Oh, she could picture that well enough. Castle had plenty of his mother in him, with a flair for the dramatic and a certain theatricality to practically everything. Kate was pretty sure that if he had chosen to follow Martha's lead and go after a career on the stage, he would have been very successful with his looks, his charm, and the innate performance style that he could turn on and off almost at will.
"You were a mischevious thing," she said in reply, not really asking a question because she was fairly sure that she was correct with the statement. What Kare knew of Castle's childhood revolved around a boy that struggled with fitting in and finding his confidence, but it also was usually followed up by her husband finding himself in trouble, or causing a bit of it.
Becoming an adult hadn't changed much in that vein, Rick was forever getting himself into situations that she had to bail him out of and she could just imagine what it would be like if he ever had another child that could be roped in. The likelihood of another Alexis was slim. "God help me if we ever have kids," she said, well aware that was a subject that was still a bit dicey given her reservations about it. "I won't stand a chance."