostage changed him. He's been back for only three months, but already he's wanting to make a big change in his life. **Now COMPLETE!**

"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.

Castle has just got Beckett back from Tyson and Nieman and is finally allowed back as a consultant at the 12th but is that enough? What scheme will Castle come up with to try and ensure he is never from Kate's side again. Then with Kate's promotion and a new opportunity for them both what new people and cases will they encounter? An AU story set after the events of 7x15 Reckoning.

A collection of one-shot fics, mainly Tumblr prompts that I filled. Heavy on the Caskett, and occasionally heavy on the angst.

In order to pay off her family debts, Katherine Beckett volunteers to work at the royal castle. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she meets the prince. AU Thanks to Emma for the awesome cover art.

After encountering a suspect with a stun grenade, Castle is left temporarily blind. Beckett, feeling guilty about the accident, offers to take care of him. A Season 3 story.

"What is she thinking? Uprooting her life, leaving the only town she's ever called home, and, even worse, dragging her father along because she's too selfish to leave him behind. But the new job should excite her. And it does. Secret Service Agent? It's a leap she never thought she'd take." Based on a prompt from the castlefanficprompts tumblr.

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.

Just as Katherine Beckett was finally ready to make a move on Richard Castle, he pulled away. What the hell happened? Why is he with that flight attendant? Not for nothing was Beckett the youngest woman in the history of the NYPD to make detective. She's going to figure this out if it kills her. Unless she kills him first. Set during 4x20, "The Limey." Complete.

An AU post-ep to 2x18 "Boom." "He cares about you, Kate. You may not see it; you may not be ready to. But he does." She saw it. She just didn't know what to do about it.

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

Castle realizes that he needs to come clean about prying into Beckett's life again after he discovers something he can't justify keeping from her. Set during Season 4.

"But this is going on for weeks now and she starts to worry. It's taking a toll on her. She can't concentrate, pretty much feels like death on legs most of the time. She's so tired, but sleep won't come. Not a lot, not for many hours at a time." Set a few weeks after 'Sucker Punch' 2x13.

"I actually bet you," Castle says. "As in a wager. I'll get you to accept a pony AND Christmas magic." Season 2 Au. Castle buys Beckett a pony. A very, very, very late prompt fill for ThankYouTerri. Happy Christmas all year!

"Castle. Man-child, annoying, frustrating, never listens to her – but also loyal, smart, funny, generous, kind-hearted, an amazing kisser." A post 3x14 AU, a three-shot of a fundraiser, guitars and Caskett fluff.

This is not a place where St Nicholas would distribute presents, though it might be where his demons let off steam. Danger abounds here: hot, heavy and welcome. This is a club where dreams can come true. Of course, dreams should only be a one-time experience... See CH1&3 A/N for Warnings Before Reading and note M-rating. Castle belongs to ABC/Marlowe.

Remember all of those times Caskett came so close to being together, but something got in the way? Well in these one-shots, things end a little differently. Oh, sad day for me, but I don't own Castle, all of that belongs to Mr. Andrew Marlowe and company at ABC.

'Castle plops down to the sand once she's gone, opens his notebook on his bent knees and uncaps his pen. He came here for inspiration, and he may have just found it.' Based on a gif set by katigron on tumblr.

"Do we have time for me to help you get dressed?" he murmurs, lips glancing the curve of her bare shoulder. Kate shifts in the circle of his arms, rotating to face him, to cup his cheeks in her hands like she had only moments before in his office. "We have time." Insert for 7x23, Hollander's Woods.

"She can't stop looking at his hands, and remembering how he'd grasped her wrist and stopped her – stopped her – drawing her gun; and that one subsequent instant of hesitation turning to decision and the sharp grip and flex as his mouth had come down on hers." Rated T - but very strong T.

'Just another job, that's all Richard Castle would ever be. Maybe if she repeated it enough, she would actually believe it.' Based on a gifset by veraflynns on tumblr.

Stories in the Castle universe told in exactly two sentences. All prompts welcome.

AU: Kate Beckett finds herself thrust into a world in which she and Richard Castle have never met. But this world is far more different than she realizes, and not every difference has to do with her relationship with her husband-to-be.

I had intended this to be a one shot AU, but after some requests, I'm continuing it. What would have happened if Ryan's bullet had found Castle in 301? "Was that what you wanted to tell me, Kate?" Castle asked."Yeah," Beckett confided, "not that it would have changed anything." "It would have changed everything. Kate." The rating has been upped to M for safety chapter 75 and beyond

A few bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances leave Kate Beckett, age 19, homeless just a few months after her mother's death. Richard Castle happens upon her in the park one day, not knowing he's just met his biggest fan.

"How ironic that it should have been his books that had rescued her, when it had been he whose words had damned her in the first place." AU s1. Please read a/n at the beginning.

Post fic for 7x06. Spoilers for episode! What will the repercussions be now that other-world Castle has changed the fates of AU!Beckett and his AU counterpart? Picks up at the shooting.

It starts to come back to him. Flashes of brilliant colour against the grey fog of his mind. Light. Flashing. Reflected. And- Words, slurred on his lips. "I love you." Season Four AU.

Post-Ep for '47 Seconds'. "I need a word with you." Castle's voice cuts through the hubbub of the bullpen even though he has it purposefully toned low. Low and rough, scraping at his vocal cords with a touch of something dark and smoky that tugs at Kate's gut, exciting and scaring her in equal measure.

She has a baby. She brought a baby back from Haiti. Can you even do that? Season 3 AU.

Set during 4x01: "Rise", immediately after the swing scene. Kate is shocked by how much seeing Castle again affects her. She can't get him out of her head. "So…what? I just wait? Behave like old times? Let things crawl on like before, with neither of us admitting what we really want?"

Set post 47 Seconds. Castle is finished being Beckett's partner but he wants to tell her why. Set three days after the show ends. Slightly AU. Now Complete.

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

"Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing." An AU story for Christmas.

Beckett is distraught when Castle seems to have finally given up hope on them ever being more than just partners, and he begins to pull away from her, prompting her to face up to her own feelings.

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

'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.

"He's beginning to think she remembers far more than she's saying. He's beginning to think that she's missing because she's at medical appointments: more than just physical therapy appointments. And now she's here, in his loft, for at least a week, and doped into a state where those walls she talked about seem to have fallen down." S4 AU, 1 month in. Property of ABC/Marlowe.

One-Shot: A re-imagining of the opening scene in "After the Storm," without Martha interrupting. A much-needed conversation I wish we'd actually seen on the show.

A post-ep to "Undead Again" bridging the gap between what happened between Castle and Beckett in that ep and the beginning of "Always." Because I always felt that the post-"47 Seconds" story arc got resolved too quickly in "Undead Again."

AU Post 'For Better or Worse' The search for Richard Castle.

Beckett is forced to take two weeks of paid leave, and Castle invites her to the Hamptons with him. She reluctantly agrees, and starts to discover that her feelings for him are stronger than she was willing to admit.

When Richard Castle learns his publisher hired a writing consultant to help him complete his latest novel he's insulted-until he meets her. Dr. Kate Beckett was merely looking for a summer job between semesters, but could three weeks with the famous writer might be more than she bargained for? Caskett AU.

What would've happened if Kate had called Castle before going back to work in Rise? A season 4 AU. An extremely late 2014 Summer Hiatus Ficathon entry.

AU. Meet Richard Castle, playboy mystery writer and reality television latest star. Beckett's undercover to bust a drug ring and part of her cover involves getting very close to one of New York's most eligible bachelors. The strait-laced cop isn't charmed by his flirty banter and she won't chase after him like the female contestants on the show. She's out to cuff him, not jump him.

Takes place immediately after the last scene of Season 5 Episode 21, "The Squab and the Quail". Beckett tries to discuss with Castle about where they are going in their relationship, but end up talking about something else. Rating T just in case!

Time is a fickle little thing. It passes in a rush. And sometimes it doesn't pass at all. - reposted -

And today—today was an unspoken agreement, a late night text that didn't surprise her at all.