On the count of...three?

An AU Series. What if Castle and Beckett had triplets? What would their lives be like?

Hey guys! Sorry for taking forever to update, I moved and got sick and I just haven't feeling it. Also sorry for the people that complained that Lily didn't seem like a normal 4 year old but let's just remember she's Caskett's kid okay?

I own nothing . Also here's a little time jump.

Chapter 10: 3 years, 2 months and 12 days

Kate woke up to the sound of bickering. A lot of it.

"Rick?" She moved her arm to reach for Castle. "Babe?"

"Umm…" he gurgled. "What?"

"Is the door locked?" She asked.

"I don't know. Why?"

"They haven't barged in here," she whispered. "But I can hear them."

Castle sighed. "'Me too,"

"Mommy! Daddy!"

Too late. Lily had come barging in, with her brothers in tow. "Wake up! It's pancake time!"

"Lil, what do we always say about Sundays?" Castle asked eyeing her.

"Pancake time!" He heard Jake echo.

"No, Sunday means mommy and daddy have permission to sleep a bit more." He reasoned.

"Kate smiled. "Really? You're going with that?"

"Please daddy! We're hungry!" Lily bit her lip adorably as the boys gathered looking at him.

"You heard them, let's go." Kate pushed Rick to the side.

"Do I have to?" He asked like a little boy.

"Yes!" They all said.

"Too bad babe, majority wins." Kate slapped him in the chest.

"Since when am I on the losing side? I thought boys were meant to have each other's backs?"

"Not when they are hungry." Kate sighed as she followed her children out of the room.

"I can't believe you slept trough all that buddy," Rick sighed. He picked the baby from the crib next to the bed. He cooed at him.

Yes lucky baby number five. Was he planned you ask? No. But his vasectomy the week after they found out about him was.

"Daddy, can I put chocolate chips on my pancakes?" Lily asked as soon as Castle joined them in the kitchen, a much bigger one than the one in the loft.

Yes that was long gone too. As the triplets grew they came to the conclusion they couldn't all fit there. Of course Alexis and her husband were happy to take it out of their hands.

"Not too much alright Lil?"

"I want a bunch!" Jake piped in.

"No one is going crazy on chips bud." Kate said warningly.

"Buuut…"

"Jake…" Castle said. He was the trouble maker, Reece kept the peace and JJ was the calmer one.

3 boys, Lily and a newborn. That was their life now.

There had been a time where Kate had been worried Castle would be outnumbered by girls and now it was all testosterone.

"Fine." Jake slumped back on his chair as he watched his father make breakfast with Lily.

"Lets set up the table?" Kate told the boys. Something to keep them busy while they ate. She carried Nate along as a watchful eye kept the triplets at bay.

Once breakfast was done, Castle had offered to do the dishes while she got the kids ready to go out.

It was not too cold yet to go to the park so they'd be meeting Jenny and Ryan there. They had called Martha and Alexis to join them as well.

Alexis was a mother now. Her sweet little Gracie had just turned 2. Kate Beckett had just become a mother again and her granddaughter was older than her own son.

"Mommy I want the blue one!" Reece caught her eye as he pulled on another shirt. They mostly dressed the boys by color or something to tell them apart, even though they were fairly different to their parents and family, Specially JJ. Her sweet lucky number 3, he had had more complications than his brothers growing up. His airway was smaller than most so he had to watch for respiratory problems and asthma which he'd been suffering from forever.

"Its my turn!" Jake told him, "Mine!"

"Boys." Kate was grateful she had put Nate down a moment before because her hands needed to be free to break them apart. JJ had joined in just for the propose of imitating Jake.

"Whoa, what's happening here?" A voice said behind her. "Who started it?"

"Jake."

"Reece did!" The two eldest boys stared at Castle.

"What do you think Kate? Are we still going out?"

"I don't know babe…" she bit her lip. "No one is ready yet…"

"I am!" JJ said proudly.

"Me too." Reece said, letting go of the shirt he'd just grabbed.

"Jake?" Kate asked. "What do think? Can we settle for the red one?" The other two stared at him.

Yes. Victory.

"Kate, I still don't know how you do it." Jenny said. "I have two and barely have the will to run after one when the other has already outran me." The girls looked as Ryan and Castle kept the kids busy.

You could do a lot with a ball and 6 energetic kids.

"Well I have my moments, it's not all rainbows and butterflies." She admitted. She had been off from being a cop for a while. She had now mostly at a desk job, running for senate. A step in her career that had been thrown off when she had had Nate. "Sometimes all I want to do is lock Castle in the house and make a run for it." She totted Nate as they looked on.

"I did that to Kevin once." Kate stared at her friend. "Didn't actually lock him, I had a meeting and he had the day off."

Kate smiled. Truth be told, she was grateful Castle had a job that he could do at home. Now that they had the boys and Lily it was easier, but back in the day, her boys, who obviously were a handful had given them a run for their money.

"Should Joey be running like that?" Jenny asked, Kate turned to where she was pointing. JJ was a fragile child, there was no point in denying that, but Rick and Kate really tried not to treat him differently.

"Castle!" Kate called, her husband quickly caught her eye and understood. They both knew this could turn into a visit to the ER.

"Okay guys, how about we take a break huh?" Castle said. Kevin was thankful apparently. "Who wants a snack?"

The children gathered back to the blankets where Jenny and sat. Kate could say JJ was struggling a bit.

"JJ, come here bud." She called. The little boy followed her lead. She felt him drenched in sweat. "Do you feel okay? Where's your inhaler?"

JJ glanced to the small device around his neck. "Do you remember how to do it?" He nodded.

One, two, three. In.

And again.

His eyes adverted as Kate watched him.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine mommy." He said with a smile.

"Good boy. Here." She handed him a juicebox. And he went on his way as if nothing had happened. That was how kids saw the world and it gave her peace of mind .

A little bit anyway.

The machine beeped once more. She'd gotten used to the sound by now.

It was quite soothing at this point, "Kate?"

"We thought he'd be free of this by now. They said six months."

"Beckett." The idea of JJ's heart giving out in the middle of the night terrified her. "He's fine."

Stupid Castle and his calm nature. He could be a goofball and crazy like Jake, intellectual like Reece or calm like JJ.

It had been six months actually since the quest for a heart donor began, Kate knew children had the advantage over adults when it came to organs but she always daunted the idea of having a dead child somewhere so JJ could take his heart. That would be someone else's child and she couldn't deal with that.

Okay guys! Updates will continue but with several time jumps, I do hope you liked it!