Honored
On the family's last day in Barbados; Beckett was cleaning out the kids bags while they ate lunch. In one of the bags Beckett found a couple sheets of paper with her kids' handwriting on them. Beckett's interest was piqued almost immediately.
It looked like the kids had written something about their heroes. Beckett took a couple of minutes to read what her sons and daughters wrote. A single tear slid down Beckett's face as she read the story. Her children had completely moved her with their story. The kids peeked around the corner to see what their mother was up to and saw the tear slide down their mother's face.
"She found the story." Kat whispered to her sister and brothers.
"Yay!" the other three said.
"Rick." Beckett called.
"What is it; Kate?" Castle asked once he joined her.
"Read this."
Castle took the story from his wife. It didn't take Castle long to read the story that his kids wrote.
"Speed reading again; babe?"
"Mhmm."
"She had a troubled childhood, drug problems in her teens and twenties."
"I know."
"How do you know?"
"I read the case file. She kicked the habit. Met and married Samuel Cavanaugh. She worked in a restaurant. He managed a bank. They have two kids."
"When did you read the case file?"
"That…"
"When you were in the little girls' room."
"I was gone for like a minute."
"Speed reader. Something I picked up from my years stranded in the New York Public Library."
"That was very sweet of them; wasn't it?" Beckett asked.
"Very sweet."
The kids barreled into the room that their parents were in.
"Come here." Castle and Beckett instructed their kids.
The kids did as they were told. A few seconds after they were beside their parents; the kids were enveloped by their parents with hugs.
"Thank-you."
"You're welcome." the kids said.