AN: This is the last chapter! I hope you enjoy it. I don't know if I'll be writing too soon. Between the news about Stana/Beckett and the fact that I don't have an idea right now, I'm not sure when inspiration will strike me. I'm hoping it won't be too long. Anyways, thank you all for the support, the favorites, the follows, and the reviews. Enjoy :)

She was wheeled into the operating room, without Lanie or Castle. Josh was told, with his back to her, what he was dealing with. When he turned around, he saw her. "God damn it, Kate."

"You know her?"

"She's my ex-girlfriend." He picked up the tool he was going to need in the meantime while they paged another doctor. He wasn't going to let Kate die.

When the other doctor arrived, he went out to the waiting room to find Castle. "This is your fault!"

"My fault?! You're the one that is working with the person that killed her mother!"

"If you didn't go opening up her mother's case, there would be no need for me to be working with him." With that, he pushed Castle against the wall. "If anything, I thought you could tell her to stand down, but you just pushed her right in front of him."

"I did tell her to stand down. She listened to me, unlike you. It was just too late."

"I'd watch your back, Castle. He's coming for you next."

"Is that a threat?"

"No, that's a promise if you try to avenge her death, if she dies." With that, Josh walked out.

Castle sat down next to his mother and she wrapped her arm around him. "He's right you know. This is my fault."

"Darling, this is not your fault. Katherine doesn't think that and none of us think that."

"I could have..."

"What could you have done? She would have found out about the knife that was used in that crime scene and how it was the same one that killed her mother. She would have figured out that Coonan was the one and we would be right here."

It had been a few days since Kate had been shot and she still hadn't woken up yet. He went to visit her everyday and made sure to bring a new set of flowers with him. He sat down in his usual chair and took her hand in his.

"Hey, Kate." He pressed a soft kiss to her hand. "Are you going to wake up today? I miss seeing those gorgeous eyes of yours. I know you might have been thinking that I just said that the first day we met, but I meant it. You do have gorgeous eyes. Of course, that's not the only thing I find about you to be gorgeous." He was going to say more, but then a nurse came in.

"Hi, Mr. Castle. Nice to see you today."

"Nice to see you too, Jennifer. Just wish it was in different circumstances as always. How's she doing today?"

"Kate's doing great. I'm going to change some things here and take a few easy and small tests. Don't let me disturb you."

"No, it's okay. As much as I love talking to Kate, I do think sometimes I'm crazy when no one talks back."

"It's all natural. We never know for sure if they can hear us or not, but everyone talks to their loved ones when they're like this. You're not crazy."

He gave her a soft smile before he turned his attention back to Kate. "You here that. Someone finally thinks I'm sane."

"Well I wouldn't go that far," Jennifer teased.

With that, they heard a cough come from Kate.

He stood up and looked at her, still holding her hand. "Kate?"

She coughed again a few times and her eyes opened just slightly. Jennifer took control and told Kate to relax as she took the tube out. "Welcome back, Kate."

Kate looked over to Castle and gave him a soft smile. He returned her smile with one of the biggest smiles she had ever seen before pressing a kiss to her forehead. "God, if I knew someone teasing me would wake you up, I would have done that a few days ago." She gave his hand a squeeze, the only thing she was capable of doing right now. "I'm going to be staying right here, Kate. You can go back to sleep. Just don't take as long to wake up this time."

She gave him a soft smile before she softly got out, "I promise."

He called her dad, letting him know that she was awake, and then he called Ryan (who was going to tell Esposito, who was going to tell Lanie). He made sure that she had some water when she woke up and fixed some of the flowers that she had gotten. When he finished, she was awake again. She pointed to the water and he helped her take a few sips.

"You're staring at me...I must really look bad."

"No, I just thought I'd never see you again."

She gave him a soft smile. "Still here. Just in pain."

"You want me to get the nurse?"

"No, no. Want to stay awake. Want to be with you."

He smiled softly at her as he moved his one hand to brush a strand of her hair back. "Okay, but if the pain is too much..."

"I know. I'll call." She was silent for a bit before she spoke again. "Castle, what happened after?"

He didn't really want to talk about this now, now that she had just woken up, but she wouldn't stop asking until he told her.

"Esposito, Ryan, and Demming went searching for your shooter, but they only found the gun. Demming told them that they went by the name Maddox. We haven't been able to find anything though and Demming wouldn't say who The Dragon is. He left before Ryan and Esposito could interrogate him. No one has seen Demming or Josh since that day. We're not sure if The Dragon had them killed or if they took off. We're at a standstill and we're not going to look into it anymore. We all know what happens when we deal with something like this."

Kate nodded. "Like you said, Castle. One day, just not today. Everyone else okay?"

"Everyone is okay. Shaken up a bit, but okay."

"Good." She looked at him. "You okay?"

"I'm better now that you're awake and I know you're alive. You died twice in the back of that ambulance, Kate. I was so scared that I lost you."

"Can't get rid of me that easily. I still have years of making sure I ruin your crazy theories with my logic."

He laughed. "Yes, yes, you definitely do." He leaned in and placed a soft kiss to her lips. They were a little chapped and she didn't have a lot of strength to kiss him back like she would have a few days ago, but he didn't care. He needed this and he could see that she did too.

When he pulled away, she spoke again. "So, Castle. What now?"

"We make sure you heal and I make sure to keep that promise of making sure you're happy, every single day."