Not a new chapter, just a quick correction. But I'll be posting the last chapter in just a second.

I really wish my muse would stop changing my mind! This was going to be the last chapter, but now it is going to be split into two. Mainly so that I can post this part now. And it was another one of those places that seemed like the perfect stopping point. I really thought with four days off I would be able to finish this story and the next chapter for "The Beckett Clones" done and posted, but real life got in the way. And then when I did had the time to write, my muse decided to take a vacation. Very annoying.

Disclaimer: If I owned the show, I would have a say in when Caskett gets together. Obviously, I don't. Sigh.

Kate reminded herself not to panic. She needed to remain calm and in control. She needed to think this through like the cop she was and come up with a plan to get herself out of this mess.

Unfortunately, not one idea came to mind.

It would help if she could figure out what was going on. But this whole situation was so far out of her realm of experience that she wouldn't even know where to start.

But Castle might.

"Castle?" Kate called out to the writer tentatively, hating the undercurrent of fear in her voice.

"It's your wall, Kate," Rick told her. "The shippers have just made it visible."

Kate's eyes widened. Until now, the whole situation had been at least somewhat tethered to reality. But that connection had been officially and abruptly severed.

"So what do I do now?" Kate asked.

"We will figure it out," Rick assured her, his eyes full of determination. He reached over and took her hand in his. The calm that flooded her at his touch caught Kate by surprise. He then looked back out at the crowd. "Either that, or they will."

"Castle doesn't look happy," Janeen said worriedly from her place towards the back of the crowd.

"I'm not surprised," Vicki said. "Beckett's probably freaking out right now."

It took only a matter of seconds for the same realization to come to the rest of the shippers.

"We have to do something, quick," Leana said.

"But what?" Megan asked.

Lizzie wished she knew. Normally she was full of ideas, especially in regards to Caskett. But her concern for Beckett made it difficult for her to think straight.

"Castle loves Kate," Sensaiman said.

Lizzie turned a baffled gaze at the shipper that stood only a couple rows away.

"We know that," Nat said, the frustration in her tone evident.

"She knows that," Lizzie added.

"Maybe she needs to be reminded," Sensaiman said thoughtfully.

Reminded...

That's when Lizzie knew what the other shipper was getting at.

"Kate, Castle loves you!" Lizzie shouted.

Nat, who had understood what Sensaiman meant at the same time Lizzie did shouted next, "Castle loves you, Kate!"

"That is never going to work," said a shipper whose voice Lizzie didn't recognize.

Lizzie's eyes widened slightly when she saw the girl that had spoken. She only knew her by her penname, MoreThanAMuse, but Lizzie recognized the shipper by her profile picture on the fan fiction site.

"It will!" Lizzie insisted.

"There is nothing logical about it," the doubting shipper said.

"There's nothing logical about this whole thing!" Lizzie started forward, pushing people out of the way until she stood almost nose to nose with the other shipper.

Nat hurried to catch up with her. She couldn't believe the hostility radiating from her usually calm friend. Although Lizzie could get ridiculously riled when it came to Caskett...

"Liz, you're going to need to calm down," Nat said, putting a restraining hand on the other girl's arm.

"But she could ruin the whole thing!" Lizzie cried.

"No, she won't," Nat said. "She's just an unusually logical shipper, someone that thinks more like Beckett than Castle. But she's still a shipper. Otherwise, she wouldn't be here. And no shipper wants to ruin things for Caskett."

"She seriously thinks I would want to hurt Caskett?" MoreThanAMuse asked, aghast. "I want to make sure that we don't ruin things for Caskett by trying crazy things that won't work."

"But it is working," Sensaiman said, starting the girls' out of their argument.

The three turned their attention back to the front of the precinct to see that there was a slight change to the wall-the wall had thinned enough that each shipper could see Beckett on the other side.

"But we need more," Sensaiman went on.

"What do you mean more?" Nat asked.

"You guys might have been too caught up in Lizzie's minor meltdown to notice," Sensaiman said, "but a bunch of shippers have been yelling what you guys did. But the wall hasn't changed since you guys started."

"So what else can we do?" Lizzie asked. The discussion had sufficiently distracted her so that most of her ire at MoreThanAMuse was gone.

"Americans and English speakers aren't the only shippers," Sensaiman said slowly. "Maybe if they all say the words in their own languages, it might make a difference."

As soon as the idea started being whispered from one person to the next, bilingual shippers began to shout the declaration in the other languages they knew.

"Kate, Castle ohev otach!" Dani, fluent in Hebrew, started the ball rolling.

"Castle le ama, Kate!" Gloria said, giving the Spanish translation.

"Kate, Castle houd van je!" Mir offered in Dutch.

"Castle vous aime, Kate!" The French translation rolled easily off Ratima's tongue.

"Kate liebt Castle Sie!" Pema said, surprising Ratima, who didn't know her friend knew German.

"Castle rakastaa sinua, Kate!" Bailey stated emphatically in Finnish.

"Kate, elsker Castle deg!" Megan's Norwegian offering came from the back of the crowd.

"Castle ti ama, Kate!" Leana, also from the back of the crowd, yelled in Italian.

Other shippers kept it going, repeating Castle's declaration in Chinese, Russian, Hawaiian and a whole slew of other languages.

Maddie, only a few rows away from the very front of the crowd, was startled to feel a slight pressure on her hands as soon as Lizzie and Nat had put Sensaiman's idea into action. The pressure turned into a definite weight as other shippers yelled Castle's all-important declaration in English.

But it was when the translations of the declaration started that an object began to appear in Maddie's hands. By the time the last shipper had gone quiet, Maddie found herself holding a solid gold trumpet.

A grin formed on Maddie's lips as she realized exactly what her role was going to be.

Don't worry; I'm keeping track of which one of you hasn't been in the story yet. Tori, your part will be coming up in this next (and I'm 99.9% certain last) chapter.

The rest I either gave a second small part in this chapter or you'll be given one in the next. According to my notes, that would be Grace and co., Kandi and Nikki and Kris. Let me know if I've forgotten anyone.

Also, just because I LOVE the idea, there is a Castle secret Santa challenge in the 'story' "Secret Santa 2011." There are only 13 of us signed up so far last I checked, so I want to let as many people know about the idea as I can.

And last but not least, please let me know what you think. Sorry if I got any translations wrong; I primarily used the Google translator.