Hey, to my readers, (at least I hope you still are). I'm back! I know it's been a very long time, and I thought since the new year started I could post one chapter. Alas! Faith just didn't ant me to write. But this night I thought, let's get tarted again. So here you go! (I don't know when I'm going to post again, cause school is way bussier then I thought, you'll see.)

Disclaimer: I did not get the rights of Castle for New Year or Christmas, I was very dissapointed when I opened my present hahaha :D

Chapter 11

After staying in the hospital for a week and a half Kate and the baby were declared healthy and could go home. The next few weeks Kate was worried sick, she checked little Emma's temperature every half hour, well she checked almost everything. It got to the point that it was getting ridiculous. Castle tried almost everything to reassure his wife, but it didn't help. It took hundreds of talks with Lanie, Martha and Sophie – a friend of Castle who happened to be a NICU nurse- to make Kate stop.

On a nice morning Lanie came to have a talk with her friend again. Castle was out working, trying to solve a murder on a young child, a girl of only a year or two. This case made Kate freak out again. Lanie tried to calm her down. "Sweetie, she'll be fine. You're out of the hospital for a month now and nothing has happened to her." Lanie said. "Yet, nothing has happened to her yet." Kate answered. " Damn it Kate, you're a homicide detective, you've seen bad things happen to people. But look at that adorable girl of yours, nothing will ever happen to her because she has you and her daddy. And every single child in this world gets sick, that's normal. You can't stay inside the house till she's a grown up! Believe it or not but it's good for her to be exposed to germs every once in a while. Yes, she'll get sick but she's only gonna come out stronger. She needs to be exposed." "Yes Lanie, I know that you're only the one hundredth person who has told me. It's just… I'm worried. She's my little girl you know, and I almost lost her a month ago. I don't want that to happen again." "I know honey, but it won't. You're too good a mother for that to happen. Trust me, this little girl is lucky to have you." These last words seemed to calm Kate down again. None of the women talked and in this rare moment of silence they heard a cry. "Uh uh, you stay seated. I'll get my godchild." Lanie ordered.

A few moments later she came down the stairs, with the little girl all happy in her arms. "You didn't expect to see aunt Lanie today, huh baby? Oh I know you didn't, but couldn't miss you for another second. And to tell you the truth I was a bit worried, you know? No, not about you, silly, about mommy." Lanie said, looking at Kate at the same time. "Okay, I get it. Stop it alright. I know she's gonna be fine." "So why keep on worrying. She'll let you know when she isn't feeling good, you'll find out. You now know how she reacts at being sick, so you're gonna react sooner." Kate nodded her head, even gave Lanie a smile.

Only 20 seconds after Lanie finished her sentence, Emma started crying. She was searching for a breast, and started suckling on Lanie's T-shirt. "Wow, honey! I ain't your mommy!" she said laughing, she quickly handed the baby over to Kate, was ready to breastfeed Emma. "Well Lanie, I think she wants to say that she want to have a cousin" Kate said joking. "About that" Lanie said, it made Kate to make a funny face "Are you … From who?" Kate said a bit shocked "What? No! I was trying to say: that might happen soon, you see me and Javi are back together." "Really? That's great! How long?" "Oh since Little Ems was born…" Lanie answered with a big grin. Their conversation about Javi went on for another hour, until Castle came home looking like a zombie.

"What happened Writerboy? You look awful!" Lanie asked in her usual way, yet the worry sounded through. "We solved the case." Castle said. "You mean the one with the two year old?" Kate asked. Castle responded by a nod "Who did it?" Lanie asked. "It was the girl's father." Castle said almost crying. "Oh honey, are you alright?" Kate asked. "I just don't understand how he could do that." Castle had a blank look in his eyes "What did he say? Why did he do it?" Kate said. "He said she was crying too much, and she just had to shut up, so he shook her till she was quiet." Both women looked in gruel.

A.N I've been out for a while, so tell me what you think... A review would be great! ;)