Jack and Jill III
Chapter 6
Kate woke up curled next to Rick, totally naked. In fact she hadn't even tried to put on her typical sleeping outfit of t-shirt and panties. They were going to have sex and would have to take them off anyway, so why even put them on?
Rick was staring at her. "Hi. …Were you watching me sleep?" It sounded creepy. Instead of answering her question he kissed her. Then kissed her again followed by kissing his way down to her breasts. "Rick, what are you doing?" The answer was obvious. He didn't stop for long at her breasts as much as she wanted him to. She giggled a little when he lingered at her belly button since it tickled. Then when he kept going she sucked in a breath. He was going to do this morning what he had done last night.
He was going to eat her pussy! She moaned loudly at the first touch of his tongue. She even grabbed his head and held it in place so he couldn't stop.
It felt like no time at all before he had her scrambling all over the bed. She couldn't make up her mind if she wanted to get away from his tongue or get more pressure from his tongue.
She grabbed handfuls of the sheets and squeezed her hands tightly closed the closer she got to her orgasm. She lifted her ass off the bed until she screamed like she had last night.
While she was calming down and enjoying the afterglow of her orgasm, Rick crawled his way up her body and kissed her. Just like last night she could taste herself on his lips. Or maybe it was more them since the taste of him was mixed in.
Rick smiled at her. "Morning."
She grinned back at him. She could learn to really love waking up like this every day. Naked and in his arms followed by sex. "Morning." Then she reached out to kiss him. Once again she tasted them. Yeah, she could really get used to this. She wondered why she'd waited so long.
"What?" Rick saw a look on her face.
At first Kate thought of saying it was nothing. She told him the truth instead. "I'm sorry I made you wait so long."
"You're worth the wait. I think I've told you that already and it still applies. Though…since today's a sailing day we could spend all day in our room having sex." Rick wiggled his eyebrows a couple of times and grinned.
Kate laughed. Then she thought about it as if he was serious. Staying in their room and having sex all over the place, maybe even outside on what amounted to their balcony that was kind of out in space had a sudden appeal. There was one small catch that she could think of. "We still need to eat." That much sex, while she was more than willing, was going to require energy.
"Room service?" It cost more and the options were a bit limited.
Kate shook her head. She wanted real food. "Don't we have a reservation in that steak house today?" She forgot just when but was sure it was today.
"Not until 8:00 tonight. We have plenty of time." Naked and sex all day was still on Rick's mind.
"I have to go to the exercise deck. I need to work my legs so I can squeeze the life out of you." Kate smiled and gave him a quick kiss.
"So you do want to kill me," Rick teased.
"You'll enjoy dying between my legs. I promise." Kate giggled since he was just between her legs.
"I don't know." Rick wasn't convinced. She tasted great and he could spend all day between her legs one way or another. But if her legs got that strong it might be his last.
"You'll enjoy it, babe. Come on, time for breakfast. We need energy." Breakfast first then back there for more sex. Now that they were lovers Kate intended on having as much sex as was possible.
Hand in hand they headed for the buffet deck to find out what was for breakfast today.
This time Kate went for a made-to-order omelet while Rick did what he did last time.
"We're definitely hitting the exercise deck if you keep eating like that." She wanted him lean and mean just like her.
"It's free food." He was taking full advantage of what was available while they were there.
"Free fat, you mean." Kate pressed him to cut down on the food. "Please, babe? There's already enough of you to love." She didn't even notice what she had said. Rick had, though.
He quickly looked at her. "You love me?" Did she mean it or was it a slip of the tongue?
Kate concentrated on what she had said. Then her eyes opened wide. She'd said the magic word and hadn't even noticed. It was out now, so did she? "Yes," she answered softly. "I love you. And I don't want you overweight. So please? …I promise not to squeeze you to death. Just enough to make you grunt. Maybe force you to keep you eating me out." There she had said it.
"You don't need to force me to do that. I like giving you pleasure. And for the record, I love you too." Rick reached out to take her hand and hold it.
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Kate was flying high when she went back to the beverage bar to get more orange juice.
"Kate!" Daphne had run into her by accident.
"HI!" Kate was happy to see her.
"You've been up to something. You're glowing." She looked a lot happier than she did last time.
Glowing? Kate blushed. "I am not glowing."
"It's fine. Your glow looks good on you." She really liked this look. "So what are the two of you planning to do today?" It was a sailing day so everyone was onboard the ship.
"Breakfast, exercise deck, and then we'll see." Kate wasn't going to say all day sex, not even to her new best friend.
"Good, I'll meet you there. You could use a coach to get those leg muscles. Then you can work more on that glow." Daphne wasn't letting go of that. Kate was fun.
Kate opened her mouth to insist that she wasn't glowing. But based on how much sex they had already had and how much more they were going to have… Yeah, she was glowing.
"Meet you in an hour," Daphne told her and joined her husband to inform him of their plans this morning since it was a change from what they had planned on doing.
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Kate dropped onto the sectional in their cabin. Right where Rick put her. "SHUT UP!" She saw him start to open his mouth. "RICK!" He had started to open it again.
"I'll go talk to the ship's doctor. Maybe he has something for sore muscles," he offered and headed for the door. "Self-imposed muscle cramps." Rick shook his head and slammed the door closed before Kate could say anything.
"I am so going to squeeze the life out of you, Richard Castle." He was going to deserve it after that comment.
Kate was still groaning from the pain in her legs when Rick came back, empty-handed. He had her undivided attention. "He said he didn't have anything. He did suggest a trip to the spa for your overworked muscles. So I set up an appointment for you at 6:30 tonight. Just before they close for the day."
"Thanks, Rick." Maybe she wouldn't kill him when she squeezed him to death.
"You comfortable here? I was thinking of going to the hot tub," Rick teased.
"I'll go." Kate started to get up and moaned loudly. "Can you bring me my swimsuit, please?" She didn't want to try the stairs.
Rick chuckled. "Sure." He went upstairs to find the driest one.
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Rick was smiling as Kate was all but wrapped around him to get from their room to the pool and then up the stairs to get into the hot tub. She hadn't batted an eye about stripping in front of him and putting on her swimsuit for a trip to the hot tub.
"OH, this is going to feel so good." Kate decided she was going to live there. Rick could bring all of her meals to her as she relaxed in the hot tub.
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They had moved from the hot tub to the pool and since swimming and floating was easy it didn't put any strain on her legs.
Right now Kate was standing on their patio looking out into nothing. It was just totally black. They were scheduled to arrive at their next planet in the morning so they still had hours to go.
"Ready for your spa trip?" Rick asked as he came down the stairs.
"Very much so!" This spa trip was going to feel sooo good. She closed the door and followed Rick to their front door.
The spa was at the bow of the ship same as they were. It was just several decks below them.
Rick kissed her and dropped her off. "Have fun. I'm going to go see a movie."
Kate was naked with a towel over her backside as a woman started on her shoulders and worked her way down her back until she finally reached her legs.
She was almost asleep when suddenly everything, including her, suddenly jumped. They and seemingly everything else just raised up maybe half an inch then suddenly came crashing back down.
"What was that?" Kate lifted up a little to look at the woman who looked a little shaken.
"I have no idea." It had never happened before. "Let me see if I can find out." She left Kate to see if she could learn anything.
Kate decided not to wait and got up, dropped her towel, and started getting dressed to leave. She was just putting her shoes on when she came back.
"We suddenly exited FTL; they won't say why. Since you're dressed you're free to go. I hope you enjoyed your treatment." She was ready to get off work and go relax.
"You were great, thank you." Maybe she could talk Rick into making another reservation for her. She felt so much better.
"Not in FTL," Kate muttered to herself as she went to the deck that held the movie theater. She needed to find Rick and decide what they were going to do next.
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Rick and everyone else got lifted up out of their seats then fell back into them. The movie just kept on playing though most everyone was now whispering to their neighbor. They didn't know anything more than they did.
Rick was concerned enough that he got out of his seat. "Excuse me, …sorry." He wasn't on an aisle so he had to make his way past a few people. By the time he reached the entrance he saw that he wasn't the only one leaving.
He was headed to the spa deck and had just reached it when he saw Kate coming out. "Kate!" He waved and walked quickly toward her.
"They said we suddenly came out of FTL. What's going on?" It shouldn't have happened as far as she knew.
"Maybe we can see something now before we start asking questions." Rick took her hand and went to the pool deck. It was an area that had transparent steel for a ceiling and they could see out with relative ease.
Once they got there they found everyone else already looking up. Problem was when they did, they didn't see anything. Just blackness and stars in the distance.
Both of them and others looked up while some shrugged it off and went back to what they were doing. Many more went somewhere else.
"THERE!" Kate raised her hand and pointed. But Rick was too late. "It was a flash of light," she said. Rick still didn't see anything.
Rick didn't want to panic but his imagination had him dreaming up all kinds of horrible things. He couldn't stop himself and he would apologize to her later if he had to. He'd made up his mind. "Let's go." He took her hand and began walking.
"Where are we going?" Kate asked but all he did was keep walking. Then she found herself going downstairs, deck after deck. "The pod is faster." Not that she knew where they were going.
"The power might go out," Rick replied shortly.
What was he talking about? "Why would the power go out?" Then suddenly her question was answered as they were both lifted up and thrown to the floor. Both of them fell down three steps to the next deck. They also landed in the dark until the emergency lights came on.
Then something even worse happened. Part of the stairs behind them collapsed along with some of the ceiling where they were located.
"RICK!" Kate held up her hands to protect her head.
"Evacuation deck! Let's move!" Rick began running down the stairs forcing Kate to run after him.
They had just reached that deck when they suddenly found themselves floating. If she was scared before, now she was down right terrified. Things like this weren't supposed to happen! Then in a heartbeat they fell to the floor and groaned from the pain. This was immediately followed by an alarm that both of them recognized from their mandatory evacuation drill. It was the abandon ship alarm.
Kate didn't know what to do next. Rick took her hand, raced down the hall, and opened up the first door he came to. On the other side was the evacuation deck that was on this side. On this deck was shuttle, after shuttle, after shuttle. All lined up and waiting.
Just as Rick opened the door this time there was an explosion in this bay and on this deck. This was followed by the sound of a woman screaming. However, it stopped instantly and was replaced by all the air being sucked out into space through a large hole somewhere.
A new alarm sounded and the bulkhead doors slammed shut, cutting off the rest of the bay and the rest of the deck. Once they were closed the space went silent; there were only flashing lights.
"Pick a shuttle," Rick said grimly which was followed by another giant beam crashing to the deck and taking two of the three shuttles in this section with it.
There was a cacophony of sound and both of them covered their ears. Then they watched and listened as smaller pieces fell from the ceiling and hit the floor.
"RUN!" There was only one shuttle left; going back out wasn't a good idea. They had no idea where the hole was that had allowed the oxygen to escape.
Kate ran as fast as she could then came to a sudden halt. She screamed and placed her hands over her mouth. Rick was next to her in no time. What they both saw was a woman that had been almost completely crushed by a colossal beam falling on her.
Rick saw someone else. "ROBERT!" and he was down next to him instantly. His legs were under another beam and there was blood beginning to flow out from under it.
"OH, GOD!" Kate saw he was holding the hand of the woman who was crushed. "NO! No, no, no." Her heart was telling her that the woman could only be Daphne.
"Robert." Rick saw him turn his head to look at him. There were tears in his eyes. "We need to get you out!" Rick frantically looked for something to lift the beam.
"Too…late." He was dead and he knew it. He saw Kate standing next to him with her hands over her mouth and a tear running down her face. Then one more, and another, and another. Until they rolled down her face in a steady stream. He used his hand that was holding his wife's and took something off. "Take…" He wasted no time in putting it around Kate's ankle. She was wearing a swimsuit with a cover and actually still had her flip flops. Rick was wearing regular street clothes.
"Jack, emergency override Alpha, Zeta, one one, Beta." Robert took off his watch and reached for Rick's arm. "Take…this." He didn't wait to see if it sealed around his wrist. He knew it would.
"You need…" He coughed up blood. "Run!" He willed them to run with his eyes. His beloved wife was dead; at least been quick. His death was going to be far more painful. "Run!" he managed to whisper before he closed his eyes and let Death take him.
"Let's go." Rick took Kate's hand and hurried to the shuttle. Once inside Rick closed the door and rushed to the front as did Kate who sat down next to him.
"You know what to do?" It looked a little complicated to her.
"I have no idea," Rick replied, but then he saw a button that said LAUNCH. So he pressed it. An instant later the shuttle was racing down a tube and out into space.
"Babe, we should have waited." It was just the two of them and the shuttle was built for far more than that. Rick chose not to answer and tried to look over what was in front of him. "RICK!" There were 6,000 people plus the crew on the ship. They shouldn't have just taken one whole shuttle for themselves. And where was the crew the was supposed to have been there to fly this thing?
"I think we have trouble." Rick pointed to a screen that he took to show them and what was around them. What was behind them was a whole lot of lights and they were getting closer.
"What is all that?" Kate put a finger on all the lights behind them.
"I'm pretty sure that's the ship or what's left of it." Rick was only guessing but it fit the facts. Plus his writer's imagination was going with it like it was a fact and not fiction.
"IT EXPLODED?" They were totally screwed if it had. These things didn't have FTL like their ship did. Kate wasn't even thinking of all the clothes that she wasn't wearing were back there on a ship that didn't exist any longer.
"Find the space suits," Rick suddenly told her.
"Why?" The shuttle was secure and safe enough.
"If our ship did explode then all that debris is catching up to us. Maybe there's a patch kit if we get holed but I don't know where it is or how to use it. I'm not ready to die just yet," Rick explained urgently.
It was enough that Kate got to her feet and hurried to search the shuttle. There were four rows of benches for people to sit on. She didn't see any form of restraint system though she did see a symbol in several locations below each bench.
Opening the first one she found one of what she was looking for. She soon had two of them. And she kept going.
She came back to sit down. "Here's yours." She handed Rick a device. "I also found something that I think will patch holes. We have a lot of suits. I also saw other things if we need them." She was hoping they didn't. "One was food and water while the other–" Rick interrupted her.
"IT'S HERE!" Rick needed her to stop talking, to sit down, and get ready.
Kate was all set to tell him off when she heard things hitting their shuttle. She scrambled into her seat and pressed the button that put up the almost invisible restraint system. It was just like the cars back home.
Then suddenly they started spinning all over the place. "OH, GOD!" Now she was really scared.
"SPACE SUIT, NOW!" Rick slapped his to his chest and hit it again to activate it just as he felt the air start rushing out. It confirmed that they had a hole.
Kate slapped her device between her breasts, hit it again, and felt the device start crawling all over her skin as it sealed her in.