Disclaimer : Castle is not mine.

Kate wakes up just as the sun has crossed the horizon with a feeling of warmth and safeness in her chest. She tries to think of the like time she felt like this and comes up blank. She is usually a restless sleeper in New York, this has come with years of being a cop and constantly being on alert, years of nightmares, she has adjusted to wake up at even the smallest of sounds, so getting a full night sleep in the city that never sleeps is about as rare as spotting a dolphin in a pond. She turns around just slightly to look at the man opposite her with his arm wrapped tightly around her, his face previously being buried in her hair is now close enough to touch and maybe even kiss him awake she thinks with a smirk. She leans in slowly and brushes her lips across his, feather light at first. This is how she discovered how the man she loves sleeps like a rock as she pressed her lips against his again and again, harder and harder each time. She abandoned his lips and moved to his neck and collarbone where she came across a spot that made him sigh then twitch. She smirked to herself, staying at that one spot she began to suck, bite and lick until she saw his eyes slowly fluttering open and he had a well place hickey as she thought good it can be revenge for the hickey you gave me and with that thought she moved to the other side of his neck as he woke up just a bit more but his brain was still fuzzy. It was around the fourth hickey that he fully realized what was going on and he couldn't stop his reaction. She was kissing down his chest when she heard the groan, looking up she gave him a mischievous smile. "Morning sleeping beauty."

He looked down at her where both her legs were swung around his thighs, straddling him "Morning to you to. If I might ask what are you doing acting like a leach this early in the morning?" He smirked. She truly was beautiful with her glowing skin, curly hair and the most breath taking smile planted firmly on her face.

"Well I tried waking you up with a very sweet kiss if I might say so myself but when that didn't work I tried your neck and there was this one spot right about here" She pointed just below his pulse point where he knew he was ticklish and so extra sensitive. "and you done this little sigh then twitch so I stayed at that one spot and then moved to the other side of your next" she pointed just below his earlobe where another hickey laid "and i though I felt you twitch again and then I moved to about here" running her finger slowly from his next down to where his collarbone started and a hickey was "I started here and this is when your eyes slowly flicked open for a second." She gave him an evil smirk. She then trailer her finger down from his left collarbone to just below his right rib and slowly hunched down as she did so "then you woke up just as I go to just about here..." She then placed her mouth back on the spot she was previously sucking before he woke up. He gasped and he felt her smile against his ribs. When she felt him pulling on her hands which lay either side of his ribs she released his flesh with a loud pop and slowly crawled over him back up the bed on hands and knees hovering over him His hands tangled in her hair and he pulled her down giving her the good morning kiss that she actually wanted. She opened her mouth and let out a sigh, he took the chance to bring his tongue into play and flipped them so she lay on her back and him between her legs. They paused when he swept her hair out of her face, smiling at each other. The heated moment was lost as he remained where he was resting on his elbows above her staring at her eyes.

"So by my count you had given me about four hickeys before I eventually woke up?" He asked with a smirk on his face but love shining in his eyes.

"I would've given you more but ya know I got caught" She says jokingly with a crooked smile. She leans up to kiss him again but his phone starts ringing with Alexis' signature ring tone and they both look over towards his phone.

"Hey honey" Castle says in his cheeriest tone as he answers the phone.

"Hey dad um there was a message on the machine from an Elizabeth Beckett saying that she and a bunch of Beckett's are on their way over to Beckett's apartment in New York and should be arriving at about 10 this morning. Apparently they called last night but I didn't hear cause I fell asleep with my headphones in, sorry." Alexis informed her father.

"It's okay Pumpkin."

"Dad, if you're not there and you're not here then where are you?" Alexis question with a hint of knowing in her voice.

"I um...uhh" Castle tried to stumble out but never got the chance as Alexis interrupted him.

"Mmhmm that's what I thought. Bye dad." Alexis hung up on him and he heard the smile in her voice rather then saw it.

He released a sigh and put his phone on the bedside table, dropping his head onto Beckett's shoulder simply breathing in her scent. He stiffened slightly as he remembered what Alexis said and looked at the time. 8:30am that gives them enough time to clean the house and go food shopping right?

"We need to get up" Castle said pushing up from her and trying to leave without an explanation. He suddenly found it hard to move when he felt her tighten her legs around his waist holding him like a vice grip.

"Where ya trying to go Castle?" Kate asked with a cheeky smile on her face. She looked so relaxed and happy that Castle didn't want to pop her bubble with the news that her family will be here in just a little over an hour. He wanted Kate to be like this for as long as possible but knew if they didn't start doing everything now they wouldn't finish in time.

Castle breathed a sigh and told her what Alexis told him and watched as her eyes grew comically wide and she practically threw him off of the bed as she rushed to get showered and ready. Castle followed with his eyes to where she rushed into her bathroom and heard as the shower turned on.

He found a piece of paper and quickly scribbled a note telling her he went to go get food and for her to start tidying whilst he was gone.

To say she tidied was an understatement as when he walked in she was on her hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen floor trying to make it spotless as he looked down amused at her she blew a piece of stray hair away from her face which he found absolutely adorable. He kneeled down and tucked it back behind her ear as she looked up with worried eyes.

"Its going to be okay right" She asked breathless and the worry evident in her eyes.

"Of course it will."

There was a knock on the door and they both looked up with wide eyes.

"They're early Castle, really early" She said as she rushed to tip the bucket of dirty water down the sink and put the bucket in its rightful place.

"I'll start with lunch and you answer the door" He saw how nervous she was and pulled her closer to him by the top of the arms and placed a reassuring kiss to her forehead. "Everything is going to be fine."

Kate walked over to the door nervously and opened it to reveal everyone from the family reunion "Hi everyone please come in" She said as she stepped aside and made a gesture for them all to come in.

Kate never thought she had a small apartment and she knew it wasn't big but when you have all the Beckett's in one apartment you couldn't help but realize how little space there was. The food fanatics of the Beckett family and just those who loved to cook walked over to the kitchen to either help or to start cooking something else, the kids just simply ran around or was looking at her bookshelf and even a few of them found her guitar in the corner and started to pluck at a few strings, the older people of the group was sat in the living room all having a chat and observing their surroundings. Beckett knew for many o them that the flight mustn't have been cheap and it was most of their first times being in New York. She took a moment to observe her surroundings herself and simply reflect that all her family have come to see her. She took a deep breath and felt Castle wrap his arms around her from behind. She looked at her Grandma and Grandpa and they were both looking at her with matching smile on their faces and she returned it. She knew she was stubborn along with her family and she loved them and they love her and this was their way of saying sorry, their way of trying to reconnect with her.

"You okay?" Castle whispered in her ear.

"I'm okay Castle, everything's perfect." She whispered as she turned to give him a light kiss on the lips and sighed. Everything was perfect because her family was together again.

The end.