A/N sorry guys… I'm from canada and I did not know Stanford was in california, I thought it was in New York :/… so I changed that… thanks to those reviews i learned something new!
The next morning, Kate and Rick woke up to the sound of Kate's phone ringing. She rolled over and slid the answer slide. "Beckett." She tried not to sound tired.
"Hey Beckett, its Espo. We've got a body drop on West 43rd street." He said to the phone.
"Got it, Castle and I are on our way." She reached over and shook him awake.
"5 more minutes" he mumbled into the pillow.
"Get up, or I'll leave without you!" she threatened.
After stopping for coffee, they began to discuss what happened last night.
"Kate, Alexis is not ready for this! She needs to finish her schooling, it means a lot to her!" He wasn't really protesting anything, Kate realized that Rick just was not ready to see his little girl as a mom.
"We both know that alexis is responsible. She isn't going to make any decisions without thinking everything through." She was just mirroring all of the things Rick had been saying to her for the 6 years they had been working together.
Castle knew Kate was right, but to him it was yesterday that Alexis was sitting in a high chair eating cheerios. He smiled "it could be fun to have a baby around the house." He glanced at Kate, who was starring forewards with a look of terror on her face.
Had he seriously just said that? She hadn't envisioned the baby living with them… she wasn't a baby person for god sakes. Suddenly her stomach churned as she imagined being puked on and woken up at 4am, like when cosmo was with them. "Rick, remember when cosmo was with us? Babies are not as fun as you remember." She wasn't trying to crush his dreams, she was just reminding him not to get too excited. "Besides, even if she decides to keep it, will she still live with us?" Beckett wondered all the possibilities Alexis had at her hands. Even if she did keep it, would she live with them? Or get her own house? Kate felt herself hoping that Alexis would keep it, and live with them, despite all of the downsides. She turned back towards castle, who seemed to be a little disgruntled by her last remark. "But it might be fun, you know… I kind of missed cosmo after he went back to his family."
Rick was taken by surprise by this last part. In all the time he had spent with Kate she had only heard him talk about babies once. 'Success!" his mind yelled. His plan in turning Kate into a baby person had worked! He mentally high fived cosmo. But his heart ached once he came back to reality, and remembered that he and Kate were not having a baby, but his little girl. "Maybe we can make the best of this!" Rick said optimistically.
Kate remembered when her mother used to take her ice skating, it was a great memory. She remembered some of the other things her and her mom did together, and realized that despite that her mothers life had been cut short, Joanna Beckett had done something that Kate had not. She had always seen herself having kids someday, but what if someday was over? It couldn't be, she had just gotten engaged to someone she loved. She looked over at Rick and felt that she might be disappointing him. Somehow that wasn't her main thought, she wondered if she may be making a mistake