Quarantine has me reading through every page of Castle fanfic. I've been trying to rectify my "lurking" habits and resolve to review in 2020! I had never read this one before. Thanks for writing, great job!

Wish it were this in the show, exactly like your story. We love Castle.

Fantastic story! Loved that Beckett ‘s “forced” to react to Castle’s outburst. Great writing!

Excellent continue please, awesome story!

I can't believe he completely forgot he and Kate weren't alone. Rookie mistake!

Great story! I loved Alexis interaction with them.

Just found this (thank you, Twitter), and I LOVE IT. The perfect little story for this very Monday afternoon. My heart broke a little along with Castle's, but then you fixed it up with some hope and joy. Beautifully written. Thank you!

I'm totally not crying. Oh wait, yes I am. There are real tears making their way down my face. This was so freaking good. Thank you.

oh my heart this is so beautiful
it made me cry
but then it ended good so I am okay but oh my heart (I am still crying and it's been 5 minutes whoops)

I JUST found this fic, and I know I'm ages and ages late, but I wanted to tell you that it's one of the most wonderful one-shots I've ever read. Everything about it was perfect. Thank you so much.

I wish this had happened in the show! Great fic.

Nice. Enjoy your stories

OMG, that was just - perfect! I rewatched Pandora and Linchpin on TNT tonight and I sooooo needed this. As much as I love 'Always' and I think they did a great job with how things played out, part of me so wishes we could have had this instead of the whole 47 seconds debacle. The only way I'm gonna get through watching that tomorrow is knowing it ends in 'Always'! The way you wrote this you can literally feel the emotions, and you managed to stick to one perspective which is something I'm usually terrible at, I always want to be omniscient. I'm very impressed and thank you for sharing!

nicely done! keep it up ;)

'The least he could do was get her somewhere private. Kate Beckett hated being a spectacle, and he loved her enough to put her needs first. There would be plenty of time to weep into his pillow once he was home.' That pretty much sums up Castle's devotion at this time. This was heartbreaking and so very sweet.