I was determined to write something other than One A Day today, but I couldn't figure out which one to write on until I ended up rereading this one and getting inspired to work on it again.

Beckett and Martha are not morning people, at least not in this story.

I do NOT own Castle.

Beckett groaned loudly and rolled over in her bed, grabbing a pillow and pulling it over her heard to attempt to block out the really annoying sound of someone playing 'Jingle Bells' with her doorbell.

Finally it seemed that who ever was trying to get her up, gave up and she was just about to go back to sleep when the doorbell started again, this time to the tune of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer".

Nearly ready to behead who ever was ringing her doorbell at five am, on Christmas morning, she stomped through the apartment and threw open the door, not even bothering to grab her gun because she knew she was very likely to shoot who ever it was.

"What!" She practically growled at the three that were outside of her door, effectively making the two women jump, but Castle just grinned and pushed past Beckett with his arms full of presents.

Alexis and a sleepy Martha headed into her apartment as well, giving her sympathetic looks, silently trying to apologize for Castle's behavior.

With a sigh, Beckett shut and locked the front door before heading over and collapsing down on the couch beside Martha, while Alexis and her father started sorting through the presents, making a pile for each person.

"It's five in the morning, couldn't you wait just a few more hours?"

Her question was met with two strong 'no's from the two Castles, and she rolled her eyes before turning to Martha.

"Do they do this every year?"

"Yes, every year since Alexis was two. Every. Single. Year."

"You are a strong woman then, I would have strangled him by now."

"Oh he doesn't know how close to death he has come, especially that one year when he decided three-thirty was an acceptable time to open presents since Alexis had woken up because of a nightmare."

By now, the Castles had gotten all the presents sorted out and Beckett was surprised to see that she had a few presents from each member of the Castle clan, making her very glad she had gotten a few for them as well.

She was tempted to just leave them to their presents, and go back to bed, but the look Castle gave her told her that he would most likely just find some way to drag her back out of bed, so she stayed and participated in the present unwrapping.

It didn't take them long to unwrap all the presents and soon Castle and Alexis were engaged in a heated battle with a new laser tag game that he had gotten Alexis.

Martha was busy ready a book that Beckett had gotten her, so seeing an opportunity to get some more sleep, Beckett pulled a blanket off the back of the couch and curled up for a nap, not waking up until the smell of bacon entered her nose.

Confused, she sat up and looked towards the kitchen, seeing Castle working at the stove with Martha sipping coffee at the counter, looking a little more awake now that there was caffeine pumping through her system.

Beckett moved to get off the couch and nearly tripped over Alexis, who was on the floor gathering up all the wrapping paper they had destroyed when they opened presents earlier.

"Oh, Detective Beckett, you're awake."

"Ugh, what time is it?"

"Only about six, sorry."

"It's okay, it's not your fault that your father is a five year old in an adult's body." She said, causing the teen to laugh.

"That's not nice. And here I was going to give you coffee, but I guess I'll just drink it myself." Castle said as he came into the living room with a steaming cup of coffee in his hands, and a teasing grin on his face.

"Hand over the coffee, and I might think about forgiving you for waking me up so early on my day off. Maybe."

With a chuckle, Castle handed over the coffee then headed back into her kitchen to watch the eggs he was cooking.

She took a few sips of the life-giving coffee, that was made exactly like she liked it, and finally felt herself start to wake up. When a fourth of the cup was gone, Alexis was still picking up the paper, so she decided to help, and within a few minutes they had all the little pieces picked up and stuffed inside a trashbag.

"What do you usually do on Christmas, Detective Beckett." Alexis asked while they were eating breakfast.

"Um not much usually, I usually work on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day ,and so does my dad, so usually we just try to get together for a little while and have dinner, or lunch, and exchange presents."

"Oh, is he coming over today then? Or did you meet with him yesterday?"

"One of his coworkers invited him down to Florida for the holiday, and after much convincing he finally decided to go, so we did our present exchange a few days ago. What about you? Surely you guys have some crazy traditions you do every year, besides getting up at an ungodly hour of the morning." Beckett replied, looking pointedly at Castle at the mention of how early he woke her up this morning.

"Actually not really, we usually just go ice-skating and then come back and fix a huge Christmas dinner." Castle answered her and he had just barely stopped talking when Alexis jump in, saying that Beckett should come ice-skating with them.

She tried to back out of it, of course, but they weren't having any of it, so she finally gave in and said she would go with them, only if they made a lot of progress on unpacking all the boxes they still had left, feeling like she was bargaining with little children.

Castle and Alexis certainly didn't help that feeling when they excitedly finished eating and then headed next door to start unpacking.

She could hear chaos going on next door as the father-daughter team rushed around unpacking boxes and she turned to Martha who was still sitting at the table, sipping her coffee and reading the newspaper that Castle had brought in earlier..

"Sorry, but I'm not going back over there until they calm down some." Martha said without even looking up from her paper and Beckett just nodded, telling her that was fine.

She had bigger problems to worry about, like how she was going to survive ice-skating with the Castles without making a complete fool of herself because the last time she attempted to ice-skate? Let's just say that her butt, and various other body parts, and the ice got very well acquainted that day.

So we learned in season one that Beckett can roller skate, but in "Knockdown" she said that her experience with ice-skating 'wasn't pretty' (or something like that) so I'm going to have fun with the idea that she is a pretty bad ice-skater. And yes it is possible to be good at one, but not the other.