"Why can't it just be easy?" Esposito moaned as he left the interrogation room with a fed up looking Ryan. They had the cop and the best friend but the brother had been impossible to find. It was like he'd just vanished; the hospital hadn't seen him for days and his apartment was empty. Approaching his desk, Esposito laughed as he finally saw Johanna Castle fast asleep in her car seat on his chair. "Hey little one" he smiled, kneeling down as the small girl began to cry. "Where's your mommy?" he asked, lifting Johanna into his arms slowly.
"Desperately trying not to kill her daddy over seating plans" Kate laughed, approaching the two stressed men slowly. "What's going on with you two? You look exhausted" she observed, her eyebrows rising as the two men looked at each other; guilty expressions covering their faces.
"We…" Ryan began.
"Oi Ryan, there's someone here to see you" one man interrupted, Ryan groaning as the three detectives turned to see a familiar blonde waiting patiently in the distance; small smiles crawling onto both Ryan and her faces as they looked at each other for a moment.
"Jenny what are you doing here?" he beamed, the petit woman approaching slowly before holding out his phone. "Thanks, I've been looking for that" he admitted; the blonde shrugging as Castle and Lanie approached from the elevator.
"Are we having a party? I would have bought food" Rick asked, Kate's eyes rolling as his arms wrapped around her; his lips moving to press a kiss into her hair. "Still hate me Kate?" he asked; her head nodding slowly as he groaned. "Still love me?" he asked, her head nodding causing him to laugh before they all looked back at Ryan and Jenny who were whispering amongst themselves.
"Guys this is Jenny from the restaurant. Jenny these are my friends" Ryan began as everyone smiled at the nervous woman. "This is…" he began before she looked up at him.
"Javier" she announced, Esposito nodding quickly as confusion covered his face. "And Lanie, his girlfriend" she added, the ME nodding quickly as her smile grew. "And then of course Kate and Richard Castle and their daughter Johanna because Alexis is older" she smiled, shocking everyone and especially Ryan. "You don't realise how much you talk about them when you're with me" she laughed gently before kissing the detective's cheek. "You guys mean a lot to him".
"That's good to know, he never shows it" Esposito teased, earning a glare from his partner before everyone laughed. "Maybe you should be more affectionate".
"Javier Esposito you hypocrite" Lanie declared, hitting his arm gently as the man stared at her. "It took me ages to get you to stay I love you Lanie" she laughed, Kate smirking at the couple in front of her. "However you are a big softie when it comes to a certain someone" the ME announced, confusion covering his face as everyone watched her. "I'm starting to become rather jealous of a certain Castle".
"What?" both Rick and Kate laughed, confusion covering their faces as they looked at each other. What was she talking about now? Laughing, Esposito quickly shook his head before sighing.
"Who am I holding?" Esposito asked.
"Our daughter" both Kate and Rick recited before nodding slowly as realisation hit them. "Johanna Castle, a certain Castle" Rick smiled, Kate nodding slowly before she approached the detective and took her daughter from him. "Esposito, I might have to put a limit on the amount of time you spend with our daughter, you're becoming far too attach" the writer smirked, Javier laughing as his arm crept around Lanie and his hand rested on her stomach.
"Ryan, we need the name of your plus one for the wedding. We're going to finish our seating plans tonight" Kate suddenly blurted out, the detective turning to look at the smiling blonde beside him.
"Jenny, do you want to come to Beckett and Castle's wedding with me?" Ryan asked; the blonde nodding slowly before kissing him lightly and smiling. "My dates called Jenny" he smiled, Kate nodding quickly as Rick beamed.
"So we're actually going to finish the seating plan? Tonight?" Rick asked quickly as Kate groaned. She'd stormed out of the loft with Johanna after getting into a screaming match over where people were going to sit at the reception. "You're not going to shout at me again because I'm sure you burst my ear drum last time" he smirked, her eyes glaring at him before he slowly nodded. "You're going to shout at me".
"I didn't mean to shout at you" she whispered, everyone's eyebrows rising as she moved closer to her fiancée. "I'm just stressed about the wedding and getting better and well, about the three men" she admitted, kissing him lightly on the cheek as everyone smiled at them. Hearing shouting, Kate quickly turned to see two familiar men being led down the corridor, their eyes locking on hers as smirks covered their faces.
"Whore" one of the men screamed at her, the other joining in as they both continued to scream insults such as "whore" and "slut" at her. "Your time's coming Katherine Beckett. He's going to get you" they screamed before disappearing into the holding cells.
"Kate?" Castle asked quickly. "Kate?" he whispered, shock covering her face as she rested back against Esposito's desk and shut her eyes. "Beckett" he snapped, desperately trying to gain her attention again. "Katherine Beckett look at me" the writer ordered, everyone shocked by how controlling he sounded as the detective's eyes opened and his hands ran to rest on her cheek.
"I'm sorry. We should have told you" Esposito explained, confusion covering Castle's face as he stared at the two guilty looking detectives. "Their Tom's friend and colleague, we didn't know Kate was here when we started interviewing them" he admitted, the writer quickly removing their daughter from Kate's arms; placing the small girl into her car seat before wrapping his arms around his fiancée. Slowly, Kate's arms slipped around his neck, her head burying into his chest as silent tears began to run down her cheek.
"No one's going to hurt you" he whispered into her hair, everyone moving towards the break room to give them a moment alone. "I won't let anyone hurt you again" he promised, pressing a small kiss into her hair as she nodded. They were close.
So, what did you think?
After this there is two chapters left and the epilogue. The next two chapters being the wedding and hopefully they'll be a lot longer than this. I'm sorry it took so long to update and that the update is smaller than normal but I'm writing this before college so yeah, I hope you enjoy this and please review! I love hearing from you, especially with this story!