AU first meeting: He finds it in the early hours of dawn, in those scarce and precious moments between light and dark, when the world feels both limitless and impossible all at once. Based on a prompt from the Castlefanfics prompt challenge.

Castle and Beckett meet in a toy store, sending each other messages via a children's toy. Written for Castlefanfics Prompts Challenge, based on the word, Dinosaur. Happy Castle Fanfic Monday!

"Are you stalking me?" An AU Caskett meeting for the Castlefanfics Prompt Challenge.

He finds his match is smart, her humor sharp, and the desire just to meet her for real nearly overwhelms him. He doesn't. It isn't the right time. But he asks her to call him Rick, and in return, she asks him not to call her Katie any longer. It's Kate, she says. - A Caskett Meeting AU for CastleFanficMonday

AU. They meet in an airport when their flight is delayed.

"It's a tradition, of sorts, one of the only ones she's kept up with since her mother died. She has a cup of steaming hot chocolate, complete with a handful of mini marshmallows, each year on Christmas Eve. It's not much, barely anything special at all, but it's the one small way she still feels connected to the holiday, and she plans to keep it up." Holiday meeting AU.

His lips tag her forehead, warm but dry, and she lets herself sag deeper into his embrace. Apparently pregnancy makes her a cuddler. Or maybe it's just Castle. She doesn't feel quite the same urges to curl into Ryan's chest the way she does her partner's. - A follow-up oneshot to The Reminder.

"They slept together. He'd joke that it's not a big deal, after all they have done it before, but they're both aware that it is, in fact, a big deal. They've been divorced two years, and they had finally settled into the rhythm of being friends and parents to Noah, and now everything's a mess."

He's not wrong; he is leaving something of himself behind when he goes off to write a certain British Secret Agent, but it's neither his insistence upon the proper usage of irony, nor his constant complaints about 'you're' vs 'your' in internet debates that she'll have to remember him. Written for Castle Fanfic Monday.

She knows that smile. Knows him. And from the fact that his eyes have widened as soon as he set them on her, she's almost certain he knows her too. "Don't just stare at her from a distance," Johanna teases, Kate cursing her Mom's apparent ability to pick up on everything, "she doesn't bite!" Except the fact that he's wearing a scarf in August is proof that she does bite. Hard.

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

A Castle fanfiction for advent. Castle/Beckett AU meetings

Kate Beckett meets her boyfriend's daughter for the first time, but not the way she expects to meet her. Third in the AU-verse Lost and Found series (Pick Me Up At the Lost and Found, Piece By Piece). Caskett.

A look at how AU!Castle and AU!Beckett build each other up piece by piece. Follow-up to Pick Me Up At the Lost and Found.

"Maybe it was hard for her to grasp it, but she didn't feel sadness or anger, there was only a detachment. As if she were already gone" Fall 2012 Becketts gets diagnosed with terminal cancer

Rebel Becks meets Richard Castle in a holding cell one night.

'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.

Written for a prompt on castlefanficprompts. "You found me drunk and crying in a bathroom bc my ex dumped me and then you brought me to a taxi and insisted on giving me your number so you'd know that I got home safe and then we start texting a lot AU"

'It was never supposed to go this far; he was never supposed to become more than a kind man bringing a recovering gunshot victim her mail, was never supposed to become more.' AU.

"I don't wanna die, Castle." A birthday fic for Steph.

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.

Each morning for the last week, she's stared at her hands in the pre-dawn haze, seeing his blood in every crease, every nook and cranny even though her skin is clean. She can't stop dreaming about watching Richard Castle die. A Time of Our Lives (7x06) AU AU.

A drunken Kate Beckett is not what he had expected for Christmas, but he's not complaining. A season 2 AU holiday oneshot.

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

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

Prompt: AU - Castle and Beckett were both set up on blind dates at the same restaurant, but their dates don't show and they start talking and hit it off. (Anonymous prompt from the castlefanficprompts tumblr).

'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.

Rick Castle is called over to 7-year-old Alexis' classroom, where he meets her teacher, Ms Beckett. (Based on ep 7x04 - 'Child's Play')

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

AU. Eighteen-year-old Kate Beckett meets Richard Castle, and her father doesn't exactly approve. From Jim's POV.

'She was hoping for him to come back, waiting for him to return, but what if she was waiting for something that was never going to happen' A post-ep for 6x23, For Better or For Worse. One shot.

AU in which both Castle and Beckett attend their senior prom, and it changes the course of both of their lives. One-shot.

A collection of Castle and Beckett first kisses! Number Eighteen: "Dare You To Move."

The everyday journey from friendship to a relationship. Post Always.

If she hadn't said yes, they wouldn't have kissed. Alternate Universe. Picks up immediately after Cops and Robbers.

Always SPOILERS. Co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. How Kate Beckett and Rick Castle spend their summer.

With no quest and no job there is still a summer to fill, for Kate Beckett that means everything right now is just . . . Castle. Expect snippets of a summer, of a relationship evolving and a love growing confident.

Their footsteps echo in the nearly empty hallways as they make their way to the room that is at once so familiar and yet still feels so strange. Follows "Sweetheart," "The Message," and "The Call." Complete.

Sequel to Coffee and Scribbles! Basically following straight on from Coffee and Scribbles. What will happen in their relationships? What new hurdles do they have to face? Disclaimer: Castle is not mine!

A sequel to 'Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop'.

They are some people who are so much a part of us, they'll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground. Our North Star. Post-Always.

Post-Always. Firmly in M territory now. - Making love for a second time comes easy. It's gentle and full. Slow and effortless. They take their time becoming aware of the other, discovering hidden secrets and reveling in unadulterated emotion.

The story of each and every one of those one hundred coffees that Kate owes Rick. Castle/Beckett. Now COMPLETE. Spoilers now include "Undead Again" in the EPILOGUE/START OF SEQUEL, which is what I just added. Fluff, angst, reality.

What happens if Kate and Rick meet earlier than believed in a coffee shop? What will happen between the two of them? Johanna Beckett is alive in this story! At least for some of it! Disclaimer: I don't own Castle!

After a long day at the 12th, Castle is roused from his twisted sheets by a phone call. She needs him. There is no hesitation in what he does next.

Castle decided to write James Bond instead of Nikki Heat and so our Detective and Writer went their separate ways. Three years latter they run into each other again. Where do they go from there?

He's hurt; she thinks she can help. Takes place some time during S4, after Cuffed. Happy unbirthday, Laura! I love you.

Walls fall down; that's the nature of the beast. And no matter how Kate looks at it, she's staring at piles of rubble. And from rubble, where do they go next? Slight spoilers for 4x11 and beyond.

Through all of the secrets and the lies, the betrayal and the pain, the destination was always the same. They were meant to be together. Complete. Winner of the 2012 Castle Fan Awards Best Non Romance/General category!

I got a love that keeps me waiting. A co-authored story by chezchuckles and International08. Complete.

co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. Beckett and Castle are assigned to work a case undercover.

Why are Kate's car windows all steamed up?

Kate met Rick by accident one cold morning in Central Park. Based on Adele's song with the same title. Completely AU.

When Kate Beckett went to get her book signed by Richard Castle, she never imagined that she'd end up meeting his daughter, much less offering to babysit for the afternoon. AU.