8x22. Everyone has a last time. COMPLETE.

My 1st ever entry for the '2014 Ficathon Entry'. Based on @Fembot77's prompt. All gratitude for Castle goes to Marlowe/ABC; I own only my own words in random order. It's been a long, fun, exciting ride. THANKS for your kind words, reviews, and friendly correspondence. You, dear readers, are awesome human beings. Estou feliz que eu fiz você se sentir fortemente. Muito obrigado!

'They'll be fine. This isn't permanent. She won't let it be, and she wants to believe he won't either. Kate leaves their home without another word, just a final slam of the door.' For #CastleFanficMonday.

[Post s6 finale] Following Castle's death, Beckett tries to deal with his loss. But when he comes back five years later, holding HER book in his hands, Kate retreats in her guilt and tries to adapt to this new situation with Martha, Alexis and the twins she had after his "death".

AU. Castle and Beckett meet during the bank robbery in Cops And Robbers. After the events of Montgomery's shooting, her own, and breaking up with Josh, will Beckett still learn to let Castle in? COMPLETE.

In which people have their soulmate's last words on their body. You're here. I'll be home soon. COMPLETE.

twenty lives blue and gansey didn't get to live and one they did.

An AU take on what could have happened if Cops and Robbers occurred after the events of 47 Seconds. Two-shot.

This wasn't the tropical getaway they were expecting. Castle/Jurassic Park AU. Set sometime after 7x10. Castle Winter Hiatus 2014 Ficathon Entry.

"It surprises him that they're talking about this, considering their track record. "You remember?" he asks, letting her take the lead." An AU take on the events of 4x01 'Rise' when Castle goes to see Beckett at the hospital.

A fill for the prompt: "My tent just broke and I'm not about to sleep by myself in there now, so can you scoot over?". Castle, Beckett, and the rest of the team decide to take a trip to the woods. COMPLETE.

AU. Castle and Beckett as a thief and a murderer. COMPLETE.

Set between season three and four. A summer of healing. COMPLETE.

An AU for 1x05 "The Iron Ceiling" in which Steve Rogers was trapped in the military complex.

"What's past is prologue." -William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene I. An AU season six Castle story.

This is her home. The place where she grew up, trekking up and down the mountains and racing through the fields. Where she learned to cook and drive and dance. The place where her memories live, where she can close her eyes and take a deep breath and almost hear the fading echo of her mother's voice. This is her home. And damned if she's going to give it up. - AU Christmas-type fic

Set the morning after the end of 7x07. Fluff and fun that deals with an issue a few had with the ending of the episode.

Zombie Apocalypse AU. In this world, love killed. For Castle Halloween Bash. M for mild smut.

'She hadn't meant to hear. And she most definitely hadn't meant to feel her stomach flip, with something like elation, something like hope, and something too much like relief.' Post 3x12, Poof! You're Dead. For Laura. COMPLETE.

Sequel to 'heart so helpless'. Castle and Beckett's struggles to overcome their past, the murders, and the mess they left behind. Cover art by half0utloud. COMPLETE.

In the dark of night he wakes. Mumbled whispers draw him to her. So… she speaks in her sleep? Set in early Season 5, somewhere between "Secret's Safe with Me" (5x03) and "Murder, He Wrote" (5x04).

Post-ep for 1x07, Home Is Where The Heart Stops. For my darling Amy. "He leans against the counter, and his eyes are so warm, so wonderful – the way that he normally looks at her when he thinks she isn't looking. This time she doesn't look away." COMPLETE.

Birthday fic for my darling KT, who actually asked for this. "I know, Castle, I know," she sobs, doesn't know what else to say, she understands, and this fire is tearing her apart. COMPLETE

A requested fic for alwaysdefectivecastle. What would have happened in the Hamptons if a dead man hadn't fallen into the pool?

After a rough day in meetings, Castle returns home to a dark loft and faulty light-switch. [Set in the summer before Season 6. Beckett is a federal agent.]

"She has been at the twelfth only two weeks but already she knows who her partner is." Based on a pre-show Esposito/Beckett theory, their story told in three parts, before Castle and hope and any source of light at all. Co-written with Eleantris. COMPLETE.

They had originally been so in love, yet their happy existence is slowly being ripped to shreds and all that Alexis is left with are broken fragments of an illusion. While she hides behind the happiest of smiles, Kate sees through the façade, and the detective is soon caught between her fiancé and his daughter, as she attempts to find a place inside her future family. AU after 6x05

'Fingertips shake with warmth and blushes and empty gasps open on soundless words.' AU, sorta. Castle, Beckett, and a love story only two lonely people can weave with destructive hearts. COMPLETE.

A post-ep one shot for 6x02 Dreamworld, although I suppose it doesn't mention anything we didn't learn in Valkyrie. Based on a prompt I received on tumblr: what if castle actually died and beckett was pregnant from the night in the bathroom?

A direct continuation of the final scene of 6x01 Valkyrie, therefore containing spoilers. One shot.

Seriously, this just isn't fair. She so rarely has a day off in the middle of the week, and instead of spending it lounging in bed with her, all her delicious nakedness aligned with his, he has to sit through Black Pawn meetings. Happy Birthday, AC!

One of many ideas about a potential season 6. "Never once does he wake. She doesn't know what that says about them. She's not sure if she wants to know." Two-shot. COMPLETE.

An two-shot set in the More Than Together universe. How Kate handles the kids when Castle is away on a book tour.

An Always AU, in which Ryan calls, and this time Castle answers. A two-shot, co-authored by seilleanmor and BerkieLynn

AU from season 4, in which Castle doesn't let Beckett run from him over the summer she recovers from the shooting. "She is sand slipping through your fingers. You need to hold on for one moment more." COMPLETE.

My entry for the Castle Hiatus Ficathon 2013. In which Kate and Rick build a foundation strong enough to weather a marriage. SPOILERS for all US aired episodes including 5x24.

A thirty day fanfiction challenge. Each chapter is based on a prompt word. Loosely connected, but not chronological. Each is exactly one thousand words. SPOILERS for all US aired episodes.

Crack Fic. What would Season 1 Beckett think of her Season 5 self?

'It is always the heroes that fall first in the movies. He always thought she'd die for something real. Not like this. Never like this.' COMPLETE.

Five times Castle went to a funeral, and one time it was his own. Co-written with tombombadillo. COMPLETE.

"It is enough to bring the smile to her face, the light that shines onto her dark and twisted heart." Castle, Beckett, and their baby boy in the Hamptons. Fluff, because I promised. COMPLETE.

Post-finale fic. For those who asked me to fix it. "This is all very sweet, I suppose. But it's all very wrong." COMPLETE.

Set mid season six. Welcoming Baby Girl Ryan. For KT. One shot, NO SPOILERS

"Castle." She whispers, fingers reaching up to trace his lips. "Tell me you love me." Trigger warning: Self Harm. COMPLETE.

A Castle/Beckett baby fic. "He'll never lie and say that he didn't picture it sometimes, Kate with a swollen stomach, glowing. He knows she's imagined it too. He's seen the deep flush of her cheeks late at night when he catches her daydreaming." Cover art by houghtonsbeckett. COMPLETE.

Anniversary fic that sort of turned into a quasi post ep for The Human Factor, in which Kate and Rick discuss their future.

A romantic but interesting evening with Castle/Beckett. "All she really wants is to curl up in a bath with him and sleep for, preferably, forever. Of course, that was never actually going to happen. Her boyfriend is ridiculous." For Aisling. COMPLETE.

AU. Lethal, hard-edged assassin Kate Beckett is hired to kill the handsome, best-selling author Richard Castle. But when everything's not as it should be, and feelings get muddled along the way, can she really think of him as just another paper target? Cover art by houghtonsbeckett. COMPLETE.

This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. Castle and Beckett have a day off. Kisses ensued. For my dearest best friend in the whole wide world: Mary.

A Dash Companion. Fourth in the Home series. The marriage proposals.

For five months he's been missing, but she refuses to believe it's hopeless . . . Consider this canon until 'Always', and AU from there. Complete.

Beckett's January 9th anniversary. For those of you who wanted to know what happened to them after that train into France. Third in the Unvanquished series.

He didn't mean to walk up to her but she had been staring, staring with those observant hazel eyes as if he were a piece of evidence that she needed to put into the investigation properly. That's where she went wrong.

A chapter a day. A holiday fic. Assume Season 5 spoilers.

Holiday fic. A chapter a day. Spoilers for all US aired episodes.

A collection of Season 5 post-eps.

an AU from Cartographical's list: What if Richard Castle was a spy? with special thanks to mjsofter for the cover art

a Worst of Times companion, set after Age of Wisdom and Best of Times. for Sandiane Carter - Happy Birthday!

Post ep for 5x05. I'm still too hysterical for a proper summary

co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. inspired by the Richard Castle Bucket List on richardcastle dot net; set after 47 Seconds/The Limey. Chapter 9b is Bucket List in Paris, posted separately, and to be read before Chapter 10.

Based on 5x05, Probable Cause. "Stop running away and hiding the truth. You punished me for lying, Castle." COMPLETE.

Post-ep drabble for 5x04. I wasn't going to because the episode was so wonderful, but KT asked.

Post ep for 5x03. Because he's not going to sit on the stair by himself the whole evening now is he?

'Because she knows what words should be said now. The words to make him see.' Spoilers for Frozen Heat dedication but not the book. COMPLETE.

post ep for 5x02, because there's just no way he went home after that smile.

Dean is 18, Sam is 14, Dean is bored out of his mind, and Sam most certainly isn't, thanks to a girl he met in the library and a local diner that serves great milkshakes. Dean doesn't have either of these things, so he decides to spice things up a bit.

Post-Always. 'Every day she drowns more in it all. Every day she finds a new way to love him, a new way to fill the hollowness in heart with a love that hurts.' COMPLETE.

A season 5 promo fic. Serious spoilers for 5x01. COMPLETE

The story of how Castle and Beckett get totally busted by literally every person they know.

Their footsteps echo in the nearly empty hallways as they make their way to the room that is at once so familiar and yet still feels so strange. Follows "Sweetheart," "The Message," and "The Call." Complete.

'He takes your hand and pulls and you are seventeen again.' Something, perhaps, a little different. COMPLETE

AU from Always. "He hears that she fell fifteen floors." COMPLETE.

The most comfortable shirt she owns was his. Well, is still his.

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

'He lay awake, propped up on one elbow, looking down at perfection.' A brief post-Always moment, set after the storm but before the dawn - reminiscences of seasons 1-4 from Castle's POV.

On January 9, 1999 Johanna Beckett was murdered. In 2009 Detective Kate Beckett meets Rick Castle. But what happened in between? How did Kate become the person that Castle fell in love with? Ten years, one story.

She can hear Ryan calling for a bus behind her, his voice a low base note to the screaming soprano of panic lacerating her every nerve ending. COMPLETE.

Four people are dead. A woman is found on the side of the road in rural Florida, battered and beaten with no memory of who she is or how she got there. All she remembers is a man with blue eyes and the name Nikki Heat. AU season 4.

Finale speculation - *SPOILERS*

The story of each and every one of those one hundred coffees that Kate owes Rick. Castle/Beckett. Now COMPLETE. Spoilers now include "Undead Again" in the EPILOGUE/START OF SEQUEL, which is what I just added. Fluff, angst, reality.

Now he knows he's just a plucky sidekick, and nothing more. Not her One and Done. Not the man she wanted to be with. Not enough. -Post-ep 47 Seconds. Spoilers for 4x19/4x20. I ain't kidding when I say it's angsty.

"I'm pretty sure she's under the impression that you're angry with her." Takes place in "Headhunters" timeline, but only tiny synopsis spoilers. *Chapter 3 up now. *Now M-Rated.

Sometime in the future. Has nothing, absolutely NOTHING, to do with secrets. I'm tired of secrets, aren't you?

Easter fic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. No spoilers really, just vague references to a rough patch that is now over. I like my world better than Marlowe's.

All her gloom is loosened, melting against him as it transforms into glittering submission. One-shot.

It's is about evaluating all the ways you didn't die, all the ways you lived. Caskett, breaking down walls. Post Linchpin.

It's the end of the world as we know it. COMPLETE.

There are these small moments with him where she breathes in and what she feels is completely weightless; what she feels is happiness. castle/beckett, abstract future.

a co-authored story by chezchuckles, FanficwriterGHC, International08, JeuxDeVagues, Sandiane Carter, and Topsy. After Beckett is shot, Mr Smith enters the picture to 'save the day.' But who is Mr. Smith and what is he to Beckett and Castle?

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!" – Mae West. Co-authored by ColieMacKenzie and International08.

a Dash companion

Cat's out of the bag for both of them, and Castle is crushed in the wake of the truth. Because if she cares for him at all - then how could she do this? ***Finalist for 'Best Drama' in the 2012 Castle Fanfiction Awards.***

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

A 'Dash Away' sequel.

Walls fall down; that's the nature of the beast. And no matter how Kate looks at it, she's staring at piles of rubble. And from rubble, where do they go next? Slight spoilers for 4x11 and beyond.

two stories, two chapters; one of loneliness, the other of sympathy. both based on the song 'personal' by stars.

alternate universe. a recently re-opened case. a writer with writer's block. a story of a woman's murder just waiting to be unravelled. falling in love was just another complication.

SPOILERS for Once Upon a Crime - season four arc - post-ep oneshot. COMPLETE.

'He hadn't seen her like this before. Happy. Enjoying herself. And holding his hand.' Post-ep for Once Upon A Crime

After the events of Go Out Fighting 2: Serendipity, Castle and Beckett attempt to resolve her mother's case while recovering from their wounds.

He really wishes she wouldn't smile like that.

co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. Beckett and Castle are assigned to work a case undercover.

A Valentine's Day fic. Happy Valentine's Day, Julie! I love you.

They have a deal.

Watching too much Setup/Countdown produces fic like this. Castle and Beckett encounter something that just might act as a wrecking ball.

A writer, a detective, and her cat ring in the new year. A sequel to "Fluff." Yes, you should probably read that first. COMPLETE.

How could anyone be better than the image in his head? Meeting anyone but the head of the CIA would be a let down. A co-authored story from Chezchuckles and FanficwriterGHC.

Castle's tired of waiting. Will his plan of seduction win Kate over? Or will it completely backfire? And you might as well take your best friends down with you! Boys Night out/Girls Night out! Part 3: The Conclusion is now up! Hope I did it justice!

by Cora Clavia, Sandiane Carter, and chezchuckles. Fantasies become reality.

Castle tries to convince Beckett of the magic of the season. A chapter posted every day. COMPLETE

by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. Sequel to Stop Haunting Me third in the Beth Beckett Universe . Wedding bells sound only four months after Kate Beckett is shot in the cemetery. COMPLETE

Kate is given guardianship of a friend's one-year-old daughter. Castle tries to help in his own unique way. Chaos and fluff ensues.

When Kate Beckett went to get her book signed by Richard Castle, she never imagined that she'd end up meeting his daughter, much less offering to babysit for the afternoon. AU.

Nine months ago she gave him up at the behest of his daughter - choosing to break herself in order to free him. As dumb ideas go it's the worst one ever. ***Finalist for 'Best Romance' in the 2012 Castle Fan Fiction Awards.***

Kate was honest enough with herself to admit when something wasn't working- she'd been staring at the same few lines for nearly ten minutes. She needed to see him for herself. Based on promo shots for 4x07.

by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. AU. Assuming all things are equal, the watch is for the life she saved; the ring is for the life she lost; but the bracelet is for the life she misses. SPOILERS for Boom! from Season Two. COMPLETE

SPOILERS for Knockout. Post-episode series. What happens after Beckett gets shot? COMPLETE at chapter 9.

Rick acknowledges his feelings for Kate and confronts her about "The Kiss". They come to a mutually acceptable agreement. SMUT ensues. No plot, spoilers through "Overkill"