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Chapter Three

"Listen, the first thing i should say is that you are not allowed to be worried."

Castle nodded forgetting for a moment that Esposito couldn't see him.

After a short pause the Detective spoke again. "We tried to arrest a suspect in an old warehouse. He must have heard us because he wasn't where he was supposed to be. We saw him running away and ran after him. Beckett must have tripped and fell. She hit her head. But from what i can tell it's just a small wound. She wasn't unconscious and responded immediately."

Castle was relieved, he let out his breath he wasn't aware he had held.

"We weren't far from a hospital, so i brought her here."

"Alright, so you think she's okay?"

"Yeah the only thing that worries me, is that she didn't object when i told her I would bring her into a hospital for a checkup."

Castle had bad feeling about this. He really hoped it wasn't anything with the baby.

"At which Hospital are you?"

Esposito gave him the name and ended the phone call.

Castle rushed to the hospital as fast as he could. During the drive he tried several times to reach Kate's phone but only got to her voicemail. At the hospital he ran through the ER and ask for Kate on the reception. They told him where to find her.

When he opened the door to the room she was in, he could see her sitting on the hospital bed with her legs over the edge. Kate didn't notice him at first, she was in thought. On her head was a bandage signaling she was hurt.

"Hey?"

She looked up and smiled immediately at his sight. "Hi."

Castle came closer and took her hand in his. "Are you okay?"

She nodded silently. He gave her a soft kiss to her lips before he looked into her eyes.

"Peanut?"

She took a deep breath and nodded again.

"What happened?"

Kate broke their eye contact and tried to explain. "I was chasing our suspect and, I don't know I must have tripped on something. I fell and I hit my head, but it's just a scratch," she pointed to the bandage on her head. She hesitated before she spoke again. Her voice was quieter than before: "But I fell on a stone and I also hit my stomach."

"What?"

She tried to avoid eye contact. Castle knelt in front of her and squeezed her hands softly. "Kate, you said Peanut is okay." It wasn't a question, more a fact.

She pulled her hand from his and lifted her blouse slowly to show him her stomach. There was bruise right next to her belly button. Unshed tears glistened in her eyes. Kate tried not to blink so no tears would escape.

Castle put his hand on her stomach gently. "The Doc said everything is okay, right?"

She nodded, "Yeah it's just a bruise but I was so scared, I …"

Kate stopped when he drew closer to her stomach to place a kiss right to the bruise. She could feel his hot breath, when he spoke. "Hey Peanut. You scared Mommy and I today. But you're okay now."

She bit her lip when he stroked the sensitive skin on her abdomen.

"You don't have to worry. Mommy's taking good care of you."

Damn hormones, she thought as a tear started to roll down her cheek. She didn't get a chance to wipe it away. Castle kissed away her tears, right before a nurse came into her room.

"Here are your vitamins Ms. Beckett. You should take them during your pregnancy. Dr. Malcom expects to see you again in two weeks for your next checkup. And maybe you'll see the sex of your baby then, if you want."

Kate nodded silently, afraid the tears will come again if she spoke.

Castle noticed and began to speak. "Thank you very much. We will be here in two weeks."

The nurse said goodbye and left the room again. Kate didn't move. She made no indication that she was ready to leave. It broke Castle's heart to see her like this. He bent down to her stomach again.

"Hey Peanut would you believe that there are male nurses at a hospital?"

Kate looked down at him wondering what he was up to.

"I remember we had a case where we had to investigate in a hospital because the victim was a doctor. It was not this hospital here, so you don't have to worry."

Kate couldn't hide a chuckle. This wasn't unnoticed by Castle and a smile appeared on his lips while he continued telling his story.

"Our suspect was a male nurse. He was very flirtatious with all female doctors, even with your mommy. I didn't like that very much by the way." He glanced up at Kate and saw her smiling back at him, the tears almost gone from her beautiful eyes.

"Will you tell our baby that I was seeing a doctor at the time, too? He saved lifes every day."

He looked back at her stomach and stroked his thump softly over the bruise. "Phew! I can make you waffles every morning and I bet this is way better for you." He grinned broadly back at Kate who could only shake her head, her tears already forgotten and a smile vivid on her lips.

"And you know what Peanut? At the end of this case I was pretty sure your mommy would be mine one day. The male nurse wasn't guilty with the murder, but he had a girlfriend in prison and he helped her to escape. Of course we caught them both. But you know it is true love if you are willing to break someone out of prison, your grandmother told me that one. And your mommy told me right after this case that she would get me out of prison."

Kate tried to remember the case and couldn't hide a smile at the memory. She wasn't sure why he thought of true love because of a prison break but she had her own favorite memory of this case. She remembered that they were sitting at the precinct reading the love letter from the nurse and his girlfriend. Castle was reading some words and he looked right at her while he read "I love you". This look would always be in her mind, because it was very similar to the look he had when they finally were together and he told her he loved her for the first time.

"Are you ready to go?"

"Hmmm?" She looked up from her thoughts. "I love you."

"I love you too Kate." He leaned forward and kissed her. "Are you ready to go home?"

She nodded and took this hand, ready to go home.

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