Fate by believesvueo Part 1

"I had high expectations It's something I could not compromise And when I saw you I wasn't ready It completely took my heart by surprise I knew that one day I'd find a love thing Now I'll never stop believing in chance…" – An Emotion Away by Alanis Morrisette

Kate's POV

If someone told her ten years ago that one day she will meet and be married to her favorite author Richard Castle, the one whose books helped her through her mother's death, she would of thought they were insane and they needed to be in a mental institution.

She had never thought in her wildest dreams that she would one day meet Richard Castle. I mean, yeah, she had met him in one of his book signings but that doesn't really count.

When she got the case about a serial killer aping the murders in his books, she knew that she would have to interview the man. She was nervous but didn't let it show. She was a detective and she had a job to do. She knew about his reputation of being a ladies man. He was on Page Six almost every week.

She recalled the first time she saw him in person at one of the book signings she attended. He was very good looking indeed but it was obvious that he was full of himself. She liked his work but the kind of man that he presented himself in public, she didn't want to know.

The first time she truly came face to face with Richard Castle, he was everything that the tabloids said about him. He was charming and definitely, a flirt. He flirted with her in the interrogation room and he truly charmed everyone including her Captain. But not her. She couldn't wait to get rid of him. But the man had connections and the next thing she knew, he was following her during the case. And when they did find the killer, she was glad that she will never again see him. She flatly turned the man down on his offer to dinner and debriefing each other. But lo and behold, the next morning, Captain Montgomery is telling her that she has a fan in Rick castle and that he will be shadowing her in his research for his next book and that she's the inspiration. As much as she hated the idea, she had no choice. The order came from the Mayor of New York.

Though Rick, as she fondly calls him now, drove her crazy in the beginning, she did however learn to tolerate him and there was no denying that they worked well together. All the cases they have worked on, they have solved. Soon, they found a rhythm. She appreciated the little things he did for her and her team. He bought them an Espresso machine and supplied them with coffee all year round. Though she hated it at first, the publicities he brought to the NYPD were a major help in restoring their reputation.

Soon, they were partners and then friends. She called him whenever they have a case and found it very strange when he was not there working the case with her. Rick became part of her team. He found it easy to get along with her boys, Lanie and Captain Montgomery.

But then Rick touched on something she told him to never touch, her mother's case. She had warned him that they were done and still, he did the one thing she asked him not to do. She didn't listen to his reasons and what he had found. He broke her trust and that was it. As painful as it was at that time to cut him off, it had to be done.

For a month, she didn't see him nor talk to him. She admits that it was a hard month not only for her but for the boys as well, She was irritated and wasn't in the best mood. And she made sure to tell them never to mention Castle's name. And none of them did.

Somehow, Rick found himself back in the precinct again and working the case with her because he was a witness. He then volunteered to go undercover in a gambling ring with the Russian mob. He put his life on the line and it was only, when she and Rick started dating that he told her the reason why he did it. He said that "he needed to impress her." She told him "he was insane and that if he ever pulled that stunt again, she will kill him herself." He came back that night after she told him the second time that they were done. He apologized to her and she knew that he was sincere. She couldn't help but give him a second chance. When she looks back now, she realized that she never once gave a man a second chance once they do her wrong but Rick was different and now she knew why.

She knows now the reason why Richard Castle had come into her life. He came because he would be the one person she needed to help her through her mother's murder. In what she thought was a random killing, they discovered three years ago that it was a murder for hire. When they found out who killed her mother, Rick was there to give her the strength she needed to get through interrogating the son of a bitch. But he played them both and she ended up taking Rick hostage and she had no choice but shoot the man. She wasn't going to let this man kill the one person who would do anything to give her the closure she needed.

Soon they were spending their free time looking for clues and interviewing friends and relatives of those also killed by Dick Rathborne. Ryan, Esposito and Lanie also lent their free time to the case. They began to put all the pieces together and what they found out shocked them all. Rathborne had been right when he said that whoever hired him was bigger that them. They discovered that before her mother's murder, she had assigned pending cases to each of her students and one of the cases involved a murder of a beautiful socialite. She was a mistress to the New York Senator, who knew too much about his illegal involvement like embezzlement, illegal gambling, human trafficking and prostitution of women from Russia. She couldn't even begin to imagine how Rick was able to get all the information and the evidences they gathered. She knew that Rick had spent a lot of money and had put his life on the line to get them. But he never once backed down. It was finally in that moment when she saw Richard Castle, for what he truly was. And she knew that she had fallen in love with him and that she would be crazy if she ever let this man get away.

It was that night after they spent the day talking to Captain Montgomery about what they have found and then turned over to the ADA all the evidences, that she told him her feelings. Years before Rick came along, she only had her strength to rely on but in the months following the trial, Rick was her rock.

After the trial, she, Rick, and Alexis took a month vacation in Europe and ended their vacation in the Bahamas for one week. They spent one month together around Europe. It felt so great not to be hounded or recognized. She loved their time together as a family. Rick knew the media frenzy that they would face after the trial, so he booked the trip for all of them, Even though, they were never named as the ones who worked on gathering the evidences against the Senator, she was put in the spotlight because one of those murdered was her mother. Having to be called in the stand and relive that night and the years she spent trying to get over the pain, took a lot of toll on her.

Rick proposed to her in the Bahamas. He had prepared a special dinner by the water and then he got down on his knee and asked her to marry them (with both Alexis and Martha looking on). Rick had asked Martha to come to the Bahamas becasue he wanted her to also be there when he asked Kate to marry him. She said yes of course. They have been married now for 6 months. And this afternoon, she just found out that they are expecting a little one.

She waited for Rick to come home. He had gone to meet with his publisher.

As soon as she heard the click of the door, she got up and ran to the door to meet him.

She almost knocked him back against the door and he chuckled.

"Did you really miss me that much, Mrs. Castle?"

"Not as much as you missed me." She teased.

"I agree. So, how did your appointment go? Is everything okay?"

"Everything is perfect, Rick."

"You're smiling. Tell me."

"I'm pregnant Rick. We are going to have a baby. A little brother or sister for Alexis. Are you happy?"

"Oh my God, of course I am, babe. Just when I thought that you couldn't possibly make me any happier than I already am, this is, wow. How far along are we?"

"Amazing?"

"You're amazing."

"So are you, you know. We are about four weeks along. I love you Rick. You have made me so happy."

"I love you too Kate. You make me happy everyday, you know. Now let's think of ways how celebrate this little bun in the oven."

"Oh, take me to paradise, Rick."

"Yes, Mrs. Castle."

He lifted her up and took her upstairs to their bedroom.

Author's Note: I will post Castle's POV either tonight or tomorrow.

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