CH50
It is now 3 days later: (June 16, 2001)
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This chapter does contain serious "M" rated material. If this is not to your liking scroll down quickly until you reach the ALL CLEAR. Reader discretion is now advised.
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Rick and Kate had stayed in their hotel until check-out time and teleported home. Since St. Lucia shared the same time zone as New York, it left them with a half day in New York to play with until going into work tomorrow morning.
Rick had talked Kate into a picnic in Central Park which was the easy part. They stuffed their food and drink, paper plates, glasses, and everything else they needed in a pair of backpacks. They went over to their enclosure to get their bicycles out of storage and rode across the street till they found a place to stop.
It was warm and sunny and there were people everywhere. They had gotten lucky and had even spotted a place high enough that it allowed them to look out onto what looked like a pee wee baseball game with lots of parents cheering their children on.
With the food gone and most of the drink gone too, they ended up lying next to each other as they looked out onto the wide open spaces. "I really do like our home Castle. It's gorgeous and right across the street from Central Park. All we have to do is grab our bikes and tour until we've had enough, " Kate said, feeling relaxed and satisfied since they had been making love to each other for almost 3 days straight. They had practically never left their hotel room.
"I don't think we will be biking up and down those hills in St. Lucia," Rick pointed out. Kate agreed with him. Pedaling up the hills just so you could free fall back down them didn't sound like a lot of fun.
"Maybe we could get scooters instead. We could perhaps personalize them somehow," Kate offered as an alternative.
"That might work, though the question is do they sell them in St. Lucia, or do we have to ship them in?" Rick wondered. "You realize that buying that house spent our Papa Murphy's money for Atlanta?" They were stuck with the stores they had until they started making them money. It would likely be a year or two from now.
Kate felt bad about that. It was her idea to put the money into something that would make them money. Now it was her idea to spend that money on another home. "I know and I feel bad about that, I do. But that house was gorgeous, Castle. That pool and the view were amazing. And the bedrooms aren't just bedrooms, they were full on master bedroom suites. Our guests are going to love them. Maybe it's enough space that our wedding guests won't need a hotel room. They can stay with us instead. It'll save us money," Kate reasoned.
"I'm not complaining Kate, just pointing out the obvious. I'm pleased that you like it so much. I just want you happy, love," he said to her, meaning it.
"Thanks Castle." She leaned over to kiss him.
"What do we do about Bracken?" Rick changed the subject since they were heading back to work tomorrow.
"He's in it up to his ears. I just don't know into what exactly besides being addicted to Nuke… How is Jack coming with his research?" Kate asked.
Before Jack could say anything, Rick said, "How is Jill coming with her analysis of Nuke?"
"I believe I have finished." Jack and Jill answered at the same time using the same exact words.
"Did you two practice that?" Kate chuckled a little. "Okay, you first Jill, what is this stuff?"
"Nuke is highly complex, at least this version of it is. Without a sample of what it looked like in L. A., I don't have a history of its development. It is made of several chemicals with varying amounts of each in the formula. It has been difficult trying to understand how the combined compounds interact with each other."
"As you know the drug is and likely has been very addictive. It affects the chemistry of the brain. It would appear that the dosage must be heavily monitored. If you are not careful you can easily overdose on Nuke."
"An overdose results in the person having a stroke. Based on the number of deaths in LA and beyond, Nuke has been modified with restrictions on how much you take. Likely the method of dispensing the drug has something to do with this."
"Once injected the results on the brain are not unlike the affects you see with taking cocaine or its cousins. You likely feel instantly better and calm, however, it does not affect you to the same degree. It will not just knock you out."
"Because of the interaction with the chemistry of your brain I theorize that your comprehension of things happening around you is increased. You can hear, smell, and feel via touch things that you couldn't before."
"These heightened senses allow you to react to events around you quicker and easier. Plus you likely feel like you are in complete control of your body as well as the events taking place around you."
"In addition to that as this affect starts to wear off, you become susceptible to suggestion," Jill paused.
"Susceptible to suggestion, just how susceptible?" Rick didn't like the sound of that.
"It seems to be based on how dependent you are on the drug. The more you use it, the more susceptible you are. Basically you'd do anything someone tells you to do. However, there is a component to Nuke that will prevent just anyone from telling you what to do."
"I believe that a particular human pheromone needs to be present when you are told what to do. The person who made this drug has likely made an aerosol that can be sprayed that will dispense his or her personal pheromone," Jill explained.
"Pheromone sprayer?" Kate tried to think about that. "You mean like a scented candle or a can of air freshener? Maybe one of those industrial scent sprayers that is on a timer?" Kate mused.
"All of those items are viable options or perhaps simply have the person standing right in front of you," Jill confirmed.
"We need to go back out to that house where you found the guy who injected me with Nuke. If there are one of these devices there, he may have been an unsuspecting killer," Rick pondered aloud. "What happens when the drug wears off and you don't get another shot quickly enough?" Rick wondered.
"Depends on how long you go without. At first it will be like going cold turkey off cocaine or heroin, but no longer than 24 hours later you will have a stroke that will be variable in its strength. The longer you have been on Nuke the more extensive the stroke will be causing serious damage," Jill explained.
"All this means is that Bracken needs his shots on a regular basis, and if he isn't the one who is making it, then he has to depend on whoever is," Rick pointed out.
"Do what you are told until you overdose or can't get any more of it and have a stroke, which will either turn you into a mental vegetable or kill you outright." Kate was trying to understand.
"Do what you are told… Kate, Bracken is doing what he is told!" Rick stared at her, his eyes wide open.
"Bracken is a pawn for whoever is making the drug. Question is how many other people are hooked on the drug just like Bracken is, doing just what they are told?" Kate now had a new fear.
"It takes nothing to inject someone with the drug, pass him or her by, smell his pheromone and presto, you just became an unwilling and maybe unsuspecting slave." Rick was right with Kate in her fears.
"Castle, Bracken is now or soon will be a Senator. He will shortly be in DC. Who else is in DC that he will have access to?" Kate's fears were escalating.
"Shake their hand, pat them on the shoulder. Senators, lobbyists, members of the military." Rick laid his head face down into the blanket they are both lying on. "OH GOD!" he groaned.
"Castle, when does the State of the Union Address take place?" Kate was thinking that there would be countless important people all around Bracken, packed in nice and tight.
"Those events typically take place in January though it can be delayed until February. The only other times that many people are in one place would be just after some catastrophic event. An F5 hurricane, an earthquake of a large magnitude, or perhaps a bomb in a public place," Jack responded.
"Six months," she whispered. "Except he doesn't need to wait six months. Whomever Bracken injects will become hooked on the drug. Give that person a scented candle and make a phone call and you will do exactly what you are told."
"Walk into the Oval Office and shake the President's hand, give him a gift that has a scented candle in it…" Kate moaned and copied Castle as she buried her face into the blanket.
"He could have control over most of the Pentagon in just a few weeks, maybe all of it in a few months. CIA, NSA, FBI, the police forces of entire cities, all of the Senate, maybe even all of the House of Representatives. All doing just exactly what one person tells them to do." Rick hated this vision. It was more like a damn nightmare.
"He needed Bracken to get elected. Hell, he may even be why there was an empty seat to be filled." Kate went all the way back to the beginning since none of this has happened yet.
"How does he guarantee that Bracken, his guy of choice, gets elected though?" Rick saw a hole in their thinking.
"I think I might be able to shed some light on that," Jack offered.
"I have completed my research onto one William H. Bracken. At one time he used to be an assistant DA for the city of New York. Three months ago he started his campaign for the empty Senate seat."
"A review of the TV commercials that he has run all feature him talking to the public using his own words. However, according to each local TV station's accounts, he is being charged only a quarter and in some cases only an eighth of what his completion was charged for the same time," Jack paused.
"Talk about an unfair advantage, plus he doesn't need to raise the same amount of money that the others do." Kate hated the sound of that.
"It gets better," Jack said. "He has done very well in his donations for his election. He has generated twice what his competitors have generated combined. Bracken presently has $1.115 billion hidden away in three different accounts in different overseas banks that he has barely touched," Jack informed them.
Kate started coughing. "One Billion dollars? Billion with a 'b?' As in US dollars?"
"Correction, $1.119 Billion, a deposit has just occurred from a bank here in New York City," Jack corrected himself. Kate buried her head, face first, into their blanket again.
"Jack, you have access to all of his accounts, right?" Rick had a plan.
"Yes," Jack answered. "Can you take all of his money and distribute it all to three different banks and three different accounts and then move it every 24 hours, while continuing to monitor his account for more money?" Rick wondered.
"Babe, what are you doing?" Kate didn't want Bracken to have the money either, but this was theft without a court order. They were FBI Agents, not thieves. "We're FBI Agents, Rick."
"We're not keeping it Kate. We're simply moving it to where Bracken can't get it. It will hopefully get him to do something stupid that will allow us to give Penelope another breadcrumb and then we have Jack put it all right back so that we can legally catch him red handed," Rick explained, which earned him a kiss from Kate, since she now approved of his plan.
"Just one question. How did Bracken manage to get that much in donations in such a short period of time?" Kate questioned.
"It helps when you don't have to spend much of it," Rick pointed out.
"Which presents another question. Why did the networks not charge him as much as his competitors? That's likely our first breadcrumb for Penelope," Kate mused.
He was silent for a time. "Do you remember how excited Espo and Ryan were to vote for him?" Rick asked.
"They were weren't they? Even Jordan mentioned in humor that the agents she had studying Bracken's commercials wanted to vote for him," Kate agreed. "Wasn't there something they thought were subliminal messages on TV meant to get you to want to buy or drink something?"
"There's a monumental difference between spending $19.99 on the latest Ronco product to getting someone with money to hand over a million dollars or more," he indicated.
"Would you believe free?" Jack queried. "Most of his dinners for guests meant to get him donations were catered for free," Jack added.
Both Rick and Kate were speechless, not sure just what to think.
"Okay, we have someone who is making a drug that is addictive and potentially dangerous. It allows him control using a method that prevents anyone else for telling his addicts what to do, over ruling his control. A drug that has taken even Jill days to figure out."
"We also have a politician that won his election in a landslide that eclipses what every other politician has ever accomplished. He has managed to get his commercials on TV for little to no money. His dinners to get donations are also arranged for little to no money spent."
"Our politician will now have access to some of the more influential people in the US, and potentially the world, depending on who come to visit or who he goes to see. Provided he gains access to them at all. However, he himself doesn't need access. Not if he gets the right people addicted. President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Ambassadors for or from other countries."
"Today I save one penny, tomorrow I save two, the day after, I save four. Eventually it all adds up." Kate pondered the situation, trying to wrap her brain around it all.
"A drug no one is likely capable of making. Plus he has knowledge of how to make candles that carry his scent, or maybe aerosols, or incense sticks. A politician who can talk people into voting for him and give him large amounts of money, or any money at all. He can do this in person as well as on TV or radio, just so long as people can hear him," Rick observed.
"Two people who can do exceptional things that no one else can do." She tried to think. "Castle does any of this sound familiar?" She tapped Castle's watch.
Rick's eyes practically popped out of his head. "Jack and Jill or whatever they named them." Rick had caught up with Kate. "The opposite of me," he stated. "Of us!"
"Bracken is only doing what he is told to, provided that he wants to go on living and get his next fix. He's the perfect dupe. Get into politics and get elected because of George."
"The other person is using his unit, Gracie, to take control using drugs. He wants to eliminate democracy and turn the US into a Dictator State. Exactly the opposite of what you fought for, what you still fight for as an FBI Agent," Kate submitted.
Rick thought about it and had to agree, he fought for his country and its democracy. "We need to not listen to Bracken, in person, on TV or on the radio. …Jack are we immune to the other two units?" Rick just knew he was going to hate the answer.
"Negative. Not anymore than he is immune to what you two can do," Jack responded.
"We have leads now Castle. He needs to get his scent out there. Candle makers, incense makers, aerosol can makers. Small numbers at first getting bigger and bigger as more and more people become addicted." Kate thought they had something to work with finally.
"Jack did you get anywhere with that partial print on that dispenser? He has to make those dispensers, too." Another item to chase down.
"I'm afraid not. The partial was just too small. Thousands, if not millions, of people match those few markers," Jack was forced to admit.
They still had something to work with, though.
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Come morning it was time to go into work. Rick had made it into the shower first and was in the dressing room waiting for Kate, since he had a plan. "Hi babe, can't decide what to wear?" Kate teased since Castle was still naked, as she ran a hand across all of his pants hanging there.
"Actually I'm waiting for you. I have something to give you, well two things really." Rick was looking forward to this.
"OHhhhh, what have you got in mind? But it better be quick or we'll be late and that security line is a pain. Don't forget I still need to pick up the crock pot before we leave." She stepped in front of him and wrapped her arms around his neck, feeling her breasts touch his chest.
"I've got something I want you to wear today, all day." He was grinning, which made her just a little worried.
"Okay, but it had better fit under my clothes or the answer is no," she said firmly while never removing her arms.
"Oh it will, most assuredly." He stepped away, and opened a drawer, and pulled out what to her looked like a pair of panties with a strap attached to them.
"What is that?" Kate had never seen anything like it before.
"You wear this, while this," He reached in and grabbed something else and showed it to her. "...goes through this ring that holds it in place. As you put your panties on, this slips inside of you, and this item," He placed the small dildo on the island and brought something else out. "...goes in this little pocket up front. Your legs go in these straps and this strap goes around your waist holding the panty in place. All three have Velcro to assure a tight fit," he explained to her.
"You want me to wear your panty with a dildo inside me… all day?" she said skeptically.
"That and this little thing, all day," Rick told Kate, afraid he was going to have to use his marker.
"I don't know Castle, it sounds uncomfortable." Kate didn't think this was going to be a good idea.
He was afraid this would happen, so he opened another drawer and pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to her. "I, Katherine Houghton Beckett-Castle, owe my husband, future husband a sexual fantasy of his choosing. Anything, anyplace, anytime." OH SHIT!
"This is what you want Castle?" Kate had thought it was going to be something more dramatic. Maybe being staked to the ground, naked, while he ravished her body. He had already added a whip to their fun. She had been worried that he would want to have sex with two women at the same time. It would have broken her heart, but she would have done it. "You're sure about this, babe?"
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Kate placed the dildo into the ring and inserted it into herself as she pulled the panty on, putting her legs through the leg hoops. Next Rick fastened the waist belt around her middle using the Velcro to cinch it tight.
She watched Castle slip a small device in a pouch that happened to be directly over her clitoris. She didn't find it too uncomfortable to wear, even though it did feel weird wearing it.
It left Kate with a problem of what to wear. Eventually she decided on a skirt and a button front blouse. Skirts were really not her favorite clothing item, however, she did have a couple. Her "panty" prevented her from wearing stockings with a garter belt like she was thinking, so she went bare legged.
"I got it." Rick picked up the crock pot and started for the front door. "Thanks babe." Kate reached the front door.
Suddenly there was a vibration directly on her clitoris, quickly causing Kate to start breathing unevenly as she reacted to the unexpected vibration of pleasure. "Aaaah!" She grabbed the door and door frame after she opened the front door.
All at once it stopped. She was still holding onto the door and door frame while she calmed down. "Castle, what the hell was that?" she demanded.
"Did I forget to mention that little thing is a remote control vibrator with several settings? That was the low setting." Rick grinned, hiding behind the crock pot he was holding with both arms.
OH GOD! Kate stared at Castle, stunned. She was strapped to a panty that had a dildo that was inside of her that also have a vibrator directly over her clitoris. And he had the remote control that allowed him to turn it on and off at will.
"You better react better than that Kate, since that was only the low setting." Rick was still smiling.
She glared at Castle all the way to their desk. Thankfully they had gotten in early since just after Kate turned on her computer, Rick turned on her vibrator, causing Kate to grab hold of her desk with both hands.
The vibration never stopped. She was trying to break her desk in half while doing her best not to scream from the sensation. "You alright Beckett? Maybe you should have had another day off." Frazier arrived at his desk and turned on his computer.
Kate only hums in response. "I'm going to…" she pointed, got up, and walked as fast as she could to the restroom.
Thankfully the restroom was empty as Kate grabbed hold of the lavatory counter top as she finally opened her mouth and let out a moan. "OH GOD!" She was just moments away from having a massive orgasm, when suddenly the vibrations stopped.
"NO!" Kate was only seconds from having an orgasm, and now nothing! Plus she had no easy way of finishing herself. "DAMN YOU CASTLE! Just a few seconds longer."
Kate washed her hands and splashed water on her face and went back to her desk. She tried to not to look like anything was wrong. However just as she sat down, the vibrations began again.
She was trying her best to keep a straight face, but she was failing, she just knew it. Then as quickly as they'd begun, the vibrations stopped again. "DAMN YOU CASTLE!" Kate cursed softly while throwing daggers at him across their desks. He kept smiling.
She was going to kill him! She had a weapon and she damn well knew how to use it!
He had turned it off and on again all the way up to lunch. However, while she was dishing up their lunch, it was off. She had just about put her first spoon full to her mouth when he turned the damn thing on again.
Kate dropped her spoon in her bowl. "Castle!?" It was driving her mad since he wouldn't let her reach orgasm.
"Anything, anyplace, anytime." Rick simply smiled at Kate and turned off the vibrator allowing her to eat her lunch.
Hours later Rick was carrying their crock pot back down to their car. He placed it on the floor of the passenger side before Kate had a chance to sit down. Just as Rick opened his door while Kate was starting to sit down, he turned the vibrator back on, causing her to moan again.
It was warm outside so he put the top down on the car and didn't turn off the vibrator. She was shifting around in her seat, feeling the dildo that was inside her while the vibrator on her clitoris drove her mad yet again.
They were sitting in traffic and Kate had a strangle hold on her seat belt while she squirmed in her seat as the sweat started beading down her face. She tried not to give all the people around her a show.
"CASTLE!" Kate pleaded. She was losing control over what she was pleading for. For it to stop or for it not to stop so she could FINALLY have an orgasm after being tortured all day long.
She put her hand in her mouth and bit down while she kicked the crock pot on the floor as she finally climaxed all over the mini dildo that was inside her. However, the vibrations didn't stop and seconds later she was having her second orgasm of the day. She was stretched out trying to force her feet through the floor of the car while holding onto her seat belt for dear life.
Seconds later as Kate was having her third orgasm, keeping her hand in her mouth failed, causing her to cry out in pleasure as their car rolled down the street with the top still down.
"PLEASE Castle, the pain!" Kate complained of the constant assault on her clitoris which had gotten sensitive during this time.
Rick helped Kate out of the car, and assisted her into the house leaving the crock pot in the car.
Kate left Rick and fell into the bed of the spare bedroom while screaming during another orgasm. Rick had turned it back on after giving Kate a 15 minute reprieve while walking slowly from the garage to their front door. He left her there screaming straight through another orgasm while he walked down to their bedroom and changed into something more comfortable. He finally turned off the vibrator and placed the remote back into the drawer, next to his other toy for her to use tomorrow.
Kate was still on the bed in the spare bedroom after Rick came back from collecting the crock pot from the car. Kate was lying on the bed recovering slowly from the torture of pleasure that Castle had inflicted on her.
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