I'M BACK! And it's only been a day and some change! Believe me, it was you guys who inspired me to write more today. Every time I get an email saying I have a review or one of the 105(iloveyouallsomuch)story alerts I got, I danced and got inspired again. I love this fandom with a passion, you guys are so supportive!

Anyway, I think this chapter turned out pretty okay. It IS less funny than the other two, but don't worry. I got humor stored up and ready to use, if you want another chapter of this stuff. XD Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Castle. BUT, according to castlesays on Tumblr I use the same conditioner as Kate Beckett. So, it's a start.

Chapter 3

Castle kept his mouth shut, refusing to respond to my question.

"Answer me, Castle!" I demanded, trying my best to glare right into his soul. He sighed.

"Yes…" He was beet red in embarrassment. It served him right!

I couldn't believe it. 'I' was pregnant. With, I assumed, Castle's kid. Suddenly I was taken back to Madison's interrogation a couple years ago. "You want to make little Castle babies!" Well, congratulations, Maddie, it was coming true.

Wait, no it wasn't! Get your head back in the game, Kate. This is just one of Castle's fantasies! Wait, did Castle really fantasize about us? Getting married and pregnant? The possible realization hit me like a freight train, and gave me the butterflies again.

But it still didn't mean I did not feel violated by this fictional version of Castle.

'Kate' in the game ran out of the bathroom in her ugly new clothes and recently unflattering figure and went up to 'Rick'. An action bubble appeared in the corner with a still picture of 'Rick's' face. It said, "Inform about pregnancy".

"Castle." I tried to stay as calm as possible.

"Mmhmm?" He murmured, cautiously. He kept looking at me like I was going to spontaneously combust at any moment. It gave me great pleasure to understand how much power I really had over him.

"Was that just a coincidence?"

He seemed a little relieved that I was not yelling at him, just yet, and he shrugged. "I think so. They don't get pregnant every time they have-"He stopped suddenly, grimacing at what he just admitted.

"Excuse me?" my eyes were as wide as saucers, "You want to run that by me again?"

"Never mind." He said, hurriedly.

A burst of happy sound came from the computer and stopped me from tearing his ear off.

'Rick' was smiling and looking down at the tummy of 'Kate'. He looked extremely happy, and the thought bubble above his head was filled with an image of Kate, and hearts floated around it like butterflies.

Castle pressed a couple controls on the keyboard quickly during the scene, causing a red box to surround the screen and a ticking noise. Before I could ask what he had just done, 'Rick' knelt down and played Peek-a-boo with 'Kate's' belly.

Despite the fact that they were just pixel versions of us, my heart melted at the accuracy of 'Rick's' personality. It was such a Castle thing for him to do, playing with the baby before it was even born.

And it was the sweetest thing I had ever seen.

I saw Castle out of the corner of my eye, and he was wearing a content grin across his face as he looked at me. His beautiful blue eyes seemed to be smoldering with happiness.

I half-smiled back at him, but I brought up what we were discussing before the cuteness happened. "You are still not gonna get away with this one, Rick." I crossed my arms. "What did you mean by 'every time'?"

He cocked his eyebrow and his eyes had that familiar playful twinkle in them. He made his eyebrows waggle. "Well, Detective, we are married. It would be customary for us to have-"

All the we's and us's were giving me heart failure, so I interrupted him.

"Castle… Focus. They, not we. Last time I checked, WE were not married." I gestured inbetween us, but I tried not to meet his eyes as I corrected him.

"Well, you are still my work wife." His crooked grin was antagonizing the butterflies.

"No, I am not!" I responded adamantly. "Anyway, stop changing the subject."

"You changed it first." He mumbled and folded his arms.

I pinched the bridge of my nose with my fingers and groaned. "What does it eve-oh, whatever."

He seemed content with my frustration, that jackass, and he continued to stare at me with a small arrogant smirk.

I rolled my eyes and continued."Anyway, so in the game, they actually…you know…"

"…have sex?" I whispered.

He appeared to look pleased at my squeamishness around the word. He nodded slowly.

What kind of a freaky game was this? And what was it rated?

He seemed distracted by my uneasiness, so I finally saw my opening to corner him. I raised my eyebrow. "Does it show it?" I asked, tentatively.

He scoffed and rolled his eyes. "No! They are under a blanket and laughing the whole time."

"Oh…" I made myself seem curious and inquisitive, even though on the inside I was kind of grossed out that he would watch it. But I had another card to play. 'Rick' and 'Kate' were no longer moving in the scene.

I asked as humorous as possible. "Hey, they just found out about the baby. Shouldn't they be 'having relations' right now to celebrate?" I added a giggle and a 'hidden' hair twirl at the end for emphasis.

Castle chuckled, staring at the hand that was twirling a lock of my hair, and said, "No. You have to make them do something that specific."

And BAM, said the lady.

"Oh, you do, huh?" I replied, leaning back in the chair. As he looked back at me, I simply smiled in victory.

Then his covered his mouth in disbelief as what he had just said, and his ears were slowly turning red again. Through his hand, I heard him say, "Did I just...?"

"Yep, you kind of just did." I answered smugly.

Except, I didn't know why I responded that way. Why was I so obsessed to know if he had played a role in 'their' relationship? Was I just trying to prove that I was right? Or did I want him to have helped them? And what did that prove if he indeed had helped them? Did it prove that he wanted me? After the three months of not calling him, and not admitting what I had heard, did he still feel the same way as the day I was shot? Or was it too late for that?

All these questions made my head hurt.

Castle stared at me for a while. I couldn't read the expression on his face, but he swallowed deeply, which made me think he was nervous.

"I won't deny that one." He said with a straight face, no smugness, no humor.

My face grew hot at what he was implying. Not even implying, stating.

I couldn't meet his eye. I didn't want to talk about this anymore. Not here, not now.

Then when?

The voice in my head resounded. I shook it away.

"Kate?" Castle looked up at me with endearing and confused eyes. My heart soared.

I tucked a few strands of hair behind my ear and cleared my throat. I pushed back from the desk and stood up.

Castle grabbed my hand and held it. "Please don't leave, Kate."

My wall crumbled, the concrete and metal running through it crushed by the gentleness of his hands clutching mine. I had made up my mind, and decided to relieve him of his stress.

"I'm not leaving." I smiled down at him and released my hand from his clutches. "I'm hungry, and that chili smells amazing."

A wave of relief seemed to crash through Castle's whole body. I didn't notice that he had been holding his breath until he finally released it on a sigh and laughed.

We exchanged a glance. He raised his eyebrows, as if to say, 'We WILL talk about this.'

And I made my eyes twinkle down at his, 'I know.'

"Okay, let's go eat." He stood up from being on his knees and winced in pain from kneeling for so long.

I bit back a smile. "You ok, over there?"

"Yeah, just not as young as I used to be." He lunged on both legs to stretch the muscles and loosen the tension.

I walked out the door in the direction of the living room. "26 days!" I shouted over my shoulder, laughing.

"Oh, shut up!"

TBC

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