Something Old, Something New

by Castlefan6

A/N: By Request, PRE-Series Hookup, SEQUEL to Diminished Recall. Picks up exactly where that ends. COMPLETELY AU except for the conversation that prompted this and the use of some character's names. For CeCe, Friend, and Co-Writer with Pen2Paper.

I don't own Castle; I use the characters for amusement purposes only

I hope it's close to what you wanted.

A/N: Laurie's occupation was a songwriter, she said she had been lucky a few times. For the sake of this fiction, please assume the songs written by Diane Warren were her work, under her pen name of DW. Thx

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A/N: First, I'm sorry to have been absent so long, tending to some lingering medical issues. I had written the next sequel to this story; I had 13 chapters completed and decided to review it against my outline and the two preceding stories.

I must have been writing when I was on the painkillers and muscle relaxants, there were holes in the original timeline so huge you could have driven a Mack Truck through. I spent two weeks trying to clean it up, but after another two chapters, I decided to scrap it, it's garbage so I won't be publishing the story as promised.

I reviewed some of my earlier stories, to see if I wanted to work on a sequel and I think I have it narrowed down, no promises. As I said the health issues are nagging, not life-threatening so I have to write when I don't need the pain pills. I can relate to the episode where Rick broke his knee and was on drugs, using the word speculate multiple times in the same sentence.

I hope to have a new story, either a sequel or a new idea soon. If you have prompts please send them to me, again, No season 8

Thx

Tim