It was moving day and Kate had woke up exhausted. Everything was packed except for a few things. The kids mattresses so they had a place to sleep, plus Kate and Castles' bed. She had made sure they kept that assembled so she could have a good nights sleep even up to moving day. Castle wouldn't of let her sleep on a mattress on the floor anyways. Getting up Kate freshens up with the toiletries that had been in their go bags. Kate had had these bags in the hall closet upstairs for quite a few years now. She was a cop and sometimes they'd have to leave at a moments notice and these bags made it easy to just grab and go. Splashing her face, she hears Castle pad in the bathroom and stand next to her by the mirror looking at his beat self.
"I look horrible." He groans, rubbing a hand through his pig sty of a mop of hair.
"You actually look quite handsome, except for the fact you need a haircut." Kate chuckles and dries her face off before leaning over and giving Castle a small kiss.
"Yeah I guess I do need one." He sighs pulling on a chunk of his hair to heck its length.
"Will you get the kids up for me this morning?" Kate asks hooking her bra and reaching for the simple NYPD shirt she was going to wear today.
"I don't want to be going up and down the stairs all day, one trip makes me exhausted." She adds slipping the shirt on.
"Sure, love." He smiles softly reaching in front of her to turn the sink on and put some water in his hands to wet his hair.
"I'm sure the moving guys will be here soon anyways, I want to look decent for them."
"Plus I'm sure the kids will be hungry, what are we going to do about that anyways?" Kate asks shifting and turning so she can go sit on the bed and put her socks and shoes on.
"Well, I could always go to McDonalds and get a bunch of breakfast sandwiches," Castle suggests.
"That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to leave any trash for Martha and Jim." Kate sighs tying her shoelace.
"I'll just take it out to the trash shoot, then it's done and gone." He smiles softly coming out of the bathroom dressed and ready for the day.
"Well then, sounds like a plan Stan." Kate chuckles reaching her arms out so she can be helped off the bed. Castle helps his wife off the bed and then heads out of the bedroom and through the baby gate and up the stairs to kid's rooms to wake them up. He walks in each of their rooms and makes sure they are up and getting dressed before moving on to the next child. He finished with Victoria and heads down the stairs going through the baby gate again. Castle had hated that thing from day one. He knew it was to keep his kids safe and he understood that but why did it have to be almost adult proof? It took him almost a year to finally figure the thing out and by the time he did and they thought they wouldn't need it anymore Kate was pregnant again. The gate stayed and was a constant safety reminder for him, to watch his every step, always keep his eye out. They'd wanted to remove the gate a few years ago when Victoria was old enough they could trust her on the stairs, but then Kate found out she was pregnant. They then tried to remove it after Kate had, had her miscarriage, knowing full well they wouldn't need it anymore but then, Kate got pregnant again. It was like the gate was cursed. It was so secure anyways when Castle tried to remove it the last time it would have ruined the stairs and the couple had decided to just keep it.
"I'll never understand this thing." Castle thought to himself as he figures out how to lock it open so the moving crew can be in and out, without issues. He gets to the front door and grabs his keys going out to the parking garage and slipping into his Jetta Sportwagen. It had felt like ages since Castle had been in his car. It had seemed lately, he was either going for a quick trip into the city with his wife and needed the Hybrid C-Max or had all the kids and needed to take the minivan. Getting it started he pulls out of his spot and drives to the nearest McDonalds going inside and ordering enough breakfast food to feed the crew, plus a burger patty for Dax who was patiently waiting for him to finish ordering as he stood next to him at the counter. Castle pays with his card and pulls to side to let other people step up and order. Within minutes, his food is ready and Castle grabs the bags taking Dax and walking with him out to his car and getting in. The two get home and Castle sends Kate a quick text to let her know he was home and would need help getting in the door. Getting to the front door Castle knocks on it and hears small feet come running to the door and throwing it open.
"DADDY!" Victoria smiles brightly and grabbing a bag so she can help her dad.
"Thank you baby." He smiles back and carries the bags in, Nate coming over and reaching for a bag as Kate joins them and gives Castle a kiss helping him with the third bag.
"Glad you're home, Arejay is hungry."
"Well, let's eat so we can be ready for when the movers get here," Castle says helping pass out the food and opening the burger patty and putting it down for Dax. The family is sitting in a circle on the floor eating as a knock is heard on the door. Castle jumps up and runs over opening it.
"Oh, well good morning!" He smiles and lets the crew of four guys into the loft.
"Most of the boxes are here with a few scattered in the remaining rooms. I'm going to need you to take down and put up the bed in the master bedroom. My wife and I need it to sleep on." Castle explains as Kate reaches out to him to help her up. He helps her up carefully and she rushes off to the bathroom. The family is done eating a little while later and Kate is helping Sidney find his box to put it on the truck.
"Ok, buddy, Jay here is going to help you load the truck." Kate smiles softly putting an arm around her son.
"Ok, Sidney is it?" Jay asks as Sidney nods.
"This is a heavy box so I'm going to carry it, but when we get to the truck you can help me run the lift. ok?" He explains lifting the boys box and helping him outside. They get to the truck and the lift is down so he tells Sidney to stand on the lift and puts the box next to him.
"Ok, buddy, I'm going to lift you up, then you can slide the box onto the truck and Dan there will help you stack it." He tells the boy as the lift goes up and reaches the top. The whole time the lift is moving, Sidney is beaming brightly so excited he's being able to help pack the truck. Pushing the box Sidney struggles to get it in the truck more than a few feet.
" ." Sidney huffs trying to push the box farther. Dan quickly rushes over and helps Sidney push the box to the back of the truck.
"You were such a big help Sidney!" Dan smiles and gives the boy a high five.
"Ok, buddy jump!" Jay smiles reaching his arms out to catch Sidney as he jumps from the top of the lift.
"Lets go back inside, I'm sure you're mommy wants you inside." Jay tells the boy carrying him inside and setting him down inside the loft.
"I helped mommy I helped!" Sidney smiles and runs up reaching out to be picked up by his mom.
"You did baby?" Kate smiles and kisses him giving him a not right now look, really wanting to pick him up but he was so heavy she was not sure she could lift him, being pregnant and all.
"How about we snuggle tonight?"
"Mommy is really tired right now and has to help the mover guys." Kate sighs as Sidney pouts but runs off to find Johanna. Finally after a few hours of moving boxes and and disassembling things, the truck is full and ready to head over to the new place. Kate brings the kids in the living room.
"Ok, now, we have to go to the new house. Daddy will drive you so mommy can go in her car."
"Make sure you have everything, and wait by the door so we can go." Kate explains turning to go to the bathroom quickly and to grab her purse. She's standing in the master bedroom glancing around taking it all in one last time as Castle walks in puts his arms around his wife.
"I can't believe we are moving." Kate sighs as Castle kisses her neck smiling softly.
"I can't either, and we are having another child." He adds and wraps his arms around his arms around his wife his hands resting on her stomach.
"I'm going to miss this room." She sighs putting her hands on top of her husbands.
"Me too, but we aren't going far so we can always come back."
"I know, but theres, just lots of memories here." Kate sigh softly again shifting to lean on her husband.
"I'm sure there will plenty of new memories in the new house, we are having a new baby." Castle chuckles softly and kisses his wife.
"We should go, the movers might already be there." Castle says letting go and walking towards the door. He walks with the family and out the door one last time and to the parking garage to drive to the new house. They finally make it to the new house and Kate is fiddling with the piece of paper that had the family's parking spot numbers written on it. When the landlord called the couple to give them last minute information, the two had been in such a sleepy haze that the words had been barely scribbled on the page. Getting lost, Kate pulled out her cellphone and called Castle for some help.
"Babe?" Kate calls her phone hooked to her car.
"Yes?!" Castle yells trying to talk over the kids.
"Hannie and Nate! Would you quiet down? Daddy is trying to talk to mommy!" Castle growls trying to hear his wife as the two kids shrug and try to be quiet.
"I cant find the spots." Kate says stopping and looking around out her windows for spot numbers.
"Well, I see D-11 arent ours E-5-6-7?" Castle asks listening carefully.
"Yeah, but I'm just not seeing it." Kate groans throwing the paper in the seat next to her. She's trying not to get frustrated and cry but, with being pregnant her emotions are getting the best of her.
"Shit Kate, don't cry!" Kate tells herself trying to take deep breaths to calm herself. She's started her car again and finally finds the three spots they had been given. Kate parks and waits for Castle and the kids to park next to her. Moments later the kids are getting out and Kate is helping, making sure none of them are running into the parking lot.
"Ok, lets go see the new house!" Castle smiles and takes Victoria's hand walking with the family up the elevator to the new house. He reales his key and unlocks the front door letting the kids run inside and explore. Dax is standing next to Castle as Kate walks in with him.
"Hello new house." Kate gasps still in shock that the family now had a nice bigger place. This place was perfect. It had all the space, and not to mention the amazing view. The kids are picking out rooms as boxes start coming up from the moving crew. Castle has gone up the stairs to check on the kids as Kate is directing boxes. The upstairs has five rooms with the master being at the end of the hall and two bedrooms on either side of the hall. One bedroom has turned in to Castles office as Nate and Sidney share a room with, Johanna and Victoria getting their own rooms. With Arejay and his disabilities, what once was the office has been turned into his nursery. Knowing the couple will have to carry him for most of his early childhood, they did not want to put his bedroom upstairs and break their backs lifting him to bed. Having picked rooms Castle is making sure the boxes get to the right rooms so they dont have to move them later.
Its about an hour later and everything is finally moved in and the master bed is set up. Their goal now was to unpack and get the nursery put together before the baby gets here. It sounds easy which it should be, but Kate and Castle have no design ideas for the nursery. Part of them wanted to just do something easy because it was their last, but the other part wanted to style it up because it was their last. Having sent the kids up to their new rooms to start unpacking Kate sat with Castle on their bed taking some time to recoup from all the moving. Kate is sitting on the edge of the bed feeling Arejay kick away as she feels a hand hit her shoulder. She looks up to see Castle shaking again. She sighs softly and pulls her phone out going to track it. He's talking so Kate knows its not super serious. She just wishes the new pill they put him on, Kepra will do the trick. They won't know for a few weeks because it takes that long for it to fully kick in. Shifting Kate leans over and kisses her husband happy that is seizures were done for now. Getting up she pulls on him and the two with Dax in tow go upstairs to check on the kids. They dont feel like cooking and have no food in the house so Castle orders them some pizza and they put in a movie. The TV was in place so it did not take long for him to set it up.
Sitting on the couch with pizza, the family is watching Toy Story 3. Kate is snuggled up next to Castle as Sidney is as close as possible to his mom listening to the baby, without squishing him. The other three kids are sitting on the floor in front of the TV eyes glued to the movie. Spanish Buzz comes on and the kids are laughing pretty hard. It even got Castle laughing. It seemed like it was the family's favorite part of the movie.
Its late now and The movie and pizza have ended and three out of the four kids have fallen asleep. Sidney is leaning on his mom while Nate and Victoria are asleep on the floor with Johanna finishing off another piece of Pizza.
"Help mommy and daddy get them up?" Kate asks as Castle stands and lifts sleeping Sidney into his arms. Johanna gets up listening to her parents as she pokes Nate and Victoria. The two get up groggy and Nate is complaining he's not ready for bed.
"Come on please, mommy and daddy are tired." Kate sighs leading the kids up stairs. They are final put to bed after some struggle and Kate and Castle make their way down the hall to their bedroom. The two had wanted to stay up and talk and do some planning but Kate was so exhausted, she crashed as her body hit the bed.
A/N: Thanks so much to the readers who read this mistakes and all. It really means a lot to me. I'm really enjoying writing this and I can't wait for you all to meet baby Arejay. Who by the way has a middle name. its a surprise though!