The Door
Warning: This story contains Mature Content. Reader discretion is advised.
I repeat: Reader discretion is advised.
As for all stories in this series, if you read it and don't like the content that is on you. You were warned but chose not to listen.
This is a Caskett story. No major or minor character death takes place. Having said that, characters not part of canon may possibly die.
One Chapter Only
It was just a door. They had a dead body and as usual Rick and Kate did things together. Kate was still a little put out that she had to put up with him. However, Castle had proven he was useful on occasion.
Kate preferred facts versus his just making things up. Problem was when he did that it had a tendency to offer her a new direction to look at for a new lead. His wild theory usually didn't work out but lately he was getting a lot better at taking facts, putting the dots together, and giving them a new lead.
So here they were. "Howston. Which one of those factories was closest to that?" Kate asked Ryan since he had the list.
"The one on the Lower East Side. But it's been closed for a little over a year." Ryan wasn't sure it was such a good lead.
Kate did, though, and started grinning. She looked at Rick. "Let's go."
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"So what are we looking for? And why doesn't your trunk have better flashlights that are bigger?" Rick played with the little one she had given him.
The factory turned out to be a really dark area and it clearly had no electricity, so it was just as dark on the inside, and so far, was clearly abandoned. It was full of junk, and more junk, and discarded junk. It made just walking around a challenge in some places.
"Signs of that chemical that Kevin can't pronounce. Something that shows he's been here," Kate told him.
"That certainly helps." Some obscure chemical that he didn't even know what it looked like in this mess.
"Just stop moaning, Castle, and keep your eyes open," Kate countered.
"I would if all the dust we keep stirring up didn't go straight into my eyes." Rick rubbed them just to prove it. "I would kill for some eyedrops." Kate merely ignored him and kept looking.
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"Tough door." It looked like a simple enough wood door but he was thinking it was swollen shut or something since it was refusing to open. Finally he won and got it open.
"Beckett, I found stairs." Rick used his light to look into the space but his tiny flashlight didn't have that much power, so he didn't see much. "Beckett!" Rick tried again and turned to look for her and found her right next to him.
"I heard you." Kate shone her bigger light into the space and saw stairs.
"Up or down?" Rick inquired. "Down's easier but then we would just have to come back up again. This place isn't that tall, so up might be only a level or two."
"Up, we can search the basement if we find nothing," Kate decided and led the way only to find out after a few steps that the staircase had lights. They looked like really old fashioned torches, only they didn't have any fire. The tip simply glowed so Kate turned off her flashlight to test it.
"Interesting. Not bright by any means but not pitch-black either." Rick turned his off. "Hm, I wonder what's powering this thing? This place doesn't have any electricity." Rick looked it over but if there was a wire it was in the wall. He couldn't figure out the light bulb at all.
So far it was one big spiral staircase. Not one of those tight little staircases with little steps that took you up to a loft or something. This was a big one with a large empty space in the middle. The light was enough that they could see the stairs across the way.
Rick had stopped and was looking down. "Beckett."
"What now, Castle?" Sometimes he was a pain but she was learning to like him. So she took a few steps back down to join him and saw him looking over the side so she does as well.
"How far down does that look to you?" Rick asked her.
Kate didn't want to say it because it looked bottomless to her. It was lit pretty much like where they were now. A little light but not a lot of light. Just not complete blackness.
"Mirrors?" Kate questioned hesitantly since what she was seeing was impossible. "Let's go, Castle." She wanted to finish this and find something.
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"How long have we been climbing, Beckett? My legs are starting to complain." He was beginning to think maybe down would have been better. Save for having to come back up again.
"I don't know." This staircase didn't make sense to her. They should be on the twelfth floor or higher by now. "I just want to find a door." Kate was focused again on one simple task and wasn't looking at the big picture.
A few steps later and they found themselves on a large landing and they even saw a door. But it was way over there. Kate walked over and looked it over. It seemed a little weird.
Rick saw it and it was way out of place. "If I didn't know better I would say that door is an old fashioned barn door or old warehouse door. I mean, who builds old fashioned Z doors these days?"
Kate reached for the door handle that was actually wood. It didn't have a doorknob or even any metal at all. Pulling didn't work so she put her shoulder to it and pushed. The second she cracked the door open a freezing cold wind hit her and Castle and snow came blowing in.
"CLOSE IT!" Rick yelled at her. It felt like it was fifty below or worse on the other side.
"I'M TRYING!" Kate yelled right back at him and kept pulling till the door closed. Now she was standing there rubbing her hands and blowing on them to get them warm again.
Then all of a sudden Castle was holding her hands and rubbing and bringing her hands up to his mouth and blowing. Kate let him because her hands were freezing. It was also rather sensual and she wasn't used to that.
"What kind of door was that?" They were in a factory in New York City. Not the middle of Antarctica. Kate didn't understand. Even a walk-in freezer wasn't that cold.
"A frozen one," Rick offered and saw the look she was giving him for that. "How should I know? Did the door feel frozen before you opened it?" Rick queried and kept working on her hands.
"Now that you mention it, no, it didn't." It was just a simple wood door. Kate continued to let Castle rub her hands as her hands started to warm up.
Not too much later she said, "I think you can stop now, Castle. I can feel my hands again." Kate needed him to stop before this got too sensual. She wanted to be ready for him but she wasn't yet. She was working on it, however.
Rick stopped rubbing but held them. "Interesting factory." Rick looked around but continued to hold her hands since they still felt cold. Or maybe that was his hands now.
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They were going up again. It was just they kept going up with no end in sight. "I need a break, Castle." Kate sat on the stairs and he sat right next to her. So close that they were touching. "Where are we?" Kate didn't understand any of it.
"Still on a staircase, just not one I've ever seen before. It looks endless which should be impossible." Rick looked down. "And when did the metal stairs turn into wood stairs?"
It was only then that Kate noticed the stairs. He was right. They were on wood stairs now instead of the metal stairs they had started out on. "I don't know. Didn't notice. I've been focused on a door," Kate admitted.
"Hang on." Rick stood up and looked out over the side of the railing. "It still looks limitless. It just spirals down and down. I can see it go on forever. WAIT! …I can see someone moving on the stairs. Far below. Too far, can't make them out," Rick told her.
"WEAPONS! I see weapons. Not guns, swords! Big ones!" More than a little concerned, Rick turned his head to look at her.
"We go up." The last thing Kate wanted was a fight. She was the only one armed here. Castle was her partner and she wanted him close but she didn't want to get into a fight and risk his life.
Kate was up and climbing again. "Come on, Castle." He was still looking.
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They end up on another platform. This one was small and a little dark. The door, if it was a door, looked like a hunk of rock. It was just this space looked dirty. Actual dirt and she thought she spotted a tiny little spider trying to eke out a living here.
"A rock!?" They were looking for doors, not a rock, or maybe more boulder since it was tall enough and wide enough for a door.
Then they watched as it actually opened since it was moving. The first person through the door didn't look like a person to either of them.
It was clearly a woman since she had large breasts. Her clothing barely concealed anything. Just her nipples and her vagina a little. She was reddish in color, had large wings, a tail, and horns on her head. To Rick particularly she was lovely. Very sexy and just oozed sex. She also had a whip and a sword at her side.
Right behind her was a man. Very handsome, very reddish, partially clothed, large wings, large horns, and a very big sword at his hip.
The female said something that neither of them recognized and looked at her mate for approval. He nodded and they split up. She walked straight to Rick while he walked over to Kate.
"NYPD." Kate showed him her badge but he paid it no mind and kissed her.
Kate's eyes widened in shock when his tongue separated her lips and forced itself into her mouth. That shook her from her trance and Kate stiffened. She tried to push him away only to find that his arms had locked around her with the strength of steel bars. She fought helplessly against his irresistible grip and copious amounts of sweet saliva flowed from his mouth into her own. Reflexively, she swallowed the sweet sticky fluid. Suddenly she found herself relaxing while a calming warmth came from within her belly, and a tingling sensation began to spread throughout her body.
He drew back from the kiss, leaving their mouths connected by a thread of sticky saliva, and looked directly into her green eyes. There he found the glassy-eyed arousal he was looking for, bringing an evil smile to his face. Catching his stare, Kate's eyes bored in with a sudden intensity, riveting the aroused man's attention with a gaze Kate couldn't avoid. Distantly, Kate noted that golden sparkles seemed to dance and play in his red eyes. She felt like she was falling into them; they were so very deep that she could drown in their unwavering look. As this almost subliminal sparkle continued to pulse and swirl, she felt herself slowly relax, surrendering to the dreamy feeling his eyes instilled in her.
Once the female had relaxed in his embrace, he gave his first order. "Take off your clothes." Kate was quickly and efficiently removing her own clothes. After her perfect body was exposed, the Incubus noticed that the female was frozen as her expression alternated between guilt and hunger.
He swiftly displayed his dominance. He pushed her onto her back and climbed on top, placing himself between her spread legs. Kate dropped her right hand from and began frantically touching and stroking herself in a futile attempt to lessen the burning need she felt.
She was soaking wet and his smell was amazing. Kate was breathing deeply, filling her lungs with the pheromone-tainted air that surrounded him. Falling into a daze her eyes became glassy, and she began to pant as her body responded to the pheromones.
Kate cried out as his Cock penetrated the outer lips and willed for his Cock to enter her. To fuck her pussy. She wanted to be fucked so badly. Kate grabbed hold of him and lifted her ass off the floor to match each stroke into her pussy to get him even deeper inside her. She wanted him to fill her with his Cum. She wanted it, she needed it.
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Rick thought she was gorgeous. He thought Kate was gorgeous and he desired her but this woman was something else.
As she drew close to the stunned man, the internal changes came into play. Her body began to produce pheromones of a far greater potency and concentration than an ordinary human's, capable of creating an overwhelming level of sexual arousal in her victims. At the same time, her puffy labia swelled outward revealing the wet pink flesh inside as her vagina began producing copious amounts of lubricant, causing the material she wore to become soaked.
She smiled as she waited; it was obvious that her pheromones were beginning to affect him when his skin became flushed and his breathing began to quicken. He was also having a great deal of difficulty maintaining eye contact with her, his eyes kept straying downward to her pert breasts and then farther down to her swollen Mons. Against his will he was rapidly becoming aroused by her presence.
In her black eyes specks of gold glimmered and danced. He felt something like a moment of vertigo before his jaw slackened, allowing her tongue to explore his mouth in a kiss. As he continued to stare into her hypnotic gaze, a burning desire began to throb in his body and mind. Rational thought faded while his cock became rock-hard in his pants.
The Incubus's eyes gleamed with delight as he sensed her resistance break, replaced by need instead. He guided his hand between her legs, allowing him to feel her excitement while her own hands went to work rubbing and caressing the man's hardness through his thong. They moaned into each other's mouths as their tongues sparred. Nimble female hands pulled on his thong, freeing his erection before pumping and caressing it as she smeared pre-cum along his length.
She forced the man to the floor, taking him by surprise. Both partners moaned in pleasure while she worked herself against his cock. Finally, she drew back, angled her hips, and ripped away the material between his penis and her entrance. The head of his penis nudged into her entrance and she grimaced in pleasure as she slowly pushed downward, little by little impaling her tight vagina on his stiff cock until she was buried to the root.
She smiled and closed her eyes, laying her head against his chest as she grew accustomed to the feeling of penetration, experimentally clenching her inner muscles to squeeze the member which filled her cunt. Slowly she began moving, rising up and down as she felt his shaft rub against her inner flesh. Moving faster and faster, she was soon crying and panting as she pounded herself down on him.
Kate squeezed and rippled her inner muscles, milking his cock while she let out little shrieks of ecstasy and bit her lower lip with pleasure. Her response to his thrusts only aroused the man more, and she moaned in anticipation as she felt him double his efforts, hammering into her body as he strove toward his peak. Like an animal, he impaled her again and again, stroking hard and fast as he fucked her. With a hoarse cry, he finally came with an orgasm unlike he had ever experienced before.
An expression of confusion appeared on the man's face as his body continued to thrust into her outside of his conscious control. He couldn't stop coming inside her clenching depths as his climax went on and on without release. A tortured cry of intermingled pain and pleasure was wrenched from his throat as his cock jumped and pulsed, spurting his seed deep into her womb.
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The Succubus and her Incubus mate stood there and watched as these two writhed on the floor as the conversion modules they had deposited into their bodies began to transform them and their minds.
"Who do you suppose they are?" the Succubus questioned her mate.
"I've never seen any human like them. They are dressed strangely. No weapon, no armor, and no mental defenses. She was easy to control. So does it matter?" he responded with another question.
"He was easy as well. And I suppose not. In a few hours he will be an Incubus and she will be a Succubus. They should feel compelled to enter our land. They will become slaves to our Master." The Succubus was happy. "That was a pleasant surprise."
"We need to get on with our mission. We can leave these two and let them enter our land," the Incubus reminded his mate. So the two of them headed down the stairs. Based on what they knew they had a long walk down in order to enter the correct door.
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"Castle?" Kate was on her side and she was a little cold. She needed him. She needed to know he was safe. She was doing all she could to be ready for him but she wasn't ready yet.
However, there was something really off. Looking down she was shocked at what she was. She had been a flat-chested 15-year-old and had been willing for her breasts to fill out. She only made it to 35B. The breasts she was looking at now were not 35B. They were several times that size. PLUS, the skin was reddish in color.
Then something moved. She wanted to see what it was and in answer it moved so she could see. It was a wing. A large wing that was reddish in color with streaks of black. Reaching out to touch it she felt her hand touching it. Her hand felt it and the wing felt it. That didn't make any sense.
"Beckett?" Rick was lying on his stomach and it was uncomfortable. His cock felt like he was lying on it and that wasn't right. He liked the size of his cock but it wasn't supposed to feel like this.
Turning his head he watched someone's tail whipping around everywhere. Rick reached out to grasp it and was stunned when he felt that. His hand felt it but his tail felt it. But he didn't have a tail. Then suddenly a wing came into view. It was really large, reddish in color with spots of black.
"BECKETT!" His only real concern was for her. He loved her even if he was sure she wasn't ready to hear that. It was just it felt like she was pulling away. First it was Demming. Lately it was that guy from England. He was pretty sure she had gone off with him and had sex. Just he hadn't stayed and she hadn't left.
He just wasn't sure how much more of this he could take. Once again he was starting to think about cutting his losses and quitting his work with the NYPD.
"Castle?" Kate heard his voice so immediately she felt better. She hadn't lost him. She just needed to figure out how to keep him. She needed to find a way and soon. Lanie kept asking her what she was waiting for. Why she was keeping him in a holding pattern. Eventually he was going to cut his losses and leave her. Was that what she really wanted?
Kate managed to make it to her hands and knees and soon figured out that she was naked. Her breasts were far too big and suddenly her pussy felt well used. She reached down to feel it and came away with a white liquid substance. Bringing it to her nose she knew what it was.
"Cum!" Why was there cum oozing out her pussy? "Castle?" She really was going to kill him this time if he had just raped her.
Turning her head each direction she caught sight of a body on its stomach. It was just it had a pair of large wings, a tail and he was the same color her skin was now.
"Beckett." She heard his voice and it sounded like Castle even if it didn't look like him. She watched him get up on his hands and knees and start looking around. "Who are you?" All he saw was a female with large wings, large breasts, little horns in her forehead, and she was reddish in color.
"Castle, It's me." Kate finally got up on her knees and looked around. She spotted her clothes still undamaged spread around all over. Then she felt muscles move and all of a sudden wings came into view. HER WINGS!
"Beckett?" It didn't look like her but it sounded like her. "What happened?" Then unexpectedly Rick felt his back muscles move and a pair of wings came into view which had his eyes opening wider than they already were after seeing Beckett.
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They were standing there looking at each other. Rick saw a strikingly beautiful woman with really large breasts that were perfect. He could even see her pouting pussy lips. That was when he smelled something incredible.
Kate was looking at him. He was magnificent! He was ripped. Muscles in all the right places. She never thought of herself as needing a man built like he was, but seeing him now told her that she did. His large wings, large horns, but mostly she saw his gorgeous cock.
It was impossibly large and she suddenly smelled something. The smell was musky and amazing. She instantly felt her pussy getting wet. She was consciously trying to resist wrapping her hands around it, licking it, and placing it in her mouth. Followed by having it in her pussy.
"Beckett? You're different." What he wanted to do – and was resisting for now – was to force her to the floor and fuck her senseless. He had to have his cock inside her. He just had to!
"I'm different!? You've got wings and… and." Kate pointed at his cock which had him looking down.
Rick knew he had an erection but he didn't know he was THAT big. He was impossibly huge.
It was too much. She had to and Kate, without meaning to, was down on her knees and was stroking that cock. She gave it a lick and found it tasted even better than it looked. Once she had it wet enough into her mouth it went. She opened her throat and forced it down her throat till her nose hit his stomach.
Oh my God! This was the single greatest Cock she had ever gotten her hands on. She also found she had to taste him. "Cum for me, Castle. I need to taste you." Kate kept forcing his cock down her throat and she massaged his balls to get him to climax.
Suddenly he did and she did all she could to swallow it all. It was just he kept spurting over and over again. There was literally so much of it that some of it leaked out of her mouth. Once he was done she licked it clean, and wiped her mouth, and sucked what remained off of her finger.
"Fuck me, Castle. I need that cock in my pussy. Fuck my pussy." Kate spun and dropped to her hands and knees. Her pussy was demanding that it be fucked. She knew instinctively what she needed. She needed to be fucked.
"Fill my pussy with your Cum, Castle. FUCK ME!" Kate begged him.
Rick had just had the orgasm of his life. He was counting himself lucky that he was still standing. But then that smell increased just as Beckett was demanding that he fuck her pussy.
Actually, right now that was all he wanted to do. Forget anything else. He needed to fuck her Pussy just as hard and fast as he could. So he got down and rammed his Cock inside her and started pounding her pussy. He could even hear his skin hitting hers as his balls slapped her.
Rick cried out as he climaxed and filled her full of his Cum as he spasmed over and over again. He could even feel her Pussy muscles squeezing his Cock and Kate screamed out her own orgasm.
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Kate was on her stomach and pressing her far too large breasts into the floor, so she got up and sat up. "What happened, Castle? And I don't mean the sex." She was, however, willing to admit to herself for now that it was the single best sex she had ever had. She had no idea how a Cock that big could fit inside her but it had and she had loved it. She felt great. Better than usual.
"Someone came out and something happened. Mostly all I remember was that I wanted you. I had to have you. There was this smell that was amazing," Rick told her.
"You, too? I wanted you so badly that I couldn't think straight. And there was this smell. Now I feel so much better." Kate was doing all she could not to look at his Cock. Even soft it was amazingly alluring.
"Who were those two? I don't remember much about them. Where did they go?" Looking around they weren't around here now.
"I've done a lot of reading but I'm not sure you're going to like this. Based on what I've read, you're a Succubus and I'm an Incubus. We're both Demons, Kate," Rick told her gently.
"I'M NO DEMON, CASTLE!" She knew what a Demon was and she wasn't one.
"A Succubus and Incubus are Demons, and you look exactly like a Succubus. Large breasts, large wings, tail, and horns," Rick pointed out. That had Kate raising a hand to search for horns. She touched them and was aghast. SHE HAD HORNS!
"I can't live like this, Castle. I can't even put my clothes back on. They won't fit. My boobs are too big and I have a tail." Kate grabbed it to get it to stop. It just wouldn't stop moving and hitting the floor.
Rick groaned since he didn't know what to tell her. Without even knowing why or how, they were Demons. He didn't have another answer. This was it.
"Do you remember much about those two?" Rick questioned her instead and watched her shake her head. "Me, neither. They must have done something. I wasn't born like this and people don't suddenly just turn themselves into Demons. How they did it I have no idea."
Kate picked up a piece of her clothing and looked at it. It wasn't going to fit so she needed to stay naked and like this. Big boobs, tail, wings, and horns. "My Glock." Kate picked it up, ejected the clip and looked it over, and slapped it back in place. "What are you doing?" He looked to be grunting and scrunching his face.
"I'm trying to see if I can change back. Maybe we can switch between the two." Rick kept squeezing and trying to get it to all go into his body.
"IT'S WORKING! KEEP GOING!" His wings were getting smaller. It took him some time but now he looked like the Castle that she was used to. Except for being naked and she couldn't help it. She had to look. He used to have a magnificent huge Cock and now he was more normal. She still liked the look of him, he was just smaller.
"Checking me out, Beckett?" Rick could see where her eyes were.
"Shut up! …What if I am!?" Kate challenged him.
Rick grinned at her. "I'll change back and fuck your brains out again."
Problem was she did like the sound of that. "Alright, let me try." If that didn't work she didn't know what to do. She couldn't go home looking like this.
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"Nice work, Beckett, and looking nice." She was normal again and just as naked as he was.
"You've already seen everything, Castle. Now get dressed so we can figure out how to get out of here." Kate gathered up her clothes and began getting dressed.
"Now what, Castle?" She was willing to listen and just hoped it wasn't stupid. She could use one of his wild theories right about now.
"I don't know about you but while I was a Demon I wanted to go through that rock over there. Now not so much, but I still do," Rick told her.
"Yeah, I feel it too. It's like I should be on the other side. I just don't want to. If we're right that's where those two came from and I'm thinking they did this to us," Kate said.
"Up or down? We were trying to find something." Rick was ready to get moving. He felt great. Better than ever even.
"Castle!" Kate called out his name in alarm, drew her weapon, and pointed it at, whatever it was.
It had the arms, head, and torso of a beautiful humanoid, but had feathers in place of hair and it had wings. From the waist down the body was that of a serpent. The feathers and scales were all brightly colored and patterned. It was wearing jewelry but no clothing.
It was just hovering there while it flapped it's wings. "What are you?" Rick questioned.
"A Lillendi. It is my job to monitor the stairs with my sisters. Combat here is forbidden, so if that is a weapon put it away. …NOW!" she told Kate and Kate instantly put it away and then wondered why she did that. She needed that weapon to defend herself and Castle.
"Where are we?" Rick asked her.
"This is the Infinite Staircase, otherwise known as the Celestial Staircase or the Celestial Stairway, it is a network of pathways linking the Realms with the Planes.
"It is filled with doors that lead to anywhere you want to go. You just have to select the right door. If there is nothing else? Just remember, no combat." She flapped her wings harder.
"WAIT!" Kate yelled. "How do we get back to New York City?" They were effectively lost.
"Why should I tell you?" she queried as she kept flapping her wings.
"I'll pay you." Rick pulled out his wallet.
"I live here, I have no need for money or food. Unless you know astrological, ecological, and astronomical knowledge," she offered. "Or art and creativity."
"Art?" Rick looked at Kate since he had nothing on him. "Creativity? How about jokes?" That was about as creative outside of his writing as he got.
"Hear about the new restaurant called Karma?
There's no menu: You get what you deserve," Rick said but she didn't laugh.
"Why did the chicken go to the séance?
To get to the other side." She still wasn't laughing but she did smile at that one.
"Where are average things manufactured?
The satisfactory." Not laughing but she was still smiling.
"What kind of exercise do lazy people do?
Diddly-squats." Nope, not laughing.
"Perhaps I should try," Kate offered since Castle was failing.
"Three guys stranded on a desert island find a magic lantern containing a djinni who grants them each one wish. The first guy wishes he was off the island and back home. The second guy wishes the same. The third guy says: 'I'm lonely. I wish my friends were back here." Kate listened to her giggle a little.
"What do you call someone who can fly with no wings? …A walk," Kate offered and heard her start laughing.
"Thirteen doors up is New York City. Remember, no fighting." She nose dived straight down. She had to tell one of her sisters.
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Two doors later. "Are you still pouting, Castle."
"Everyone says I'm funny and she laughs at your joke?" Yes, he was still pouting.
"Stop pouting, Castle. It's not attractive. Besides, we want out of here, don't we?" Kate asked him. That at least got him to sort of stop pouting but he also wasn't talking which, for Kate, told her he was still pouting.
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"Thirteen." Rick was bent over with his hands on his knees. "Why aren't you tired?" Kate was just standing there.
"I run five miles or more every time I get a day off. That and I do a lot of Yoga. Plus, I punch the bag upstairs at the Precinct when I can. You sit at home and type," Kate told him.
"Take me with you?" Rick was still sucking in air.
"It's five miles, Castle," Kate warned him.
"I'll do one and take a taxi for the other four." Rick listened to Kate snort out a laugh. Still, she just might ask him next time.
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They had a door in front of them. It was the thirteenth door and she said this was New York City. "It's not budging," Rick complained since he was leaning into it.
"Step aside, Castle. Let me kick it." Kate waited for him to move away. She got set, gave it the best kick she could, and watches it fly open. Kate pumped her fist. "Yes!"
"Tracks?" Rick was peering out the doorway. Then he stepped outside and looked around. There was some lighting so it wasn't pitch-dark.
"Train tracks." Kate saw them as well. Now they needed to figure out which way to walk. "Castle?" She could hear something.
"TRAIN!" Rick put an arm against her and pushed her up against the wall. Moments later a metro train roared past them blowing air on them. Thankfully, it was a short train so they didn't get sucked in and run over from the rush of air.
"RUN!" Rick shouted and they took off running till they saw a platform. Kate climbed up with a push from Castle and reached down to help pull him up.
Rick pointed at the sign. "8th Avenue."
"We're in the Bronx!?" Kate was a little shocked.
"It is New York City, more or less, so she didn't lie. Whatever she was." Rick shook his head.
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Rick had asked someone what today was on the way up so they could discuss how to get to the Precinct from here.
"TWO DAYS! We lost two days? What are we going to tell people? Gates is going to kill me." Kate just knew it. Gates was not Montgomery. She was impossible to appease.
"Alexis must be losing her mind. …Phone!" Rick pulled out his cell phone. "Dead."
Kate took hers out. "Mine, too. So, what do we tell them? Any ideas?" It needed to be believable and untraceable.
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Gates had Beckett and Castle in her office. "Trapped?"
"Yes, sir. We were searching this factory for a clue. We were doing just fine but didn't find anything there so we changed buildings and left the cruiser where I parked it. That building collapsed suddenly and trapped us. We spent the last two days digging ourselves out," Kate told her.
"We didn't get this dirty by lying on the beach… sir," Rick added. They were messy. Their clothes had been removed and left on the dirty floor, besides what the subway train had done to them.
Gates wanted to lower the boom on the two of them. However, the cruiser was right where Beckett had left it. The factory had been searched and they hadn't found them. So getting trapped by a collapse based on how they looked and not being able to prove anything else otherwise told her she had little choice. For now.
"Fine, go home and get cleaned up, but get back in here and get to work. We still have an open case. You, though, can stay home if you like, Mr. Castle." She was still more than ready to get rid of him.
Kate was instantly pissed off. Castle was her partner. "He stays my partner," Kate told her.
Gates repeated what she said word for word, "He stays your partner," and had a blank face like she wasn't even seeing them any longer.
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They were in the elevator to go home and get cleaned up. "What did you do, Kate?"
"I don't know. She pissed me off and suddenly I wasn't going to put up with her shit anymore. I don't know what I did," Kate said.
"You think it has anything to do with what happened to us?" Rick queried.
"Because I'm a Succubus now, if you're right. Castle, I need to know. I want you here but we need to know. So, please stay home and do research," Kate asked him. "Find out all you can. I'll come to you after I get off work."
Rick nodded. "I can do that. I might need to go to the Public Library but I'll find out what I can."
"Thanks, Castle. We need to understand. See if you can find out how I did that to Gates while you're at it." Something had definitely changed.
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Alexis answered the door. "Detective Beckett." Alexis didn't hate her but she wasn't a fan of her either. In her eyes she was messing with her dad and she loved her dad and was thinking if Beckett just vanished her dad might be better off.
"Alexis." Kate heard the tone of her voice. "Is Castle here?"
"He's been in his study since he got home. I had to order take-out. I gave him some but I'm not sure he ate any of it." Alexis stepped aside to let her in and closed the door behind her. Without another word Alexis went back to what she was doing.
That told Kate that if she wasn't careful Alexis might ruin what little they had together. Kate found him sitting at his desk. "Hey, Castle."
"Come around here." Rick motioned her over and waited till she was next to him. "This is you." He showed her a picture. "It's not exactly you since your face is different, but this is pretty much what I saw."
"Interesting." She had never seen herself like this. Just bits and pieces.
"We're Demons. We should be on one of the 666 layers of the Abyss. However, a few think the layers are forever changing. Might be as many as 679 presently. Each layer is ruled by a Demon Lord.
"This is Raphomet." Rick showed her a picture of something that reminded her of a Minotaur. Rick clicked another picture. "Demogorgon." That one looked like a two headed werewolf with… tentacles for arms?
Rick clicked on a different picture. "And Fuiblex." This time Kate made a noise of disgust. It looked like a glob of walking green goo with fourteen or more eyes all over it. One big mouth full of teeth.
"Lovely, so what does all this have to do with us?" Kate asked.
"Well, most Demons have to be summoned somehow. A Succubus responds to pleas for sex made by a man. An Incubus apparently can inhabit a woman's dreams. In any case they're there for sex. For their own pleasure, or need, or to capture and deliver to their Demon Lord. For sex, or torture, or just another slave.
"Both of us need something called Life Force. We have sex with someone, usually a human, and we suck the life out of them. It feeds us. I think we suck the soul out of a person and eat it. It replenishes our body. We need it to live. We're evil, we're Demons." Rick was in the midst of explaining when Kate bristled at what he just said.
"I'm sure as shit not doing that." Kate stood up straight like she was putting her foot down. "What else? You've had hours."
"Apparently Life Force can be construed as Cum. A man's ejaculate or a woman's and before you say something, women do have Cum. Just not like a man's. They call that Life Force as well.
"You remember when we had sex? How did you feel afterwards?" Rick questioned her.
"Pretty good, actually," Kate admitted.
"You wanted it, didn't you? You wanted sex. You had to have it. Something was driving you to crave it. According to what I've read it's believed we will need Cum to satisfy our need. If we don't we will find someone and basically suck them dry, killing them. We have to have it. Do anything to get it," Rick told her.
Kate didn't answer him but she did remember the all consuming need to have his Cock. To taste him, to have him inside her. To have him fill her with his Cum. She had to have it. Like a junkie needing a fix.
Kate needed more. "What else?"
"We have powers. You can, for lack of a better word, hypnotize someone and have sex with them to get the Cum you need. They'll forget you and that they ever had sex at all, let alone with you.
"Another is called Domination. The exercise of control or influence over someone or something, or the state of being so controlled. I think that's what you did to Gates without realizing it." Rick turned his chair around to look up at her.
"That sounds about right. Gates had a blank look on her face and repeated what I told her. Interesting." Kate was wondering what she could do with that.
"Careful with what you're thinking. Demons and a Succubus and an Incubus are evil by nature. Think of it as heroin or cocaine. Once you start you can't stop," Rick cautioned her.
"Yeah." Kate hated it but Domination did sound evil. She tried to bargain with him. "Maybe just once a year?"
"Better not be cumulative. It remembers each time and you want to do it more often," Rick warned her.
"Raining on my parade already?" Kate teased him even if he was possibly right. "What else?" If there was more.
"Not much else. I went looking for that staircase. According to folklore it's a staircase full of doors. Each door leads to one specific point. This world or others. The list is endless. Places even I've never dreamed of. It literally has no end. Up or down. It just goes on and on forever.
"Evidently the staircase design varies. What we were on was spiral but not all of it is. You could climb up on one side and climb down upside down on the same set of stairs.
"Wood stairs, metal stairs, rope, and wood stairs. You could find yourself standing sideways. Some of the landings are just small enough to stand on while others are almost cities.
"One god created it. Not the god you're thinking of. Not the Christian God, Jesus and all that. A different god. Purportedly there are a lot of them. Different realms have different gods. Different planes of existence is a different set of gods.
"You remember that rock door? I'm thinking that one opened up onto one of the levels of the Abyss. They walked out and found us, did this to us, and then walked away. It sounds Evil to me," Rick suggested.
"Yeah, it does. Anything on how to change us back?" Kate queried because being a Succubus for the rest of her life sounded like a real pain to her.
Rick broke it to her. "I've read various ideas on how to Summon a Succubus, but I can't even figure out how they changed us, let alone how to change us back."
"Figures!" Kate walked away from him and just looked around his study.
"There's one thing." Rick was a little loath to bring this up but they needed to think about it. Knowing her she wasn't going to talk about it. She didn't talk about anything.
"I did some other reading about Demons. One thought is that Demons don't die; they are angelic immortal beings created by God and fell from His Grace. The only one who can destroy them is God Himself.
"Another is Demons are spirits. They never die," Rick told her. "But they will be cast into the lake of unquenchable fire where the worm dieth not."
"So we're immortal now? Live forever? Is that what you are telling me?" Kate stared at him since she didn't believe in Demons. However, she knew what she had done and what she looked like now or could look like. She knew firsthand what Castle looked like. So fine, Demons existed. As if her life wasn't complicated enough already.
Rick had still more. "There are a few more items if you're ready?"
Kate sighed. "Alright, fire away. If I spontaneously combust you'll know you've gone too far."
"Or you shoot me," Rick countered and she smiled at him. It was a running threat. She would never actually shoot him. She did that and she might as well shoot herself.
"One theory is that Succubi and Incubi are sterile. Totally incapable of having children. Another is that for a couple to have a child the Succubus obtains sperm from a donor, gives it to the Incubus who in turn implants it into a woman. The baby that's born is called a Cambion. It will be half-Demon and half-human. It may or may not have powers similar to what we can do. It seems that depending on just how powerful we get we can gain several powers. We can do lots of things.
"Now before you panic about being sterile there is another thought. In essence you and I need Cum to survive. A blow job is questionable for you. Basically we need sex. The thought is that you can take some of that Cum and try to be impregnated by allowing the sperm to find an egg like normal. That means you don't use the sperm to keep yourself alive.
"To counter that you would need to gain a lot more sperm a lot more often," Rick said. And waited…
"I see." Kate had never really thought about having kids at all. She wasn't even sure she was going to find someone to marry let alone have kids with. "Which do you think it is?" Kate deflected so she would have time to think about that.
"I've been kind of busy reading all I could to formulate an opinion. The problem is both sound plausible. There are a couple more things.
"First have you had a chance to look at yourself? Naked, I mean. Because I have. Check your chest for me," Rick asked her. "See if you still have that scar."
Kate didn't get it. While he had seen everything and done even more, Kate turned her back to him, opened her shirt, and ran a finger over her scar. Dumbfounded, she did it over and over again. Then she spun to face him with her finger on her scar.
"It's gone!" Kate stared at him in shock.
"You're a Succubus. For a Succubus to lure in a man into sex she has to be perfect. Be his perfect woman. Perfect breasts, perfect legs, perfect skin. Baby-smooth skin everywhere," Rick said. "I'm betting every scar you think you have is gone now. They'll always stay gone. We're Demons, we have to be perfect."
Kate gaped at him and kept running her finger over perfectly smooth skin where her bullet wound had been. Now she wanted to take her shirt off to look at the scar where they had operated on her damaged heart. It wasn't even the only scar she had.
Her scars was one more reason why Castle wasn't going to want her. Demming hadn't said anything but she didn't really care about Demming all that much. She was hiding from Castle.
"What's the other thing?" She was already in information overload. But she had asked for Castle to look up all he could and he had clearly done that.
"Us. We're Demons and if they're right we're going to live an incredibly long time. Think about it. We both need Cum. I can give you all the Cum you need. You can give me all the Cum I need. Neither of us have to get our Cum from someone else. Maybe several someones. Granted, with hypnosis the person will never remember but that will be a lot of people.
"Even if say the United States and Russia decide to blow up the planet, we know where two doors are that lead to that staircase full of doors. We're Demons. Just find a door that takes us to a place that we like. Don't like it, go back through the door.
"Aliens show up and want to kill all of us. Go through one of those two doors. An asteroid is going to hit Earth, go through a door. Pandemic, use a door. Want to go on vacation, go through a door. Grab Alexis, your dad, Lanie, the guys and Jenny.
"Just how many doors lead to Earth?" Rick questioned her.
However, Kate was mostly stuck on his first statement. They could talk about those doors some other day. "You want us to be lovers?" She was trying to be ready for him. Was she being forced to be ready because she had been changed into a Succubus?
"I want you to think about us being lovers. We each have what the other needs. Say we live an incredibly long time. Do you really want to have that many lovers to get the Cum you need to live? Based on how badly I wanted you we're going to be forced to get the Cum we need any way we can. Even if that means killing someone.
"What if it isn't only our bodies that are changed? What if our minds have also been changed? We might be worried about killing someone. But what if we don't care after we do it? According to what I've read Demons like us are inherently Evil. We may be fighting that Evil all our lives.
"If we do it together we might be able to help each other. Santa is going to bring me a whole lot of coal if I become Evil," Rick told her.
That had Kate grinning. He would bring up Santa, Aliens, and whatever else. She was waiting for him to say something about Zombies next.
"Can I think about it?" She was still fighting herself over Castle. She couldn't lose him but how was she going to keep him?
"You have till that need starts to overwhelm you. Just like back on the stairs." Rick was more than willing to give her time. It was just if she didn't he needed to plan for that. Who was he going to get the Cum he needed from?
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It is two weeks later
Kate was having what she felt was what a junkie must feel when he needed a fix. She was restless and she was in pain. She was even a little sweaty. She was pacing as she waited till finally there was a knock on her door.
Not caring who was on the other side she flung open the door and found Castle. She had called him and asked him to come over. "Castle!" Kate grabbed him and yanked him inside. Closed and locked the door, then dragged him to her bedroom.
"I need you, Castle. I need you to fuck me. I can't take it any longer. It's not as bad as that time on the stairs but it's getting there." Kate hurriedly took off her clothes and watched Castle do the same.
"FUCK MY PUSSY, CASTLE!"Kate demanded and cried out from part pain and lots of pleasure when he plunged his massive beautiful Cock deep into her pussy. She had nearly forgotten just how amazing his Cock really was.
"FASTER! HARDER! FUCK ME!"
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Kate was resting next to him. They were both still Demons and naked. She had given him a blowjob after he had fucked her and tasted herself on his beautiful Cock. That combined taste of them was even better than just his taste alone. He had eaten her Pussy and when he had stopped she had asked why he had stopped? He wasn't suppose to stop.
He had climaxed two more times inside her. She felt so great right now. Better than she ever had before. Even after that first time on the stairs.
"We can be lovers, Castle. I can't deny that I love your Cock. I need your Cock. But I don't love you…yet." Kate needed to find a way to stop fighting this. Fighting them.
"We have forever, Kate. We'll get there. I'm willing to wait," Rick told her. "I think you're worth waiting for."
Kate turned her head so she could press her face into his body. She was trying to stifle herself, to keep from crying. He was such a sweet man. She didn't know what he saw in her. She was just a cop and she was a mess. But she didn't want to be a mess. She wanted to be worthy of him. She was trying to find a way to love him. To show him that she was capable of loving him.
Perhaps if he was right about just how long they would live she would eventually get there. She even had an idea about those two doors they knew about that led to that staircase.
What if they made emergency backpacks? Filled them with essentials that they might need if they ever did use either of those two doors. If those doors lasted long enough for them to use them.
Use those stairs to find a new place to live. Just so long as they didn't end up on one of those layers of the Abyss. She wasn't Evil and she didn't want to be Evil. She was even willing to help Castle to prevent him from becoming Evil. He had that right. They were better off working together.
Maybe one day they might even end up married. As for children she would see about that later. She wanted Castle to be her one and done. She just needed to find the courage to jump in with both feet and love him.
Rick gently moved her head away from his body, exposing her tears. But instead of calling her out on her tears, he kissed her. "Ready for round four, I think it is?"
Kate grinned wide. She wasn't tired yet. "Yes, always."