CH4
Kate walked back out into the living room with her decision made, it was now or never. "The place looks nothing like you Castle, but we're going to fix that. Though it will take time."
"First we're going to go shopping and get you a storage unit immediately. This place is going to look like you in no time." Kate stood there and waited and debated what Castle would say first.
"I…um, and you are?" Rick didn't believe this woman, and how had she gotten in here in the first place?
Kate started smiling inside. It was the best response she could have hoped for. She stepped up to Castle. "You may call me Mistress Kate or Mistress Beckett from now on. Try it," she told him.
"Mistress… Kate? …Seriously?" Rick didn't think that was any kind of name. However Kate quickly reached out and grabbed Castle's ear and twisted it with some purpose.
"OW, OW, ow, ow!" Rick complained and tilted his head to try and break her hold on his ear. "I'm very serious Castle. You will refer to me as Mistress Kate or Mistress Beckett. ALWAYS!" Kate informed him and let go of his ear.
"Mistress Kate?" Rick tried the name on for size and wasn't sure what to think. "And I would want to do this…why?" There was no good reason for him to want to do this that he could easily think of.
Kate came in really close and was just a hairs breath from Castle's lips. "Because you need structure and by the look of this apartment, you are screaming 'help me.'"
"Now you are going to say, 'Mistress Kate, please help me,'" Kate instructed him and stepped back and waited.
"You want…" Rick didn't make it any further because Kate reached out with inhuman speed and took hold of Castle's ear yet again and twisted it with the same amount of force as last time.
"OW, OW, ow, ow!" Rick raised his hands and tried to twist his head to get out of her grasp. "Stop, please stop," he pleaded.
Kate squeezed her fingers closed even tighter, increasing the pain. "Please stop, Mistress Kate." she countered, telling him the proper way for him to address her, yet again.
"Please stop, Mistress Kate," he managed to get out between his moans of pain.
She released his ear. "Very good Castle." Kate was actually impressed. She was afraid he would put up more of a fight.
Rick was rubbing his ear, trying to get the blood to flow back into it. "You have learned your first lesson Castle and it didn't take that long. For that you deserve a reward. …You may kiss me." Kate was dying to see how he reacted to that, plus she wanted him to kiss her.
"You want me to kiss you?" he questioned and watched as Kate lifted her hand toward his ear yet again. "Yes, Mistress Kate," he told Kate as he used his hands to cover his ears.
Kate smiled, since she thought she was making pretty good progress and waited for Castle to kiss her. "I'm waiting Castle." Kate was ready to twist his ear yet again for taking too long.
Rick stepped up to Kate, lowered his hands from his ears, bent down to kiss Kate on the lips, and then pulled back quickly. "What was that Castle?" Kate hated it!
"A kiss?" he said, apologetically. Kate glared at him and he tried to cover his ears, however Kate was too fast for him and had hold of his ear and twisted. "OW, OW, ow ow!"
"What did I tell you Castle?" She was pissed that they had taken a step backwards, still she had been expecting it.
Rick tried to think while his ear was on fire. "Mistress Kate." Rick guessed was the correct response.
His response got Kate to let go of his ear. "You have no idea how to kiss a woman do you Castle?" she asked him.
Rick rubbed his ear and started wondering if it was still attached, though since it hurt so much it must be and stared at Kate. "There are two ways to kiss a woman Castle. You take her in your arms and kiss her lips softly and passionately. Like she is the only thing that exists on this planet. You kiss her with your heart and your soul."
"The other way is to take her in your arms, crushing her against your body, devouring her mouth with yours. Pressing your tongue into her mouth to search it. Use the kiss to acquire her taste, so that you never forget it."
"Both are done using your entire heart and soul. Now which of those did you use when you kissed me Castle?" Kate just gave Castle a test and waited to see how well he had been listening.
Rick thought about it for a moment. "Neither?" Rick guessed since he was sure he had done neither of the methods she had mentioned.
Kate instantly reached up and grabbed the same ear and held it for a moment, giving Castle a chance. "Neither, Mistress Kate," he said quickly.
Kate withdrew her hand and smiled. Rick was making excellent progress. "Now, try again Castle. And this time I expect to feel your heart and soul in this kiss." Kate left off "Or I'll twist your ear right off your head," but he heard it loud and clear.
Rick stepped in and wrapped his arms around Kate and felt her step into him and wrap her arms around him, too. Then he started to bend his head down to kiss her. "Hold me, Castle. Hold me like you want our bodies to be one. Relax and melt into me. All I feel are your stiff muscles. How do you expect to kiss me with your heart and soul if you are too far away?" Kate pushed Castle away with a little force.
"Now try again Castle." Kate tried to make it sound like a warning.
He heard the warning, too. He knew his ear was history if he screwed this up. He stepped back towards Kate, slowly wrapped his arms around her, and tried to press his body into hers. To fill up each and every curve she had with his own. Rick willed his muscles to relax and tried to sink into Kate, and then he softly brought his lips to hers.
He brushed his lips across hers ever so softly and closed his eyes and actually tried to block out everything else he felt, heard, or even smelled. All that existed was Kate.
He tried to find the space where his lips matched hers, like his lips were Yin and hers were Yang. Rick was simply kissing her while keeping just his lips being involved. Then he started moving his hands around Kate's back trying to feel her move closer to him.
Suddenly he felt Kate pull him in tight, tighter and with more strength than he thought she was capable of. Kate also pressed her lips tight against his and pressed her tongue into his mouth and started searching it.
He relaxed even more than he already had and let Kate savage his lips while her tongue searched spaces of his mouth no other woman ever had. Rick was lost in the kiss and only came back to earth when he found that he needed air, badly!
Rick tried to break from the kiss, however Kate's strength kept him from accomplishing that. It was only when he stopped kissing her that she finally stopped kissing him back.
When she pulled her head away, he saw that she was licking blood off of her lips. It was then that Rick, while gasping in some air, lifted a hand up to his lips. When he pulled his hand away he found his own blood on his finger. SHE HAD BITTEN HIM WHILE KISSING.
Kate was enjoying the kiss. Kate decided that Castle was a fast learner, so she pressed the kiss. Made it forceful and used her tongue to search his mouth and acquire his taste and memorize it.
Then she used one of her fangs to poke his lip and made it bleed. She instantly felt her eyes roll back into her head as she kissed Castle and sucked the blood out of his wound.
"GOD, but Castle tastes good, so very good!" she thought to herself and kept drinking his blood, sucking on the wound to keep it bleeding. What she really wanted to do was bite him and suck him dry. But she knew if she did, she would kill him and then she would never taste his blood ever again.
However, Kate felt Castle trying to get away. He had stopped kissing her and was actively trying to push her away. It took a lot of her willpower to stop kissing Castle and let go of his lip. Still she licked her lips of every last drop.
Seeing the blood that was still on his lip was even worse. GOD, she so wanted to reach out and lick the blood off of his lip!
Rick started sucking in air as fast as he could while not letting go of Kate. "That was better Castle, not great, but better. As much as I would love to stay and help you practice your kissing, I have some errands to run and I need to leave." Kate let go of him and backed away.
"We are going shopping tomorrow night, Castle, so be here at 8:05 pm and make sure you have your credit card. This place doesn't look like you and we're going to fix that. If I'm going to keep coming over here, I want it to look and feel like you." She moved in close to him and kissed his cheek like he had kissed her lips earlier.
"Feel the difference Castle?" Kate tested him.
Rick nodded his head. "Yes," he responded. "OW, OW, ow, ow!" He twisted his head to try and free his now damaged ear. Kate had swiftly reached out and twisted his ear.
"Yes what, Castle?" Kate gave him one more chance before she punished him harder.
"Yes …Mistress Kate," he replied, hoping that was right. It must have been since she instantly let go of his poor ear. "8:05 pm Castle, be here and be ready to go shopping. Do not make me come looking for you." She smiled at him and walked for the door.
Kate gave him one final test before leaving. "Who am I, Castle?" Kate flexed her fingers to get them ready. "Mistress Kate and I'll be here, ready and waiting," he answered and prayed that was the correct response.
"Very good Castle, you're learning." Kate opened the door and went out into the hallway and closed the door behind her. She leaned back against the door. She had been outside for over an hour waiting for Castle to come home, before quickly stepping out onto the sidewalk and getting in his way.
She squeezed her eyes closed. Castle tasted so good and he had responded to his first training session and hadn't done that badly. She knew that eventually Castle was going to fight back at least a little and she had to be ready for that day.
To lessen the possibility that she would lose him, she needed a plan and she had an idea. Now she needed to do her own research and put in an order for what she was thinking of buying.
It was time to go home and get back to work. She jumped for home as the air blew around a little and saw a paper on their bed start to fly when she arrived.
She grabbed her computer and began her search. It only took a few minutes before she found something that would work for what she wanted to happen. She even paid extra to have it shipped faster. Satisfied with her purchase Kate was just closing her laptop while sitting on their bed. "There you are. You're late." Alexis walked in dressed normally.
"Sorry, I had something to do first." Kate tossed her laptop onto the bed and stepped over to Alexis who was sitting down at her laptop. "Well, you being late just might work out for us. I found an army base that should have what we need and it has been dark there for a few hours." Alexis brought it up on her screen.
Kate leaned over Alexis's shoulder to look at what she had. "Canada." Kate hadn't expected that.
Canadian Forces Base Suffield
Located in Southeast Alberta, approximately 50 kilometres west of Medicine Hat, CFB Suffield has been the site of military training in the region since 1972.CFBSuffield is host to the largest military training area in Canada, conducting the largest live-fire training exercises in the country.
"Sounds like just the place. Have you worked out ideas on where to start looking?" Kate asked.
"Using satellite photography it would be best to start…" Alexis stopped talking and started sniffing Kate.
"What were you doing, mother?" Alexis queried as she turned her head to face Kate who was only just inches away and right over her shoulder.
Kate instantly lost her poker face. "UH-OH!" Kate knew she had gotten too close and Alexis could smell something. Kate stood up straight. "I have no idea what you are talking about." She feigned ignorance.
Alexis stood up and planted her nose in Kate's face. "You were with someone and it smells like a human. …And your lips are still swollen." Alexis stared right at Kate's lips that were just an inch or two away.
"Alexis…" Kate didn't want to lie, she just wasn't ready to explain it yet.
"Don't lie to me mother, you promised." Alexis and Kate had promised long ago not to lie to each other over anything.
Kate moved closer, took Alexis in her arms, held her tight, and kissed the side of her head. "I promised sweetie and I never will, I'm just not ready to talk about it yet. It's new and it might not work out at all." Kate could tell Rick was hurting from something and he was a guy. One day he might just say he's had enough before Kate can finish training him and they would be over.
"Do you know what you're doing mom?" Alexis feared for her.
"I think so. …I hope so," she admitted. "If he makes you happy mom than I'm all in. It is a guy, right, and he's human?" Alexis wanted to know.
"I'm happy at what might be and yes, it's a human guy. I'm not inviting him here anytime soon." Kate knew Castle had to be well trained before she invited him into the house.
"You just be careful mom, I don't want to see you hurt." Alexis hugged Kate tightly.
"Thanks sweetie for understanding." Kate kissed her head again. "Now show me what you've got. I still need to go out and get some blood that isn't filled with drugs. Maybe a Canadian hospital somewhere that already has clean blood." Kate needed to get back to the tasks for tonight.
"You look over the likely locations while I get changed." Kate kissed Alexis's head again and headed for the closet.
Kate was dressed in all black with black tennis shoes and her hair pulled into a tight bun on the back of her head. "How are we doing?" Kate went back to leaning over Alexis's shoulder to look at the laptop screen.
"It's a large base and they use it for live weapons fire. Because of this I'm betting that these buildings house their ammunition." Alexis pointed to a small grouping of buildings with rounded roofs.
"This area looks like administration, while this area looks like barracks for the soldiers. They even have housing over here, likely for families and officers. This big building is probably the base store for the wives and husbands."
"By process of elimination that leaves this building that is close to the ammunition buildings and between the barracks." Alexis pointed them out.
"Go get your death dealers and find someplace to store the vests for when you need them. Be right back." Kate smiled and tried to make it sound like fun. She jumped to the first building Alexis had pointed out.
Kate went around the side and found a window to look into the building and instantly jumped into the hallway on the other side.
This building looked old so she paid attention to the floor and avoided the doors that showed the most traffic. She opened the door with the least amount of traffic. "Utility room with a mop sink," she cursed silently.
Now she was down to doors that showed traffic. She selected the one in the middle. "Bingo!" She found three tows of 'A' frame racks holding just what she wanted. She quickly realized that the vests were heavy, not that it mattered to her.
She held 3 tight to her chest and jumped for the basement of the house. She handed them over and jumped back. It took her only minutes to empty the room of all 16 vests.
"What are they? And are they any good?" She hated to think she had to do this all over again, after dumping these.
Alexis picked one up and ran upstairs to their bedroom. "Gimmie a minute." Alexis called over her shoulder as she went up the stairs.
Kate got them to organize the vests when she had an idea. "Someone find the tools," she called out and watched two of the death dealers head for another section of the basement.
It only took Alexis a few minutes before she came running back down the stairs still holding the vest. "This one is Miltac with groin protection, Molle webbing, SAPI protection on the front and the sides. I think it even has ballistic protection, I just don't know how good it is. Type II or type III."
"It's good mom, we can keep it, and it looks like you have forest and desert camo styles. Forest is darker so it would be better for us, but desert camo might come in handy," Alexis explained.
"Excellent, who has the tools?" Kate hollered and watched as the tool box got lifted up. "Hand it to Alexis, I have an idea. You three clean out this area here." She waved her arm and stepped up to Alexis who was holding the tools.
Kate took hold of Alexis's arm and jumped back to the room where she got them from. "Why are we here?" Alexis didn't understand. "We're going to take these apart and take them home for us to use," Kate explained as she gestured at the 'A' frame racks.
Alexis couldn't fault the idea, she just hoped it was easy enough and that they had the time.
She got to work on unbolting them from the floor and Kate got to work dismantling the 'A' frames into individual panels. They had two of the rows done when Kate picked up one of the panels. "Be right back." And she jumped for the basement.
Kate jumped back and forth while Alexis kept working. Kate had two of the panels of the third row off when they both heard boots out in the hallway.
Kate grabbed the panels with one hand and Alexis with the other as Alexis picked up the tools. Then Kate jumped for the basement. "Put the panels back together and put the vests back on them. I'm headed for the hospital," she informed them and jumped for the roof of the hospital that had been selected earlier with Alexis.
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Rick had been left in the dust as he watched a beautiful woman that he had never seen before walk out of his apartment. How had he let her in, in the first place? Was it her beauty? Her height and long legs? She certainly walked with authority. Hell, she did everything with authority, like she was used to giving out orders and expected them to be followed.
"She's a damn good kisser though," he said to himself.
Was he really going to go out shopping for his apartment with her? It was an inexpensive apartment way over in Brooklyn, about as far away from Manhattan as he could get and still be in New York.
Rick walked over to the refrigerator and took out the block of ice that had his one and only credit card in it and dropped it into the kitchen sink to let it melt overnight. Well, what was left of this night.
"Mistress Kate," he spoke the name again. He was only mildly shocked when her name rolled off his tongue so easily. He went back to the freezer and pulled out one of the ice cube trays and dumped some into a kitchen towel and put the rest back into the freezer.
He wrapped up the towel and placed it against his ear that was still screaming at him from the workout that Mistress Kate had given it earlier.
"There is that name again," he moaned, not sure what to make of it all.
Still he was awake even if it was late, so he dropped the towel and ice and went downstairs and started using the exercise equipment for the next four hours. A sweaty and tired Richard Castle made his way up the stairs, all four flights worth, to get to his shower and then crash in his bed.