I know your stories are quite old, and I dont even know if you will see this, but I just found them and read them all. I loved each of them. Thank you. If you ever feel inspired again, we are still here.

I am so happy to have found this story after all these years.

You've written Rick and Kate's first time exactly as I envision it.

This is truly beautiful, ... emotional, ... amazing.

GREAT! GREAT! Your writing is gorgeous, this plot so great, full of love and emotions. I always wanted to read something after Kate's declaration of love to him. You fulfilled my wish to 100 %!
Can't wait to read your next chapter...

Soooo extraordinary! Please add more!

WOW! WOW! I love this story much. After that epi with soaked Kate at his doorstep I wondered about the continuation of their encounter. So your story brings some light in that darkness of not knowing. Can' t wait to read more of this.
Maria

Very well done. You captured what all of us thought might have happened and written beautifully. Thank you.

I absolutely love this story. Thank you for writing it. "Always" is one of those episodes that I can watch over and over, but once I get to season 5, the morning after leaves me wondering what could have been.

Love your writing!
Annie

Bravo...keep up the good work!

Miraculously, she had chosen him over vengeance, over her private war (Ohhh, how I hope that A.M. writes it this waaaay!)

the love he felt now was more than he could have imagined just a day ago. His heart felt too small, too weak to contain the emotion he felt. (utterly perfect line)

and I loved Alexis telling Kate exactly how it is... Her Dad deserves 100% of her devotion and Kate's response... *sigh* just beautiful

"You've been kissing me good morning with coffee for four years now Castle," she smiled knowingly; "I just thought that it would be nice to finally have a real one." (soooo sweet and soooo true)

This is the BEST written chapter I've read concerning Kate telling Rick about what happened on the rooftop with Maddox.

Love that she told him she needs to find out who she is without a badge. :)

Four long years he had waited for her eyes to turn to him, to really see the man he'd become, the man she'd made him. So many nights he had stared out those same windows, despair and frustration twisting his gut. There were moments he had nearly given up; times when a maelstrom of need and desire churned inside him. The small, bitter voice in his head would mock him for being a fool. (this tore at my heart strings)

He felt fierce, almost primal in his craving to imprint himself on her skin. He wanted to claim every inch of her as his own, sink into her very bones, until they were inextricably linked. (I can see Castle feeling exactly like this!)

This continues to be an amazing story... He was immediately distracted by the enormously sexy sight of Kate Beckett wearing his clothes. She reached his side, and bending to whisper in his ears, almost purred "Rick, you don't think you're the only one who spent the last four years thinking about this, do you?" (lol... and yes, one of my dreams is to see Kate wearing only Rick's shirt... hopefully, A.M. doesn't disappoint)

I don't know how you kept this amazing sex scene in the rated T category... The description is just so momentous... so wonderously new, and yet so hot all at the same time. (Sorry, I'm not describing myself very well here)

I love, "They lost themselves for endless moments of discovery; the brush of a finger, the scrape of teeth, the lean lines of muscle and bone, familiar yet completely and wondrously new. They mapped each other with soft touches, tender sweeps of flesh on flesh."

I am so glad I found your version of after ALWAYS. This is beautiful.

Castle was awestruck by the look in her eyes; tender, joyful and finally whole, but burning underneath, a fierce blaze of heat and need meant only for him.

They paused often to lay long, heated kisses on the skin they exposed, like benedictions pronounced by teeth and tongue against beloved flesh.

Excited to continue reading.

I especially loved this chapter! Castle HAS gone through alot emotionally over Kate, but it's good to read the acknowledgment of the work Kate has done to deal with her past in order so that she is ready and able to be with him.