CH73
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Kate stepped thru the front door and found a large empty room. It was difficult to figure out what kind of store this used to be since everything was gone. However there was graffiti on all the walls. Clearly gang crap marking their turf.
Since Jill said nothing she moved forward across the large open space, feeling very exposed.
"I have someone in my scanning range. He is stationary and is above you." Jill tells her.
Problem was Kate didn't see any stairs going up or down. So she continued to the only door on the far side.
Castle meanwhile had opened the rear door easily also. Not impressed with their security he moved inside and found the place was almost packed wall to wall and floor to ceiling with box's, crates and what looked like foot lockers.
Castle started reading what was stamped on the side of some of them. "Oh, you have to be shitting me?" Castle slumps a little at what he is finding but picks himself back up quickly.
"Jack?" Castle asks.
"I'm scanning weapons or several types, along with grenades, several pounds of Simtex, RPG's with spare rockets, as well as crates of ammunition." Jack tells him.
Castle steps up to what looks like a foot locker that is latched closed and decides to have a peek. Opening each latch carefully he opens the lid.
"Oh I don't like this place much anymore." Rick moans to himself.
"That is a pair of FIM-92 Stinger missile systems." Jack tells him.
The FIM-92 Stinger is a personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM), which can be adapted to fire from ground vehicles or helicopters (as an AAM), developed in the United States and entered into service in 1981. Used by the militaries of the United States and by 29 other countries, it is manufactured by Raytheon Missile Systems, under license by EADS in Germany and by Roketsan in Turkey with 70,000 missiles produced. It is classified as a Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS).
"Jill we have stepped into a massive weapons storage facility." Rick talks to Jill thru Jack and knows that Jill will pass it on to Kate.
Closing the lid Rick moves on till he finds a door leading out of the room and into the rest of the building.
Kate meanwhile has been told by Jill what Castle has found pretty much mimic's Castle's reaction, and then picks herself back up. You didn't leave stuff like that unguarded.
Kate made it thru the door. "The door on you right leads to stairs that go up. … There is a man starting down the stairs now." Jill tells her.
Kate quickly backs up thru the door she just came thru and mostly closes it, leaving a crack so she can see thru. "Tell Jack." Kate whispers.
Kate shoulders her X-95 and pulls out her taser and waits.
Soon the door opens and a man dressed mostly blue jeans with a black top steps out and then turns his back to Kate and closes the door.
Kate takes this moment to open her door a little further and fires her taser thru the opening. And gets to watch him dance around and shake a little then fall to the floor.
Stepping to the door she kneels down and drops the taser and pulls out a zip tie and binds his hands behind his back. Not wanting to carry his weapon around with her she takes it and quickly field strips it taking a small part with her.
"Jill one down, tell Jack." And Kate moves on to finish clearing the ground floor.
Castle meanwhile has opened his door and looked down the hallway beyond. "The first door on your left is a water closet. There is a man sitting on the toilet." Jack tells him.
"That explains why the back door is not guarded." Rick talks to himself. Rick steps up to the door. "Locked?" Rick whispers.
"Negative." Jack replies.
Rick lets his Steyr hang from his shoulder holster and pulls out his taser. Counting to himself. 'One, two, three. And opens the door in and fires at the guy sitting on the toilet and gets to watch him dance while sitting.
Happy with the result Rick steps in and pulls him off the toilet to fall on the floor and pulls out a zip tie and binds his hands. Taking his weapon he field strips it and takes a small piece with him. Then stepping back outside he raises his Steyr once more.
"Jill is now in my scanning range." Jack tells him.
The next door up on his left turned out to look like an old office that still had a broken desk in it. Kate and Castle met at the next door that turned out to be a closet.
"Jack?" Castle asks.
"There is one within my scanning range above us, he is moving to the rear of the building and is now out of my scanning range." Jack informs him.
"Jill?" Kate asks.
"The earlier one upstairs is now out of my scanning range, however he never moved." Jill informs her.
"I'm betting that one is Wichita." Kate tells Castle.
"The other is probably another guard." Getting a nod from Kate.
"I'll take the front stairs and Wichita." Kate offers.
"And I'll take the outside fire escape." Castle tells her.
"Be safe babe." Kate tells him and gives him a quick kiss and is off.
Rick has made his way back outside and slowly up the fire escape to the door on the second floor.
"No one within scanning range." Jack tells him, so he opens the door and steps inside. Inside he finds himself in a kitchen area. There is a small table and chairs and what looks like leftover food from lunch on it. And he can smell coffee brewing.
Stepping over he finds it's a simple Mr. Coffee machine. "Barbarians." Rick is not impressed.
"Someone has entered my scanning range. He is headed this direction on this level." Jack warns him.
Rick quickly looks around. There was no place to go. It was just a little kitchen with no other doors except the one leading to the outside, so Rick takes it and steps back out onto the fire escape, and closes the door.
"He is now standing at the coffee maker." Jack tells him.
Rick counts to three and opens the door while leveling one of this Steyr's at him. The guy with the coffee is relatively quick. He has dropped the coffee mug and the coffee dispenser pot and has started to pull his weapon from his holster and start turning.
However it takes way too long to accomplish this and Rick puts a short burst into his chest just as he turns. Rick would rather have taken him alive, but he had already used up his only taser round on the guy downstairs.
Rick steps up and flips him so he is face down and pulls out zip tie and binds his hands, and then checks for a pulse. And is surprised when he finds one. "So you have a vest under all that." Rick tells himself.
"Jack inform Jill of this." And Rick gets up and heads for the open door way. It turned out to be a hallway with 3 doors all on his left side. He was going to have to stop at each one and clear it before moving on.
Kate meanwhile has started up the stairs and comes out into the same hallway, except all the way at the other end.
"There is only one person in my scanning range, and he is still stationary to your right. And Richard has encountered one more person. He was wearing a vest under his clothing." Jill warns her softly.
Kate steps to her right and finds herself in a living room area. There is a ratty looking sofa off to her left and a pair of chairs to her right with a broken coffee table between them. Up against the windows is a small TV that is one with what looks like a sports game of some type. Not that Kate cares what one.
"Jill?" Kate offers first chance.
Jill thinks she knows what Kate means after seeing how devious Richard is. "Daddy why? I was a good girl." Jill tries to mimic her voice.
The man in the chair spins shocked at what he heard and stands. "You! You bitch." And starts to draw his weapon.
Kate however is expecting it and puts a short burst into his left leg. Wichita goes down screaming in pain while losing control over his weapon as it and he fall to the floor.
Kate steps over to kick the weapon away. "Jill." Kate whispers.
"Why daddy? I didn't do anything wrong." Jill again tries to mimic her voice.
"You were going to talk baby. I had to, I had to." Wichita answers thru the pain of his leg.
"Jack is coming up behind you." Jill whispers to Kate.
Kate turns to see Castle enter the room. "He killed her Rick. He actually killed his own little girl." Kate twists to rest her head on Castle's chest.
Castle lets go of his weapon to allow it to hang from his harness. "It's alright Kate. At least she is free of him." And Castle rubs circles on her back trying to sooth her.
He stops and leaves Kate and puts a short burst in his other leg, getting another cry of pain from Wichita. Castle bends down and searches him for his burner phone. Finding it he pockets it and goes back to Kate.
"We should leave and make a call." Castle tells her.
Kate looks up at him and nods her head and allows Castle to lead her downstairs.
Once in the car. "We can't leave them and all those weapons behind Kate." Castle reminds her.
Kate looks at him with a tear running down her face and nods. "Jill call the operator for me."
"Dialing." Jill tells her for the first time.
"Operator."
"Code name Natasha Fatale, code Narf, Duh, 4418, Zeta Gamma 0000, Pink Submarine, Rock Hudson." Kate responds.
"Name and code verified. How may I help you?"
"I need a pick up for four and a hazardous weapon cleanup at the following address." And Kate gives the address.
"Size of cleanup?"
"18 foot U-haul." Kate responds.
"One moment. …. Pick up in 45 minutes. Cleanup in 2.5 hours." And the call ends.
"Take me home Castle, I need a shower and a hug from Alexis." Kate tells him softly.
"Only if you're willing to share Kate." Castle counters.
Kate looks at him."The shower or the hug?"
"Both actually, I need to wash the stink of this place off me and I could use your arms around me at the moment." Castle tells her. Getting a grin from Kate.
"Jack, clone the phone for me."
"Scanning, …. Scan complete. Cloning complete." Jack tells him and Castle hands Kate the phone. Who promptly takes it apart and breaks the flip screen off and throws the whole mess out the window of the moving car.
Kate and Castle were standing in the shower with water falling all over them. They had long since finished washing and now were just standing there with their arms around each other.
"He killed his own daughter Castle. All because of Bracken. … That man has more blood on him than Jack the Ripper." Kate finally talks after they haven't said a word since stepping into the shower in the first place. "I want him Castle before he kills someone else."
"And we will Kate, we will. If he doesn't do something stupid in a few days, say a week at most, we'll see if we can't give him a little push." Castle agrees. "Now go give Alexis a hug and a kiss and meet me downstairs. I'll have a glass of wine waiting for you." Castle offers.
They both step out and dry off and find some sweats to put on. Kate heads for Alexis's room and Castle heads for the kitchen.
Finally Kate meets him in the living room and cuddles up next to him on the sofa and accepts her glass of wine.
"How was she?" Castle asks about Alexis.
"She was fine. Blissfully oblivious to everything Bracken has done. … You think we'll get him?" Kate is still a little worried.
"Oh we'll get him alright. I don't know if it'll be alive or dead, but we are going to get him. If we don't and he makes it to the Presidency that would mean he learns about Jack and Jill. He would learn that we were actively trying to stop him.
If he gets his hands on them he'll give them to hired assassins and turn them into killers." Castle comments sadly.
"Will you two find something else to talk about? The possibility of me becoming an assassin is overheating my processors." Jill tells them.
Kate and Castle chuckle. "Sorry Jill, I guess the topic is a little morbid." Kate comments.
"How about a more happy and hopeful topic?" Jack asks them.
Castle turns to look at Kate. "Boy or a girl?"
Kate is lost at the topic change. "What?"
"We've had lots of baby making practice lately. Boy or a girl?" Castle asks again.
"Boy." Kate responds quickly after catching up.
"Really, why?" Castle thought she would want another girl.
"Because we already have a girl and I want you to have a son Castle." Kate tells him looking into his eyes and starting to drown in them.
"Natasha Fatale?" Castle asks her puzzled.
"You told me to choose something obscure, something no one would suspect, including you." Kate counters defending her choice.
"I suppose that makes me Boris Badinov and we both work for the Fearless Leader?" Castle questions.
Kate grins at him. "You are way too big to be Boris, Castle. Way too big." And she grabs his crotch.
And they are soon in a lip lock trying to navigate the stairs and into their bedroom while never leaving the lips of the other.