A mostly unrelated collection of one-shots wherein Caskett christen every room of the loft.

A collection of Caskett one shots.

Entry for the Summer 2015 Ficathon. Richard Castle is a Witcher, a monster slayer for hire, that occasionally writes books. He's hired by a young woman to look for the monster that killed her mother. A job that seems easy enough becomes a walk through hell and back. Rated M for sex, violence, gore and... everything. Set in The Witcher universe. Low fantasy AU. Very low fantasy.

Folded in his embrace she recognizes the fallacy of her acceptance as she comes to realize she has only been half-living, has been missing something so vital it couldn't be put into words... A companion piece to the wonderful story 'Flashlight,' written by l03l. Story starts in the exact moment and scene where Flashlight ends.

'Castle opens his mouth, determined to set the words free in this moment of solace with her, but the noise that escapes his throat is hoarse, raspy, silent. He can't speak.' AU for 4x16, Linchpin. Two shot.

The words may not be there, but inspiration can be found in many nooks and crannies. It's time to explore a new one. Two shot set before season one. Little to no plot. Happy #CastleFanFicMonday everyone!

[Early-mid S6ish. No spoilers.] Sheltered here against the harshness and abrasion of the city, the job, the whole world, she finds the dark doesn't reach her quite as easily.

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.

An M!Rated companion piece to Operation: White Whale, exploring Chapter 81's... escalation... a little more thoroughly. Written by the awesome, wonderful, talented Griever11, but she's letting me publish it.

Eight years later Richard Castle is found, and it's no longer his ring on her finger. AU from 6x23 "For Better Or Worse".

'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.

"Why? So I can be one of your conquests?" - "Or I could be one of yours." Episode insert for 1x01, 'Flowers For Your Grave. Prompt fill for the ThankYouTerri campaign.

tumblr prompt: They slept together after Ryan's wedding but never talked about it. Kate finds out she is pregnant but doesn't know how to tell him, especially after the events of 47 seconds (and Limey).

AU On the fifth day, even before boarding the train, he had a moment. If he were to describe the moment, he'd say it was an infinitesimally small fracture in time.

"He's quiet for a minute, suddenly remembering an article that he read once. He's not sure she'll go for it, but he's willing to do anything to help alleviate her of her headache." A prompt fill written for (@GeekerMom). #CastleFanficMonday

What if there was something else in that safe deposit box in Montreal? Set during the first half of Season 7. Borrows the plot of the Steven J Cannell series "The Greatest American Hero" updated with the Richard Castle in the main role. How does an every day man deal with becoming a powerful costumed superhero overnight?

As Christmas approaches, Beckett gets a little help in realising that by keeping Castle waiting for her, she's also been putting off her own life. A tribute to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

A cowardly betrayal leaves Rick Rodgers and Kate Beckett fighting for their lives. Can they learn to rely on the other; will it lead to something more? What happens when they return from exile and the world learns the truth? A/U. Complete. Giant hugs to who've taken a chance on this story and followed to the end. Which is just a beginning...

Set fairly early on in S4. Uh-oh. Beckett inadvertently makes a move on Castle. Now what?

Castle made it clear that he couldn't watch her drive herself into the ground and she wasn't about to ruin his graduation celebration with his daughter to tell him he was right. :: 'Always' alternate

"What's past is prologue." -William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene I. An AU season six Castle story.

Her eyes search his at the door. Pupils rapid, darting back and forth, manic with something he's seen flares of before but hasn't dared put a name to. Post Cops and Robbers.

A companion piece to Naughty or Nice? which is probably best read first. Castle's point of view of the same events. Note the M-rating. Pure fluff, for Christmas.

Beckett never wears a skirt. Dresses, occasionally, but he's never seen her in a skirt. Spoilers for 7.06. Shameless fluff in three chapters.

In her dreams there are two of him. M rated for a reason.

"The moment hits them both squarely on the chest. Images from the last hour flicker between them; hot, sweet memories they know will never completely fade, no matter where this takes them." Every second of the wondrous, magnificent things that happened between "Beckett, what do you want?" and "Made you a coffee." Post-Always. Now complete.

"She's forceful when she rolls him onto his back and shifts so that she's lying on top of him completely, but it's purely so that she has his full attention. He blinks up at her with wide eyes that tell her although they're married; he still wonders if he's good for her." A post-ep for 7X06

"She focuses on the sounds of the storm, let's them flood through her system as she chants to herself, 'It was just a dream'. But this time it's not enough. She lurches forward and grabs her phone pressing his name before she can change her mind." A post ep. 'what if' for Cops & Robbers (4X07).

"She isn't here, Mr. Castle. Don't you want to protect her? Isn't that what all of this is about?" AU from "Always"

"There will be a later, there will be plenty of time to do everything she's ever dreamed of with him, but now – right now she just wants him." A continuation of the 'Always' deleted scene.

Castle has her - has had her - under his spell, thoroughly bewitched for a long while now; and he knows it.

Who knew boredom could be so interesting? Shameless, plotless, one-shot fluff. All characters belong to ABC and Marlowe.

She's clinging to him and it's for all the wrong reasons... Episode insert for 3x24, 'Knockout'.

Technically the album version to an ongoing story - but with the story removed so it's really just the smut! Will make perfect sense if you're not following Seeing Double, will make equal sense if you are - so everyone is happy!

Confined and surrounded by complete darkness - not sure where she is and completely alone - Beckett struggles to find the light... and Castle. Takes place early April in Season 6 - No Spoilers (No idea how to categorize this... so let's go with 'not fluffy') - COMPLETE

They turn in opposite directions and his skin is on fire, hot annoyance like acid through his veins and - it stuns him - he's hurt. Set S2 during When The Bough Breaks. M for language and content. Now Complete.

They meet again in the hospital. AU. Cover art by half0utloud.

She pulled back so she could look him square in the eye before boldly announcing "I'm claiming you."

Birthday fic for my darling KT, who actually asked for this. "I know, Castle, I know," she sobs, doesn't know what else to say, she understands, and this fire is tearing her apart. COMPLETE

Based on a seven step system determined by giraffepoliceforce on tumblr, for how to confess your love to someone. Set early season four, around the time of the rogue head and "just like us". Total crack, and I hope it makes you smile. One shot.

ONE SHOT. My fill for the prompt: Castle realizes she just faked it (her orgasm) and retaliates. (Kink Meme '13)

In Beckett's 'Hierarchy of Needs' after coffee, food and shelter came justice then security. Fashionable boots definitely had a tier but falling head over heels in love did not. She wanted a relationship she could contain. Post-ep for Food to Die For. Now Complete.

It should have brought them closer together, not torn them apart – she understands this now. What she doesn't know is whether any way back for them still remains. Future fic - Complete. **Winner of 'Favorite M rated Fanfic Multi-chp' in the 2013 Castle Fanfic Writers Guild Awards**

Written for the 2013 Kink Meme, specifically for the prompt: "Castle catches Beckett masturbating. Author's choice is he joins, eats her out, and/or they have sex". The prompt asked for season one, but this...isn't. I hope you'll forgive me that little deviation.

This is a birthday fic set in my Connection 'verse. You do not have to have read the other fic to understand this one. THIS IS Porn Without Plot, sort of an AU of an AU. It's a what if, and doesn't really happen in the normal continuity. This is Mal/Kate/Rick. If you don't like threesomes, do not read. If you do, or feel like taking a chance: enjoy.

"I have a gift for you, Mr. Castle." She hummed, leaning closer to him, with one hand to the hard surface of his desk as she slid a brown package across the glossy surface. A Halloween tale.

"Why do you always insist on kissing that ugly scar?" Set early season 5. Two-shot.

"What was his problem? Did he have no sense of justice or morals whatsoever? He just let a killer free and all he could think about was boobs." An AU Castle/Beckett story.

Written in collaboration with BWJOURNAL. Post - Valkyrie. Spoilers ahead. The walls are closing in; will they light a match and burn them down? Opposite POV available at BWJOURNAL's Profile under "Dust to Dust".

Written in collaboration with KyinHI. Post - Valkyrie. Spoilers ahead. The walls are closing in; will they light a match and burn them down? Opposite POV available at KyinHI's Profile under "Ashes to Ashes" - Artwork by HoneyandVodka

Twice married, twice divorced, and he's finally in the relationship he wants to be in, the one that counts. Four years of "never gonna happen land" had turned into something amazing and unexpected overnight. Castle wasn't kidding when he told Kate to look at his life, because his dreams do come true. But his nightmares have also become a reality this year. A Pre-S6 multi-chapter.

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

"Castle." She breathes, her eyes dropping, roaming over his face, like she wants to devour him and she did say dessert. The sweet treat at the end of a meal, the soft, hard, hot, cold culmination of an evening spent in promise. He can think of no better word for what is about to transpire between them. M addition to All Good Things

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

The fight at the Heat Wave book launch sets Beckett on the path to writing Nikki Heat fanfiction. Meanwhile, Castle navigates Naked Heat and both work and play with Beckett. Set in Season 2 when the sexual tension is high, plus established Caskett epilogue. #1 in the Writer!Kate series but stands alone.

In that one moment, he knows he's ruined.

This green-eyed woman took a bullet for Mal Reynolds before he ever learned her name. Kate Beckett becomes a character in the 'verse. Mackett.

A companion piece to 'In Reverse', set immediately after Chapter 12 ('Maddie'). Not going to be much plot here at all. Thank you for reading, it's complete now!

What happens when Castle asks Kate "Have you ever kissed another woman?" Caskett story with Slashy elements. Set during season five. The story is mine, but the characters and settings are not. They belong to Andrew Marlowe and company, with whom I am unaffiliated.

Beckett is in DC and Castle is in NYC - Post Watershed - with all spoilers inherently in play. Decisions have been made and stands taken, but someone from their past will force them to face one another one more time. Will Caskette conquer all? This is my first fanfiction EVER! Cover art by dtrekker - Castle 2013 Ficathon entry-Rating M for some language and later chapters.

It's the tangle of his fingers in her hair, that's how it begins. That's how it always begins.

A one shot circa season four, a few weeks after the Ryans' wedding. A birthday present for closingdoors and my first M rated fic. Ellie said: car sex, and I said: okay.

It feels good, so good to have him touching her, but it's a frisson of pleasure and pain, an intersection that's setting her aflame in a way she can't control or understand.

You're drifting. You know you are. You just... stopped caring.

"She doesn't try to hide it. She wants him to know, she wants him to see just how much this hurts." Spoilers for Watershed. A "What If?" scenario written for a lovely bunch of people who hinted not so subtly that they wanted it.

There were so many things he wanted to say to her but that wasn't a part of their relationship. So he wrote her letters instead, hid them away, never intending for her to read them. Until one day, Kate stumbled upon them by mistake. Complete.

"Top or bottom?" you asked him, when you edged in through the door of your Amtrak Viewliner Bedroom compartment – the last one available on the train - your cheeks flushing at the intimacy you were about to share: a night alone together in the less than spacious confines of the sleeper cabin of a New York bound train." Post-Cuffed story.

Well, she said it and it was wonderful, but before she said it, the possibilities were seemingly endless; and thus this series of one-shots was born. - - SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE SHOW.

Before they started dating, Rick wrote a number of fantasy stories he imagined about himself and Kate that he gave to her in a book titled "Kate". What happens when they decide to play them out?

They make everything a little sharper. Oneshot.

After a vivid dream, Beckett thinks she's been given a second chance. When she begins to doubt the reality surrounding her, there is only one person she can think of who has come up with crazier things than what she's living through.

Spoilers for 5x17. "She isn't surprised to hear the soft knock on her front door, and she smiles to herself, wrapping the black silk robe a little tighter around her body, making her way on bare feet to answer it. "So I was thinking…not everything in life is black and white, right?" says Castle, leaning casually against her doorjamb." COMPLETE

She's shaking, her legs wobbly, fingers clamped around the doorknob as if it's the only thing keeping her upright. Her stomach tightens, with fear, with want, with everything she's so carefully held in check for months, years... What if for 3x22, 'To Love and Die in L.A.'. Happy Birthday, Joy! Winner of "The 12th" Fan Awards 2013 for best M-rated fanfic (under 10,000 words).

Still reeling following his daughters kidnapping, Castle can't cope, and it could mean the end of his relationship with Kate. Disclaimer: The characters belong to Andrew W. Marlowe, not to me, though I wish they did because I would definitely have them kissing with the lights on!

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.

Based on a prompt: What if the crime in the alley scene in 'Always' had nothing to do with Kate's shooting or her mom's murder. And the John Woo marathon went ahead. Would Kate show up at the loft and what happens next? "His footfalls greet her like an approaching army, striking fear and terror, laced with excitement and something that feels suspiciously like arousal, within her."

Inara is forced to put theory to the test when Kaylee requests a visual demonstration of her lessons on seduction. Unfortunately for the companion, her subject just happens to be an irate captain. Mal/Inara, Kaylee/Simon. Post BDM. Rated M for sexual content.

The rain has lessened, she thinks inanely, clinging to the random scraps of reality that she can process as they zip and crisscross through her brain. Much less than the downpour that stranded them here, on the side of some highway in the middle of New Jersey. A season four story, set after 'Cuffed.' One-shot. NOT a Christmas story. :)

Fill for a kink meme (or 2). Read authors note. Takes place in early September. Castle decides he can't go a third night away from Beckett and gets proactive. M for a reason.

My post-ep for Probable Cause. "His warm breath washes in reverent preamble before the soft, sure brush of his mouth finds the edges, just exactly where he knows the touch won't sting, won't make things worse. An invocation that walks that perfect line between too much and not enough."

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.

If it were possible for time to stop, for the earth to pause in its spinning, it would happen for them on this night. The hours between "Always" and "After the Storm." Now complete.

When Castle and Beckett are sent to chase down a lead out of town and have to spend a few days staying in the same hotel room, things get a little... interesting. Smut-warning applies. Now complete.

"Hold still," he instructed, trying and failing to sound stern. She tried and failed to follow his lead, hips arching reflexively as his mouth closed over her. Rated M for a reason. One-shot.

He has always been there, her rock. Now it is Kate's turn to care for him. When the unthinkable happens, Kate's love and loyalty are put to the ultimate test. Note the rating change to M please. Although, with the M comes the fluff!

He is sluggish, floating; a nebulous drift into awareness as her scent surrounds him, teases him; so vividly burned into every layer of his skin after today that he is sure he's dreaming. Sequel to LURE.

Sparks fly and unexpected fires start when an undercover cop and a researching novelist spy each other from across the room. AU. One-shot. Please don't be put off by the rating; it's tasteful... enough.

After a first night of rough sex, Rick is now teaching Kate how to make love. *MA rated*

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.

His name is a sigh on her lips. "Castle." Co-authored with PenguinOfTroy. One-shot. No spoilers past Season Two.

"...he was completely overcome with the cold hard reality that this conversation was absolutely not about the books anymore." Castle and Beckett immerse themselves in Rook and Nikki's love life. Now rated M.

The doors closed them in. Together...Alone. Alone in a twenty-five square foot box. And she was looking at him with those eyes. Dark, hooded...hungry. M for a reason. ONE-SHOT

River muses on what makes a woman perfect. And why Inara is closer than she'll ever be to being what the captain of Serenity wants in a woman. But what she thinks and what he wants are two different things. Mal/River. Complete.

"I'm not going anywhere until I get some answers as to why you're evidently injured and not in a hospital." Minor,synopsis mainly,SPOILERS for "Headhunters" 4x21. *Chapter 5 up now. COMPLETE

Castle hasn't made love to a woman in well over a year. Why? The cat's out of the bag. Chapter 3 now added. *Note rating change.

For some people one time is enough, but Kate Beckett is selfish. She wants him forever.

Kate Beckett was twenty-six when the biggest accident in her life occurred. Five years later, the biggest miracle happens. AU.

In a hypothetical future, Rick realizes that it's not the ghosts that choose to stick around. It's the people left behind who can't bear to let them go. Caskett, family!fic. Warning: Terribly sad, character death. Just… give it a shot. Now complete.

When Spring Cleaning gets a little off course, the outcome is nothing if not the best kind of unexpected.

He had flown too near the sun. His wax had melted, his wings had failed him, and he had fallen. But Icarus was not failing as he fell, just coming to the end of his triumph.

Castle invites Kate to a Firefly party.C/B fluff & sex. 1st time posting as well. Hope you are familiar with Firefly, otherwise much understanding will be lost,as well as humor. Reviews will be appreciated. New story, Fate, begins where this one ends.

Part 10 - Despite the rocky beginning, it's always led to this. To them. Caskett smut.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

Rick acknowledges his feelings for Kate and confronts her about "The Kiss". They come to a mutually acceptable agreement. SMUT ensues. No plot, spoilers through "Overkill"

Inara. Mal. A lazy rainy morning. Thank you to Gilliebeans for helping me with certain passages!

NC17. River and Jayne spend their first night together. Definite Rayne, and can really be read by anyone who doesn't like OCs. Again, I say NC17.

‘Mal,’ she said, and then she stopped when he raised his hand to her face. His fingers were trembling.

Mal and Inara romance. Missing scene from BDM and after. What force is strong enough to make a Companion admit she loves and thaw the heart of a lonely Browncoat.