Set post 4x10 - Cuffed. Castle and Beckett navigate through their tangled web of emotions while trying to solve a crime in a sex club. For Lou. My entry for the Castle Winter Ficathon

Kate never gets shot and marries her motorcycle boyfriend, Josh. As a result, Rick no longer shadows at the twelfth. Fast forward three years, what will happen when they meet again one morning in a coffee shop?

[4x01 'Rise' Twoshot] Everybody leaves, dies, gives up. Everything ends. There's a dryness in her mouth and a fuzzy static filling her ears that muffles everything except the dull push and pull of blood in her ears, blood pumping too fast in and out of every vein from the heart that shouldn't still be beating. He's still here.

'It wouldn't be the first time she fell apart with the image of him flashing behind her closed eyelids, the illusion of his touch on her skin enough to send her shattering. Just the first time she allowed it to happen when she knew he didn't want her back.' An alternative ending to 4x20, the Limey.

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.

It wasn't planned, wasn't a date, but when he'd shown up looking striking in his suit and with his arm empty, she'd gravitated to him like she always did, her whole body orienting toward him as if he was her shining beacon in a dark, starless night. Follows episode 4x11, "Till Death Do Us Part." -COMPLETE-