Collection of one shots based on a list of 365 prompts. Mostly modern AUs or Enchanted Forest AUs and completely Captain Swan. Ratings may change.

Emma Swan feels like she's in a rut and decides she needs some changes in her life. A New Year's resolution list might do the trick. Killian Jones thinks Emma's just as perfect as she is, so when he gets his hands on her list, it seems like a good idea to propose a bet to her. But the stakes aren't low, they'll use everything in order to win - and for the other to lose. (Modern AU)

Now more than 25 one-shots of love, laughter, fluff, Christmas trees, gingerbread men and Captain Swan galore.

AU: When Princess Emma's ship is captured by the Jolly Roger and Captain Killian Jones, she offers herself as a hostage for ransom if he will let the ship and the other passengers go. With Emma, Killian remembers the honour he once held dear, and Emma catches glimpses of the gentleman Killian had been. Against all odds, the pirate and the princess begin to fall for each other.

CS AU, set in 1815. - Lord Killian Jones is haunted by the demons of his past which makes him nowhere near the man he once was, so he can't be the father he wants to be. And above all, he believes he is undeserving of love. Perhaps with Emma that is all about to change. But falling in love is never easy, that's just how it is. / (M for language, alcohol, and later chapters.)

"She thinks he's just watching all of the girls, but then he's still staring at her when she looks again a few minutes later. He's not watching all the girls, he's watching her." AU. Kate's a stripper, Rick meets her at a bachelor party. Prompt fill.

Captain Swan AU. Fear for her unborn child, a bruised and broken Emma Swan is determined to escape an abusive marriage. After she drives a long way from home to a small town in Maine, she doesn't think her life could get more complicated... that is until she ends up falling for her OBGYN, a blue-eyed British man... (For fulll summary, see Chapter 1)

A collection of unrelated oneshots inspired by prompts received on tumblr.

When Killian Jones' best friend Emma Nolan asked him to come home with her for Christmas acting as her fiancé, he never could have guessed what it would mean. (captain swan)

Everyone only has one soulmate...right? [Caskett Soulmate AU Circa Season 3/4]

Young Professor Swan leads a quiet but hectic life. Killian Jones is a hardened detective.When tragedy strikes, the young couple works to find answers to a mystery that will take them on a journey together. Sometimes the universe has plans wherein the past, present, and future converge to assure that destiny is reached in every life.

Bouncing around with her son for most of her life, Emma Swan has told herself she's happy in the city. But when an old friend calls her and asks for her help on a new project in small town Maine, Emma finds herself in a brand new situation. But with the ship's captain takes a keen interest in her life, she wonders whether she might catch something besides fish. Deadliest Catch AU

In a world where every dating site swears by their algorithms to find the most accurate match, Missmatched promises a few people that *know* how to find your best match based on their instincts and their vibes. Emma Swan is hired to investigate if there's a fraud involved with the site's claim. That path leads her right into the hands of the founder, Killian Jones.

Emma doesn't remember who she was before she was found in the woods, but she knows that she has a few close friends, a good job, and a loyal cat that greets her every day when she gets home from work. What she doesn't know, however, is that her past is about to catch up to her in the strangest of ways. She learns quickly that not everything is as it seems, not even her cat.

HRH Prince Killian has grown up enduring tragedy & the burdens of being the spare to the heir. With a desire to escape his past, he agrees to play host to the visiting general's daughter in exchange for a life outside royal bounds. Moving on is never that easy though & being the 'other' prince is even more difficult when you fall for the girl everyone wants your brother to marry.

"It's him," her colleague answers and it's the solemn tone of his voice, the grave quality of words that she's heard in only the most dire of circumstances, that confirms it for her before he has to say another word. "It's Castle. They found him. Alive." AU. An entry for the Castle Ficathon 2017.

Busy single mom Kate Beckett doesn't have time for unnecessary distractions, particularly from a certain mystery writer she meets on the subway. Then again, he might just be the exact thing she's been searching for. Caskett AU. Trigger warnings inside.

Of all the pages he'd ever penned, of all the words he'd ever written, these anonymous letters to an ink and paper woman—all shadow and mystery and fragile allure—might prove more extraordinary than anything that came before. AU

They're both muddling through life. Her days are full of politics and paperwork. His are spent surfing the web in his underwear and buying gadgets to drive his mother crazy. Could a charity auction be what Captain Kate Beckett and novelist Richard Castle need to find their way together? Or will fumbles and stubbornness keep them apart? AU. A Castle 2015 Hiatus Ficathon story.

This is an AU story set in 2009. Richard Castle is engaged to marry a well-know Public Defender. During a TV interview he offers an opinion which puts him at odds with his friend the Mayor. As a result he agrees to work with the 12th Precinct where he meets their best detective, Kate Beckett and her team. His life quickly becomes, complicated.

'Loving her wasn't going away quietly. Loving her might break him.' Takes place after 4x21 Headhunters. Co-authored by jstar1382, chezchuckles and griever11.

A collection of family based one shots. First chapter written for CastleFanficMonday.

Tumblr prompts (or prompts in general) that I have filled. Rating up to M.

The moment they met, their lives became extraordinary. They just didn't know it yet. A pre-series meeting AU. Entry for the Castle Summer Hiatus 2015 Ficathon.

Ever wonder what might have happened if Beckett had dumped Josh & proposed to Castle out of nowhere? Ever wonder what Andrew Marlowe meant in the summer 2011 when he stated, "There are things in Beckett's life she's not ready to share with Castle..." This story has it all: romance, humor, angst, AND a twist.

AU from "47 Seconds" Late one evening an explosion rocks the precinct. Kate is there after hours and is taken hostage along with the rest of the late shift. Castle never returned after finding out Kate remembered her shooting. Will he come back to help the boys try to rescue her and the other police officers?

This is not a continuous story, but a collection of Castle fics I've written from prompts. I am no longer accepting prompts. I've now marked this as complete. Thank you for all the prompts, for reading, and all the feedback. I hope y'all continue to enjoy these stories.

The road to love was never easy, especially for Kate Beckett and Richard Castle. Now, a completely unexpected development occurs. Will this give them the push they need, or end things once and for all, before they even have a chance to begin? Set mid/late S4.

Castle is the Black Pawn wild child in danger of losing his contract. Beckett is the no-nonsense PR consultant hired to improve his image. Entry for the 2015 Castle Winter Hiatus Ficathon.

Castle and Beckett spent one night together and over a year apart. Now they were neighbors and they had a second chance for something extraordinary. Pre-Series AU, Meeting AU. Caskett. A prompt response written for CastleFanficMonday and continued for the 2015 Castle Hiatus Ficathon.

There are so many things we take for granted, even those to which we seemingly attach some value. It takes losing all of it to know the real value they hold though.

AU meeting fic. Kate is a young mother, living in the same apartment complex as Castle. He is annoyed that the baby is crying all night while he tries to write, and goes to yell at her. Instead, he finds her disheveled and upset, pacing with the baby down the hall, and offers to help.

AU: What if Castle had never become a famous, successful, and wealthy writer? Struggling to make ends meet, failed writer Richard Rodgers meets Detective Kate Beckett under quite different circumstances.

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.

"You don't have to do this alone. And I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let you. You think you have to carry this burden on your shoulders. You've convinced yourself that the weight of it is just something more you have to bear while the hole in your heart is trying to heal. But that's not true, Kate. I can help carry it, I can take some of the weight." An AU take on 4X01 (Rise).

Alternate Episode Fic for Tick, Tick, Tick... and Boom! "...And in chapter 11, admit their attraction to one another and have sex." "It's fiction." Rated M. *Updated 03/27/16* Multiple chapter fic.

AU. Two years after model Grace Beckett uses her twin sister, Kate's, name in a one-night-stand with mystery novelist Richard Castle, things get complicated when the real Kate Beckett brings Castle in for questioning in a murder.

3x24 post-ep. AU. The gunshot damages her spine and leaves Beckett paralyzed."This is going to break her, but losing you, that would shatter her."

AU: Castle is the fun English teacher. Beckett is the strict English teacher. All their students ship them together. (And they may ship themselves together, too). Castle Ficathon 2015 Entry.

After 6x23, Beckett goes to sleep regretting all the time she lost with Castle. The next day Beckett wakes up and she's in the body of her 1x01 self. Not a Death!Fic. Rated T for Language and Violence. Prompt from CastleFanFicPrompts on Tumblr. Now Complete!

Rick Castle had it all: a successful career, a wonderful daughter and a beautiful fiancée. And yet, something was missing. Until certain detective crashed his book party. My entry for the Castle Winter Ficathon 2015.

AU: Violinist Kate Beckett is both nervous and excited that superstar composer Rick Castle is guest-conducting the New York Symphony's holiday concert. But when a murder takes place in Symphony Hall, Kate and Castle find themselves collaborating on more than just music. Entry for the 2015/2016 winter hiatus ficathon.

AU Caskett meeting. Rick is a fireman who happens to be the one that helped Beckett after her apartment exploded in 2x18. Coincidence or fate?

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.

"She glares at him, doesn't want him to be getting any ideas of what's going to happen between them tonight, although the thought sparks a flame deep within her stomach." Set post 2x18.

"She glanced down at the slip of paper on the passenger seat, crossed with the hasty scrawl of the address. Yup. This was the place, all right." What if, in Headhunters, Castle found himself dumped out in the sticks mid-investigation by Slaughter? Belated birthday present for the lovely Nic/ColieMacKenzie. Twoshot. Rating will go up in the second chapter.

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.

"I'll find you in every story the universe writes us in. No matter where you are, no matter where you are, I'll be there...with coffee." A collection of oneshots. Collaboration between Prosemeds and Swallowedminds. Rating T for future chapters.

Post 2x18 Boom! Due to the circumstances, Kate moves into Rick's apartment and they begin a friends with benefits relationship.

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?

"Diving head first into her mother's murder has left little room for romance. She's turned down any offer of being set up, in favor of protecting her walled off heart. Giving her favorite author her number was a decision that fate seemed to make for her, forcing her to go along with the plan whether she wanted to or not." An AU Caskett meeting. #CastleFanficMonday

In any universe, they are meant to be together. It's only a matter of time. (Multi-chapter romance set entirely in the AU!Canon reality.)

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.

A sort of AU post episode universe. Kate and Castle meeting in a coffee shop after each case, to talk things out and have a moment of closeness.

Beckett asks Castle to pretend to be her boyfriend so she doesn't have to turn up at her friend's wedding alone.

Because they discussed fonts—really, fonts—long before they chose their Save the Date card. A series of standalone, unrelated chapters, covering a wide time period and with a variety of ratings. The first one, rated M, takes place during the book party in 2x05, "When the Bough Breaks." Also, because a few people have asked: yes, every font mentioned in these chapters is real.

"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.

NYPD Officer Kate Beckett had no idea the simple act of saving a man's life could affect her life in such profound ways. Then again, that might be what happens when you save your favorite mystery writer...(Caskett AU - Inspired by the movie of the same name)

"Am… am I dead?" / "No… no. You're quite alive, Mr. Castle. A complete idiot, but an alive idiot." / Once famous author Richard Castle's luck was about to change when he woke up in the hospital to discover the beautiful Captain Kate Beckett by his bedside, almost eager to get to know him. a "The Time Of Our Lives" story; set in the AUverse.

Kate Beckett is repaying a favour for a colleague, his client has got himself arrested stealing a police horse and needs a lawyer. For her sins legal, his representation falls on her shoulders. At least it is only a onetime thing. Who she's defending doesn't click until she seems him in his jail cell. *Castle Summer Hiatus 2015 Ficathon Entry*

'They'll be fine. This isn't permanent. She won't let it be, and she wants to believe he won't either. Kate leaves their home without another word, just a final slam of the door.' For #CastleFanficMonday.

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.

Written for the lovely Lou (Inkycoffee)! Thanks for the prompt! Prompt: Josh is brought in for questioning for a case. Later, after being cleared, he confronts Castle to ask if he has a chance of getting back with Beckett since she and Castle aren't together, letting slip that Beckett knows exactly how Castle feels about her.

'Martha is right. This really can't wait another day, wall be damned...' Castle and Beckett get a nudge in the right direction, courtesy of his mother. An AU Cops and Robbers ending in honor of Castle FanFic Monday.

Kate Beckett lives and breathes gymnastics. Rick Castle is a freelance journalist looking for a gripping story heading into the Rio Olympics. Gymnast!AU. Inspired by a prompt on castlefanficprompts. For the Summer 2015 Ficathon.

For Castle Fanfic Monday. Evan makes his introduction into the world, and Ellinore joins the Castle family.

AU Season 1: He's been following Beckett for a month and now Castle is going to tell her the one thing guaranteed to make her happy. But will it? (Rated M for Chapters 20 & 21)

Beckett's escort to cousin Sofia's wedding bails at the last minute. Castle swoops in, eager for a night out with her after the progress they've made in "Sucker Punch." Season 2 AU. Complete.

AU. "Your fugitive's name is Mr. Richard Castle."

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.

For CastleFanficMonday! A Castle Summer Hiatus 2015 Ficathon Entry. Beckett decides to have a baby and is looking for a donor. Castle ends up switching the donors "seed" for his own and doesn't tell Beckett. AU.

8/14 update - "Don't get up, stay in bed." **A collection of misc Tumblr prompts previously posted on Tumblr.**

'New York was bracing for a hurricane and Kate Beckett was terribly ill prepared. But she was even less prepared to see Richard Castle again after a summer of silence.' Set late in the summer, post season 2.

Set between 1x10 and 2x01, based on the accompanying image. "So she orders him coffee to back her optimism with something concrete, and then she takes a seat at the bar along the window and she waits. Her eyes are trained on the pillowy soft heart of white foam she asked the barista to create on the surface of his cappuccino when she hears a familiar tap on the glass." COMPLETE

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

"You know, Castle, your bucket list was way more PG-13 that I thought it'd be." A series of steamy little one-shots based on our favorite couple's new weekly tradition. Season 5.

AU. Two shot. It's his sick mother that calls Rick Rodgers back to his hometown in North Carolina. He's been gone far too long, and while many folks welcome him home, he's only concerned about seeing one. Kate Beckett.

S4 AU Post-Limey. What if Kate's feelings get the better of her after Castle's attempts to move on without her? Prompt fill from Tumblr.

The tires chew up the road, carrying him back to the city he escaped from less than two weeks ago. Back to the oppressive heat radiating from the sidewalks and the cold loneliness of an empty loft. Back to the haunted streets, where the ghosts of happy memories and what-might-have-beens lurk around far too many corners. Post season one AU.[Summer Hiatus Ficathon Entry]

AU: She hasn't seen him in seventeen years, not since she was pre-law and he was Rick Rodgers. But Rick Castle in her interrogation room now is the least of her troubles. Entry for 2015 Castle Summer Hiatus Ficathon.

What happens when they get to cheat, and read the last page first? Set immediately after 'Flowers for Your Grave'

Castle steals a police horse. The arresting officer is none other than Kate Beckett. "You got yourself up there and now you're going to get back down. I want you to concentrate. Carefully lift your leg over its flank, then slide to the ground. Preferably without breaking anything. Or losing that blanket. No one wants to see your bare ass swaying in the moonlight. Least of all me."

A new series about a certain British secret agent? Even if it meant no more Nikki Heat, the offer was a dream come true. A change of scenery and a fresh challenge were exactly what he needed. So why did Castle feel like instead of starting a new story, he was closing a book mid-chapter? AU from 'When the Bough Breaks'.

Post-ep for 2x24 Beckett deals with the aftermath of Gina showing up at the precinct and then leaving for the summer with Castle. She makes great efforts to move on with her life, and then disaster strikes. "Make. Me. Care." She uttered the words one last time in a tissue thin voice, as cruel, embarrassing tears coursed down her cheeks. "Too late, Kate. You already do."

Trust, but verify. Kate Beckett loved to have control over all things concerning her private life and her job. But what will happen when she'll lose said control in one of those two aspects in her life? AU Caskett meeting.

[Post 4x10. Fluff. Gratuitous fluff. Also porn. Pornado June 2015.] Castle and Beckett wait out the rain together.

The past hurts. So let it go. But what if you let go and the past comes rushing back turning everything upside down, bringing memories you tried to shut out. What if Kate met Castle when her Mom was still alive and she was a pre-law student at Stanford? But he is Castle, and he screws up. Caskett fic. Read and review!

He likes her. She understands the power of grammar and that's just… hot. For some reason, he's the one left a little dumb struck. He doesn't know why his suave has suddenly left him, and of course it all had to happen when in the face this beautiful, intriguing woman. AU: Meeting in the public library.

'Her hand flies to his forehead before she even realizes what she's doing, but his damp skin and fevered flesh steal her attention from the meaning behind her unplanned touch and that familiar worry uncoils from its hiding place inside her stomach.' In which a cold tests the boundaries of Castle and Beckett's partnership. Season 4 AU.

Pre-series AU. What happens when Richard Castle is in need of a bodyguard? Who could he possibly choose to protect him and his family?

'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.

After their late-night cemetery dig, Castle and Beckett return to the precinct to clean up. They don't get to keep the treasure they found, but perhaps they'll stumble across something better. Set at the end of "Under the Gun" (3x03).

Kate Beckett, aka Lola Banks, is the award-winning superstar of Hollywood, and her entire life is under threat. After a shooting on the red carpet, Kate's publicist insists on hiring her a bodyguard. Richard Castle, ex-army sniper, is hired to protect her, though Beckett insists that she can take care of herself. AU Rated M

"I'm like a broken mirror, Castle. I look into it and see parts of me are missing, but I don't know how to get them back. I don't know how to find them again." What if Beckett hadn't disappeared for 3 months after being shot and let Castle take care of her? With tensions running so high, will their love blossom or will secrets tear them apart forever? AU from 3x24. Complete.

A series of conversations between Kate and Jim Beckett, in which they discuss (among other things) a certain mystery author. *Chapter 86: 'Private Investigator' ('Castle, P.I.')*

There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers. He threw away his chance to be the kind that pays better. Very AU.

"But the longer she stares at him, the more she realizes that she knows him, that she dated him in high school, and that this is the man who took her virginity." Inspired by this tumblr prompt: childhood sweethearts who moved away and then into the same apartment block by chance AU

Her first instinct is to jerk her head back, to avoid his lips, to play it off as an accident, but his lips are warm, enveloping hers and she can't help but move her lips around his, a groan escaping her lips. Set in 2x06, Vampire Weekend.

Nothing matters except finding her... An AU take on 7x15, 'Reckoning'. Now complete.

After the death of her brother, Kate Beckett finds herself stepping in to manage an all cop/firefighter football team. Can new defensive tackle, Detective Richard Castle, make her position a little more enjoyable? An AU Caskett meeting. #CastleFanficMonday (Will be continued soon)

Rick Castle thought nothing was going to top winning the Super Bowl. Then he drove into the back of Kate Beckett's car. An AU entry for the Castle Winter Hiatus Ficathon 2014.

He's never far from her thoughts, hovering in the back of her mind. The Detective in her, (not the warm-blooded woman, she keeps telling herself) yearns to know why her favorite author disappeared from the spotlight after completing the Storm series. She's never more shocked when a year later he steps off the precinct elevator, searching for her. AU/Romance/Co-written w/Retired1984

'"You like museums right?" Well. she hadn't been expecting that.' A season 2 fic set the week after The Third Man (2x14)

On the surface they are living the American dream, but as the sun goes down, so does their façade. An Alternative Universe

Just because it's the Christmas season. Richard Castle was rich and successful, the president of a hot shot publishing company. He wakes up one morning with a wife and kids, in a life that can't possibly be his.

"So, what? You just couldn't handle my attention being on someone else so you had to go out of your way to sabotage my chance with a nice guy?" An AU take on Den of Thieves in which Castle tells Demming that he and Kate do actually have something going on.

What if it didn't take a brush with death, or an ultimatum, or a confrontation? What if, one ordinary evening, she just realised she was finally ready to let him into her life?

'He's been coming to her library for over a month now and she likes him, really likes him.' An AU that explores the meeting of a burdened librarian and a struggling writer. Three shot.

For all the thought Castle had put into the apocalypse, he had never expected this… An AU set - at times - in the summer between seasons three and four.

"She couldn't sleep, still wired after the day's events, the cold from the freezer lodged deep in her bones and not wanting to leave." A post-ep for Countdown (3x17). A fic for CastleFanficMonday

If you are easily offended or have a weak stomach, do not read this summary. One-shots about Castle and Beckett consuming dead flesh and concentrated expired baby cow growth formula over the course of the series. So romantic. I wrote this before I became vegan, in case you couldn't tell. Will not be completed.

AU one-shot based on the Tumblr Prompt from toomuchwineornotenough: KB is a struggling single mom of 2 boys working part time at a pizza place to make ends meet. Castle starts buying pizza daily, then bringing her coffee every morning.

Just playing with Cops & Robbers. What happens if Kate admits to needing Rick, and he leaves the bank to be with her?

"This wasn't happening. This wasn't real. They did not rescue him from his kidnapping or whatever the hell that was to turn around and have her get kidnapped." Post ep for 7x14 "Resurrection" and eventually for 7x15 "Reckoning."

"Kate. Come have dinner with me instead." :: An alternate ending to 'The Final Nail' spun-off from a castlefanficprompts post

AU. Based on prompt from Tumblr- Castle is Beckett's physical therapist. When he had read "stabbed in the back", he had imagined a punk of a kid who had gotten on the wrong side of the law, not a gorgeous young woman from a well off family sporting a Stanford sweatshirt. A story in three parts.

AU for 7x15, "Reckoning". "You are still yourself, Kate. That hasn't changed."

Castle arrived safely in his own world in 'Time of Our Lives' 7x06, but meanwhile the AU version of Castle comes to consciousness in his universe to find he's been shot while saving the life of a Captain Beckett of the Twelfth. This is the story of those in the AU. Follows the storyline set up in 'Change of State'.

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

Kate Beckett is investigating a homicide reaveals the plot to assasinate billionare Richard Rodgers. Rodgers requests Beckett to work under him and protect his family during the investigation. What follows is an investigation that threatens to unearth truths that endanger both Beckett and Rodgers - and undeniable attraction.

AU story. A glimpse into a Caskett family summer at the Hamptons. Fluff. "Kate took a moment to breath in the clean ocean air; take in the scents of her family's vacation home. " Rated T for now.

My Castle 2014 Ficathon Entry. Season 2 finale prompt: In A Deadly Game, Gina shows up 30 seconds later. Cover Art by Angie (Dtrekker) :) *put on indefinite hold*

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

…the more they stay the same. *Season 2- AU Caskett story* Kate Beckett is bored with life, but when a serial killer starts dedicating murders to her- someone enters the scene to aid with the investigation and her life may never be the same.

This is her home. The place where she grew up, trekking up and down the mountains and racing through the fields. Where she learned to cook and drive and dance. The place where her memories live, where she can close her eyes and take a deep breath and almost hear the fading echo of her mother's voice. This is her home. And damned if she's going to give it up. - AU Christmas-type fic

"He's been a husband three times now, but she's never been a wife, not a participating one anyway, and Castle intends to make every part of their marriage special and exciting. After all, they did promise each other to never be boring." *An AU entry for the Castle Winter Hiatus 2014 Ficathon.* Cover Art by the talented (XFchemist).

Richard Castle has been set up to take the fall for a murder he did not commit. (Prompt: What if Probable Cause took place in S4, before Castle & Beckett were together?) Canon through mid-S4.

What didn't we see? ... A series of filler and extended scenes, or retold scenes from inside a character's head. One chapter per ep for S2. Sticking to the canon ... absolutely no AU ... Expect humour, angst, romance, teasing, sexual frustration, hurt, comfort, drama, inner-torment, imagined sexual contact and fantasizing, and probably a bunch of unspoken swearing from Beckett.

Kate Beckett works alone. But her latest mission forces her to face the reason she went into her line of work and to deal with the man who has challenged her patience from the start.

Only one person can make him start to feel whole again, like something more than a broken shell of a human. One person. And he doesn't even know her real name. *AU based loosely on 4x12*

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

AU. "Apparently I don't look like a Kate but do I really look like an idiot?" It's Kate Beckett's first year at Stanford and it's not long before she meets Rick 'different girl every week' Rodgers. Sparks fly and Kate tries her hardest to ignore them - but how long will that last, especially when Rick is determined to make her his? Rating may change.

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

Everyday was the same. Get up, work, and then go to bed. Kate Beckett was bored. She needed a change in her routine. So, after some nagging from her best friend, she allowed herself to be set up on a blind date… and that's when she met Rick Castle. AU. Spy Castle. Entry for 2014 Castle Ficathon.

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.

From a tumblr prompt "Castle never brought Jacinda to the crime scene in the Limey." Would lack of a blonde flight attendant give Beckett the courage to tell Castle how she feels?

'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.

"Her mind flashes back to his question – his invitation to the Hamptons. He's building up ideas in her head, painting pictures of a Fourth of July spent on the beach, fireworks and bonfires; relaxation and a break from the work she's thrown herself into even harder since Memorial Day. And it's tempting." A post season 2 AU in which Castle returns after only two weeks.

A set of interconnecting kiss based one shots set in the not so distant Caskett future.

When fate reveals Castle's plan to run off to Paris and save his kidnapped daughter, terrified for his life, his safety, Kate Beckett sees no other option than to go in his place. AU. Target/Hunt. Based on a prompt from louisemcdoogle. Cover art by LoveJessieLou.

An AU Caskett meeting. Kate and Rick meet when she moves into his building after her apartment is destroyed by Scott Dunn. Mild Spoilers for "Boom"

A chance encounter leaves Kate questioning the decisions of her past and the road that she's currently walking with Castle. Will making a different choice lead to a new them? Or will the ghosts that haunt them both prove too much to overcome? A rewrite of 47 seconds.

"He almost lets it go. Almost doesn't press the issue. But the thought of the noises she'd make with his mouth at her throat, their chemistry on display for others to watch and enjoy, is just too tempting." A few chapters of AU spiciness that takes place after 7x02 - "Montreal."

" He's been home a week and they've only managed a kiss here or there, soft fleeting touches that say nothing of the couple they were before this happened." A scene insert for 7X02 "Montreal".

Something that was taken from Kate is suddenly restored. However, it was never in a way she imagined. Will a stunning revelation bring our duo closer together or deepen a growing divide? Season 4, AU after The Limey. A 2014 Ficathon Entry that was not completed in time.

A follow-up "Unwritten" companion. AU. They had both made their peace with the possibility that this all one day could end, even though both prayed every night before they closed their eyes for one day more in paradise.

"There are no victories, there is only the battle. The best you can hope for is to find your spot." Another AU look at Castle, rearranged. Kate lost her shield her first year as a detective, Can Detective Lieutenant Richard Castle earn her trust enough to help solve the case of her shooting? My Entry for the 2014 #CastleFicathon. Now with amazing new cover art by @Dtrekker

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.

On the verge of starting something new, Beckett accepts Castle's invitation to the Hampton's only to have Gina arrive before he can reply. The lonely summer stretches ahead but that's not the last Kate sees of Castle or his family. An AU Season Two ending and Summer 2014 Ficathon entry.

'Tomorrow they'll pretend this never happened. They'll go back to normal and part of her hates that more than the idea of things changing.' Season one AU. Oneshot.

For the following prompt on the castlefanficprompts Tumblr: Kate has a bad toothache, but doesn't want to go to the dentist. Castle has to practically force her. "Honestly, you're worse than Alexis," he muttered after forcing her down into a chair in the waiting area.

An insert between 4x05 'Eye of the Beholder' and 4x06 'Demons' - Serena Kaye and the haunted mansion - in which we see the Johanna Beckett Benefit. A prompt idea from Jeff. Happy Birthday, Jeff!

He shakes his head, laughter bubbling up from his chest. She can feel it under her hands, can feel his overflowing joy as it rises up. It pushes a grin out of her. Complete.

"You don't need to know my name in order to play; you just need to know the rules of the game, Kate. Didn't I tell you? We're going to play a game." Post "To Love and Die in LA" (3x22). What if Kate had to choose?

This can't be real. He must be dreaming. This can't possibly be real... Castle catches Beckett in a compromising situation. (Allow me to clarify: This is NOT a sequel. This is the complete piece in one post.)

A collection of unrelated drabbles, based around the hugs/cuddles meme on Tumblr. AMAZING cover art by dtrekker!

This is a Season 7 supposition only. I have no knowledge of spoilers or teasers, this is purely an idea at what their winter would look like in 2014-2015 after that season-ending fiery accident.

Flashforward/Flashback- a story in two parts. AU. There's a balance to the universe. There are certain things we aren't supposed to do, certain forces we aren't supposed to mess with, and this was one of them.

A direct follow up story to Inchoate by ColieMacKenzie. Castle and Beckett are both miserable following their divorce. Can they heal their broken relationship?

AU fic: After two failed marriages and none of his books getting published, Richard Castle and his daughter moved into his mother's place and work in her coffee store, Muse. As a struggling writer, Castle is determined to get published. Can one of his regular customers, homicide detective Kate Beckett, change all that with a little inspiration? (Set in 2011 - Season 3).

"She did what she had to do. She knows that unequivocally. And no matter the cost, she'd do it again. Because the life she took, saved someone else. It wasn't even a choice. It was the only choice." 2x13 Sucker Punch oneshot.

Castle and Beckett find themselves in a dark place, but they soon discover it's always darkest before the dawn. A 2014 Castle Ficathon entry based upon the following season 4 prompt (it's a small plot point that I'm running away with): "What if Castle didn't bring Jacinda to the crime scene in The Limey?"

A collection of stories changing something, to change the direction or portrayal of an episode. These are mostly unrelated and are out of order. They don't essentially change canon. Chapters stand alone and feature many different forms and writing styles As usual, I own nothing, but Castle lives in my dreams. Follow me on twitter @CheerfulChemist

Sequel to 'heart so helpless'. Castle and Beckett's struggles to overcome their past, the murders, and the mess they left behind. Cover art by half0utloud. COMPLETE.

"Why do you even care so much? What is it that you want so badly that you can't just let this go so we can both move on with our lives?" Set in the summer between 1x10 and 2x01, continues on throughout season 2. Cover art by ournorthstars.

"Hi, this is Dr. Asher calling from Mount Sinai Hospital on behalf of Katherine Beckett. There's been an accident." Set during season 4 by request. A look at what would have happened if Castle and Beckett had decided to start their relationship earlier in season 4.

Castle and Beckett never met five years ago. Beckett's Mom's case remains unsolved, and Castle has no muse. What happens when their paths cross? An AU Target/Hunt meeting.

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.

During a case, Castle and Beckett somehow travel into the future and end up meeting their future selves. How will this change their relationship once Beckett sees what her future could be like? AU. Includes season 1 and season 6 Castle and Beckett.

S6 finale-fic. 'Flowers dress the pews like garlands. The light strains of organ music drift down from above. Happy faces are everywhere. Candles burn, their glow like firelight and heady perfume scents the air. But the murmur of conversation, kept low in deference to their surroundings, is an incidental background to the single, jarring thought playing over in his mind.' COMPLETE

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

Author Richard Castle stumbles across Assistant District Attorney Kate Beckett and is instantly captivated. Using his connections with the mayor, he gets himself a six week pass to shadow her. Kate begins to count down the hours, wishing the six weeks were up, not realizing those six weeks will change her life forever. AU.

CH5: She wasn't jealous. Yet the empty feeling deep in her stomach, her lack of appetite, the prickly sensation that was steadily building behind her nose and the sting of her eyes as unshed tear s threatened to be spilled begged to differ. Nikki Heat (3x11). A series of one-shots where Rick or Kate is jealous of the others' momentary interest. All roads lead to Caskett.

Alexis didn't survive 'Hunt' and Castle never returned to New York. 5 years later he is back.

kairos (ancient Greek) - (n) the perfect, delicate, crucial moment; the fleeting rightness of time and place that creates the opportune atmosphere for action, words, or movement; the time of possibility. COMPLETE

Taking the flowers from Beckett's hand, Castle grins. It's amazingly sweet to have someone taking the time and effort to make him smile, to have someone trying to improve his day, and these flowers have just become sacred. Poof! You're Dead (S3) post episode story, becomes AU. How a simple gift turns into something so much more. COMPLETE

Missing scenes and musings from throughout the seasons. Accompanied by coffee and cheer, tea and comfort.

Castle's brilliant idea - "act drunk" - is not cutting it. She makes a mental note never to listen to him again. Ever. About anything. - fill for the winter hiatus kink meme.