A/N: This took me a really long time to write and it's not even finished yet. Sorry…

Disclaimer: Do not own Castle

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Beckett was happy. But like every rollercoaster that is life, hers took a plunge for the worst. After a series of events that led up to this eventual happiness that she was so deserving of, Beckett let her guard down, one of the many mistakes everybody makes when they think everything is okay.

Wrong.

Rain ceases, but never stops entirely. Like rain, misfortune ceases, but never really stops. It will always come back.

To Beckett, it came back in the form of her boyfriend, Richard Castle.

Before Beckett was aware of her misfortune, she was moving forward in her relationship with Castle. They were both coming to terms with the past, the present and the future of their relationship.

After Beckett explained how Castle's novels were important to her before they'd met, Castle explained to her his dedication to their relationship. He explained how he had waited for this and how he was not going to give up. But that somehow wasn't enough for Beckett after all that she'd said to him.

They agreed to take the next step.

It was time for Kate to pack her bags.

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Beckett arrived back at the Precinct, without Castle.

She was quickly approached by Esposito, who was eagerly waiting to give her new information on their case.

"Yo, Beckett. Ryan and I went… Are you alright?" he asked after closely examining her body language and facial expressions.

"Huh? Yeah. Yeah I'm good, actually," she replied, walking to the murder board.

"Why do you sound surprised?" he asked in confusion. At that moment, Ryan approached.

"Guys," he began but trailed off when he noticed the confused look on Espo's face and the smile that was slowly approaching on Beckett's face. "What's going on?" he asked slowly.

"I have to tell you guys something, but I think I should tell someone else first. It's no big deal but…I'm happy about it," she shrugged as she walked away from the boys.

"Lanie, I'm on my way to the morgue. I have something to tell you," she tried to make herself sound as monotone as possible.

"Just tell me over the phone," Lanie replied in an equally monotone voice.

"This isn't 'phone' news, Lanie." Beckett said as she fished out her car keys from her purse.

"I didn't know this was news at all," Lanie replied slowly.

"You sound so unenthused," Kate said as she put Lanie on speaker, enabling her to drive and talk at the same time.

"I'm sorry. I'm just tired. Come on, just tell me now, I need something to distract me from all this…work,"

"Fine, you win. Castle and I are moving in together,"

"Girl, that is not something you just say over the phone!" Lanie raised her voice, however it was not loud enough to be a yell.

"Right. Okay, I'll be there soon. I'll bring you some coffee or something. Why can't you just drink coffee?" Beckett hung up and pulled into Starbucks.

She opened the door for someone and walked into the store herself, not expecting to see what she saw. The busiest Starbucks she'd seen at any time of day.

Carefully dodging people buzzing around the store, she made her way to the counter and the longest queue known to man. She peered at her watch and read the menu boards as she waited in line. A child, no taller than her knees, ran past her and almost caused her to fall. As she was regaining her balance, the child's parent quickly walked past Beckett, causing her to lose balance again.

Not far from where Kate was standing, the child bumped into an employee holding a take-away tray with cups of hot coffee. As he dropped the coffee, the worker tried his best to shield the child from the hot beverages, which left the coffee free falling on Beckett.

She caught it in time to only spill the tiniest amount of coffee on her right arm, which wasn't as hot as she was expecting. She was happy that it hadn't come in contact with her clothes, at all.

"Oh my goodness, I am so sorry!" the child's parent rushed in out of nowhere and took the child with her, apologising to Beckett, the employee and the basically the entire store. The employee came to Beckett's side asking if she was ok and taking the coffee from her, checking if she had any burns.

"No, I'm fine," she smiled, "Guess I'm just lucky!"

She placed her order and tried her best to avoid the rush all over again.

On her way to the morgue, Beckett saw a Golden Retriever walking with his owner, and immediately thought back to Royal. She couldn't help but wonder where he was now.

A honk from the car behind her made her jump and she quickly accelerated harder than was necessary. This caused her to be on the receiving end of more honks from other cars.

She indicated to turn right at traffic lights, so when the light turned green, she began her take off and was nearly hit by another vehicle driving straight forward. She honked at them but they ignored her. So tempted to do something about it, Beckett decided to let the person go, trying to avoid anything else bad that might come her way.

Once she'd gotten to the morgue, she parked her car and called Lanie outside, not wanting to bring Starbucks into the Morgue.

Lanie came out in a rush and panic, "You've got some explaining to do and I have something to tell you,"

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To be continued… Obviously.