Fresh off a summer spent healing from a near-fatal bullet wound, Kate Beckett meets a handsome man at a bar, and finds that one night can give her more than she bargained for. A meeting AU set in season 4, for Castle Ficathon 2024.

Filling prompts in exactly 100 words. Will take prompts (K-T rated only) — Castle Fanfic —

Her heart hammers in her throat as she sets her phone on her side table, and she watches Castle's eyes darken and drop to her lips. His tongue darts out to wet his bottom lip, and she barely has a chance to register that he's moving towards her before his hands are cupping her jaw and his mouth is on hers. A post-3x06 AU. COMPLETE

He cries. Because having a life with Kate Beckett is more than he thought he ever deserved.

Oh, she's missed this...as Rick growls "Oh my God, I missed this" and crashes his mouth to hers, it's obvious that they are, as usual, on the same page. A 7X11 scene insert. Pure smut. Rated M. COMPLETE

Surprised to find Castle at the precinct the morning after their bad date, with claims that he has the mayor's blessing to shadow her, Kate's in for a rude awakening when he tells her that they also have to pretend to date. A Castle Ficathon 2023 fic. Rated M

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman. A TLADILA one shot. COMPLETE

Richard Castle gets the surprise of his life and looks to his longtime friend, Kate Beckett, for support. Will she be able to step up and help him with his newest challenge? - Caskett, AU. For Castle Ficathon 2020. NOW COMPLETE.

He's her partner, her best friend. And, the night they graduate, he becomes her lover. Kate Beckett and Rick Rodgers, both healing from tragedy, meet at the NYPD Academy. A Castle Winter Ficathon 2022 entry.

Her words echo in his mind as he glances at the other side of the bed. It's empty, the comforter thrown back. A look at the clock tells him he slept less than an hour, and he sits up, his heart sinking with disappointment when he realizes she's gone. Set post-4x23. COMPLETE

"Kate Beckett was not, most emphatically not, a ghost. For a start, she wasn't dead. And just because she could quietly and unobtrusively dissolve into a little swirl of sparks, didn't mean she was ectoplasmic. She wasn't. She was entirely solid, most of the time." A piece of Hallowe'en silliness for the Castle Hallowe'en Bash 2022. S2 AU.

"He told her it could wait until after the case, but he's not sure he can wait that long. The words bubble up in his throat every time he sees her, threatening to spill over at any minute." A 'what if' scene insert for '47 Seconds'. Originally written by xx00Meg00xx

This is a one-shot in three chapters. It involves a bathtub... You have to read to find out more. This is definitely M rated.

Between her daughter and her career, single mother Kate Beckett has no time to date. But when she meets a handsome - and oddly familiar - man in a cafe, she starts to think that their burgeoning friendship might not be enough. A 2022 Castle Ficathon entry.

Even across the crowded room, even through the atmospheric fog and the low light and with her face mostly covered, she catches his eye. A one-shot meeting AU. COMPLETE

A chance meeting at a party sets Kate Beckett down an unexpected path. A Castle Ficathon Winter 2021 entry. Rated M.

'You're making it increasingly difficult to want to get out of bed.'

One-shot set immediately after S5E13, after Booth kisses Bones on the steps of the Hoover. What if Brennan changed her mind?

After the events of Always, 4x23, Castle and Beckett in his bed, both trying to work through the storm. "What's past is prologue." -The Tempest, William Shakespeare. Rated Mature. Multiple chapters.

Introspective marriage piece. PWP. Caskett.

Prompt fill: "Caskett break the bed." Insert for 7x03 Clear & Present Danger. "She wants all of him, wants his hands free to roam over every inch of her skin, for his talented fingers to drive her absolutely crazy. God, she's missed him. So damn much." My entry for this weekends Castle Pornado!

Castle 2x23: Overkill. Fic Prompt from ProudTVJunkie: "Cornered in the break room by Beckett after seeing her kiss Demming in the hall, Castle comes out and asks, why him? Why not me?" Two-shot. COMPLETE

Nothing else exists in this world after Kate Beckett utters the words, "Castle, if we were getting married " with that open, adult look in her eye. AU set during 4x11: "Til Death Do Us Part"

The illicit adventure of a homicide detective who has been left... frustrated after a date cut short. Season 2 AU. One shot.

Goes off canon after 8x02. When Rick lands in the hospital after a traffic accident, he reminds Kate that anything can happen. "The best way to keep me safe, Kate, is to keep me close. Back to back, watching each other's six." Even while they're watching, they're racing to solve the puzzle of LokSat and Rick's lost summer.

"Her eyes flash with something he recognizes as more than just anger, her pupils dilate and he can practically see the spark of heat flow through her body. It makes him brave." Season 2 AU in which Kate shows up to the loft after having read page 105. Second entry for the Castle Pornado.

"Castle." His lashes rise, nearly graze hers in their ascent. She's never been this close before and yet, somehow, she still doesn't feel close enough, still wants so much more. "I love you." He looks mesmerized, intoxicated, but so sharp with need. Her thighs squeeze at his hips. "Now take me to bed." Insert for 'If You Wait', set between chapter fourteen and fifteen.

'He isn't sure where she has gone, but it's obvious she wants to be alone. Or at least, without him. Until nearly a month into the summer when his phone chirps with a new message. From Kate Beckett.' Set during the summer after Beckett's shooting.

… or Breaking The Laws Of Physics. That The Hole In The Heart missing scene I never wrote. You all know what scene I'm talking about. BB. Rated M. Oneshot.

They're both muddling through life. Her days are full of politics and paperwork. His are spent surfing the web in his underwear and buying gadgets to drive his mother crazy. Could a charity auction be what Captain Kate Beckett and novelist Richard Castle need to find their way together? Or will fumbles and stubbornness keep them apart? AU. A Castle 2015 Hiatus Ficathon story.

"Detective Castle, this is Katherine Beckett, famous mystery novelist with 26 bestsellers to date, perhaps 27 soon if this all works out. And your shadow for the foreseeable future." AU.

'All they went through, all they fought for, shines so brightly in moments like these. And as Castle so often likes to remind her, she would never change their story either, not a single chapter. Not when every page spent with him means more to her than words could ever describe.' Post-ep for 8x22, 'Crossfire'.

Folded in his embrace she recognizes the fallacy of her acceptance as she comes to realize she has only been half-living, has been missing something so vital it couldn't be put into words... A companion piece to the wonderful story 'Flashlight,' written by l03l. Story starts in the exact moment and scene where Flashlight ends.

"This date night is everything I dreamed it would be." How Castle and Beckett's date night continues. Post-ep for 8x20, 'Much Ado About Murder'.

"The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have." - Iain Thomas. Oneshot. Set between Always and After the Storm.

"So, Captain Beckett, have you successfully completed your agenda for your lunch meeting?" "Indeed I did. Three times." An insert for 8x09, 'Tone Death'.

"If Tyson wants to play, he can play with her. Alexis will come out of this intact if it's the last thing Kate Beckett does." Season 4 AU. TW for violence, assault, recovery, and mature themes.

The lives of Kate and Jim Beckett are turned on end when a mysterious stranger arrives in town and joins them for the Christmas season. Though they don't know it, the appearance of Rick Rodgers is far from coincidental, and might just change all three lives forever. Entry in the Castle Winter Hiatus Ficathon 2015-2016

Chapter 8 AU – One night was all it took to change her course of actions…(Post 8x05) Beautiful cover art courtesy of Nadia.

'He wants to take the apologies from her mouth with his teeth and breathe his forgiveness into her skin.' Post-ep for 8x08, 'Mr. & Mrs. Castle'.

There was no stopping, after that first time. Set post episode 8x07. No spoilers for any upcoming episodes.

Picks up immediately after the end of 4x11 - Ryan's wedding. What if, for just one night, Kate Beckett needed an escape from her own life-an escape named Richard Castle.

'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.

Castle realizes that he needs to come clean about prying into Beckett's life again after he discovers something he can't justify keeping from her. Set during Season 4.

'Martha is right. This really can't wait another day, wall be damned...' Castle and Beckett get a nudge in the right direction, courtesy of his mother. An AU Cops and Robbers ending in honor of Castle FanFic Monday.

This will be a series of disconnected one shots of varied length, based on prompts that I receive through tumblr. Because I wanted them to have a home here. Rated for safety in case of need in later chapters.

Sequel to a Castle will Fall. Captain Gates has been brutally executed and Castle is severely wounded in a drive-by and is now in the Hospital. Kate, Ryan and Esposito are off the case as the Feds are taking over, but this wont stop them from investigating the case. As they dive deeper into the case, a surprising guest from the past arrives to help the team get justice.

'Castle plops down to the sand once she's gone, opens his notebook on his bent knees and uncaps his pen. He came here for inspiration, and he may have just found it.' Based on a gif set by katigron on tumblr.

A/U set shortly after Season 7x06 Time of our lives when Beckett and Castle are married. A murder investigation will lead them to a event that will rock the Castle family and the 12th Precinct to its core.

Eight years later Richard Castle is found, and it's no longer his ring on her finger. AU from 6x23 "For Better Or Worse".

Det. Kate Beckett isn't so sure about her new partner, Det. Richard Castle. He's irritating and doesn't always play by her rules...he also just might be the one person she never knew she needed. AU set circa Season 1.

'He knew now how to calm her racing heart, how to distract her from the claws of a nightmare she's trying to escape. Or at least, he had an idea.' Set early season 5. One shot.

"Do we have time for me to help you get dressed?" he murmurs, lips glancing the curve of her bare shoulder. Kate shifts in the circle of his arms, rotating to face him, to cup his cheeks in her hands like she had only moments before in his office. "We have time." Insert for 7x23, Hollander's Woods.

"Don't do that," she says.. "Don't act like this is some sort of gift." One shot, set after Always. Complete.

'Her heart is exploding in her chest, beating against her heaving ribcage with bruising intensity, pumping adrenaline through her veins. So hard and fast, she almost doesn't notice the blood.' Brief insert for 7x23, Hollander's Woods.

She has a baby. She brought a baby back from Haiti. Can you even do that? Season 3 AU.

"Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing." An AU story for Christmas.

A single chance meeting can change everything. AU. Cover art by ournorthstars.

"I love you, Kate," he murmurs softly, the words he's kept swallowed down for almost an entire year finally slipping from his lips. "And I promise if I make it out of this alive, I'll tell you when neither of us are on the brink of death, okay?" An AU version of 7x08, Kill Switch.

The candles on the nightstand flicker, flames dancing in the breeze created by his body as he tumbles off the bed, mouth still gaping. *Post ep for 7x03*

Wrongly accused of two murders he didn't commit, Richard Castle escapes police custody in hopes of proving his own innocence. FBI Agent Kate Beckett is on the team assigned to bring him in, but as the bizarre evidence stacks up, she begins to question his guilt-particularly after meeting him face-to-face. AU. 2014 Ficathon Entry

4X16 episode insert. Kate's convinced she's part of a muse "club" and Castle's desperate to prove to her that she's wrong.

"You like that I'm going to be walking around for the next however long with your name written on my skin." Early Season 5 *One Shot*

Booze and flirting and sexy times! What more could you ask for from an M-rated Caskett fic?

They turn in opposite directions and his skin is on fire, hot annoyance like acid through his veins and - it stuns him - he's hurt. Set S2 during When The Bough Breaks. M for language and content. Now Complete.

One shot, set early season six. Castle comes home from a long day of meetings to find a Beckett-shaped surprise.

They meet again in the hospital. AU. Cover art by half0utloud.

"And the last thing I need is to watch someone from my past trying to seduce my fiancé while talking about the goddess that lives in her hoo-ha." - Kate Beckett. Seriously, how could I not write something about this?

When you get those rare moments of clarity, those flashes when the universe makes sense, you try desperately to hold on to them. They are the lifeboats for the darker times. A season 4 AU based on the fanvideo by OhChizzz.

Post 6x17 "In the Belly of the Beast." Beckett knew that the first step was the hardest, but she would always be grateful that she had found a man who was willing to take that first step with her.

Kate is never letting him order them a limo again. Season 5 oneshot. For Elle, who demanded it.

It should have brought them closer together, not torn them apart – she understands this now. What she doesn't know is whether any way back for them still remains. Future fic - Complete. **Winner of 'Favorite M rated Fanfic Multi-chp' in the 2013 Castle Fanfic Writers Guild Awards**

Young Kate Beckett had looked for a night to forget only to find it turned into one she would remember for the rest of her life. AU

Post-47 Seconds. 'Kate stands several feet away from Castle's spot at the far end of the bar, hands jammed into her pants pockets, fists curled up tight with her short nails digging half-moons into her palms while the writer studiously tries to ignore her. "You're angry." "You think?" His voice is harsh, dripping sarcasm.

New Year's Eve. Booth and Brennan. Laundry room. You know what comes next.

It wasn't planned, wasn't a date, but when he'd shown up looking striking in his suit and with his arm empty, she'd gravitated to him like she always did, her whole body orienting toward him as if he was her shining beacon in a dark, starless night. Follows episode 4x11, "Till Death Do Us Part." -COMPLETE-

Kate keeps vigil over a bruised Castle. Set immediately after "Number One Fan" One-Shot. My undying gratitude, respect and love to every creative master in the Castle universe. Well done! These fabulous characters are yours, not mine, but I do like to play with them.

An extension of the end of "Always" (4.23) One-shot.

Post-ep for 6x04. Beckett voices her disapproval about Emma being Castle's supposed "number one fan" as she helps tend to the bruise from the shooting. One-shot.

He never thought it could hurt like this. AU for 5x05, "Probable Cause."

In that one moment, he knows he's ruined.

She lied. She did have regrets. **Post ep for Still**

After a vivid dream, Beckett thinks she's been given a second chance. When she begins to doubt the reality surrounding her, there is only one person she can think of who has come up with crazier things than what she's living through.

"Heads snap up, people spin in their direction, drinks slosh in glasses like a Carnival cruise liner pitching in a storm, and suddenly there is Kate Beckett, grabbing him by his silk necktie and parading him like some Roman sex slave across one end of his own living room." COMPLETE

Making the call might just have been one of the best decisions of his life, he thought, as he stared at his phone again like he had been for the past five days. (AU from the S2 finale.)

The thumping pulse of the music vibrates through her body. Her bones sing with it, a high pitched resonation that rings in her ears and echoes inside her chest. She lets her spine sway and her hips roll, losing herself in the movement, the freedom that comes when she shuts off her brain and just feels. **An ode of sorts to 5x12* One shot. Complete.

The moonlight casts a silver glow across the walls, a shimmering haze that draws her attention, the edges waving as the clouds roll past. She can feel the remnants of the champagne working through her body, the little bubbles hitching a ride in her blood, making her head float and her skin tingle. *One Shot. Complete*

After viewing certain footage, Castle and Beckett express just how much they mean to each other. Spoilers for Season 5.

He is never going to be able to look at his swimming pool the same way again. Spoilers for the 5x04 promo.

"I'm sure somewhere in this great big city of ours, some poor unfortunate soul has lost their life but today you're going to let the justice seeking be someone else's job. Today, you're going to take a little trip with me." - Scavenger hunt, Castle style. ***co-authored with sparklemouse***

"You can kid the world, but not your sister"-Charlotte Grey. It's been five years, but Cassie Beckett is back in NYC, and she won't let anything stand in the way of her big sister's happiness, not even Kate herself. A BabySisterBeckett!Fic. Nominated for the the 12th Precinct's Fan Awards: Best Character Specific Fic. COMPLETE

If it were possible for time to stop, for the earth to pause in its spinning, it would happen for them on this night. The hours between "Always" and "After the Storm." Now complete.

From the video by yamakiluv. Castle is given an ultimatum: the file for Beckett's life. AU Future.

"my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom. . .And death i think is no parenthesis" -ee cummings co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles

His greatest inspiration is finally at his fingertips. One-shot, post-"Always"

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. E.E. Cummings. Winner of "The 12th Fan Awards 2013" for best poetry-themed fanfic.

Revised: Kate made the first move, now they're together, but Kate's been sick, Castle's by her side, past lives are shared, Both secrets are out-So, now what happens-Enjoy, this part of their story is NOW COMPLETE, Maybe they will return in a sequel

The first thing he becomes aware of is her scent, the subtle, familiar notes of cherry and cinnamon sugar that tease his nose. ONE-SHOT.

Himitsu-Bako is a Japanese Personal Secret Box. Set after Headhunters, although I've seen no spoilers for anything upcoming. COMPLETE

Castle and Beckett investigate a spate of high profile strangling cases in SoHo, finding themselves wrestling with their feelings for one another along the way. Drama, angst, love and romance. COMPLETE!

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

He really has to wonder how it is that they end up in these situations. It's like they're magnets for near-death. Complete. Sequel: More Than Them.

She wakes up in his bed, with their unfinished story lying between them. Epilogue/sequel to "Because You're Mine", one-shot.

Post-ep for the Wedding. SPOILERS. co-authored by Sandiane Carter and chezchuckles. Multi-chapter.

5th in the Numbers Series. Five Years. Five Christmases. Two Lives. One Story. In a city as large as New York it is amazing how two lives could become intertwined so deeply without either person knowing it.

COMPLETE. Set at the end of Boom! Season 2. Beckett stays over with Castle after he saves her life in the warehouse, and finds herself a little more vulnerable than she would like. Caskett, of course.

Rick Castle, who kept her from freezing to death and held her hand in front of a bomb, prepared to die with her, wasn't who she was going home with. Kate's night after the end of Countdown.

He had flown too near the sun. His wax had melted, his wings had failed him, and he had fallen. But Icarus was not failing as he fell, just coming to the end of his triumph.

Post-finale. Castle tries to put the pieces back together.

It was a summer's night and the smell of the old rose bush was as heavy as rain. Under the light of the moon and guidance of the stars, two friends finally take that step into something more.

"You and me, Bones, we'll make the whole world come crashing down." Lots of gratuitous smut, a little bit of plot.