AN: This author apologises for the sporadic posting of chapters, but they're getting posted when I get time to send them to my critique around all of the school work I have due in the next couple of weeks. This author is also very glad that so many people like her story, it's good to know.

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

Chapter 6

Kate awoke the next morning, oddly refreshed. She hadn't slept that well since the night she had slept with Castle, and at thoughts of that her insides turned to mush and she felt all warm and fuzzy. Kate was pulled out of her thoughts, and her bed, by the ringing of her phone, which she had left on her dresser across the room. She didn't even glance at the caller ID before answering it with a simple, "Beckett."

"Good morning, Detective." Was the happy reply she got back.

"Castle?" She asked, more for her own benefit. "Why are you calling me? Do you realise it's," she stopped and glanced at the clock and her eyes widened. "Shit. It's after eight-thirty. That's why you're calling me." It was a statement, not a question.

"I just wanted to make sure you're ok, since you're not at the prescient yet." He replied, clearly worried about her.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just over slept. I'll be there in half an hour." She told him.

"I'll have coffee and a bear claw waiting." She heard before hanging up.

-!-!-!-

When Kate arrived at the 12th twenty minutes later she was greeted by a hot cup of decaf and a bear claw sitting on her desk, but no Castle in sight. She picked up her coffee and headed towards the break room, but all she found was Ryan and Esposito.

"Hey boys." She greeted them. "Do you know where Castle is?"

"Uhh boss." Ryan said.

"He's your shadow." Esposito finished for him. "And how do you know he's here?"

In response Kate pointed at her coffee with her free hand and headed back out just in time to see Castle coming out of Montgomery's office, grinning widely. She stalked over to him, grabbed his arm and pulled him around the corner, unaware that all three men were watching her, eyebrows raised.

Around the corner Kate pushed Castle against the wall and poked his chest fairly forcefully. "What," She asked him, vengeance in her voice. "Were you talking to Montgomery about?"

"He just wanted to talk," Castle started. "You know, man to man, father to father."

"About what?" She asked and realised that she was practically interrogating him.

"Uhh…" Castle replied and Kate grabbed his ear and started twisting it. "Apples, Apples, Apples!" Kate let go of his ear and stared at him, he caved. "Fine he asked if I knew how you were going, since you weren't here yet. I just told him that I'd called you and that you'd over slept." He told her and added in a whisper, "Neither one of us said anything about your condition."

"Good." Was all the reply she made before walking back to her desk.

-!-!-!-

Kate had been sitting at her desk a while when Esposito came and gave her an update on the case.

"We've spoken to quite a few of Jennings business associates, and they all had positive things to say about him. He was a good boss, rarely got angry, sorted out all the problems at work. But his secretary told me that his sister came in the middle of last week and that when she left neither of them were in good moods."

"Thanks." Kate replied. "Do a little digging on the sister will you?"

Kate was just reading through Jennings' will, which had only recently been updated, when Lanie called her.

"Hey Girl," Lanie started. "I found something interesting with the stabs in your vic."

"Go on, Lanie"

"Well the thing is that they match one of he instruments that I have down here. They match the largest scalpel I have."

"Thanks Lanie." Kate replied before hanging up her phone and saw Castle's 'you know something' face staring at her.

"I'm thinking it was the sister." Kate said to him.

"Oh..?"

"Yeah." She said casually. "Coz he was stabbed with a scalpel."

"Yeah, ok." Castle replied. "But what was her motive."

"I'm getting to that." Kate said then turned back to her screen.

-!-!-!-

Kate ended up finding her motive, and had the boys bring in Megan Johnson for questioning. It didn't take much for her to break under Kate's interrogation.

As it happens Mrs Jennings just recently found out that she's pregnant, and Tom and Megan had been fighting for months. So when Tom found out that he was going to be a father he wrote his sister out of his will. How Megan found this out is a mystery that she wouldn't divulge, but she went over to see her brother when his wife wasn't home (how she knew that was another mystery) to try and 'talk some sense into him'. Which for him didn't end well. She pushed him just a little hard and he hit his head on one of the decretive ornaments. She then went and got one of her scalpels out of her bag in her car, to make it look like a random stabbing.

-!-!-!-

Kate sat at her desk later that afternoon trying to finish up her paperwork when Castle found her, only she wasn't doing paperwork, she was staring into space.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Castle asked her, actually dropping a penny onto her desk. "Besides which," He continued in a whisper. "We need to get going if we're going to make dinner with mother and Alexis."

"That's what was getting to me." She replied.

"Alexis?" He questioned, sitting in 'his' chair.

"I was just thing about Megan Johnson, and how she killed her brother because he had written her out of his will." She replied.

"And..?" Castle trailed off, not quite getting her point.

"What if Alexis, or your mother for that matter, don't approve of you and me, or the baby? What if they want nothing to do with me?" She asked in a rush, aware that she was babbling.

"Kate." Castle said to her, taking both her hands, and looking her straight in the eye. "My family think you're amazing, and they have known I've loved for longer than I have. They will be more than pleased that we are together. The baby might come as a bit of a she shock to them, but they will embrace it all the same. Ok?"

Kate can't speak for the tears threatening to escape her eyes, so she just nods.

"Right then," Castle continued. "We should get you back to your apartment so you can get ready for dinner, and then got back to my loft. Alexis is cooking." He stands and offers her his hand.

Kate just nods and stands, taking his hand and walking towards the elevator, unaware of the three sets of eyes watching them from the break room.

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