Three chapters in three days, I think that must be a record for me. Here's the Beckett/Kate chapter you guys wanted. Thanks to everyone who favourited/followed/reviewed!

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While Rick and Castle had taken off walking down the street, Castle wearing a hat in case someone noticed there was two of them, Kate and Beckett were sitting at a table in the café. Beckett was wearing a hat as well for the same reason Castle was. Kate and Beckett both ordered a coffee and a sandwich each before they began talking.

"Where do you want to begin?" asked Kate, letting Beckett lead the conversation since she already knew the truth about her and Rick.

"Our father, how is he?" Beckett asked, her first priority was to find out how he was doing.

"Good," Kate answered, smiling at the thought of her father and glad that even under these circumstances, her father was her first thought, "We're having dinner with him tonight actually."

"Can I see him?" Beckett questioned, desperate for some normalcy at a time like this.

"I think he'll notice that you're different," Kate replied, unsure whether it was a good idea or not to have them meet.

"I could wear the hat again?" Beckett suggested, and maybe that would work but Kate still wasn't sure about it.

"Maybe, we'll talk to the Castle's to see what they think. I'm not making promises that you'll be able to see him but I'll try, I know what it would mean to you to see him, especially at a time like this," answered Kate. Her younger self was having a tough time dealing with everything, she could tell, and seeing her father would at least give her some comfort right now.

"Okay thanks. My next question is how on earth did you fall for Castle?" and the way Beckett asked the question had Kate laughing in response.

"He's hot?" she said but it sounded more like a question but she knew Beckett wanted real answers. Before she could continue though, Beckett interrupted.

"Katherine Beckett, don't give me that. I know he's hot but I know there's much more to the story than that, so spill," said Beckett. It was weird calling someone else her name like that but she really wanted answers.

"Even though you're probably not going to remember this once we get you and Castle back to your own time, I'm not going to tell you everything," and before Beckett could interrupt again with any objections to that statement, Kate continued, "I know how you're feeling at this time, with everything you've been through with our mother and now Castle barging his way into our life but you don't need to hear everything that happens, because you don't have the Rick I have to help you get through some of those things yet."

Beckett was worried now about what things Kate was talking about that she couldn't handle on her own but she acquiesced, still wanting to find out some things about her and Castle's life in the future.

"So, first of all, I know you're thinking about talking to the captain or the mayor to get Castle removed from the precinct because I almost did. I said that after this case I would all those years ago," said Kate, remembering how she had felt about Rick at that time in her life.

"But you didn't? Why? I thought you didn't remember anything about this case?" asked Beckett, curious to know what changed her mind.

"I didn't remember, and I still don't, but what changed my mind was this," and then Kate pulled a folded piece of paper out of her pocket. The paper was all creased from the amount of times she'd folded and unfolded it.

"A piece of paper?" asked Beckett, so Kate handed the piece of paper to Beckett so she could unfold it and read the words that were written on it herself.

Don't let Castle go. You need him. The words were written in Beckett's own writing.

"I don't understand," said Beckett, after reading the words.

"Neither did I, until now anyway. One of us, I'm not sure which one though, wrote those words on that piece of paper. I found it in my pocket when I woke up in that warehouse in your time. I always wondered how it got there but I never knew. That note is what made me wait and see if Castle got any better, and he did. That note is the reason we're still together today," answered Kate.

"So this whole time travel thing is real then? One of us writes that note so we stay with Castle because we know that we don't want a life without him?" asked Beckett, trying to figure out exactly what had happened. One of them had written a note to themselves and put it in their pocket so when Beckett woke back up in her time with no memory, she'd know not to kick Castle out of the precinct?

"That's what I'm assuming happened. We thought we'd been lying on that warehouse floor for days, which of course doesn't make sense but that was how long we'd been missing for. If time travel is really what happened, we could've possibly only been lying on that floor for minutes instead of hours. They'd searched the warehouse where we'd supposedly been but hadn't found us. Maybe that's the reason why? But I don't know if we'll ever know because whatever happened seemed to have affected our memory and that's why we need to find Mr Peterson. Maybe he can shed some light on what actually happened," answered Kate, thinking back to when she must have been in Beckett's position, talking to an older version of herself.

"Okay, we have the search for him running so hopefully we'll have some results soon. Anyway, tell me more about Castle, well your Castle anyway," said Beckett, she was curious as to what Kate had to say about him.

"At the beginning, as you know, I obviously didn't like him very much. But the longer we worked together, the more I found out about him and the more he found out about me, the closer we became. He's saved my life countless times, he even stopped a bomb from destroying New York, which don't tell him but I'm still so impressed that he did that," began Kate.

"He stopped a bomb! How?" Beckett interrupted, she couldn't believe her Castle could do something like that.

"There was seconds to go and we were standing there, helpless and he just grabs a handful of the wires and yanks them out. Thank god it worked because otherwise I definitely wouldn't be standing here today. He saved a lot of lives that day," answered Kate, still so proud that Castle had stopped that bomb that day.

"You said he saved your life more than once, what about the other times?" Beckett asked, fascinated by this Castle that Kate was talking about.

"He once shot a suspect who was standing behind me. At the time I didn't know that there was someone behind me and thought he was going to shot me, that was an interesting day," said Kate and then she continued, "And he's smart. He's helped in countless cases including our mothers,"

Beckett hadn't expected that piece of information, wondering how that had happened, "But I'm not going to go into that, you'll have to live through that one I'm sorry." Kate said before Beckett could say anything. She chose not to mention her shooting either, not wanting to scare her younger self any more than she already was.

"And he makes life more fun and he's a great father. He's also incredible in bed," Kate continued, laughing at Beckett's shocked expression, "But there'll also be fights, some so bad that you think you'll never be the same again but we always made it through. And now I couldn't be happier than I am when I'm with him. He accepted me into his family before we were even together, he loved me before we were together too. He accepted me, flaws and all and I couldn't love him more than I do."

"When did you get together exactly?" Beckett asked, curious how long it took for them to take the next step in their relationship.

"You've got a while left to wait yet but that's a good thing. If we'd jumped into a relationship too early with him, it would never have worked," Kate answered smiling, thinking about when they'd finally made that transition in their relationship.

"Who made the first move?" Beckett asked, assuming it had been Castle.

"He kissed me first but that technically didn't count since we were undercover and I was already in a relationship at that time. Officially though, I made the first move. I sort of turned up at his apartment one night and kissed him. Well, there was a bit more than kissing, that was the first time we slept together," Kate replied, still smiling fondly at the memory.

"You threw yourself at him?" Beckett asked, she couldn't believe she'd done something like that and wondered what circumstances lead to that happening.

"Yes," said Kate, laughing at Beckett's expression, "But trust me, he didn't mind." She stopped laughing as she continued though, "It was what we both needed at that point in time, each other."

"You really do love him, don't you?" Beckett asked but she already knew the answer to that. The way she looked at him and even the look she got in her eyes while talking about him told her all she needed to know.

"Yes, I really do, and one day you will too," replied Kate, smiling again at the thought of Castle.

Beckett just couldn't imagine her Castle being like Kate was describing but she had to trust Kate, after all, they were the same person. Beckett found herself looking forward to seeing these new sides of Castle. While she knew that right now she wasn't ready for the type of relationship that Kate was describing but she liked the idea that one day she would be, even if it terrified her. Of course she was still freaking out about everything that had happened in the past day but for some reason, the thought that she was in this situation with Castle was oddly comforting. It looked like she'd found her "one and done".


The note obviously isn't canon but I liked the idea so I wrote it in anyway. The next chapter won't be quite as fast as these last few but it will be posted sometime in the next week.

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