Kate Beckett Castle gets ready for bed and is just putting the rest of the lotion all over her hands as she walks back to their bedroom, thinking about the day her little munchkins had today. She's taken them out to see their grandmother's grave, putting flowers there and when they asked about her. After that they'd gone to the park, where they'd met up with their father, her husband, and she doesn't know how but somehow he managed to drag her into the play. She smiles at the memory. It must've looked so funny, the two adults climbing and crawling in the playground trying to fit through what was only built for kids.

"What are you smiling about?"

Kate looks up to see her husband eyeing her from their bed. She can't stop the smile from growing bigger, her teeth sinking into her lower lip as she looks down with a blush on her cheeks.

"I just keep thinking about how you continue to convince me doing all these childish things," she says, pulling off her robe to put onto the chair before going to the bed.

"Well, as much as I'd love to take the credit that's all you, being an amazing mom."

The love and adoration in his voice doesn't go past her and she feels her cheeks go warmer. She sits down on her side of the bed, grabbing the cover to pull over her legs. Castle was quiet for the time it took for her to snuggle down, when she reaches for her book though she hears him open his mouth.

"You know what date it is today?"

Looking to him she furrows her eyebrows. "What do you mean? It's the 9th of March?"

His smile widens and she gets even more confused. "Exactly."

When he doesn't say more she tries to think, tries to go through everything they've gone through together in order to find what the hell he was referring to. And coming up empty.

"I give up, what's so special about today?" she eventually says, her eyes searching his blue ones.

He only grins, leans in closer and pecks her lips before pulling away to take out an old Storm Fall book-party badge. It takes her another second before she realizes what he's trying to tell her.

"Shut up," she says with wonder in her dropped jaw as her lips slowly turns up in a smile.

"It's eleven years ago we met," he says matter of factly with that same stupid grin and she can't help but laugh with joy.

"I can't believe you remember that date," she says as she reaches for the badge. Examining it.

"Of course I do, it was the day my life became extraordinary," he says with a wink and she chuckles.

"Definitely was," she agrees, biting her lip again.

She doesn't need to look at the badge for long, just strokes it a little before giving it back to him for safe-keeping. Once he's put it back in the drawer and turns back around again she gently cups his jaw, pulling him closer to her as she lets her lips claim his in a loving, deep and passionate kiss. When they pull away for air she's still smiling and when she meets his eyes so is he.

"I love you," she tells him for the millionth of time.

"I love you too," he says before bending down to kiss her lips again.

To know their lives had changed for the better eleven years ago on the day make their hearts explode with joy. Who could've known that one wish to hear someone say something different, a detective who reads mysteries even on her free time, could change two lives forever? It must've been fate.

THE END