Space Ghost
Chapter 20
It is now 3 months later
It had been an incredibly long and bad day at work and Kate was so very tired. What she really needed was a nice hot bath, some wine, and a good book to read. However her mind was on Rathborne and just who he was and how he was involved.
Kate had set her book of choice on the kitchen counter and was just getting glass down for some wine when there a knock at her door. To be honest she wasn't really thinking and opened the door without looking to see who it was. "Can I help you?" She didn't recognize him but she did see a wickedly large knife. She desperately tried to slam the door in his face and run for her bedroom where she had left her weapon.
However she soon found herself planted face first on the floor that had given her a bloody nose and dazed her just a bit. Groggy, she watched as whoever he was fell next to her and stayed there. Kate scrambled to get away from him when she heard a familiar voice behind her. "You okay?" Still on the floor, she turned her head and saw who it was.
"You!" It was Space Ghost. Yet he was at the door and she and the man with the knife were almost to the hallway leading to her bedroom. He didn't have a weapon in his hand and she hadn't heard one. He did have a bag in one hand, though. He came into the room and knelt down in front of her.
"You're hurt again." Rick gently took hold of her chin and turned her head from side to side to get a good look. "Doesn't look too bad." He opened his bag and fished out something he wasn't sure he was going to need. "Now hold still." He ran the device over her nose.
Whatever it was it was making her nose feel better. "What did you do to him?" Kate tried to turn her head to look at whoever it was that had tackled her. Except he turned her head back to face him.
"Stunned him. He'll wake up in a few minutes. I'll be done by then," Rick said. About 30 seconds later she heard, "There, all done." He lifted his device off. "How does it feel?"
Kate held onto her nose and moved it a little. "Fine." She was more interested in who had shown up at her front door obviously intent on killing her. In fact she got up, searched him, and found his wallet. "Dick Coonan." She didn't recognize the name but it also came with an address so she kept it.
She looked at Rick. "What are you doing here?" She didn't mean it the way it sounded. "Sorry, it's been a bad day."
"Apparently. Anyone you know?" Rick was looking him over.
Kate shook her head. "Never heard of him."
"Well, he must know you." Rick moved a chair next to Coonan's body then like he was as light as a feather, picked him up, and planted him in the chair. "Got anything you can use to tie him to the chair?" Rick asked since he hadn't brought anything and his bracers didn't do anything like that.
Kate left the room and was back a couple of minutes later. She used her cuffs to secure his hands behind his back then used a roll of duct tape to tie him to the chair.
"Good enough, I think." Rick didn't need long. He just needed him to hold still for a minute after he woke up. "Now stand still for me." He took out the other device, slowly ran it from head to toe, then looked at the display. "Looks like you've recovered nicely. I don't see any damage or infections."
"Thanks." She repeated her original question. "Why are you here?"
"You called. It gave me an excuse to scan you to make sure everything was fine. Looks like my timing was perfect." Rick glanced at the man who was duct taped to the chair.
"Yeah, I did." Several times in fact. So it was now or never even if she did want to know who this guy was and why he wanted to kill her. But since he was still unconscious it could wait a minute.
"I…" It shouldn't be this hard. "I wanted to know if you wanted to go out on a date. …With me." There, she had gotten the words out.
"A date. On Earth."
Kate nodded.
"I don't think my girlfriend would be happy with me if I did. In fact I think she'd hurt me if I did. Sorry," Rick declined. Lais had made it clear that she didn't share.
Kate sighed. He had a girlfriend. She wondered if he had arrived with her. "An alien." She had finally gotten it into her head that aliens existed.
"No, she's from Brazil," Rick corrected her," she and her son."
"Son." Wow she had really lost and dating him was now out of the picture.
"Her name is Lais and her son's name is Alexandre. He's 18 years old. She had him early in life. He's a good kid. I think Alexis is beginning to like him." He still wasn't sure what he thought about that. But at least if he hurt her he was really close and he could break something easy enough.
Since he was out of the picture Kate turned her attention to her unexpected visitor. "I need to call this in." She needed help with this man. He hadn't broken in but it wasn't going to take much to prove he was here to kill her.
"Wait." Rick wanted her to stop.
"For what?" Kate didn't understand. He needed to be arrested and then interrogated.
"You need to trust me. We need to wait for him to wake up. Would you do that?" She didn't really know him though it sounded like she'd wanted to find out.
Kate could wait to interrogate him and she had someone that could handle that monster thing so he could handle this guy. "Yeah, what have you got in mind?" Kate wanted to know what he was thinking.
"Close the door and we'll wait." Rick motioned to her still open front door. She went to the door, closed it, and locked it.
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Rick sat in a kitchen chair and watched this guy while Kate was busy pacing her living room, waiting for this would-be killer to wake up.
Finally he started to come around and moaned. That had Kate right in front of him. "Who are you?" But he just sat there and said nothing. "Your ID says Dick Coonan." She was ready to do things she didn't normally do.
"Stand behind me," Rick ordered.
"Why?" She couldn't begin to interrogate him from behind him. All Rick did was nod for her to move. She grumbled but moved to stand behind him.
Then Rick lifted his arm and used his other hand to press something on his red bracer. What she saw after that was this swirling cloud-like mist that encompassed his entire body. It was all black and it just swirled all around him, and then it was gone.
"Now ask him any question you want. He'll answer anything you ask him. It should last for several hours." It had for that rhino creature and since this was a human it should work even better.
Kate had no idea what he had just done but she stepped around him. "Who are you?"
"Dick Coonan," he replied in a monotone, devoid of any emotion at all. Like he was a robot or something. Kate stared at Rick for a moment; he just sat there and smiled at her.
"Why are you here?" Was getting a confession that easy? Only they were in her apartment, not the precinct. And of course there was Space Ghost.
"To kill you."
"Why?" What had she done to deserve being murdered in her own home?
"Orders, you are too close."
"Who ordered you to kill me?" Not just that but how much had this guy been paid to kill her?
"Bracken," he replied in the same monotone.
"Who's Bracken?" It wasn't a name she was familiar with.
"Senator William H. Bracken." Kate stumbled away from him and closer to Rick. A US senator wanted her dead! Why would he want her dead?
The really big question. "Why? Why kill me?"
"To stop you from investigating who killed your mother."
Kate was sure she'd just had a heart attack. Her mother's murder was what drove her. It was all she really cared about. She did her job and it was rewarding, but this was personal.
"My mother. …Who killed my mother?" Kate didn't notice but she had clamped down on Rick's shoulder who felt the discomfort of her claws, though his suit blocked out most of it.
"I did."
Kate stopped breathing and her heart gave a hard thump. She had her mother's killer sitting in her apartment and was duct taped to one of her chairs. She opened her mouth to ask him another question but nothing came out. She had dreamed of this day for years and years and here he was. The man who had killed her mother. "Why?" Her voice sounded cracked and she barely got the word out. She clearing her throat. "Why did you kill her?"
"Orders."
"WHY!? Who ordered you to kill her?" Kate was now seriously angry at this guy. He had taken her mother from her and destroyed her life. And had sent her dad into the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
"Bracken."
Kate felt like she had been kicked in the stomach. "Senator William H. Bracken?"
"Yes," Coonan confirmed.
"You…you." Kate felt so blindsided she wasn't sure just what to do next.
"Now might be a good time to call for some help," Rick said, however she didn't move. He tried again. "Kate, phone, now."
She was torn between taking this killer apart and doing her job. But hearing Rick did get her moving to her bedroom to get her phone.
"Espo, I need you and Ryan at my place now. And bring two units with you. Someone just tried to kill me." Kate was walking back to the living room and Coonan. "No, I've got him tied to a chair. He told me he killed my mother and told me who ordered him to do it. I need you and Ryan to hear all this." Kate made it back to her living room and saw Space Ghost was gone.
She stared at her door that was closed. "What?" Espo had said something but with Space Ghost gone she was distracted and hadn't heard him. "No, just get here as fast as you can." She needed to get him into a room and ask all her questions all over again. This time with witnesses.
Kate hung up on Espo and went to her door. It was closed but not locked. Opening it she didn't see him. He had escaped again. She closed the door and leaned it.
She had her mother's killer sitting right in front of her and she knew who had ordered him to kill his mother. But was it going to be enough to arrest a United States Senator?
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Kate couldn't believe it, she really couldn't. After all this time she was so very close. Coonan was in the box and had answered every question she or they had asked him since Kate wasn't alone in the room. Roy had demanded that he be involved in the questioning.
In the observation room were Ryan, Espo, and a lead prosecutor. They were filming everything for later to be used at a future trial. The prosecutor saw a potential issue. "Is he drugged?"
"He did this in Beckett's apartment as well. She swore then that all she did was cuff him and duct tape him to the chair. She said he just showed up and tried to kill her and he did just admit that he was there to kill her." Espo pointed through the two-way mirror.
"Beckett's a homicide detective, one of the best. First of all, where would she get the drug? And second, holding onto it for years waiting just for this moment? That doesn't make sense." Ryan argued.
"Well he sounds drugged," the prosecutor insisted. "I suggest we get blood samples to rule it out or confirm it. If he's drugged his answers are useless. We don't even know if anything he says is the truth."
"On it." Espo left them to get Lanie up there asap to take a blood sample and have it analyzed. He was back in no time. "Lanie's on her way."
"Why a senator?" the prosecutor questioned. "Senators have enemies. Is this something that wants this one out of the way?" He was still stuck on the drug idea.
"What if the answers are true? That this senator wants Beckett dead?" Espo persisted since Beckett wasn't just a team member, she was a friend.
"We're going to need more than just this man's word. If his answers are true and I'm not just talking about his possibility of being drugged, a senator will have teams of lawyers to get him off any charges that are filed. If we want him we're going to need more than this." He left off if this was even factual but they heard him anyway.
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"Doctor Parish?" Roy was behind his desk with Lanie, Kate, and the prosecutor in front of him.
"I've run every test on his blood that I even know anything about and haven't found a thing. Save for the normal stuff like his cholesterol is a little high. However…" She hadn't taken just his blood.
"However?" The prosecutor didn't like the sound of that.
"I also took some of his clothes and tested those as well. Now while I didn't find any in his system, he does have more than just a trace on his clothes," Lanie said.
"What?" the prosecutor demanded.
"Heroin, and not just heroin, we're talking pure unrefined heroin. The good stuff. He has recently been around heroin to get it on his clothes." Lanie replied.
"Yet he doesn't have any in his system?" The prosecutor didn't see how that was possible.
"It's true that any number of drugs can be absorbed through the skin. But for heroin to make any difference in the system you need more than a trace. He's been close to a processing area or a loading area lately," Lanie maintained.
"Drug distributor. It's a lead, sir." Kate had a lead and she was going to use it.
"Take Ryan and Esposito with you and start with the drug guys. He may be part of a gang that they know something about," Roy ordered.
"Yes, sir!" Kate left the two of them and went to her partners.
"A United States senator is powerful. If he's guilty he isn't going to go easily." Getting him was going to be a challenge for the prosecutor.
"I guess we'll see. You have work to do?" Roy had work to do and didn't need to be babysitting this guy.
"Yes, Captain. Don't release him under any circumstances. He's under arrest and if a lawyer shows up he gets his time with him after being searched and that's all until I say otherwise. He's your responsibility." He left Roy to his work since he had a lot to do as well.
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"How was your birthday party?" Alexandre was all smiles. He was still 18 years old but that was going to change soon and Alexis was 16 years old now.
"It was nice, thank you, and thank you again for the present." She had no idea where he had gotten it or if he had even made it, but it looked nice. It felt different wearing a ring on one of her toes. It didn't hurt really, it was just different.
"I'm happy you liked it. I see you're wearing Mother's gift." Alexandre saw it on her wrist.
"It's pretty, simple, but pretty." It was loose enough that it could spin but not loose enough to fall off unless she took it off.
"Lembranca do Senhor do Bonfim da Bahia. Mother tells me that each color has a specific meaning. Orange like yours is Joy and Enthusiasm. There are only eleven colors so one each birthday and you'll have them all." Alexandre said it all again in case she'd forgotten what he and Lais had told her.
"I know, ten more years. Should be fun." She was going to get to learn something new each year. "It's your choice this time, so what movie are we watching?" Not that they actually watched the entire movie any longer.
"You'll see." Alexandre smiled for several reasons. One of which was that her top had buttons since he had plans this time.
His and his mother's theater was different. Instead of three big chairs side by side, they had four chairs in rows of two. Their screen was basically the same size, though.
Alexandre opened the door for her. "Thank you." Alexis entered and allowed Alexandre to set the controls. Their controls were on the wall as you entered instead of hidden in the arm of a seat.
"Your father suggested this movie. Though I don't know what the year 2001 has anything to do with it." He had said that it was a classic and they might like it if they paid close attention.
"Dad's idea of good movies can be suspect from time to time." What he liked didn't mean they would.
Alexandre smiled at her comment. "Well we can always change it or just ignore it."
Alexis was sure a blush was starting up her face. They barely watched any of the movies the last few times. They spent most of it kissing in the dark and away from their parents.
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The start of the movie had proven to be a bit boring and they were already kissing deeply and searching each others mouth.
Then Alexis felt something different. He was undoing her buttons but she didn't stop him or stop kissing him. Her top was soon off of one shoulder and she felt his hand on her bare chest.
She still didn't have much in the way of breasts. They were mostly just these little nubs with her tiny pink nipples. Even though she knew it was silly she had wished for more than that for her birthday wish just before she blew out her candles.
She wore a slightly padded A cup but hoped some day she would wear a bigger size. But today she had done without a bra entirely.
Suddenly her nipple was being rolled between Alexandre's two fingers. She moaned from the feeling as they continued to kiss. Then Alexis felt his hand leave her breast. Dismayed, she missed it. However that same hand was now on one of her hands and allowed him to move it for her. She soon found her hand somewhere else. There was a bump that she couldn't place so she broke from his kiss to look. He had guided her hand to his crotch. She was feeling him under through his pants.
Alexis looked up at him and saw him leaning in for another kiss that had her kissing him back. Soon his hand was back on her breast. His hand was caressing her breast while her hand was rubbing him as she felt the bump get bigger and bigger.
Alexis made a conscious decision and worked on undoing his pants. With a little work she had soon freed his cock from the confines of his pants and his shorts and had her fingers wrapped around it.
It felt like nothing she had ever touched before in her life. It was warm, soft, and yet hard at the same time. Then she felt Alexandre moan into the kiss. It told her she must be doing something right.
His hand was now roaming all across her chest and her other nipple was getting the same treatment with his fingers. She was also wet between her legs and could feel it.
Then he broke from the kiss abruptly and let out a loud moan. Suddenly Alexis felt her hand getting wet. Looking down, she was just in time to see him spurt out a white liquid. She had learned what that substance was in school but this was her very first time seeing it with her own eyes. He had climaxed because of her and that gave her some satisfaction that she could do that to him.
Alexandre was sitting back breathing heavily and his ejaculation had stopped. It left her hand a mess as well as his shirt and a little on his pants.
She wasn't sure what possessed her but she brought her semen covered hand up to her nose to smell it. It was different like nothing she had ever smelled before. So she stuck out her tongue to taste it.
Now her hand was up to her mouth as she licked her hand clean. "Can you do that again?" Alexis asked him and reached down to take his now soft cock in her hand. If she could cause him to do that once, maybe she could get him to do that again.
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What neither of them knew at the time was that Lais was bouncing up and down on Rick's cock as fast as she could because she was just a moment away from another orgasm. Soon she was resting on Rick before rolling off him. But she reached down to take his softening cock in her hand. She loved touching him and feeling him get hard under her hand.
"You're insatiable, you know." Rick was learning that when it came to sex, almost nothing slowed her down. She was always ready for more.
"You love me for it. Admit it." Lais had said it in jest.
"I do," Rick replied easily.
Hearing that Lais turned to face him with her hand still wrapped around his now soft cock. "Say that again." Had he meant it? God, but she wanted him to mean it.
"I do," Rick teased her. She moved her hand to his balls and gave them a slight squeeze. He amended his statement, "Love you."
Lais moved her offending hand to his face where she cupped it and leaned in so she could kiss him. "Say that again." She so wanted to be loved by him.
Rick smiled since this was a little fun while also very serious. He made it plain for her to understand. "I love you." Immediately Lais's tears began.
"I love you, too. I truly want to love you." Lais got up and sat on him with his cock just where she wanted it. She put her hands on his chest and looked down at his smiling face. She leaned down to kiss him passionately. "Let me make love to you this time." She didn't wait for his answer as she kissed him then kissed down his chest and played with his nipples.
Finally she had his cock in her mouth and worked at getting him hard again so they could make love again.