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Sirene had jumped everyone back to her home and now she was back for Kate who hadn't budged. "Are you coming or do I jump you home myself?"
"You forget I can just jump myself back here. And why aren't you killing me? You hate the Lycans just as much as I do."
Sirene got down on her knees in front of Kate. "Kitty, you were my dearest love for 10 years and I'll let you in on a little secret. I loved you so damn much. I know we were opposites of each other. I was the calculating and logical one and you were the one who lived her life with emotion. I so wanted to be like you and open up and be spontaneous like you were."
"You talked me into doing so many things that my head told we shouldn't even be thinking about doing. You remember that trip to England that you talked me into? I thought sure you were trying to kill both of us."
"All it did was get me to love you even more. I ripped my own heart out when I split us up. Me and my stupid logic. But you know what, my heart tells me that you have regained all of that in Castle, and thanks to you and your emotions, I have Irene."
"I don't love her like I did you, yet. But I'm getting there Kitty, and that's all thanks to you."
"So one last logical and emotional talk as the lovers that we used to be. Your emotion is telling you that you're a Lycan when all you've had was one bad day."
"You want to know what my logical mind tells me now? That you're strong. You created a house filled with vampires that you loved, each and every one of them, and you lost them all. But you're not alone and you never really were. And my logical mind tells me that you can beat this and teach the man you love how to do the same. You bit him because you love him, now you have to fight to teach him how you can stay together."
"So it takes weeks or maybe months. On every full moon you're going to fight and learn something new. If the full blooded Lycans can resist turning into wolf form every full moon, so can you. Because you're a vampire who fights with her emotion."
"Now get up off of your skinny ass and show me that the Kate Beckett that I fell in love with still exists or stay here and put a Lycan killer round in your head. Just don't forget to add a vampire killer round. Wouldn't want to be half dead now would you?" And Sirene jumped for home.
"Where's mom?"
"If she is still the Kitty that I remember she'll be here soon."
Suddenly someone jumped into the living room. "Well, it's about time. I was here yesterday and found everyone gone." Hunt tried to sound pissed but it came out all wrong.
"I'm sorry my Lord we were trying to deal with Kitty's and Castle's transformation during the full moon. It wasn't pretty."
"Of course not, it was their first. You're an amateur until you are a professional. Besides I have a little something that should help. Now where is Katherine?" Hunt looked around.
"Mom is sulking because she thinks she is a Lycan." Alexis responded, sounding pissed and worried about her at the same time.
"I thought you would have slapped her out of that by now Sirene. Katherine has always been like this. I thought that was what drew you to her. She comes up with some stupid emotional item and you and your logic would either shut her down or chase after her."
"I just… " Sirene shut up when Kate jumped into the living room. "MOM!" Alexis leapt into Kate's arms.
"I swear you two are going to drive me batty one of these days," Hunt chastised both of them.
"I'm sorry my Lord," Kate offered her apology.
Hunt just laughed. "It feels like old times. Now to business. We've come up with something that should help the two of you. First you should know that your blood work looks just like Richard's does. A little of everyone along with the policemen."
"These policemen only prevent fights as far as we can tell. Come a full moon, your Lycan cells will become active and do what they do. They are not there to prevent it as far as we can as to how to prevent it, that's where these come into play." He held up two syringes. "Each of these holds a watered down version of serum that is used to prevent Lycans from turning. Since you two are not full blooded Lycans, we've toned it down some."
"There is, however, a catch," Hunt cautioned.
"Naturally," Kate moaned.
"Someone needs to inject the entire contents into you and Castle just as you start to turn, which is where the problem arises."
"They're turning just as we're starting to wake up. By the time we're awake enough, they will already have completed the transformation." Sirene caught on and sat down on the sofa next to Irene.
"Except for me," Irene whispered.
Hunt nodded his head. "It is to your benefit that you have a human that you trust to inject both of you."
"Except she's scared of us and with good reason it would appear," Kate spoke up.
"There were scratch marks on the door. It looks like I did it in an attempt to get out," Rick said, only all of them saw a not understanding look on Hunt's face.
"We don't remember anything about that night," Kate explained.
"Well, Lycans in wolf form are rather primal, so if Richard stopped trying to get out, something more basic stopped him and kept him on the other side of that door. And it would appear that I was wrong. We think that your Lycan cells will increase your strength based off of a human, not increase your strength above a vampire," Hunt explained.
"My Lord, it is not my place and you don't have to answer, but you keep saying WE," Kate pointed out as Sirene nodded her head in agreement.
Hunt squeezed his eyes closed. He was getting old if he kept saying that. Maybe it was time to quit the CIA. Now the question was, did he answer truthfully or concoct a lie with a little truth thrown in. Still if he was going to accept the use one of their spare rooms..."
She had been after him for some time to settle down and not be so job oriented; that he didn't need the CIA, not really. He made up his mind and pulled out a phone and went to the door. He opened it, took a picture, and then closed it. After that he sent the picture. "Care to join me luv?"
Hunt waited and watched them watch him with a question on all of their faces. The doorbell rang and before Sirene could even move, Hunt opened it and hugged and kissed passionately whomever it was. He stepped aside and let her enter, closing the door behind her.
Kate and Sirene instantly had trouble breathing, their mouths hanging open, and their eyes open wide. "KAY!?"
"Hi Sirene, Katherine. It broke my heart when Jackson told me what you had done, Sirene. I had such high hopes for you two." Kay couldn't not tell Sirene her feelings on the matter.
"Still he has told me you have found someone else as has Katherine." Kay moved over to Sirene who had stood up and hugged her. "You must be Irene." She opened her arms wide. "It's alright child, I'm not going to bite you. I don't bite family." And she waited for Irene to stand so she could hug her.
"Katherine?" Kay hugged Kate. "And you must be Richard. Jackson has told me a lot about you, including your few weeks at the CIA." Kay hugged him after he stood up.
"Jackson is correct, you two do have the smell of Lycan on you. Not much but you do have it. We'll talk about that in a moment." Kay moved to Alexis next.
"Alexis." Kay hugged her. "Did you know that you are only the second human to be converted into a vampire using the method Katherine did? It takes courage to rely on your vampire ability to heal your wounds after cutting open your chest to reach your own heart. Not that it doesn't hurt, because it does. Just ask Jackson." Kay gave away a family secret.
"And you must be Paige. I'm happy to add you to the family, child." Kay hugged her tightly.
"Mistress, we were sure you were dead. Burned with all the others. We even feared the Lycans had gotten Lord Hunt." Sirene couldn't believe it.
"It was a close thing, still let's start with you two." Kay looked at Kate. "Oh, my manners. I am Kay Cappucccio and this is my husband Jackson Hunt. We've been together how long my love? 4,011 years?"
"4,001 dear. …I think. Though you are likely correct as usual." Hunt smiled.
"Always the charmer. I've synthesized a serum that should prevent your transformation into a Lycan wolf form. The idea is that we wean you off of the drug as you adapt to the change during the full moon. Eventually you will be able to control it, even change into should you so wish. This will take a few months, but it should work."
"If the Lycans can do it, a vampire can too." Kay tried using pride of being a vampire.
"There is just one small problem," Sirene pointed out.
"I have to be the one that injects them and how do I inject both of them at the same time?" Irene questioned.
"For now that is a problem though I have a few thoughts about that. We're leaving you a pair of syringes with the serum just in case. I'll try and have a reliable system that takes away your exposure to danger by the next full moon." Kay hoped she would anyway.
"Are you coming with us Mistress? You and Lord Hunt are more than welcome to join us in Budapest." Kate so wanted them both to come now that she knew they both existed.
"Jackson has told me about this room you are planning. I'm still working on him, so we'll see." Kate smiled wide while Hunt shook his head.
"Our only fear is that being in downtown Budapest will be another downtown New York City." It was Kate's big fear. She really didn't want to lose any more of her family.
"That shouldn't be a problem with their leader being gone," Kay told them, which got looks from all of them, including Irene.
"I got your call Katherine. I'm sorry to say that I only heard it as a voice mail. I really do wish I could have gotten there earlier than I did. I assumed by the look of things that you had already saved everyone you could and had jumped away to a safe place. I jumped into your bedroom just as Sophia was screaming in fury."
"SOPHIA!? As in Sophia Turner? CIA Sophia Turner? She was the one I was assigned to follow around," Rick spoke up.
"So I heard. I had been out of the office for over a year when I heard about you trying to get in. I thought what better way to stir up the pot then let you in. I learned later that Sophia had worked her way up that year. She wasn't in my sector of the CIA so I never saw her. It was only after you left that I saw her and knew who and what she was."
"Sophia, though she used a different name back then, was the Lycan leader when our, ...my house was destroyed. It was only luck that you two were off accomplishing a separate project and survived," Hunt informed them.
Sirene sucked in a deep breath and slapped a hand over her mouth, while Kate simply sat there with her mouth hanging open.
"It was Sophia that I found in your bedroom," Hunt said to Kate.
"I saw her, she had just bitten Castle and I jumped Castle and myself away. You must have been seconds behind me."
"We recognized each other and went into hand to hand combat after I jumped us to an old abandoned WWII Fort in Oregon. She got me good, almost ripped my, ah… off." Hunt caught himself before he gave up the secret that he still had, or so he thought.
"It forced me to go to one of our emergency sites to get some blood and repair my wounds. Sophia will no longer be a problem so your new home should be secure. If there are any Lycans around, even in or near Budapest, they are likely to be single or in small groups."
Sirene heard something in his explanation and decided to ask him about it later.
"He didn't even tell me until he came home after that. I was so mad at him. I was ready to rip him to pieces for that. Until he kissed me. The bastard has always been able to get his way." Kay looked but didn't sound mad.
"Oh, I get my way because I kiss you? This from the woman who has been hounding me to move to Budapest ever since I was stupid enough to share what Katherine offered with her and thinks she's going to get her way."
"And I will my love." Kay kissed him. Hunt just shook his head at her.
"Gina and Paula were Lycans. Were they responsible for the death of my mother and daughter?" Rick was starting to see a connection.
"To be honest Richard, I truly don't know. Considering their location it's possible they were part of Sophia's pack. She likely bit them just to make them part of her pack. Why Sophia wanted your mother and daughter dead I have no clue. As to why she has an interest in you, I would assume that you know something, found something or learned of something during your time in the CIA."
"That would get my family killed?" Rick shook his head. He couldn't think of anything.
"Like I said Richard, I don't know. I don't know what Sophia was after or what she thought you had or knew. Killing your family might loosen your tongue though it could just as easily have done something else. Still you are alive and she isn't, and you do have your daughter back, thanks to Katherine."
"Are you staying my Lord and Mistress? We don't have much room and two of us have to use the floor," Sirene offered.
"I believe we will go home and come back later. Thank you though. Besides I still have to work on Jackson to accept your offer." Kay smiled and jumped for home.
"I'll let you know when she has come up with a better plan," Hunt said and followed his wife back home.
Alexis moved over to one of the laptops and started her research for a blood bag windfall. "I think I have a couple of sites that you can try to get blood bags from," Alexis called out as Kate and Sirene came over to stand behind her.
"Using their own website I have two blood drive trucks and where they will be to collect donations from willing humans. In each case they will likely move what they've got into their buildings for storage and will simply go home. There's just one problem with this target. One is in Phoenix, Arizona and the other is in Dallas, Texas. Both are presently in the dark. Give them a few hours and each building should be closed for the night."
Kate had a rule that she had been following, she didn't want law enforcement agencies working together to solve a blood stealing problem. So long as she stayed outside of the States, the FBI and others wouldn't take notice of other countries having a blood theft problem.
However, they would be moving to Budapest in a few months and they would possibly need to do this twice before they moved. "We'll take it, show us the pictures so we know where we're going," Kate asked Alexis.
"You two get the refrigerators ready," Sirene told Alexis and Paige hours later just before they jumped to their target.
"Be careful Mistress." Rick wrapped his arms around Kate. "It's easy Castle, I've been doing this for years. But thanks anyway." Kate kissed him while Irene was kissing Sirene.
Kate took Dallas and Sirene took Phoenix.
The American Red Cross in downtown Dallas turned out to be a two story concrete building with plenty of windows that enabled Kate to look inside. It took a number of jumps for her to find the refrigerators that were used to store the blood they had collected.
"Thank you Alexis." Kate was sure she had hit a jack pot as she worked on emptying one of the refrigerators into her bag.
United Blood Services in Glendale, Arizona turned out to be a tenant in a strip mall and was nothing but glass up front with a covered walkway. Easy for Sirene to get into. This site provided blood and blood products to hospitals. And like Kate, Sirene was sure she had hit the jack pot. "That girl is good," Sirene talked to herself as she started filling her bag.
Kate was back first and handed over her bag that filled the refrigerator that still had blood in it and filled the second to half full. Sirene soon showed up with her bag that filled both refrigerators to overflowing.
"We can put the extra in the refrigerator at the safe house, in case we need to use it again." Kate suggested as she began unloading both of the refrigerators just a little. "I'll be back in a few minutes."
"Need some help mom?" Alexis was willing to go with her. Kate really didn't need the help, it was easy enough. "Sure sweetie you can come." Kate took hold of Alexis and jumped them to the living room of the safe house.
"SHIT!" Kate dropped the bag and went into a combat stance as did Alexis.
"MISTRESS!" Solomon was never so happy to see anyone in his life.
"SOLOMON?" Kate stared at him and the three that were with him. She immediately engulfed him in a bone crushing hug while Alexis hugged Michael followed by Allie.
"How…I don't understand. I went to the closest site that you would have gone to to get you but it was fully involved in a fire and burning the building down." Kate wanted to hear this story.
"It was from what we saw. We arrived just before sunrise and settled down in the sub-basement as planned. When we woke up hours later we were all drowning. We lost everything we came with, so we found a wall and started digging. We took shifts so we could dig faster."
"Stupid tunnel collapsed on us twice before we could get far enough away from the building. It was on fire just as you say and the human fire department was pumping gallons of water on it and flooding the basement we were in at the same time."
"From there we started heading for the next safe house but ran into a mass of human police. They were everywhere it seemed. We were forced to bury ourselves each night before I finally remembered this place and we've been making our way here ever since. It wasn't easy, New York is really active," Solomon explained.
"You've been traveling all this time?" Kate opened the bag and started handing out blood bags that were gone in just minutes followed by a second bag each. "Put the rest in the refrigerator sweetie, I'm going to go see if we can find something for them to change into." Kate jumped to Sirene's house and was back shortly with Paige in tow, each loaded with clothes.
"MICHAEL!" Paige leaped for him and hugged him.
"Something has changed." Michael looked at Paige trying to work it out.
"I got shot defending Alexis and the house. I'm a vampire now. You should have seen me though, I was doing great right up until I took three vampire killer rounds to the chest."
"She's right Michael, I had just showed up to check on them when I watched her down three Lycans hand to hand only to end up shot."
"We lost the house. I sent you four out through the basement and collected Alexis, Paige and Castle and left after the house had been taken over. I even saw the Lycan that lead the attack before jumping away with a wounded Castle."
"A lot has happened since then, but you four likely need more blood and to get ready for sunrise. The basement and the bedrooms upstairs are secure. Alexis and Paige have used them already."
"Here, you can change into these later. The power is on and the TV works though it only works using movies. We don't have cell service where we are and I have so much to tell you, but it'll have to wait till tomorrow. Say goodbye Paige, we have to go." Kate took hold of Paige and jumped her back to their home for now, and came back to get Alexis.
"It really is good to see you guys. We have to start from scratch again Solomon," Kate warned him.
"Just tell us what to do Mistress and we'll get it done," Solomon answered.
"Our satellite sites are still secure so we can start there soon. I'll be back tomorrow; drink and sleep peacefully," Kate told them and jumped to Sirene's home.