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She stood there frozen, this could not be happening. Her and Castle...getting married. Just no, none of this was real, this had to be a bad dream, but she knew it wasn't. Was her future self really so in love that she was getting married? Beckett couldn't even imagine the kind of love they must share to be getting married. She'd heard about how her older self felt about Castle earlier this afternoon, but she was only just realising how much she was in love with him now. Was she really willing to spend the rest of her life with this man?

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Rick was panicking. Beckett wasn't meant to find out how serious their relationship was, at least not like this. Rick knew Beckett, how she was all those years ago and knew she'd panic and want to run.

He had to diffuse the situation somehow, at least get Beckett out of here so she didn't have a panic attack in front of his mother and her father. They wouldn't be able to explain why his Kate was panicking and they didn't want their parents finding out about their past selves.

"Kate, are you okay?" asked Jim, concern in his voice.

"I...ahhh..." Beckett stuttered, not being able to form proper sentences.

Shit, Rick thought, he had to step in. But before he could, Martha was intercepting, "Katherine dear, can I talk to you for a minute?" and before Rick could stop her, Martha had taken Kate by the arm and basically dragged her out of the room.

Shit, shit, shit, Rick thought, excusing himself from the room too, leaving Jim alone. Rick really needed to tell Kate and Castle what was happening, and fast.

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Castle was enjoying being in his own room, well his future room. He'd done a search of the room when he first got back to the loft. He'd been curious to see the differences between what his room back in his time was like and what his room was like now, as a happily engaged man.

There were obvious signs everywhere that he shared this room with someone, a female someone. That was evident by the make up in his bathroom and the extra clothes in his closet. He'd asked Kate later, when they were alone in the room together, about her place. She'd said that he had some of his stuff there too, just like she had some of her belongings at his place but they spent more nights at the loft than at her apartment.

He'd also found more photographs. There was one from what looked like Ryan's wedding of him and Beckett together. Kate had informed him that they weren't a couple at that time even though they looked it. That one was a group photo, with the others from the precinct too. But there was one he couldn't stop staring at. It was one of him, Alexis, and Beckett. They really looked like a family. He was in the middle, with his arms wrapped around the two girls, but the thing that really struck him about the photo, was the way Kate was looking up at him. He had seen how the future Kate was acting and could tell she was obviously in love, but other than that, he'd mostly seen evidence of his love for her, not the other way around. So seeing this photo, with Kate looking up at him with so much love, his heart filled with happiness. One day, she would be looking at him like that and his heart pounded at the thought.

There was another photo, of just him and Alexis too. His little girl looked even more grown up than she does in his time. He hadn't noticed it in the previous picture because he'd been so distracted looking at Kate. He knew he wouldn't be able to see Alexis, not like this, but he desperately wanted too. He'd found the photo again while Beckett had been out seeing her father and he was busy looking at it again when Rick hurried back into the room.

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"She knows," was the first thing that Rick said as he entered his room.

"What?" asked both Kate and Castle and then Castle continued, "Where's Beckett?" He looked behind Rick but couldn't see her.

"Ahhh... that's the second problem, she's talking to my mother," said Rick to which both Kate and Castle again replied together with "What?" but this time it was louder and there was an edge of panic to Kate's voice.

"Wait, what does Beckett know?" asked Castle, remembering the first thing that Rick said when he walked in.

"Oh my god, she know about us!" said Kate, trying not to panic, her hand instinctively going to her rings around her neck.

"Shhh or your father will hear," said Rick, worrying that they were being too loud. Jim thought he was alone in the room so he would be suspicious if he heard people talking.

"We both already know about your relationship," said Castle, quieter this time, looking back and forth between them both in confusion. It was then that he noticed Kate playing with her necklace. It had been hidden under her shirt all day so he hadn't been able to see it although he knew that Beckett wore the same necklace, one with a ring on it. But there was a difference between Kate and Beckett's necklaces, Kate's had a second ring on it.

"Oh, you didn't tell her about us getting married?" asked Castle, realising that her engagement ring was the other ring on her necklace, he'd been wondering where it was. He already knew that Beckett didn't know though, she would have been way more freaked out earlier if she'd known they were getting married.

"You told him?" asked Kate, turning to Rick.

"Well yeah, I figured that there was no point in hiding it from him, but you didn't tell Beckett, right? No offence, but younger you would freak out," answered Rick, giving Kate a knowing look and she didn't argue back, knowing he was right.

"Okay, so she's talking with your mother? What do we do? We have to get her out of there," said Kate, deciding to change the topic. She was concerned about her younger self, not knowing what Martha would be saying.

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"Kate, are you okay?" asked Martha when they were alone, parroting Jim's words.

Beckett was almost hyperventilating. How could this day even be real? She still couldn't speak but there was no way that she could tell Martha the truth. She'd received way too much information in one day and to top it all off she was getting married, and that terrified her. That was only a small part of what was on her mind but that was the most important thing right now, she was getting married. She knew it wasn't the her of right now but it was still her. It was her life and she was going to be marrying the annoying (but still rather sexy) man child that followed her around. How did she go from wanting him to leave to wanting to be with him forever? These were questions she'd already been asking herself, except now it wasn't just that she was dating him, they were going to spend the rest of their lives together.

"What's the matter dear?" asked Martha, reaching over and taking Beckett's hand, she was starting to worry about her future daughter-in-law.

Beckett was silent for a few minutes and Martha was patient, giving her time to think. When Beckett answered, it wasn't what Martha had been expecting. She thought maybe they'd had a fight or there had been a tough case that day but it wasn't this.

"Does he really love me that much? Enough that he'd want to spend the rest of his life with me?" Beckett asked quietly, hesitant to voice what she'd been thinking. It was only one of the questions swirling around in her mind but it was a big one. How could anyone love her that much?

"Oh honey, you know he does," answered Martha, pulling Beckett into a tight hug. Tears threatened to spill from Beckett's eyes, this was the kind of thing she would've gone to her mother about.

"Is that what you're worried about? That he's going to change his mind? That you'll end up being another one of his ex wives?" continued Martha when Beckett hadn't said anything. It was something that she had been wondering about though. Castle already had two ex wives, what stopped her from being the third?

Beckett still hadn't answered so Martha released her from the hug but kept her hands on her shoulders and looked into Beckett's eyes. She saw something there that she hadn't seen in a while, fear. It was something that she saw a lot in Kate in the first few years they'd known each other but her son had helped get rid of that fear.

"You know he's changed, he's not the same man you met all those years ago," said Martha, trying to understand where this fear was coming from.

Beckett thought about it and she knew that Martha was right, Castle had changed. She could see how much Rick loved Kate. She'd seen it in all their interactions since she'd arrived in this time. She'd been trying to ignore it, or at least tried not to believe how much love she saw between them. It terrified her that one day, that would be her, that'd she'd be that open and vulnerable with someone. But she couldn't deny that she looked happy, and couldn't wait to get to that stage in her life.

"I know," said Beckett, smiling at Martha, thankful that she'd been here to help her.

"Talk to Rick about this, if you're that scared, let him know," replied Martha, giving her shoulder a squeeze before she smiled and let go, turning to return to the others in the living room.

"Thank you," said Beckett, smiling again, before following Martha out of the room.

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They'd decided to send Rick back out to go find where Beckett and his mother were talking, hopefully no damage had been done. However, just as he entered the living room again so did they. And Beckett looked...calm? That can't be right. Maybe it was the calm before the storm? And was that a small smile on Beckett's face? He really had to get her out of the room and back to the others. Maybe Kate would know what to do with her.

"Bec...ahh...Kate, maybe you should finish getting ready," said Rick, indicating the towel still on Beckett's head.

"Right," said Beckett, she'd forgotten she was still wearing it and then she followed Rick back to his bedroom.

Rick breathed a sigh of relief, everything seemed to have worked out okay although he did wonder what his mother had said to Beckett.

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Kate was relieved when Beckett and Rick entered the room. Just as Rick was shutting the door
Kate's phone rang. Seeing that it was Esposito, she answered the call.

"Hey Beckett, sorry to interrupt your dinner but there's someone at the precinct looking for you," said Esposito.

"Who?" asked Kate, wondering if it was related to the case.

"Mr Peterson, his brother was killed a few years ago. It was from that weird case where you didn't remember anything. He's here at the precinct, says he has some information for you," replied Esposito, wondering if they'd finally get some answers about that case from so long ago.

Kate's eyes widened, "We'll be right there."

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Kate had quickly changed into work appropriate clothes as did Rick. It was then they'd realised the problem, Martha and Jim were between them and leaving the loft so only one set of them could leave. It made sense that it would be Kate and Rick to go since it was their time and they knew more about this case than their younger versions. Castle and Beckett would have to wait until Jim and Martha left, which hopefully wouldn't be too long since dinner would be cancelled.

Kate and Rick had just left, saying they'd be as quick as they could and they'd call if they found anything. Beckett sighed, hoping she wouldn't have to wait too long with just Castle too keep her company. Earlier it was fine because they'd had the whole house to themselves so she'd been able to keep her distance and cooking dinner had distracted them. Now there was nowhere to go and the situation was made more awkward by the fact that they now both knew what the future held for them.

While she'd had some questions about Castle and their future together answered and she was reassured by her future decision to be with him, she still had lots of other questions about her own future, about her mother, and those were going round and round in her head. She wished that her Castle could help her now like the future one seemed to help her future self.

Just then Beckett's phone rang and she answered it, wondering why Kate was already calling.

"Beckett," she answered quietly, they couldn't make any noise in case their parents heard them.

"Hey. Sorry, dad is going to stay and have dinner with Martha and it sounded like they'd be a while so you're stuck until he leaves," said Kate and it was worse than Beckett feared. She wanted to cry, she could not be stuck here with Castle all night. She really just wanted some time to herself to think through the events of the day.

"You'll have to stay put until we return," finished Kate and then she wished Beckett good luck before she hung up the phone.

Beckett looked up at Castle with an almost scared expression. It looks like they were in for a very long night together.

I'm going away for 2 weeks so there's the possibility that I won't have time to write so don't worry if there's no update for a couple of weeks. In saying that, there is still a chance that I'll have time to write the next chapter, I'm just warning you now that I may not.

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