Doppelgänger 19
"What are we doing here in the middle of the night?" Kate knew Bracken was likely not going be here this early in the morning. Only security was going to be here.
"Just to get a real look instead of what my spies see. Plus I need to be close to do this." Rick retrieved a weapon she had never seen before. This one required two hands to hold it. He fired it three times in quick succession and she didn't hear a thing except the sound of what he fired hitting something. Then just as quickly it was gone.
"What was that?" It didn't appear that he did anything since nothing happened.
"Explosives on a remote detonation. We can go." Rick turned around and started to leave.
"Explosives?" Kate actually was shocked. "Castle, we can't just go killing people." Neither Snohbal nor Kate wanted anything to do with that.
"They're not large enough to kill anyone. Maybe a few scratches is all. They're just meant to scare him. Tell him we're watching, that we're close and can kill him when we choose."
It made her feel better but accidents could still happen. "No one dies, Castle. You may be a hunter but on this world you're a writer."
"And you're a cop," he countered, continuing to walk. A cop that wanted revenge in the name of justice.
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Come morning Rick watched Bracken leave his chauffeur-driven car and enter the building, right along the path he had planted his explosives. "Care to be tourists for the day?" Rick asked Kate after they had their free breakfast. He found them an all day tour on a large Gray Line bus tour. Best of all it was only $65US per person.
You can see all of D.C.'s most well-known monuments and attractions in the same day on this tour of the nation's capital. Stop at 7 key landmarks, including a tour of the United States Capitol building and visit the Lincoln, Vietnam, and Korean War Memorials.
After visiting the Capitol for your tour, head to the White House's stately South Lawn for a photo opportunity and a stop at the White House Visitor Center. From here, proceed to the new World War II Memorial, where you can admire this beautiful structure and its impressive water works.
End your day-tour with a stop to revere many key national memorials. The Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool is a place where many historical events have been held; the marble-likeness of President Lincoln towers at 19 feet high. Climb up the steps to the Memorial to view President Lincoln's Gettysburg address inscribed on the walls and take in stunning views of the reflecting pool and adjacent Vietnam War, Korean War, World War II Memorials.
Throughout your comprehensive tour, you can admire the landmarks along the route that populate the D.C. cityscape. Watch for the FBI building, the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, the tree-lined Tidal Basin, the towering Washington Monument, and the impeccably maintained United States Botanic Garden as you pass through the capital.
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"That was nice, Castle." Kate had enjoyed the tour and lifted up to kiss him, only to be stopped. She was hurt and didn't understand. They had made love to each other this morning and Kate had kissed him. Kissed a lot of him actually along with swallowing every last drop of his come.
"I need to find a place to take my shot," Rick reminded her. Neither of them wanted him to die from her kiss.
"Oh, good plan." She hugged him instead.
They were on the elevator on the way up to their room. "Bracken is leaving," Rick said.
"And?" Was he going to use his explosives now?
"And now I use my spies to follow him all the way home," he told her just before exiting the elevator.
"So we'll know where he lives and what he does." Kate got it and liked this part of his plan.
He sat on the sofa, removed a device from his left wristband, and created a shot followed by giving it to himself in the right thigh. Then he replaced it and took out a different device.
Kate sat down next to him knowing that she could kiss him now. "What's this?"
"Video so you can watch where our good Senator goes and does," Rick explained. She watched it fold out to show three different screens, each with a similar look as they followed the car.
Rick directed his spies so they could observe Bracken go inside and then they saw them scramble all over the building till he was spotted through one of the windows.
"Now we know where he works and where he lives." Rick was pleased. He left one at a different window looking inside and one far outside watching the outside of the building while the rest were still at his office.
He retracted the device into his wristband. "Hungry? I was thinking of eating near his home." Rick started smiling and it had Kate grinning. Kate Beckett didn't remember Castle being like this, however, Snohbal was learning to love this version.
Rick parked the car and they walked to the corner. He pointed out their options. "Mexican is back that way, Chinese is that way, and his gated apartment is that way."
"Is he still home?" Kate had already made her choice as to what was to be first.
"Yes, why?" Rick could actually see him sitting there drinking alcohol after having poured himself a glass.
"You're going to plant those little explosives of yours near his home, aren't you?" She was learning how this Rick worked. His smile told Kate all she needed to know. "This way first." She chose the direction to his apartment first before dinner.
It was a few minutes' walk to get close enough. They had to wait for anyone to not be looking their direction. In an instant Rick had his weapon out, fired three rounds, then put it away.
After that they went back the way they'd come with Kate turning toward the Chinese place.
"What's the plan?" She was wondering how he was planning on using those explosives.
"We're going to wait for him to reach his office, then when no one is around I'll blow the ones at his work. They will naturally…"
Kate interrupted him. "Force an evacuation which will require that he leave the building and go home." She was thinking that the next set of explosions would happen the second he got home.
"Then his apartment building will be evacuated leaving him to decide where to go next. And my spies will follow him all the way. Then we repeat at his new location. And again, and again." Rick was smiling at his little plan.
"What's the end game? I mean, scaring him is one thing, but how do we get him to stop forever? If he's responsible for my mother's murder, he needs to rot in jail. So how do we get him there?" This might be fun, but how did it help them?
"And I threw that phone away," she reminded him. It meant they had no way to contact him.
"Oh, that won't be a problem. After he finds yet another home we're going to blow up his car. He'll find a way to contact you. That's when you make your demand." Rick shared his end result.
"Which is? Wait, are you suggesting that he'll turn himself in for all the people he has killed? That absolutely will not happen, Castle. If anything he'll hire even more people to find my dad, Alexis, and Martha." Kate didn't see him turning himself in, ever.
Rick was still smiling, though. "What?" He obviously knew something.
"I'm a hunter, Kate. I've got 2 wristbands full of toys used to monitor someone I'm chasing. Or devices I can leave behind so I can see or hear all kinds of things. Like when he orders a hit on you or me after he's had enough. Or on our families," he explained patiently.
"Then we hand that recording over to someone who knows what to do with it. His political career will be over. They'll turn his life inside out looking for what he's done." Hearing that had Kate smiling in relief that sometime soon all of this might be over.
"How long is this going to take. Dad, Alexis, and Martha are probably already worried. If we're on the news they might have seen it, too." Did they have the time to do all this?
"We'll call them soon, or go see them if he runs to New York to get away or hire his killers." That made Kate feel better.
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This section is rated M. Reader discretion is advised.
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Kate drowsily opened her eyes and shifted a little in bed. What she found made her hum. She was naked and curled up next to an equally naked Castle. She ran her hand over his chest and cast her eyes south, smiling at what she found. Even after four rounds of sex last night, he had an erection this morning. Since she didn't want it to go to waste she started stroking the lips of her core so that she would be wet. Just the idea of him being inside her again was helping. Then she saw his cock twitch of its own accord and she rose up to straddle him. "You're mine, Castle, all mine." Feeling his hard cock slowly enter her as she lowered herself down on him was pure pleasure.
She slowly raised herself only to slowly lower herself, moving up and down on his hard cock. She closed her eyes and moaned. She lowered herself so that she could kiss him while grinding herself on his erection. "Fuck me, Castle. I need you," Kate whispered in his ear.
She suddenly squealed when in an instant she was on her back with him above her. "As the lady wishes." Rick reached for her legs and started to push them toward her head. He rammed his erection into her causing her to gasp from the burst of pleasure. Kate put her hands on either side of his face. "Fuck me, Castle. Make me yours."
She was ready for the next step in their relationship and this would cement that step.
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Kate was still naked only this time she was lying on a naked Castle, running her fingers across his chest. She could feel his come inside her. Soon now, very soon.
"Happy?" Kate questioned.
"Very," Rick replied.
"Love me?" Kate questioned.
"More than you may ever know," Rick replied.
"You're mine?" Kate questioned.
"Yes," Rick replied.
"Hmm, all mine." Kate was content and fell asleep on his chest.
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She opened her eyes and tried to focus. She found an almost dressed Castle sitting on the edge of the bed. "Come back to bed, Rick. We can make love again." Kate tried her best bedroom voice to entice him to take his clothes off and make love to her.
"Bracken's up, out of his car, and entering the building already," he told her without turning around.
That got Kate up. She pressed her chest into his back while she stroked his shoulders, kissed his neck, then wrapped her arms around him. "I could learn to hate him." She wanted to be made love to, not get to work on his plan.
Rick faced her. "We may be busy for a few days, depending on how he reacts," he cautioned.
Kate laid her cheek against his back and breathed him in. "Then I'd best get dressed. It smells like you've showered without me." She could tell that he was fresh and smelled a little like body wash.
"Better make it fast, it's going to be a busy day." Rick watched her sway her hips on the way to the bathroom. She smiled; she could feel his eyes on her naked ass. Since she was alone in the shower she made it quick. She dried herself and came back into the bedroom stark naked to find some clothes. She found him sitting at the table with his three screens watching what his spies could see.
"Anything?" Kate tossed a bra and panties on the bed and began searching for slacks and a top.
"I don't know where he gets his luck," Rick grumbled. "Every time I think the place is clear, someone walks into the area." He was pissed. It just kept happening.
"People are coming into work; once that stops you should have a chance." She knew it would happen, he just had to be patient.
She had her panties on and was just getting her bra into place. "Detonating," he called. In an instant they could hear and just barely feel the rumble of his explosives.
She was soon dressed and standing behind him with her hands on his shoulders, watching his screens. They both watched as fire trucks arrived along with several police units and something she'd forgotten might happen. "Those look like FBI or maybe Secret Service," Kate commented. "They'll pick that place apart in an attempt to determine the explosive used and hopefully get a lead on who planted them."
Rick shook his head. "It won't get them anywhere." He kept on watching. "Here comes our boy, with an escort." They watched as Bracken and one other man were escorted out of the building and into waiting cars by armed men. Rick wasn't interested in the other guy and only followed where Bracken went. "Looks like he's going home. Maybe we'll get lucky." Rick really wanted to scare him.
"Come on, come on. Walk faster." They saw someone come out of the apartment building as Bracken approached it.
"We're not trying to kill him, babe," Kate cautioned.
"I'm not going to. However, I do want him to feel this one. To know that he walked right by it and was almost killed," Rick explained.
He decided that it was clear enough to set off one of them and they saw an area near Bracken explode. Both men dropped to the ground. The other guy, who was farther away, was up faster and ran away.
It allowed Rick to detonate the other two just as Bracken started to get up. The new explosions had him dropping back to the ground. He struggled to stand and staggered toward the building away from the explosions.
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It was lunchtime and neither of them had left the room yet, nor had they had breakfast. Instead they watched what Castle's little spies showed them.
There were more fire trucks, more police, and this time there was no mistaking the FBI and Secret Service agents that were all over the apartment building.
The street was closed for blocks while traffic was diverted. Kate pointed to one of his screens. "He's moving." Rick came over to sit down and handed Kate her cup of coffee.
Suddenly he had an idea. "Go pack and grab your bag, we're leaving. I want to be out in front of him. If we get lucky we can isolate his car and explode another device near it as he escapes the city." Kate smiled and kissed his head before she strode to the bedroom to pack her and his bags. She came back out of the bedroom carrying both. Rick took his and they left their keys at the front desk.
"How long can your spies keep flying?" Kate inquired when her little owl flew down to her so she could put him away for now.
"That's where it gets tricky. I'm going to need to have only one out at a time and switch between them so I can recharge each one before using it again." Rick had his limitations as did some of his items.
"Then I'm driving." She held out her hand for the keys and grinned at him. The drive to New York started out rather busy but got easier the farther out of DC they got.
They had been driving for a little while when Castle rolled down a window and out went one of his little boxes followed by one coming in. Then he tossed something out the window and rolled it back up.
"What was that?" She had an idea but wanted to hear it from him.
"I thought I saw an opening so I dropped a small explosive charge," Rick explained; it was just what Kate was thinking he had done.
She was beginning to believe it was a waste of time. "Get ready." He didn't want her to be surprised when it exploded.
Only a moment later she sort of heard it but could definitely see the cloud of dust in her rear view mirror. "How close?" The idea was to scare him, not kill him.
"Two car lengths. You can slow down a little. We don't need to be too far out in front of him," Rick cautioned and saw a traffic pile up form behind the explosion. That gave him an opening and he took it. He rolled the window down and tossed out another charge followed by another a few minutes later which was followed by yet another. In all he dropped four more several minutes apart.
"There's very little to no traffic behind him," Rick remarked. Kate glanced at him. It meant he could really shake him up without worrying much about other cars.
What neither of them saw because they were too far out in front was the other side of the highway slowing down to gawk at what had taken place. Rick was about to give them even more at which to gawk.
"Get ready," he warned just before he exploded the first of four.
By the time he had exploded the second one, Kate cautioned, "I've got a lot of cars coming up behind me."
"They're probably fleeing the devastation happening behind them. Try and stay out in front of them. But don't over do it. After all, you don't understand what's going on behind you." He did his best to make sure they blended in with the other traffic making them less likely to be pulled over.
After the third one blew, he said, "Bracken's car has sped up considerably. I'm not sure if I'm going to get to use the last one when he's close." Rick knew he couldn't leave it behind for someone to find, so he had to activate it.
It turned out he was correct. Bracken had sped up to the point that he was now in the midst of a number of cars. "I think he might be using the other cars as shields." Rick detonated the last one far behind him.
"It sounds like something he would order. Saving his own skin no matter who has to pay the price." Kate was really starting to hate Bracken.
A few moments passed and a Highway Patrol car went zooming by them going the opposite direction. This was very shortly followed by a pair of fire engines then by a county sheriff's car.
Sometime later they were approaching the outskirts of New York City. "Slow down, way down. Let Bracken get out in front of us." Rick watched her do just that. Kate didn't understand why, except maybe he had run out of spies. Or wanted to see his car perhaps? It took some time but Bracken was now three car lengths out in front of them with no car between them.
Rick rolled down his window and pointed a weapon at his car. "Castle!" He wasn't going to do what she thought he was… was he? She saw two tiny objects race out in front of them and hit the back of Bracken's car, after which Rick rolled up the window.
"What was that?" She wanted to be involved in everything, not just somethings.
"One was a combination mic and tracker. It's so we can hear what's said inside the car from here on out as well as follow it without the need of my spies. I don't want them to be spotted when we reach the city," Rick explained; it made sense to her. Plus she was dying to hear what Bracken was saying about all this.
"And the other?" What else had he done?
"It's a small explosive device. I plan on using it after he has parked and exited the car. One last scare." Rick turned to look at her and grinned. She grinned right back at him.
So far no one had been hurt; hopefully Bracken was running scared.