It was his blue eyes she missed the most, and the smile of her son. His bright half toothy grin that would erupt in laughter as she tickled him. Those memories are ones she would cherish forever, or at least try to.

Sighing Kate sits up in the bed. She studies the sounds she hears hoping to tell if Castle is in the room with her. She needs to take her meds but its super blurry this morning and really all she can see is a giant blob of color. Not enough for her to trust herself heading to the bathroom and deciphering a pill from God knows what. Yes, she had learned her house but she was just not feeling it this morning.

"Momma!" A smiling seven-year-old comes running in the bedroom attempting to jump on the bed.

"Hi, Sidney, please be careful." Kate smiles, her eyes looking off into the distance.

"Have you seen daddy?" She asks hoping the boy would know where her husband was.

"He was getting Toria." The boy says shifting on the bed as Kate hears footsteps coming down the hall.

"Wanna see mommy?" Castle asks, walking down the hall holding his two-year-old on his hip. A few years after Kate was diagnosed the couple found out Kate was pregnant. Her sight was still rather blurry but not as bad as it was today. Although the couple wants more kids, Kate is not sure she can do it now that her sight is almost gone.

"Look who I found!" Castle beams walking into the room and watching Kate's head turn towards him. He walks closer and sits next to Sidney and Kate on the bed adjusting the two-year-old Victoria on his lap. She's squirmy as she really wants to go sit with her mom.

"Hold on Toria, mommy has to get her meds first," Castle says kissing his daughter and setting her on the bed next to Sidney and Kate. Getting up he kisses Kate and quickly scurries to the bathroom and coming back with a handful of pills and an eye dropper squirt bottle.

"Take these pills but then lean back, I need to put in your drops, we missed yesterday." Castle exhales, remembering the struggle they had yesterday and the crying fit that ended them in just giving up. Handing Kate a cup of water so she could down the pills he helps her finish and then helps her tilt her head back. Every morning the family sits on the bed while Castle helps Kate take her meds and every morning Sidney watches Castle put the little drops in his wife's eyes. Castle has never been sure why he does this but as long as he does not get to close it does not matter.

"Kate please, honey, I need you to be still." He sighs watching as Kate just won't stop moving.

"You're gunna poke my eye!" She pouts as Castle moves his wife's bangs out of her face.

"Babe, I won't I promise,"

"I thought we were good at this," He sighs again giving his wife a small peck.

"Everything feels different; I feel like it's going to poke my eye," She responds.

"But it's not, just two small drops in each eye and I'm done, let me do this and we can go eat."

Kate's arms are crossed as she tries so hard to keep her eyes open for the drops and make it easy on Castle. The two are done moments later and headed down the stairs for breakfast. Castle is holding onto Victoria as Sidney is holding his mom's hand and guiding her down the stairs.

"What should daddy make to eat? Eggs?" He asks setting Victoria in her highchair and coming over to help Kate onto a barstool.

"YUM! Yes please!" Kate smiles rubbing her eyes knowing she's not supposed to.

"Ah-Ah I saw that," Castle says cracking an egg into the pan.

"You know the rules, no rubbing for 15 minutes, you have to let it sink in, or it will not do its job." The man sighs shifting and cracking another egg. He hands Sidney his eggs as he scrambles five eggs for him, Kate and one egg for Victoria. He's found that scrambled eggs work a lot better for Kate when she has to eat unassisted. She still spills every now and then but definitely not as much as she did in the beginning.

"I'll set a timer, you have about seven minutes, I'll give you an extra large kiss if you can make it the whole time." He chuckles softly.

"Hey, Lucy!" Castle calls hoping to wake up his talking personal assistant.

"Can you set a timer for seven minutes? Maybe congratulate Kate at the end."

"Sure thing," Lucy says back to Castle as the program in her starts an internal clock to go off in seven minutes. The family begins to eat, and as Sidney has finished, Lucy announces that the seven minutes was up.

"Congrats Kate!" Lucy says brightly as Castle gives a thank you to Lucy and a big kiss to his wife.

"Just like I said." He chuckles softly reaching for a napkin and wiping the little dot of ketchup that had been on his wife's face.

"We should go get dressed, Sidney you have school soon," Castle says getting up and grabbing plates and putting them in the dishwasher. He then comes back from the dishwasher and watches as Kate carefully gets down from the barstool and walks her way over the few feet to get Victoria out of the high chair. Despite feeling pretty weird this morning, Kate gets her daughter out with ease and feels great when she can put her on her hip.

"School in an hour, you must go get ready now if you want to be on time." Lucy says, reminding them of the time and if need be, the traffic. When Castle had bought Lucy years ago he hadn't used her much but ever since Kate started losing her sight, they family used her all the time. Kate can ask the time, also check the calendar, see what the weather is, and almost anything that make Kate's day just a little easier. It's also good that she reminds them because there are mornings where it's just been Kate, having to get the boy off to school and she welcomes the help.

"Ok, Sidney, let's go get dressed, Mommy and Toria will walk with us today, we all need some fresh air." Castle smiles watching Kate try and tickle Victoria as she holds her. The little two-year-old is laughing, and it makes the adults smile. She loved trying to make her daughter laugh.

"Come on you bugs, let's go." Castle chuckles softly as she tells his wife he's going to put a hand on her back and lead her up the stairs. Unlike a deaf person, Kate can't see much but can hear really well and with a deaf person you would half to tap their back to get their attention. Castle is always careful how he approaches his wife, so he does not scare or startle her. Carefully helping his family up the stairs, he sends Sidney down to his room and takes Victoria to her room to budge her up in something warm. Since Kate no longer has her job, the family relies on Castle and his writing. He's still making pretty big bucks, but it's a fear for both of them that everything could go south, and they would not have anything left.

"Remember Sidney, put warm clothes on, it's cold outside," Kate tells her son as he runs off to his room to throw on some clothes and get his backpack for school.

Coming back out moments later it's as if Kate dressed him for the day. A little mismatched as Kate's not good with colors. Castle chuckles softly and decides to take him back quickly and find something else to put on. Kate is in the hallway with a rather heavy Victoria on her hip as she watches the two blurry blobs walk away.

"I guess I'll just stay here." Kate sighs as she stands in the middle of the hallway waiting for the two blurry blobs to come back into her view.

"How do I look?" The seven-year-old asks as he poses for his mom after running out of his room.

"Well, since your father dressed you, I can only guess he did a good job." She smiles as she adjusts Victoria.

Walking over slowly Castle tells Kate he's going to take Victoria from her and head down the stairs. Sidney comes behind his mother and reaches out for his mother s hand so he can help her.

"Mommy?" Sidney asks as the two are walking down the stairs carefully.

"What baby?" Kate asks carefully stepping down the stairs with the guidance of her son.

"Do you love me?" He asks as they make it to the last step.

"Always." She smiles off into the distance.

"Why don't you look at me when you say it sometimes?" He asks as Kate tries to kneel down to his level but is not even infant of him.

"You know how Mommy can't see very well right?" She asks him.

"Yeah." He responds.

"Well, sometimes when you talk to Mommy I can't see you and it's hard to judge where you are, so it may look like I'm not listening, or I don't care, but I do, I'm just trying to listen really hard so I can hear your pretty voice and talk to you." She smiles feeling a warm presence come closer to her. She reaches out and pulls him in the best she can.

"Oh," He says hugging his mom back.

"I love you all the time ok?"

"Don't you ever forget that." She smiles kissing him softly before standing and taking his hand so they can walk to school. In the last few years, a new school was built down the street a few blocks from them, and the couple had volunteered to send Sidney there as one of the new students. It was nice because it was so close and the family did not have to take the subway like before, to get to school.

Walking out the door the family heads down the street and the few blocks to school. They get to the playground, and Victoria really wanted to play, but right now the family did not have time, and honestly Kate was not fond of parks and playgrounds because her kids would always want to have her watch things they were doing. Kate could see the blurry blob on the swings but the blurry blob was always rather small, and it killed her not to be able to see her kids have fun.

Walking into the classroom, Sidney drags his mom to his seat and makes her stand next to him.

"I see we have a new student." Mrs. Parks smiles seeing Sidney sit in his seat with his mom.

"I'm only getting a tour." Kate chuckles as Castle stands at the door with Victoria.

"I see." Mrs. Parks nods watching Sidney show off his desk to his mom.

"Sidney, mommy, and daddy have to go, say goodbye to mommy," Castle says as he walks over and carefully takes his wife's hand. Sidney gives her a hug and the three leave Sidney's class and head out to the playground.

"Just a few minutes baby," Castle tells Victoria as he lets her go get on the slide.

The family leaves soon after and heads home. Victoria needed a nap and Kate felt it was a good time to get in some of her audio book she had started; and while Kate listened to her book, Castle was going to work on his newest in the Nikki Heat series he had started on. A perfect way to spend the afternoon. Reading and writing. Couldn't get any better.