Charlie IV

Chapter 18

It was a lucky day for Rick. Jim and Johanna were going to open their law office today and they wanted to start early. As a result they were already gone leaving it up to Rick to load Kate into his truck along with Charlie at Kate's insistence. So with Kate and Charlie in the front and her wheelchair in the bed, he drove into downtown Laurel.

Rick parked down the street a little so that he didn't take up a parking space in front of their office. Kate was in her chair and Charlie walked easily next to her. Rick pushed her to the office and then inside once they reached it.

"WOW!" What they both saw wasn't what they'd last seen.

"Like it?" Jo was up front while Jim was way in the back getting the coffeemaker to work. "Emily really came through again. We've got plants in pots up front, L shaped desks, and filing cabinets that fold down and pull out. We even have little two drawer ones at our desks.

"There are abstract pictures hanging on the walls and we even have a conference table. Instead of walls we have these screens. The chairs are maybe a little cheap but the ones at our desks are the good ones.

"We bought the computers, printer, monitors, and everything else. We even have hundreds of pamphlets for everyone that comes in." Jo gave one to each of them to look at.

"So long as it works, Mom."

"We don't exactly expect them to come beating down our doors immediately, but we do have one meeting in a couple of hours for our first potential client," Jo told her.

"Oh?"

Jim showed up with coffee for himself and his wife. "We have a meeting with the mayor to create a meeting with the city council so we can put forward our office and us as the city's lawyers. It won't get us any immediate cases but if something happens we'll have an automatic client," Jim explained since he'd been close enough to hear everything.

"So where's Charlie? You didn't bring him with you?" Jim asked since he expected to find him right next to these two.

"He was right here." Kate looked around. "Down there." She saw him way at the other end, sniffing everything everywhere.

"I'm sorry but we need to go," Rick told them. "Kate has a therapy session in the hospital this time so I'm going to take Charlie around as a Therapy Dog as soon as I put his vest on him."

"Thanks for coming to see us. I promise to tell you how it goes when we get home. If we're late we'll get take-out so don't cook." Jo watched them leave again after calling for Charlie.

"Are we ready for the mayor?" Jo asked her husband.

"We have cases we worked on in LA. We have our references lined up. We have our per hour fees set. Available 24 hours a day. Our office is located in downtown Laurel. We live in Laurel and we're not afraid of big city lawyers given we used to be big city lawyers working for big firms.

"We're everything this city needs." Jim wasn't taking no for an answer.

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"Mr. Rodgers and Charlie, I'll call the nurse and your PT," the receptionist up front told them.

Pretty soon Kate was being pushed one direction and Rick along with Charlie, was being taken in a different direction with a nurse as their escort.

Between them Rick and Charlie were the only ones having fun. PT was a real pain and Kate hated it.

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"You look like you're still alive." Rick watched as Kate was pushed by her PT up to him and Charlie.

"She's doing great, actually. You just have to get past her stubborn streak," her physical therapist told Rick while they both listened as Kate grumbled about being called stubborn. "She's all yours. I want you back here next Monday. We're going to do today all over again."

"So what did you do?" Rick was curious and watched Charlie put his head in her lap like he almost always did. She must be hurting and Charlie must be able to sense it.

"He had me walking these parallel bars. Mostly all I did was stumble my way while hanging on for dear life."

"You walked? That's great!" It sounded great to him.

"You don't listen very well, do you? I said I stumbled my way down the bars while hanging onto the bars!"

"It sounds like walking to me. It's more than what you're doing now. I say we celebrate," Rick offered.

"If we must." Kate continued to grumble.

"I know just where the ice cream parlor is located so we can celebrate," Rick told her.

"You just want to blab to my parents." Even she knew the ice cream parlor was next door to them.

"It's not my fault your parents chose to open their office next to the ice cream parlor." Rick pushed her out to his truck, drove to the ice cream parlor, and parked out front.

Eventually, with a waffle ice cream cone in hand, Kate actually felt better as she ate. She was being pushed by Rick's one hand to her parents' office. Then came trying to get the door open and keep it open using one hand while pushing Kate through the door and not letting the door close on Charlie.

"Charlie!" Jo was his first stop.

"Ice cream! So what are you two celebrating?" Jim queried as Rick pushed Kate over to him.

"Kate walked today!" Rick stated proudly.

"REALLY! THAT'S GREAT!" Jim got up and came around to her to kiss her cheek.

Kate tried again. "Don't listen to him. Rick's exaggerating. All I did was stumble my way down a set of parallel bars."

"Walking?" Jo had heard that finally.

"She's just being stubborn. Anything that isn't done in a wheelchair sounds like walking to me," Rick insisted.

"Sounds like walking to me, too. I'm happy for you, sweetheart." Jo was up and kissing her forehead. "So how are we celebrating this?"

"We're having ice cream from next door," Rick said.

"Oh? Then where's ours?" Jo teased these two.

"The same place we got these," Kate told her.

"I'll go." Jim left to get waffle cones for them as well.

"So how's the business going?" Rick inquired.

"Slowly. No one needs us yet. Though we do have a meeting with the City Council to be the city's lawyers. We made it past the mayor at least." Jo was pleased how that turned out. "We still have 3 more weeks of fliers going out into everyone's mailbox. Even if we get less than 1% it's a start. After that we should start growing. We were expecting this so it's okay." Jo and Jim knew this wasn't going to be a flood of customers. They were new, no one knew them, or what they could do.

"Have you considered expanding your fliers to outlying towns, Johanna?" Rick asked. "It could bring in more people."

"Not yet, no. We can look into that after our meeting with the City Council. More is better, right?" Jo said with a smile.

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Rick and Kate with Charlie left the office when they actually had someone walk into the office. Charlie, however, went to see her when she walked in and got petted before leaving.

Kate was silent all the way home. She had a question but was worried what he would say. So she waited till they got home and let him push her into the kitchen to get something to drink for both of them.

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Kate was with Rick in the living room along with Charlie. It was now or maybe never.

"Rick, do you like me?" She was starting to think that maybe they could be more eventually. Just when that would be was up in the air but maybe some day.

"Do I... Why would you think that I don't like you? Have I done something wrong? I'll undo it if I have." Of course he liked her. He was kissing her for God's sake.

"No, you haven't done anything. I mean I only recently turned 19 so I'm still technically a teenager. I'm stuck in a wheelchair so you have to put up with me. I just—" Kate had to stop talking when suddenly Rick began kissing her. It wasn't just any kiss, either. This was one of those soul-searching, mouth-searching type of kisses. The one where when he finally stopped it left her breathless.

"And you're not trapped in that wheelchair. So you don't see it as walking. Just to me – and probably your parents – anything that's different from you sitting in that chair is walking. So you're not trapped in it. At least not for that much longer.

"Do you need another kiss or are you good for now?" Rick watched her smile so he kissed her again. "Those were free; you still owe me a kiss."

Kate smiled up at him. "I'll think about that."

"Good, I'm going to take Charlie out back to do his business and maybe I'll throw the ball for him to chase. Give him some exercise." This time Kate got a quick kiss and watched him and Charlie leave.

All at once she realized that she liked all these kisses. It actually felt pretty good to be kissed this much. Especially by him. "And I want another date, too," Kate told herself since it was just her now.

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"We're headed for our City Council meeting so don't you two do anything we wouldn't." Jo teased both of them as they left and got in their Explorer to make the drive into town.

"So what should we do that they wouldn't do?" Rick grinned at her.

Kate had been working up the courage for this day for a while. "Take me upstairs to my room, please."

Rick was thinking this wasn't what he had in mind. Take her to her room and put her in bed so she could rest and maybe sleep. But if that was what she wanted he would take her there.

"The edge of the bed, please," Kate told him. She wished she could walk but being carried by him wasn't so bad. She got to rest her head on his shoulder.

"Now put Charlie out and close the door." Rick took Charlie out and started to close the door. "With you in the room, silly." He was outside her bedroom and not inside the room.

Rick didn't get it but he closed the door and watched her use her finger to beckon him closer to her. As soon as he was nearer he unexpectedly found her working on his pants to take them off.

"KATE!" What the hell did she think she was doing?

"Shush and don't move." Kate kept working on his pants till she could yank them down to at least his knees and now she could see the bulge in his boxers.

"Kate?" He was starting to get an idea what she had planned but were they really ready for this?

"I said shush." Kate put her fingers over his waistband and yanked down his boxers till they were at his ankles with his pants.

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This section is rated "M". If this type of material is not to your liking simply scroll down till it is safe to read again. I've read worse than what I'm about to write. But read with care.

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Kate had seen a few cocks in her life and given her fair share of blowjobs. He might be soft at the moment but he had a nice cock. Now she was going to find out if it was just as nice when it was hard.

She took him in hand and played with his cock a little before taking it in her mouth. She knew she needed to get it wet so that this felt better for him.

Rick had questioned why bringing her up here but he was learning why now. He really did like her and he was enjoying kissing her and teasing her. But he wasn't sure they were ready for this. Apparently Kate thought otherwise.

Kate felt him grow and grow till she was having trouble taking him down her throat. It was causing her to choke a little. So she switched to taking one of his balls in her mouth and running her tongue over that.

Rick, she was learning, was a quiet lover since he was just standing there and letting her do whatever she wanted. That was until she felt a hand on her head and listened to Rick moan.

That had her doubling her efforts. "This is a really nice cock, Rick." Since she had it wet she did her best to take all of him down her throat but she couldn't. Maybe with more practice she would succeed.

"KATE!" She was clearly good at this. If she kept up this pace he wasn't going to last long and he really wanted it to last longer. "Slower," he told her, his voice cracking.

"Uh-uh, I want to taste you." Kate tried to swallow all of him. Then went back to licking the length of him while massaging his balls.

"GOD!" Rick could feel his climax climbing. If she didn't slow down he was going to burst.

"Climax for me, Rick, I want to taste you." Kate put just the head in her mouth and swirled her tongue around it. She started playing with the opening on the tip.

"OH...GOD! Gonna...COME!" Rick panted a warning in case she changed her mind.

Kate was ready. She stroked the length of his cock and kept playing with the opening at the tip. This seemed to get a reaction from him. Then she heard him groan loudly and suddenly he climaxed inside her mouth.

Spurt after spurt entered her mouth. She allowed part of it go down her throat. The rest of it stayed in her mouth and she swirled her tongue around to taste him.

He pretty much tasted like all the other men. It was thick, white, warm, musky, and a touch salty. It was nice, just the way she liked it.

Kate kept him in her mouth till he relaxed and his erection started to go down. She finally let his cock fall from her mouth and motioned for him to come down to her level.

Once he was in his knees she reached out to take his head, kissed him, and forced some of his climax into his mouth so he could taste himself. She had done this before and most of the guys she had done it to found it disgusting. She had never given them another blowjob again and refused to even talk to them.

Rick tasted his own climax in his mouth so he pushed his tongue back into her mouth, kissed her deeply, and searched her mouth for her taste instead of his own. He even listened to Kate moan into the kiss.

He was kissing her, kissing her deeply. This had her kissing him with even more passion. Kate finally broke from the kiss and could feel either his climax or their saliva running down her chin. She swiped it up, put it in her mouth, and licked her finger clean. She even grinned at the look he was giving her.

Rick studied her face. "Not that I'm complaining but what was that for?"

"Because I like you and I wanted to. I can do it again if you're up to it." Kate searched his eyes. Instead of saying yes or anything at all he kissed her and she could still taste him in his mouth.

"Do you want another one?" Kate smiled into his lips.

"Maybe tomorrow."

"Deal! You taste pretty good, you know," Kate told him.

Rick smiled at her and smoothed back a lock of her hair. "Maybe I'll do you next time."

Kate caught her breath and straight away her heart rate elevated to a new record high. "Are you suggesting that you...?"

"Has no one ever done that for you?" Rick couldn't believe it. He was suddenly wondering if she was a virgin. One more reason to go slow with her.

"No, you would really do that? You don't find it…yucky?" Kate didn't even have that good a clue what it would feel like.

"Why would I think that? But we need to be careful. You might be a screamer and alert your parents."

Kate's smile got wider. "Maybe." She hadn't really given much thought about her making loud noises during sex. "We could try on your next day off while my parents are at work." They would have the entire house to themselves that way.

"It's a date. Date number two or three if you count the one we had in New Orleans." Rick was going to show her something. He was going to take his sweet time and have her screaming and begging him.

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Rick had cleaned up, taken Kate back downstairs and into her chair, and then pushed her to the kitchen so they could get something to drink. Soon they were sitting at the breakfast table just off the kitchen, watching Charlie having a little fun in the backyard.

"I need to know, Kate. Are you a virgin? I'll still be careful but I need to know just how careful."

She shook her head. "No, I lost it when I was 17 years old. I thought he was worth it but I was wrong. He's been the only one. I've given a number of blowjobs but never that again." Kate began blushing since they were talking about sex and it seemed a little easy to tell him.

"In that case we only do what you're comfortable with. But I am going to taste you and I'm going to do all I can to make sure it's memorable, enjoyable, and I'll leave you screaming and breathless." Rick was going to do the very best he could to make it truly memorable.

"I think I already am." Kate laid a hand on her chest. Her heart was beating fast and she was openly talking about sex with him. Not intercourse sex with him inside her but it was still sex to her.

"Not yet you aren't but you will be. That I promise." Rick leaned across to kiss her and felt her kiss him back. This time she tasted like the Diet Coke she was drinking.

They had a date and it wasn't just a date; it was a date strictly about sex and she was ready.