AN: Hey guys, guess who's very sick and finally found the strength to pick their head up off of the bed and write?! Only took me over a month to write this chapter, and I haven't been in school for over a month also…

If you guys don't normally read author's notes please read this one at the end of the chapter.

And then it dawns of him before she even reaches him to tell him.

Kate's awake.

His Kate is finally awake.

He's trying, he really is. He's trying his hardest to not sprint down the hallways to Kate's room. He's already walking about six inches in front of the nurse, and without even looking he can tell that she's smirking behind him. Right now though, at this exact point in time, he could care less. He could care less because his Kate woke up. His Kate.

Arriving on the floor that she is on only makes him feel a lot more anxious, nervous, and guilty to see her. He knows that he probably shouldn't feel guilty, at least not the moment because he's about to reach her door, but he can't help wondering what would have happened if he had just stayed for an extra ten more minutes. His sleeve is being tugged back, his sleeve is being tugged back, taking him with pull and finally dawning on him that someone is trying to pull him back, he realizes that he should stop resisting.

Turning around he sees the look on the nurse's face, and he realizes that they arrived at her door, but she won't let him in, why? He's about to open his mouth and ask when she holds a finger up to her lips, she's telling him to be quite. She's telling him to be quite, but why? Oh… Kate may have fallen back to sleep, and she doesn't want him to wake her up.

He doesn't care about the waking her up part, he doesn't really. And it might make him sound selfish but it's the truth, because he needs to see her before she does fall back to sleep for real. Nodding his head in understanding, Castle proceed into the room on the ICU floor that just beyond the metal door holds his Kate waiting for him. He sneaks a look around the corner of the door after he opens it, and his breath catches in his throat at what he sees. Her abnormal, pale skin color blends in so disgustingly well with the pearl white hospital sheets, and the gown she is wearing. Little scratches, cuts, and marks are still evident on her face, and her arms that are above the sheets while everything else is hidden. Her eyelids are shut closed, and she is completely still, as if she sleeping, and he is way more than half tempted to shut the door, and walk back outside and have a little come to Jesus meeting with the nurse, but is quickly pulled out of his thoughts only once she speak up and he realize how long he has been standing barely in the doorway just staring at her.

"What have I told you about staring Castle? For the hundredth-thousand time, it's creepy!" Beckett says startling Castle as he continues to stare at her as a small smile spreads open across her lips, and her eyelids slowly start to flutter open. Their eyes lock, and faster than Castle thinks he has ever moved before, he has the door shut to give them some privacy, and he is sitting down in the chair, (moving too fast that he almost falls over earning a soft chuckle out of her), right next to her, grabbing for her hand and vowing to never letting go of her for a split second again.

"How are you feeling?" He ask, genuinely curious of her state of well being since she has woken up, checking to make sure that she doesn't need any more ice cubes, or that she doesn't need any morphine, or the doctor or nurses. He knows that he is nervous, can tell by the way she is watching him with the best amused look on her face that she can muster at the moment that she knows too. He keeps rambling on though going through the list of things that he can think of to ask her about when it dawns on him, when the mini version of the women in the bed dawns on him.

"Hey, you won't believe what I was just about to go do, guess what it was?" Castle says getting all giddy and grabbing the hand that is closer to him as she watches him grab her hand and laces their fingers together, as their own secret promise of always.

"What Rick, what were you about to go do that I couldn't belie-" She gets cut off by a violent coughing attack, one that has him jumping up about to grab the control panel that has the nurse call button on it for them to press, right as she grabs his wrist to stop him and is shaking her head 'no' at him, reluctantly he attack slowly comes to an end.

"Trust me Castle, I think that if I keep bothering them over one of those attacks, they are going to seriously disable my call button, and I am not even joking this time Castle." Beckett tries to joke once she finishes the little episode she just went through. He nods his head in understanding trying to wrap his head around the situation of what is currently going on, speaking of what is currently going on he thinks to him, back to Emily.

"Anyways, what I was trying to say before Kate is that Emily gets to come home from the hospital today, I was just on my way to go sign her discharge papers and go show Emily her new bedroom." Castle finishes while looking at Beckett with a 100 watt smile on his face.

"Her new what, Castle?" Beckett asks with a confused, disoriented look on her face as she stares at Castle with a way that makes him feel that she isn't exactly staring at him, but through him. He squirms in his seat a little bit, trying to figure out how to respond to this question; with the new turn that everything had just took.

"Her new bedroom Kate, at the loft, Mother and Alexis called me right before you woke up from your little cocoon, and her bedroom is all set up. It's a surprise, I wouldn't tell her what I was going to do, but she's very excited to go see it today, I could barely get her to go to sleep last night, she was that excited." He answers looking at her with an anxious look on his face, waiting for her to answer him.

Ignoring the remark he made about her sleeping habits lately, (something he had nothing to do with, and will make sure he knows of the later), she answers him with the first remark that comes to her brain, and out of her mouth without thinking about it. "Rick? What the heck do you think you are doing? We need to talk, now."

And then his world shattered.

!IMPORTANT! AN: Hope you guys loved it, there will be the discussion between our beloved couple in the next chapter, maybe some Emily thrown in there also. Also, I have a fanfic video for this story currently in process, and no promises about updates they're whenever I can. Because number one, I have been very sick, number two, I have missed over a month of school and have over a month of school work and dance classes to catch up on, lastly, number three, writing used to be my escape, but about a couple of months ago, that escape from the real world got taken away from me, and now I have about a couple of things left to use as an escape route.

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