A Daughter of a Writer and his Muse

Chapter 36 (final chapter)

Chapter 36 (the final chapter)

Third Person POV

The Castle family got home after a bit more talking and told the news to the rest of the family. They called Alexis and asked if she was free to go out later on that day. Alexis gladly accepted and told them she wanted to know every detail from that interrogation.

"Hurry up, we're late!" Kate shouted around in the house and everyone except Johanna and Alexis came to the hall. "Where's the girls?" Kate looked around and looked upstairs.

Johanna came down the stairs with a beautiful red dress and Alexis was right behind her with a bright smile on her lips.

"Where did you find that?" Kate asked stunned.

"Alexis borrowed it to me" Johanna said and Kate hugged her.

Castle gave Alexis a wink and remembered when she bought that dress. It was the dress they had bought for one of his book signing parties, and it was the dress she had carried that day when they first met detective Kate Beckett, who now happened to be his lovely wife and mom to three of his kids.

Kate did recognize the dress but she couldn't really place it, however it looked beautiful on her daughter who looked so much alike herself when she was in that age.

They all leaved the loft and went to the restaurant where they met up with their friends.

Johanna and her brothers had a really great time since it wasn't that often this kind of thing happened. Alexis had been at a lot of parties but she thought it was amazing to be there to celebrate the fact that her sister had gotten a confession from a killer and by faking her emotions. Martha said it was her side of the genes that had helped Johanna and all laughed about that. Caslte and Kate looked at each other during most of the dinner. They loved this moment and they would always remember it. Lanie, Javier, Kevin, Jenny and even Gates was there celebrating Johanna's conquest.

They all had a good time and it was just perfect. Thanks to Castle's money they didn't have to think about the costs of the food or the drinks. They ordered dinner and then they celebrated even more with desserts. The children, including Alexis, drank coca-cola and the grown-ups drank everything from beer to wine.

Johanna didn't want this night to end. She didn't want to get back to school the next morning, yet she couldn't wait to tell everything to Olive and Gale. She loved the way everyone was looking at her, Especially her parents. It didn't really matter how sweet the others were or how much pride they had in their eyes, the only ones that really mattered were how her mom and dad looked at her.

The first one to get tired was Roy, he almost fell asleep and dropped his head into his dessert, luky for him he sat beside Cosmo who immediately caught his brother. They all laughed low and tried not to wake the sleeping boy.

Kate's POV

"Maybe we should get going" Kate said and looked at Castle.

He smiled at her and nodded. Kate looked at Johanna and could see how tired she was, even though she knew she wouldn't admit it. Kate smiled and stood up.

"I'll take Roy" Castle said and went to Cosmo to remove his brother from his shoulder.

Johanna stood up to and thanked everyone for making her night and we all started to go towards the exit.

"Did you enjoy it?" Kate asked her daughter and Johanna nodded excitedly before a big yawn escaped her lips.

"You tired?" Castle asked and Johanna nodded again.

Castle took Kate's hand in the his free hand, he still carried Roy and he would have to do that until they came to the loft. Before they left to the restaurant they had decided to walk since it wasn't that far, plus they didn't expect to be there late enough for Roy to fall asleep.