When does the pain go away 47
Kate was sitting in a chair in their bedroom nursing one boy and one girl at the same time, while Castle was sitting in another chair trying to keep their other girl quiet even though she was hungry too. Kate was still in pain after giving birth to their triplets with Mistress Kay's help and then she had jumped them home.
Kate had been in labor for hours and the pain finally got her. So she asked Mistress Kay her questions in an attempt at distancing herself from the pain. "What is this place, exactly? I've never seen anything like it, except in a few sci-fi movies maybe." Kate was hoping for some answers. "This stays just between us, Katherine. No pillow talk with your husband, you do not tell Sirene or even Alexis, let alone anyone else," Kay told her, wanting assurances. "No one at all, ever?" She watched Kay nod. She had to think about that. She wanted to know but had to figure out if that knowledge was worth keeping her mouth shut forever. She sighed then agreed, "Deal, tell no one ever. Unless you alter our agreement." She was hoping things would change in the future.
"Jackson and I are, or were, Hunters. We, ourselves and others, roamed the stars in search of Lycans. Usually we worked in teams, but we got separated," Kay told her. "Stars as in out in space?" Kate was a little shocked, however, what she saw gave her confirmation. "You didn't actually think Vampires or Lycans were created on this planet? That the human race suddenly mutated, creating two new races?" Kay thought she was smarter than that.
Jackson and Kay were in orbit and had watched Ray and Ronda take wing after an entire squadron of private yachts reached orbit and took off only to suddenly split up and go different directions, forcing them to make a choice. "I'm powering up the engines to go after them," Jackson told her. "Oscar and Helen are still on the planet," Kay reminded him. "They can catch up," Jackson insisted, as the engine power reached 100%. Kay suddenly interrupted him, "Oscar reports there are more ships leaving the surface, they aren't in position to stop them or intercept."
They had obviously been spotted the second they reached orbit causing the Lycan encampment to make a break for it. "I have them, we're on the wrong side of the planet. It looks like four of them, all private." Jackson had them on his screens and lit a fire in the propulsion system. "They're going to reach space before we can reach them babe." Kay also had them on her screens. "Where are Oscar and Helen?" Jackson asked her which had her on the communication system. "They have a sniper to deal with first," Kay responded. "Damn it!" Jackson was not happy. It told him that they had left behind someone who was willing to die in an attempt to slow them all down. Jackson put the power level up to 110% which was only sustainable for a short time.
"I have one of them - locked and...firing," Kay informed him as they watched a mini missile with a modified warhead reach out for one of the private ships that was trying to make its escape. Just as the warhead reached its target and blew it into tiny pieces. "The other three have gone to FTL," Kay told him, a little shocked at what she'd seen. "IDIOTS! ...Tell Oscar and Helen to get their asses moving unless they want to die along with everyone else on that planet!" Jackson yelled. "Engaging FTL," Jackson said. "Don't look at me like that. If they don't get their asses of that planet, our FTL isn't going to change anything," Jackson said tersely. Kay knew he was right and nodded as she felt the pull of entering FTL. Kay was worried. "I still have them, still in FTL and still together. ...But I don't like where they're going."
They were right on their tail for weeks as they traded off who was in control. Kay activated the internal communication. "BABE, get up here. They've dropped out of FTL and it's bad." It took Jackson only seconds to reach the bridge. He had shown up wearing only his shorts. "Exiting FTL in three, ...two, ...one." And the second they did all hell erupted. "Shields at maximum, altering course." He wasn't fast enough though. Their ship suddenly shuddered. "Shields are down to 70%, we can't stay here," Kay warned him as she watched the last of the first two Lycan ships being destroyed, leaving them to deal with two destroyers and one battleship that wanted them dead, too.
"They lead us straight into a trap!" Kay was amazed. "They sacrificed themselves in order to kill us." Jackson was catching on. "The battleship is launching fighters and I'm reading a corvette on an intercept course. We can outrun the destroyers and the battleship, but not those fighters or the corvette," shesaid to him. "Hang onto your ass babe," Jackson told her as he altered course. "Just where do you think you're going?" She would prefer to live and this course looked like suicide to her. "I'm going to use the moon to slingshot us and gain some speed in normal space. Once we're on the far side we can go to FTL and the moon will block the affect of doing it too close to a planet." He had no wish to kill everyone on the planet below them.
Kay knew there was a reason why she loved him. It might get them killed but he wasn't going to take an entire planet with them. "I'm reading three missiles coming from the surface. They must have a military base on that moon." Kay watched as the missiles gained on them.
"FTL in three, ...two, ...one." And everything happened at the same time.
"We crashed here and watched a pair of damaged Lycan private ships crash with us, one of which was not really that far away. It took us years to repair as much of the ship as we could. I scavenged parts from wherever I could find them. Our FTL and main engines were gone as was our long range communication. Even worse, our navigation was damaged, we had no idea just where we were. We spent still more years building up our house and converted humans into vampires and tried to live our lives. That was when Jackson ran across Sirene first and then you. We both had such high hopes for you two. You know the rest." A baby crying got Kay to end her story and hand the baby to Kate so she could feed her. "You both still amaze us even after all this time. We just wish it had been together. Still we're happy for both of you." Kay did what she could to keep the boy content who was next in line for his mother's nipple.
"Why won't she feed?" Kate couldn't get her little girl to take the nipple. "Something must be wrong." She was scared and upset as she handed her over to Kay. "Let's take a look at you shall we." Kay left Kate right where she was and took the unsatisfied baby from Kate and gave her the boy to feed. "Now just who are you little one?" she crooned. Kay had spent a lot of time making the medical area functional again. Everything was now powered off of portable power cores, meaning they couldn't stay there long.
"What is it?" Kate could see the face she was making. "This lovely young lady is just a fraction off being pure vampire. She will not be able to withstand direct sunlight and she is lacking any of the policemen in her blood. Neither," Kay continued, "will she be able to go to school with her brothers and sisters." Kate felt bad about that. Still she and Rick had been warned that eventually one of their children would not be a hybrid like them.
Kate had finished nursing the other two and found out from Kay that they were hybrids just like her other children. "One of these times the odds will not be in your favor Katherine," Kay had warned her. Kate was afraid of that day. It meant one of her children would be mostly, if not all Lycan because of the Lycan blood she and Rick carried. Would she let her child live or kill the Lycan that was in him or her? As much as she hated Lycans, did she hate them enough to kill her future child? "We need to leave so I can shut down," Kay told her, bringing Kate back to the present. Kay then took two of the babies while Kate took one and jumped to their bedroom.
Daylight was in a few hours so the house was still open and Rick was in their room waiting for them along with Alexis and Paige. Kate handed over the baby she was holding to Alexis. "She's 99.9% vampire," Kate told her and saw the look of shock on her face. "This is going to change things." It meant a complication in their already hectic life. "Please just tell me all three are healthy," Rick asked Kate and Kay. "They and Kate are perfectly healthy. Two of them have already been fed so they should be good for a couple of hours," Kay replied. "I'll go get a blood bag and a baby bottle," Paige offered and kissed Alexis quickly then headed to the nearest kitchen.
"There you...are." Lord Hunt showed up at the door and saw the three babies. He walked in and took one of the two from his wife. "You two never cease to amaze me. We're going to have a house full of children soon," Jackson said, smiling. "Bite your tongue my lord," Kate countered.
"The sun will be up in a couple of hours, I'm going to go help the others close up the house." Kay kissed her husband then handed over the other baby to Rick and left the room. "Oh, we have a lead on where they came from. Sirene and Irene are off on a recon mission to look the place over, they should be back in moments," Jackson told them. "Nothing on where they were all going?" Kate didn't want where they came from but where they were all headed to. And just how did they know to even go there, wherever that was, in the first place? "Maybe we'll get lucky. And your Solomon has been busy. You should see what he has created now." Jackson was impressed with his skill. "Solomon is the best." Kate was still thrilled beyond measure that he and the others had escaped.
"MAMA!" Ellie came flying into their bedroom. She didn't have school tomorrow so she had stayed up all night with the others and was still wound up and wide awake. "Come here and see your new sisters and brother," Kate invited. She hurried over next to Kate, tentatively reaching out to touch the just born baby. "Was I ever that small?" Ellie didn't see how that was possible. "You and your brother and sisters were just as small," Kate confirmed. "Even Alexis used to be that tiny," Rick added which had her looking at her older sister trying to think how that was possible. "Lexi was never that small." Ellie was sure it just wasn't possible. Kate and Rick laughed, however it earned her a kiss from Alexis. "You're the best Ell," Alexis remarked which had Ellie grinning.
"Here you go." Paige arrived just as the baby vampire showed that she wasn't bashful about expressing her desires. "We need a plan Castle. I can't be awake twenty-four hours a day to feed these two during the day and feed her at night. And we still need to agree on names." They both knew the sex of all three before now but couldn't reach agreement on names. Kate sat down and gave her the warmed-up bottle of blood which seemed to be working. "I'll take the boy and you get the girls and we both live with what we choose," Rick offered, compromising. "Fine, but if you choose something weird I will hurt you Castle." Kate gave in knowing they needed to get out of their impasse.
"Justin or Konrad?" Rick mulled over his choices for his son. "Both are nice though I kind of like Konrad better," Kate responded. She was almost sure that meant Castle would choose the other name and was actually surprised when he chose Konrad. "And the girls?" Castle inquired. Since Castle had made his choice it meant she was under the gun. "Ailith," Kate offered for the baby in her arms. "Lizabet or Katarina?" Kate couldn't decide. "Liz or Kat," Alexis advised since Ellie had become Ell and Alexis had become Lex, at least in Ellie's eyes. "KAT!" Ellie had reached her decision. "Kat with a K, Ell," Alexis informed her. "OH!" That wasn't what she was thinking. Cat was cat not Kat. "Katarina, Katherine, or Kate." Rick saw similarities. "Point taken. Lizabet it is or just plain Liz." Kate made her choice. They could argue about the middle names later.
Sirene and Irene had only just made it to their bedroom before the sun came up and as such hadn't heard the news about the triplets yet. They stripped as fast as possible and Irene wrapped her arms and wings around her lover. She flipped them upside down and hung from the beam that had been put in. "Kiss me," Sirene asked her. Irene kissed her knowing that they would be kissing while the sun was up till it went down again.
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"Hi," Irene whispered into her lover's lips and watched her face and neck turn red since they were still upside down. "We need to find the others." Sirene shook her head. "I want you first, we can talk later." Irene smiled as she flipped them so that they were standing. "Give me a second. I still don't know how you do that. It makes me dizzy." It gave Irene a couple of seconds to change into a more human form.
An hour later, after making love to Irene in human form and her more vampire form, they were in the shower washing, kissing, hands roaming over each others' bodies. "You're still not mad that I'm..." Irene had to stop talking when Sirene kissed her. "The answer was no the last time, no this time, and if you ever ask me that again it'll still be no. Now let's get dressed, we need to plan. This may take all of us." Sirene knew this place wasn't going to be like the railroad stops they had been hitting.
There was a knock on their door just as Kate finished feeding Konrad while Rick was still feeding Ailith her bottle of blood. "You two awake Mom? May we come in?" Alexis called through the door. "No and Yes," Kate responded as she burped Konrad. Her reply left Alexis and Paige looking at each other confused. "No, they're not awake and yes, we can go in?" Paige asked as she thought over what Alexis had asked. Alexis finally opened the door and found them both in chairs, each with a baby tucked in an arm. "You two look terrible." They were still in yesterday's clothes. Their hair was a mess, they had bags under their eyes, and their bodies sagged in weariness. "Thanks," Rick growled at her. "We didn't sleep all day long. If it wasn't Konrad, it was Lizabet. One would sleep while the other cried. Dirty diaper or hungry, only to follow with the other one. The only one that was good all day long was Ailith and that's because she's all vampire," Kate replied. She was exhausted, wanting so badly to get some sleep. "We'll take them Mom." Alexis was willing to help and volunteered Paige with her. Alexis picked up Konrad while Paige took Liz. We'll come get you when they both get hungry again," Alexis said as she picked up the diaper bag on their way out. "I'll keep this one, you should sleep while you can," Rick offered and took the bottle away when Ailith stopped drinking.
"Everyone down in the living room please," Irene's voice rang out over the intercom. Rick stopped Kate just as she started to get up. "No, Mistress, sleep. I'll go and inform you later. You need sleep." He guided her over to the bed and let her wriggle down into its comfortable softness. "You've got maybe two hours, now sleep." He bent down and kissed her forehead gently and when he straightened up he could tell Kate was out already.
Rick went downstairs with Ailith and found everyone, including the others that usually slept in the other building. It included the lone female that Sirene had managed to convert into a vampire over the last few months. She had had two failures during that time. Zoya something was what his muddled brain could come up with. She was Russian and spoke only a little English though she was being taught. Fortunately Sirene, Kate, Lord Hunt, and Mistress Kay knew Russian so she wasn't totally alone. Rick had even volunteered to learn Russian while she learned English. That alone seemed to help her feel better about being there. The first few weeks had not gone well when she found out what had happened and what she was now. To her way of thinking she was a blood sucking monster. Drinking blood from bags while watching the others do the same had helped. It was one of the reasons all of the others slept in their old rooms occasionally.
"Okay, calm down everyone," said Sirene as she motioned for quiet. "Where's Kate?" Sirene looked at Rick noticing that he was barely awake still after he sat down. "They've been up all day with the babies," said Alexis, coming to his defense. "We'll talk later then." Sirene didn't want her involved in this anyway, not after just giving birth to triplets. While she talked, Mistress Kay whispered in Russian to Zoya.
"Irene and I watched for a few hours." She turned on the main TV screen and used the pen on her tablet to show what they had found so everyone could see. "It's about the size of a motel with two floors. It also has a loading dock that has room for four panel tucks or larger. To make things worse there's a motel just next door. We watched a panel truck back up and unload its cargo. We also saw a few people going between this main building and the motel next door. The parking lot for the main building was mostly empty while the one for the motel was mostly full. The main building didn't have a name on it, so from the outside neither of us could tell what's going on inside. A loading dock means they're taking or sending out deliveries. Meaning there's at least a small warehouse inside."
"What's happening on the second floor is anyone's guess. If the motel is full with double occupancy, that means it alone has seventy-two people for its two floors with thirty-six rooms total. And that doesn't include the people who actually work in the hotel or clean it. The same for the main building. It surely has a cleaning crew plus security. Even while we were there it looked busy," Sirene informed them.
"Pictures?" Lord Hunt queried and watched as Irene loaded a memory stick into the wall panel and up popped thumbnails of each picture. They were too small to see much but Irene started cycling though them one at a time. "We'll leave the memory stick in the wall panel to allow everyone to access it. To be honest I'm more interested in what is going on inside the main building then to kill all the Lycans in...the...motel." Sirene looked at Rick who had his head back and was softly snoring.
"Kate had her babies while we were gone didn't she?" Sirene walked over to Alexis to take a close look while Irene moved over to Rick to take the sleeping baby from his arms. "That's Ailith and, according to Mom, she's all vampire. This one is Konrad and that one is Lizbet. Both are hybrids like Mom and Dad," Alexis told them and since it looked like the meeting was over Ellie and all of the other kids moved over to the babies to take a look. All of them were walking now, though the youngest of them were still banned from the stairs which had baby gates to keep them off them.
"Jackson and I will set up an observation post for us to use. You two can relieve us in a few hours. After we've watched them for a few days or weeks we'll decide what to do and how. For now, pictures and video," Mistress Kay instructed.
"Ликанов?" Zoya questioned since she was new at this though she had been told a lot. "Да, наш смертельный враг. Мы убиваем их, прежде чем они могут убить нас," Lord Hunt responded. "домой госпожи Кейт не бывает здесь!" Zoya stated with conviction. She had lost enough in this life already, she wasn't willing to lose more. "Научи меня?" Zoya asked them.
"Michael, Allie, she wishes to learn. Time for weapons training?" Lord Hunt asked them. "Does she have a motorcycle? Harley Davidson." Michael used his thumb to point at the motorcycle store on the other side of their wall. The training area was in the other building and he didn't know if she had her own transportation yet. Apparently Zoya caught enough of that. "Нет." However she pulled out her US$1 million credit card that Mistress Kate had given her and held it up. "We're going shopping and then shooting." Allie was happy to help her spend her money and teach her how to use a weapon. The more Lycan killers they had, the better she was going to feel.
"I have a few things to show you. Jump me to my lab, please?" Solomon asked Sirene. "Go ahead, I'll catch up," Irene assured her since she wanted to go shopping too, even if she didn't need a new bike.
Sirene jumped Solomon to his lab. "I've only got prototypes that I've been testing but so far I like them," Solomon told her. He pulled out the first one, showed her how to use it, and let her squeeze off a few rounds. "This is the first one. I designed it be be fired using one of our Barrett .50 cal. sniper rifles." He held up one of the few that he had for her to take a look.
.50 caliber shells with inbound computer guidance systems that manipulate small fins on the bullet's surface that allow it to make course corrections during flight to take environmental factors into account.
Sirene thought Michael would like this one since he was their resident sniper.
Next he showed her a drone that had four small helicopter-like rotors. "I've armed it with a pair of these mini missiles." He held one up for her to see. It was bigger than the
.50 cal. round but also way smaller than a conventional Hellfire missile. "This one is an anti-personnel round that explodes and dispenses a large number of smaller projectiles similar to our standard anti-lycan round. Each is filled with silver nitrate. I stole the idea from the US military's idea of a cluster bomb."
"Then I have this beauty. It looks like a simple multiple-round grenade launcher, however, this one holds twenty-five rounds per removable clip. It's also computer controlled, so you can hit any target location round after round as fast as you can pull the trigger." He picked it up and handed it to her, showing her the rounds. This new weapon combined the capabilities of both a gun and a computer in one.
"Naturally each round will be filled with silver nitrate," Solomon assured her. "Do we have enough silver nitrate for all of this?" It was still time-consuming to make the stuff. "I stopped making rounds for our individual weapons a few months ago, but I never stopped making silver nitrate," Solomon told her. "You've been busy. You have maybe a month to make rounds for each of these. I'm guessing that's how long we'll be watching this site before we kill everyone and blow the place to the moon. Tell me we have the C-4 to do that," Sirene questioned. His smile told her all she needed to know.
Now she understood why Kate loved him and what he could do. All of this from a guy who died in the Civil War armed only with a flintlock rifle. These things were a long way away from simple flintlocks.