Escape Plan
Warning: This story has Mature Content. Reader discretion is advised.
I repeat: Reader discretion is advised.
This is a Caskett story. No major character death or minor character death takes place.
This is an alternate reality story (That means it does not follow Canon too much)
One chapter only
"Castle," Kate whispered and nodded her head in the direction she wanted him to look.
They were at a dead body site. This time it wasn't Lanie and there were uniforms all over blocking traffic while a few were off knocking on doors and searching dumpsters up to a few blocks away.
It was their third dead body in three days. They had barely started investigating the first one when they got a second one. Now they had a third. But suddenly things had gone from bad to a lot worse.
"STARS." Rick had turned to look what she was looking at. "Do we?" Rick questioned her softly. He knew like Kate did just what having a STARS unit in NYC meant for them and anyone else like them.
Kate was conflicted. She was good at her job and she had not just one but three dead bodies to deal with. Families were going to want answers. However, she couldn't investigate and provide any answers when she and Castle were being hunted let alone jailed or killed dead.
"Go home, Castle, and get set up. I'll explain that I'm going to go talk to Lanie and meet you at our meeting location." Kate decided it was time to start running. She hated the idea of running. It was only that this was a fight she knew they couldn't win. It had been in the news for months. The formation of the STARS unit. It wasn't a city or even a state unit. It was a federal unit. They were even placed above the FBI.
They weren't just after them and their kind. If there were others that were helping them they would be arrested as well. They both knew they had friends that would willingly help them, but they couldn't do that to them.
Rick didn't say anything. He just left her, flagged down a taxi and headed for the loft where he would pick up their bags and throw GO BAGS over his shoulder. Then he'd walk out the back and go to the parking garage where their ride was sitting.
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"You two know what to do. I'm going to go talk to Lanie and see what she has on the other two. Three three days in a row. I mean one a day, three days in a row. See if you can connect the three. I know I hate this idea but what if we're working with a serial killer? He overloads so he can get away with them?" Kate gave them marching orders and hoped for the best. She wasn't going to be here to help them.
"Any more good news you care to share, Beckett?" Espo questioned.
"Just get started. But we don't have three white boards. Stay with the first one and I'll see what Lanie has to say. Keep on it," Kate said to them and hurried to her car.
The problem with using her cruiser was that it had a GPS chip in it telling someone somewhere where it was twenty-four hours a day and she was going a strange direction.
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Kate pulled into the Presbyterian Hospital and looked for their truck. She sighed in relief when she saw it right off. It was kind of hard to miss. Why she had let Castle talk her into this truck escaped her but it did fill their needs.
Kate left the keys in the cruiser's trunk after taking everything she wanted out of it and climbed into his precious truck. "At least the new paint job doesn't make us stand out like a sore thumb. Why did I let you talk me into this thing?" Kate shook her head.
"It's a 61 Divco Custom Milk Truck. Four seats and a bed to put stuff in. Ride Tech air management system. Power steering with four-wheel disc brakes. Corvette 5.7-liter V8 with a Demon Six Pack induction and custom ceramic coated headers.
"What's not to like? It has A/C and heat and Bluetooth. Who would suspect us trying to escape in this thing? Besides, with the paint job it even looks like a delivery truck," Rick argued.
"After you replaced the orange paint job and the custom wheels and tires with something older like I asked," Kate fired back at him. "We still stopping at Wegmans outside White Plains?"
"Right after we stop at Dick's Sporting Goods in White Plains. The house is four seasons but it's a ten hour drive, so we need coolers and camping gear. The reason for the bed in back," Rick said, checking for any suspicious vehicles.
"Yeah." He had her there. He was driving now but when he got tired she was going to take over and drive the rest of the way. "I never really believed this day would come. I mean, it's not like we're hurting anyone. We obey the laws and pay our taxes. I'm a homicide detective for Christ's sake." Kate hated this.
"I don't think they care," Rick muttered. Sadly Kate knew he was right so she sat there in her very comfortable ORANGE seat. The interior of this truck was something else entirely. It didn't match the exterior even a little now. But at least they did look invisible from the outside.
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1. Tent (and footprint, stakes)
2. Sleeping bags
3. Sleeping pads
4. Camping pillow
5. Headlamps or flashlights (and extra batteries)
6. Camp chairs
7. Camp table (if no picnic table)
8. Lantern (and mantles, fuel/batteries if needed)
9. Multi-tool
10. Duct Tape
11. Ratchet straps and bungee cords
12. Saw and axes
13. Cooking pans and pots
14. Eating utensils
15. Coolers
16. Plates, bowls, cups, and mugs
17. Matches and lighters
18. Solar and portable power
19. Fishing gear
20. Chainsaw (spare chains, oil, and fuel)
Wegmans was next where they got two full carts full of food. Very little of it was perishable. The time for fuel for the truck was next.
They were ready. They had lots of cash, fake names, and debit cards in their fake names, enough of it in a bank that was closer to where they would be hidden. Most of it was off shore.
They had seen it coming and Kate had let Rick do all the work. She'd checked over every action he had taken while making suggestions.
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It was dark and Rick was yawning when he pulled into a rest stop and they hurried to the restrooms. Even though they had a lot in the back they each put money in the vending machine and got something cold afterwards. Kate got behind the wheel and made sure the GPS unit was still set up so she knew where to turn.
Kate was actually glad to be driving. First she liked driving and it meant Castle was tired so he finally stopped talking. The radio choices were limited, but it was better than listening to Castle never stop talking.
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"Castle." Kate smacked his arm to wake him up and listened to him groan. He stretched and sat up straighter. "We're here. Welcome home."
12 Oak Point Dr, Portage Lake, Maine
It was a double A frame with two decks, a roof full of solar panels, well water, and septic system. Three bedrooms, one bathroom, a wood stove, one fireplace. The house was 1,024 square feet. And 2.29 acres with 300 feet of private lakefront.
There was no real road to reach it. It was basically a trail and Kate had been forced to go very slowly. There were rocks and pot holes everywhere. The closest town was miles away. Just getting here meant going over a questionable bridge.
The best way to get here was by boat but they didn't have that kind of boat. The house came with a pair of kayaks and a small fishing boat. It did, however, have a dock that reached out into Portage Lake so to go fishing didn't mean they had to use the boat.
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"Be it ever so humble," Kate said and moved to help Castle load the refrigerator after making sure the electricity was on to keep it all cool or frozen. Food came first, everything else came later.
"Start unloading the truck while I strip the beds and start laundry. I don't want to know how old those sheets are." They had bought it used and fully furnished. It was turnkey but they hadn't trusted that, so they had everything else.
It was interesting. All the exterior doors had these screens across them that were magnetic to hold them closed. They would find out later that when Maine got bugs, IT GOT BUGS! The kitchen was galley style and small. Limited cabinets and limited countertop space. Still, it did have everything they needed somehow. Not a lot of anything, but everything was here.
There were two TVs that were connected to a satellite dish, and one DVD player. The place even had a large propane tank. How they got it filled was another question.
There were fans in every room since they had no A/C system. The furniture was maybe questionable but they did have some. There was a BBQ set that used charcoal of which they had none. They had forgotten to purchase any. Though they did have a fire pit and a cast iron grill they could put over that.
The plates, bowls, and cups were in the living room on shelves and they actually looked pretty nice. There was a makeshift spiral staircase that went up to a loft. Up there they found stuff they didn't even know they had. They would figure that out later.
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Rick was sitting way out front by the fire pit the next morning. The bed wasn't his bed and he hadn't gotten much sleep because of it. They had three of them but only one queen size bed.
"Where are you going?" Rick's mind wasn't really working all that well just yet or he would know.
"Fishing. Dad taught me to fish, so I'm going to see it this lake has anything." Kate showed him her rod and tackle box. If the lures didn't work she would go hunting for worms.
"Have fun." Rick wasn't interested.
"I will." She was going to show him that her dad taught her how to fish. Fresh fish sounded nice to her.
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Kate was sitting on the dock with her line in the water waiting for a strike with her legs dangling over the side when out of nowhere, Castle sat down next to her.
"I'm sorry," Rick told her.
"About what?" She couldn't think of anything.
"That bed kept me awake so I didn't get much sleep and I'm grouchy. ...And angry. You would think that just because we're Demons that makes us evil and killers." Rick knew why they were way out here, away from everyone.
"I'm not happy about it either, Rick. I don't like running but what choice do we really have? They seem to have a way to detect us somehow. I don't see how, but they must have something.
"We stayed and we'd be found and after that I don't know. Prison, probably. Though with our strength where would that be? Or do they simply find a way to kill us?" Kate knew why they were here.
"I was thinking more uranium mine. We end up glowing in the dark while we pound on rocks," Rick said.
"I think you can stop thinking now, Castle. What I'm thinking is bad enough. But I'll let you make it up to me tonight," Kate said and smiled at him.
"I'll be only too happy to satisfy your needs, Kate." Rick leaned in and kissed her just as she got a bite.
"I got one!" She was going to be eating fresh fish! Her dad would be proud of her if he was alive to see it. Maybe it was better that he wasn't. He wouldn't like the world these days.
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It was late and they were sitting on these big, thick, leather recliners with this little table between them watching a movie. The place came with a few movies but Castle had used some of his precious space to bring a few of his own.
Since it was dark outside that meant they were running on battery power. There was a shed off to one side. Kate at first had thought it was an outhouse. Except that it was too big for that, and it had a window. Turned out it held the batteries and an emergency generator that ran on diesel that they had precious little of, but it was a big one. Not one of those little parking lot pregame party generators either.
It also held a workshop on the other side. Tools of all kinds. Some powered, most were not. There was also a lot of junk that Castle thought might be spare parts for something. A workbench and a cabinet full of items. All these little drawers and each one had something in them.
Since it was dark and they were on batteries they were sitting in the dark with just the light of the TV. "So which one of us goes up on the roof to brush all the snow off of the solar panels?" Rick asked since this was Maine. It snowed here. One of the reasons they had bought this place over others was it was that it was insulated and didn't have an attic space. There was no dead space in this place.
"You do. You're the man of this house, so you do," Kate informed him and grinned since she loved teasing him.
"Sorry I asked. I'd ask who chops the firewood for the wood stove but I'm afraid to." The wood stove was the only heat they had. They had a nice big stack of firewood already outside under a tarp. The house came with it.
"Well, if you're nice to me I might help." Kate was at least considering it.
"We could just cuddle for warmth," Rick suggested instead. Cutting down trees and then splitting them for firewood was one aspect of this place that he had overlooked.
"You mean like this?" Kate got up and came over to his chair. "Scoot over, Castle." Kate proceeded to nestle into his chair. Him on one side and the arm of the chair on the other. One arm went around his neck. "Like this?"
"Maybe with a little more kissing?" Rick murmured and watched as she leaned down to kiss him. While she was kissing him he felt her hand find his crotch. So it wasn't just cuddle, it was make out time as well.
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Kate was naked, Castle was naked. She was in his chair, scooted far forward, and he was massaging one of her feet. God that man had hands and knew how to use them. Then he started sucking on her big toe which had her giggling. The fact that he could make her giggle at all was one more reason to like him.
He had worked his way up her leg and simply blew on her soaking wet pussy, proving to her just how wet she truly was. And now he was sucking on her other toe followed by slowly working his way up that leg.
ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT! Kate shifted into her Succubus form, reached down to grab two handfuls of hair, and put his talented mouth where it would do the most good.
"Stop teasing me, Castle, and eat my pussy. Make me Cum all over your face." Kate kept hold of his head and watched as he shifted into his Incubus form. If he was going to get her Cum he might as well put it to good use.
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Four orgasms later and Kate found herself on her hands and knees in the dark with just the TV for light. He was rubbing the head of his cock up and down her slit.
"CASTLE!" He was teasing her again.
"You want me to fuck you?" This time Rick was enjoying teasing her instead of the other way around.
"Yes, I want you to fuck my pussy. Fill my pussy with your Cum." She needed his Cum to live and she had learned that when he climaxed he produced a lot of Cum.
But instead of ramming his cock inside her like she wanted – like she needed and had to have – he pulled on her hair which hurt. "Tell me you love me," Rick asked or demanded of her.
"What?" That wasn't a question she was ready for. Then all he did was yank on her hair and felt the head of his cock touching her pussy. "YES! I love you." They had been lovers for months but neither had actually told the other that they were loved.
"You mean it?" Rick asked and released his hold on her hair.
"Yes, I mean it. I love you. NOW FUCK MY PUSSY!" Kate felt him slam his cock inside her all the way till his body hit hers. It had her crying out from part pain and part pleasure. But that was soon changed to pure pleasure as he was pounding away at her pussy.
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Kate and Rick had just climaxed yet again. This time Kate was on top and was resting a moment while his erection was still deep inside her. He had the largest, most beautiful cock she had ever seen.
All this time she had been having one-night stands to get the Cum she needed. Rick had been doing the same. Then one day Kate decided he was her next one-night stand. Only she would remember. But it hadn't worked out that way.
That was the night each of them learned about the other. That was the night where they only had sex with each other. No more humans were needed. They just needed each other.
"That was mean, Rick." Kate put her palms on his chest and used her muscles to squeeze his cock.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Rick feigned ignorance only to have her smack his chest with a hand.
"You know what I'm talking about. That was mean. The way you got me to admit that I love you. I was working up to it. I would have told you eventually." She didn't know when that was but she had convinced herself that she would. One day.
"You're stubborn. Just what month or what year were you planning to admit that you loved me?" Rick demanded. Instead of answering him she squeezed his cock. "Kate?" It was part painful and part pleasurable.
"Tell me you love me too." Kate waited. She would stop after he told her that he loved her.
"I fell in love with you that first night we were together. Succubus and Incubus. We were made for each other. Admit it that's when you fell in love with me too." Rick smiled up at her. She did at least stop squeezing his cock.
"I did no such thing. You were an insufferable jackass who was full of himself. Spank you? What I wanted to do was knock that look right off your face. I was not one of your 20-something airheads. That crap didn't work on me. There wasn't anything about you to love back then," Kate argued.
"True, I was used to all those 20-somethings that had more air between their ears than brain matter. I thought I was doomed to one-night stands for life. How was I supposed to know there was a Succubus like you out there? Let alone one so beautiful and sexy. And so incredibly smart.
"But I changed. If I was going to get you, I had to change. I was actually thinking of keeping you. Just keep hypnotizing you and only have sex with you," Rick told her.
"Yes, you did." He had changed. He had changed a lot. Oh, he was still an insufferable jackass on occasion but that wasn't who he was any longer. He was different. "Lucky me." Kate bent down so she could kiss him and kept kissing him. Until she squealed from being spun and placed on her back. She had just enough time to place her wings in a good position or that would have been painful.
Kate felt her legs being lifted up into the air and suddenly he was fucking her.
"Yes babe. Fuck my pussy. Fill my pussy with your Cum. I need it. I want it. Fuck my pussy and don't stop," Kate begged. She was addicted to his cock and she knew it. Of all the cocks she'd had in her lifetime so far his was the biggest and most beautiful she had ever encountered. He fit her pussy so perfectly. As big as he was she could take all of him. Right down to the root.
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Months later
They had risked it. They'd gone into town and bought up all they could in the way of food. They had spent hundreds and nearly cleaned the little place out. Now most of it was upstairs in the loft area.
They were just in time too. Their milk truck had just over half a tank of gas in it and was sitting there getting snowed on. They were standing at the sliding glass door watching it snow. It was coming down heavy and hard and the wind was blowing.
"This is why I wanted an A-Frame," Rick said, watching it snow sideways.
"Probably a good idea. Enough snow and a regular roof might collapse. But was Maine such a good idea? Being right on a lake that has fish in it I understand. Somewhere in the Bahamas might have been nicer," Kate offered.
"We talked about that. This place was under two hundred grand. A place in the Bahamas might be a million or more. Granted, I have the money but if we're right, STARS would find us there.
"They will have found your car long before now. While the Captain might not put two and two together and come up Demon, I'm betting STARS will. We waited too long. Escape was our only option.
"If STARS was in the city, you can bet they were at the airport, the train station, and the bus station. There are no boats to Bahamas from New York City. Though I suppose I could have bought us one. Just we would have to stop at coastal towns all the way down the east coast and take our chances." He really hadn't thought about a boat till now when it was too late.
"Yeah," Kate agreed. They had waited till STARS had shown up instead of getting out of the city before they did. That was probably her fault. She was being stupid and stubborn again. But she had at least gotten one thing right. She had Castle and didn't need one-night stands that might put her in danger and end up caught.
Kate leaned into Rick because she wasn't afraid to tell him that she loved him any longer. "So, how much snow do we get out here?" She had left finding this place to Castle. She had simply agreed on it.
"Twenty-three inches in January alone. We'll get snow for seven months out of the year. That trail will be impassable to our little truck. Then it melts and turns everything into mud. At least a black work truck blends into the landscape more than that white and bright orange one would have." Kate had been right about that.
"Good thing we bought that store out. The floor joists better be able to hold it all." Kate looked up to see if she could spot a dip in the ceiling. They had a lot up there. The problem was their freezer was tiny so it was full of all the meat they could stuff into it.
"We'll be fine," Rick reassured her. "With all this snow no one will be coming this way. We can stay Succubus and Incubus twenty-four hours a day and not need food. Just each others Cum."
"True." He had a point and she felt one of his wings wrap itself around her which had her leaning in even closer. She loved him and she felt loved. It felt safe way out here. There was just one little problem.
"What are we going to do to keep ourselves busy? No more dead bodies." Kate knew sitting and doing nothing for too long just wasn't her. Be it in Maine or the Bahamas, she needed something to keep herself busy. Otherwise she might go mad and take Castle with her.
"I can think of one thing." Rick waggled his eyebrows and grinned down at her.
"Besides sex, mister." Though she was sure their days might be filled with just that. They were Demons and didn't really get tired. Sex for hours on end wasn't impossible. Not that they had tried to find out just how long they could each last.
"Spoil sport," Rick complained. Still, she had a point. He had his laptop and even a spare laptop so he could keep writing. Maybe someone would read them one day and maybe not. But writing was who he was.
"How are you with cutting down trees and turning them into firewood?" Their wood stove and fireplace was all they had to keep them warm during winter which had arrived in full force.
"In two feet of snow?" Kate looked up at him like he had lost his mind.
"I'll let you have one of my laptops. You can plan for our future. Where do we move to from here? Where do you want to go next?" They had internet access even if it was incredibly slow. Damn near dial-up slow, but they did have it. Satellite access wasn't very fast and unreliable.
"Beach. I want a beach next," Kate told him. "By the time we can leave here I might never want to see snow again for as long as I live."
"We have millions. Richard Castle is dead broke. I'm not," Rick said. "So go where you want. Just don't go overboard. If we're even half right we're going to be living a really long time."
"With STARS hunting for us all the way," Kate complained. It wasn't fair. They hadn't done anything. They hadn't killed anyone. In fact, her job was to hunt down killers, not be one.
"Hunting for Richard Castle and Katherine Beckett. Did I forget to mention that I already have three more fake names and ID for all three for later?
"Offshore corporate account is opened with an LLC that's then paired with an offshore Cook Islands trust. Have a few million stashed all over the place. This combination remains the most advantageous asset protection, privacy, and security money can buy," Rick informed her.
"No, you didn't." Kate poked his chest for that omission. She was worrying over something he had already solved. "But I love you anyway." Kate lifted up to kiss him.
"Good thing. I've been trying to find a good time to tell you that I loved you too. Just could never seem to find one." Rick kissed her.
"So we were both being stupid and stubborn." Kate sighed and shook her head.
"We're perfect for each other," Rick said and kissed the tip of her nose.
Kate smiled. "Yeah, we are," she agreed. So long as they were careful and didn't get caught they would live a long time together. "So um, just when did you plan to ask me to marry you? Get down on one knee and beg me?" Kate grinned since she was partially teasing. He didn't actually have to beg her. She knew what her answer would be already.
"I already have a ring," Rick revealed. "Bought it a couple of months ago."
"You bought me a ring? I want it! Gimme, gimme, gimme." She wanted to see her ring on her finger.
"Right after you tell me when you plan to have a baby." Rick waited for her response. They both knew they weren't sterile. That wasn't how it worked. Instead of absorbing his Cum to nourish her body she had to let some of it reach one of her eggs.
"Children!?" Kate looked up at him. She was a Succubus with one-night stands in her future that would never end. Having children never even entered her mind. "You want children?"
"You don't?" Rick returned.
"I don't know. I mean, I never even considered it a possibility before. I always got just enough Cum when I needed it. Not use any of it to get pregnant. I need time to think about that. Just not in a snow storm, please?" Kate asked.
"Beach baby." Rick liked the sound of it.
"Now gimme my ring. And you need to be down on one knee," Kate told him.
"Yes, Mrs. Castle," Rick teased her.
"That's Mr. Beckett, mister. Or whatever our new names will be when we get there." Kate teased him back.
It was almost perfect. Just get out of this snow. Find something to keep her busy. Create a baby and have a family that she was convinced she was never going to have.
They just had to avoid STARS somehow. One tiny little problem. One colossal headache. They were being hunted because of what they were, not because of what they had done.
Kate was waiting for him to come back and get down on one knee. "Wish you were here to see this, Mom and Dad. It just might blow your minds." Kate was smiling wide.