CH51
It is now one Month later: (August 16, 2001)
There is a minor amount of material that may be considered "M" Rated instead of "T" rated at the beginning of this chapter. For that reason, reader discretion is advised.
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Kate pulled Castle down the hallway, slipping out of her shoes along the way, leaving her top draped on a piece of furniture, followed by her pants.
Rick was only a little bit behind her as he left clothes behind him. She was removing her bra and tossed it having no idea where it landed. She was so worked up that her panties were soaked and could feel juices running down her leg.
He was pulling off his boxers while she took the Ben-Wa balls out of her. She had been wearing them inside her for the last full month. Kate had attacked and made love to Castle as passionately and as physically as she could after she finally took off that panty and pulled out her soaked dildo. She wanted him after all of those orgasms and the teasing she had endured all day and wanted him inside her finally.
Now Kate wanted Castle so badly from week after week of flexing her muscles in an attempt to keep the weighted balls inside her. She wanted Castle inside her so she could use those muscles to squeeze his erection.
And everywhere Kate walked she could feel the balls knocking against each other while rolling around inside her as she was forced to use her muscles to keep them inside. The only time they weren't used was around the time when her period was due. However, that was a week ago and she was beyond horny again.
Her stomach was growling, but she didn't want to leave him after making love to him for the last couple of hours. "I don't know what you've done to me but I like it." She was even willing to use his special panty again; all he had to do was ask or maybe she needed to give him a clue. Kate had no idea that she was or ever could be so sexually active in her life. Not to mention what had happened while Castle was teasing her clitoris while plunging fingers into her. She tried to get away from both while attempting to get even more pleasure, praying that he wouldn't stop.
It was during her climax that had her screaming that something happened that had never happened before. Kate looked down at Castle who had his head planted between her legs when she suddenly saw a stream of liquid shoot out into the air over his head.
She was mortified after she had calmed down, even though he had placed his mouth over her core and swallowed everything that came out. "I'm so sorry Rick. That has never happened before. I didn't mean to pee all over you." Kate wanted to crawl in a hole and die. She had peed on the love of her life and watched as he swallowed every last drop.
"That wasn't pee, love. That was you ejaculating your own fluid and I loved every ounce of it," he said soothingly. "I've read of a few accounts of this before, and trust me you didn't pee. What little I saw of it, it looked like a thin milky white substance and trust me, it tasted nothing like pee. You swallow my come so I see no reason why I can't swallow yours. Besides, it tasted like ...you."
She snuggled in closer to him and buried her nose into the side of him. The smell of them after making love to each other had turned out to be addictive to Kate, not that she cared. In fact she wanted more of him. Besides if they got up they would need to change the sheets. She had helped to create most of the mess this time. She still wasn't sure that she hadn't peed on him.
"No candles, no incense sticks and no aerosol cans. How is he going to handle that problem?" Kate asked, shifting her focus. "Is he doing all his own work?" She was very perplexed.
"Is Jezebel capable of helping him or her make them without a company to do it for him?" Kate wondered. Rick didn't like George and Gracie for their names, so they settled on Jezebel and Ahab. The drug maker had Jezebel while Bracken had Ahab.
"Each unit is capable of doing three things in addition to the two that are personality and the other storage," Rick replied. "Is it possible that he has an overseas company making it for him and having it shipped in?" he pondered.
"That would explain why we can't find anything. Just how does he keep control of manufacturing? He can make the drug, make the candle maybe, teleport to the manufacturing site. How does he protect himself from his own drug? Did he make an anti-dote?" she asked.
"That's four things; one of them has to go," Rick pointed out.
"And how is he making the delivery system?" She added another one, making it more complex.
"Bracken has the ability to get people to vote for him. He has the ability to get people to do what they normally wouldn't do, like get commercials for free. However, he isn't immune to the drug the other guy makes, so what could his third action be?" Rick questioned.
They both just laid there not knowing what to say. "We need to order dinner if we are going to eat anything. It's a little late in the day," Rick remarked.
"If the drug maker was first, how did he know to give the other unit to Bracken, assuming he has one." Kate queried. "You said you didn't know what Jill was capable of doing."
"And I didn't, however that doesn't mean the other guy told him if he knew." Rick countered. "Chinese?" He tried to change the subject again. Not getting a response from her because she had buried herself in the case, Rick got up to find a phone and place an order.
They were sitting at their breakfast bar when Castle's phone rang. "Jack if you please?" He didn't want to get up and search for it even if it wasn't far because he could hear it. "Castle."
"Mr. Castle this is Angad Singh, I have news on your home in St. Lucia. As requested, I'm acting as your representative in the purchase since I'm local. I'd like to congratulate you and welcome you to St. Lucia as a new resident. I'm sure you will love our island," Angad, their agent, told them.
"Our house closed!?" Kate called out and quickly covered her mouth with both hands.
"Indeed Ms. Beckett, just in time for your upcoming wedding if memory serves. All I need is both of your signatures on a few forms that I will email and fax to the number provided; just sent them back and the place is yours."
"I can either send you the keys overnight via FedEx or you can pick them up the next time you are out here," Angad offered.
"We'll take FedEx and thank you for all your help Mr. Singh." Kate spoke up again; she wanted those keys in her hand.
"It has been my pleasure to help the two of you. Welcome home." Angad Singh ended the call.
"We have a piece of Paradise, Castle!" She leaned over, wrapped her arms around him and kissed him.
"We can teleport there this weekend for our weekend off," he suggested, getting her to smile at him.
"Richard, Bracken is making a call from an unlisted phone from his office in Washington," Jack suddenly stated.
Kate hadn't liked the idea of bugging Bracken's office like Castle had his home in New York and his campaign office. Those items had long since been retrieved after that office had closed.
"Bracken is informing the person on the other end that he is down to just two doses and is expecting to be in a closed meeting tomorrow. If he is to dose the senior member followed by the lead CIA and military personnel that will be present to give their briefs, he will need more devices and soon," Jack informed them both.
Both Kate and Rick held their breath and listened. "The response is that he will try, however he is likely to be late to his apartment. And if he is, he will let himself in and leave them behind for next time. The candles will be here soon, so you will come up with a reason to come to New York and get a case." The call ended, Jack informed them.
"He's coming out of hiding!" Rick was smiling. "Jack, I need an address for Bracken's apartment in or near DC."
"He said the candles will be here soon," she said. "That means he has a company somewhere making them for him. Probably in the hundreds or why would he use a company to make them. If it was just a few he could make them himself with one of those make candles at home kits. Or maybe it's the formula that is difficult to make?" She thought about it.
"No, that makes no sense. If he can make the drug then he can make a way for people to do as he tells them to. He knows how to make the formula, he just needs someone to make hundreds of candles, who will not question his formula for the scent. …Unless they are already hooked on Nuke." Kate was trying to think this through.
"Question is are the candles coming from overseas or coming by freight from Texas?" she mused.
"Shipping means the docks, likely in a container. By plane means FedEx, UPS, or someone," Rick stated.
Jack found Bracken's address. "I'll be right back." Rick kissed Kate and walked to their closet to pull out a few disks and a transmitter box along with a WiFi setup since DC was too far away.
Rick was walking around looking for good locations that would get most of the apartment. "Jack, how can he afford this place?" Rick liked it even if it was a little too clean-line modern for his taste.
"He keeps adding money to his overseas account. Likely he is paying his bills before the transfer takes place," Jack explained.
"Has anyone noticed that all the money is gone?" Rick questioned, since every time new money came in, Jack moved it.
"No attempts to withdraw money have taken place since I moved it the first time, so likely the answer is no," Jack responded.
Rick decided to do some snooping while he had the time, or at least he hoped he had the time.
"I should have brought Kate and Jill so we could scan this place." Still he had a place to start.
"Interesting, only two coffee cups and no coffee machine. Jack, remind me to ask Jill if someone hooked on Nuke can drink coffee. If no, what would be the result?"
Rick decided to teleport outside the apartment building and set up three camera locations that could watch the building, in case the delivery isn't directly to Bracken's front door. They needed eyes on this guy so they could trace him. So far the drug dealer was a ghost. Worse he could be anyone. Rich, famous, homeless, salesman, mechanic, simple office worker.
He teleported home and went to look for Kate who was up in the Mezzanine level listening to her music even though it was late in the day.
He sat down next to her. "I know you don't like bugging his home, however I prefer to look at the bigger picture. If we don't stop these two, even we are going to end up hooked on Nuke. Which would give these two access to Jack and Jill as a result," Rick emphasized.
"I think my circuits just overloaded," Jill revealed, getting a light chuckle from Kate. "I'm unable to scan the bottoms of the two coffee cups that you have," Jill added. This got Kate's attention and she took the cups from Castle and they went downstairs into the kitchen.
This time she grabbed a wood spoon and her tongs before tossing one of the coffee cups into her farmhouse sink, watching it break into pieces. "I scan one dispenser of Nuke in the sink," Jill warned them, getting Kate to fish it out.
He took the tongs from Kate and looked it over while she smashed the second cup, finding another dose of Nuke.
Rick placed his dose of Nuke into one of their coffee cups while fishing out the second dose and dropping it in. "How long to scan them, Jill, to find out if anything is different between these and the first one?"
"Hours at best, days possibly. This drug is complex and it is likely that he is not done modifying it," Jill was forced to tell them.
"Back into our panic room these two doses go," Kate said and wrapped them up inside the remnants of the original coffee cup and walked to the panic room.
"They were the only coffee cups in the house," he mentioned. "Which reminds me, Jill what happens if someone who is hooked on Nuke drinks coffee?" Did having no one who drank coffee offer a new lead?
"Unknown at this time. I will require time to analyze the addition of all the chemicals that make up your standard cup of coffee," Jill admitted.
About an hour later, Kate was snuggling in close to Castle. She buried her nose into his side so she could breathe him in and feel calm and safe. So much seemed to finally be happening. It's just that if felt like they were running out of time.
It was really late in the day or to be more accurate really early in the morning. "You sure this is a good plan Castle?" She was dubious about his idea.
"I have three uses left and get the first three back late tomorrow. I need these three to do this tonight. Bracken doesn't have his next fix since we have them now. His next fix is showing up tomorrow some time. This will hopefully get him rattled," he grinned.
"Be right back." He kissed her and disappeared.
"I should have started doing this weeks ago." Rick whispered to himself as he showed up in Bracken's bedroom and looked down at his sleeping form. "I hope you are in REM sleep already, since I don't like being this close to you," he murmured. "I do wish I had an illusion to use on you like Demming. Can't win them all I guess."
"Now it's time for the worst nightmare you've ever had. At least until I do this the next time, like tomorrow night for example." He reached out and touched Bracken and waited just long enough to watch Bracken start to twitch in his sleep before teleporting back to Kate. "All done. I hope he enjoys his nightmare."
Rick and Kate's first stop in the morning wasn't the FBI field office. It was the 12th precinct. "I'll take Montgomery, Ryan and Esposito. You can go talk to your friend Lanie," Rick proposed. He kissed Kate and took the elevator up to the 4th floor while she took the stairs down to the morgue.
"Hi Lanie." Kate walked in and found Lanie working on Homicide's latest case.
"Kate! Girlfriend! How are things with you? How is that not yet husband of yours?" Lanie was dying to hear some news.
"Castle is fine, he's upstairs actually. Did you get your invitation?" She knew the invitations should have gone out by now. The hotel was handling practically everything for them.
"I did actually. That is one good looking invitation. Is it really true you plan on paying to get us all there and stay there or is it just me?" Lanie asked.
"The guest list isn't very large so we're spending the money to fly everyone out and give them someplace to stay. A select few will be staying with us at the house, everyone else will get a hotel room if needed," she explained.
"You have a house there?" Lanie was shocked and impressed.
"We just have to sign the paperwork and send it back and the purchase will be complete. It's gorgeous Lanie, it really, really is." Kate was smiling so much she practically glowed.
"So what brings you down here girl?" Lanie had what she needed for now.
"We came to find out if you have any new cases of Nuke." The answer would tell Kate a lot, most of it bad.
"Actually no, it's as if they stopped making it let alone selling it. This guy here died the usual way, gun shot. I had hoped you had found the guy, however since you're asking I'm guessing the answer is no." Lanie really wanted that drug to be gone.
"Sorry, no, we don't think so." Kate knew she couldn't tell Lanie what she did know.
Kate stayed long enough to arrange for another girls' night out, only this time they would do something other than drink. Though this time there may be wine involved instead of the harder stuff. Lanie had gotten her hug and Kate headed upstairs.
"Well if it isn't the other half of the Agent Castle's team." Espo teased after catching Kate walking into the bullpen. Espo's calling Kate out caught Ryan's attention.
"Guy's, where's..." Kate stopped when Espo pointed at the closed door of Captain Montgomery's office.
"I don't think you've met lead detective Sullivan." Espo pointed out a person she had seen but didn't know. "Sully, this is Agent Beckett, soon to be Castle." She shook his hand.
"So you're the Castle these two have been talking about. These two haven't shut-up since they got that invitation. I'm sorry I missed you the first time, I was out on an extended vacation with my family at the time."
"I'm told these two rookies did alright without me," Sully informed Kate.
She looked at Espo and Ryan. Montgomery had said that these two were lead on the case, not that they were lead detectives. Kate resolved to listen to the words that were used more closely.
"They did fine. Castle is up here to get an update on our drug maker. I could use one on those three that broke into our home," she stated.
Jack had already told them everything, she just wanted to hear it from these two. Plus she had to wait for Castle to come out of Montgomery's office anyway.
"All three are still being investigated. Someone hired them, though my money is on only Lockwood knowing who that person was. The other two were likely hired by Lockwood as support."
"How are you feeling?" Espo had been the first one to find Kate sitting on the floor, completely zoned out.
"I'm fine, I've suffered and moved on. Kinda hoping they were my first and my last." Espo and Ryan nodded their heads. Killing someone took something from you that you were never going to get back.
Montgomery and Castle took this moment to come out of his office. "Agent Beckett, it's good to see you. I wanted to thank you for the invite and my wife has instructed me to also thank you for everything. She and the girls are looking forward to some time on a beach." Roy knew he was only staying long enough for Kate to get married. Having himself along with Ryan and Espo gone for a week just wasn't going to happen, so he was coming home early.
"I'm just glad you could come and I'm looking forward to seeing your wife and children," she replied.
From there Rick and Kate headed for the office and started their day at their desks a little later than normal.