It's all about Time
Chapter 12
Kate was presently sitting outside in one of the chairs on the patio of her penthouse. She was reflecting on the last few days. Especially her latest date with Rick playing ping-pong. That stupid game had started out pissing her off. Really pissing her off. Finesse had its part in life but her life had never been about finesse. Life had been hard and men had always tried to use her. It was why she'd leapt at the chance to be a spy in the States. It meant she would be on her own and away from men ordering her around or trying to take advantage of her.
Rick was nice, almost too nice. He'd gotten her to laugh at herself for being so damn bad at ping-pong. He had turned what had been a really bad date into one she was never going to forget. He'd somehow managed to make it fun.
That had been followed by sex that truly boggled her mind. She still didn't understand how he did what he did. He turned her into an orgasm machine. She couldn't concentrate to ask him to stop even if she'd wanted him to. She couldn't even maintain control over her own body. She had been forced to just let her body have orgasms until she literally passed out.
It was just that she was there to help the aliens harm the human race. In fact she should be out there right now looking for them and trying to help them. One of the challenges with doing it at night was not getting touched. She might be the Dark Phoenix with amazing powers, but even she could be touched and sent back in time.
She sat there wondering what to do next. The longer she kept seeing Rick the more she was going to wish her life was different. The more she would want to keep him in any way possible. It was just that keeping him long term wasn't really possible. Not for her, not now.
"But I want him. …What the hell has he done to me?" She really needed to start coming up with their next date location, however she was stuck reflecting on what her life could have been. That was until someone knocked on her front door. Her date with Rick wasn't for another couple of days but it didn't stop her from wishing it was him. She already missed him.
She opened the door and found a pair of cops on the other side. "Mrs. Campbell?"
Kate immediately knew they were looking for the couple that used to live there. Now she had a new problem that needed to be dealt with. "They're not here. They're on vacation. I'm house sitting. Can I help you with something?" she lied perfectly.
"May we come inside?" They needed to be allowed to enter to search the place. They didn't know who this person was and the man that sent them there hadn't said anything about a house sitter.
"Of course. Please." Kate stepped aside and motioned for them to enter. She closed the door behind them and turned to see them looking the space over. The place was rather impressive. It was one of the reasons she had chosen it.
But she knew she didn't have any identification and that they would ask for some soon, so these two had to go. Kate became the Dark Phoenix and shot multiple needles of fire into their bodies, about twelve to thirteen for each of them. Every fiery needle went through their bodies and came out the opposite side with ease. They were both effectively dead before their bodies hit the floor. A drawback to this was that now they began to bleed onto the floor.
"Damn it! Now I have to either get rid of you two and find a new place to live." She could get rid of the bodies easily but she knew other officers would show up looking for these two. She could easily just kill them as well. It was just that she couldn't keep that up forever.
"And what the fuck do I tell Rick after I move?" These two just made her continuing to date Rick that much more difficult. As much as she hated the idea she might have to stop seeing him. She was there to help the aliens, after all. Rick was just a benefit of this job.
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Kate had gotten rid of the cops and since they were now both ash floating around the city with the wind, it should keep the other cops busy wondering just where they were.
She'd also packed up all of the clothes and other things she'd purchased for herself into a small suitcase and moved into a new place to live. It was another penthouse apartment in a slightly different part of the city. It had meant getting rid of the occupants, but she didn't have a problem with that. This time it had meant a man and a woman as well as a child about five years old.
Now she had one whole day to try and get used to the new place as well as search for money, credit cards, and anything else she might be able to use.
Her new address was 12 Greene Street, SoHo, New York, New York. It was so totally different from her last home. There were two different open air terraces. One had a shallow reflecting pool. She was also convinced these people had a green thumb since there were plants everywhere on both terraces. There was also a whole lot of glass.
Unfortunately they had very questionable taste in interiors. The dining room was filled with really dark gray wood walls and flooring. So dark that they were almost black. And then there was the master suite. They had used a very bright and colorful floral wallpaper on three of the walls. Even worse was the fact that they'd found a matching fabric and hung it from the ceiling. It made the ceiling over the bed barely seven feet tall. It was hideous and right after her date with Rick she was ripping it down. Maybe she'd even buy some paint and paint the walls. She wasn't sleeping in this room with it looking like this.
There were at least two more bedrooms and maybe a third though the third was so tiny and didn't have a closet so she didn't know what that room was used for. There were four bathrooms and a mini kitchen on the roof. There were also three skylights with two open to areas below. Save for the dark dining room and that stupid bedroom she kind of liked it. The kitchen was even larger than the old kitchen and had a lot more storage. It was closed off from the rest of the place.
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Right now she was outside her old home waiting for Rick to show up for their date. She needed to intercept him before he went inside since she didn't live there any longer. She'd come up with a reason to tell him. It was believable enough that he shouldn't question her.
She was looking forward to their date. He was supposed to show up in time for lunch so they would have all day and all night together. Wrapped up in her thoughts she actually almost missed him. She didn't know why but she hadn't been expecting him to be walking down the sidewalk to her building. She was expecting him to get out of a taxi. Seeing him had her running down the sidewalk. "Rick!" She caught him at the door.
"Hi, what are you doing out here?" He was expecting to find her inside her apartment.
"Small complication. You ready to go?" They needed a taxi.
"I'm all yours," he said with a smile and received a quick kiss for that. Then he watched her flag down a taxi for the trip.
"A hotel?" Rick questioned as the taxi stopped and they got out.
"They have two roofs and what we want is on both of them. I'm not sure just which roof we get." It had cost her a pretty penny. Well, the people that held the credit card she had used, that is.
Rick followed her since this was her date and raised both eyebrows when he saw where they were headed. "Tents?" There were three of them on this roof. Inside he saw a picnic table, Adirondack chairs, and a fake fireplace. It was actually a pretty good-sized tent. The flaps were tied open but it looked like if you wanted to you could close them and gain some form of privacy. "A picnic on a roof inside a tent. Interesting." He was thinking a picnic should be in a park or something, not a roof.
Kate grinned at him. "We can close the tent and you can bend me over the picnic table and take me if you'd rather do that."
Sex seemed to be something they had in common ever since they had started dating. "On a picnic table on a roof inside a tent… Kinky." Rick saw her smile grow wider. "Before or after lunch?" He was quite willing.
She almost squealed in delight. "After. I need the energy first." They waited for their attendant to appear so they could order drinks and food.
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"So where are your parents?" Rick asked while they ate.
That had Kate raising an eyebrow. So far they'd avoided talking about most of their past or even talking about their families or lack thereof. So what could she tell him? "They're dead." It was actually the truth. It was the year 2012 now so they were long since gone.
"Sorry." Rick feared he had hit a nerve. "So are mine. Seems we have that in common." He sighed. "Not having parents sucks." He missed them a lot.
"Yeah," Kate agreed easily. Making decisions with no support. No one to talk to. She was alone.
"Brothers or sisters?" he inquired only to watch her shake her head. She was an only child. "Neither do I. It was just me and mother all my life." He loved her and missed her terribly.
Kate heard something in that statement. "Your father?"
Rick shook his head. "He was a one night stand and I was the result. Mother never blamed him. He didn't even know that I existed. Mother did the best she could all her life. We never had all that much. I went through more babysitters that you could possibly imagine." He chuckled at the memory.
Kate smiled. It sounded far too much like her life. Save that she'd had both parents. "We never had all that much, either. Home was given to us by the State." The ruling power had taken them from the Jews and given them to certain families.
"They called me the miracle baby. My brother and sister both died from crib death, so I was told. They feared I would be joining them." Rick was the first person she had ever told that to. She couldn't help but tell him. Being around him was comforting as well as pleasurable.
"In Germany," he guessed since she spoke fluent German at the restaurant. She had even ordered their meal in German.
Kate nodded. "Germany was nice, it really was. The people were great and so helpful. It was a small town so everyone knew everyone." She laughed a little. "No one had secrets and everyone was a matchmaker. Every boy in town was my future boyfriend." She shook her head.
"And were they?" He had her talking and wanted to keep her engaged.
"One was. We lasted maybe six months before his family moved. My parents sent me to school in a larger city not long after that. I spent my days in the dorm or in the school rooms. That and the library." Kate had tried not to remember too much of those days.
They had finished eating and she got up and pulled the tent flaps closed. "Strip, baby, we're going to put this picnic table to better use," she told him after tying the flaps together. It left gaps so if anyone wanted to they could look inside and watch them. Something she didn't care about.
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Kate was smiling and actually felt really happy as she started untying the strings that held their tent's opening closed.
They'd had sex before and it had been amazing. However, most of it had centered around her. Rick ate her pussy and made sure she had more orgasms than she'd ever thought was possible. Then she had finally had him inside her. She'd really never done anything for him. Until now.
Yes, he had bent her over the picnic table and fucked her just like she had wanted him to. Granted it had been amazing. But before they got to that point she'd gotten on her knees and given his cock the complete tongue lashing it so richly deserved. She had even allowed him to climax in her mouth and she'd swallowed all of it.
She had kept licking and sucking his cock until he was hard again. That was when she was bent over the picnic table and so thoroughly fucked. She was certain that she'd screamed and begged him to fuck her. The tent walls were obviously thin, not that that had stopped her or even had been a consideration.
She didn't even scream when suddenly Rick's arms came around her from behind. She abandoned getting out of their tent and turned to face him. What she saw was his smile. "You in a hurry to leave?" he questioned.
Kate lifted her arms and slipped them around his neck. "No, but we only have this place for a couple of hours and I think our time's up. You have something on your mind?" Their lunch date was over but she was willing to spend the rest of the day with him and then all night.
He caressed her cheek. "If you're not in a hurry to go home I was thinking maybe we'd take a walk in the park."
She tilted her head and looked at him. "Are you just wanting to go find your statues in cuffs?"
Rick laughed softly. "Guilty as charged. There's just something about those statues that intrigues me. You don't suppose that they aren't actually statues, do you? I mean who makes statues that you can't see?" He looked deeply into her eyes.
"Living statues? What exactly did you have for lunch?" Kate teased, knowing full well that they were in fact real aliens.
"Well, it wasn't you. Not yet," he smiled and Kate was sure a blush was starting. This man was doing something to her and at the moment she didn't want it to stop. "Perhaps after our walk and maybe dinner somewhere we can fix that oversight," he suggested and silenced her response with a kiss.
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They had chosen a park at random and started walking, hand in hand. Both were happy to have the other close as they walked.
"Have you found a place to sing yet?" He really wanted to listen to her sing. "I can help you look for a venue if you'd like."
"No." Actually she hadn't considered trying. It was just something to tell him to cover what she was really there for. Not that she was even doing that. Her life was revolving around going out on dates and having mind-blowing sex.
"Then I guess I'll have to start looking for someplace special. That or you're going to have to give me a private concert." Rick leaned across as they walked and whispered into her ear. "I want to hear your voice."
Singing was something she had done to cover her work during the war. She was good enough to get by, but hadn't really thought of herself as being anyone special. Her voice wasn't that good. She was betting most of the men were looking at her boobs and the slit in her dress that showed off her long legs and not listening to how good a singer she was.
"Fine." He could look for a venue that would allow her to sing and get noticed. Besides looking for statues and helping them somehow it would give her something to do.
"I don't know where you live." It was the reason why she had to stake out where she used to live. It if happened again she could go to him.
"I rent a room and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to have a guest. We haven't talked about it, but I can show you where." Rick didn't mind.
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They hadn't found any statues with or without cuffs or shackles and were now in front of where Rick lived. "I live downstairs," he explained as he unlocked the door and led her down the stairs.
"Wow!" It definitely wasn't what she was expecting. He'd said that he was renting a room. She was thinking a typical bedroom with a bed and a dresser. The only thing this space was missing was a kitchen. It was huge just to be a bedroom. It was also a little barren and lacked personality. Save for the old wood joists at the ceiling there was nothing interesting about it except for the size.
"All this came with the space," he said.
Kate saw a place to sit, a place to eat, a dresser, and his bed. "Where do the stairs go?" The far wall held the only windows this place had along with another door. She started up the stairs.
"That leads to the courtyard. I'm decorating it. …Wait! It's not finished yet!" She needed to stop before she saw it. He only wanted her to see it after he was done.
Kate didn't stop, though, and she opened the door and went outside. Rick raced up the stairs to join her and tried to explain before she started dreaming up ideas based on what she saw.
What she saw was a mess. There were piles of stuff seemingly everywhere. There was a big hole in the ground that was maybe three feet wide and three feet deep and went from wall to wall. But what was on the wall was what had her attention.
"What's that?" Actually she knew what it was. It was just something she hadn't expected to find.
Rick stood behind her and looked at his mural. "You. It's what I see when I look at you."
"WHAT?" Her eyes huge, she turned to look at him. He couldn't possibly be serious. What was on the wall was clearly an angel and she was anything but that.
"You're the inspiration for the mural. That's what I see when I see you. You really should have waited until I was finished." It still looked a little raw and wasn't even close to being done. His bamboo hadn't arrived yet. He hadn't even started on the two islands that would hold the fire pits. They were even standing on dirt.
"You think… You really see…" She shook her head in disbelief. At one point in her life when she was really little she had dreamed of being an angel. Then her life had made a major change. Right after her parents had been killed. It had been blamed on the Jews. Now she was an agent of evil. She worked for Lucifer himself.
She felt tears begin to roll down her face. A life that she might have had was in front of her. The man that she greatly feared she was falling in love with and could do nothing to stop herself, saw this when he looked at her.
Kate had her hands over her mouth and let the tears flow. This amazing, naïve, sexy hunk of a man thought she was an angel. It was all too much for her. The life she was never going to have and what her life was now was just too much.
"No, this isn't me. I'm so sorry." Kate ran for the door, racing down the stairs, across his room, and back up the stairs. She burst out of the door and dashed toward the closest alley where she could change and fly away.
"WAIT!" She wasn't allowing him to explain. Why was she running? She was a real angel and he was falling in love with her.
By the time he reached the front door and was out onto the sidewalk he couldn't see her. She was gone. He at least knew where she lived so he could follow her home.
She was an angel and amazing so why was she running? He was sure he was seeing what she truly was. What could she possibly be afraid of?