For castle100; prompt was "Father's Day."
The weight of experiencing any celebration without his wife dimmed the sun for Jim Beckett, leaving him ensconced in blackness until a clock beeped its - and his - reprieve at midnight. Kate had granted his request to ignore every holiday but Christmas, so he wasn't expecting the firework blue corner jutting out from behind his bills.
He stood in the foyer of his apartment, dreading the celebration that lay beneath the envelope flaps.
He shouldn't have worried.
There was no address or name, just a simple message: Thank you for bringing Kate into the world, and into my life.