AU. On January 9th, 1999, Castle saves Johanna Beckett from being murdered. His act of bravery sparks a complicated love with her daughter, and a totally different life and career path for Kate Beckett. Because although Johanna lived, someone out there still wants her dead, and as the years go by, Kate Beckett and Richard Castle are determined to find out who.

Her favourite author just bought her a drink? Shut. The. Front. Door. What if Castle and Beckett met five years earlier?

I just escaped from possibly the most awkward date in the history of Earth, and I need to decompress. I brought ice cream. And wine. And cupcakes. 1x7, Home is Where the Heart Stops.

'She hiccups out a desperate sound, trying to keep quiet but he can tell it's not going to work.' Set late season 6. Originally written for the Winter Hiatus '13 Kink Meme but now a two-shot.

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

AU. Rick's completed the Storm series and is looking for a female muse for inspiration. He hears about the stunning, illustrious Diamond through an exclusive men's club and decides he has to meet the high-end escort for himself. He's amazed by her hidden depths and floored by the realization that he just might not be man enough to handle her. (Romance/Angst)

Crack!Fic prompted by Lou: Castle discovers Kate's guilty secret - her version of the Sims, complete with their characters being together. Pre-couple.

But then it's the way her face lights up when she sees her, and, more importantly it's the shriek of "Mommy!" that has her taking a step backwards. (Time travel AU, of a sort, set after 47 seconds)

After a late night with Castle, Beckett ends up running late to work and accidentally wears Castle's shirt to the precinct. ONE-SHOT.

AU. Eighteen-year-old Kate Beckett meets Richard Castle, and her father doesn't exactly approve. From Jim's POV.

"Well, Katherine, you're looking at the newly minted Richard Castle." / AU; a story where Rick and Kate meet in college and go on the journey of their lives. High T for the mention of adult topics; multi-chapter. Now complete.

When Kate gets into a car accident, the outcome of her injury is retrograde amnesia – she doesn't remember her life after 2008. Rick, as a result, is left to deal with the consequences of his wife's memory loss while she comes to terms with their life together. Based on a gifset by veraflynns on tumblr. 2014 Ficathon Entry.

Kate Beckett is the new nanny for Richard Castle's young daughter, trying to pay back loans and attending Community College as a way to build up credits for her entrance into the Police Academy. She takes the job as delightful Alexis's nanny thinking that it would just be that; a job. But she finds herself falling for her charge's father and finds his affections returned. AU

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

"You know, I remember being told by a certain morgue technician that I shouldn't get into a drinking competition with you because you would drink me under the table. Where did that Kate go?" - set between S4 and S5.

"Since it's our wedding day, I thought I'd make a couple of confessions. I can't think of a better gift, really. For the man who has everything, all you've ever wanted from me is … more juicy info about me." Unplanned second chapter now posted! AU Wedding fluff.

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

If it only takes a moment for your life to change forever, can a 'one time thing' right the wrong? An AU Caskett meeting.

And today—today was an unspoken agreement, a late night text that didn't surprise her at all.

Post ep for 6x21 Law & Boarder. It's exactly what you think. Shameless.

Author Richard Castle stumbles across Assistant District Attorney Kate Beckett and is instantly captivated. Using his connections with the mayor, he gets himself a six week pass to shadow her. Kate begins to count down the hours, wishing the six weeks were up, not realizing those six weeks will change her life forever. AU.

"I think I may be..." Her voice quietened as she tossed her head toward the area of the master bedroom. She remained silent as the sounds of Rick's snoring seemed to bring her ease. "I think I may be pregnant." Slight AU.

Six months after giving birth to Kate, Johanna takes a walk in Central Park and encounter a ten year old Richard Rodgers.

It started in a club and then ended like this. Reeling from a break-up, Kate Beckett is most definitely on the rebound. But what she gets instead is something she never imagined. AU

"You're a detective… and this is a mystery for you to solve." He raised a finger, quelling the protest they both knew was on the tip of her tongue. "Clues, Beckett. One a day. This is today's." - A Caskett anniversary story.

"No, it's… okay. It's okay. I'm… glad you're okay." A post-ep/AU of cops and robbers, co-written by tombombadillo and closingdoors.

"Alexis." Kate said, with spooky calm. "Are you telling me that your father's bachelor party is being organized by two guys who are desperate to impress, and you have just equipped them with a limitless credit card and every phone number and contact that your father has gained over a lifetime of debauchery?" Written for Prompt: Kate crashes Rick's Bachelor Party.

"I love you, Kate. Present tense." In which Kate has a wonderment about Kyra. One-shot; set early Season 5.

Based on a seven step system determined by giraffepoliceforce on tumblr, for how to confess your love to someone. Set early season four, around the time of the rogue head and "just like us". Total crack, and I hope it makes you smile. One shot.

Six and a half years ago, Kate Beckett had a one night stand. Nine months later, she gave birth to a daughter. Five and three quarter years after that, Harriet Johanna Beckett be-friends Alexis Castle.

[AU somewhere in S3 post-3x17.] Beckett discovers what Castle is made of: big things and little things and silly things, and maybe a bit of magic too.

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

"You are the most remarkable maddening, challenging, frustrating person I have ever met. And I love you Kate, and if that means anything to you, if you care about me at all, please don't do this." a slightly different version to Always.

"If it's so adorable, why won't you sleep with me?" An AU episode insert for 03x11. For Meg, because her tags inspired it.

'He can't decide which is better. Having the power to make the unshakeable Kate Beckett lose all self control, completely at his mercy or lying back and letting her take what she wants from him. Luckily, he doesn't have to choose.' Insert between 6x04 and 6x05. One-shot.

"I'm not saying he was right." She points out, "Or that he was even from the future." A post post epi for 6.05 contains spoilers for the episode

"Hey, baby girl. Whatcha doin' in there, huh?" Kate coos at her swollen belly. At twenty five weeks, her little one is rambunctious inside of her. Kate watches with amusement as her daughter jets out her limbs and swivels around, Kate's whole belly shaking with every movement. (Short one-shot)

Castle has a little secret. Post-Always Crack!Fic. A short one-shot, co-authored by BlueOrchid96. COMPLETE.

A/U It's definitely not love at first sight. Prickly, aloof and strait-laced Kate Beckett isn't what Rick expected when he hires someone to protect a young Alexis. She's all business while he's all about the play. Shallow, irresponsible and a playboy is how Beckett would characterize her latest employer. But sometimes first impressions can turn out to be wrong.

"It would just be research for the case, Castle."

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.

Those warm, heavy, "I want a baby" feelings didn't scare Kate so much anymore. Shamelessly fluffy pregnancy fic. Set beyond s5. Rating subject to change

Four times he's tried to ask her. Four times and every time the world has managed to get in the way.

What happens when a game of Truth or Dare at the precinct gives Castle a fun idea of how to spend the next day? Now complete!

"You're supposed to make out on New Year's."

A young Kate Beckett spends her summer waitressing at a local shack on a Jersey beach, tending to her alcoholic father and paying her way through the academy. One night, her world turns on its feet when Rick Castle enters the door...and her heart. AU. COMPLETE.

Takes place after the "I owe you" in 1x06, Always Buy Retail. I suck at summaries but this is basically what I think should have happened. Rated M. Two-shot. Now Complete.

"It's just a pencil skirt, Castle. Are you really that easy?"

AU: Beckett is a uniform on the Vice squad at the 12th, five years before she and Castle actually meet in the show. Based on an idea of Cartographical - chezchuckles and I just liked it so much that we each wrote our own. Variations on the same theme, sort of.

She really loved her and Alexis' not-quite-but-nearly mother/daughter ice cream evenings.

Written for the prompt: Drunk Beckett. Kate and Lanie go out on a girls night, and Kate has a little bit too much. Cue Castle doing the gentlemanly thing and escorting her home. Silliness abounds.

Some things you experience drunk are better not remembered. But the right kind of drunk at the right time is the kind that's worth remembering. Season 4, post-"Always"

"Is she giving him sex eyeballs? Is she biting her lip?"

"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

AU: Beckett is a uniform on the Vice squad at the 12th. It's five years before the season one meeting. Cartographical sent me and Sandiane Carter a list of AUs she wanted to see. We were both so excited about Vice Beckett that we each wrote our own. This is mine. Thanks to garnetgivealittlelove for the cover art.

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

Because when Natalie Rhodes comes to New York City, she doesn't stay at a hotel, she stays with them. Castle/Beckett/Natalie Rhodes.

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

Kate recovers after the season 3 finale at Castle's loft and realizes that it is 'that time.' More friendship than romance, it does deal with some grown up issues so that is why it's rated T, no sex though.

If this was what really being in love felt like Kate wasn't sure she was going to survive it. Not like this was news, but obviously something was seriously wrong with her. Winner of FanFic: Best Humor in the 2012 Castle Fan Awards

What happens if Kate and Rick meet earlier than believed in a coffee shop? What will happen between the two of them? Johanna Beckett is alive in this story! At least for some of it! Disclaimer: I don't own Castle!

How did you destroy a man's entire life? Erase everything he'd thought he'd known? It couldn't be easy to have some of your most basic assumptions about your life thrown into question. AU. Alexis comes to Beckett with some interesting news.

What happens at Ryan's wedding stays at Ryan's wedding.

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

A major AU-fic: what if Castle and Beckett had met when they were younger? Starts when Kate is eighteen and Rick is around twenty-five, and moves on through Johanna's murder.

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

Richard Castle discovers something unexpected when he visits Kate Beckett one December night.

Castle updates his facebook with an interesting status.

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.

Castle and Beckett settle down to wait out a blizzard together. What will happen when they're trapped together? Romance, injuries... Pure fluff. FINAL CHAPTER! Story is now complete.

Beckett thinks she has a problem, and turns to Lanie for help. Is it actually a problem, or is she making a mountain out of a molehill? Caskett. *Smut warning!*

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.

Kate Beckett doesn't do family gatherings. Then again, her aunt Lily's never died before.

Before Beckett and Castle, there was Beckett and Royce. Oneshot.

We all know that Castle likes to play the clown and this time he tries to pull off the ultimate practical joke on Beckett, aided by Esposito and Ryan.