A take on what the Christmas cliff hanger might be. No spoilers.
All the time thinking how she was going to tell her husband. For a moment she stood there biting her lip. Maybe she didn't have to tell him. She could show him instead. Now a baby/kid collection of family moments. Ch12 - Grandpa Rick.
She felt a familiar hand on her shoulder. One she hadn't felt in six months, that one she longed to feel again. She wanted to turn around to make sure it was him but was scared to just in case it was a dream or figment of her imagination.
Kate proposes to Castle after Still 5x21. Involves cake.
Alexis walks into the loft studying the scene before her, Martha and Kate on the sofa with her father on the floor more importantly her grandmother feeding a baby. "Alexis, meet your brother." A different take on when Alexis walks into the loft in 6x10
Kate Beckett hates wearing her glasses, unfortunately after a mix up she doesn't have anymore contact lenses so she has to go to work wearing her glasses.
All she can think is that it is taking so long, believing that all the times that she's been at a sentencing hearing before it hasn't taken this long but there's the two major differences this time, it's Bracken and she's in labour.
It's not the same Richard Castle who got her pregnant. The one who was rescued is distant, doesn't touch her and hasn't felt their child move. It is decision time. S7 AU. Tumblr prompt
Beckett breaks Castle's hand during labour
Time Will Tell (6x05) happened in Season 3. When Doyle says that they're married, living in New York , she's a senator and they have three kids she doesn't know which one that she finds most alarming. Castle's reaction is just to ask "Senator?" The reaction she comes out with is "Three kids?"
It's after the first week of her staying at the loft while he's recovering from a broken knee cap that he realises it. He realises how much he likes having her here, it's as if she belongs here. The loft is claiming her back.
As Castle was walking out of a meeting at Black Pawn he looked up to glance at the TV showing the rolling news channel, it was then that he heard words, that no husband, wife or partner of a cop wanted to hear "Major incident declared at the twelfth precinct, known causalities with one death confirmed".
She killed their son, every day she feels the pain. Nothing will ever make it go away, not when he blames her; she tried to take herself away but he stopped her. Then one day, it will start to heal. Beware self harm
Her body lies on her kitchen floor motionless then he sees the tears run down her face and the fear in her eyes. She must know that it is PTSD, all he knows is that she needs help and someone to be there for her. Set S4
Castle and Beckett go to the track to see who laps who. From 4x15 but set S7
Beckett and Castle talk money.
She stands together with her family hand in hand looking at the television screen waiting for the one seat that she needs to win. It had been a long trip to get here but she's about to show Castle that Simon Doyle was wrong.
Why does her husband have to be 2000 miles away? She's got a crying, inconsolable child, she's sick and she needs to talk to him, needs him to be here. Now.