Castle and Twitch drove around for a while waiting for the next response on Adelaine's APB. "We're getting nowhere fast." Castle declared. "Pull over will you? I have to take a piss."
"What? You can't take a piss during a manhunt."
"Emmanuelle, we haven't seen anything in an hour. I doubt that'd change in the two minutes it takes for me to piss." Castle said "Now unless you want to see me do it in a bottle, pull over."
"Ugh, fine." Twitch said, giving up and stopping at the nearest gas station.
Castle got out to get the key from the register and Twitch tried to think of anywhere else Adelaine could be. She lost her focus when just thinking of that bitch made her blood boil. All she and her friends ever did was terrorize her, so it was only fair that Twitch had gotten delighted when they were caught smoking pot in one of the storage units her father owned all those years ago. It wasn't the close to the karma they deserved, but it was a start. Just as she was thinking about that memory, something in her head clicked and she laid on the horn, trying to get Castle to hurry up.
He walked out with an annoyed look at Twitch. "What the hell? You nearly made me close the zipper on my-"
"I know where she is."
Castle looked puzzled. "You sure?"
"Trust me." Twitch said, putting the car in reverse and backing out of the gas station. "There's only one place she retreats after pulling some shit like this."
They rolled up outside the storage facility and sure enough, Adelaine was there, looking over her shoulder nervously every now and then as she walked up to her storage unit. She unlocked it from the bottom and opened it, entered and closed the door, obscuring Twitch's view. She cocked her pistol and unlocked her door when Castle stopped her.
"Remember Emmanuelle, we need her alive."
Twitch sighed and faced Castle. "I already told you Miles, now that I have the chance to kill her, I'm taking it, so either help me or fuck off."
Castle thought about it for a second before also pulling out his weapon. "Fine, but you have to promise me you will never let grudges cloud your judgement ever again."
Twitch nodded.
"Pinky promise?"
"Miles you're thirty-six."
"I don't care. Pinky promise me or we are not getting out of this car."
Twitch rolled her eyes. She wrapped her pinky around Castle's and he handcuffed her to the steering wheel. She tugged against the chain, the sound of the cuff hitting against her wrist almost mad Castle guilty. Almost.
"What the fuck Miles?!"
"I'm sorry. But you're too close to this. I'll be back."
He closed the door behind her, trying his best not to look back as he walked overr to the Adelaine's storage unit. He knocked on the metal door but she didn't answer.
"Open up this is LA-" Castle cut himself off, realizing the Los Angeles police department doesn't cover France, and technically, Team Rainbow doesn't exist. "This is GIGN, open up."
"I don't believe you." Adelaine called out from inside. "What does GIGN stand for?"
Shit. Now he was starting to regret leaving Twitch in the car. Thankfully before Castle would have guessed an answer that was sure to be wrong, he heard the garage door unlock. He crouched down to lift the door up and when he did, Adelaine came at him with an axe. Castle let go of the door, letting it fall behind her as he backed away, the axe barely missing him.
Adelaine tried to go for another swing when Castle struck her in the face. He charged her and pinned her against the wall. Adelaine brought her knee between his legs and Castle fell to the ground. "You bitch!" Castle yelled at her as she ran away. Adelaine ran through the storage facility going for the exit as Castle tried to stand up.
She cut through the parking lot, running by the side of a car when the door swung open violently, knocking her to the ground. She clutched her bleeding nose as she tried to get back on her feet when she got a right hook from Castle sending her back to the ground. He cuffed her and threw her in the backseat.
/
"Get over it already."
Mira sat in the backseat still flashing the grin that hasn't left her yet. "Just when I thought you couldn't get Zofia to hate you even more."
"Shut up Elena." Ela said "You're just jealous he's with someone who isn't dependent on batteries."
"That's low Ela. But I don't care, Julien finally grew a pair and made the rumors true."
"It's just too bad Zofia will rip that pair off when we get back." Rook said.
They all got a chuckle from that just as Ash and Thermite walked out of the ball room with the CEO by their side looking both sacred and pissed at the same time. "This is bullshit. I'll have my security team get you killed."
"Don't lie to yourself." Ash said "If you had a security team we wouldn't have been able to grab you."
Zofia walked up to them and gave him a phone with presumably Six on the other end. The CEO took it, listened for a while before finally agreeing to go with them voluntarily. As Zofia walked past their car and she glared at Rook.
Ela put her hand on Rook's shoulder. "Hey, don't mind her."
Rook nodded and started the car so they can follow the convoy. The three cars peeled out of the parking lot, on the way to the GIGN base, where the CEO can be put in proper witness protection. Rook kept his eyes peeled, knowing that if Zofia had anything planned, now was the time to do it. He took comfort in the fact that she wouldn't bomb an escort that she was a part of, but that didn't rule out any other possibilities.
They drove silently through France, which only made Rook even more nervous, the closer they got to their destination, the more paranoid he became. It wasn't until they finally rolled up to the GIGN garage that he finally allowed himself to breath. They may just get out of this safely.
/
No one said anything as Twitch and Castle drove back to headquarters with Adelaine cuffed in the backseat. Castle looked out the window, trying his best not to even breath in Twitch's direction, as if that would change the fact that there was a big ass elephant in the room, or rather, car.
"I'm sorry for cuffing you the steering wheel, alright Emmanuelle?"
Before Twitch could answer, Adelaine popped up from the backseat. "Wait, Emmanuelle as in Emmanuelle Pichon?" she asked "I knew I recognized those dumbass eyes. Is that you under that mask you little whore?"
Castle saw Twitch's hand tighten around the wheel so hard that her knuckles turned white. "That's enough." He warned Adelaine.
"We should have killed her Campbell."
"Shit, did you just say Campbell?" Adelaine asked, clearly amused by Castle's name "You're not Lieutenant Campbell's kid right? You know, the one killed when the white masks bombed an LAPD precinct. The way they did it was pretty smart too. Strapping explosives on drones they drove into the vents, it's what made me want to become a white mask in the first place."
"Shut up."
"What's wrong Pichon, afraid I'll tell him where they got the drones?"
"I said shut the fuck up!"
"They bought a bunch of secondhand drones from the black market. Secondhand shock drones. I heard a certain someone in Team Rainbow specializes in that."
Castle turned to face Twitch. "Is she telling the truth?"
"She's lying Miles. Don't listen to her."
"Oh I'm lying? Who else can make that many shock drones? It was you Pichon. You killed Campbell's father."
"Tell me the truth Emmanuelle." Castle demanded.
"You're choosing to believe her over me?"
"I am if you keep on dodging the question."
As they fought, Adelaine took the chance and reached over the driver's seat, choking Twitch with her handcuffs. Twitch lost control of the wheel and jerked it to the right, rolling the car over. She kicked the back door open while Twitch and Castle were still tangled in their seatbelts.
She crawled out just as she heard them unbuckle their seatbelts. She got to her feet and took off. Castle and Twitch both got out through their windows and went after her.
"Fuck this." Twitch took her pistol out and aimed for Adelaine despite Castle's objections.
Before she could get a shot off, a broken sparkplug from the engine fell down to a pool off gasoline below it and ignited. The explosion sent Twitch and Castle to the ground, and a shard of shrapnel found itself in the square of Adelaine's back. Despite the ringing in their ears, they walked over to her body, bleeding profusely from the huge gash in her back. She looked at Twitch, her eyes begging her to end her suffering.
Twitch stowed her pistol. "No. We're supposed to bring you back alive."
Twitch walked away, leaving Adelaine bleeding out on the ground behind her. She looked at Castle with remorse but he looked away. He walked over to the wreckage to see what he can salvage without another word. Twitch fished her Sat phone from her pocket and thankfully found out it was still functional. She called back to base andd Zofia answered, asking about Adelaine.
Twitch looked over to the bloody corpse on the street. "Good news and bad news."
"Oh god, what is it?" Zofia asked, sounding more annoyed than worried.
"Bad news is she's lying on the street with shrapnel sticking out of her back." Twitch said "Good news is it wasn't because of me. We have insurance for the cars right?"
Twitch could almost here Zofia roll her eyes. "Just get back here, I'll sort it out later."
By now Castle had finished going through what was left of the wreckage. Twitch called out to him but he ignored her, instead asking for her phone to talk to Zofia.
"It's too late for us to go back to base without a car. We'll find a place to spend the night then go back in the morning." He hung up the phone and gave it back to Twitch, not bothering to tell her what Zofia's response was.
"There is a motel near here. We can spend the night there." Twitch said, being answered with only a grunt. She took the lead and Castle followed and soon they were at the doorstep of a dingy motel just after midnight. The clerk at the front desk had her feet up on the counter, chewing on gum while using a nail file. She refused to acknowledge them until they were directly in front of them. She put her feet down and asked them what they needed.
"Two rooms please." Castle said, which although Twitch thought it was a waste of money, she understood why he wanted to be alone right know.
"Sorry, we only have one room left."
"We'll take it." Twitch said, grabbing the keys before Castle could refuse.
The two of them walked to their room and Twitch unlocked the door. She told Castle she'll go see what food she can get from the vending machine which more of an excuse to leave him alone for a while than anything else. She bought a soda and finished it before going back to their room. She opened the door and saw Castle, a bottle of beer from the mini fridge in one hand, a photo of him and his father in the other. He was on the verge of tears.
"It was my final year in college." Twitch said "I needed to show them a working prototype of the plans I submitted or they won't give me a degree. I needed parts and I didn't have the money for them. After I graduated high school my parents completely cut me out and they told the bank I can't get any money under their name unless they're for basic needs. I had no choice left so I got a loan from some shady people. I wasn't proud of it, but I did it anyway, and I was able to buy enough parts to build more than one drone, so that's what I did. I presented to best drone to the university and sold the rest to the black market so I won't have my legs broken by the loan sharks. If I hadn't done that, your father…" Twitch's voice broke.
"You were a college student who needed money." Castle murmured "You had no way of knowing who those drones would go to. It wasn't your fault."
Twitch looked into his eyes. He was being completely sincere with her and she couldn't have respected him more. She nearly killed someone over a grudge while Castle stood in front of the person responsible for his father's death and he forgave her. Her respect for him grew, as well as her admiration.
She walked up to him and gave him a kiss and Castle actually kissed back. It wasn't until he felt Twitch fumble with his belt that he pushed her off. "Emmanuelle I don't want you to do this because you feel like you owe me something." Twitch just smiled, she didn't deserve him.
"Oh Miles, you don't know how long I've wanted this."
That was good enough for him. They continued to make out, stumbling around the room as they took off each other's clothes. Soon, they were both naked and Twitch pushed Castle onto the bed. She kneeled in front of him and took his length into her hand and began to stroke him, slowly at first before speeding up. She went on like this for a while, squeezing him every now and then to remind him that he was at her mercy.
She stroked him even faster, enjoying the look on his face as he was about release all the pressure she has been building up. She put his length in her mouth at the last second as Castle grunted and came in her mouth, all of which she swallowed in one gulp.
She crawled on top of him and whispered in his ear. "My turn."
She straddled Castle's head and he began to lick her. Twitch bit her lip as he ate her out, trying to silence herself as Castle's toungue found the inside of her wet slit. Her walls began to tighten as he played with her clit and her hips bucked, trying to get his toungue deeper into her. She cried out as she orgasmed and covered Castle's face with her fluids.
She gave him another kiss and aligned her entrance with the head of his length and dropped into him, both of them gasping at the feeling of Castle inside her. She moved up and down, squirming as she rode him, his size hirting her in all the right ways. She stopped trying to stiffle her moans anymore, to caught up in her own pleasure to care who hears her. Her walls began to tighten around Castle's length and he grabbed her by the waist. He switched their positions in a swift move and continued to thrust into her without missing a beat. He thrusted deeper into her and Twitch couldn't take it anymore, screaming his name as she was sent over the edge.
Seeing Twitch fall apart in front of him was too much for Castle bit Twitch locked her legs around him before he could pull out.
"Emmanuelle I'm close, let go."
"No." Twitch gasped "Cum inside me!"
Castle wanted to argue that it was a bad idea but Twitch kept grinding and it was too late. He grunted again as he finished inside her, the feeling of his hot fluid crashing against her cervix sent Twitch into pure ecstacy. Castle got off and laid down next to her. Twitch shuddered as she inserted a finger into herself then put it in her mouth, sucking on their mixed fluids. She gave Castle another kiss before rolling off to sleep.
Castle couldn't sleep that night. No matter how much he tried to block them out, thoughts of the consequences of what they just did that night kept crawling their way into the back of his mind.