Finding Gaby

I read a lot of fanfiction, mostly Castle Fic. 
I’ll be using this page to showcase my favorite stories, so keep a look out for updates!

Fics are listed by Fandom and by Author.
Newest fics will be posted entirely in Bold.
Listed alphabetical order by Author. 

Also Check out Heidi’s (Soulsinstarlight) awesome rec list as well!

Castle Fan Fiction

a. loquita

1) With Regrets
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
She’s sure this is a mistake, but damn if it doesn’t feel like the best mistake she’s ever made. 

2) Third Party Tales
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
The people surrounding Castle and Beckett’s life, one by one, slowly learn of the change in their relationship status. 

3) Follow Me Through The Rain
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Several years into the future the man ultimately responsible for Johanna Beckett’s murder is on trail. But for Castle and Beckett the state of things is not how either of them thought it would all turn out. 

4) A Mug Half Full Kind of Person
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
When he kissed her, it didn’t surprise at all that he tasted like coffee. 

5) A Dream to Call my Own
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
At last, my love has come along. 

6) When Day is Done
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
Kate’s back at work. She deserves punishment, and this is Gates’s way. She had to accept it.
 

AlwaysCastle

1) What Dreams May Come
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
During an ordinary wind down from a case. Castle finds himself in a predicament: his partner has fallen asleep on him. He soon finds out that Kate Beckett is indeed a cuddler… a frisky one at that. 

2) The Head and The Heart
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
She’s had an epiphany… and for once in her life, she will embrace it wholeheartedly.

3) On the Rooftop
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Kate lays on the rooftop of her apartment building catching a tan. That is until Castle shows up ruining her day off. Of did he? 

Aon Duine

1) Hidden Wounds
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Kate realizes that she is not the only one dealing with the trauma of her shooting. How will she handle it when Castle is the one falling apart?

baby-rose15

1) Morning Coffee
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
Castle decided to write James Bond instead of Nikki Heat and so our Detective and Writer went their separate ways. Three years later they run into each other again. Where do they go from there?

Beckstle

1) Inside Out
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Definitely M

BerLina

1) The Bet
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Rick and Kate make a bet of a pretty… interesting nature.
Gaby’s note- PLEASE do not read this if you’re under the age of oh… 18. Its smut, pure wonderful smut. But still… don’t read if you’re underage. 

2) Ignition
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
When Beckett and Castle finally kiss, they can’t deny their attraction anymore. Beckett tries anyway. They have to somehow figure out their personal issues while trying to solve murders as usual.

3) Crossroads
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Sequel to Ignition. Kate and Rick are trying to take their relationship to the next level, but work always seems to get in their way. Will they overcome the obstacles. 

4) Personal Belongings
Castle/Beckett/Serena
Rating: M
Kate notices how Rick is looking at Serena, and jealousy is not the only thing she feels. Very smutty.

5) Boxed Memories
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Kate finally moves into the loft, and brings something along that leads to unexpected situations. 

BLendgame

1) The First One
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
But the brilliant eyes of Kate Beckett have never been so full of emotion, and the chuckle that escapes her already trembling lips confirms his suspicion; he’s the first man to break her this way. 

2) Do It For Her
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Her last stop is the dresser, where she removed her rings and sets them down into their velvet box. Standing next to it is a framed photograph that she tires not to look at too often. But today she needs that little push, and she finds it in his smile. 

Buffalo

1) And Still
Rating: K
Complete

2) Succumb
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
What happens when they finally give in, how does it affect their lives. 

caffinate-me

1) Florida Heat
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Four people are dead. A woman is found on the side of the road in rural Florida, battered and beaten with no memory of who she is or how she got there. All she remembers is a man with blue eyes and the name Nikki Heat. 

2) The Name Game
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
What’s in a name? Somewhere along the way he had stopped calling her Beckett and started calling her Kate.

3) The Western Way
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Colorado Springs, 1875. Reporter Richard Castle, Sheriff Kate Beckett, cowboys, Indians, assassins, corsets, boots, cowboy hats, secrets, lies, courage and steel. But, remember, things aren’t always what they appeared in the Wild West. 1st in the Western Series.

4) The Nine Lives of Katherine Beckett
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Nine times. She had remembered each of them vividly as he had listed them off; she knew them by heart, just as she knew all of the times she had saved his life. 1st in the Number Series.

5) The Eight Deaths of Richard Castle
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Sequel to The Nine Lives of Katherine Beckett. “What did you think about?” “All the different ways I could murder you and not get caught.” “So how many did you come up with?” “Eight.” 2nd in the Number Series.

6) The Seven Sins of Two Women.
Rating: T
Complete
Wrath, envy, sloth, pride, lust, greed and gluttony. Kate Beckett was guilty of all seven, but then again, so was Alexis Castle. A glimpse at the two beautifully imperfect woman in Richard Castle’s Life. 3rd in The Numbers Series. 

7) The Six Levels of Hell
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate Beckett was not a superstitious person but when the total of 6.66 flashed on the screen for her coffee and pastry, Kate couldn’t help the feeling of dread that swelled in her belly. 4th in The Numbers Series.

8) Five Years in Life
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Five Years. Five Christmases. Two Lives. One Story. In a city as large as New York it is amazing how tow lives could become intertwined so deeply without either person knowing it. 5th in The Number Series. 

9) City Slickers
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
1876. When Sheriff Kate Beckett takes Richard Castle up on his offer to visit him in New York City, she finds herself in a whole new world. A world with new rules, hidden meanings and key players she didn’t know existed. 2nd in the Western Series.

10) Back to Where We Have Never Been
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
What happens when two people, who are perfect for each other, meet in exactly the right place at the complete wrong time? For literature professor Katherine Beckett and writer Richard Castle, only time will tell. 

11) The Root of All Evil
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Things are getting more interesting in Colorado Springs for writer Richard Castle and Sheriff Kate Beckett as old enemies return and the rumor mill begins to churn. Sometimes it’s hard to know who to trust in the wild west. 3rd in the Western Series.

12) Sweetart
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete

Callie Ryan

1) Slaying Dragons
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Something unexpected, even by Castle’s standards, leads Kate on an emotional journey - with a little help from her friends.

Cartographical

1) Like Midnight
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The call about the body came from Lanie, at four in the morning, on her day off. Lanie never called her about bodies.

2) Fractured
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A stressful weekend for Castle and Beckett.

Celia Stanton

1) In Medias Res
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Their story is not at the beginning or the end. Instead, they are in the middle, making it up as they go along.

2) many’s the time i ran with you
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Beckett celebrates. 

3) The Way We Fall
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Progress. Regress. Repeat as necessary. 

4) Walking Wounded
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Their wounds are like the bodies Lanie sees day in and day out; broken, bloody and monumentally unfixable. 

champagne-and-razor-blades

1) Up in Flames
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
The flames inside her chest are consuming her, licking at her ribcage, her heart.

Charlie O’Kelly

1) Murder at the Toy Store
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
There is a murder at a toy store and it’s a juicy one.
Gaby’s Note: People under the age of 18, STAY AWAY. It’s a another fun smut fest! 

2) Teach Me
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Kate and Rick finally go out on a date and he teachers her lots of new things.  

chezchuckles

1) Dash Away
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate and Castle try to adjust to life as parents.
Gaby’s Note: IMO- this is a must read! 

2) Dash It All
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A ‘Dash Away’ sequel 

3) Worst of Times
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The season 3 Finale didn’t happen. Castle gets the nerve to ask Beckett on a first date, but bodies have a way of showing up at the worst of times. 

4) Age of Wisdom
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A companion to Worst of Times which takes place immediately after WoT. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

5) Best of Times
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A Worst of Times companion 

6) The Frog at the Bottom of the Well
Rating: K+
Complete
Kate Beckett wants no help from Castle
Gaby’s note: Loved this one. It’s one of my personal favorites. Made me want to go furniture shopping :)

7) That Familiar Feeling
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
What if Kate’s mother was never murdered but her father was instead? This Kate Beckett never went to the police academy, grew up under the shadow of her mother’s ambition, and had her own wall to deal with. 

8) One and Done?
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
When Castle asks Kate to have a heart-to-heart with his daughter about relationships, Beckett discovers more than he really wanted her to know about himself. 

9) If At First
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Set in the One and Done? Universe. Post 3x19. Castle asks Beckett for some parenting advice; a plot from within threatens Castle’s position as Beckett’s shadow.

10) Try Again
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
After the events of One and Done? and If At First, Kate Beckett discovers what life is like on the other side.

11) Federal Heat
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A continuation of the If At First, Try Again Universe. Beckett takes Jordan Shaw’s offer. 

chezchuckles and Sandiane Carter

1) Ghost on the Canvas
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Assuming all things are equal, the watch is for the life she saved; the ring is for the life she lost; but the bracelet is for the life she misses. 

2) Stop Haunting Me
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A sequel to ‘Ghost on the Canvas’. Beth Beckett is coming back to New York City

ColieMacKenzie

1) The Game is On
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Suddenly tomorrow doesn’t seem early enough. “I’ve got a better idea,” he smiles tentatively, holds out his right arm for her. “Come with me.” 

2) Wide Awake, You Face the Day
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Her face buried into the dark sheets, she soaks  up the scents, his and hers, seared together, vivid and burning. 

3) When It Happens
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Moments we’d life to see when Caskett finally happens. A love story, told in scenes. 

4) Our Serendipitous Paths
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Kate Beckett wakes in a world where nothing is as she knows it to be. A season 4, AU story.

5) The Coffee of Our Lives
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
“Surprise,” he whispers against the rim of her ear, and she blinks open her eyes. And gasps. 

6) Never Gonna Happen Land
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Episode reaction to 4x21 “Headhunters” 

7) Indulgence
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!” - Mae West. Co-authored with International08 

8) Gonna Happen Right Now Land
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Sequel to “Never Gonna Happen Land”. 

9) Feels Like Home
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“Her tummy skips, a happy, excited sensation, and she savors it, this secret knowledge that this here, this evening, this moment, it feels like home.”

10) Clarity
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The first thing he becomes aware of is her scent, the subtle, familiar notes of cherry and cinnamon sugar that tease his nose. 

11) All the Ways
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
He loves to watch her sleep. 

12) Your Own Devices
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
He’s pretty sure he convinced the lady with the smoky voice that he knew exactly what he was doing, knew how to give her a good time. 

Cora Clavia

1) Around my Heart
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Castle and Beckett, a collection of oneshots and story arcs inspired by Carmina Burana.

2) Ruby and Sun
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate figured out long ago that had the two of them met, Johanna would have absolutely loved Rick Castle and immediately started dropping subtle hints like So Katie, when’s the Wedding? 

3) Siren
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
She’s prepared to wait. As long as it takes. He waited three months and still took her back. She owes him at least that much.

4) sleep awake hope and then
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
It is imperative that we don things in the right order. A story that happens backwards. Sort of. 

5) Summer Dark
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate stumbles across a secret - no wonder he’d been so angry at her after she’d avoided him all summer - and reason comes from an unlikely source. 

6) The Master of Misdirection
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
And that’s when Beckett remembers something that her grandfather had told her: The fun’s not in knowing. It’s in the waiting to know. 

D. Franks

1) Realizations
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Castle and Beckett have been tiptoeing around each other for too long. Will he step up to  the plate when it looks like he’s going to lose her? And how will she react to his life changing news?

dalfron

1) Old Habits
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Now he knows he’s just a plucky sidekick, and nothing more. Not her One and Done. Not the man she wanted to be with. Not enough. 

daphnebeauty

1) Icarus
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
He had flown too near the sun. His wax had melted, his wings had failed him, and he had fallen. But Icarus was not failing as he fell, just coming to the end of his triumph. 

2) Apples and Cherries
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Something happens to completely upturn the lives of Castle and Beckett, throwing them into an adventure that tests and pushes them into their extremes. Mystery, action, and love ensue.

Dave-ck

1) the gasp and stutter of a heart
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
He doesn’t know what to do with all the left over emotion. Anger and relief. Sheer joy and terrible, aching fear. 

DeadPigeon

1) Unanswered Questions
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Some questions are not meant to be answered. And when they are… 

DefenderofHelplessSemicolons

1) A Woman in Uniform
Castle/Beckett
Rating: Ts
Complete
Beckett volunteers to work the Fourth of July. Castle wants to know why. 

demuredemeanor

1) One Day At A Time
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Richard Castle has a plan, Kate Beckett has no idea what he’s playing at and what this means. Will she go along for the ride? -Valentine’s Day Fic. 

2) Don’t Hang Up
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
After a long day at the 12th, Castle is roused from his twisted sheets by a phone call. She needs him. There is no hesitation in what he does next.

3) Head in the Clouds
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
When Castle takes comfort in his daughter she gives  him some advice he can’t stick to. 

DFM

1) Vigil
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Castle won’t leave Beckett’s side. 

2) At Home
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Beckett has a problem after the events of Boom.

ekc293

1) Awkward
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Because they’ve seen each other naked.

2) Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
A Look at the lives of Richard Castle and Kate Beckett through the eyes of a relatively objective outside source. 

3) Lean on Me
Rating: T
Complete
“She had always tried to be the strong one for them, but they had been her foundation. 

4) Beside You
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“Nikki Heat wouldn’t have let Rook cancel a book tour and put his job on hold for her. Nikki Heat wouldn’t be as weak as Kate Beckett Blearly was. Companion to “Lean On Me”

5) Nightmares
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“Because when you have nightmares every night, they become as ordinary as the dreams you have every night that you wake up from in the morning and don’t remember. With one little twist.”

6) The Cursor
Rating: T
Complete
Because love it not a switch. 

7) The Haunting
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
In a hypothetical future, Rick realized that it’s not the ghosts that choose to stick around. It’s the people left behind who can’t bear to let them go.  

8) For the record
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
She didn’t know, did she? 

Elizagoth

1) The Darkest Night
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light - Hellen Keller
Gaby’s Note: Character death, be prepared to cry. 

Elliott Silver

1) Tells
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“I don’t believe in your happiness,” he says. 

2) Mending Wall
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’. Set after 4x01.

3) Speakeasy
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
“I never wanted your words, Castle,” she says. “All you do is string them together and make them sound beautiful.” 

eyrianone

1) Make It To The Dawn
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s always the darkest before the dawn. 

2) Bushwhacked’
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
‘It’s just a brown coat - except that it really isn’t - not to her.’ Post ‘Headhunters’. 

3) The Lights Go Down
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Cat’s out of the bag for both of them, and Castle is crushed in the wake of the truth - because if she care for him at all - then how could she do this?

4) The Lights Go Down Chapter 11.5
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Bonus ‘M’ rated chapter. Goes with the story ‘The Lights Go Down’ at the end of chapter 11 and pre chapter 12. 

5) Popcorn AND Candy
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
‘That’s it’. Beckett replies. ‘I’m talking you… make treat.’ ‘I can’t.’ He lies, ‘I have plans’. Beckett shakes her head. ‘Not anymore.’ 

6) Critical Mass
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“I’m… I’m in love with you.” He replies. It’s out there now, acknowledged, this forces that binds them, but even the writer in him doesn’t know what will happen next.

7) A Castle Crumbling
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
He has to get her out of his system somehow. 

FanficwriterGHC

1) What’s Heard
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Letting loose and laying her cards out was easy in the comfort of her apartment, but saying them to someone other than her therapist was harder. But Kate didn’t need to worry about that just yet, right? 

2) Of Finding Innocence
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
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. What happened next was nothing short of her wildest dreams, and so much more.
Gaby’s Note: If you haven’t already read this fic… then either you’ve been living under a rock or are brand new to the fandom. If so, have fun. This is probably the best Castle AU fic out there.

3) The AAU of OFI
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
This is an alternate take on the events as they could have happened post chapter 30 of “Of Finding Innocence”. A different sort of family emerges, and Kate had to learn to live with the past and present.

4) What Pales in Comparison
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
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.

farewellblindgirl

1) Dhvani
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
From the Sanskrit for ‘sound,’ Dhvani refers to the allusion or implied meaning of something that can only be perceived upon the second or third try. Kate is forced to face the choices she has made…

2) Waiting for More
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
After nine years of marriage, Rick Castle finally has to get out. But when the daughter of an old friend comes into his life, he starts to find a reason to work for more. AU. 

Father Vengeance

1) Towers that Crumble
Rating: M
Complete
Full cast story with a plot that’s equal parts case and character. Our favorite due are chasing a bad guy that kinda defies the usual archetype. 

feartown

1) a simple hypothetical
Rating: T
Complete
“You know, this story relies pretty heavily on me letting you feel me up in the back of a cab, Castle.” 

fialka62

1) The Morning Stories
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
When you wake up in the morning, you never know if this might be your last. Kate is shot, and Castle is staying as close as he can get.

2) Give Us This Day
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Beckett wants a day, just one day, to dive into this new relationship with Castle. Alas, other people have other plans.  

3) In Medias Res
Beckett/Demming
Rating: M
Complete
It’s everything or nothing; there’s no middle to this affair.  

4) It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Something
Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s Christmastime in the city, and Kate Beckett is doing her usual thing. She thinks.

5) Summer of Our Discontent
Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle’s All Access pass is revoked, and the whole team has something to say about it. 

7) The Trouble With Paris
Beckett/Davidson
Rating: M
‘It only’… what?  

8) What There Is
Rating: K
Complete
At the end of the summer, this is all there is. 

firstadream

1) i love you much
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The panic attacks came back. And the nightmares and the fear- a constant, heavy things, buzzing in her peripheral vision, clattering in the back of her mind. And he was gone. There was that, too. 

2) Late
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
“I’m late.” “For what?” 

firstadream100

1) Underneath the Wreckage
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Just when Kate feels her life is hitting rock bottom, fate throws her right in the middle of Downtown Manhattan, on that fateful September 11, 2001. Underneath the rubble of her life, and her city, will Kate be able to find hope, peace and love?

firsttimefan

1) Proximity
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Beckett and Castle never seem to deal with it because they’re so busy being in danger. So Lanie figured there is no time like the present. 

GameOn

1) Not Perfect
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Set early S4. Kate survives the bullet bu their partnership doesn’t. Almost everybody agrees that it’s too dangerous for Rick to keep shadowing her, so she kicks him out for his own good. Only problem is that Kate can’t seem to go cold turkey. 

ghost writer 77

1) An Odyssey to Us
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
An odyssey to the place where they belonged. To ‘us’. To them. To love is a journey, not a destination. Buckle up, it’s gonna get bumpy. 

2) Wherever You Will Go
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Finally together, Castle and Beckett embark on a new journey, but it’s not going to be a smooth ride… Can they survive the bumpy road? Or will they crash and burn? A sequel to ‘An Odyssey to Us’. 

glo1196

1) Oh Castle
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Castle knows exactly how to please her… her body readily responds as chills run up her spine and a moan escapes from deep within her throat. 

greymind

1) Just Another Layer
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Beckett gets sick and Castle uses it as an opportunity to peel another layer off the Beckett onion.

Griever11

1) Wrong
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle deals with some interesting information regarding the state of Beckett’s love life. 

2) The Courtship of Richard Castle
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Sequel to ‘Wrong’. Beckett finally makes a decision regarding her relationship with Castle.

3) Symphony of Memories
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Castle pays tribute to Johanna Beckett and along the way, he finds acceptance. AU. 

handful of sky

1) Fallout
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate Beckett works on what may be the most unusual murder case of her career. Will her personal involvement with the victim help her solve the case, or will it cause events to spiral out of control?

2) Search by Author
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle and Beckett embark on a new investigation - of his book collection. 

3) Thaw
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle gets the cold shoulder. 

humerus

1) Just a Temporary Thing 
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
Set after the events of Season 2’s “Tick, Tick, Tick/Boom” arc. What if Kate had stayed with the Castles longer than we saw on the show? 

ifonly13

1) Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate Beckett was twenty-six when the biggest accident in her life occurred. Five years later, the biggest miracle happens. AU.

2) Distractions
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
He’s really good at distractions. 

3) Forgiveness
Castle & Gates
Rating: K
Complete
He tries to earn her forgiveness. 

International08

1) As for Now
Rating: K+
Complete
One more for the post-Knockout files. 

2) Fluff
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Richard Castle discovers something unexpected when he visits Kate Beckett one December night. 

3) As Victors
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Those who have reached that stage in sweetness and love, who can change their winter into a gentle, Indian Summer, have come as victors through the ordeal of life. 

4) Warm and Fuzzy
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A writer, a detective, and her cat ting in the new year. A sequel to “Fluff”. 

5) Claws
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Her kitten isn’t the only one with claws. Follows “Fluff” and “warm and Fuzzy”, picking up on January 2nd in the Minnie-verse. 

6) Victory
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Their first morning after. Part of the Minnie-verse. 

7) Hit and Run
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
She - for he had realized it must be a woman - threw her leg over the bike, standing in tall boots and reaching up to her helmet. 

8) The Long Road
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A late-night motorcycle ride and a heart-to-heart talk. Sequel to “Hit and Run”

9) That Pretty Rage
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. 

10) Lonely Boy
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
I got a love that keeps me waiting. A Co-authored story with chezchuckles. 

11) Kibbles ‘n Bits
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Castle wants to get a dog and discusses the idea with Beckett. 

12) Infinite Sources
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
“They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of new future, of a full resurrection into a new life.” 

13) Stuck on You
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Oh, she really hopes these aren’t more grocery lists of all the ingredients Castle needs for his off culinary creations. 

14) Eye of the Storm
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
There’s none of the playfulness that marked the last time. Nor is it like the first time- raw, desperate need tinged still with anger and deep hurt. This time it was purposeful, deliberate. 

jane0904

1) 3x00 Summer Heat
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
AU. Rick is in the Hamptons, there’s a murder and he need help.

Jenrose1

1) Therapy
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Post episode 3x24 cliffhanger therapy. 

JeuxDeVagues

1) Care
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
They were on the edge - on one side best friend, on the other lovers. But when she wanted to be in control, to let herself go in increments, to ease down this cliff that - according to Alexis - he had already jumped off head first.

2) The Writer
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
It starts with a ritual, an ending and an ad in the paper. 

3) Reveille (PM with your email Reveille)
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
“It is right that he too should have his own little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days…” - Samuel Beckett

4) Unpredictable
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Richard Castle decides that he’s going to let the woman do all the wooing. 

Jill-in-the-Box

1) Twelve Steps
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Step by step, they’re getting to where they need to be.

2) The Early Bird
Beckett/Demming
Rating: T
Complete
As Demming embarks on a relationship with Beckett, he gets a few hints that Castle plays a bigger role in her life than he initially thought. 

JillianCasey

1) Sisyphus
Castle
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s never been if. It’s always been when. 

2) Dangerous Game
Castle/Beckett
Rating:T
Complete
Beckett is jealous. Castle wants to play a game. This could be dangerous

3) Hunted
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
A continuation of Dangerous Game. Beckett tries to figure out where she wants things to go with Castle. Meanwhile, a serial killer fixates on Beckett.

4) Adagio
Royce
Rating: T
Complete
Before Beckett and Castle, there was Beckett and Royce.
Gaby’s Note: This might be my absolute favorite of them all. 

5) Fractured
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Fracture: the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. 

6) If
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
If she hadn’t said yes, they wouldn’t have kissed. AU 

7) Pillow Talk
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A bad day at work and a goldfish named Richardo. Oh, and some pillow talk. 

8) The Lost Ones
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
He isn’t afraid of Kate in the crosshairs anymore. Right now, Castle is more afraid of his partner behind a gun than in front of one. 

Johnny-Devlyn

1) Undisclosed Desires
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Kate has a secret and when Rick finds out, it completely changes the way he sees her. 
Gaby’s note- I know, I know… “Beckett’s a virgin” is something that sounds ridiculous and could no way be true… I mean seriously! But this fic does a BEYOND excellent job in tackling that subject and is very well written. Give it a shot, you’ll like it! 

Kate Christie

1) Enlightenment
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Gaby’s Note: Author has not provided summary. Essentially it’s about Kate’s realization that she needs to update her underwear and then goes about doing just that.

2) Enlightenment Extra: All Lit Up
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Kate and Rick explore new, lingerie-inspired aspects of their relationship. M-Rated content from the lingerie story, Enlightenment.

3) Nocturne
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
If it were possible for time to stop, for the earth to pause in its spinning, it would happen for them on this night.  

Katie Schmidt

1) The Things Mothers Would Approve Of
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
A delicate and sometimes awkward dance between Beckett and Castle as they move from UST to RST.

KBeckett0334

1) Not Just Breakfast
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“It was so worth the wait.”

KBtheMD

1) No Sense to Resist
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
All her will and senses may succumb to the memory of that night. 

Kavi Leighanna

1) Three Sizes Too Small
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s Christmas time and Kate can’t understand what’s making the King of Celebrations so… Ghrincy.

2) Needs
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Despite the rocky beginning, it’s always led to this. To them.

3) Gambler
Castle/Beckett
Rated: K+
Complete
He’s the risk taker and she needs assurances he can’t give her. 

4) A Bad Hurt
Esposito/Lanie
Rating:M
Complete
She’s happy for her friends, really she is, but sometimes it’s hard to watch.

krumkler

1) The Art of Living
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The case of a body drowned in paint causes Beckett to re-evaluate Castle’s place on her team and in her life. 

2) Four Saturdays
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
In which a flimsy excuse gives Castle four whole Saturdays of Beckett-time, leading a friendship to deepen and the embers of love to kindle.

liviafan1

1) In the Heat of Night
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The biggest heat wave New York’s seen in ages leads to a city-wide blackout, cranking the heat up between Castle and Beckett as the two are trapped on a subway.

2) Denouement
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
His hands sift through the box, memories and bits of their time together. He’s surprised that he doesn’t find his heart on the bottom, laying in pieces under the debris of their relationship that she’s seen fit to toss inside. 

3) Dissolution
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
He leaves her alone in the harsh light of the room, under a flickering bulb that they’d once deemed romantic while they were buried under the covers loving each other. He can’t bring himself to watch as she removes the last parts of their bedroom and from his life. 

4) Green Light
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Set during 2x05. “Her head snaps to his and damnit, she didn’t realize how close he actually was. Their faces are inches apart as she feels her breathing speed up. Her gaze flicks to his mouth and back to his eyes, which have darkened considerably.”

5) A Break in the Tide
Rating: K+
Complete
“We’re gonna make it though this Katie,” he chokes out, his hand pressing against her head. And because this is the first time she’s felt a glimmer of truth in his words, she slips the little guy into his pocket, pressing it into her father’s body, a reminder that even on the worst days, there’s a possibility for joy.

Liv Wilder

1) Missed Opportunities
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
This is a Pandora/Linchpin spin-off. Conjecture on what might become of Kate and Castle’s relationship now that Sofia has appeared on the scene and certain truths have been revealed.

2) A Breath of Fresh Air
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle pushes the small gift bag towards her across the desk, and she frowns, staring at the offering while fighting a nascent smile. 

3) Finding Our Way
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
She hears him, more than sees him. That soft scrape of shoe leather on the hardwood of her living room floor tells her that he’s leaving. 

Lord of Kavaka

1) Alexander & Jane
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
She met him once, long ago, thinking he was someone else, and fell in love. 

2) Awkward Surprise
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
During the middle of the night, Alexis goes to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice, only to find an awkward surprise awaits her. 

LorelaiGilmore82

1) Rocket Man
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T 
Complete
Beckett is waiting for Castle at the precinct when she gets a call from Alexis and finds herself rushing over to the hospital, after Castle has been involved in a car accident. 

Luminous Lu

1) Redemption
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
After a year and a half apart, Beckett and Castle meet again. The path to recovering their relationship won’t be easy, but easy things are never worth it. Warning: Features issues like violence against women and sexual assault.

Melissa55

1) The blue around the morning moon
Castle/Beckett
Rated: K+
Complete
…color of your eyes. She only closes her eyes when his lips touches hers. 

merry-merry-me

1) Freeze, Thaw, Reheat
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Castle is backing off the sexual innuendo, letting Kate know he’ll always be there. Kate is silently seeking and accepting more. A little back and forth.

Migalouch

1) A Black Past
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
AU from the Season 3 Premiere. Castle will have to handle enemies from the past while Beckett tries to find him and help after he gives the 12th the slip. Meanwhile Castle shows a while new side of himself. 

Minstrel164

1) I’d Get You Out
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle finds himself kidnapped whilst on a book tour. Will Beckett, his partner, move heaven and earth to get him back safe and sound? 

Mlle Lambert

1) One and Done
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Love isn’t always a fairy tale, and there isn’t always a happy ending. Not even for Katherine Beckett and Richard Castle. 

MommaKristine

1) Your Last Day
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
After a vivid dream, Beckett thinks she’s been given a second chance. When she begins to doubt the reality surrounding her, there is only one person she can think of who has come up with crazier things than what she’s living through. 

2) Retaliation
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
A frustrating case, a victim with more enemies than friends, mob ties, gangs and something neither saw coming. When Castle and Beckett find they are being hunted, will it drive them closer or push them further apart? 

3) To have and to Hold
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
When Beckett steps away from her desk, Castle’s curiosity gets the better of him. He never expected to be crushed by what he found in her drawer. Is it too late for them or can her convince her that he’s her ‘one and done’?

Natalie Elizabeth

1) Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Set after the events of Countdown. Cold, lost, empty, scared. Beckett turns to the only person who can make that all go away. Castle.

NevynR

1) For What It’s Worth
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Beckett things 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? *Smut warning!* 

Neuropsych

1) The Witness
Rating: T
Complete
A man with more than one name is dead, and the only witness they have isn’t talking.

2) The Doppelganger Effect
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A man is found dead with Castle’s wallet in his pocket

Not in the face

1) Bated Breath/River of Consciousness 
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Based on Linchpin. Castle rescuing Kate from the Hudson becomes the linchpin for change between them. 

2) Not Beyond Repair
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate confronts Castle foe Alexis’ sake because no daughter should watch her father self-destruct. 

3) A Glancing Blow
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
It’s a good day to be a cop when there are no gunshots fired and a better one when you have a chance to realize that your team has dodged a bullet that could have altered everything. 

Paige Terner

1) Reading Rights and Writing Wrongs
Rating: T
Complete
A detective had partnered with a writer to speak for those who have been murdered. It’s Castle and Beckett doing what they do. With one little difference. Until chapter 11. Then things get a lot different.

Peachy-x

1) As Long as it Takes
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
It’s not just Beckett and Castle that have been put through an emotional upheaval after the events of ‘Setup’ and ‘Countdown’. And it’s an upheaval that isn’t going to cease anytime soon.

2) Coming Back
Rating: K
Complete
“Sober up fast, bro,” he levels him with a look. “We’ve got some talking to do.” 

3) Days of Nights, Nights of Days
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s the days that mold them and the nights that change them. But it’s the days and nights that cement them.

4) For Now
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
Kate and Rick return from L.A. It doesn’t take a genius to see what is in front of them, and they know what the ultimate outcome will be. One can’t walk away anymore than the other can bow out; because walking away from her is simply impossible.

5) Hardest of Hearts
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
“You can’t just stop me and then let me go.” 

6) Home
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
For years now, it’s been a ‘When’ not an ‘If’. They process of the transformation from ‘for now’ to ‘for always’ may have been a long one, but it’s been worth it, because finally, they are home. Sequel to “For Now”

7) Light On
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
There’s not such thing as a solitary fight. 

8) Not a Chance
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
They have the saying ‘one step forward, two steps back’ down to an art. 

9) Ribbons of Red
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
It’s not love, that first time and he’ll never claim it as anything other than what it was. It’s the second time that he would claim it as what it is, but their ribbons of red claim it as what it can, and what it will become.

10) Sky Blue and Black
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
How can it be, that what brought them together all that time ago, could be the only thing that might succeed in tearing them apart? 

11) The Fall
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
They fall. For the lie she told and the truth he kept, they were always going to fall. And they do - harder than what either ever expected. 

12) The Fight
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete 
Sometimes when it ends, is when it all begins. 

13) The Finish Line
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
They’re both devoted; he too much and she too little. Ultimately, that would be their undoing. There’s always a finish line; they just hit every wrong turn until they reach theirs.

14) Twining of the Web
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
They both know.

15) Finding Breath
Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
She’s the one to take the first mouthful. 

PenguinOfTroy

1) Routines
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
“I love you and either that’s enough or it isn’t.” When waiting isn’t enough and their partnership ends, everything changes. So Rick Castle takes solace in the little things that don’t.

2) Cuddle
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
All of the times, all of the ways he’d imagine this, and he never expected she’d be a cuddler. 

phalangesbyfive

1) Visiting Hours
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
In the span of two hours, Beckett began to question the very foundation of her working relationship with Castle. Because now she was faced with the all too real possibility that it was over.

Phoebsfan

1) Numb
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It was snowing, not the first of the season and certainly not the last. But she wouldn’t see it. Couldn’t see it. The whiteness blinding, but not enough to block out the red.

2) Bottled Lightening
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
A kiss that never was. 

3) Time Heals All Wounds
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A story about a watch.  

4) Sucker Punch
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
“And that was all. Just a kiss?” Life after the kiss. 

psychadelic

1) Million Dollar Question
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“Something wrong, Kate?” he asked. “Do they have anything in common? The women you sleep with?” and there it was, the slight hint of jealousy.

purplangel

1) Kate’s Inner Tiger
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Takes place right after the ending of ‘Cuffed’. After Kate’s slip that there will be a ‘next time’, Rick refuses to wait for her any longer. Rated MA for language & STRONG sexual innuendo and contact. 

QueenOfTheCastle1021

1) See You In The Fall
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Author’s take on how Season Three could have started. 

recycled-stars

1) The Ends Opening Into New Ends Always
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
New York City, 1925, Katherine Beckett walks into a joint and starts asking questions about a murder, capturing the attention of one Richard Castle. Together, they work to catch her mother’s killer. Historical AU, ensemble cast makes appearances.

2) The Beginning After The End
Rating: T
Complete
Castle and Beckett fight zombies and navigate the new territory that comes with the end of the word. Features Castle and Beckett, but also Alexis and Martha. Oh, and zombies. Yes. Zombies. And no, it’s not crack-fic.

3) We Want To Live Like Trees
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
AU. Post Knockout, Castle and Beckett stumble towards something new, but as the conspiracy begins to unravel around them, Beckett realizes there are some stands we make alone.

4) at this imaginary starting line
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
The end of a hell of a day is quiet after all the chaos. 

Rhyolight04

1) Javi that night & The Rest of Your Always
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
It may be happily-ever-for-awhile for some, but they leave a trail of battered, tired friends along the way. 

Sandiane Carter

1) Of Weddings and Technicalities
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
She isn’t used to seeing him so nervous.

2) A Death in the Family
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Kate Beckett doesn’t do family gatherings. Then again, her aunt Lily’s never died before. 

3) I’m All Yours
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
It was only two weeks; yet it felt like much longer. Takes place after “A Death in the Family” 

4) Summer Haze
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s midsummer in the Hamptons. 

5) Glimpses of the Moon
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
They have a deal. 

6) Fix You
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete 

7) Vice
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
AU: Beckett is a uniform on the Vice squard at the 12th, five years before she and Catsle actually meet in the show. 

scripting life

1) Relapse
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Beckett together again. 

2) No Rest for the Weary
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
When she woke that morning, she’d been filled with joy and hope and the knowledge that they had their whole lives in front of them. She knows this from the naive dream when she wakes up that night to blood on her hands and a gun to her head. 

3) Band of Brothers
Rating: T
A collection of oneshots revolving around the fraternal bonds between Beckett, Esposito, Ryan, and Castle. 

Scriptor of Lacuna

1) The Gravity of Always
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
With the help of Dr. Seuss and Johanna Beckett, Kate finally realizes that she doesn’t have to be alone anymore; that the gravity of ‘always’ will lead her straight to Castle. 

2) The Promise of Soon
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
A seemingly innocent gift from Castle sends Kate on a journey to rediscover her past and possibly a wall-less future. Post “Cuffed”.

3) A Heart’s Haunt
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
In the aftermath of solving her mother’s case, Beckett tries to come to terms with the fact that she is still in love with Castle and tries to make things right with him before it is too late. 

4) A Sparrow’s Fall
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
After Kate has been shot, she struggles with her recovery, her feelings for Castle & finding her shooter. Rick, in turn, struggles expressing his love for Kate while trying to keep her safe from those who still wish her harm.

seilleanmor

1) Letters to Kate
Rating: T
Complete
Richard Castle is in love with Kate Beckett. So how does he let her go? 

SexierThanSwordplay

1) Only the Books Will Know
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Castle and Beckett have sex in the New York Public Library. 

shimmeryshine

1) The Story of How I Missed You
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Beckett stops by Castle’s loft to fix some things, both skin deep and otherwise. 

2) Bachelorette Number 41319
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
“Is it okay for me to put my hand under your dress if you’re not my girlfriend?” - Episode insert for 2.14 - The Third Man.

SkyandIris

1) In Paper Boats
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Kate Beckett just might have some personal experience behind the comparison of Richard Castle to a nine year old on a sugar rush. A dash of AU. 

2) To Show You What I’ve Got
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
They have been married for 5 years and he is still afraid to tell anyone how he really proposed. 

Softer

1) To Love
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Castle and Beckett head north, revisit the past, and build on the future.

2) Interrogation
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
An argument gets rather… heated, and of course, one thing leads to another. 

3) Time Will Tell
Castle/Beckett
Rating:M
Complete
A Collab piece between Phalangesbyfive and Softer. It’s times like these… 

4) And Lose
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Sequel to ‘To Love’ and set about a year after it. It’s 11:02 and she still isn’t home. 

5) And Love Again
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
“The bed is so big,” and empty without you. “And Alexis won’t let me sleep on her bedroom floor.” Anymore. The third and final installment of the ‘To Love’ series.

6) Hypothetically Speaking
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Kate Beckett does not get jealous. 

7) Not a Stitch
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
He knows this game she’s playing, ans she wants him eager. Wants him clumsy over his drink, wants his lame pick up line so she can laugh before she slips him her hotel key. 

SpillingInk

1) Inevitable
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Certain things are inevitable. Castle pushes, Beckett twists and ankle, and walls crumble. 

2) Of Bruises and BandAids
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Set at the end of Boom! Beckett stays over with Castle after he saves her life in the warehouse, and finds herself a little more vulnerable than she would like. 

superlc529

1) If
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
“If” is a very big word. What if the one moment that changed everything never happened? Castle’s “transported” to a world where he and Beckett never met. He remembers everything… has to the world gone mad? How’s he going to get back? 

2) Connection
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Sometimes you don’t know what you have… until it’s gone. What was going on in the real world while Castle was in the AU World? Companion to “If” 

surrendersomething

1) To Kate
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
The first time Alexis finds them, she knows she wasn’t supposed to find them at all.

2) Notes from a Love Story
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Richard Castle writes Kate Beckett bestselling novels. He also writes her notes. This is their story.

3) Two Meanings
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Three words, two meanings and their own ways of saying them.

4) Sit Back Down
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on… A night at The Old Haunt and a memory. 

5) Even When You Fall Apart
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
It’s been six months since they closed the case. Five & a half since he brought her to the Hamptons for the first time. Five since he kissed her for the first time that counted. One week since the trial that ended with a guilty verdict. 

6) Edge of Leaving
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
This might be the end, but as much as it feels like everything had walked out the door with him, it hasn’t. 

7) Seasons
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Seasons may change, but the Hamptons is the perfect place to fall more and more in love. 

susanatc

1) Blurred Reality
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Sometimes the lines between what is real and what is pretend can be a little blurry. Especially to those standing so close to those lines. And once those lines are blurred, how easy is it to redraw them? 

2) Playtime
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Castle finds a new toy and convinces Kate to play 

TashaLaw

1) All Our Yesterdays
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
When Castle’s life is threatened, Kate makes the choice to leave everything behind to go after her mother’s murderer. Two years later, she returns. But will Castle take her back? Or had too much time passed? 

2) Mantra
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
She really needed to say the words. After all, it was going to be the first time she said those particular words to a romantic partner. 

3) Private Reading
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
“When you asked for a private reading of my new book, I had no idea this was you had in mind.” 

4) Tomorrow
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
From the living room to the bedroom. Post Always. 

5) Yes, Absolutely
Rating: K+
Complete
Castle and Beckett discuss plans in the case of an unlikely emergency.

6) Seven People
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
Only six people knew about them. Six was a good number. The next step up from six was seven, and seven was daunting.

teamWilson

1) Beckett’s Security Blanket
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
“Damnit Kate I’m a man, not your personal teddy bear or security blanket. You can’t just crawl into my bed every night and expect me to just lay there.” Set in Season 4; Kate is forced to stay at Castle’s place, and things start to get awkward… 

ThePossibilityOfMagic

1) Audience of One
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
Sometimes, things are not as they seem to be. And other times, that’s exactly what they are. 

2) Return to Sender
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
When Beckett begins receiving strange deliveries with her mail, is it a threat or something even more unexpected? 

3) The Chair
Rating: K+
Complete
Because it was, and always would be, more than just a chair. 

4) The Best Medicine
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
It’s said that laughter is the best medicine; but together, Castle and Beckett find something even greater. 

timewalker05

1) Do You Solemnly Swear
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K+
Complete
It’s Kate Beckett’s worst nightmare come true. The DA wants Castle to testify at a murder trial. And the cross-examination doesn’t go exactly as planned. 

VioletHills

1) Volume I: Tryst
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
A touch was just the beginning. 

2) Volume II: Eyes Open
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to begin. Follows Tryst. Post Countdown.

3) Separation Anxiety
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T 
Kate is given guardianship of a friend’s one-year-old daughter. Castle tries to help in his own unique way. Chaos and fluff ensues.

Wingsss

1) All the Songs Make Sense
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
A collection of little moments that lead up to something more.

willgirl

1) Graduation
Rating: K
It was an important milestone in her life. But no one was there to clap and cheer and take pictures. Instead, she was alone.

2) The Wall
Castle/Beckett
Rating: K
Complete
Now that her mother’s murder has been solved, can Beckett let her wall down? 

wp1fan

1) Faulty Equipment
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
Castle hasn’t made love to a woman in well over a year. Why? The cat’s out of the bag. 

2) Mending
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
“I’m not going anywhere until I get some answers as to why you’re evidently injured and not in a hospital.” 

3) The Inquisition
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
“We’ve got to find her.” “You won’t have to look far.” 

4) The Talk
Castle/Beckett
Rating: M
Complete
“I’m pretty sure she’s under the impression that you’re angry with her.” 

WriteChristineR

1) Her Diamonds
Castle/Beckett
Rating: T
Complete
When Beckett takes a day off work, Castle senses that something isn’t quite right. Can he solve the mystery?

2) It Happens
Castle/Beckett
Rated: K+
Complete
Beckett isn’t feeling well and Castle can tell. 

The X-Files FanfFiction

MD1016

1) Journal 1999
Mulder/Scully
Rated: NC 17
The first three months of post-colonization Earth from Scully’s point of view.
“After all that we have had to endure these last few months, I now look back on the mundane - the trips to the dry cleaners, endless piles of paperwork, buying a carton of milk - with a relish that only the aged and infirm have understood. Now, of course, we all understand.” -Dana Katherine Scully journal entry, December 31,1999 
 

2) Journal 2000
Mulder/Scully
Rating: NC 17
The struggle continues. Sequel to Journal 1999