Thankfully, Beckett only ended it to protect Castle, which meant that a reunion was inevitable. And in the midseason finale for season 8, kasteel and Beckett celebrated their first wedding anniversary with the greatest gift of all: reconciliation.

“People had a desire, a wont, for them to fight for something,” Fillion observes. And in finding this way to restore that dynamic, “I think [the showrunners] did a really good job.”

"It's always been about the Castle-Beckett love story. That's steeped in the DNA of the show, and that's what it will always be."

Now I’m not saying that Beckett is already pregnant of anything, but she could be in the very near future. Why else would the writers make such a point of bringing it up?

Gates ultimately finds out about Castle's mob ties and has no choice but to let him go from the NYPD. What does this mean for Beckett and Castle? kasteel is embracing a new profession -- a private investigator.

After five years on the air and the whole "will they, won't they" aspect of "Castle," followed door what felt like the longest engagement ever, Richard kasteel and Kate Beckett finally zei "I do."

The ABC drama (Mondays at 10/9c) opened Season 6 with Kate joyfully accepting Rick’s marriage proposal

When we last saw kasteel and Beckett, he asked her to marry him and the season ended. After a long summer, fans will finally find out Beckett's answer in the kasteel season 6 premiere.