CH38
"You found four from your old house at the safe house?" Sirene questioned Kate, wanting to hear it again.
"Solomon, who is a wizard with weapons, Michael and Allie, who are two of the best hand to hand fighters I've ever seen. They taught both Alexis and Paige all they know, and Jenny who is an artist. She painted all of the paintings that were in the house."
"Those were fakes? I thought sure they were the real thing." Rick put in his 2 cents.
Kate shook her head. "She's good; her only real problem is that she can't get herself to think of something to paint for herself, so she paints copies of masterpieces."
"We need to go shopping again since they showed up looking like they had dug and crawled their way out of a basement. What they were wearing needs to be burned." She shuddered at the memory of what they looked like, but they were alive. She had at least saved someone.
"Let's go!" Irene stood up. There has to be someplace somewhere that it isn't too late yet. I know the sun will be up here in about 3 hours but it has to be perfect somewhere, we can go there," she reasoned, which got Alexis on a laptop.
"Sydney, Australia, is only 2 hours into darkness, you can go there. They will accept your credit card," Alexis informed them and then went back to searching.
"Try World Square Shopping Center. It says that it has 90 stores to choose from. Granted not all of them will have clothes, but there might be other things there."
"Here are pictures to get you there. Just remember you only have a little over 2 hours to get back here," Alexis warned them. Sirene jumped Irene there to do some shopping.
Kate sat down next to Castle and snuggled up close. "Feeling better now Mistress?" Rick asked her. She seemed to be in a better mood since finding out about Solomon and her friends.
"Yeah Castle, much better. I was sure I had failed everyone. I still lost so many people, but at least this is something." She leaned into him.
"You're going to invite them into the new house, right mom?"
"Of course, Alexis. We just didn't have the time to talk with them today. We'll do that tomorrow. Maybe you can bring your laptop and we can show them some pictures." Give them something to look forward to. "We need to go back to Budapest too, we likely have papers to sign and more meetings with our real estate agent."
Sirene and Irene jumped back home loaded with bags and dropped them in the living room. "I never knew shopping could be so draining," Sirene moaned and pulled a blood bag out of one of the refrigerators and poked it with a straw.
"And why aren't you complaining?" Kate asked, looking at Irene.
"That's easy, I got to spend someone else's money and we stopped for food." Irene was smiling. She got to indulge her shopping bug and filled her tummy.
It is now 4 months later:
Solomon was sitting next to Jenny as they held each other with Michael and Allie not far away holding onto each other. "Hi guys," Kate greeted them as she jumped in only to have all four of them shush her and motioned for her to go away while they watched TV.
"I'm going to put this in the refrigerator," she said and gestured to her bag. "I'll be…in the kitchen…if you need anything."
"Hello Mistress, I'm happy to see you too," Kate talked to herself. "We can't help but be thankful that you are filling our refrigerator, you are so kind to us Mistress." She nodded her head.
She finished emptying her bag and turned back to look into the living room. They were staring at the TV. "Good thing we have a lot to do tomorrow," she said to herself and jumped back to Sirene's home.
"How are they?" Paige asked as soon as she saw Kate.
"Glued to the TV." Kate moved over to the sofa and collapsed on it.
"You really want to move into the new house don't you? Missing being in charge?" Paige questioned her.
"That's not really it. I just, …I don't know what it is. I feel like I should be doing something." Kate just didn't feel right.
"It might be that there is a full moon tonight and you're out of the closet early," Paige pointed out and plopped down next to Kate. "You and Castle are doing really well, Mistress. Today's dosage was only a quarter of what the first one was and you're not changing. And I know Irene is happy."
Irene had actually kissed Kay when she showed up just in time with a six pack of aerosol dispensers to disperse the drug for them to inhale while trapped in the basement. Kay had even placed a timer on them to coincide with dispersal just as the sun set.
Today they were down to just one aerosol dispenser with them trapped in a closet for a couple of hours. Paige's comment had Kate chuckling.
"Maybe we should have gone with them," Paige mentioned and got Kate to look at her asking if she was serious. "NAH!" Both of them said at the same time and shook their heads.
"I'm going to go study in preparation for my first class," Paige said and moved over to the laptop.
With a little research they had found a school for both Paige and Irene. Irene would be taking day classes while Paige was forced into night classes at the McDaniel College of Budapest – Pre-Medical Program. Irene and Paige were both upset that so few of their classes were accepted by McDaniel. However they both needed to take classes in Hungarian, which they had started and were getting help from Sirene and Kate since they spoke Hungarian, though they were out of practice.
Paige had decided to specialize in Veterinarian Medicine so a year or two at Mc Daniel didn't hurt her as much. Irene, on the other hand, was more interested in Emergency Medicine which would really require her to learn a new language; after 2 years at McDaniel she could transfer to Semmelwise University or the University of Szeged. Irene had 2 years to choose between the 2.
It was the following night. Kate picked up another load of clothes and with Paige hanging onto her, jumped for the safe house. "You four get changed and put another set of clothes together and I'll be right back."
They were all upstairs changing when Sirene jumped in with a cooler of blood only to jump back out again.
Half an hour later and the living room in the safe house was packed with people and equipment. "Everybody ready? Have we got everything?" Kate inquired looking at everyone.
"Let's get started then." Kate took hold of Alexis and jumped followed by Sirene with Irene. Minutes later they had everyone and everything jumped to the same location.
"Put the coolers and grill off to one side. Get the doors open and let's get started," Kate told them. They soon had 7 vampires, 2 hybrids and one human taking the basement apart in the old trolley terminal and piling the refuse up outside.
It was a lot of work and they stood no chance of finishing it in just the few hours they had tonight. "We have an hour of darkness left, so seal the door and all of the cracks, and let's get set up for a day of sleep," Kate ordered.
They had the cots from the basement of the safe house to sleep on in a deep dark basement that was still filthy. Rick, Kate and Irene watched as everyone went to sleep. "Show me around, please? I haven't been here before," Irene said.
"Sure, I don't think Castle has seen it either." Kate walked the two of them around they were all outside on the other side of the street looking at the building as a single car went past. "It's huge Kate! Just what are we doing with this space again?" Irene looked up and down.
"The basement is going to become our shooting range, weapon storage, Lycan killing round creation along with storage. Eventually we'll have all of yours and Sirene's boxes and other stuff out here in this basement. Oh, and one end will become a garage that we can store cars and or motorcycles in for our use."
"Eventually the first floor will be a living room, one of two or more kitchens - all of them working kitchens this time. Library, game room, movie room, exercise room, and likely some spare space for later."
"The second floor will be all bedrooms and bathrooms a lot like it is now, just updated. The attic will be divided up allowing each bedroom to have access to it for personal storage."
"Sounds like a lot of work, Mistress." Rick didn't have his exercise room anymore since moving into Sirene's little house. He wasn't out of shape yet but this still sounded like a lot of work.
"Oh, it is, and it'll take us years. It'll likely take us a year just to gut the entire place and weeks, if not months, to fix all of the structural problems. Hire a contractor to install the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing for everything. Fortunately we easily have the money for all of it."
"Not to mention fixing the roof and landscaping. For now we'll just gut the basement and get it ready for use. Our new home will be ready in another month which will make it easier to work on this house."
"What do we do with all that junk?" Irene didn't see how gutting it was going to fix it when you just ended up with giant piles of trash outside.
"That's already taken care of. We found a guy who is going to come by and pick up everything we dump outside. The cast iron, plumbing fixtures, pipes, wiring, all of it. At first he wanted to know how much we wanted for all of it. I still don't think he believes us when we told him it was all his. He just has to show up and take it all off our hands." Kate chuckled as she remembered that conversation.
Turned out a lot of the basement was worth something as were possibly the plumbing fixtures provided they still worked. Along with all of the water heaters. Strip the insulation off of the aluminum wiring and get some money for that, too.
The walls were mostly going to end up in the trash along with countless other things, still he was going to take all of that as well.
"I like the exterior Mistress. They don't make buildings like this anymore. Is there a plan on how things are worked on?" Rick questioned.
"Sort of. Right now it's all about gutting the basement. After that we'll have some deliveries made and then we'll strip the roof down to the rafters and pray that we don't need to repair or replace any of them. If we do, we'll need an engineer and someone to remove and install the new ones. Then we'll put on the new roof."
"We'll work on the exterior walls and receive another large delivery to handle that. That will be followed by painting the entire place, which will take an untold number of gallons of paint. Followed by working on the first floor then the second. No one is going to be living here for years to come, at least not long term."
"Castle and I should get some sleep if we are going to help tonight. You have your mini grill and food in your cooler along with lots and lots of water bottles and some ice. Make sure you remain armed at all times and come get us should anything scare you. You'll find us on the first floor just inside the building down there by that giant bush that has got to go one of these days." Kate pointed to the end of the building.
"Anyone stops, come get us. You get scared because of the shadows, come get us. If you just get lonely, come sit with us while we sleep and remember to get some sleep for yourself, or you'll end up sleeping the following night through, but that's up to you."
"You are free to stay up all day and sleep all night if that's what you want to do. Just stay safe Irene. If anything happens to you and Sirene will kill me." Kate hugged Irene and kissed her head. She was so happy for both of them.
"Come on Castle, we still have work to do," Kate informed him and jumped to the basement where their cots and other things were located.
Irene wandered around outside before going inside to check on a sleeping Kate and Castle, then she went downstairs to check on Sirene and gave her a kiss before going back upstairs.
Irene found herself starting to doze off only to become alert from the sudden adrenalin rush every time a car went by. All of the windows were broken and it was starting to get cool at night so it was easy for her to get up and look outside as each car went by.
She stayed up all day long, checking in on Kate and Castle followed by going downstairs and checking on Sirene and the others, giving her a quick kiss each time.
The road out front was a lot busier during the day than it was last night, though to be honest they only had just under 2 hours of darkness having come from the States.
Irene was outside when Kate suddenly showed up. "That for us?" Kate took in a deep breath and loved what she was smelling.
"Yup, they're both ready, too, so your timing is good. Grab a plate a knife and a fork and your blood bag. I tried to keep the water from boiling so the first two should be warm by now."
It took some time to warm up blood bags on the little propane stove that they had to use, since they had no electricity yet. Irene made her meal using the grill.
"Castle and I will go get the gasoline while the rest of you get set up, we should be able to make good progress today with an entire night to work with." Kate picked up one of the empty gas cans while Castle picked up the other one and Kate jumped them near a gas station.
Irene meanwhile kissed Sirene goodnight and laid down in the bed Kate had just vacated and went to sleep. The rest of them hung all the lights and plugged in Sirene's air compressor to the generator that just needed gasoline to power it up. Sirene had apologized about letting it run out of gas, still it was a minor setback.
Kate and Castle were soon back as Sirene fired up her generator. All the lights came on and sent power to the battery chargers that all had batteries plugged into them. "Let's rip this basement to pieces and throw it outside," Kate told them as they got to work clearing the basement of everything they could find. There were old pumps, old oil fired boilers, lots and lots of piping, not to mention spare piping that was piled up in a heap against one wall.
"We're going to need something bigger than my sawsall to cut this boiler to pieces with, Kitty." Sirene pointed out. "My two saws were making a decent dent in all of the piping, but these giant boilers, let alone the oil storage tanks, need something with more power."
Kate looked at her watch. It was another 6 hours before it was dark in New York. "We'll have to work around it for now. I know New York City better than you, just tell me what we need and I'll take Alexis with me and go buy it or them."
"You sure that city is a wise choice? The news on TV shows that your house and what happened there is still a very hot topic," Sirene asked, concerned.
"The house wasn't in my name and she's been dead since the civil war, so their chances of it leading to me are slim if not none. Plus I don't know of anyplace else to go to. Budapest probably has what we want, but just where in this city is it?"
"We've planned for this day so we have the cash and a system to keep the blood cold and the refrigerator at the safe house is stuffed to overflowing. Alexis and I will be fine. In and out in no time." Kate tried to reassure Sirene.
It was late in the day and they had made really good progress on the basement. There was still a lot of work to do but the pile of junk outside was piling up fast. "Alexis and I are headed out. She came up with an idea so we're going to try and obtain her idea, too. Be right back," Kate told Sirene, Castle, and Paige, and jumped to New York.
The first one turned out to be easy and they even had some spare blades for it. The next one gave them a little more trouble. In the end Kate gave him a fake ID and address, paid the deposit and rental in cash, and jumped everything back to the basement.
"This is gas powered," Sirene mentioned as she picked it up and noticed the spare blades.
"Yeah, but this isn't." Kate placed her hand on the two tanks that were strapped together while strapped to a dolly with which to haul them around.
"An acetylene torch, nice. Where'd you get it?"
"I destroyed one of my fake IDs and addresses and rented it since we will not be returning it any time soon, if ever."
It was too late to put any of the new stuff to use tonight so they just kept using what they had. After drinking a bag of blood, everyone went to bed except for Irene who only got a chance to talk with Sirene for a few minutes and kissed her before going back on guard duty.
They were two weeks in and finally had all of the boilers cut down and just needed to finish moving the pieces outside when Kate suggested a break for the day, getting everyone to go for it in an instant.
Kate jumped Castle to the safe house basement as she started removing his clothes. "I want you Castle, I'm so damn horny. Change for me and fuck my brains out."
It was only moments later that a somewhat Lycan-looking Kate and Castle were sniffing each other. She soon found herself on her back on the floor as Castle had his face planted firmly between her spread legs.
Rick was spending part of his time sniffing and shoving his nose as deep as he could into Kate while spending most of his time licking and kissing everywhere. But he wasn't paying enough attention like he normally did when he stayed in human form. Kate started holding his head in one place so he would keep his attention on her clitoris.
She was soon losing her ability to keep his head in one place as she was building up to her first orgasm in the last two weeks. Finally lifting her ass up off the floor, she came in Rick's face feeling him lick up every ounce of her come as she squirted it out.
Kate was calming down as Rick turned her onto her hands and knees and soon found his erection at her entrance as he rubbed it around. "Please Castle, stop screwing around and FUCK ME!" she pleaded.
Kate cried out in a little bit of pain and pleasure as Rick slammed his entire length deep into her before he started pulling out of her only to push his erection back deep inside her. It took her a few moments to adjust to him and was soon pushing back against him as he thrust into her. She could hear the grunting of Castle and the slapping of his skin against hers.
"OH GOD CASTLE! Please don't stop, just don't stop." Kate reached down and stroked her fingers along the lips of her core before running circles around her clitoris. She squeezed her eyes closed as well as her muscles that enveloped Castle's erection inside her. He suddenly slammed deep into her and held himself there.
Kate cried out when she had her orgasm and squirted all over the floor as she felt Castle come inside her.
Once again Rick was trapped inside of Kate as they laid down with her spooned in front him. "Move a little Castle, Please?" she asked him as she felt his erection still inside her. She could feel the enlarged area rub around inside her.
She reached down and started rubbing circles around her clitoris. "Fuck me Castle, please just fuck me," she pleaded with him once more.
She could soon feel him coming as he reached over her and pinched her enlarged nipple really hard which was just enough to once again feel Castle coming inside her as he cried out in pleasure. She sped up her fingers and came moments later squirting out onto the basement floor.