Merry Christmas from your Secret Santa! Hope you and your family have a lovely day :)

Enjoy your time with your family. Hope you have a great time in Orlando! Happy Christmas Eve. What are you hoping Santa brings?

So sorry you had a sad week but I hope Orlando is treating you nice and you've got some time to relax. What have you been up to since you've been there? Glad you liked your story! I saw marshmallow launchers in a store last month and knew it would be something Castle and Alexis would play with hahaha. Beckett has to get one too so she can ambush him when he comes home from book signings!

8. “I don’t think so kiddo, you’re outnumbered and you’re not dragging me into this,” Martha told him, sipping from her wine glass.“You win, Detective, daughter.” “Thanks Kate, these are fun,” Alexis told her, exchanging a high five after her father conceded defeat. Kate smiled, proud and beyond grateful to be with this new family she was in love with more and more each day. Kate pressed a kiss to his lips quickly, before they all returned to the living room to watch a movie together. - End. SS

7. She sat on top of his thighs, looming over him. “Learn your lesson, babe?” Kate teased, looking down at him with mischief in her eyes. He grinned up at her, not entirely unhappy with this turn of events. “You’ll never defeat me,” he said as he managed to topple her off and jump to his feet. Kate gained control of his launcher and hit him square in the back of the head as he tried to make a break for the kitchen and use Martha as a shield.

6. Kate moved across the room, a smirk gracing her lips as she raised an eyebrow at him, watching as he started to move away, attempting to keep distance between himself and his fiancee. “Beckett, come on. The trigger on this thing, it’s highly sensitive and… and… I would never…” She dove at him, tackling him onto the rug and wrestling with him as she pinned his arms, presenting him as a target for Alexis who took him down without mercy until all three of them were laughing.

I agree, Beckett is my favourite. She makes me feel that even at my worst, I can still do something good. As for favourite crime solved? I love the solve in 47 Seconds and Cops & Robbers. S4 probably has most of my favourite episodes actually. How's your weekend? When are finals over?

5. They watched on amused, Kate rolling her eyes at the childish threats her fiance was making at his daughter. Kate watched on amused, as she chatted with Martha until a stray marshmallow struck her in the back. Castle stopped, not sure what she would do next as she turned to glare at him. “Now, Beckett, that - that was an accident. That would have hit Alexis had she not ducked,” he tried to explain.“Don’t blame me!” Alexis warned him.

4. Castle dropped behind the sofa as Alexis ducked behind a beam, diving in and out of their hiding spaces to take aim at the other. Martha tried to intervene but after years of laser tag, knew better than to get in the way. Kate tried a little more valiantly to tame the battle but she’d heard the tales of the wars these two had waged over the years and when Martha beat a hasty retreat to the kitchen, she joined her, pouring them each a glass of wine.

My sister-in-law is studying nursing. I see how tough it is. Kudos to you and I really hope its going well. You deserve to relax when you get to Florida! Oh I love musicals too! Though I've never seen Pitch Perfect. My favourite is Rent. I always wished we'd get a Castle musical. That would have been incredible! So I'm curious... favourite Castle character? Favourite crime they solved?

Florida is awesome. What are you planning to do while you're there? What are you studying at uni? I love the sound of piano! Sometimes its just nice to play for yourself. I like playing rock and pop music. I like a tonne of really obsure, independent artists so I pretty much play whatever I'm in the mood to play. What are you listening to lately? Favourite artist?

I play PoGo too. Play that with friends. We try to make a day out of it. I love playing Zelda and Tomb Raider too. I write and play music in my spare time. I like being creative. I've read a few of your stories before and really enjoyed them. Good luck with finals! I hope you can do something for yourself after all this has passed. Do you write music? Ever recorded yourself? What kind of things do you like to play? Classical? How long have you played piano?

Then Castle had talked Alexis into trying to shoot a marshmallow into his mouth from across the room. As it hit him in the chest Alexis dissolved into laughter and told him she knew it wouldn’t work.“You would think it would be hard to miss a target that’s always open,” Kate joked with Martha who laughed, nodding her agreement as she watched her son and granddaughter. Castle opened fire on Alexis when she turned to join in with the teasing and so began the battle.

2. But the marshmallow launchers she’d bought for both Castle and Alexis on a whim would be the most memorable part of Christmas that year. They’d both laughed when they’d opened the gift and looked at each other with glee. With the sweet tooth Big Castle and Little Castle had, she’d thought they’d get a kick out of them. It started out innocently enough. Plans to make cocoa, joking that whoever could land their marshmallows in from the living room got the bigger mug