CASTLE!
Chapter 2: 10 weeks along
Kate woke up wrapped in Castle's arms and smiled. His hand lay protectively over her belly. She was just starting to show and she and Castle had decided that they were going to tell everyone at the precinct about the baby today. They had already told Martha, Alexis, and Jim. Alexis was beyond excited and happy. She was ecstatic and over joyed by the news of being a big sister.
Even though they hadn't told anyone at the precinct yet, Kate had a feeling Espo might know something was up. Earlier in her pregnancy, he had offered her coffee and she had declined. Then another time one day she had been talking to him and in the middle of their conversation she had a sudden wave of nausea come over her and had to run to the bathroom to throw up. And id Espo knew something, then Ryan probably did too. But honestly Kate didn't really care if they had figured out she was pregnant or not, she was just happy that she was.
When she and Castle had first gotten married, she was pretty sure that she didn't want kids. But then Castle had started to show her all the pictures he took of her or them together and told her about of all of the funny stories and adventures they shared and she changed her mind, for two reasons. One was that he made being a parent sound amazing, like something she did not want to miss out on in her life. And the other main reason she had changed her mind was that she wanted to see Castle raise their child like he did with Alexis. Just then the sound of Kate's cell phone ringing interrupted her thoughts. Castle groaned as the sound woke him up.
"Beckett?" she answered. "Ok we'll be there in twenty." She said before hanging up.
"Come on Castle. We've got a murder." She told him, getting up and freeing herself from his arms, which she didn't necessarily want to do.
He groaned again and got out of bed to start his day.
"Hey, don't forget we're telling everyone about the baby today." She reminded him.
"Oh yeah!" he said happily, he mood changing instantly.
When they walked into the apartment where the crime scene was, they were all smiles.
"Hey Lanie!" Kate said, approaching her best friend, who was kneeling beside the victim examining him.
"Hey, girl. Hey Castle." She said greeting her friends.
"So what do you got for me?" Kate asked.
"White male, late 30's to early 40's. Time of death is within the last 9 to 12 hours. Cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head, and I'm pretty sure the murder weapon was some kind of rod or pipe." Lanie told them.
"It was a pipe. This pipe to be exact." Ryan came up behind him holding a pipee in a gloved hand.
"Wow. We're getting a lot of info without doing anything." Castle said.
Lanie gave him a look. "Speak for yourself. I've been here for an hour examining this damn body."
Kate laughed. "He was very reluctant to getting out of bed until I reminded him of a very special fact."
"And what might that be?" Espo asked, coming up behind the three of them.
Kate looked at Castle. "Do you want to tell them?" she asked.
"Sure. Ok so guys.. well,.. uh, Kate and I.. Kate is pregnant." He finally said.
Lanie's eyes got big. "OMG! Girl I am sooo happy for you!" she told Kate, hugging her tightly.
"Wow. Congrats bro." Espozito said, slapping him on the shoulder.
"Yeah man, that's great." Ryan said.
"Thanks guys." He said.
Kate and Castle were on a cloud the rest of the day.