A/N: Ah! Another chapter wrote in the car, this time on my way home! Vacation was kinda fun, but after dealing with an unmedicated 5 year old with ADHD, I'm ready to be home and an only child once again (: I know some of my A/Ns don't match up to my stories, but I write these before I write my stories and I may abondane a story and come back to it in a few hours and forget what I wrote in my A/N so that's why some of them don't go with the story. Ok, so with that out of the way, here we go again (: (Demi Lovato reference – that's what's up!) Oh and Andy1990 you can smack whoever you want (: but THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH for all the reviews! I love them! They make me laugh, and give me inspiration, that never happens (: you guys rock! Oh and P.S. I don't know how long it takes to get a blood tests' result for something like this back, so just go with it if I'm wrong. And feel free to tell me (:

Finally the day arrived, Kate was going to find out if she was really pregnant. She was shaking in her boots, literally, and her constant foot bouncing was beginning to annoy her coworkers.

"Yo Castle, why's Kate so jumpy today?" Esposito asked Castle, catching him off guard.

"I… I don't know." Castle replied not wanting them to know the real reason why.

"Let's go find out!" Ryan said and walked over to Kate.

"Kate, what's wrong?" He asked. She was too caught up in her thoughts to notice him. "Kate?" He asked a bit louder.

"What?" She jumped, she was in her own little world and was shocked to be pulled out of it.

"What's up?" Ryan asked not trying to be obivious at the fact that we was trying to pull something out of her.

"Uh…" She thought, her mind wasn't on work and she didn't really know what she was doing. "Paper work." She answered as she glanced down at her desk.

"Ok, ok, but are you sure everything's ok?" He asked. He cared about Kate and knew she was lonely and not many things could get her distracted at work.

"Yea, fine." She answered and looked down at her computer to see it was a quarter after one. She had to leave very soon, she wasn't ready for this.

"Alright…" Ryan said before he walked away.

She sat at her desk for a minute as the boys continued to talk about the conversation Ryan and Kate had just had. She was about to crack, she had to talk to someone or she would end up talking to Ryan and Esposito and that would be a disaster. She got up from her desk and walked over to where the guys were, particularly next to Castle.

"Hey guys I'm gonna take lunch." She looked up at Castle when she said that. He knew exactly what she meant.

"Hey, fine by us." Esposito said after looking at Ryan.

"Alright well I'll see you guys later." She said as she walked away.

Castle made what small talk he could stomach with the guys but soon found a reason to leave himself. He told them since Kate was out to lunch he was gonna go to lunch too and asked if they wanted anything so it wouldn't look to suspicious. Luckily neither one of them wanted anything and he walked out the door.

When he finally found her, she was in her car, in her assigned space, crying. He quickly opened the passenger side door, got in and immediately pulled her into his arms. As he laid her head on his chest and stroked her hair as he made the greatest attempt he could to comfort her he heard her ask what she was going to do. He didn't really know if she was looking for an answer, but she was given one.

"Kate Beckett, you are going to be an amazing mother to a beautiful baby, you are the strongest person I've ever known and if anyone can get through this, it's you."

He didn't want to admit it, but he was scared too. He wasn't ready to be a father again. Alexis was sixteen, she was basically an adult herself, and he always figured she would have kids before he even thought about having another one, but things have changed. When he found out the deep fried twekie was pregnant, he was scared to death, he was the one who was jumpy and neverous all the time, but that was his first baby. Somehow with Kate the fear had wore off and he was excited to be a dad again, even though he knew he easily had another eight months before that would happen again.

Suddenly Kate sat up. She wiped her eyes and started the car without saying a word. She drove them out of the parking garage in silence. She was enjoying the silence, it allowed her time to collect herself and her thoughts on the way to her appointment.

"Kate, are you ok?" Castle finally got the nerve to ask. He, unlike Kate, couldn't stand the silence any longer.

"Yea, I'm fine." She answered without the slightest indication that something had been wrong just moments ago.

He kept his glance on her for a few seconds, she wasn't ok, but she was strong.

Before he knew it the car had come to a stop. "We're here." She told him putting the car in park and when it was safe, opening the door and getting out.

When she made her way over to the side walk, Castle met her there. She didn't want to look at him, she didn't want to be reminded of what took places minutes ago. He, however, grabbed her hand causing her to stop dead in her tracks. She still didn't look him, but he whispered to her "everything is going to be ok."

Maybe it was the words, maybe it was just Castle's voice, either way that was such a comforting gesture. She didn't know why but she felt the need to interlock her fingers with Castle, it must have been mutual because just has she began to, he did too.

They walked in hand in hand and she signed herself in. When she finished doing that, she looked at Castle, he had been looking at her the whole time and when her glance drew to him, he made a funny face causing her to smile. That was what she needed most of all, someone to confide in, and she found it in Castle.

They walked to the chairs on the opposite side of the waiting room and Kate looked into his deep blue eyes as the smell of old magazines filled the air. Looking into her eyes he reminded her, the only thing to fear, was fear itself.

Before she knew it, a nurse dressed in pink scrubs came into the waiting room and called her name. As she stood up she looked back to find Castle still sitting down, but looking at her. She nodded, telling him she wanted him there with her.

They walked into the examination room where the nurse took her blood pressure, checked her heart, and weight her – her least favorite part. When everything was done she was told just to wait there and the doctor would be with her in a few minutes. She always wondered why they told her to wait there, where else was she going to go? She knew that she was there to see her doctor, was she really going to leave before that happened? And it wasn't just this time that it happened, it was every time she went somewhere and was told to wait before the thing she went there happened.

Castle was sitting next to her, for some reason content as can be. Something about him being so calm and content calmed her down, and she knew she needed too because her heart rate and blood pressure were through the roof. He saw her gazing at him and smiled, she giggled, something she didn't think she'd be doing today, and, she was blushing.

Their glares were interrupted by the doctor her walked into the room "Hi! Kate! How are you?!" She must have been happy to see Kate.

"Thanks! I'm good, I think! Oh! This is Castle." She answered.

"Hi! Dr. Peterson! Wait?! You're Rick Castle!" She said shaking Rick's hand.

"Yea." Rick answered politely.

"I love your books! I can't wait for the Heat Wave movie!" She told him, man, she was a big fan. She waited a few seconds for Rick to reply, but all she got was a head nod. "Oh! I'm so sorry I got side tracked." She said turning towards Kate. "It's not every day you meet Richard Castle!"

"Yea." Kate said just wanting to get the exam over with.

"Ok, so Kate, what's wrong?" Yes! She was finally starting the exam.

"Well, I took a home pregnancy test a couple of days ago and, it said I'm pregnant." She told her with a lot more pauses than anticapted.

"Alright well, let's do a blood test and see!" Dr. Peterson replied. Kate was getting sick and tired of her being so chirpy.

Dr. Peterson took out the needle and began drawing a tube full of Kate's blood from her arm. She hadn't had the stomach to eat anything today and was starting to get really dizzy. Castle could tell she was getting dizzy, so he walked to the other side of her and squeezed her hand. She looked up at Castle and smiled. Something had just went through her that suddenly made her want to be a mother, to Castle's child and she would be heartbroken if this baby wasn't.

When Dr. Peterson was done she told Kate "ok, I'm going to take this to the lab, and it seems your due for a pelvic exam, wanna go ahead and do it today?"

When Dr. Peterson peaked her head up from Kate's file Kate answered. "Yea, I guess that's fine." She wasn't too excited about it.

"Alright I'll be right back!" Dr. Peterson told her and then offered a comforting smile that Kate neverousily returned.

When Dr. Peterson returned she conducted the pelvic exam as she said she would and Castle stood by Kate's side the entire time, even though it was routine. He often stroked her hair or kissed her hand, he was so happy she could be pregnant, it always made him so much more in love.

Somehow just as Dr. Peterson finished up, the same nurse that took her heart rate and blood pressure, came in with a folder, her file folder. Dr. Peterson quickly scanned the sheet and, with a smile looked at Kate and Rick. Kate had just put her feet down, but other than that, hadn't moved.

"Well Kate," she began with a smile. "Congratulations!"