"If we lay a strong enough foundation, we'll pass it on to you, we'll give the world to you and you'll blow us all away, someday someday." :: Glimpses into the 'someday'

She already feels like a prisoner and she wants out. :: Based on a story from Humans of New York.

The sun has just barely started to rise when she steps outside onto the path around the little house she calls her own. Overhead, she can hear the grinding gears of the lighthouse as the beam of light cuts through the morning fog.

Kate keeps her eye on one of the recruits from Company 38. Post-ep for 'Fidelis Ad Mortem'

When a power surge and overloaded transmission line cuts power to the city, Beckett and Castle find themselves trapped with only one method of illumination.

The baby cries, heartbreaking wails coming through the monitor on the bedside table, the noise-level lights flashing red in the darkness of their bedroom.

"Last time I was constantly this tired was when I was pregnant with Theo." But she can't be pregnant, can she? :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

She comes to him in the middle of the night, her heels slipped off at the threshold of their bedroom so her feet make no noise against the hardwood floors. :: An episode insert for What Lies Beneath...

Everything feels heavier after cases like this. The bag over her shoulder pulls at her muscles, her neck aching with the weight of the files she needs to go over for tomorrow, and her back a solid knot from sitting all day. Sitting and staring at the murder board, willing something to pan out.

They last a month. Twenty-seven days until she gives in to him. To the constant teasing and innuendos slipped into conversations about paperwork and standard operating procedures. :: An AU based on a gifset by katigron

She can't cry anymore. Absolutely exhausted to her soul from the past three days.

This is what she dreamed of for a whole year. But now? Now it makes her miserable. :: A season 3 AU.

"Kate. Come have dinner with me instead." :: An alternate ending to 'The Final Nail' spun-off from a castlefanficprompts post

Castle made it clear that he couldn't watch her drive herself into the ground and she wasn't about to ruin his graduation celebration with his daughter to tell him he was right. :: 'Always' alternate

Kate Beckett works alone. But her latest mission forces her to face the reason she went into her line of work and to deal with the man who has challenged her patience from the start.

Getting up means the weekend would draw to a close, that she would have to pack her duffel bag of her toiletries and find her boarding pass, that she would have to kiss him goodbye in the doorway again. :: Alternate Season 6 Christmas

She stopped going home every night.

Castle throws a curve in their road trip plans.

Even as the sun starts to set, painting long shadows of the surrounding trees across the row of polished shoes, she refuses to move, to leave him alone.

In the end, only Jim gets through to her. The only one with the ability to cut through the dark, heavy shroud of grief that wrapped around her as one of the Hamptons detective drove her back to the house.

He spends a week in the hospital.

She wakes with a thin vein of panic running through her.

He can't help but think of T.S. Eliot at times like this.

It's been awhile since her last attack. But she also hasn't been shot in the line since that bright May afternoon.

They're making it work. Until it doesn't anymore.

A series of unrelated one-shots.

Castle finds proof of the Yeti in an unlikely location.

The heavy ball of dread settles in her stomach, growing heavier and heavier until she hears the news. :: For Jenny. Happy birthday, babe.

There are things that remain constant between the two cities. Kate clings to them. :: Post-Watershed.

"He gravitates toward the back corner, hidden from the view of the window and bathed in darkness. There's only one other person in the back, curled up into a chair, winter boots on the ground so that her stocking feet are tucked under her legs." :: For the Morgans.

You're six when you get it. You've seen them act like this before, sure, but you have never really understood until now. :: Short fluff for Jenn.

He pulled a lot of strings, cashed in a ton of favors and I-owe-you's, and had come perilously close to begging. It was worth it. :: For Morgan.

She's dizzy. So dizzy that the world seems to tilt on its axis.

They say your first is always the hardest. She'd have to agree.

"Have you read it?"

"What if you stayed this time?"

Sometimes it doesn't feel real. :: For Jess.

All she leaves is a note. :: For Morgan.

Four years can make a world of difference. AU.

Beckett and Castle ring in the New Year.

He is way more handsome in real life. :: AU :: Inspired by tags from pauliporcupine.

"Once I had a secret love / that lived within the heart of me / all too soon my secret love / became impatient to be free." :: Eight ways to say "I love you." :: For Morgan, my favorite jetsetter. Happy holidays, chica!

The first snow can be magical.

"Her calves burn. Her wrists ache. She can't feel her shoulders. It's starting to hurt to breathe. And still she won't open her eyes." :: Written for the kink meme over at livejournal. Trigger warning.

She can't do this. :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

He tries to earn her forgiveness. Post-ep for 'Secret's Safe with Me.'

He's really good at distractions.

She's happy. And she wants him to know it. :: A prompt from pinktheatre.

Sunlight is filtering through the closed blinds of her living room, falling over their faces like dust settling after a windstorm. :: I wrote drunk again; subtitled "All Cute and Shit."

She swore she'd protect him. She failed.

"That's how all my stories end. With someone else dead." :: AU of Tick, Tick, Tick.../Boom!

Autumn just may be her favorite time of the year.

It's been a month.

She has to do this.

Doesn't every man want a pretty girl as his Valentine? :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

If she has to hear Maddie talk about her date with Brent Edwards from last night one more time, she's leaving. :: AU :: A prompt from Pau, Queen of Making-Logan-Write-Things-That-Are-Not-Tragic-In-Nature.

breathtaking, adj. – Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

"To have loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever." - J.K. Rowing, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone :: Based on a prompt from geekruminations on tumblr.

It's a miracle morning. :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." – Unknown :: For Lindsey.

Sometimes the best things come from a bout of spontaneity.

It has been a while since she has stepped foot in the office. :: Based on a prompt from pinktheatre on tumblr.

She's going to shoot him. :: Based on a prompt from somewalkquiet on tumblr.

There's a surprise for Al's eighth birthday. :: A Coffee Shop companion.

"Liquor was medicine for the anger that made them hurt, for the pain of the loss, medicine for tight bellies and choked-up throats." - Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

"What's past is prologue." - The Tempest, Act II Scene I, William Shakespeare.

"They're probably having beach sex. Which is the third best sex after elevator and White House." – Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock

"Come with us." "Why? So I can witness your defeat in person?"

"His words still make her shiver." :: For Angie.

"The water in the bowl of the sink is a pale pink, darker ribbons swirling in the liquid as if suspended."

"What she needs is him. Home. Now." :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

"If either of them wake up, head into the kitchen, she'll never hear the end of it." :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.

"What is it about the refrigerator? Is it the cold, the light, or the combination of the two?" :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

An AU of 'Sucker Punch' in the Coffee Shop series.

It's the phone call they never wanted to receive. :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

A sequel to 'Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop'.

"Moving on is never easy." :: To the girl who equals champagne, Carrs, and airplanes in my mind as she closes the book on high school and packs up her blazers to take college by storm.

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen :: AU, as if the events of 'Always' didn't happen.

A new day. A fresh start. :: For my favorite jetset girl.

Happy Mother's Day!

It's been a battle since night number one. :: Mildly post-Always.

"He's steady. Her stone foundation as everything crumbles around her." :: Post-Always, written while a little drunk on red wine.

Because who doesn't like drunk fic-writing until 3:30am post-'Always'

She's still full of surprises, even if it takes an unfortunate turn of events to reveal her secrets :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

'when grief weighs you down like your own flesh, only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, how can a body withstand this'

Every girl loves to be swept off her feet. :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

He hides. They seek. :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion which takes place before Chapter 48 of 'Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop.'

'I'm gonna write, a letter to my true love, I'm gonna sign my name.'

Breakfast for dinner is serious business :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion.

Solving murders is hard enough. It's even harder when the victim is one of their own.

'This is how the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.' - "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot :: Spoilers for post-'47 Seconds' and 'The Limey'

'And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva.' - The Princess Bride

It's no joke - April 1st is Castle's birthday.

'The water is dark and deep inside this mother's heart.' - Celtic Woman :: A 'Coffee Shop' companion

'But that was love and it's an ache I still remember.' :: Post-ep for '47 Seconds'

Kate Beckett was twenty-six when the biggest accident in her life occurred. Five years later, the biggest miracle happens. AU.

Kate needs Castle to push her out of her mind.

Words can do damage and repair. It all depends on how one uses them.

She returns the favor.

"I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love..."

"And then, her world stopped."

"When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl, you find someone to carry you." A series of one-shots.

The trials and tribulations of raising a newborn. Sequel to All My Secrets.

Some people hate small spaces. What do Castle and Beckett think about close quarters?

Working on closing that gap between them proves to be a little harder than she originally thought it would be.

Sometimes four letters is all it takes. Rating is for safety in case future chapters take their own direction.

"I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas."

Snowed in at La Guardia on Christmas Eve, Castle is determined to make the time as memorable as possible for Kate.

A night out on the town leads to an unexpected brush with her past.

"They had been buried in the back of her closet for years now. She didn't even know they were back there, that they survived the explosion or that they had made the trip to her new apartment." Written for the Christmas Challenge 2011.

The three-legged race takes a turn.

Kate finds herself in an interesting situation.

"This canary's ready to fly free... He's nothing but an albatross, no great loss."

"A memory captured."

One little mistiming drives them apart.

Christmas is a little different this year.

It's just coffee... But it's more than that for them.

"I've been a fool and I've been blind...it's always darkest before the dawn."

That case was the only thing grounding her. What does she do when it's finally closed and she's left drifting?

A night spent in her unfurnished apartment.

She normally spends the day alone. He doesn't let her.

A single case defines the careers of two people.

The day comes when the entire city can finally collect on their bets regarding a certain homicide detective and mystery writer.

New Years Eve is a crazy night for any cop. Luckily, Beckett finds someone to make it a little less painful.

Secrets are shared and kept between a writer, a cop, and their team. Chapter Seven is rated M.

Out of heartbreak comes a new life for more than one person.

After the twisting path of their relationship, he was happy to fall into the cliche.

Will romance spark between a writer and a detective at a night dedicated to her mother's memory?

A confrontation in the hospital room.

Kate Beckett struggles with her emotions after telling Castle they are through being partners.