Prompt by maukraui (This one was tougher than I thought it would be!) Many of you will notice that I borrowed a phrase from John Donne (Meditation XVII). If you're not familiar with it, find the passage and read it; it's fabulous.
Disclaimer: Castle belongs to ABC.
Mirror
Sometimes she feels like she's too many people—like she's stumbled into a funhouse and come face-to-face with an array of splintered reflections of herself.
There's Katie, who lost her parents and her innocence at the tender age of nineteen. There's the fresh-faced officer who earned her badge, fought to get her dad back, and got enough therapy to be able to deal with her new normal. There's Detective Beckett, who tried to make herself an island and failed because every murder diminished her. And there's Kate, who can't commit to Josh because, unlike Castle, he's never seen her naked.