Ellie had successfully talked her sister into taking the boys but couldn't tell her why she had to go off to New York with Alec Hardy.
"Lucky you then, he avoids me like I was the plague or something, did you tell him I fancied him?"
"I think you put him off Luce, when you showed off in the witness box at Joe's trial."
"You just want him for yourself Ell."
"Don't be ridiculous, we are way over that now and if he tries anything, I'll open the plane door and toss him out over the Atlantic Ocean."
"Yeah, you'll soon change your tune, in New York with him. Why are you even going? What's so secret about it?"
"It's all hushed up, I swear I can't tell you but we'll be working with the NYPD."
She was dying to tell her sister she was actually going to be meeting Richard Castle but that would just make things even worse. She said goodbye to Lucy and left some cash to cover expenses then took Tom on one side.
"I don't know how long I'll be away but I'll come back as soon as I can. I know we've only just nicely settled down again but this is important. Promise me you won't tell your aunt?" Tom nodded, tears in his eyes. "Someone very important has gone missing over there, she's lost in a big city and the police there need our help to try to identify the man who took her, who is also English."
"But Mum, why can't the police over there find them?"
"They've tried but they think having us there will help. Don't laugh but the man they think took her looks like DI Hardy and having him there could be an advantage."
Tom managed a smile.
Back in New York, Beckett and Castle were preparing to go meet up with Pete, Jake and Mickey when Pete called to say he'd found a few more interesting facts plus a possible name for the man who may be holding Rose.
"We think his name is Kilgrave and he's gone to great lengths to keep himself hidden. There are no photos of him but the description fits and all the reports say people did things then didn't remember doing them. There are also several reports of women going missing then on their return, could not account for where they had been and some had been pregnant."
That had particularly concerned him since Rose missed the Doctor and had never got over him. He just hoped she was sensible and took precautions because if her mother ever found out, Jackie Tyler would hunt the man down herself, she wouldn't need the assistance of the NYPD.
"So Pete, the two detectives from Great Britain will be here tomorrow, all the arrangements have been made then we'll meet up the day after. I know this is taking some time but we'll get her back," Castle told him.
"The captain is up-scaling the search for this man and now we may have a name, it all helps close in on him. Let me have the names of those involved with those incidents, especially the women, they may be able to remember something."
"Kate, if these woman have got pregnant by Kilgrave, I'm really worried for Rose, especially in her current frame of mind, goodness knows what he'll do to her."
"I don't think he'll hurt her Pete, he needs her for something, that's why he chose her," Castle told him.
"Yeah, he wants Torchwood."
"How do you know that?" Castle asked his friend, patting him on the shoulder as he got up.
"Why else have there been no ransom demands? He must have Rose's phone or she would have called so he could have contacted me. No, he's gathering as much information as he can then he'll make his move and hopefully, we'll have him."
"Are you planning on handing Torchwood over to him then?" Kate asked.
"I won't need to, Rose is a trained agent, in the case of being compromised for information, she'll log into a fake website, he'll get nothing useful, some of Jake's best work, eh Jake?"
Jake smirked proudly. "Yeah, it will look real to anyone who has the ego enough to think they've got into our deepest, darkest secrets but it's all fake, he'll be none the wiser. When he's got what he wants, he'll use Rose's phone to contact Pete and make his demands. Hopefully, Rose will still have some resistance to him, if she uses her training correctly, we know that but she's also got a weak spot and he may or may not know about the Doctor, that it's the reason she's complying with him so far. If he didn't look like him, Rose wouldn't still be being held captive, she would have marched him into the nearest precinct and demanded he was locked up."
Pete smiled at the thought but Rose was weakened, she was being held by the Doctor's double and it wouldn't take her much to cave in to him, since she'd been desperate to find a way back home and have her love for the Timelord returned. They had been so close a few years back, getting signs something was going on but by the time agents had got there, it was all over and there was no sign of the Doctor or his ship.
"So that's your plan then? To trap this Kilgrave? What about Rose, won't he retaliate?" Kate wanted to know.
"I don't think he'd hurt her, she should be able to convince him she's mostly under his control although he'll have figured out by now she's not completely under it but I think he'll see that as a challenge and respect that. Jake, explain to them what happens if someone is sent to the fake website."
Jake was only too happy to explain how he would be able to track anyone who had been sent there, since it had never actually been used before, something Torchwood was proud of but a full team would be put into action upon receiving an alert it had been accessed and Rose at present was the only one who was likely to put in the unique password to fool the person who thought they had found the secret to taking over the organisation. It would be easy, within a block radius to locate the computer's IP address, depending how many other users of the same internet provider were in the same building.
"Won't he get suspicious if more uniforms are patrolling the area, showing a photo-fit of him?" Mickey wanted to know.
"Unless he gets stopped himself, he won't know we're looking for him, we're not releasing details of Rose's abduction yet, let him think we're after him for the traffic fatality if he gets curious and asks someone. He'll be more careful if he sees Rose's picture on posters and in the media. He won't think no-one's looking for her, he'll think he's got away with it, since she can't communicate with anyone, he'll have her under threat if she goes out anywhere."
"I hope you're right Kate."
"We think it's the best way and Rose isn't that well known over here," Castle assured Mickey. "We know you're all worried about her but angering Kilgrave won't do her any good and if she's on the news and in the papers, it will do more harm than good, he may bring his plan forward and Rose may not have the chance to get him into the fake site."
"She knows what to do Rick, she won't let him in the real site, she'll be convincing enough," Pete told him.
"I don't know Pete, she's under a lot of pressure," Mickey replied, finding his trainers interesting all of a sudden and wishing Pete had never decided to leave him behind when they had come here, she would never have been on her own.
"Well, we'll be off then," Kate told him, "We'll talk again when the other two detectives get here though now we know who may have Rose, Hardy and Miller might have heard of him."
"It depends how long he's been here," Pete added.
"That's down to them, if they know his name, it may ring some bells and they can call their chief to run another check."
"We're already doing that back at Torchwood Kate," Pete told her. "We could still use their help, especially Hardy's, if people see him around, they may come forward and report something."
"Good idea Pete. Come on Kate, let's leave them to it, we'll see you on Wednesday."
Rose had got her flowers after Kilgrave kept the man he'd sent for them waiting over twenty minutes and then he'd let him in and told him to put them in water and leave them on the table on the balcony and open the wine.
"Kevin," Rose called from the bedroom. "Are you coming back, sexy?"
"We still have work to do Rose, get dressed."
"Yes Kevin, I'll get dressed then, I'll put my new underwear on shall I?"
"If you must, hurry up and get out here or I'll get lonely."
"Oh, I can't let you get lonely, can I?"
"Well hurry up and get your cute ass out here love or I may have to get our friend out here to start pulling the thorns out of your roses."
Rose believed he would as well so she hurriedly threw on a dress, tying her hair back with a band and sat beside him.
"You'd know I had a cute ass Kevin, you groped it enough just now."
"You can get your payback later kitten, if you want?"
Rose smiled at him. What a pity he was so intent on keeping her prisoner and wanted to take over Torchwood, well that and intentionally getting people ready to do themselves harm. Since the other morning when she knew she'd given herself to him the night before, she worried she wasn't going to get away with it and was annoyed with herself for not making time to get herself protected, trip or no trip.
"Yes Kevin, I'd like payback, when you get out of bed, I love staring at you."
"Yes, I just bet you do love, now help me with this eh?"
He made her explain a few things then decided to stop for dinner although they'd already had two glasses of wine, he poured more out as they sat at the dinner table. He was hoping he would get Rose in a playful mood because in the next few days, it would be leading up to his big moment – that of confronting her stepfather and having the pleasure of telling the man he had his stepdaughter and all of Torchwood's secrets and give him the ultimatum. He would trade Rose for taking Torchwood over or he would tell the world exactly their true nature which they went to great lengths to keep from the public. After he sent the staff away, Kilgrave laid her on the sofa, unzipping the dress she'd been to change into, under his watchful eye and began nipping at her delicate skin.
"Mm, Kevin, can I come and lay on you?"
"Of course my love, when I've given you my full attention, I wouldn't want you to think I was neglecting you."
"You wouldn't do that, you're always so attentive, that's what I love about you. I love you Kevin."
She pulled him towards her for another kiss, touching his chest then running her finger to the fastener of his trousers. He gripped her hand and unclasped it for her, pulling down the zipper then placing her hand there.
"Show me what you want Rose."
She had no problem showing him as she tugged on his trousers to pull them down, Kilgrave moving to help her and calling her name.
"You're really excelling yourself kitten," he growled as she pulled his trousers down his legs and he crawled on top of her. "I might just have to take you right here my love, it seems you can't wait. Can you Rose? Can you wait?"
"No Kevin, you know I can't wait for you, I want you right now."
Rose was now beneath him as he fumbled to take her dress off for her, pulling it down over her hips then gave up and she wriggled the rest of way and before long, they were totally lost in each other despite Rose having made a resolution she was going to limit their activities as he'd got her in the bedroom earlier.
When Kilgrave had finished, he got up, retrieved his shorts and scooped Rose off the sofa.
"Playtime's over Rose, tomorrow, I want something in return."
"Yes Kevin, whatever you want, just say."
"Oh I will kitten, you can depend on that, tomorrow, you show me more of what you want."
Rose was relieved he'd not made any more of her going for his zipper, it had got him going and he'd been in too much of a hurry to have her start things off but she didn't know how much longer she could delay it. It was plain he wanted to be a lot more intimate and if things weren't already bad enough, he wanted her to start it off. As he carried her to the bedroom, she clung onto him and rested her head on his shoulder.
"I will Kevin, I'll show you but I'm a bit shy in that department."
"Well, now's the time to come out of your shell, there's no need to be shy with me love."
"I'll try not to be, I'll try not to let you down Kevin."
"I'm sure you won't, if you put your mind to it. Go do what you need to in the bathroom, I'll go turn out the lights and in the morning, we'll get up early and take a shower together. Would you like that?"
"Yes, I'd really like that, the last time was really good."
"Yes, wasn't it? Next time it will be better, since you appear to like having sex with your legs wrapped around my ass."
"It was really thrilling Kevin, it's the first time I've ever done that and I want to do it again, with you."
"In the morning love, I'm tired so maybe you can relax me when we get into bed?"
"Yeah, I'd like that."
She went into the bathroom and splashed some water on her face after putting on her robe. He was getting that he wasn't satisfied with having sex just at night, they'd come really close earlier, Kilgrave teasing her until she'd begged him not to leave her like that but he had done, after she'd tumbled over the edge of a deep pit and he'd come away from her and grinned at leaving her in such a state but she didn't know if he'd been doing it on purpose and he'd shown no signs until now he wanted her to do the same to him.
Kilgrave went back into the bedroom after hanging up his suit trousers and hiding his keys where Rose would never find them, there was no way she as getting out, not when in another few days, he would have learned all he needed to know and get Rose to unlock the secrets Torchwood held. His next job was to gain access to the side of the website meant for officials such as police chiefs, Rose would have the password for that and would be more than willing to get him in when they had sex in the shower in the morning, if she thought standing up last time was good, she'd seen nothing yet, she'd never forget it. Forget things getting steamy in the shower, he thought as he waited in bed for her.
Ellie and Alec were both awake at five thirty the next morning, all dressed and packed and waiting for a car to pick them up, Alec pacing up and down and waiting for the call to walk across the footbridge to the pub car park to save the driver driving all the way down the field. It hadn't been long since he'd left once before, only to come back after failing to reconnect with his teenage daughter but he didn't want to dwell on it, she'd seemed impressed he'd finally got himself fixed and back at work again, until he'd called her last night and he'd heard the disappointment in her voice that he was going on a rescue mission. She should have been impressed he was still around to do such a stupid thing.
Who was he kidding? He'd been bored out of his mind for over a year and this was the most exciting thing that had happened since the Sandbrook court cases. His phone rang twice then stopped, the driver seemingly thinking there was no need to actually call him. They picked up Ellie, Alec having elected to sit in the front, to avoid having to talk to her for the next few hours, Ellie assumed as the driver put her things in the back and she got in, managing a 'Morning Sir' and Alec grunting one back as he was hoping she wasn't going to spend the entire trip calling him 'Sir'.
Beckett and Castle were preparing for a long day as Alec and Ellie made their way across the ocean towards New York, Ellie electing to catch up on some sleep while Alec produced a book he'd been meaning to get around to reading since he bought it last year. He wondered if they had got any closer to discovering who the mysterious man in the purple suit was and hoped it would be widely revealed he was not the suspect, he was still worried he could be mistaken for whoever was holding Rose Tyler.
Rose had been woken early by Kilgrave kissing his way across her top half as she had gone to sleep in a vest top and as she turned to kiss him, he pulled at the top, indicating he wanted her to remove it.
"Good morning Rose, I trust you are ready for your morning shower?"
"Yeah, I'm more than ready Kevin. Will you carry me to the bathroom?"
"With pleasure love, just as soon as I come back. Go put your robe on kitten, I won't be long."
He went to get his t-shirt and slipped on his black jeans then went to wait for the staff turning up, then he went back to the bedroom, Rose was sat up in just her robe with her legs crossed and looking to Kilgrave very sexy. He knelt on the edge of the bed and wagged his finger at her as she bent her legs so he could lift her up. He purposely lifted her robe up to get his hands underneath, running his finger down the back of her leg.
"Come on then, you can undress me in the bathroom."
"I'd like that Kevin, kiss me first though."
He picked her up and kissed her as she put her arms around his neck. She was getting to like this far too much and if he intended for them to have sex in the shower, it was going to become more difficult to get away from him, she was becoming addicted to him and he was going to be a hard habit to break. She knew she wasn't his first, he must have been able to take his pick of women, all he'd have to do was command them, then when he'd finished with them, he would toss them out with the trash.
As he carried her to the bathroom after untying her robe, he put her in front of the shower and wagged his finger again, pointing to the zip of his jeans.
"Your turn kitten, you take them off for me."
"Ah, let me take your t-shirt of first?"
"Have it your way then but take your robe off first," he replied, pulling on the belt to bring her nearer.
She dropped the robe to the floor and reached over to pull the white t-shirt up, he helped her as she couldn't quite reach, then he tossed it on top of her robe on the floor, then positioned himself to indicate for her to unzip his jeans and before Rose knew it, he was grabbing her hand as she hesitated at the waistband of his shorts.
"Don't mess around kitten, I'm getting impatient, just take them off."
"I will Kevin, I just want to see you for the first time."
"You've been close to me many times."
"I know but I've only seen your ass so far, I just want to be pleasantly surprised when I pull your shorts down, you always get out of bed without me seeing you turn around."
"Then I'll have to correct that mistake, won't I? From now on, you can watch me put my shorts on, you'd like that?"
"Yeah, I'd like that."
"Then get on with it Rose, before I have to spank that cute ass of yours or would you like that as well?"
"No Kevin, I'm not taking my time to annoy you, I really do want to see how impressive you are."
She had run out of time and she knew it so she took his hand and together, she pulled his shorts down slowly, wishing she could close her eyes but he was watching with a smile on his face as he took his hand away, leaving her to pull them the rest of the way. As they fell to the floor and he stepped out of them, he grabbed her hand again, Rose letting out a gasp.
"So, are you suitably impressed?" he asked as his other hand went behind her and he pulled her close, making her move her hand quickly.
"I want you Kevin, I want you to run the shower and make love to me standing under the water."
"Stand right there kitten, don't move."
"I'm not going anywhere Kevin, turn the water on."
"I am doing kitten, just stay right there, I'm coming to pick you up and then show you the time of your life."
That was what Rose was afraid of, he was making her want more of him and making her want to stay but she had a job to do, to get out of here with no casualties and keep him from doing what he was trying to achieve – control of Torchwood and if it meant letting him do these things to her, she had to comply and hope when she was finally free she could get over him. He was unlike any other man she'd had to deal with on her missions, she'd never fallen under anyone's influence before and especially a man who looked like the Doctor, whom she'd wanted to be with just like she was with Kilgrave.