(Based on a Tumblr prompt, I think.) From the all the stories you will leave universe, but not necessary to read that to understand this. Christmas!fic!

"You are the most remarkable maddening, challenging, frustrating person I have ever met. And I love you Kate, and if that means anything to you, if you care about me at all, please don't do this." a slightly different version to Always.

"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed." - an AU ep insert for Reckoning. Co-fic with closingdoors. Character death warning.

But then it's the way her face lights up when she sees her, and, more importantly it's the shriek of "Mommy!" that has her taking a step backwards. (Time travel AU, of a sort, set after 47 seconds)

"You know, I remember being told by a certain morgue technician that I shouldn't get into a drinking competition with you because you would drink me under the table. Where did that Kate go?" - set between S4 and S5.

It's hard, she'll admit, holding the phone to her ear with a shoulder, one arm is trying to juggle a mound of paperwork, and the other is trying to keep a very wiggly baby. from falling off.

He squawks against her neck, now trying to get his legs around her rib cage. Clingy. Her own little monkey. "Baby, you're too big to do that. What did you do?"

It starts with a lack of batteries.

"No, it's… okay. It's okay. I'm… glad you're okay." A post-ep/AU of cops and robbers, co-written by tombombadillo and closingdoors.