"You ready for this?" Castle says as the two sit in the parking garage of the hospital. Kate was to have her 25-week appointment today along with a nonstress test. It was early for these kind of tests, but they wanted to make sure everything was going fine. Kate had just finished a pretty stressful case, and Arejay had not been moving like Kate had wanted and she knew it was because of the stressful case.

"Not really, I mean I know he's fine but I'm scared." Kate sighs as Castle takes her hand carefully, trying to sooth her.

"I'll be here the whole time so don't worry." He picks her hand up and kisses it.

"Thank you."

"Always."

The two are headed in Dax at their feet as they go through the doors and go to sign in. Because of Arejay's condition Missy wants to meet them at the hospital rather than her office in case there are any complications. Kate is sitting holding Castles hand as she's called.

"Katherine Castle?" The assistant calls smiling softly at her as Castle helps Kate up and to the door to go back. Dax follows as the couple is lead to the scale, and Kate ditches her things on Castle carefully stepping on the scale to be weighed.

"Looking good." The nurse smiles writing Kate's weight down on her chart. Kate lets out a sigh of relief when she hears the nurse tell her she's doing ok. That was at least one good thing so far today. She leads the two to an exam room, and Castle sets Kate's things down going to help her up on the table. Missy comes in moments later all smiles as she greets the couple.

"Afternoon Kate." Missy beams helping Kate with her shirt. She wants to start the exam off by feeling Kate's stomach and seeing what she can feel baby wise. She's pressing softly as continues to talk to Kate and ask her questions. See how she and the baby are doing.

"So, how are you feeling?" She starts off.

"I feel fine actually, a little heavy but that's to be expected." Kate answers as she reaches for Castle's hand.

"Any pain, or discharge of any kind?" Missy asks as her hands go to the side of Kate's belly, she's trying to feel his position and see that hopefully he's not breach.

"No pain thankfully." Kate chuckles softly.

"I know you called last night with concerns that baby was not very active, this could due to a number of factors, but I have a feeling its stress, that's why we ordered that nonstress test for you." Missy explains reaching for Kate's chart and writing in it.

"Baby seems to be fine; I'm just going to do an ultrasound, double check a few things and see how his lesion is." Missy says moving to grab the ultrasound machine and turn it on.

"Ok, you ready?" She asks grabbing the gel and squirting it on Kate's belly taking the probe and placing it on her belly.

"Hey, there little guy." Castle smiles seeing his son on the screen.

"Well, so far he's not breach, which is great."

"He seems to be growing like he should." Missy adds moving the probe a little so she can hopefully get a better view of his back.

"You going to show me that back of yours buddy?" Missy sighs trying to get a clear view. She moves the probe and finally gets a view she likes.

"It looks different than before but he's grown a lot too since the last time I saw it." She sighs tapping her fingers on the keyboard.

"It's also bigger than I would have liked it to be." She says as Kate sighs worried.

"But that's ok, you have the best surgical team for him and I know they will fix him up just right." Missy smiles softly and removing the probe and helping Kate clean off.

"Now, I'm going to send you two upstairs so they can check you in, I'll be up a while later to check up on you." Missy explains leaving the two alone. Castle knew Kate was scared. Hell, he was even scared. He knew it was nothing, they both did, but that did not stop them from being scared. Perking up a bit Castle helps Kate up from the exam table and grabs her purse handing it to her as he grabs Dax's leash. It does not take the couple long to find the maternity floor as it was a place the couple had been plenty of times before. They'd had three kids born at this hospital, with Victoria being born in an elevator during a blackout of all places. Although the did have to come here after to make sure Kate and Victoria checked out alright. Which they did of course. Kate was a trooper, always had been, always will be. The two are checked in and lead to a room where the test was to be held. Castle helps Kate into the bed, and the nurse starts to hook up the machines. One monitor for the heartbeat and movement and the other monitor for the contractions of the mom. Kate is on her side playing a game of scrabble on her phone with Castle as they wait for Missy to come back. This was an uncomfortable position, but She was starting to feel Arejay more again. It made her feel much better. Missy comes in towards the end of the test and checks the chart that had been spitting out from the monitor for the last hour.

"Well, I know you are going to hate me," Missy starts.

"But I need you to take a few days off work, meaning, I don't want you even at the precinct, desk duty or not." She explains as Kate rolls her eyes.

"Katherine." Castle says sternly.

"Fine, I'll do it." Kate huffs loudly.

"Thank you, now, go home and get some rest." Missy says unhooking Kate and helping clean up. Castle, Kate, and Dax are headed to the parking garage Kate pretty much in silence the whole time as she waddles to the car.

"I can't do this. I don't want to do this!" Kate pouts as Castle jerks caught off guard from the break in silence.

"But, you have to Kate, I want our baby to stay inside as long as possible, He can't do that if you keep stressing out." Castle sighs as they reach the car, and he unlocks it.

"Look, we do have Netflix, we could always watch a bunch of movies, or read books." Castle says helping his wife into the car.

"I don't do movies, Castle, I don't do sitting around, I move Castle, I MOVE!" She groans slipping on her seatbelt.

"Babe, I'm sorry, I really am." Castle sighs as he pulls out of the parking spot.

"I wish I could make this all better."

"I know you do, and I'm sorry, I just have those stupid hormones." Kate sighs as the two are waiting for the car in front of them to pitch their parking pass.

"How about I take you to the Burger Shack for lunch, I know how much you love their fries." Castle smiles sticking his ticket in the machine.

"Oh you know me to well." Kate chuckles softly smiling at Castle.

"I guess I do." He laughs pulling out of the garage. They get on the road and about 20 minutes later finding the restaurant that Kate loved so much. Castle gets out and walks over to help Kate inside. The two order, Kate getting a big burger fries and a shake. They go sit down and Kate is so hungry she's scarfed her burger down in almost two seconds. Castle is watching her surprised that his wife could eat that fast.

"Wow, hungry are we?" Castle says taking a drink of his shake.

"Yeah, Arejay was pretty much begging."

The two finish and head home before the kids arrive. Kate knows she has to lay low but its incredibly hard. All of her other pregnancies had gone pretty good, but this one with its complications was not quite going as planned. Kate had promised herself she was going to make it out alive. That she was going to have the perfect baby. The kids arrive a few hours later while Kate is on the couch watching some stupid documentary on the history channel. She was bored to death, nothing had been on TV so she was forced to watching something that she really had no interest in.

"Mommy!" Victoria smiles and runs to her mom jumping on the couch next to her mom.

"Hey you." Kate smiles, pulling her daughter in for a hug.

"How was school?" Kate asks watching her.

"Twas good, I'm just glad to be home with you mommy, I missed you."

"Missed you too, lots." She smiles kissing Victoria on the head.

"Will you help mommy this weekend, watch lots of movies?"

"Yeah, lots of movies, I can do that!" She giggles climbing on her mom.

"Hey, careful baby, Mommy has to rest." Castle says coming into the living seeing his wife his wife and daughter on the couch. He's got take out and is serving it up helping his daughter with her bowl.

"Don't spill ok?" Castle says watching his three other kids come in the living room with dinner. They finish dinner and Castle helps the kids get baths and up to bed. It's late but thankfully not a school night so the couple knows they can sleep in. Its been a while since they were able to do that. It seemed like someone always had something going on. This house was crazy, all-the-time.

Kate's half asleep on the couch as Castle comes down from putting the kids to bed. He knows Kate is exhausted and will not like staying home all weekend so he is careful with what he says. Helping her up, he carefully walks with her up the stairs and to their room. It was at the end of the hall so they had to be careful not to be loud and wake anyone. Heaven forbid they woke one of their kids and had them crying and wanting to sleep in their bed.

A/N: So this was not my best work. None of this really is but I'm trying. Maybe I should not stay up so late to work on this LOL. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it. Even if it is crap.