CH2

Kate rolled out of her bed and stretched before she stripped while walking towards her en-suite bathroom, looking forward to her shower. She turned on the shower and kept it hot. She stepped in and let the water cascade over her, relishing in the feeling of water on her body.

Grabbing the loofa and squirting some body soap into it, she started washing. She had done this last night mostly because she liked feeling clean before getting into bed. Showering when she awakened helped to wake her up. Next came washing her long brown hair.

After showering she dried herself and sat down to do her make-up. Kate didn't like using much, she just wanted to give what she had a little highlight. Stepping back into her bedroom she sat down and turned on her computer to see what was required of her today.

"We're a little short on supplies, the refrigerators are about half full." Kate made a note of taking her catching bag with her when she went out. "The typical fight over one of the women in the house. I wish those two would learn I don't want to come down on their heads unless I have to. One of them is part of the death dealers and we need them," she moaned while she kept reading.

She wasn't finding anything pressing that needed her immediate attention; she might even indulge herself a little today. A little luxury wouldn't kill her.

"Morning mom," Kate suddenly heard as she walked in and started searching through her closet being just as naked as Kate was.

"Morning, daughter of mine. I'm not finding your report from yesterday's tour," Kate pointed out.

"That's probably because I haven't written it yet. We stayed out a little too long and only just made it back inside the house before things got...toasty." It was an inside joke and Kate didn't miss it.

Kate chuckled. "Just be more careful next time sweetie. I care way too much for you to lose you." She wasn't mad, she knew her daughter could handle herself.

"We thought we had a lead and it took us a little further away from home than we had anticipated, it won't happen again." She pulled a pair of Kate's pants on and walked over to Kate still topless and kissed Kate's hair.

Kate took her arm before she could walk away. "I'm going with you later tonight, since it looks like all I need to do tonight is find a little to add to the refrigerators," Kate informed her.

"We'll be happy to take you along mom. Also for your information those two are at it again," she mentioned while she walked over to the dresser and searched for a bra to wear.

"There are only two women in the house that are not taken. You and her." Kate pointed out that she was part of this problem.

"MOM! We've talked about this. I am not getting involved with either of those idiots. I'd rather be a lesbian than be involved with either of those two," she replied while hooking closed the bra she had chosen.

"And I've told you I don't have a problem with that, I just want you happy. It's just that the options are thin even in New York. I worry about you, Alexis, I think it's in my job description," Kate responded while turning off her computer.

"I know you do, mom and I love you for it. Speaking of being single…" Alexis left that sentence unfinished on purpose.

"I have even fewer options than you do and I'm fine, Alexis. I don't need a man to keep me happy." Kate hadn't found anyone interesting in a very long time.

"I offered mom." Alexis countered, revisiting a conversation they have already had.

"And I appreciated the offer, it's just that I prefer you as my daughter rather than my lover. I happen to like the feel of men, even if it has been a while. And before you say it, strap-ons are just not the same and you know it." Kate glared at Alexis who had the grace to blush.

Alexis could still remember when Kate had walked in on her while she was using and abusing her dildo, thrashing all over the bed while crying out. It had been the first time Alexis had offered to be Kate's lover since she could see how hot Kate was while watching her.

Alexis had offered to go out and get a strap-on if Kate needed a man inside her so badly. Kate had rejected her offer, so they had remained at a stalemate ever since. Not that they didn't tease each other by walking around in Kate's bedroom naked whenever they had the chance, like today.

"Go coordinate today's tour with the death dealers and let me get dressed. I need to grab my bag and go out for a moment." Kate stepped up to a now dressed Alexis. "Now get going before I change my mind and ravish you," she teased while kissing Alexis's forehead.

"Promises, promises, promises. One of these days you are going to succumb to my beauty," Alexis teased back. "Not unless I find you a man first." Kate smiled and went over to her dresser to start her search for panties and a bra.

Alexis walked out with a little extra sway in her hips than was necessary. "That girl is going to win one of these days." Kate knew she was losing; she really was horny. It was just that she really did prefer men and not a woman with a strap-on. Now if it was a man who still had his stuff after taking estrogen from before he had reached puberty, that might be interesting. It was only that by doing that his stuff tended to shrink if it worked at all.

"Maybe I'll get lucky," she said to herself while pulling out a pair of pants.

Kate was soon downstairs in the basement to go over the tour with the death dealers, planning to go out with them after she got back. "We were thinking of going into Queens this time and doing a search of this area here."

Kate didn't have any objections. "I'll meet you there after I'm done, I want to fill one of the refrigerators," Kate told them.

"We'll keep our phones handy mother," Alexis assured her, getting a nod from Kate.

Kate went over to her collection bag and made sure she had everything she needed. "Give me a couple of hours and I'll be there." And Kate was gone in the blink of an eye, jumping to the spot where she wanted to be.

They still hadn't gotten used to seeing her move around like that. Immediately after Kate left, it was like the air got sucked away with her. Conversely, when she jumped into a space it felt and looked like the air was being blown out.

"I so want to be able to do that." Alexis had always been envious that her mother could do that.

"You reach her age and are the head of your own house, maybe you will." Alexis's number two answered. It was something Kate had already explained to her.

All Kate needed was to have either been to or to have seen the location or even just to have seen it in a photograph and she could jump there. What she actually did was hard to explain. It took less than a second for Kate to jump from one location to another. Distance didn't matter, Kate simply had to have a picture of the destination in her head and poof, she was there.

Kate found herself right where she wanted to be. This time she was in Brooklyn. It was just past midnight which meant she and the rest of the house had stayed in bed too long today. Kate would have to put a stop to that for all of their sakes.

She walked confidently down the sidewalk as if she owned it, not afraid of anything or anyone. Her being alone had a certain risk to it, however since only someone her age and power had her ability, Kate knew she could get out of any problem in a heartbeat.

It only took minutes before Kate was getting wolf whistles and cat calls with "Hey baby!"

Even for midnight there were too many people around that could see her so she ignored them and kept walking. It only took a few more streets for her to turn a corner and come across two young men spray painting the cars in the area. By the look of it they were on their third car and it looked like gang symbols, she couldn't see all of the symbols so she didn't know what they said. It looked like Hoovers followed by a number that they hadn't yet completed.

She jumped to the furthest one away, grabbed him, and jumped away. Five seconds later she had him hanging from one leg and left him yelling obscenities, jumping back for his friend. Once she had hold of him, she jumped away and had him hanging from one leg right next to his friend.

The two of them instantly started explaining how much trouble she was in and if she let them go they would kill her quick instead of making her suffer.

Kate pulled a collapsed plastic bag from her bag and started getting set up, letting those two yell at her, not that she cared since there wasn't anyone within miles of them. And since most people around here only spoke Spanish, it was likely anyone who did stumble onto the area wouldn't understand a word they said.

The first one wouldn't stop jerking around trying to free himself so Kate stepped up and hit him really hard, breaking his jaw and knocking him unconscious. Blood started to slowly drip out of his mouth.

Now it was just the other guy who did the talking and he had switched to telling Kate how screwed up she was. Kate simply ignored him and pulled out her tubing, a large gauge syringe and stuck the first one in the arm, starting the blood flowing into her collapsed plastic container.

Finally the other guy shut up while watching his buddy being bled to death. Kate set up another collapsed container under him, too and pulled out more tubing and another large gauge syringe.

"Look lady, we can get you anything you want. Money, you want money? We can get you all the money you want." He was lying but she didn't need to know that, plus he knew their leader wasn't going to give her anything. Not even a dime. He was simply begging for his life.

Kate hit him really hard and broke his jaw, too, and knocked him out. She stuck him and watched as the blood started pouring out of him and into her container.

Satisfied, Kate jumped back and started walking. No one was going to miss two low level gang bangers who likely couldn't even remember their real names.

It took half an hour before Kate could hear a single person talking, something about wanting his wallet. She looked around the corner and saw 5 young thugs starting to push around a single, older man. It was after a few punches to his face that Kate jumped in and took the first one away and hung him by one leg from the ceiling.

It took Kate only seconds to jump all five of them and have them hanging from the ceiling.

Kate jumped back to check on the lone man. She could take him too, she wasn't picky. However she didn't need people looking for him so she had to be careful. Kate found him lying on the sidewalk unconscious.

Kate sat him up against the building and looked him over. "He's handsome." Kate liked the look of him. He was also bleeding by the mouth a little and Kate couldn't resist wiping the blood from his face using her finger. As much as she wanted to resist, she just couldn't. She placed her finger in her mouth and felt her eyes instantly roll back into her head, a moan escaping from her lips.

"OH MY GOD!" She licked her finger clean and looked down at him to see if there was any more blood on his face. Kate sagged when she found his face was clean.

Now she was conflicted as to what to do. He tasted so good, so should she take him and drain him just for her? Or should she… Kate searched him and found his wallet and memorized everything on his driver's license and put it back. Then she pulled out his phone and found the screen locked. She took a few guesses and hit pay dirt. She got to work memorizing everything in his directory: names and numbers that he had, names and numbers of people who called him. She even found he had one blocked caller and memorized that number too.

Kate gave him back his phone and leaned down to kiss him. "I'll be seeing you later Richard Castle." She licked her lips clean and found even his kisses tasted pretty good. She stroked her hand through his hair and remembered her words with Alexis this morning.

She stood up and shook her head. She was dreaming and she knew it, still she wasn't going to miss out biting him from time to time. She hadn't tasted anyone like him as long as she had lived. "You're special Richard Castle and I don't know why, but I'm going to find out." And with that, she jumped away and hooked up her five men who were likely part of another gang.

She jumped again and found her first two had finished bleeding out so she collected all her tools and put them back in her bag. She lifted up the containers filled with blood easily and jumped home, leaving the containers in the refrigerator so she could divide it out into separate blood bags later.

She jumped back to the five who had beat up on Richard Castle and waited for the last drops of blood to be drained out of their bodies. It took her three jumps to get all of the containers back into the refrigerators.

Next she went down to the basement and picked up two large pistols. KSC B&T TP9 GBB Submachine Gun along with a couple of spare clips. Next she picked up a simple semi-automatic pistol, a Glock G23 along with a pair of spare clips. To that she added a lower arm mounted knife that she slide out with the jerk of her arm. "Note to self, remember to check on the balances in the overseas bank accounts and order some more metal to make more rounds with." Kate knew they had enough rounds for now, but if tonight came to something they were going to need a lot more and that took time.

Kate went over to check the map to meet up with Alexis and the other death dealers. Next she went to the computer and brought up the address and looked it up on Google Maps and switched to satellite view and then street view. A second later she jumped to her daughter and the other 4 death dealers who were similarly armed.

"You're late mom," Alexis pointed out, spotting Kate as soon as she jumped in.

"Sorry about that. I got lucky and found 7 instead of just a couple so we have a lot more work when I get back to the house," Kate explained, shrugging her shoulders.

Alexis thought that was a lucky break since the refrigerators were down to about half full. They didn't have to have the blood, but having 7 full bodies of blood to divide into blood bags was a good thing.

"Let's get started," Alexis ordered. Kate may be the overall mistress of the house and in complete charge, however when it came to the death dealers, Kate had left Alexis in charge so Kate was following Alexis now.

They all walked down the stairs to one of the underground platforms and spread out walking from one end to the other. Just as they reached halfway one of the subway guards stopped one of them.

He had his weapon out. "That's far enough. Raise your hands." He trained his weapon on one of Alexis's men. "Central this is 4345, I have one heavily armed man on the platform," he spoke into his microphone that was secured to his shoulder.

"SHIT!" Kate jumped from her location to the guard who was simply doing his job and grabbed him from behind and jumped away with him. At the same time his weapon discharged striking a person just getting off of the train.

"Damn it." Alexis cursed their bad luck and ordered everyone to shoot out the security cameras and then board the car to get off two stations later.

Kate dropped the guard off at a station on the other side of Yankee Stadium and jumped back to where she came from. She arrived just in time to hear the last shot and watched as the team boarded the train.

She jumped from her place to an empty place next to Alexis just as the train departed the station. None of them asked or did anything for the guy who ended up getting shot by accident; he was on his own.

At the next station they all got off and jumped down into the tracks and walked back the way they came till they came to a platform that wasn't a station. "Spread out just don't get to far away from each other," Alexis commanded and began walking near Kate.

They broke up into three groups of two and started walking down a different tunnel from each other. "Have you been down this way before?" Kate asked Alexis. She shook her head.

They had been walking for just a little while when Kate was certain she heard something. "Lex," Kate whispered, stopping Alexis. Together they just stood there and listened. "Wrong tunnel." Alexis finally understood and the two of them ran back the way they came.

Just as they reached where they had broken up, they heard weapons fire, and raced up that tunnel. Alexis was the first to reach one of her men and saw who they were shooting at. It was also at that time she saw her man take a hit and instantly burn away into ashes. "HOLY SHIT!"

Alexis raised one of her weapons and fired at the figure in the distance only to see her mother jump in next to him and then jump away, taking him with her. Alexis instantly ran forward and started firing at the next person.

Kate jumped in and grabbed the weapon out of his hand, let go of him and jumped back finding herself behind her daughter who was running down the tunnel firing at someone. She didn't see anyone else and took off running after her daughter.

She rounded a corner and found her daughter standing over someone, emptying her clip into him. Kate ran right past the two of them looking for more.

Alexis bent down and picked up his weapon and ran after her mother. Both of them had soon stopped and stood at a fork in the road. Kate held up her finger to keep Alexis silent.

They both listened and turned to the right just as three Lycans came into view running at full speed on all fours straight for them. They both started firing on full auto, each taking a different target and watched as eventually two of them dropped.

The third however had made it to Kate and was about to run into her and bite her when she grabbed it by its neck, showed her teeth, and growled at it with pure hatred. A moment later Alexis watched her mother snap its neck and let it fall to the ground, dead.

Alexis only gaped at her mother. Alexis knew that her mother was over 600 years old and was the strongest of all of them. And that there were only a handful of them like her. Still the display of her strength was spectacular and sobering.

Only the elders like Kate were capable of jumping like she could. Alexis didn't think even Kate knew how many of the elders could do what she did. For all Alexis knew, her mother might be the only one.

Alexis stepped past her mother who was calming down and listened. Alexis was sure she heard something and used hand signals to tell her mother they still weren't alone.

Kate nodded and they started down the tunnel going slowly with their weapons out.

They hadn't gotten far when they both heard the growling of their enemy along with the sound of them running. Suddenly a pack of them burst into view and were only feet from the two of them. "OH SHIT!" Alexis was sure they were both dead and started open fire on them, only to find herself where their group had split up earlier.

Alexis had jumped with her mother several times and had gotten used to it. Still she was so sure she was dead that finding herself somewhere else suddenly and still alive was too much for her nerves and Alexis started crying.

Kate wrapped her arms around her daughter, held her close, and let her cry. "We need to go find the other two, sweetie and get the hell out of here and plan." Kate whispered into Alexis's ear.

It took a moment for Alexis to get a hold of herself and get her breathing under control. "Better? We need to go," Kate said and watched Alexis nod her head. Kate took her hand and they started down the tunnel the other two death dealers hand gone down.

It took time but they finally found them. "We need to make it top side and go home." Alexis was back in control. "Hamilton, Maxwell?" one of them asked only to watch Alexis shake her head and saw their mistress agree. "Damn it." When did the other man die? One of them took a hit and burned to ash. Did the other man die soon after?

What those two wanted now was revenge. Alexis now knew these two would charge in head first when the time came. What she had to figure out was if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

Kate could only jump herself and one other person so they were forced to walk out to get home.

While they were top side walking for home before the sun came up, Kate pulled out the weapon she had taken off of one of them. "Where did you take him?" Alexis asked as Kate slid the clip out of the weapon.

"I gave him to the sharks," Kate replied, meaning she had jumped them deep into the Caribbean Islands far from land and let him drop and be fed to the sharks.

Alexis suddenly snatched the clip Kate had in her hand and looked at it. "What the hell?" Alexis ejected one of the rounds and held it up for all of them to see the blue glow. One of the death dealers reached out and took it out of Alexis's fingers and brought it in closer to look at.

"What is it?" he wondered, never having seen anything like it.

"It's what killed Hamilton and Maxwell," Alexis answered.

"We need to get that to Solomon," Kate stated. All of them knew he was a genius when it came to weapons. If he couldn't figure out what it was, they were screwed.

"We have a bigger problem," Alexis pointed out.

"There is still a pack of Lycans in this city and it looks like it is a big one. They're armed with rounds that can kill us with just one shot." Kate hated the sound of it. As if being a Vampire in the middle of New York City wasn't hard enough.