Disclaimer: I don't own Castle.
Character(s): Kate Beckett, mentions of Alexander, Alexis Castle, and Richard Castle
Pairing: Castle/Beckett
Status: Complete
Genre: Angst
Rating: K
Spoilers: "He's Dead, She's Dead"
Author's Note: I needed to update something for you readers and I don't have too much time, so I chose this. Anyway, I'm thinking of turning this into a full blown story...Thoughts? :)
Sometimes
"Alexander will save your life."
When first told that, Kate Beckett had assumed that the woman was completely and totally crazy. The woman was the daughter of a "psychic" so she had most likely grown up hearing her mother tell people crazy things like that, so she thought it was completely normal for her to tell her that. Kate, on the other hand, had been having doubts after whether or not everything in that case was completely coincidental. Not that she would ever share that tidbit of information with Castle. But still, she didn't believe what the woman had said.
Then, five years and six months later, she had had a little boy. He was named Alexander in honor of his father's original middle name and sister's name, and he had saved her life. Not in the traditional sense though. He didn't physically save her life, but emotionally, he was almost everything to her. Almost, because both of her kids were everything. It didn't matter that one wasn't her biological child. She still considered her a daughter and loved her like one. Alexander and Alexis were the last part of him that she had, and God knows that they saved her. Not from an enemy, not from death, or danger, or anything like that, but from herself.
And sometimes that was just as scary as any of those others.