A Wonderful Life
Post 8x22. AU. Katherine Beckett's belief of the magic and wonderment that Christmas brought, had died when she'd lost her mother, nevertheless, Castle was determined to make sure they had new traditions and it was trough her children that Kate believed again. . Set in the same universe as my other Castle stories.
Hi guys! So I just rewatched ep 5x09 and I so needed to write a story in which Kate's kids make Christmas so worth for her as much as Alexis's made Rick's. Using all the kiddies in my other stories. You don't really have to read them all to understand as this could be a stand alone.
I own nothing. Except for my mistakes.
Chapter Three: Christmas Eve part II
LUCY. OR LINUS. Jake and JJ stood in front of the triangle like gadget, shattered to pieces.
In their play room. Why was it that castle's infamous personified computer was in the kids playroom? And what had happened to the movie?
"Are you you guys alright?"
"Mommy, we didn't mean to." Jake said quickly. Kate was honestly more amused than anything else. She hated that thing so much.
"Honest." JJ said too. Recee nodded.
Her triple threat had done It again.
And this time Daddy wasn't going to take too kindly to it.
"I've told you guys not to be jumping around the house, specially when we have people coming over. "
"Sorry." The three of them said in unison.
"And what was this doing here in the first place? It's meant to be in daddy's office and you guys…"
"We not there!" JJ said.
"Lucy was here in the play room." It wasn't a question. The boys nodded and she sighed. Lily and Lanie had come in.
"What in the world happened? Where's uncle Javi?"
The boys shrugged.
"I'm going to kill him! He was supposed to be watching them!"
"Guys, who died?" Espo asked staring at the scene in front of him.
"Lucy" Reece said
"Linus."
"Who's…"
"You were meant to be watching them Javi. Now they broke Castle's toy."
Castle's toy?
"I…"
"You better go find Leo, I have no idea where he is." Lanie told Javi.
He nodded. He was totally afraid of her.
"What do we do now?" Lanie asked.
"Well first of, no matter what, no one's going to tell daddy about what happened, not tonite anyway."
"Mommy?" Reece asked. "Is Santa not gonna come because we killed Lucy?"
"Are we going to jail?" Lily's eyes widened.
"No, no no one's going anywhere. This… I'll fix it later, we just don't want daddy to be upset."
Her logic worked enough on the boys, she went on to cleaning the evidence of what had happened.
"Mommy?" Lily asked as Kate cleaned. "Mommy did I make daddy sad?"
Kate was taken aback. "Because I talked about grandpa Jackson?"
Kate sighed. She nodded toward Lanie and asked her to finish getting rid of the evidence.
"No Lily, you didn't do anything wrong." She really hadn't, but she knew Rick was upset. Kate picked her daughter up.
"But daddy's never spent Christmas with grandpa Jackson."
"I know, but.."
"where's everyone?" Rick asked, he came into the playroom with Nate in his arms, Alexis and his mother behind him. "Aren't we supposed to be taking pictures right about now?"
"We'll talk about this later, okay?" Lily nodded as she offered Kate her hand. She huddled the kids along to the hall and then the living room where the tree rested.
Gifts were already under the tree. Kate took Nate from Castle .
"Mommy, what about Lucy?" Reece asked. Kate hoped Rick didn't hear.
"Later okay bud? Where's Ky?"
"Here, he's right here." Martha said. She followed the boy along as he reached his parents.
It was a Castle family picture first. Kate wrapped her arm around Kyan as she held Nate with the other. Alexis stood next to Rick as the boys sat at their feet and Lily stood in front of Rick.
"Everyone say Santa." Martha instructed.
"Santa!" They all echoed.
Next came a pic with Alexis, Scott and Gracie. Rick held the little girl, the two year old was a carbon copy of Alexis when when was younger. Rick turned to Kate with a smile.
"You okay there Castle?"
"Perfect." He smiled.
Then it was time for Jim to have a picture. He stood up between Rick and Kate. A wide smile on his face.
Having grandkids had really helped Jim heal. After years of hurt and loneliness.
"Wait!" Lily said suddenly, they watched as she moved her little feet and then came back. She had a picture of Joanna in her hands. She held it up.
"That's a really good idea Lil." Kate said.
The rest of the pictures were taken more quickly as the boys has began to feel restless.
"Babe?" Kate came into the kitchen. It was almost time for diner.
"Hey." He offered her a sweet kiss. "I feel like we haven't seen each other in hours."
"Who's fault is that?" She smiled.
"Well I do have to feed about 15 people." He said.
"You're okay right?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Well you seemed a bit upset about your dad earlier and I just…"
He turned his full attention to her now.
"I had always wondered what it would be like to have my father around. Not just at Christmas. And I always wondered if he'd just walked right trough the door, my mother and I would be better."
"And then you met Jackson."
"Yeah, and as amazing as the whole renegade government agent was, it was not what I wanted." He sighed.
"I'm sorry Rick."
"It's fine, now I have much more than just waiting for him to show up. I get to spend Christmas with my family and that's enough." He wrapped her in a hug. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"Sorry to interrupt bro, but we're sort of hungry out there." Came Espo a moment later.
"Shall we?" Rick asked, he grabbed the food and Kate followed him out.
"So Alexis?" Lanie asked. "Have you thought about names yet?"
"Yes, I like Sam. Scott, not so much."
"We still haven't decided." Scott put in.
"That's only because you don't want the baby to have a boy's name." Alexis said. "I have a perfectly normal gender neutral name."
"I know that." He mused. "I'm just saying,"
"Dude, little advice. Do what she wants." Javi said. "Works fine for me." Lanie shot him a look.
"Man, you're whipped." Scott smiled.
"Mommy what's whipped?" Leo asked Lanie.
"It just means daddy loves mommy so much, he does what she tells him to do." Lanie said. "Thank you so much." She mouthed at Scott. They all laughed.
Suddenly the bell rang. Rick excused himself and went to get it.
"Babe?" Kate called.
There in the door stood Jackson Hunt.
"Merry Christmas Rick."
Sorry for the short update, this only has a few chapters left. Don't forget to send a review my way guys!