A/N: So I got pretty much the reaction I thought I would (: this chapter is a lot different though, much more Caskett love. And yes Tansypool fee free to slap Will!

Kate woke up the next morning in her bed, she didn't remember walking in there, and then she fondly remembered being carried in there by Will when she fell asleep in his arms. She looked at the clock next to her, it was already after nine, she was late.

She checked her phone and was relieved to see she didn't miss any calls. She gathered her things and hopped in the shower. She was exhausted. She wasn't ready for what she knew the day would bring. The steaming hot water of her shower did seem to take her mind off everything she had to do today, at the top of her list, tell Castle.

She finished getting ready, even taking a few extra minutes to apply some eyeliner, something she never did and headed out the door. She was so happy she didn't have to take the subway or a taxi to work, one of the benefits of her job. Now she just had to sit through the traffic. Maybe she would use her little police light to beat it, but what fun was that today? She actually had something to do that she wasn't looking forward to today and the traffic gave her time to think.

As she sat through red light after red light, she thought of what she was going to say to Castle. She should just spring it on him? Hint at it? What should she say? She knew whatever it was they had to be alone, she couldn't let Ryan and Esposito know, they would be the death of her.

She couldn't predict how he would react either. Would he be happy? Mad? Make a scene? She had no clue. She couldn't be obvious about getting him alone either. Maybe she should ask him out to dinner and tell him there, no, she couldn't wait that long.

She had to call her doctor. She had to know for sure that she was and not keep going on a home pregnancy test. Suddenly her phone was in her hand and before she knew it she had an appointment for tomorrow at two. She wasn't going to let a murder stop her this time, and for once she'd be upset if it did.

Finally she mingled her way through tons of red lights and a few angry taxi drivers to make her way to prescient. Why couldn't she just go home and curl back under her covers where she felt nothing could ever get to her? Even if it could, her gun wasn't far, and she could easily protect herself. There was no need to try and protect her from this. It was inevitable, unless of course she had a miscarriage by the time she made it into the prescient.

When she finally got up to her floor she saw it, the murder board. That was the perfect place to tell Rick. She could tell him without anyone thinking the looks and close proximity was odd. It was perfect. Thank god for the murder board. Now all she had to do was wait for a reason to use it.

Finally, she got it.

The entire time they were at the crime scene she couldn't concentrate. She kept looking over at Castle and wanting to tell him so bad, but she couldn't. She didn't even know what was going on while Lanie was talking to them and Ryan and Esposito were rambling on, and yet, she didn't care. That was so unlike Kate.

The murder board. Finally!

She was standing at the murder board looking like she was actually trying to solve the case, when really she was really just trying to think of how to break it to Castle. That's when he came up next to her.

"Hey." He said looking at the board.

"Hey." She replied continuing to act like she was doing something. "Castle, I think I'm pregnant."

That drew his eyes away from the board and to her. She could feel his eyes on her, but didn't look at him, it would be too obvious to everyone else.

"And I'm pretty sure it's yours." She added causing his jaw to drop.

"Wha… what?" Castle asked in disbelief. "It, it was only one time."

"That's all it takes." She reminded him still messing around on the board, his eyes still on her. Finally she looked at him. "Look, I didn't mean for this to happen anymore than you did, but now we've got to live with it."

"Are, are you sure?" He was still shocked.

"Yea, fairly sure." She replied.

"Have you been to your doctor?" He asked. He wanted to be sure before he got his hopes up for a baby.

"Not yet, I go tomorrow at two."

"Would… could I go with you?" He asked. He wanted to be there, he knew Kate was scared and there were so many reasons he wanted to be there to hold her hand.

"Um… yea." The last words he said caught her attention and she was now looking him in the eye.

"Thanks." He replied with a tiny smile. "Kate, no matter what, I'm here for you."

"I know." She matched his tiny smile. "Now we've got a case to solve."

"Kate," He began waiting for attention. When she finally realized he was waiting for it, she immediately turned her attention to him. "I love you…" And as began to explain why, she cut him off.

"No, stop please." She begged him turning her attention back to her work.

"Why?" He asked in an even bigger state of confusion.

"Just, don't say that." She told him.

"Ok, but Kate I…" He began once again. He was ready to explain to her why he loved her.

"Castle, don't say you love me, don't explain why, just please, stop there." She told him.

"Ok." He said respecting her wishes.

He looked over at her and seen the tears streaming down her eyes. "Kate, what's wrong?"

"Can you just go away for a few minutes?" She asked. It wasn't personal, and he knew that, she just needed to be alone.

Castle walked away and say Beckett walk the other way into the ladies restroom. He knew so many things, but what he didn't know was the baby he had yet to meet and yet still knew he loved with all his heart and soul, may not be his.