AN: this author again has many thanks to those that have read, story alert-ed, and or review. It makes her very happy!

This author is also unsure how she feels about this chapter, but her critique told her it was really good, so here you go.

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Disclaimer the characters that you recognise are not mine, I just like to have fun with them.

Chapter 3

Kate awoke the following morning cocooned in warmth and snuggled deep in an extremely comfortable bed that felt vaguely familiar, but which she knew was not her own. She sat, but her brain seemed to pulse inside her head, so she sank back down into the pillow. She was confused so she started to run through her memory of the previous night.

She was at Castle's loft. They had dinner, then they sat on the couch and she told him about the baby. The Baby. How could have that fact temporarily evaded her? After telling him she just kind of collapsed into his arm. Wait. Kate thought. Did we..?

Her confusion only slightly lessened, she rose to sitting, slower this time, and took in the room around her. She recognised where she was. It was the guest room at Castle's loft. The last time she'd been there was over a year prior when her apartment had been blown up, but she had taken in every detail that she could, and she did the same now.

Kate got out of the bed and realised that she was still in her clothes from the night before, so he was a gentleman last night. She wondered around the guest room and noticed that nothing had changed, not even the bedspread. Kate was poking around on the dresser when there was a knock on the door.

"Detective Beckett?" Came the voice of Little Castle from the other side of the door.

"Come in Alexis." Kate responded absentmindedly. "And how many times have I told you to call me Kate?"

"As many times as I've told you I won't unless you start dating my dad." Alexis remarked in jest, like always, as she stepped inside the guest room and saw a startled looking Kate.

"Detective Beckett I'm kidding, like always." Alexis said and saw her relax ever so slightly.

"Alexis." Kate started, but was unsure how to continue. She didn't want to say anything if her father hadn't told her yet.

"Yes?" Alexis responded to try and encourage her to continue.

"Um… How much did your father tell you about why I was here last night?" Kate questioned.

"Well… when I came home you were asleep on the couch," Alexis started carefully, she was aware there was something going on that Detective Beckett wasn't telling her, so she kept it simple. "And dad just told me that you'd had a long day. I just figured you'd had a tough case so dad offered to cook you dinner. Then dad asked me to come and see if you were up because he has breakfast ready. So that's why I'm here. Breakfast is ready."

As if on cue voice resonated from the kitchen. "Alexis? Kate? Breakfast is ready." Came the voice of Castle and Kate saw the slight surprise in Alexis' eye as she turned towards the door and headed out.

-!-!-!-

Kate entered the kitchen about five minutes later, having made herself as presentable as possible in clothes she had slept in all night. She made her way to the counter, sat and was presented with a plate of bacon and eggs. Castle then came around behind her and placed a mug of coffee in front of her, speaking only one word quiet enough that his daughter wouldn't hear it.

"Decaf." And suddenly everything came rushing back to Kate again. They still had to talk about that. They still had to figure out what was going to happen between them. Was anything going to happen between them? Kate still wasn't sure what she wanted. Well at that point in time with Castle standing that close, and his breath still on her ear she did know what she wanted, but they had a few things to figure out before that….

"Thanks." She mumbled in response and took a sip of her decaf coffee. Yuck, Kate had never seen the use of coffee without caffeine, it just seemed kind of pointless to her. But still she drank her coffee and ate her breakfast and didn't even notice that Alexis had left. She was about to start making her own excuses when a wave of nausea over took her and she ran for the nearest bathroom, which happened to be inside Castle's room.

Castle stood in the kitchen in shock as Kate ran out, then suddenly realised what was wrong. He wondered how he could have been so daft as he followed Kate through his room and into his bathroom where he found her emptying the contents of her stomach into his toilet.

He knelt down next to her and pulled her hair back from her face with one hand and gently rubbed her back with the other, in a way he only had with Alexis when she was little.

After a little while Kate move back and leaned into Castle's chest and looked up at him. "I really should get going. I need to head home before I go to work."

"You're sick." Castle responded. "You shouldn't be going to work."

"It's just morning sickness, doctor said to expect it." Kate told him. "Surely you've been through this before, you do have a daughter."

"Actually, no." Castle said and noticed Kate's confused look so kept going. "Meredith never suffered morning sickness."

"I really do need to get going." Kate told him and started to get up from the floor and swayed slightly, so she sat down again.

Castle, seeing this happen, stood and offered her a hand up, which she accepted gratefully.

"If you're so insistent on going, at least let me come with you to make sure you're ok." Castle pleaded.

"No." Kate said, probably a little to harshly. "But if you have some water I could take with me…." She trailed off as they were headed out to the kitchen.

Castle grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge and walked her to his front door. "See you at the precinct?" He really wasn't sure if she wanted him there.

"Of course, but come in a little later, I need to talk to the Capitan about…" she trailed off, as she wasn't sure how to define them.

"Sure." He replied. "I'll see you around ten." He said and gave her hand a gentle squeeze, which she responded to in kind. She then stepped forward and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek.

"Take me out for dinner tonight?" She asked shyly. "We still need to talk about this." And before he knew what was happening she was out the door and heading towards the lift.

-!-!-!-

Kate arrived at the precinct a little later than usual and Ryan and Esposito were already there when she barrelled past, stopping momentarily at her desk to deposit her bag and service piece, and continued on to Montgomery's office. She stopped and hesitated slightly before knocking, she still hadn't figured out what she was going to tell him. Or how much she was going to tell him. Before she could totally freak herself out she knocked on his door.

"Enter." Came his stern voice and Kate opened the door and entered.

-!-!-!-

Montgomery glanced up from his paperwork as he heard the door click closed and saw Beckett standing just inside of it. "Beckett." He acknowledged and continued when he realised that she wasn't moving. "Take a seat." He said and nodded his head towards the two chairs in front of his desk.

As Beckett sat Montgomery noticed that she was looking slightly nervous so decided to get the ball rolling. "Did you need to speak to me Beckett?" He asked.

"Um.. yes.." Beckett replied, looking intently at her hands in her lap. "I have something I need to tell you Sir…. But I'm not quite sure how to tell you…" she trailed off.

"Well," He said. "If it helps I've always found that doing it quick, like pulling off a Band-Aid, helps."

"Yeah… Well… Ok, here goes nothing…." Beckett looked up, stared Montgomery straight in the eye and told him like it is. "I'm pregnant."

Montgomery stared back, dumb struck. That was not what he was expecting to hear out of his lead detective; not that he wouldn't be happy for her.

"Are you going to say anything Sir?" Beckett asked him.

"Thankyou for telling me?" he quipped.

"That's all?" She asked, surprised. "Nothing else. Not going to ask who the father is?"

"Not until you decide to tell me." He replied. "Anything else?"

"No, Sir." Beckett responded.

"Well then." Montgomery replied and stood to see her out of the door. "Congratulations Beckett." He offered and patted her on the shoulder before she left.

-!-!-!-

Meanwhile out in the bullpen Ryan and Esposito were trying to look busy while they were really trying to figure out what Beckett was talking to Montgomery about. What they wouldn't have given to be a fly on the wall for that conversation. Ryan, the more observant of the two, noticed that Beckett hesitated before knocking on the door, and then really didn't look like she wanted to enter.

The only problem here was that there was nothing on the murder board so they couldn't even stand in front of it to see what was going on in Montgomery's office.

Both men were so absorbed in trying to look busy that neither noticed that Castle had walked in, sans coffee, and sat at his chair without even asking where Beckett was.

Esposito saw the Captain pat Beckett on the shoulder and noticed that she was leaving so he made sure Ryan and himself were actually doing work.

-!-!-!-

As Beckett stepped out of Montgomery's office the phone on her desk started ringing. She smiled at Castle on her way past him to answer it. "Beckett." She said and immediately started writing an address on her notepad. She put the phone down and addressed the boys across the room. "Come boys, we've got a body."

AN2: So let me know what you thought. How was the Kate-Alexis moment? And the Captain and the boys the precinct? Reviews make me happy! :D