Hey everyone! how are you? Did you survive this epic 100th episode?

Seriously, it had to be the best epidode ever ! i watched it like three times a day!

anyway, here is chapter 18, ejoy!

« Oh God ! I love this house ! » Kate sighed as she immersed herself in the hot tub on the back porch.

"Well I love it too if it brings noises like this out of you." Rick laughed, joining her.

"Why don't you always live here? How can you leave?"

"It's nice, but spending all the year here would be kind of boring. There's not much to do around here when it's not summer. But it's nice being able to come here whenever I want." Rick explained, letting himself relax in the hot bubbling water.

"When is everyone coming?"

"Alexis and Jackson should arrive the day after tomorrow and the others the following day. That way everyone will have a relaxing day here before the 4th July festivities."

"That's nice that you invited everyone out here."

"Well, I'm known to be a nice man." He replied, closing his eyes and letting himself go deeper in the water.

Kate smiled, looking at him. He really was a nice man. One of the nicest she had ever met. Her smile turned into a smirk as she moved to face him. He opened his eyes when he felt her in front of him.

"What?" he asked, smiling back at her.

"I love you. She simply said, kissing him lightly.

"I love you too." He said, putting his hands on her hips and drawing her closer to him.

"Now, since you're a nice man, will you help me get rid of my suit?" Kate asked innocently in his ear.

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"Kate, you're ready?" Rick asked from the bottom of the stairs.

"Just a second!" she called back.

"Come on, we're going to the market, not a fashion show." He grumbled.

"What did you say?" Kate asked, coming down the stairs.

"Uh … no … nothing. I … uh … you look … wonderful."

"Thanks. It's just an old summer dress. You like it?" Kate asked, already knowing the answer if the look on his face was any indication.

"Yeah, yeah, I like it." He answered, his eyes glued to her. "You look like the sun."

"Oh, you're so nice." Kate said, kissing him. "Now let's go to the market. Can we walk there?"

"Sure, let's go!"

They walked to the market and spent about two hours there. Rick couldn't help but smile every time Kate stopped in front of a stall selling baby stuff. Her eyes were shining and her smile was brighter that he had ever seen. Pregnancy suited her, there was no doubt about that. As she was looking at a stall selling old fashioned teddy bears, she heard a child crying. She looked around, finding a little girl crying behind a stall of candy. She let go of Rick's hand and walked to the girl.

"Hey Sweetie. Are you lost?" Kate asked calmly. "What's your name?" she continued after the girl had nodded.

"Katie." the little girl said.

"Really, that's funny. My name's Katie as well." she said.

"That's not true." the little girl said, calming down. "Are you trying to steal me?"

"What? No, of course not. But it's true. My name is Katie. Well, it's Katherine buy my daddy always calls me Katie. How old are you?" Kate asked.

"Six."

"Do you want me to help you find your mommy?"

"Yes please." Katie said, tears coming back in her eyes.

"Ok, what does she look like?"

Katie seemed to think for a while before answering. "She had dark hair, a red dress and a really big belly because I'm having a baby brother."

"Wow, that's cool!" Kate said. "You know what, I'm sure if you climb on Rick's shoulders here, you can see your mommy in the crowd. And then you tell him where to go, he can bring you back to your mommy."

"Like a horse?" Katie asked.

"Yes Sweetie, almost like a horse. You can even pull on his ears to make him turn."

That made Katie laughed and Rick was happy to oblige. From her horse, the little girl found her mother rather quickly and in less than two minutes, the group of three went to meet her.

"Oh my God Katie!" the woman cried, taking her daughter in her arms as close as her pregnant stomach would allow her. "Where were you, I looked everywhere."

"We found her behind a candy stall." Kate said.

For the first time, the woman looked away from her daughter and went to hug Kate.

"Thank you so much for bringing my baby back to me."

"You're welcome. But my fiancé did most of the work." Kate said, looking for him and finding him further, buying some candy.

"He's a horse mommy. I was on his back and I had to pull on his ears to make him turn." Katie giggled.

Her mother looked up to Beckett with a really confused look on her face. Before she had time to say anything though, Rick came back and gave the candy to Katie.

"Here you go Sweetie, I think you deserve some of those after all this emotion." he said, smiling sweetly at the girl.

He looked up and was ready to talk to her mother when he froze. Kate looked at him, not understanding what was happening. She turned to the mother and saw her frozen as well. What the hell was going on?

"Ricky? Is that you?" the mother asked, tears falling down her cheeks as she started to shiver.

As an answer, Rick walked to her and hugged her tight, well, as tight as her being pregnant would allow him. Neither of them said anything, they just hugged each other. Kate and Katie looked completely lost.

"What is happening?" the little girl asked.

"I don't know Sweetie." Kate answered, still looking at the scene. She got even more confused and concerned when she saw that Rick was fighting back tears.

"Rick?" she asked softly, walking to him and putting her hand on his shoulder. "Rick please, tell me what's going on here."

The two huggers separated and Rick looked at Kate with a really big smile on his face while the woman reassured her daughter that everything was ok.

"Rick, who is she?" Kate asked again, not too loud so that the two others couldn't hear her.

"She's Angela. She's my sister." he simply said, squeezing her hand, a fresh wave of tears coming into his eyes.

So ... what did you think of this chapter?

Next chapter: the explanation!