It's about Time
Chapter 14
Kate woke up and found herself right where she wanted to be. Even better, a very naked, very buff Rick was basically all over her. His arm was holding her tight to him and they were face to face. All she saw was his closed eyes. Though as more of her woke up she also felt his body next to hers.
All those times when she had woken up alone after such amazing sex she had either found him in the shower or in the kitchen trying to cook for her. She'd had to take over to prevent him from burning the place down, but he was at least still there. Now he was right where she wanted him.
She had deflected his questions, saying she didn't want him angry with her which she was convinced that he would be. He had promised that he wouldn't be angry with her, but she knew different.
In the end she'd won by agreeing to talk about it tomorrow. After sex, the type of sex she had come to love with him. Granted it had been mostly one-sided with his head planted firmly between her legs. She still wasn't just sure when her mind left her and her body took over. She now relished what he could do to her. After three weeks of pain and displeasure that made her life miserable, she was now happy.
"Morning." She heard Rick's voice and she had been caught daydreaming and she actually started to blush. She glanced up at him looked directly into his eyes. All she saw there was love. She was already calm and relaxed, now she was even more so.
"Morning," Kate murmured and couldn't resist reaching out to give him a quick kiss. She even overlooked his – and likely her own – morning breath. She finally liked or actually loved what this man had done to her.
"Ready to talk to me now?" He had wanted answers last night and had reluctantly let her deflect and delay. It was time to pay up.
Kate groaned and tilted her head down so she didn't have to look at him. She was still enjoying the morning and Rick wanted to ruin it.
"I've already promised that I won't be angry," he said quietly as he used a finger to tip her head back up so he could see her eyes. "So? …It's time for the truth."
She gave him another quick kiss since it might be her last. She decided to start way back long before he met her. "It was 1939. My parents were dead. I was singing and stealing to survive. Then I was found by the State. At first I feared what they were going to do. However, they had decided that the Jews were the problem and I could either go to prison or I could infiltrate the Jewish population and feed them information. …I chose to be a spy.
"Then the war started and the State feared the United States so I was given a new choice. I chose to go to the U.S. and steal military information. Once again I chose to be a spy." Kate gave him a moment to tell her to stop and get out. But he didn't. He just laid there and kept looking at her. In fact he didn't say anything at all. She took a deep breath and kept going. "I was doing relatively well. I was gathering information, though none of it was overly important. Then I got a chance at a colonel and a general. I actually gained a lot of information. And I also killed both of them." Kate paused yet again so Rick could tell her to get out, but he didn't.
"I was about to escape when I was discovered and chased by the military police. I created a crash to try and help get away. Except it didn't totally work out. I crashed and was ultimately killed." Kate paused again since she had just told him that she was dead. Except he just kept looking at her.
"That was when I met the Devil. I was in Hell except it didn't really look like Hell. There was no fire, no volcanoes, no flowing lava. It was rather hot but it was a desert. Just not the Sahara Desert. More a high desert with scrub brush. He gave me a task to do and since that got me out of Hell, I took it. I ended up killing someone then returned to Hell. That was when he gave me a new task.
"It seems these aliens had come to Earth and they were a threat to the human race. My job was to help them and I have been. Or had been until recently. …Oh, and I've been killing people and police since I've been here." Kate stopped since she was mostly done and he was still just looking at her.
"I'll go now." She was sure he hated her now. Except the second she moved a little he stopped her and pulled her in even closer. "Rick? I'm evil and I'm a killer." He had good reason to hate her.
Rick suspected it was bad and the more he listened the more confirmation he got that it was bad. There was still one thing, though. "Why are you here…with me?" He knew why he wanted her close and why he wasn't sending her away.
"Rick." Answering his question wasn't going to change anything.
He pressed her for an answer. "Why, Kate?"
Kate found tears were starting. There was only one answer and she couldn't help herself for it. "Because I love you. I just wish I had met you before 1939." Her life would be so very different. It wouldn't have been so hard. Her life would have been different.
"Anything else?" Rick felt like there was something she was skirting around. Trying to avoid telling him.
"Rick, please?" She wasn't even really human anymore. Except he just kept looking at her. "Lucifer changed me. I'm not human any longer. He called me a Dark Phoenix." There she had told him. "You hate me." He couldn't do anything else.
"On the contrary, I love you. All of you. I'm interested in seeing this Dark Phoenix part of you, but I'm not scared," Rick said instead of telling her to get out.
Kate's fear went to something she had never felt before. It actually had her heart pounding. "You love me?" No one had ever told her that she was loved. Not like he just had. She even saw it in his eyes. Now her tears were back. He loved her. It shouldn't be possible.
He bowed his head for a moment. "I have my own confession, though."
"You really are married and have kids." She should have known it was too good to be true. Nothing good ever happened to her.
"I have my own story." What he didn't know was if she was going to like it or not. He was betting she wouldn't. Still he needed to tell her since she had told him her story.
"It's 1939. I'm in New York City and I'm employed by the FBI. My job was to infiltrate a human trafficking ring that was working in the city. They were capturing and selling young white women to foreign buyers. My job was to infiltrate the group, identify who the leaders were, and put an end to it." Rick paused and saw concern in her eyes but she didn't stop him.
"It took me a year and a half to get in close. They had already shipped out I don't know how many young women as sex slaves. I was finally included in the processing of one group. Not everything went all that well. Three of the woman weren't white so they were singled out and not sold.
"Those three were going to be raped by the workers. I stabbed one of them and then killed the other. But I took a knife in the back. Then I chased down the container that was filled with women who had been sold. I found it and reported it. Then I bled out and died." Rick paused again and saw the look on her face. She looked hurt, concerned, and interested all at the same time so he kept going.
"I found myself in what I took to be Heaven and then I met God. He gave me a task that I completed." Now Rick saw shock on her face.
Kate didn't know why she was so shocked that he had met God. After all she had met Lucifer so if he existed it stood to reason that God existed.
"After I completed that he gave me a new task. An alien race of statues had come to Earth. They had the power to send people back in time and would gain in power with each person they touched. Eventually the human race would be removed from the planet." Rick heard her suck in a breath.
Kate almost couldn't believe it. He was here for the same reason. She was just betting it wasn't to help the aliens.
"I've been putting handcuffs on their wrists and securing them to the concrete. Yeah, that was me. Except a few have been getting free since they're gone." Still puzzled by that he shook his head.
Kate scrunched up her face and gave him her best please don't be angry look. "That would be me. I've been melting them then escaping before they could touch me." She didn't know what would happen if they did touch her but she was betting it wouldn't be good.
"So God sent me to stop them and Lucifer sent you to help them." Rick was adapting to all of this a little better than she was.
"God sent you, so I suppose that makes you an Angel. Something I definitely am not." She wasn't even close. She hadn't even blinked about killing all those people.
Rick reached out and placed a hand on her bare breast. Kate's first thought was that he was initiating another round of sex which she was still more than happy to do. Even if he was an Angel.
"But you are, Kate. In here, deep in here, you still are. Your early life sent you to where you are now. That was all God's work. He has a plan for everyone, even you." Rick was sure of it.
"If he has a plan I can tell you that I don't like it." Her early life had been hell. It was why she had no trouble ending up in Hell.
Rick only had one question. "Do you still love me? I still love you." She worked for Lucifer and he still loved her.
That had Kate searching his eyes. She could see that he was telling the truth. He did still love her.
"Yes, but I don't know why. But yes." Kate felt the tears that had stopped beginning to come back. He was the only man who could make her cry and it wasn't because he had caused her pain. "Now what do we do?"
She didn't want to lose him. She loved him. It was just that they were working from opposite ends. His job was to save humanity and hers was to help put an end to it.
Kate had her answer a moment later when she felt his finger stroke the lips of her core. She sucked in a breath. "We can discuss it over breakfast. After you get me hard and I fuck your brains out." Rick saw her face brighten and her smile widen as she kissed him.
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Kate was standing in a kitchen that looked like no other kitchen she had ever been in. Actually the entire house looked like one she had never been in. Given that Janelle might come home unexpectedly, they were both dressed.
"Rick, what are we going to do?" She had a guy and she wanted to keep him. She was actually starting to dream of a future that she didn't get to have. It was just that they were effectively fighting each other. He was good and she was evil.
He then made a request. "No sausage for me, please, but you can cook the entire package of bacon. …Please, my love."
Hearing that had Kate turning to look at him. She had called him baby but being called his love was a first for her. It only reinforced her desire to keep him. "Lucifer is going to kill me and throw me into Hell for this." She didn't see where she had much of a future.
"God forgives everyone and He has a plan," Rick countered serenely.
Kate snorted out a huff of a laugh. She was owned by Lucifer. God didn't have anything to do with this mess.
"Never discount the power of God. We just need to come up with a plan and pray that it will work." Rick was already starting to formulate a plan and it was a wild one.
"I don't have your faith, baby. My life hasn't generated any faith for my life to be any good." Kate flipped his bacon and kept on cooking.
"Then it's a good thing I have enough faith for both of us! I've got an idea but you're not going to like it." Rick was ready to run it past her. Maybe together they could smooth it out and make it work.
"If it means we get to stay together I'm listening. …Bacon." She put his plate full of bacon on the counter. She settled for a couple of his pieces and some toast.
"Okay, hear me out before you shoot me. You lived during WWII same as I did, meaning you were born in the 1920s like I was. We both managed to survive the Depression."
"That the United States created and took the rest of the world with them." To Kate, Hitler would never have been created if Germany hadn't fallen into the same Depression that the States started.
Rick glared at her. "Our aliens will touch you and send you back to a time. To a time where you will die before you were actually born; that way they grow in power based on your life time that is lost. Or not really lost, just changed."
"Don't blink." Kate got that part but what did that have to do with them being together?
"Don't blink," Rick agreed. "Say the average lifespan is ninety years so if they touched us we would be sent… roughly a hundred years before we were actually born. Ignoring that the year is presently 2012."
Kate stopped eating her toast in mid bite. He wasn't serious!? Was he? "Let them touch us?"
"We'll get sent back into time. Somewhere around 1820 or so I'm guessing. Both of our jobs here are done since the aliens will be in our future. You will have sacrificed your future and God forgives everyone, even you. Your sacrifice means Lucifer can't do anything to you and we live our lives." It needed some more detailed planning, but that was the gist of it.
Kate stared at him like he was crazy. "Live in 1820. No electricity, no refrigeration, no cars, no nothing. They touch us and poof we're gone. You've lost your mind!" His plan sucked.
"Well it will be 1820 so we won't have any of those. However, I'm hoping that what touches us goes with us. Our clothes and anything that touches us," Rick posited. Granted he didn't know but it kind of made sense.
"Hope?" Kate laughed bitterly. "Hope is for losers. This plan sucks."
He spelled out his plan hoping to convince her. "If we tape gold coins to our body they should go with us. We'll be rich based on how many coins we can tape to our bodies. Gold coins is just one thing. We can tape drugs, wear clothes like big heavy coats and boots, gloves or mittens, hats, sunglasses, anything we can think of."
Kate thought about it. "Rich in 1820." She kept thinking about it. "Okay, but where will we end up?" She meant where not when.
Rick shrugged a shoulder. "Since we're in New York City I'm guessing we won't move except for the difference in time. Though we need to find a statue and allow it to touch us."
"1820 New York City with gold strapped to our bodies. Can we do a lot of research first?" If they did this she wanted to plan what was going to get strapped to her body.
"So you're willing to do this?" Had he just heard a yes from her? He grinned widely at her.
"You said you loved me." She would help with this stupid plan if it meant she could keep him.
"I do." Rick stepped around, wrapped his arms around her, felt hers go around him, and then kissed her. He divided up who got what. "I'll get the gold and the material to wrap it to our bodies. You worry about what you personally want."
"You think this is going to work?" It sounded too weird and wild to work. Plus they needed a lot of luck, something she had precious little of.
"Even if all the stuff stays behind, I've got you. My little angel." Rick smiled lovingly at her.
"More Dark Phoenix than angel. …Do I bring my stuff here?" Where did they gather up all this stuff?
"Here will work. We have a limited time frame, though. Janelle's going on a vacation in a month then moving so we have that long to get what we want."
Kate sighed as she leaned into him and let him hold her. She was going to need a list of things she couldn't live without. Things that would still work in 1820. "This is nuts, baby, but I'm in. I'll start my list when I get home." She stayed right where she was for the moment.
Rick cleared his throat then said, "By the way, I was at your place. What happened? It was filled with police."
"Don't ask, you'll hate me and not want to do this. …Please, baby!" She was evil and had done evil things.
"You can tell me everything after we go back in time. Keeping too many secrets isn't a good idea. A few are okay, but that sounds like a big one. Promise?" She needed to promise or they might be over already.
Kate had to think about that. If she waited until they were both in 1820 and he decided to leave her it wouldn't be anything new. She had been alone most of her life. She would simply be alone in 1820 New York City. She was going to need to get her own gold just to be safe.
"Fine, I promise." Kate didn't let go of him. Next was to start a list and then bring it all here.
"Do you have money?" If she didn't he could give her some.
"I have enough." She had two new credit cards that she hadn't even barely touched. "I need your address. This place and time has something called an Internet. I could buy it that way and have it shipped to here."
"Good thinking!" He liked that idea a lot and it earned her yet another kiss.
They both just held each other and allowed themselves to enjoy the idea of having a possible future together.