Disclaimer: If somehow I came to own castle in the two hours or so since I posted the last chapter, it's news to me

Gun Cabinet

Kate pressed her thumb to the fingerprint scanner, and smiled as the lock on Castle's gun cabinet clicked open. She'd told him it was a silly thing to buy, as he already had a perfectly good safe. But then he went and got a large gun cabinet, complete with fingerprint lock.

She grinned as she ran her fingers over some of the weapons inside, grinning at the memories they held,

Seven different nerf gun – Five pistols, two rifles, and one machine gun. All of them were loaded. The rifles each had two extra clips and the machine gun had a spare belt of ammunition.

She'd walked in the front door, and immediatley gotten caught in the cross-fire.

Castle was up on the balcony, with the machine gun, firing nerf dart after nerf dart at their children below. Alexis herself was behind the couch, with a rifle, aiming at Castle. J.J. and Hannah were dodging Castle's shots, and taking pot-shots back with their pistols. Kate grinned when she saw that they were already imitating the police shooting stance with their little pistols.

"Hi Kate" Castle said waving from the balcony, stopping firing long enough for Alexis to smack him dead centre forehead with a shot. "Ow Alexis. Kate, table by the door!" he yelled before resuming firing. Kate looked down and saw two loaded nerf pistols. She grinned, grabbed the two pistols, and ran into the office to secure her real pistol in Castle's safe before joining in the game

Second on the list were a pair of paintball guns, and three grenades in a case.

She's groaned, as Castle pulled the car up. "Paintballing. You're taking us paintballing?"

"Yes. Yes I am." he replied as Esposito and Ryan joined him

It had gone moderatley well at first. They'd been playing in a rainbow colored replica of an office building floor. It had been going great, until Kate's foot found some string.

There was a small bang, and all of a sudden her visor was covered in flourescent pink paint, and a line of shots was stitched up her back.

"You bought GRENADES?" Kate yelled, looking around for Castle, desperatly trying to wipe the paint from her visor, and spraying wildly at a hint of motion.

She grinned as she saw Castle trip and fall, and was on him in a second.

"You deserve this Castle"

She fished in her back pocket, and found some sticky tape there, that she had no idea why she had on her. She pulled out one of Castle's grenades, and taped it to his visor,

"Have fun!" She said, pulling the pin and running off.

Next on the list was the two top of the line Laser Tag guns that castle owned. The vests were in a box next to the cabinet. The amount of times Kate had come home to Castle and Alexis playing laser tag was uncountable.

Lastly, she came to the real weapons. First was her own SIG P226 . Then her backup, a Glock 19. Next was an antique revolver, that Castle had used to scare Ashley witless.

Finally, there was a second SIG P226. This she had presented to Castle on their first wedding anniversary, (after getting clearance from Captain Montgomery) as a symbol of her trust in him.

The weapon rarely left the cabinet these days – with Castle watching their children 24/7, he didn't need it, and hopefully never would.

Kate picked up the gun and examined it carefully. It had been cleaned recently, which was good. One of the other things that she'd done for their first anniversary was teach him good gun care and safety. It used to be that she could find him sitting at his desk at 5pm, on the last sunday of the month, with the Sig stripped down to it's component parts, being carefully and lovingly cleaned by her husband. Thankfully, he'd gradually fell away from such behaviour. He still cleaned it every couple of months, as was good practice incase there was ever an emergency, but still.

Kate smiled to herself, and closed the cabinet, hearing the lock automatically snick shut. She then grinned, opened it again and grabbed one of the nerf pistols, and sneaked upstairs to their bedroom. Castle was asleep already, when she stood by the edge of the bed, held the gun to his head, and said "Boo"

Kate laughed as Castle came awake, jumped as he was shot, and rolled away from her. She laughed even harder when he fell of the bed. But when he came up from the other side of the bed with another nerf gun, she grinned and dived for cover.

"I love you" she called out, as a dart whizzed over her hiding space

"I love you too" he called back, and then grinned, as the fight escalated further and further until she and Hannah controlled rick's office, and had the machine gun set up in the doorway, and the boys were trying to take the room from them,

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