A/U For years, he thought she was dead. Murdered - he had been a suspect. He loved her. He mourned her, but the problem was that that person didn't even exist. The Castle characters aren't mine, but I raise my glass in Auld Lang Syne to Marlowe and company.

How would things have turned out different if one of them could have heard the others thoughts at the times they needed to most.

Beckett overhears Castle telling Demming that there's no flag on the play, which comes on top of an unsuccessful stay at the loft and a case which reopens a less-than-pleasant time in her past. AU of the second half of S2. Please see warning inside.

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.

Richard Castle is loved by few and hated with a passion unrivaled by others. Broken and hurting, his soul all but destroyed. Kate is hiding just to stay alive until one fateful day. Once upon a time, ... "Now Complete"

Going to university was supposed to broaden Kate Beckett's mind. Broadening her genetic make-up was going just a little too far. By popular request, how Beckett became a shapeshifter and what happened thereafter. Rating warning for the final chapter, which is mildly M. Caskett Cats Universe #2.

"Detective Castle, this is Katherine Beckett, famous mystery novelist with 26 bestsellers to date, perhaps 27 soon if this all works out. And your shadow for the foreseeable future." AU.

Forgiveness isn't something you are only granted by others. Forgiveness is something that you also have to grant to yourself. An AU starting about six months earlier than canon did, and in part a Christmas story. Please see warning in Ch1. COMPLETE.

Kate Beckett has just woken up after her shooting, but things aren't quite what they're supposed to be. AU from 4x01. Rating may change.

A repository for random stories from the Felis Felix universe (read that first). Beckett is pregnant - but what sort of babies will she have? Human, or feline? A rather sardonic look at pregnancy, with added genetics. Followed by The Visitor. Caskett and their very new twins have an unexpected visitor in the form of the giant cop, O'Leary. Caskett Cats #6 and #7.

This is the sequel to the story "The Bear and I". It will continue the adventures and lives of the shape shifting Rodgers family. It would be best if you read that story first. Likely will be updated every other day till the end. - NOW COMPLETE

"The day Richard Castle found a stray cat strutting through an alley, uncollared, unchipped, but clearly very expensively pedigreed, was the end of his world as he knew it. He just didn't realise it. Then." Fluff in six chapters. Written for the Castle Hallowe'en Bash. Caskett Cats Universe #1

In the season 8 finale, Richard Castle and Kate Beckett solved the most harrowing case of their careers only to be gunned down by a man supposedly dead. Did Caleb Brown survive? Was he acting alone, or was he sent by someone determined to eliminate Castle and Beckett once and for all? And will they be found in time? Season 9, episode 1.

By walking out on her marriage with no notice, by excluding her husband from all parts of her life with no explanation, Kate Beckett has broken something precious and fragile – Rick Castle's belief in their always and forever. Can she find him to fix it? Written for the Castle 2015 Winter Hiatus Ficathon. Gorgeous cover art by the wonderful Angie @dtrekker COMPLETE

Kate Beckett is 19 and it's January 1999 and her world is about to change. Though her world wasn't really what she thought it was in the first place. Will she like and accept her new one? - NOW COMPLETE!

When Rick Castle agrees to a meeting with the head of one of New York's more efficient crime families, he has no idea what he's getting into, or how it's going to change his life. A 2016 Castle Hiatus Mini-Ficathon story. Meeting AU. Job AU. COMPLETE

Post-ep for 3x13 "Knockdown."

When Rick and Gina leave for the Hamptons, Kate feels a sense of rejections she has never felt before. Not being a "sharer", no one thinks to as how she feels. Kate turns to the one option she knows will make her feel better: narcotics Trigger warning for substance abuse and thoughts of suicide.

Set around "Headhunters". -The hammer blow comes when she least expects it, and it's devastating. He wants to follow another cop, and not just any other cop. He wants to follow Ethan Slaughter, this uncouth meathead from Gangs whose last three partners all died on the job under questionable circumstances, earning Slaughter the unfortunate nickname: "The Widowmaker."

This is a story about the Bear and I. It's a true story since i only tell true stories. Honest! It's all true, ... mostly. I never believed something like this could happen to me. I hope you enjoy my story, my life, my dream come true. Maybe it will live well past my years. I'd like to think so. - Now Complete

It's after midnight when she tiredly slips the door shut behind her back. She takes a moment to rest her back against the familiar press of wood and metal. Exhaustion seeps from under her skin, out through her pores and into the dark quietness surrounding her. (Insert/post-ep for 8x09 Tone Death)

Kate Beckett is one of the NYPD's brightest homicide detectives, but she also harbors a dark secret - one that not even she was aware of until recently. She leads a double life of sorts, subjecting herself to horrors and conspiracies unlike anything else in the world. And once she saves bestselling author Richard Castle from certain death, things get even hairier.

"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.

If this was what really being in love felt like Kate wasn't sure she was going to survive it. Not like this was news, but obviously something was seriously wrong with her. Winner of FanFic: Best Humor in the 2012 Castle Fan Awards