'"You know, once you clean that up, maybe we could go for a, um, round three." Castle pauses with the cool flesh of the fresh melon against his fingertips, his head rising slowly at the enticing sound of his wife's voice, how wonderfully erotic the number three has become for them.' Alternative insert for 8x17, 'Death Wish'.

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."

It felt good to wake up like this. Wrapped in the warmth of her husband's embrace feeling loved and protected. Just the way she wants to wake up every morning. Post 8x08.

The team at the 12th must help Beckett and Castle out of a sticky situation.

A post ep for 8x17 Death Wish. Castle and Beckett have a long postponed conversation. Also babies.

Kate helps out Lanie with her niece's slumber party, only to get pranked by the girls.

She looks fragile and pale and just...battered. The image is burned into his mind, swirling with his conflicted emotions. But, she's alive. The thing that overrides all of it is that Kate will be all right. His wife will recover. This is a wildly different take on what would be 8x08 I guess. It was begun over the summer as a "What if" separation concept. Now very AU.

A lone white candle sits on the wooden desk. A single rose, blood red, stands upright, its stem encased in the narrow vase. What if Johanna Beckett wasn't the first? One shot.

His troubled past behind him, the man once known as the Boy Who Lived changes his identity to live in New York as best selling author Rick Castle. What happens when his past catches up to him and what will he do about a certain Detective Beckett whose allure he cannot resist?

"I'm telling you, we need a dog." Post-ep of sorts for 8x16, 'Heartbreaker'.

Castle & Cinderella. Ridiculousness ensues. Crack!Fic. Inspired by a question on CastleFanFics blog.

A year in the life of Castle and Beckett, told through the major (and a few minor) US holidays. Mostly fluff, probably some drama. My contribution to the 2015 Castle Ficathon

Johanna Beckett gets transported fifteen years into the future just before she gets stabbed. What happens when she meets the newly married Mr and Mrs Castle? What happens when she meets her now fifteen years older, recovering alcoholic and widower husband?

'What she wants, and what she believes she can have, are two entirely different things.' Set after Tick Tick Tick/Boom, a violent storm keeps Castle and Beckett awake in the middle of the night. Filled for Alex's Castlefanfics Prompt Challenge.

What happens when Kevin Ryan falls in love with Alexis ? And what happens when Alexis falls for Kevin ? They accidentally fell in love but what is everyone else going to think ? They were never meant to fall in love but what does it mean when it feels like the most perfect thing to them. Have they found their happily ever after or just a heart break ?

For Detective Rysposito. Dark fic. Kevin centric. Kevin whump. Overprotective Javi. Set s3. Timeline AU : Knockdown before 3XK. Some Rysposito fluff. Domestic Kevin. Brief non graphic non con. Torture. Kevin feels like a screw up, the weak link, the unwanted last child, and that's the other thing he has feelings for his partner. But he knows Javier doesn't want him. Nobody does.

What a weekend morning might be like.

Tumblr Prompt: Josh comes home to find a distraught Kate in the midst of a panic attack and has no idea how to calm her down. There's really only one person who can, so he calls in reinforcements in the form of Castle.

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps. This is a series of thank you drabbles for people who helped with the fundraising campaign to help me get a new wheelchair.

He thinks they first met at a book signing, him drunk and a pen in his hand and her with a leather jacket and a badge. It's sorta like that.

A repost of three stories combined involving the search for Loksat.

Kate aime Castle plus que tout on le sait...Mais de quoi serait elle capable si elle le perdait ?

Kate's been in a coma for 2 years. When she awakens, she learns that Castle let her go. He's moved on for the sake of his sanity. Can she forgive him for abandoning her? Will Castle risk his heart again to be with Kate? Love always finds a way. Or so they say!

5x01 episode insert: their second night together. For a prompt from the castlefanficprompts tumblr.

Kate tries to get Lucy back and finds it's not as easy as she thought. A bit of a mix of Angst and Humor. Kate is a bit OOC here but I blame the wine! Spoilers for season8