Chapter 6: Got Some News

There is a case in this but I'm not going to go into super detail with it. Will mention it and solve it but it wont be in detail. This is pretty much fluffy goodness.

It's been a few weeks since Kate and Castle found out she was pregnant and it's been quite the weeks so far. For some reason the effects of pregnancy didn't start bugging her until AFTER she found out she was pregnant. She's been waking up every once and a while lately to use the bathroom and she needed to use the bathroom more frequently during the day recently, another sign of pregnancy. Castle didn't seem to mind, if she got up at night to use the bathroom, he would wake up and ask her how she was doing when she returned back to bed. Kate would smile and say that she was fine. Castle would naturally smile back and kiss her on the cheek and go back to sleep, and sometimes cuddle with her. Been every time so far. It was very sweet, Kate thought that she would bug him, but he still didn't seem to mind. Everyday Kate felt extremely lucky to have Castle.

She hid the effects from her friends and coworkers the best she could but they'd eventually find out, but she would soon tell them anyway. But she'd only tell them the news when Castle returned to the precinct, for now she'll keep it to herself and her family. Castle hasn't been around the precinct yet because he was still recuperating, but just the other day he told her that he was ready to come back. She was super excited for five minutes before she had to use the bathroom again, but this time to vomit too much of her displeasure. Castle naturally comforted her and of course…made a few jokes. So far the only people who knew she was pregnant was Alexis, Martha, and Castle. Esposito, Lanie, Ryan, Jenny, Gates, and even her father didn't know. She vowed to tell everyone when Castle finally joins her.

The sun rose above the New York City skyline in another beautiful morning and so far it's like any other day. Kate rolled over to cuddle with Castle, which was her usual routine in the morning. She stretched her arm and she grasped nothing. She slowly opened her eyes and moaned, and saw that his side of the bed was empty. She got up on one of her elbows and looked around the room for any signs of him. He was nowhere to be seen. He's always next to her in the morning and she's always the one who is up first. She got out of bed and stretched for a moment before putting her grey robe on and covered her bare chest. She then started to make her way to the door when she smelled a quite wondrous smell, a smell of delicious food that would fit her craving. She walked out of their room and she saw Castle fully dressed in a blue dress shirt with no tie, black dress pants, and black socks. He had his headphones on and was head banging to some of his music while cooking up breakfast. He was making omelets and specifically her favorite. She slowly snuck toward Castle; he had no idea that she was coming.

Castle was making the third omelet, this one was his, and he already made Kate's and Alexis' who weren't up at the moment. He also made Alexis a hot cup of coffee and for Kate he made hot jasmine tea because she was pregnant; hopefully they'll be here before it gets cold. He continued listening to his upbeat Big Band swing music and was enjoying it a great deal; he was head banging and doing a little personal swing dance in between cooking and walking. He slid over to the refrigerator and took out a couple of eggs and peppers to make his omelet. He closed the door and turned around and freaked out, "DOHHH!" he dropped the peppers and the eggs on the floor and the eggs shattered and got all over their feet and legs. Kate figuratively scared the shit out of him…

Kate laughed and clapped her hands and made her way to hug Castle and kiss him good morning. Castle was leaning against the counter with his eyes closes trying to regain his fragile composure. He removed his headphones and took out his Iphone from his pocket and put it on the counter. Kate stepped over the carnage and kissed Castle on the cheek and hugged him, she rested her head on his back. She laughed, "You should've seen your face! You totally lost it!"

Castle shook his head, "you scared the hell out of me!"

Kate lifter her head and kissed his cheek then turned his head and kissed his lips gently, "Aw did I scare you."

Castle kissed her again then smiled, "you always scare me."

Kate smiled and laughed, "oh do I now? That's not what you said on Valentines Day."

Castle smiled, "honest mistake considering what you were wearing." Then he raised his eyebrows, "or the lack of what you were wearing."

Kate rolled her eyes smiling. Then she looked over at the food on the counter, "mmm everything smells so good."

"The omelet on the left is yours. Just the way you like it." He kissed her on the check then went to go fetch a rag to clean up the mess.

"How did you know I was craving an omelet?" She went over to sit behind the counter to eat.

Castle was cleaning up the floor from the surprise Kate attack, "it was just a lucky guess."

Kate started to chow down on her omelet and noticed Castle cleaning the floor. She felt bad, "Hey babe, I will clean it. I'm sorry I made you drop it all."

Castle picked up the egg shells and threw them in the trash, "Don't worry I got it." He laughed, "I will not have my pregnant wife do this! What would the world think?"

Kate smiled and shook her head. She took a bite of her omelet then said, "so you coming if there is a case?"

Castle finished cleaning up, "Heck Yeah I'm coming!"

Kate smiled and nodded as Castle made himself another coffee. They continued light conversation as Kate finished her omelet. Then Alexis came down from her room and greeted her parents with a smile, "Good morning!"

Both Castle and Kate smiled, "Good Morning."

Alexis sat down at the counter to eat her omelet next to Kate, "looks good dad."

Kate smiled, "it's always good. He's the master at work."

Alexis smiled, "so, I heard my dad scream. What was that about?"

Castle rolled his eyes and shook his head with a light smile. Kate smiled at Castle then to Alexis, "I scared your dad. He dropped a few things for his omelet." Alexis laughed at her father's poor demise. Kate took a sip of her coffee, "so what is your plan today?"

Alexis took a sip of her cup, "going to the library to study and do some homework."

Kate shook her head, "enjoy life too Alexis. Go have fun with your friends. Make memories. It's not all about School okay?" Castle smiled at Kate. It was loveable to see her like this; she'd be a GREAT mom. But the moment ended when Kate stood up quickly and excused herself and rushed to the bathroom.

Alexis smiled and continued to eat her omelet. "So how my baby sister doing?"

Castle rose an eyebrow, "What? It's only been a few weeks, how do you know it'll be a girl."

Alexis took a sip of her coffee and shook her head, "Oh Dad, its obviously going to be a girl." She smiled, "call it Woman's intuition."

Castle laughed, "Ha! It obviously going to be a boy. Call it a gut feeling. A father knows these things." All of a sudden their conversation was interrupted when Kate's phone started to ring. Castle reached over and grabbed it next to her plate and answered, "Detective Castle's phone."

Kate walked back into the kitchen grumbling, "Miracle of nature…right. I can make do with out the vomiting and the constant trips to the bathroom."

Castle put Kate's phone back down and laughed, "What's the fun in that."

Kate sat next to Alexis again and groaned, "You have no idea what it's like."

Castle laughed, "Yeah, cause I'm not pregnant."

Alexis and Kate laughed. Kate smiled at Castle while calming her stomach, "I hope you're not pregnant." Alexis and Castle laughed. Kate picked up her phone, "who called?"

Castle walked around the counter to get ready to go, "we got a case in Central Park."

Kate shook her head, "I thought Central Park was supposed to be magical and peaceful. Not a graveyard." She got up to get ready and kissed Alexis on the cheek, "See ya later."

Alexis smiled, "see you two for dinner?"

Castle smiled, "better believe it." Kate rushed into their bedroom to get dressed. Castle was already dressed but got on his suit jacket he left hanging on the coat hangar near the door.

Moments later Kate walked out groaning again. She clearly speed dressed, she had a dark blue dress shirt with the top three buttons unbuttoned tucked into tight black jeans, and she was wearing black high heels. Everything accented her perfect figure. Well for now until the baby bump happens. Castle stared because to him, she was the most perfect person in the world. Well tied with Alexis but the point still stands. Kate rushed and got her black overcoat on and looked at Castle who was lost in his thoughts, "Hey. You alright?"

Castle shook his head, "Yeah. Just uh…" He couldn't find a good cover, "…I was staring…" Kate laughed lightly and kissed his cheek. Castle opened the door and linked arms with her and exited their home. Castle called out to Alexis before closing the door, "have a good day!" Alexis laughed and shook her head then continued to drink her coffee.

Kate and Castle appeared arm in arm at Central Park at the famous Mall and Literary Walk. They strolled together through the hallway of trees to the victim who was surrounded by police and detectives. The victim was a young man face down on the ground in the middle of the path and was discovered dead by a jogger passing through. As Castle and Kate neared the scene the police officers on guard immediately let them through, one of the police officers gave Castle a knuckle bump as he passed. Esposito was taking evidence near the body when he saw Castle and Kate appear. Esposito stood up and walked over to his good friends with a smile, "Sup. Nice of you to join us Castle"

Castle knuckle bumped Esposito and laughed, "Got kind of bored."

Esposito nodded, "I don't blame you. Welcome back bro."

Kate smiled at the both of them before getting to work, "What do we got?"

Esposito guided them to the body where Lanie was observing the wounds. Esposito looked at his notes and said, "Victim's name is Tyler Williams, he worked for a local Starbucks in the city."

Lanie looked over at Kate, "multiple GSW's to the back; two wounds in both shoulders and three wounds to the lower back. The lower middle GSW was most likely the kill shot it hit him square in the spine." She shook her head, "who ever did this wasn't a trained with handling a weapon, the spread is way to wide. Time of death was about 4 AM to 5 AM." Kate nodded. Lanie looked over at Castle, "hey there you big lug. Welcome back!"

Castle laughed and smiled, "Good to be back with you guys. No more banishment for me." Kate laughed and hugged Castle's shoulder.

Esposito rose an eyebrow to Lanie and asked playfully, "I thought I was your big lug."

Lanie rolled her eyes, "please Javie; Castle obviously is the man of the hour."

Castle laughed while Kate rolled her eyes. Ryan quickly approached the trio and greeted Castle before reporting what he gathered, "Hey Castle." Castle nodded at him with a smile. Ryan looked at his information then at Kate, "the witness said she found the body around 5 AM and she said that no one else was there at the park at that time but her."

Kate nodded, "the killer couldn't have gotten far then. The time of death was roughly around 4 to 5." She looked around then focused on the group, "Alright Canvas the area. Cover the park, there might've been other people here at that time. They might've seen the killer fleeing the scene." Everyone nodded and got to work.

12th Precinct

Castle, Kate, Esposito, and Ryan made it back to the precinct to look over the case and check their facts. Before anyone said a word, Castle let out his new revised theory, "Maybe, he was like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. He's an analyst for the CIA finds out some deep dark Russian secret then the FSB tracks him down and kills him."

Kate took off her coat and draped it over her desk chair, "I thought we discovered the killer was untrained."

Castle sat down in his usual chair like he never left, "Maybe that's what the FSB wants you to think. Cover up their skill by making it look like an untrained person killed him. We'll be looking at the spread not the kill shot."

Ryan smiled, "yup, definitely missed your theories."

Esposito was standing next to the board, he nodded, "Yup me too." He smiled and looked over at Ryan, "Ryan here tried taking over the Castle theory job."

Castle looked over at them and smiled, "I heard. Good job Ryan. Couldn't think of anyone else to fill my shoes." Kate smiled and shook her head.

Kate walked over to the board and put up the victims picture and the crime scene pictures, "Hate to burst your bubble babe. But this isn't the FSB." Before Castle could say anything, Gates appeared out of her office and interrupted them.

Gates had the classic Gates Malice glare, "Mr. Castle!" Castle looked at her and almost crapped his pants. She pointed to her office, "my office. Now."

Kate looked at him with worry; she didn't know what Castle could be in trouble for. Ryan and Esposito didn't know either, they looked at Kate, and she shrugged and gave them a worried look. Castle walked into Gates' office nervously and stopped just inside, and said nervously, "uh. You wanted to see me Captain?"

Gates glared at him from behind her desk, "close the door." Castle complied without a second thought. He had no idea what he did wrong, he was unbanned and this was his first day back. He closed the door then centered himself two feet in front of her desk and waited. Gates looked at him with malice for what seemed to be an eternity. Then she smiled, "Welcome back Mr. Castle." Castle stood there in shock not able to comprehend what just happened. He didn't know WHAT just happened. Gates shook her head, "A simple thank you would be nice."

Castle muttered, "Thanks…" Gates looked down, smiled, and shook her head. Castle returned his composure, "what just happened?"

Gates smiled, "I just enjoy messing with you Mr. Castle. My way of welcoming you back." Castle gave a small smile and shook his head. She nodded, "Oh I got a few things for you. Some of your possessions you left at the ware house." She opened a drawer and removed a few things. She walked around her desk and stood in front of him then handed him his weapon in its holster. Castle slowly took it from her and kept it by his side. She then handed him a New York Police Detective Badge. He looked at it then looked back at her.

Castle shook his head, "Captain this isn't mine?"

Gates smiled and nodded, "I know this isn't conventional, but the D.A., the Mayor, and even the police commissioner agreed to make you an honorary detective, in light of your reckless…and heroic actions." Castle had a look of confusion for a moment before he slowly took the badge. She turned serious for a moment, "this badge is only a formality. It does not carry wait alone. It only functions as a badge when you are with Beckett and other detectives. Got it?"

Castle smiled and nodded, "Got it. Absolutely got it. It's only a formality for good."

Gates smiled, "Welcome back Mr. Castle." She shook his hand, "just between you and me. Pretend I got mad at you before I gave you that."

Castle smiled, "You got it sir." He turned around and left her office.

Kate, Esposito, and Ryan were discussing the case around the white board as usual when they saw Castle come out of Gates' office. Kate looked at her husband and asked as he approached them, "Everything okay?" Esposito and Ryan looked at each other with a worried look.

Castle shook his head, "she destroyed me."

Ryan asked defiantly, "Why? You didn't do anything wrong?"

Castle shrugged, "eh, don't worry about it too much fellas." He put his weapon on Kate's desk then slowly pulled out his honorary badge, "Gates gave this to me." Kate, Esposito, and Ryan all looked at each other and smiled. Castle couldn't hold his smile back any longer, "she said that I'm an honorary detective approved by the Mayor, the D.A., and the commissioner. Only when I'm with you though."

Ryan stood up on a chair and called out to everyone in the precinct, "Hey everyone! Richard Castle is finally back!" Everyone cheered and clapped for the return of the lively writer that brought new adventures for everyone in the precinct.

Esposito patted Castle on the shoulder, "welcome back bro."

Kate hugged Castle and kissed him briefly, "welcome back babe."

As the applause dissipated Castle turned to his fellow detectives, "shall we?" Ryan and Esposito nodded confidently. Their secret weapon is back.

But before anyone could do anything Kate excused herself for the obvious reasons, "One second. I'll be… I'll be right back." She turned and ran off to the bathroom.

Esposito looked over to where she was running. She was running to the bathroom. He looked at Castle with a questionable look, "Hey Castle, what's with Beckett? She's been acting strange recently. Everything okay?"

Castle figured Kate didn't tell them she was pregnant yet, so he decided to let her tell them. He just decided to lie, "I don't know guys. She's been acting strangely at home too. I hope she's okay"

Ryan nodded in acknowledgement, "yeah me too."

Then all of a sudden Esposito's phone rings. He answers it nice and fast, "Hey beautiful." It was Lanie obviously. Ryan and Castle shared a glance with a smile, making fun of him. Esposito gave them a dirty look as he spoke on the phone, "I'll be down there in no time mi amor." He hung up his phone and looked at both Ryan and Castle, whom both had goofy expression on their faces. He shook his head and walked between them then smelled his arms to see if he smells fresh for Lanie.

Morgue

Esposito walks into the Morgue with style approaching his main squeeze and stopped two feet behind her, "Hey gorgeous."

Lanie shook her head and put down her clipboard, "And hello there to you too sexy." She put her arms on his shoulders and kissed him gently.

After a long moment, Esposito broke the kiss with a smile, "doesn't it bother you that we are kissing in a morgue?"

Lanie shook her head, "not even a little bit. The victim isn't watching us."

Esposito smiled, "fair enough. So you got something on the body?"

Lanie shook her head, "first, I want to ask what's up with Kate? I called but she didn't answer. She always answers my calls."

Esposito shrugged, "she rushed to the bathroom and that was it."

Lanie thought for a moment. Kate has been acting erratically for a while and it seems it has been getting worse the past weeks. If it were a big deal Kate would've told her right away, but Lanie couldn't help but worry for her best friend. She shrugged, "Hm. I don't know. I'll ask her later." She turned around and picked up her clipboard to brief Esposito with what she found. It must be really bad if she hasn't told me.

Castle Loft

6:30 PM

That evening Kate and Castle walked into the loft together arm in arm. Kate hung her coat on the hangar and then went to the couches followed by Castle. She sat down and started to remove her heels, he sat on her right and put his arm around her and kissed her cheek. She smiled at his gesture and purred with content. She removed the last heel and turned in Castle's grasps then draped her arms around his shoulders and caressed the back of his head. Kate kissed his lips gently, "hey." She looked into his eyes sensing his hesitation, "what's going on up there?" she was referring to his silence.

Castle spoke truthfully, "Lanie and the guys are worried about you.

They think you're sick." He had a look of concern, "maybe we should tell them."

Kate shook her head, "we will but not now." She kissed him, "we will obviously tell them babe. But right now they need to focus on the case." Castle smiled and shook his head. Kate brought her lips to his gently and they held it together for what seemed like forever. She broke the kiss and smiled, "you know what Castle?"

Castle smiled at her, "what?"

"I never tell you this enough…" Kate kissed his lips gently, "but you're the most perfect man I have ever met and the absolute best husband any woman could ever ask for." Castle smiled and kissed her with emphasized passion, which she reciprocated. She broke their frenzy for a moment, "good thing your ex wives couldn't see the good thing they let go." Castle didn't say a word, all he did was smile and gently kiss her again. Kate smiled at him and brushed his hair, "I love you Richard Castle."

Castle smiled, "I love you too Kate Castle." They kissed again gently. The sound of the front door opening finally broke them apart after some time.

Martha and Alexis walked in. Martha smiled, "Hello you two. Do anything remotely crazy a mother doesn't want to know about?" Kate and Castle separated and got up to greet their family.

Alexis was still taking off her coat when Martha walked passed her and gave her dad and mom a kiss on the check. Alexis smiled, "So how's my baby sister doing?"

Castle was shocked and he shook his head, "not you too. It's obviously a boy what do you guys don't get about that." Alexis and Kate shook their heads.

Alexis smiled at her father and walked up and hugged Kate, "Dad, its woman's intuition. I can't really describe it." When Kate and Alexis broke the hug, Kate fist bumped her.

Castle sighed, "Prepare to be disappointed ladies. Victory will be sweet."

Kate laughed, "No, I think it'll be sweet to see you defeated."

Martha smiled, "what a perfect family. Full of laughter and love." Castle hugged her. Martha looked down and said slyly, "It's going to be a girl no doubt."

Castle sighed, "This is far from over." He clapped his hands and said happily, "Ladies. What do you want to eat?"

Kate shrugged and said urgently, "anything with chocolate. Please. Something with chocolate, I got a sensational sweet tooth right now." Alexis and Castle laughed at her urgent need for sweets.

Martha touched her arm gently, "trust me darling, the cravings will get weirder."

Kate sighed, "Great. I need to hurry up and finish all those pregnancy and motherly books."

Castle kissed his girls on the cheeks, "well I will try to satisfy that craving but for everyone else. How does tri tip sound?" Alexis and Martha let out a collective 'Yes'. Castle then took his leave to the kitchen. While Kate went back to their room to grab her books she bought recently. Alexis and Martha went to their respective rooms to drop off their things and to get ready for dinner.

After dinner Alexis went to her room to study and Martha went to her room to work on her character for the play. For Kate and Castle they headed to the couches to relax; Kate was laying on Castle's lap reading a book on being a mother and Castle was reading a book on his Ipad. It was a nice way to end the day. Castle put down his Ipad for a moment to gaze upon Kate who was engrossed in her book to notice him. He smiled at her and started to brush her hair with his hand. Kate put down her book and smiled, "what are you doing?"

Castle smiled back at her, "gazing at you." Kate smiled up at him and reached up and caressed his chin.

A week later the team caught the killer of Tyler Williams. The killer was his soon to be ex wife, she wanted control of his money and assets. They caught her at the bank withdrawing a large sum of cash. Kate was going to have some fun with this follow up with Castle. A little ex wife bash should be a little fun.

12th Precinct

Esposito, Lanie, and Ryan were all hanging around in front of the whiteboard because Kate and Castle told them to. Ryan was leaning on his desk waiting to know what is going on. Esposito and Lanie were doing whispering sweet nothings to each other. Then all of a sudden Gates appears out of her office and approaches the group. She leans on a poll, "what's this about? Detective Castle asked me to meet her out here."

Ryan shrugged, "I don't know sir. She told us to wait here for her too."

Esposito whispered into Lanie's ear, "you should hang up here with us more often."

Lanie smiled, "New point of view up here but."

Esposito smiled and raised his eye brows, "you are powerless to resist me and you always have been."

Lanie laughed, "that sounds like something Castle would say. Did he tell you to say that?"

Esposito looked down, "uhh."

Kate and Castle walked in hand in hand and stopped just in front of the group with straight faces. The grouped looked at them with questioning and concerned looks on their face. Except for Gates, she had the look of impatience. Maybe she had the look on just to freak Castle out. Castle spoke up first, "You guys, we have an announcement."

Kate couldn't hold it back. She smiled one of her wide beautiful smiles, "I'm pregnant!"

Lanie was the first to cheer and she screamed over to Kate and gave her a big hug. Gates smiled and laughed which was out of character for her in public. She too walked over to Kate and gave her a hug. Then Gates slowly made her way to Castle and shook his hand and offered her congratulations. But for some strange reason Ryan and Esposito were a little slow. They had blank expressions across their faces.

Castle raised his eyebrow, "guys?" He smiled, "you okay?"

Ryan and Esposito looked at each other then back at Kate and Castle. Ryan snapped out of it and smiled. Esposito was still in his own little world. Ryan got up got up and hugged Kate, "Sorry, it took me a moment to process the whole thing. Congratulations." Kate laughed as Ryan made his way to Castle. He shook Castle's hand and hugged him, "Congratulations, knowing you, you'd be an excellent dad no doubt." Everyone including Gates laughed at the scene of Ryan slowly grasping the concept.

Castle smiled back at Ryan, "Thank you Ryan. Better spend some time with the little one okay?"

Ryan nodded, "no doubt."

Kate laughed as she looked at Esposito's blank face, "what's up with him?"

Ryan laughed, "same thing that happened to me. He's just a little slow."

Lanie laughed and smacked the back of Esposito's head. Esposito shook his head and snapped out of hit, he looked at Lanie then at Kate, "what happened?"

Lanie looked at him with a questioning look, "Kate. She's pregnant…"

Esposito looked at Kate then back at Lanie, "Since when?"

Lanie shook her head, "she just told us." Esposito looked at Kate with a blank face again. Lanie sighed, "oh my god."

All of a sudden Esposito shot up and hugged Kate tightly, "Congrats Kate."

Kate laughed, "what took so long for you to understand that?"

Esposito released Kate and made his way to Castle, "I don't actually know." Everyone laughed. Esposito hugged Castle, "Congrats bro." Castle laughed and patted him on the back.

Gates smiled at Kate, "You're going to be an excellent mother Kate."

Kate nodded at her and smiled, "Thank you."

Castle spoke up so everyone in the precinct could hear him, "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight at the Old Haunt drinks are on the house!" Everyone cheered and clapped. He then looked at Kate and raised his eyebrow, "except you cant drink because…" Kate cut him off before he could finish.

Kate smiled, "I'm pregnant." She kissed his check.

Castle looked at Gates, "Captain. Care to join us? It'll be a first."

Gates looked at Kate then smiled, "why not?" The group cheered.

Kate took out her cell phone, "before we go, I have to call someone first." She dialed the phone to call.

Her dad answered with a loving greeting, "Hi Katie!"

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