Doppelgänger 14

Rick walked past her and over to the edge of the pool. There he pulled a device out of his left wristband and started working the controls. Kate following him and watched him. It was a machine; she was totally unfamiliar with all machines. Kate Beckett had some memories of a few but this wasn't one of them. She stood there, silently watching him.

Moments later he stopped and pulled out a small tube that went into what Kate recognized as a syringe. But it was different; she didn't really see a needle. Then the machine vanished back into his wristband. Rick turned to look at her and show her the vial. "What's that?" It had a clear liquid inside.

"This will prevent you from affecting me with your demonic powers. I've used it before when hunting down people like you," he told her.

Kate did her best not to be insulted but it was difficult. He kept referring to her as though she was some kind of vermin. "How long does it last?" She hoped he didn't have to keep injecting himself every hour of every day. That wasn't really much help. In her quest for an answer her book had simply responded to her question.

"A few days, about a week, actually. Maybe a little over." A once a week shot sounded like a pain to her, not knowing that Rick had injected himself with this concoction for weeks at a time before.

She stood there and looked at him and waited. "Please, oh please take the shot!"

Kate watched as he submerged his hand and touched the end of the syringe to his upper thigh. Then she saw it retract back into his left wrist. He had given himself the shot!

"How long?" she asked, her voice quavering a little. How long did she have to wait?

"It's pretty much instantaneous. It's meant to be used in an emergency and…" Rick had to stop speaking when Kate squealed like a little kid and lunged at him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him with every bit of her pent-up passion.

She was kissing him, giving him all of her love that she and Kate Beckett had for him, even if it wasn't him, but was. At first Rick didn't kiss her back, but soon she felt his arms around her and felt him returning her kiss as he pulled her in closer.

Kate only broke from the kiss to get some air before kissing him again. The next time she broke from the kiss she moved her lips to his ear. "I've been wanting to do that for days." She nibbled on his ear making him yelp.

Rick drew his head back to look at her. "Are you a demon or a vampire?" he grinned wickedly. He had hunted those, too.

"I'm all demon," she answered, her eyes sparkling. She grinned broadly and reached behind her to untie her top. Rick's eyes rounded as she removed it and exposed her breasts. Then she pulled her bikini bottoms down and kicked them away.

He loved what he saw. She was one of, if not the most beautiful women he had ever seen and she had stripped right in front of him. A moment later he saw an almost typical succubus standing in front of him.

Her breasts hadn't changed much in size. The color of her skin had changed dramatically as had her hair color. She no longer looked like Kate but she was still just as beautiful. He also didn't overlook her really large bat-like wings.

She had dropped her illusion of Kate Beckett and showed him what Snohbal looked like and he didn't run. So she stepped in close, wrapped her arms around his neck, and started teasing the little hairs that she found there. "My name is Snohbal. Kiss me, please?" Was he still willing to kiss her? "It's not a charm spell, it's just me and I'm not evil. Almost everyone on my home plane is. Some are beyond evil. I escaped because I'm not. Kiss me, Rick." She needed him to be willing to kiss her. To know who and what he was kissing.

"I'm not evil, Castle and I'm at least half Kate Beckett now. I'm beginning to worry that I'll lose who I am to her the more I live her life. I use her memories for everything now." Snohbal searched his eyes. "Are you afraid of…" She stopped talking when Castle kissed her.

Snohbal put her hands behind his head and pulled his face to hers so that she could intensify the kiss. She slipped her tongue into his mouth and reveled in his taste. She felt his tongue searching hers.

Kate broke from the kiss to get some air and rested her forehead against his. She also shifted back into her Kate Beckett form. "Still willing to kiss me?" she grinned, her joy written on her face. She had shown him what she was and he had kissed her!

"Rick loved her with all of his soul. According to his memories they had been dancing around each other for years, before…"

Kate interrupted him. "Before they made love. I remember that day. Kate Beckett had finally given in to what she wanted. She broke up with her boyfriend she had at that time…"

Rick broke in. "Doctor motorcycle boy." He remembered that name and knew this Rick didn't like him much. Kate giggled.

"We may have a problem with him. He didn't take to me dropping him very well. The words he used were insulting and gave the impression that he would want revenge. He doesn't like you," she confided.

"I'm not worried about him," he assured her. "I have scanners scattered around the house. If he or anyone else shows up I'll know."

Kate's eyes widened in surprise. "Those little boxes are yours?"

Rick lifted his forehead off of hers and tilted his head. "How do you know about those?" He'd always thought they were nearly impossible to spot.

"I have a Crystal Owl watching the house. It saw them leave the pool area. One of them is sitting not far away," she replied.

She had something watching the house also. That was interesting. "So what's that knife in your bag?" Rick was dying to hear about this. Both Ricks actually.

"It's a dagger that was owned by a prince who was the ruler of the plane of the Abyss I'm from. He's evil beyond belief. He also has tremendous power. I saw him use the it and decided I had to have it before I escaped. So I watched his compound for months and made a plan. It was dangerous and there was little room for error or unexpected events. If I was caught I would be tortured, probably until time itself ended.

It's a Dragon Blade. It houses a massive and extremely powerful Red Dragon. Once it's called forth from the dagger it will do your bidding for a short time then return to the dagger. I watched him use it to defeat a demon that tried to challenge him for rule of the plane. He didn't stand a chance of defeating the prince let alone the Red Dragon. It was… gruesome." Just thinking about it make Kate's stomach churn.

"A dragon? A real fire-breathing, giant-wings-and-tail, head-full-of-teeth dragon?" He'd never seen such a thing in his life. He had been many places but had never seen a real dragon. She nodded.

"What now? Kate Beckett loves you, even if she never told you. I can learn to love you just as much." She didn't want to lose him.

"I can think of one thing." Rick smiled and reached down to pull his swim trunks off. He lifted Kate up, pushed her against the pool wall, and placed the tip of his erection at her opening.

It was far more than she thought he would do or say. She wrapped her legs around him and felt him enter her slowly and gently. He was inside her and she loved it. She pulled his head to her and kissed him.

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Kate was lying alone on one of the chase lounges. Castle had gone into the house to get them snacks and a couple bottles of cold water. She was content. They had talked and they were still together.

Castle had fucked her and she had kissed him without hurting him. He'd found out she was a demon, just not an evil demon. She had found out he wasn't Castle but was Castle.

"Here you go." He handed her a bottle of water and set a plate with cheese and crackers on a small table between them.

"Thanks." She took a big drink and set it down to replace it with a cracker and a piece of cheese. She popped it in her mouth and turned to look at him. "So you're still in? Not going to kill me?"

"No, as strange as that might be… no. I'm still trying to come to grips with Kate Beckett being killed and you replacing her and Richard Castle being killed and me replacing him." Rick still didn't understand how that happened.

"Would you go over again just when this happened for you?" He was afraid of the answer. After listening to her explain it in terms of time it was just as he feared. "Damn. They were both picked up, questioned, and then killed. You were left to bleed out and I was dumped to die alone." Kate Beckett and Richard Castle had definitely been singled out.

"They wanted to know what she knew. Wanted…"

Castle finished for her. "To know what we knew about someone."

"So who is it? Who's the mysterious someone?" Kate queried. They were soon talking about the men who had done the questioning, comparing what had happened to Kate Beckett and Richard Castle. Rick shook his head. Richard Castle had no idea and he had no idea.

"It appears that the same person interrogated both of us. Sounds like you first, then me." Rick figured that part out easily enough.

"How long before he sends someone else after us when he finds out that we're still alive? Even if it is us now," Kate questioned aloud.

"I think he may have already," Rick replied calmly.

Hearing that, Kate turned her head to look at him. "What are you talking about?"

"I killed someone just a few hours ago who was armed and hunting for one or both of us. He wasn't very good." Rick had killed him easily.

She bolted upright. "And just when were you going to tell me?" How was she to defend herself if she didn't know they were being hunted?

"I didn't know who you were at the time, remember? Plus I was still trying to hide who I really was from you," he reminded her.

That calmed her down, but she did pick up her bag and retrieve the dagger. She held it tightly in her hand then lay back down. "Where is he? Can you scan a dead person and get answers?" Kate didn't know what Rick was capable of doing.

He shook his head. "I did to him what I did with Richard Castle's body; I dissolved him so that he couldn't be found. I do have everything he had on him, though."

Kate sat up again to get another cracker and cheese. "How did he get here? The drive took us hours." She put it in her mouth.

"Good question, let's find out. Find something to wear, put on some shoes, and let's go look." Rick stood up taking a few crackers and cheese pieces with him.

She met him downstairs and started chuckling. Both of them were dressed in jeans, tee shirts, and sneakers. She had her dagger stuffed into the front of her jeans, hidden beneath her shirt, while Castle had his wristbands.

Rick reached for her and they walked to the front door hand in hand. Kate loved it. He wasn't running and neither was she. She was cautiously hopeful about a future together.

"You go that way and I'll go this. If you find something, give me a call or text." He got a kiss from Kate who walked toward the north.

He really couldn't believe it. He'd kissed, had had sex with a demon, and he'd enjoyed it. "She really is different. …Extraordinary."

Rick assumed that their visitor would drive off the road but not into someone's driveway. A strange car near a house would attract attention. Plus it needed to be reasonably close to Castle's beach house. It didn't take long before he spotted a suspect vehicle. He took out his cell phone and sent her a text. Found one. RC

He had the keys he had found on the shooter; both had the Toyota logo on them. In his world the car would likely be booby trapped so he started looking it over. "What are you doing, Castle?" Kate had arrived and found him half under the car much to her surprise.

"Searching. In my line of work the transportation has a tendency to have hidden dangers."

Kate was willing to agree with him so she started looking inside without actually touching the car. "How do you know it's his?" It was a car; this world had lots of them. He stood up and held out the keys. "Oh." That they matched helped. "It looks empty inside. Find anything?" Had he gotten dirty for nothing?

"I think I'll start with the trunk." Rick inserted the key and twisted it. It popped open and nothing happened. Lifting it open showed that it was empty. "Well, no dead body."

"A dead body would start to stink drawing attention," Kate said, stating the obvious.

"He could've sealed it in plastic, preventing the blood from staining the trunk," Rick retorted somewhat defensively. "If he was a pro he would clean the car, preventing anyone from knowing he was ever in it."

"Yet you said he wasn't because you killed him so easily," she countered and Castle glared at her. It felt fun so she just grinned back at him. "Can we look inside now?"

He took the front seats and she took the back. Rick popped the hood and looked at the engine. "What else did he have on him?" Kate stood next to him looking at the engine.

Rick handed her the wallet he'd gotten off the shooter. "Says here his name is Bruce Webber and he lives in Brooklyn. Thirty-two years old, six foot one in height…" Kate stopped talking when Rick pulled a device out his left wristband and scanned it, then looked at the readings.

"It's a fake." He retracted the device.

"What are those things?" Curious, Kate pointed at his wrist.

"Wristbands; they use dimensional compression. Each can store a large number of items. You simply have to remember which wristband holds what and ask for what you want from each wristband." Rick kept looking at the engine bay.

"How much of that shot do you have?" How long could she keep kissing him?

"Not a lot actually. I just need the basics to be able to make more, though. With the correct amount of base material I can make an unlimited amount… why?" He stopped looking so he could look at her.

"I just wanted to make sure I could keep doing… this." Kate grabbed his head and kissed him, enticing him to kiss her back. She broke from the kiss and moved her lips to his ear. "I have plans for you later," she purred which sent a charge through him that ended at his crotch. "You better be able to keep up with me," she cooed. She had plans to fuck his brains out.

Thanks to Kate Beckett's memories and her own hormones, she was beyond horny. And since she hadn't been able to kiss him until today, she had plans to make up for lost time.

"Think about sex much?" Not that Rick was complaining, just that it had been a while and he was out of practice.

"I am a succubus you know." Kate thought that was answer enough.

Rick closed the hood, unhappy that they hadn't found anything. "Fake ID, a little money, maybe just enough for gas, keys, and a cell phone." He definitely was not happy.

"Cell phone? You didn't mention that. Can one of your gadgets work for us?" she asked.

He took it out of his wristband to look at it. "It looks simple and really primitive, even for this world." He wasn't sure what he could do with it.

"Can you make your voice sound like his? Find out who or where it was calling? Something?" Kate wasn't giving up.

He shook his head. "As bad as it sounds, this device and this planet are just too primitive. Hack a planetary communication network, yes. Chase a simple frequency from tower to tower till it reaches the end? Not so much."

"Okay… okay. So how do these phones work? Can you at least get an idea of where it's calling? Maybe finding out where will help." She was desperately trying to use Kate's memories to come up with something.

"Wait, I think I have something. Give me that thing." She snatched the cell phone out of his hand and started walking to the house.

"Where are you going?" Rick started following her; he didn't have anywhere else to go.

"I have an idea, just work with me here." Kate wasn't sure just what she would learn but it was better than nothing.

He followed her all the way to her room where she took a thick book out of her suitcase. "A book?" How was a book going to help them?

"This book's from my world. I got it from the same place I got the dagger." She opened the book and Rick was amazed at what he saw. It was a 3D version of this house.

"If I use this phone, where is the person now that will answer it?" Kate asked the book. A different page glowed so she began turning to that page. It was there that they both saw a building glowing.

"What is this building?" she asked the book; a name started to glow.

Russel Senate Office Building

"Do you know this building?" She didn't have a clue. Even Kate Beckett's memories didn't have anything.

"Let's find out." They left her bedroom and went downstairs to Rick's office where he'd left his computer.

"Interesting book, you'll have to tell me about it." He sat down and Kate came around behind him.

"It's magical much like a number of items from my world. My Crystal Owl, that book, this dagger. There are a lot of items just like it on my world." Kate had seen a lot of magical items and even had a few more like her little bag.

Rick did a search. "Let's see... Russel Senate Office Building." He read from the screen:

"The first congressional office building was constructed immediately after the turn of the 20th century to relieve overcrowding in the United States Capitol. It houses 32 members of Congress from a number of different States. Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina, West Virginia, New York and others. It houses the following committees:

• United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry

• United States Senate Committee on Armed Services

• United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

• United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

• United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

• United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations"

"It's filled with offices for senators." Rick didn't understand and neither did Snohbal, but Kate Beckett and Richard Castle did.

"I don't suppose that book of yours can tell us which room he or she is in?"

Kate shook her head. "I've tried that already. A building is as close as it gets."

"Well it's more than we knew at least." Rick wasn't sure what, if anything, it had gained them since it came without a name. "No name, this building isn't anywhere near here, and whoever he or she is, they want us dead. Do you have a plan as to what we do next?" He was open to suggestions even if he did have his own.

Hearing a zipper being pulled down, his head snapped around to see Kate taking her pants off.

He decided he liked her idea.