Right the start is very what you expected with the whole confrontation part about Demming and then the second part is more Castle/Beckett fluff and happier stuff. I think it's an okay chapter, the last bit was one of my more favourite bits to write and although it doesn't fit with what's going on completely with the story I thought it was cute. Thank you for the amazing reviews to the last chapter, I needed to get some drama in and I thought I would bring him back into the story even though I loathe him with a passion. Also I'm going away tomorrow where there is no internet so I won't be updating anything for just over a week but I will be writing lots while away. Anyway I shall shut up now and allow you to read this and please review if you have the time, it really does make me feel happier and want to write more.

Staring at him for a moment, Kate wrapped her arms around him as the tears ran down her cheeks. This was why she hadn't told him because she didn't want both of them to be haunted by the memory that had almost destroyed them forever. Keeping her close, Rick stared at the woman who was crying in his arms, her whole body shaking as he felt her tears leak through her shirt. Lifting her up, he slowly carried her bridal style out of Johanna's nursery and into their bedroom, lying her gently on the bed before she pulled him down to join her, their lips joining quickly in a kiss.

"Kate we can't do this" he declared as her fingers began to shakily undo the buttons on his shirt, pulling it off him quickly as the tears silently ran down her cheeks. "Kate, we're not doing this while you're like this, you won't enjoy it" he announced, sitting up quickly as she buried her head into the pillow, Rick watching her for a moment before lying behind her and spooning her gently, his lips pressing against her neck. "Tell me everything honey and don't leave anything out because I will ask Esposito if I feel like you're leaving something out".

"He knows about Johanna, he knew about her before I even mentioned anything about her Rick" she sobbed, shocking him slightly. "He was talking about everything, saying that I wanted him to touch me and do all those things he did to me Rick, he says that I still want him" she sobbed, tears continuing to run down her cheeks as he wrapped his arm around her, keeping her close. "He also said something else Rick but I don't want to tell you" she admitted, knowing that the last thing he said would worry him.

"Tell me Katie, I don't want to be left out of this" he begged, her eyes shutting as she felt his fingers run across her hand. "I need to know Kate" he whispered.

"He said that you'll remember him when it's your fault that I'm dead" she repeated, her mind remembering the grin that had covered Demming's face when he'd said it as Rick tensed up. "He says he's got people watching us Rick, he's not going to let me go" she sobbed, turning so she was facing him, her head resting against his bare chest as he sighed, feeling her fingers run across the scar of when he'd been shot.

"Honey, he's never going to hurt you or me or Johanna or Alexis again. He's gone, he probably just said it to scare you" he explained as he pressed a kiss into her dark hair, her fingers not moving away from the scar. "It wasn't your fault Kate" he whispered, knowing she was remembering everything that had happened.

"I had put it away Rick, it was gone and he's brought it all back Rick. My dad, the attacks, shooting you" she explained as Rick touched her cheek, bringing her head up so she was looking at him with tears running down her cheek. "I love you" she whispered, the two of them moving so he was lying underneath him as she straddled him and pressed her lips gently to his.

"I love you too Kate" he admitted, as she smiled at him. "I love you so much and I promise, I'll never let him hurt you or our children" he swore as she nodded slowly, knowing he would do anything to protect her or the two girls. Running his hands down her back, he smiled as he cupped her ass, a smile leaving her lips as she began to kiss down his neck as he slowly ran his hands to the buttons of her shirt. Neither of them saying anything more as their minds became focused on making each other smile again for at least a moment of pure happiness.

XOXOXOXO

"I have something to tell you" he whispered as they lay in bed later that day, his arms wrapped around her as she ran her fingers through his hair. "Gina called earlier Kate while you were out with Esposito" he announced desperately not wanting to think about who she'd gone to seen while they were happy in each other's arms, a groan leaving Kate's lips at the sound of his ex-wives name causing him to laugh.

"Why do I never like the sound of that?" she asked as he smirked, finding a perfect reason to tease her again.

"Because you're scared that she'll try and take me away from you because I have this strange power over women and they all seem to want me?" he suggested as Kate rolled her eyes and pressed a kiss against his cheek, a small sigh leaving his lip as he thought about everything. "Gina wants me to do a book tour this weekend, it's just from Friday to Monday and I know that means you'll have to look after Johanna and go to work still but she is being really demanding about this one and well it's the shortest I could make her do it. I know it's not the best of timing as well" he began as she turned onto her side and rested her head on her hand, her elbow supporting her up as she stared at him.

"Rick it's fine, I'm not going to let him get in the way of our lives and it's not like it's for three months is it?" she smiled, remembering the tour that had dragged him away from her pregnancy. "I can cope with Johanna on my own for four days and anyway I'll have Alexis with me, for all you know we might get on so well we might not want you back" she teased as he raised his eyebrows. "I might only want you back for my sexual pleasure and to create a few more babies with".

"So you want more then?" he asked as she quickly nodded, knowing that after having her first child she wanted to do it all over again. "Good because I do too, I want to have hundreds with you" he announced, shock covering her face before she laughed and rolled her eyes at him again.

"Maybe not hundreds, maybe one or two more" she suggested, his head shaking as he pulled her back down on her back and began to kiss her again. "I'm not giving you hundreds of kids Rick; I'm not baby making machine, I still want to have a life. I love my job and well having hundreds of kids might make it difficult to go running after murderers" she announced as he shrugged.

"Okay four or five more" he announced, shock continuing to cover her face. "Two or three?" he asked as she shrugged at that idea. "And by that I mean three more, I want to have a huge family around me and because I'm starting to get old and I have to be able to play with all our kids we need to get a move on with this baby making Beckett" he explained as she laughed at his explanation, the sound of Johanna crying down the corridor causing her to climb out of bed and pull his shirt on while he watched her.

"Well before planning our two more children, we need to look after the two we've already got" she smiled as he thought about Johanna and Alexis, loving how Kate counted as Alexis as their daughter rather than just his. Walking towards the door, she turned as he sat up and stared at her, the smile growing on both their faces before she slipped out, entering her daughter bedrooms quickly to collect the crying girl into her arms. "What's up with you princess?" she asked, rocking her gently as Rick quickly appeared in his batman boxers, her eyes rolling as Johanna held her arms out towards him. "Someone wants her daddy".

"That's because she's a daddy girls" he laughed, collecting the small girl in his arms as Kate watched, loving how he was around children and the large smile that always covered his face when he was with either Johanna or Alexis. Maybe it would okay to have four or five more children with him was okay she thought.