Set after XX, this is from Alexis' point of view on the affect Kate leaving her father had. How she slowly watched the dad she knew disappeared into a shell. One shot.

All the time thinking how she was going to tell her husband. For a moment she stood there biting her lip. Maybe she didn't have to tell him. She could show him instead. Now a baby/kid collection of family moments. Ch12 - Grandpa Rick.

She was doing it again, falling back into old, bad habits, as if nothing had really changed, as if her wall was still there. A "fix it" post-ep for 8x2 "XX."

8x02 Episode Insert. Missing scene(s) before Beckett comes home after the case and before she talks to Castle. May contain spoilers for episode.

The hour was late. The case had been solved, the killer caught and yet Richard Castle was staring out the window of his loft, delaying the inevitable for as long as possible. These last few nights sleeping in their bed without her had been a bottomless pit of loneliness and sorrow. 8x03 speculation. Complete.

The one in which Javier is a little too overprotective, Kevin is annoyed and they're both idiots.

"When you coming home? It's the quiet in the night that makes my mind make noises and guessing second times. Tell me that you're mine. Say it one more time. I'm ready to lose everything but you." An AU of sorts post-ep for 8x02, XX.

Kate's daughters wake her up in the middle of the night with important problems, and she has some interesting answers for them.

He has no choice but to trust her. She has to trust in him, too. Both of them have to play their heart-breaking parts to the absolute top of their bent. If either fails, this whole charade will have been for nothing. Spoilers for 8.02.

A thirty day fanfiction challenge. Each chapter is based on a prompt word. In the same universe, but not chronological. Each is exactly one thousand words. SPOILERS for all US aired episodes.

My conclusion of the story arc begun in 8 x 01 and 8 x 02. Sorry in advance for the drama and the angst. Be warned, there are spoilers as well.

This scenario had played out in her worst nightmares for years. It wasn't a dream this time though, and it was worse than her nightmares had ever been. Never in her wildest imagination had she thought if this was to happen she wouldn't be there to help and comfort him. Post 08x02. Caskett. One Shot.

In another life, Alexandria Rogers welcomes the new student Kate Beckett to her school. Kate has a past that she has chosen to escape from. What happens after Alexandria's brother, Alex Rogers, figures out a little something from her past.

"It's in the stars. It's been written in the scars on our hearts that we're not broken - just bent." A post ep for XX/XY 8x01 and 8x02.

"One step my heart is breaking, one more my hands are shaking." A late night run in at the precinct, after Beckett leaves the loft. Post ep for 8x02.

"La première nuit, elle ne dort pas." Post-8x02.

Reckoning AU- Kate's blood is found, but no body is found she is announced dead. Nine months later a baby boy arrives at Castle's loft.

Post epi 8x02

"Curiosity didn't kill the cat this time, it killed the whole litter, and satisfaction wouldn't bring them back." Post-ep of 8x02, spoilers obviously. Kate dealing with the emotional aftermath of her decision.

Post 8x02 Kate Beckett always hated it when she heard alcoholism referred to as a disease. She saw the weakness, the choice that preceded the dependency. So what does that make her, now that she feels that same insatiable pull?

Knockout AU - Preview: "He's right you know," Castle murmurs softly, "some things would be a mistake in any life, in each place and forever."

'She looks just as forlorn as she did the other night when she left him and he wants to tell her that she has to figure herself out before she comes back and gives him false hope because he really can't keep doing this, can't be here every time she remembers that she is supposed to love him.' A post-ep for 8x02, XX.

A post ep for 8x02, because Kate Beckett really hasn't considered all of the ramifications before walking out on Castle and setting off on this crusade.

Prompt: Caskett's kid, like her mommy, figures out the "secret" about Santa at a really young age. Daddy is not impressed.

Inspired by a prompt on Tumblr. Post 8X02. It's #nationalcoffeeday and Castle brings coffee despite what happened last night. One-Shot