Several days later Nikki sits back on the chair in the now abandoned dungeon like room listening to Kilowatt's proposal. "So you want me to help your friends?"
"You want to take down the boss right?"
"Take down the boss then you take down the business-my intention is to take over. He's only a front anyway. Little sis is really the one with the power around here. Her big brother is just too dumb to realize it." She looks up at him as he leans against the wall. "I want to know the answer to something that has been bothering me."
"What's that?"
Nikki removes her bracelets. "What happened. I've been told you were with me when I was found."
Somehow telling her she is a split personality and that the body's original one was trying to kill her by committing suicide seems like a very bad idea. And what she wants to know may depend on whether or not she goes for his idea. "Contrary to what you may have been told it wasn't the so called costumed freaks that had you all this time." In away that much is true Nikki was trapped in Raven's mind the whole time. "I don't know what happened to you before we found you." That's true too in a way. Raven never talked about what happened to her here or Nikki for that matter if she knew.
Nikki looks up at him for sometime before looking down at her wrists. "Starlit darkness was everywhere. I couldn't escape it."
"Maybe you tried the only way you could." He looks down at her suddenly wondering if that really was an underlying factor in Raven's suicide attempt. Was it really Nikki that wanted an escape-even if the only escape was death?
She looks up at Kilowatt seemingly confused all of the sudden. "You were taking care of me."
He kneels beside her as suddenly she doesn't sound like Raven or Nikki but some combination of the two. "Yes. I will always take care of you. I promised."
"Pizza."
"Pizza?"
Nikki shakes her head as whatever that was passes. "Its all so fuzzy."
"You were very weak."
"But you got-no you made pizza didn't you?"
"Yeah." He doesn't know what to make of Nikki seemingly tapping into Raven's memories and hopes it isn't a mistake as he continues. "Its what you said you wanted."
She looks around coming back to the original topic that brought them down here. "So you and your friends are planning to take down the one that is too dumb to know he isn't the boss."
Kilowatt changes tactics turning to Nikki's most sensitive issue in order to convince her to help. "What does the one who is too dumb to realize he isn't the boss think of the baby?"
Nikki immediately looks down at her stomach and places her hand over it. "He's been an ass about it." She looks up at Kilowatt her eyes showing the cracks in her tough exterior. "There are so many things I can't remember before waking up with a desire to please the boss and screw him out of everything I could get away with until I was the one running this place. Where did I come from? How did I get here? When did I learn that Darling Nikki routine I did the very next day after that first night with the boss? How did I know the people around here and not remember anything that happened before at the very same time? Why can't I remember anything from my past beyond this place? Little things pop into my head sometimes. I know the lounge upstairs should really be called OPS for some reason." She looks back down at her stomach. "The baby is the one thing that I know for sure is all mine and I won't let anyone take it from me." She quickly wipes away the tears that threaten to fall from her eyes.
An act maybe something she is good at putting on-but Kilowatt knows that was no act. That was real expression of emotion and for the first time he feels something other than loathing of her. She is just a girl-a scared girl hiding behind a tough shell with no past suddenly created to deal with everything that Raven couldn't and she is suffering deep down because of it. She hasn't gone to all this trouble with him just to piss off the boss. The dreams she mentioned having of him before...Nikki must not fully understand them or why she had them but in some way she is clinging to him because he is a touch of the familiar from a past that wasn't hers but must have been very much on Raven's mind before Nikki was created. It pains him greatly to keep this going now. "Do you really think he will let you keep it?"
Her eyes narrow and she gets a cold gleam in her eyes. "He wouldn't dare."
"Maybe not now-but what about when you are in no condition to fight him? He's probably already working on some adoption scheme behind your back."
"Little sis would kill him if he tried."
"Would she? Some of the girls that have been here the longest say a girl got pregnant once. Little sis personally whisked the baby away the moment it was born according to them and she had been her favorite working girl up to that point. I've got friends that would help take them both down from the outside before that can happen. I just need to contact them."
Nikki looks down at her stomach for awhile before speaking. "No."
"No?"
"Not like you're planning to do it. It can't happen too quick or they will suspect you and you will find yourself six foot under before you even know you're dead. It needs to be started when it looks like we are both so busy we don't have time for anything else than sleep. I know how to get access certain information but we do this nice and slow. Little sis is sharp-we have to be careful so she doesn't suspect a thing."
"Alright I can convince them to do things your way-as long as I can get in touch with them."
"First off I want a promise from them that I go free on a plea deal when the others go down."
"I can promise that."
"Secondly I want you with me...and the baby when this is over."
Kilowatt watches her stunned for several moments by that request. "We barely even know each other."
"I'm very good at reading people and you are just my type. Do we have a deal?"
He tries to play it cool but is still reeling inside at Nikki's request as he reads the deeper meaning in that statement. She is afraid of being alone. "Anyone refusing a request like that from you must be insane."
"I can wrap anyone around my little finger and get anything I want. I don't have you yet-not entirely. Like me you have some hidden agenda in agreeing to everything you have so far-despite your seeming eagerness to play along. You are a challenge and I'm not giving you up until you are completely mine." Nikki smirks at his reaction to her calling him out as she punches a special code into her phone and hands it over. "Make it quick."
Kilowatt looks at the seemingly random numbers questioningly.
"Anyone looking at my phone records won't see a thing."
"You are very sneaky. I like that."
Nikki smirks at his teasing. "If I weren't pregnant..."
Kilowatt dials the hotel number that Terra gave him and waits for someone to pick up and hopes that it isn't Nightwing who would ask too many questions. Just when he thinks that no one is going to answer the phone is picked up. "Terra? Listen-I don't have time to explain. You need information-I can get it. As long as you promise the mistress goes free on a plea deal."
-10-
Terra rubs her fingers against her temples. "Nikki...be very careful around her. Like we would really let Raven get in trouble for Nikki's actions. What can you tell me so far?"
-10-
"So the mistress gets her plea deal." He looks at Nikki as she twirls her finger telling him to hurry it along. "Most of the cops that you thought were good aren't. I've seen them here meeting with the boss."
Nikki rolls her eyes. "There are no clean cops. Everyone should know by now they all take Elrich's kickbacks."
"Did you get that? Tell me what you need to know. And I'll work on getting the information." Kilowatt listens. "Okay. I'll see what I can do. I'll get back in touch when the mistress okays it." Kilowatt ends the call and hands Nikki back her phone. "Maybe we should get back upstairs before we're both missed."
"Oh no-not yet. For now you are all mine. There is just one little thing that we can't do to keep the boss off our backs."
"At least until the baby comes?"
"Exactly."
-10-
Terra looks up as Nightwing comes into the room after she hangs up the phone. "Now I know why Raven and Kilowatt haven't been in the apartment."
"Why do I get the impression its not good."
"Nikki is back. Kilowatt didn't say so but I take it from his tone they are both at the club. For some reason he also didn't mention Nikki is willing to give us what ever information we want. On her terms and schedule. I just hope that Kilowatt is careful around her. Nikki will only help someone when it suits her needs."
"Kilowatt is looking out for Raven. He will be careful."
-10-
"So what is it you have in mind now?"
"What I wanted to do while you were chained up down here. Its just the two of us down here now-no guards to hear anything. No cameras rolling."
"Aside from being sneaky you are also very naughty...and kinky."
"Blame it on the song I was named after." Nikki gets up backing him toward the chains on the wall as she strips him of his tight shirt. "Come on we don't have much time."
This isn't the first time that Kilowatt has silently begged Raven's forgiveness as he looks at Nikki-but now that he has started down this path of getting Nikki to help take down the bad guys he has to make sure he keeps her happy so she cooperates.
Nikki is glad for her very high spiked heels. She doesn't have to stretch so far to fasten the chains around his wrists. She twines her hands in Kilowatt's hair and kisses him deeply. She wraps her arms around his neck-then her legs around his waist. Dipping her tongue into his mouth.
This is the part that kills him inside about this whole thing. It's Raven's body that Nikki is sharing. He may have Nikki's permission to do things but not Raven's. Nikki may be fun to play with but its Raven that he loves and he would never do anything to hurt her.
She pulls back as he suddenly tenses up. "Don't turn all shy on me now. Feel free to play along. I promise to be very gentle."
He again silently begs Raven's forgiveness as he forces himself to loosen up and play along with Nikki as she twines both hands in his hair. Kilowatt pulls his head back as she lets him up for air. "Should you be getting this worked up? Given your condition that is."
"The doctor says its fine for now-not that he will repeat it to anyone else if he knows what's good for him. Now be a good boy and keep quiet or I'll gag you." She laughs as she feels him growing hard beneath her. "Does the thought of that turn you on?"
Kilowatt tries to restrain himself from replying. His new-Mistress is quite the tempting little vixen and he is sure she would just love for him to say something after she said to be quiet. Right now he finds it very hard to believe that Nikki and Raven share the same body.
"Its no fun when you don't fall for my little traps...but I like a challenge." She kisses him again. "One of these days I promise you-I will get you to fall for something when you least expect it. But for now-I can't very well let you go off aroused." Nikki untangles herself from Kilowatt and kneels before him.
He squirms as she unzips his pants and releases his bulging erection. Relishing the thought of her finally going through with something she hinted at doing for days and dreading it at the same time.
"You're so much bigger than the boss. Its going to be a long agonizing wait until the baby comes to have you inside me."
Kilowatt arches an eyebrow as he looks down at her. Given what the boss says about her-he never really expected her to go through with the things she says.
"To hell with what the boss says. He may think he owns me but he doesn't. Just before all this comes to an end I think we should tie him down and make him watch us go at it hot-heavy-and very long." Before that thought has a chance to register in Kilowatt's mind Nikki lightly dances her tongue around the tip of his penis. "You taste so good."
Likes a challenge does she? Then he intends to give her one. As much as he feels the need to do so-Kilowatt keeps quiet and doesn't so much as moan as she proceeds to lick him up and down and all around so agonizingly slow before taking him into her mouth.
Nikki glances up at Kilowatt. His breathing quickens but other than that he isn't making a sound. She takes his balls in her hands massaging gently but forcefully to get him moaning.
Its such a strain to hold it in as Nikki bobs her head up and down. The frustration of having his hands chained so he can't touch her or run his fingers through her hair fuels his resolve to keep silent.
She pulls back from him. For a moment marveling over his stubborn resolve to keep silent. She aches so bad to have him inside her. Nikki nibbles lightly on the tip of him as she takes him back into her mouth-sure the sensation will send him over the edge and make him cry out-but there is no reaction other than his breathing which picks up. She continues to nibble at him as she works his balls in one hand and slides the other hand up and down his shaft tugging and squeezing. Nikki could keep this up-drawing it out for a very long torturous time. She is so very tempted to and make him give in but they both have some place to be very soon. She pulls back for only a moment. "Cum for me Charlie..."
The sound of his real name whispered from her lips is enough on its own to send him over the edge as she takes him back into her mouth but the mistress' commands are not to be ignored. Its a struggle to do so-but he remains silent aside from his heavy breathing as he finally cums.
Nikki swallows every last bit as he cums into her mouth-liking him completely clean before she stands up. "Now that's what I call being a very good boy. I intend to whip you into a very naughty good boy by the time the baby is born." Still nothing from him. Its starting to get infuriating at this point that he doesn't talk. She stands up and frees him from the chains. "Off to practice with you now. If you hurry you can catch my new 'Computer Blue' routine on stage." Nikki stares at him but still nothing. "Okay I give you can talk now."
He smirks at her as he fastens his pants and dawns his shirt. "Yes mistress. No more 'Darling Nikki' up onstage?"
"Guys who have seen it many times still eat up like it was the first time-but its getting old now. I need something new and just getting up onstage and dancing to whatever music is playing isn't my thing. If I only want to star in routines I'm a very popular diva that can get away with it."
Kilowatt can't help teasing her. "Maybe I shouldn't watch all the guys eating it up. I might get very jealous."
"Oh...I'm liking you more and more all the time Charlie." He isn't just her boy toy she realizes. Part of the appeal is that he-unlike everyone else around here-is an equal for her. Nikki lets him draw her forcefully into his arms and kiss her deeply.
He whispers low in her ear as he pulls back. "Forget the boss-I want you to be all mine."
"I'm only yours Charlie...I promise." She gazes up at him for several moments before she snaps out of it. "Now go on before you are late and they start wondering where you are."
"Yes mistress."
As he leaves Nikki turns to her phone which she uses to hack into the tracking software that locates all the charms and tampers with the data from hers and Kilowatts. Elrich won't know what hit him when they are done with him she vows as she heads upstairs to get ready for her new routine.
*10*
After arriving right on time for his practice Kilowatt has found himself distracted all the way through it. Could it be possible that on some level he is falling for Nikki as well as Raven? And for the first time he sees Raven as something other than the victim in this whole thing. Nikki is suffering just as much as she is and Nikki wouldn't exist without Raven.
"Wondering what Nikki has in store for later?"
Kilowatt looks over at little sis questioningly.
"Don't give me that look. I can tell you both feel something for each other. And honestly I don't mind. I would much rather see her with you than that dumb brother of mine. Just be careful that he doesn't catch onto it. Go on and get out of here. You'll never get anything done until you see what it is she's up to."
"Should she really be up to anything?"
"She's fine for now according to the doc-but I don't like the stripping or the den of pain going on while she is pregnant. Sometimes my brother just can't be reasoned with-especially when it comes to Nikki."
-10-
Nikki looks up as Ebony takes a seat by her at the make-up table.
"Is it really true about those other five guys?"
"Is what true about them?"
"Those charms they have. Their rehearsals have been together and are even more secret than Charlie's. Everyone is talking about what music they think they've heard playing."
"I'm not telling."
"Oh come on! Not even Sonja is talking."
"They are going to be just as big of a hit as Charlie when they open for him and that's all I'm saying about it." Nikki looks up as she is given a five minutes signal. "Its show time."
*10*
Nikki sits onstage behind the closed curtain. She really intends to piss off Elrich who is sitting at the bar and is expecting something hot and steamy that he can have wet dreams about. She plans something different-not just dancing around a pole stripping. She turns winking at Kilowatt even blowing him a kiss as he steps backstage to watch the show.
Elrich turns looking up at the stage as the announcer introduces Nikki's brand new routine to Prince's Computer Blue. He waits in eager anticipation as the curtain is drawn but rather than revealing Nikki it is just dark scrim.
As the music begins a light comes on backstage revealing Nikki in silhouette on the scrim.
Elrich stares bewildered not quiet sure what to make of this as Nikki is revealed seated wearing a top hat.
She moves slow and seductive at first as she gets up circling the chair as the scrim is lifted and the backstage light goes down and the onstage spotlights come on. Nikki steps out on the stage in her tuxedo top leotard. She delights in Elrich's expression as she catches sight of him. She can clearly tell that he isn't happy and it makes to her happy to know there isn't a damn thing he can do about it.
"Turn that frown upside down."
Elrich looks up as Sonja takes a seat beside him at the bar. "What the hell did you do?"
"Fosse inspired number. Relax the guys are going to love this."
"This is a strip club not a fancy dance theater."
"Nikki wanted something different."
"Nikki-"
"-You better watch what you say if you want to go home a man tonight. And I better not hear a report from her about anything even resembling a threat tomorrow morning. Or tonight-I'm on Nikki's speed and voice dial. I ordered the phone for her-just in case you decide to try anything at home. It doesn't leave her side."
"I hate you." Elrich downs his double whiskey in one gulp.
"The feeling is mutual."
Elrich looks around at everyone in the club. This Fosse inspired number is being eaten up by everyone. Tons of money is being tossed up on stage-even more than her Darling Nikki debut he thinks by the look of it. He has the urge to yell at her to take off the clothes to get more money coming in but he quickly stifles it after a glance at his sister.
"I think we should change up dance styles for several of the girls. This seems to be a very big hit."
Elrich rolls his eyes at Sonja. "Nikki is the star. It wouldn't work with the other girls. Any chance you could get her into a costume a little more sexy?"
"There isn't one that goes with the hat."
Kilowatt watches Nikki from backstage nervously. All the provocative turning and angling of her body while she sharply glides and sashays about doesn't seem the safest thing for a young pregnant woman to be doing onstage. Especially not for someone with a body who's other personality tried to commit suicide and lost a great deal of blood only a short time ago. What would Raven think if she knew about the baby he wonders. On some level could she possibly know about it too now that Nikki does?
Nikki looks around-seeing the guys faces as she dances and what she does to them was always the best part for her. Now she doesn't care about the rest of them. She glances at Kilowatt backstage and finds herself touched by the concern for her she sees on his face. If only they could run away-just the two of them right now. After the song ends she takes her bow and heads back as the stage hand steps out to sweep up all her tips. With a quick glance around to make sure they are alone she rushes into Kilowatts arms.
"You're a star out there."
"Soon you will be too."

every story in the series has an M-rated scene and i didn't want this one to just be Raven having a nightmare of what happened to her in the first one. so in this story toward end was it. there were supposed to be two aside from the nightmare in it but i shifted one of them over into the next story. i picked the theme for kilowatt because #1 i'm a sucker for an Australian accent (which he only uses on stage by the way) and #2 i'm a sucker for 80's songs and the Down Under song got stuck in my head when i got to this point and #3 that thunder from down under line occurred to me since his powers are of an electrical nature and its the electrical discharge of lightning that makes the thunder shock wave rumble through the air. the Purple Rain soundtrack stuff is for Nikki only and I wrote her 'strip' scene a little different this time around. i think the Computer Blue theme should have been evident in this story but just in case it wasn't. while there is an overlying computer theme in the story that isn't it. the song if you listen to it is about looking for the righteous one. Nikki was mysteriously drawn to the blue guy on the computer screen and being a good guy-to me-that qualifies Kilowatt as her righteous one. what did you think of delving deeper into Nikki's troubled mind? love her? hate her? feel sorry for her? all of the above? i'd love to know what people think of the part of her that Kilowatt got a glance of earlier in the story. review please and let me know your thoughts.