Chapter Two

Castle sat there, stunned. It took his mind one second to process the words, another to let out a whisper of, "What?" and another to decide it was all a joke. It has to be a joke right? He'd tried several times before to trick his mind into believing that Alexis had never had sex, or even thought of sex. It didn't matter to him that she lived with her boyfriend, in his mind that didn't matter. She couldn't be having sex. And he'd convinced himself of that. Because it's quite easy to trick your mind into something if you tell yourself it enough times.

So it had to be a joke, right? "Is this some kind of early April fools joke or something?" Castle asked, looking directly at Alexis with a panicked expression on his face. The room held a thick tension, one that only one person in the room would dare break.

"Of course it's not a-!" Pi began, but Alexis quickly cut in.

"It's not a joke, dad. I'm two months along." Alexis finished her sentence quickly, courage pouring into her. She was terrified, but it was already out in the open, and she had to face it. One of her hands moved to the spot where she knew her baby bump would be, instinctively, as if she could protect her child from the world and the possible wrath of her father.

The confirmation from his daughter, along with the hand on her stomach sent Castle's mind spinning. Spinning so much that it seemed to freeze, as if it was fighting the information it knew to be true. And just as his mind seemed to nearly freeze, so did his body. He was silent, still. His eyes unmoving from where they were staring at Alexis's hand, his lips froze half open, his chest neither rising nor falling. It seemed as if in that moment he lost the ability to function.

Beckett didn't know what she could do. She, herself was shocked. But it wasn't In her position to say much to Alexis, or to judge her position. All she could do was help her fiancé, who definitely looked in that moment as if he could use the help. She placed her hand gently on his arm, just a slight bit of pressure to hopefully return him to the world, "Castle, breathe."

He sucked in a deep breath of air at her command, feeling a little more grounded. But still, he didn't know how to cope, how to deal with this. So he said what was on his mind, the only thing he could really think, "How did this happen?"

Alexis looked at her father, feeling sympathy grow stronger than her fears. This was her father, and he had raised her to be kind, responsible. And now he probably felt as if he did something wrong. "I'm sorry dad. We were careful, I mean we-"

Castle silenced her with his hand, and in a calm voice that said he was trying to deal with this news, "I don't want to hear." Because he didn't. He was dealing as best as he could and he didn't need to hear further details about his daughters sex life.

"What are you planning to do?" Castle asked after another moment. He wanted to hear her plans, her ideas, what she wanted to do, because it was her life. And he couldn't stop her from making the choice to have an abortion, give it up for adoption, or to keep it. He just wanted to be prepared for whatever she decided.

"We want to keep it, dad." She answered a moment later.

Coming up next, a Caskett scene, I promise! :3 And to TORONTOSUN, I'm not to fond of Pi myself, in fact I kind of cringe everytime I have to write him or watch him. But as much as I dislike him, I find him and his place in Castle right now sort of interesting….speaking of annoying characters, anyone know what happened to the cop that was taking Beckett's place at the beginning of the season? Anyway, 8, nearly 7 days till Castle is back, and I am PUMPED. Finishing the season 4 dvds I got for Christmas and even though I know they don't get together till always I find myself yelling at the tv for her to just tell him she likes him already….anyway…that's not going to happen. But tell me what you thought about this chapter and my annoying rambling. By the way, if you all bug me here or on tumblr (notalonedarling)-you can bug me on anon, I'm much more likely to get a new chapter up faster. I don't go back to uni until January 27th, and I already have all my textbooks ordered, SO BUG ME! I'm too lazy to convince myself.