Lanie Esposito arrived at the Castle apartment about an hour after she left the morgue, mostly because she stopped to pick up her toddler daughter, Huanna. When she got there Tyler was sitting on the couch, fully engulfed by the local news, Rick and Kate still sat on the floor, Rick rocking Kate, who had fallen asleep, cuddled into his chest. "Uncle Rickyyyyyyyyy," Huanna called out as she ran to Rick. As the one and half year old wrapped her arms around him, he would feel tears returned to his eyes. Huanna smiled before she climbed onto the couch next to Tyler.

"Hows she holding up?" Lanie asked, kneeling next to the both of them like she was looking over a body.

"She cried herself to sleep," Rick replied. "Could you take her upstairs? I can't feel my legs."

"Yeah," She told her, standing up and taking her sleeping best friend. As she walked upstairs, she noticed Tyler sitting with her daughter and made a mental note to ask Rick why Tyler was here. "Castle?" She asked as she descended the stairs.

"Hmm?" He asked, looking up from writing something down.

"Why is Tyler here?"

"You didn't tell her did you?" Tyler asked, glancing at Rick.

"Alexis is missing," He told her, trying to hold back the tears that dared to fall. Lanie walked over to him and hugged him. Rick smiled. "thanks Lanie."

"Anytime," She said pulling away from him.

A few hours later...

Lanie had gone home and Tyler went to his mom's house.

When Kate got up she got ready to leave. "Katie, baby, honey, sweetie, please tell me where you are going."

"OUT!" She screamed. Rick sat on the couch, and continued looking through Sam's baby book. Kate grabbed her phone, gun, and badge before leaving the apartment. "Hello, Jeremy," She greeted the doorman.

"Hello, Mrs. Castle," He said after he called the valet to bring her car around. "so where you headed?"

"I don't really know."

"Well, drive and see where you end up," Jeremy told her as he opened her door. She smiled.

"Thanks," She said before driving off. Kate knew where she was going and turned her car onto the highway, heading for the country side of New York. As she drove she thought about how many times she had taken this drive, especially after her mother died. She turned off the highway at exit 234 to a small town called Juneau, New York. Smiling she pulled up to a small graveyard next to a one-room church. Parking her car, she made a mental note to ask her husband to come up here one day.

"Well, it's Miss. Katie," A middle aged man with graying brown hair and a beard said. Kate couldn't help but smile. "You've gotten so big," He said walking over to her.

"I know Charlie, it's been to long," She replied to the man before embracing him.

"Now, a little bird told me that you got married." Kate smiled as Charlie pulled away. "Yep, the word gets around fast in this small town. Now, who's the lucky man?"

"Richard Castle," She mumbled under her breath.

"Rick Castle, the Rick Castle whoms books you were intrigued with? That Rick Castle?"

"Geez Charlie you make it seem like a crime."

"It's hard to believe my little Katie got married and is pregnant." Kate smiled again and blushed.

"So, how life up here?" She asked, desperately trying to get the subject off of her.

"Mrs. Miller died last May and your lover boy has gone mad." Kate's 'Lover Boy' was the only other kid for miles when Kate came up to Juneau for summer, and the summer they turned 13, they started dating and they dated for six years, until Kate left him to join the NYPD.

"Nathan's always been mad."

"CHARLIE!" A brown haired man ran down the street. The man's hair was shaggy and fell right above his eyebrows. He had piercing blue eyes and remind Kate so much of Rick.

"Speaking of the mad man," Kate mumbled under her breath.

"What Nathan?" He asked as Nathan slowed down to a walk, Kate unnoticeable to him.

"Remember Kate?"

"It's kinda hard not remember someone when they're standing behind you stupid," Kate told him, leaning up against her car.

"KATE!" He screamed as he ran to her. Picking her up, Nathan spun her around.

"Nate, please, put me DOWN!" She told him.

"I'm sorry about your daughter," He apologized after setting her down. Kate looked down at her wedding bands. Fiddling with them she mumbled.

"I guess you heard, huh?"

"Yea." He replied, leaning against the car next to her.

"What's going on?" Charlie asked them.

"My daughter, Sam, and Rick's daughter, Alexis, were kidnapped," She told him, looking him straight in the eye.

"Oh my, Katie I'm so sorry," Charlie told her.

"Thanks," She mumbled. Suddenly a wave nausea bestowed upon her, making her take her hand and place it in front of her mouth.

"You okay?" Nathan asked her as he rubbed her shoulder.

"Yeah, the twins messed up my acid reflex."

"You're having twins?" Nathan and Charlie asked in unison. Kate giggled. There was a reason she loved coming back to the small town. For once she wasn't Detective Kate Beckett-Castle, or mommy, or Richard Castle's third wife, she Kate Beckett, the woman who fell in love with Juneau and was the one that nobody forgot and she loved it. For hours she stood out by her car, talking with two long lost friends and reliving the years she loved. The years where she felt nothing could hurt her, the five years she spent with Nathan, and her childhood. She knew that one day she would drag her husband up here, but for right now, it was her secret.