When Kate Beckett, no-nonsense professional ballroom dancer, takes on bestselling novelist and renowned playboy Richard Castle as her partner for the third season of Dancing with the Stars, will the sparks that fly light up the dance floor, or send their chances for the trophy up in flames?

Sequel to Medical Attention: Balancing life in a blended family can be hard enough, but when a pipe dream becomes a reality, can they survive with all pieces intact? (Beautiful cover art courtesy of Nadia) *2015 Castle Summer Ficathon*

"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.

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.

A Castle fanfiction for advent. Castle/Beckett AU meetings

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

Anniversary fic for my fic anniversary. Kate and Rick's 20th.

A series of mostly unrelated one-shots inspired by missed conversations between Castle and Beckett that might have changed everything.

"I'm not apologising for what I did if that's what you're here for, and if I had to do it all over again, I still wouldn't change a thing." - Fill for a tumblr prompt, AU from the end of Always. Three shot. Strong T.

'She cannot believe her freaking arm is broken.' Set very early season 3.

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).

"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

"You don't have to bother answering those questions. You've already made your opinion of me quite clear. I appreciate your honesty because the truth is an important thing, even the terrible truth." An insert for 7x20.

'It's been ongoing for the last few days – the restlessness, the nightmares, the sounds that crawl from his lips and crack her heart open more each night. But she doesn't think it's ever been this bad.' Episode insert for 7x20, Sleeper, with a minor twist on Rick's dream and the consequences that follow.

Kate runs into Josh when she and Castle are engaged and Josh reflects on Kate and Castle's relationship. Some fluff to get through this mini-hiatus. One-shot set in early S6.

A twist on Cops and Robbers (4x07) where there is no bank robbery, just a phone call. For lousiemcdoogle, and something for #CastleFanficMonday

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

Castle escapes to Vegas for the weekend to "clear his head". Beckett ends up on the first flight out to sin city to change his mind. Set immediately before 4x20, The Limey. Three shot.

"Kate is jerked wildly out of a sound sleep, her confusion severe, his sounds unearthly, a train wreck, something terrible." Takes place directly after 7x14 Resurrection and 7x15 Reckoning (Tyson 2-parter). Castle Fanfiction Monday

She faints. And on her first day back, no less. An AU story set early season five for Castle Fanfic Monday!

Happy birthday, Richard Castle. No spoilers.

Kate arrives at the loft for an impromptu visit and she comes bearing news. A Season 6 AU that picks up after the beginning of 6x01, Valkyrie.

"It was somewhere around four in the morning when the fight started, ignited from innocent words whispered through the quiet bedroom. " A prompt fill written for (@ MissKM ). Set between "Swan Song" and "After Hours".

Cops & Robbers AU- "Kate could have lost her best friend today. The man she saw a future with..." Prompted by Lou

"Silent noise," he says, trying it on his tongue as he moves to help her. "You know what, that's exactly what this. Noise without the chaos." Post ep for 7x16, The Wrong Stuff.

A post-ep for 7x15 Reckoning. Yes, again.

An AU version of sorts for the events of Resurrection (7x14) and Reckoning (7x15), set in season 4.

Post ep for 7x15 Reckoning. The conversation they never got to finish.

'This isn't an adventure, it isn't fun. It's a nightmare. They're being hunted like foxes and there is no other option, no way to fight, to win. They can only run.' An AU twist on 6x22, Veritas. For Nadia.

…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.

AU. When a teenage girl is found orphaned after both of her parents are murdered, Beckett struggles to find the girl more family. When the DNA results return Beckett as a match, she quickly realizes the young girl is the baby she gave up for adoption. Set during season 6.

"And when she'd handed it to him, unwrapped and entirely un-Christmas-y, she'd said, 'I'm giving you an experience.'" The Christmas season helps to lessen the blow. Post-ep for 7x10.

He crept quietly through the still-dark loft, the chill from the hardwood floor climbing into his naked toes as he tiptoed back through his office; didn't want to ruin the surprise - his Christmas gift for his wife. ThankYouTerri prompt fill.

"The loft has become a collaboration of his and her things and she loves that, but there's still one thing that they need to address. The bed." A fill written for the ThankYouTerri Campaign.

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

But what did Beckett's apartment mean to Castle? One-shot post-ep for 'Last Action Hero' (7x09).

A short one-shot post-ep to 7x8, "Kill Switch." "I needed to make sure you know that just because I talk about it less doesn't mean that I don't love you just as much..." Castle comforts Kate after a nightmare.

The AU of 7x06 "Time of Our Lives" AU in which Castle makes it to Captain Beckett with those two coffees. 'Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.' -William Shakespeare

Under Fire AU, set in season four. This time, it's Ryan and Castle stuck in the building. She wants her love to be the last thing he hears. COMPLETE.

"I love you, Kate," he murmurs softly, the words he's kept swallowed down for almost an entire year finally slipping from his lips. "And I promise if I make it out of this alive, I'll tell you when neither of us are on the brink of death, okay?" An AU version of 7x08, Kill Switch.

She crossed her toned, endlessly long legs, tugged down the edge of her tight skirt that had ridden up her thighs, checked her watch. Sadness, annoyance, resentment flashed across her face in quick succession, well hidden to anyone who wasn't watching closely, who was not as attuned, not used to observe quite as closely... An AU Caskett meeting.

'It wasn't the same, but when Richard Castle looks at her, there's a hint of that breath stealing longing she had seen all those months ago when a different version of the same man had waltzed into her life claiming to be her partner.' 7x06 AU. Oneshot.

'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.

The trace of his name flees from her lips, the whispered exhalation chased by a panicked breath. "No, please don't go, stay with me…stay with me - Castle! Castle?" Oneshot following AU Beckett once Castle has returned to his reality. Spoilers for 7x06, Time Of Our Lives.

How did 'Raging Heat' come to be printed while Castle was missing? One-shot.

a post-ep for 7x04 "Child's Play." thanks to jyleafer15 for awesome cover art.

An AU twist on 7x04, Child's Play. Complete.

Can you lose something that you never knew you had? Season 6 AU. Two shot.

a post-ep for 7x02 Montreal. "Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart." -Charles Dickens

'She has so much to say to him, so much she wants him to know, but how would she find the words? How would she find the courage' An AU oneshot set in the summer after Beckett's shooting. Birthday fic for ournorthstars.

The package comes on a Tuesday, two weeks before what would have been their first anniversary. (An AU take on the first two eps of S7)

"Kate's not sure what she expected to find, but this was definitely not it." Beckett comes home and finds Castle in a ridiculous situation "for research".

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. Post-Season 6 after 'Heartbreak and Hope.' Kate is kidnapped by someone from her past who was never what he appeared to be. Rated M for first and future chapters. Entry for the 2013 Castle Ficathon.

A collection of one-shots centered around possessive!Caskett and the slightly mature situations it leads to. Rated for safety.

Four years can make a world of difference. AU.

Kate and Castle on Christmas day. Continues the events of Secret Santa, vague mention of Probable Cause. My gift in the tumblr Castle Secret Stana Exchange.

It can never be enough, making up for all the time they've missed. She laughs, full and rich, shaking with it and it's infectious. He grins, pressing his forehead against hers as he watches the light fill her face. He lets the backs of his fingers graze her cheek, overwhelmed by her, by this, them-Everything. COMPLETE.

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.

Castle gets a new hobby.

"...When you lose something you can't replace, When you love someone, but it goes to waste, Could it be worse?" Episode reaction to 4x20 'The Limey.'

Castle and Beckett's entire life together in 27 frames, 100 words each.

A Valentine's Day fic. Happy Valentine's Day, Julie! I love you.

A touch was just the beginning.