She has the feeling that she's been here before but there is nothing around her that's familiar. She has trouble remembering anything at all but she does know that a couple of men do look familiar to her. As she enters the lobby of the 12th, she sees the desk sergeant and has to think up an excuse to get to the homicide floor that will be believable. She can't reveal herself as a student any longer because she is way too old to be a young college student. Then it hits her! She is an attorney and needs to speak with detective Castle about a case. she steps up to the desk and announces herself.

"Hi I'm an attorney and I need to see detective Castle about a case that he's working on." Again, Kate held her breath and crossed her fingers hoping that the sergeant would not ask for any form of identification.

"Can I ask who's here to see him, Miss?"

"Kate Beckett."

"Hold on a second and I'll call up to see if he's in."

The sergeant picks up the phone and dials Rick's extension. It rings three times and then switches over to the main number upstairs. Ryan answers his desk phone.

"Detective Ryan."

"Ryan this is O'Conner at the front desk. I have a lawyer Kate Beckett here to see Castle. Is he in?"

"He is. Send her up."

Kate watches as the sergeant hangs up the phone and pulls a visitor badge from the drawer and gives it to her.

"Wear this at all times. Take the elevator to the fourth floor and there you will see a detective Ryan. He will bring you to detective Castle."

"Thank you, sergeant." Kate turns and leaves for the elevator.

She thinks about what to say to make him recognize her and her mind is coming up with a great big blank. The doors to the elevator slide open and she is just standing there taking everything in.

"Hello?" She hears from someone on the floor and it draws her from her thoughts.

"Yes, I'm sorry. I seemed to have been daydreaming. I'm here to see detective Castle."

"Well the first thing you need to do in order to see him is to step off the elevator."

"Sorry again." Kate steps off the elevator and Ryan just looks at her funny.

"I'm sorry but have we met before?"

"I don't think so. Have I ever defended you?" Kate answers hoping he will ask the right questions.

"No, I've never needed a lawyer before. But you still look familiar to me."

Kate thinks to herself, come on Kevin ask me about where I went to school or what I studied when I was in school.

"Did you go to school in the city?"

"I did I went to Columbia."

"You studied law when you were in Columbia?"

"I did. I also did the paper on how the homeless were treated by the NYPD. How they were treated when the stop and frisk program was in place, what happened when it became too cold for them to be on the street.

Ryan racks his brain for any kind of recognition of who is standing in front of him and he thinks he remembers who she is but he needs to go on more to be sure.

"What's my wife's name?" Kevin blurts out.

Kevin got married? When did this happen? God, why hadn't she known her name…wait a second when she was here last, he was seeing a teacher named Jenny. Could she be his wife now?

"Her name is Jenny."

"Kate? Is that really you?"

"It is Kevin. I'm a bit older as you can see."

"How and why?"

"Kevin I can't even begin to tell you what happened to me. It's like the last three years are a blank in my mind. I only remember Jenny and I have a memory of Rick but it's very vague but it has something to do with him being hurt and that's all I remember."

"He was hurt. Badly. There was a stabbing by a man trying to rape an elderly woman near Phil's coffee shop on the corner of Houston and 13th street. He was in surgery for over seven hours. His PT lasted about three months before he gave up and left. Then he became very cold to everyone. He was closed off to the world."

"Kevin, was it the fact that I wasn't there an issue? I mean I went to see him at the hospital but they wouldn't admit me because I was not family."

"Kate I'm not sure what happened but whatever it was it changed him."

"It changed who?" A deep baritone voice said.

They both just stood there not saying a word. Kate wanted to say something but decided against it to see if he could recognize her without her saying a word. She was pretty sure that he might have an idea of who is standing right in front of him.

The aroma of her perfume assaulted his nose instantly. He had smelled this scent before he knows what this is, but he just can't put his finger on where he remembers it from.

"You. Your stabbing changed you." Ryan tells Rick.

Kate looks everywhere but at Rick. She wants to know if he will recognize her being older than when he remembers her from following him around.

"So Kevin who is this very beautiful woman? Aren't you going to introduce us?" Rick says as he leans back on the edge of his desk.

"I'm pretty sure that you have an idea who this is. But since I'm not the one who should be introducing her maybe she should be the one who tells you who she is herself."

Rick just looked at Kevin like he had lost his mind. He'd never seen this woman before in his life because if he did, he would have remembered her. She turns to him and their eyes locked together he knows those eyes. The small flecks of gold in her hazel eyes are a dead giveaway of someone he remembers from years ago. He studies her face intently trying to figure out if he looks like anyone who he has ever met before. Her cheekbones are high, her hair is long and free-flowing, she has a birthmark on her left cheek right below her jaw that niggles at him. He just can't remember who it was attached to in the past. She has a mischievous look about her as if she was the one who got away with sticking her hand in the cookie jar and ate the cookie. He looks over her body and sees that she is very lithe and slim. She is a knockout and he seems to recall a person who kept asking him questions about some homeless people but that's a far as he can think. There is something about her though and he can't place it. Then the scent of strawberries assaults his nose again.

"Sorry Miss, I have no clue as to who you are," Rick said.

Ryan chimed in with a clue and it might be a dead giveaway but he knew these two were meant to be together.

"Rick, I will give you two clues about who this could possibly be standing in front of you. Study her face and think of her as a younger version of what you see standing in front of you. Then the only word I'm going to give you as a clue is "thesis."

Rick did what Ryan suggested. And he keeps going back to her eyes. There's something about them that he can't place and they look so very familiar to him. Then he thinks about the word that Ryan gave to him "thesis." He studies her face deeper and he sees that she is older but this could not be her. This could not be the person who he didn't want anything to do with because if it is, he made a total ass of himself the last time they met. It's then when he sees her smile and her laugh lines on her face become more pronounced and then he knows exactly who is standing right in front of him.

"Kate?" Rick suggests.

"Hello, Rick. And yes, it's me, Kate. Do you remember me?"

"It is coming back to me but slowly. What I can't understand is how you became older looking in the last three years. When I saw you last you are a college student barely in her twenties and now you look like a sophisticated, educated, and very beautiful woman. You should be in your late twenties I would have never guessed that it was you. What happened to you?"

"I'm not sure Rick. All I can tell you is that I ended up near Stanford University four days ago and I have no recollection of how I got there. I only knew I needed to get back to here to be near you."

"Near me? Why?"

"Because I am in love with you Rick. I know that it sounds crazy but I am."

"I know Kate. I'm in love with you too."

Kate walks over to him and in the middle of the bullpen, she takes him into her arms and hugs him with all she has in her. He responds the same and when they part the whole floor erupts with applause.

Xx

Now, do you see Raguel? No matter what you did to deter her from him she still found her way back to her soulmate. And for the record, I think that it was a mean way to bring her back to being a mortal." Sapphira said as they both looked down from the heavens at Kate and Rick at the 12th precinct in a loving embrace.

"Sapphira this was a test. If she found him again then so be it. But if she didn't, I would not lose any sleep over the fact that she could not find her soulmate." Raguel turned and left her to stare at the two future lovers.

Sapphira knew that she was meant to do bigger things with her life and being an angel was not in the cards for her. Not far from now Kate will prove her right. She moves her arm over the pool of water she is looking at and the image changes to future events. Kate will marry the love of her life and they will have three beautiful and wonderful children together. Rick will retire from the NYPD to raise his children as a stay at home father. Kate will become a very compassionate and capable attorney who won just about every case she tried and will defend the men and woman who can't afford a high-priced lawyer. Her mother and father meet with them every Sunday to go to church and then to have an enjoyable brunch together afterward. Life could not be any better for them. Sapphira smiles a lot for her friend and wishes that she too could have what Kate has…

~Fin~