It's been a week so here's another chapter. And I still can't believe the response this fic has gotten so thanks to everyone who favourited/followed/reviewed!

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Castle or the characters.

Kate and Rick had been at the crime scene and were now on their way to the precinct. Kate was worried about Beckett. She knew she was in a bad place during that time in her life. She acted like nothing bothered her but the truth was, she was still so consumed by her mother's murder at that point, desperate to know what had happened. Castle entering her life had annoyed her to no end but he had distracted her for a while, which she will always be thankful for.

Kate made a plan to talk to Beckett next time she saw her. She knew she'd currently be trying to process the overload of information she'd received over the last day. And if time travel wasn't enough for her to handle already, throw in a future relationship with Castle and Beckett's head must be spinning. Especially since she wasn't overly fond of Castle at that point.

Of course Kate would know how Beckett would be feeling since it was her after all. She had changed a lot in the past few years, especially since Rick entered the picture, but she still knew what her younger self had been going though. She really needed to sit down and talk to her past self before she went into full on panic mode.

XXX

It hadn't taken long for Castle to get restless once they got back to the loft and he figured that since it was technically his home too, there was nothing wrong with taking a look around. Beckett had tried to stop him but she admittedly hadn't tried very hard since she had been rather curious herself. She hoped that some things would become clearer if they took a look around.

Now that Beckett was actually looking around the loft, instead of being distracted by the fact that there was an older version of herself standing next to her, she was noticing a few things. Just small things at first, a woman's jacket lying on the couch, some cushions that she recognized from her place as well as a painting on the wall. The woman's jacket could have been Martha's but it looked more her style than Castle's mother. The other things could've been Castle just being creepy and buying items that she also owned or Kate had given them to him for some reason. Both those of course were extremely unlikely but Beckett was looking for any other reason that her stuff could be at Castle's.

She kept looking, hoping to find some evidence that would prove her suspicions wrong. She could not be dating Castle. That is one thing that couldn't be possible, there is no way she'd willing go out with him, even if he was extremely attractive. But the more she looked around and the more she compared it to the rest of the evidence she'd complied over the last day, she knew she was right, her future self was dating Castle. Finding a picture of them smiling, with their arms wrapped around each other confirmed her theory. There was no way that the two people in the picture weren't romantically involved.

"Beckett, look at my awesome DVD collection," Castle said proudly from the other side of the room, admiring the rather large stack of DVD's the future Castle had.

Beckett quickly picked up the picture, putting it face down on the table, not wanting Castle to see it. She decided not to share this new piece of information about their future relationship with Castle. He'd probably figure it out eventually but the longer it took him to, the better.

After Beckett had walked over to look at Castle's impressive DVD collection, he wanted to have a look around his future office. Beckett didn't want that to happen as there'd probably be some piece of evidence that would tell him they were dating which she didn't want Castle to see.

They were about to enter his office but they were saved, sort of. The problem now was that while they were saved from having to venture into his office just yet, the reason they had been stopped was that Martha Rodger's had just walked through the door. And Beckett really hoped that she didn't say anything to give away the fact that in the future, they'd be dating.

"Darling, what are you two doing home, shouldn't you both be at work?" Martha said, noticing the two of them standing by Castle's TV.

Just then Beckett's phone rang and she excused herself to answer it.

"Beckett," she said, after seeing it was Kate calling. She'd gone to the other side of the room so she wouldn't be overheard.

"We need to talk," replied Kate, getting straight to the point.

"I was thinking the same thing," answered Beckett laughing, they were the same person, of course they were thinking the same thing.

"So you know then?" Kate asked, which sobered Beckett pretty quickly, knowing exactly what Kate was talking about.

"Yeah, it wasn't that hard to figure out," said Beckett. There was no point in denying that she knew, especially if she wanted the full story.

"Good, I was almost worried that you hadn't figured it out yet, I thought maybe I'd lost my touch," replied Kate laughing and then she continued, "does castle know?"

"No, and I'd like to keep it that way," answered Beckett. She wanted to come to terms with her future first before Castle found out. The older Castle, Rick, seemed to have changed and maybe he was different and that's the person Kate fell in love with, and they were obviously in love. Why she loved him was one of the many things she wanted to talk to Kate about.

"Meet me for lunch in half an hour?" asked Kate, the sooner this conversation occurred, the better.

"The café by the precinct? I'll bring Castle. I don't trust him enough to leave him home alone, even in his own home. The Castle's can entertain each other while we're talking," Beckett replied.

"See you there," Kate answered and then hung up the phone. She was nervous about the talk they were about to have. She was going to have to explain her relationship with Rick to a version of herself who was in no way ready for a long term, committed relationship. It didn't sound like Beckett knew they were engaged and Katie didn't think she'd tell her unless she had to.

Beckett walked back over to where Castle and Martha were talking. Martha was telling Castle about her shopping adventure from the previous day so it didn't sound like she'd revealed anything specific about their relationship.

"Don't forget we have dinner with Kate's father tonight," Martha said to Castle after Beckett said they had to go.

Castle noticed the casual use of Beckett's first name and wondered exactly how close his mother and Beckett were. But before he could ask that or why they were having dinner with her father, Beckett basically pushed him out the door.

"We'll talk later, Mother," Castle called behind him as Beckett pulled the door shut.

While she was interested in how her dad was doing, she didn't want Castle asking questions about what the dinner could be about. She made a mental note to firstly ask Kate how their father was doing and secondly, what exactly were they doing all having dinner together? She was freaking out! Things must be serious between them if they were at the 'family dinner' stage in their relationship. And that thought made Beckett terrified as she looked at the man-child beside her, not knowing how they could go from the relationship they have now to the apparent relationship they have in the future.

The items in Castle's loft I made up for the story, just fyi.

If you liked it/or if you didn't, don't forget to review to let me know and thanks for reading.

Also if you're interested, I've written a couple other Caskett fics so feel free to check them out :)