Happy Sunday! I was going through old posts on my castle blog (justcaskett on tumblr) and there were so many 'happy Castle Monday!' posts and it kind of made me sad, haha. I still miss this show so much, but oh well... Hereby I declare this a happy Castle Sunday! (until I run out of fics of course). Again a very big thank you to Rebecca for being my amazing Beta! Enjoy!

"Kate?" She heard an all too familiar voice calling for her.

"Hmm..?" She answered, a bit miffed at being awoken from her easy slumber in the sun.

Castle stopped at her sun chair and looked apologetic "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't want to wake you from your nap."

Kate shook her head and sent him a smile, using her hand to shield her eyes from the sun so she could take a look at him. She loved him in his casual beach look, with those naturally tanned shoulders and cheeks. "I wasn't asleep, babe. Just relaxing. What's up?"

Castle sighed "We have a very cranky toddler on our hands, I can't figure out why and she won't tell me. So then I remembered that she's practically your mini-me and because our family is coming over in about an hour, and a grumpy Lily won't be a good party starter..."

Kare ignored the warm feeling she always got when he referred their relatives as 'their' family and sat up. This act alone took her a while due to the size of her very pregnant-with-twins stomach. "I'm not sure. Nothing was out of the ordinary this morning when I got her out of bed..." Kate said frowning. Biting her bottom lip trying to remember. "I'm just going to talk to her," Kate said, sticking out her arm for her husband to hoist her up.

"You don't have to get up Kate, I know how sore your back is and-"

She shook her head, not letting him finish his sentence "Castle, she's my daughter. She must be upset about something if she's not her normal sunny self."

Castle smiled lovingly. Just grateful for the fact that he was able to share the parenting of his youngest daughter that he couldn't with Alexis. He helped her up from her seat. Which wasn't as graceful as she might have been able in the past. But it did the trick anyway.

Kate gave her husband a reassuring squeeze in the palm of his hand and left the sunny outdoors for the aircon-cooled insides of their Hamptons house.

She quickly found Lily by following the noise. She was playing with her dollhouse but a little more aggressive than she was used to from her daughter. Lily hadn't noticed her mother yet, which gave Kate the chance to eavesdrop and see what was going on.

"No space!" Lily exclaimed and with a huff threw one of her most beloved dolls in the corner of the dollhouse. Lily was now sitting quietly, which gave Kate the opportunity to approach her daughter.

"Hi baby," Kate said, entering the playroom. Lily looked up at her mother. First in surprise but soon her face contorted into a big pout. Lily didn't answer and looked back at her dolls and quietly moved them through the dollhouse, playing a lot less aggressive than before her mother had walked in. Kate dreaded the fact that she had to sit down to communicate more easily with the toddler, but did it anyway and slowly sat herself down on the ground.

"Baby, what's wrong?" Lily didn't turn around. Just clenched her dolls more tightly in her little fists

"I am not a baby."

Kate smiled and let her fingers brush through the thick and shiny brown curls of her daughter. "No, maybe not. But you are still mybaby."

Lily still hadn't faced her mother but she wasn't playing anymore.

"Lily, can you turn around for me."

Lily, who was clothed in a nice white and crisp summer dress, slowly shuffled around and revealed her quivering bottom lip and shiny with tears eyes.

"Oh, Lily! What's wrong?" Kate almost exclaimed as he opened her arms for the girl. Lily took a step forward but then looked at her mother's protruding belly and pointed at it "No space!" She huffed accusingly.

That's when it hit Kate. Almost every morning Kate did her daughters hair. Sometimes in pig tails or braids but often just a good brush and letting her hair loose. It was a nice mother and daughter time they both enjoyed. But this morning Kate felt very uncomfortable with the twins that were currently incubating in her womb, pushing into her ribs and organs, that the thought of adding a toddler onto her lap felt too much and she had declared that there wasn't enough space for the girl. Lily seemed dismayed by that but she hasn't realized that, even though they had done her hair, the fact that Kate said there wasn't enough 'space' for her, it had stuck.

"Honey, I always have space for you."

Lily frowned "but brothers..."

Kate smiled "Yes, your brothers take a lot of space right now. But that doesn't mean I don't have any room left for you silly girl." And started to tickle her toddler daughter. Lily cried out laughing and fell into her mother's arms at last.

"I'm sorry if I made you feel like I didn't have room for you." Lily shook her head, her hair dancing on her shoulders "it's okay, mama. You are huge."

Kate snorted "Thanks, silly girl."

Lily just smiled; unaware of the insult she threw at her mother.

"Now let's help daddy before everybody gets here, okay?"

Lily nodded with a big smile and hopped to the kitchen, back to her normal smiley self. Leaving Kate, who had just realized she was unable to stand up from the ground "Eh, Castle!"

Thanks for all the amazing reviews i've gotten over the past few weeks, you guys keep me so motivated that I even started writing again! x