429. Chapter 429

After Hedge Fund Homeboys

Episode 1.03

By

UCSBdad

Disclaimer: No. Rating: T Time: See above.

High School Heat

By

Richard Castle

"Isn't Mr. Rook hot?" Sissy Carter gushed.

Her best friend, Nikki Heat, shrugged. "He's okay. He is a teacher, remember?"

Sissy giggled. "Not really. He's a reporter and he's just taking this job because Mr. Hodges broke both legs and he's Mr. Hodges best friend from college and since Mr. Hodges doesn't have a permanent contract with St. Cecelia's he might lose his job. At least until Mr. Rook said he'd take over for him."

Nikki rolled her eyes. "Are you all hot for him or something? You don't know that much about all of the teachers here."

"He's cool. In second period English Lit, he showed the class pictures of him with Bono."

"So? What has he…."

Nikki stopped suddenly as a girl staggered out of the girl's restroom with a burlap bag over her head and her hands behind her back. Nikki could hear her moaning. She ran to the girl and pulled the bag off of her head.

"Cici?" Nikki asked, shocked. Then she noticed that Cici was gagged. She quickly pulled the gag from the girl's mouth.

"Nikki!" The girl began crying. "It was awful. He touched me…He…"

"What's going on here?"

Nikki turned around to see the ruggedly handsome Jameson Rook standing there. "It looks like Cici's been attacked."

Rook nodded and quickly took charge. "Okay. I'll take her to the principal's office and call the police and an ambulance. You two stay here and don't let anyone in that bathroom. No one, except me or a cop. Understand?"

Nikki nodded and Rook took off with the still sobbing Cici.

"He is so cool." Sissy gushed. "Did you see the way he handled that? I think he likes me. I'm sure he was checking out my boobs."

"More likely he was making sure you weren't involved in whatever happened." Nikki scoffed.

"No, he was looking at my boobs. It's not like he'd look at yours." Sissy said nastily.

Although Nikki was tall and slender, with great legs and a perfect ass, her boobs were nowhere near as large and firm as Sissy's. Since boys seemed to have a thing for boobs, Nikki tried not to let that bother her, but sometimes it did.

They turned away several students before Mr. Rook came back to them. "Everything okay?" He asked.

"Yes, Mr. Rook." Sissy said, arching her back to make her boobs more prominent.

However, Rook was distracted by the arrival of a police officer. "You Rock?" He asked around a mouthful of donut.

"It's Rook, Jameson Rook. These two young ladies saw the girl come out of the restroom. Miss Heat here took the burlap sack off of her and pulled out the gag."

"Name's Schlemming." The cop said, pulling out a bag of donuts. "You realize you probably contaminated…." Schlemming popped a donut into his mouth and finished it with one bite. "…the evidence, sweetie. I doubt if CSU will get anything from the stuff now, but I'll give 'em a call." He used another donut to point to the bathroom door. "This where the alleged act took place?"

"Alleged?" Nikki spoke up. "It's not alleged. Our friend Cici was sexually assaulted in there."

"Maybe, but all that happened according to the EMTs was that she had her underpants stolen." Schlemming found another donut in the bag.

"And she was bound and gagged." Nikki insisted.

Schlemming shrugged. "Maybe a little foreplay that went a little too far. Who knows with teenaged girls?" Schlemming pushed his way past Nikki and stuck his head inside the girl's room. "Not much to see."

"Not from that far away." Nikki said coldly.

"Look, honey, I'm the professional here. I'll do my job the way I see fit, and if you don't like it, tough. And if you bitch about it, maybe I'll give you a spanking. But you'd probably like that. I know what you private school girls are like."

Nikki was about to scream at the policeman, when Mr. Rook intervened. "Officer Schlemming, wouldn't it be a lot easier to do your interviews and reports in the school cafeteria? You can sit down, and they had donuts today, I believe."

Schlemming was on his way in a split second. Rook frowned at Nikki. "There's no point in antagonizing Officer Schlemming, Miss Heat. You stay here and keep anyone from using the rest room."

Rook turned and followed Schlemming down the hall.

"He was so checking out my boobs." Sissy said, sighing passionately. "I'm going to the cafeteria." She headed away from Nikki.

"You can't." Nikki called out to her retreating form. "Mr. Rook said to wait here and keep anyone from using the rest room."

Sissy turned and smiled. "He said for you to do that. Not me."

Nikki stood in front of the door for a half an hour thinking of things she could do to her so-called best friend, but Nikki realized that Sissy had a silly crush on Mr. Rook. Fortunately, she was beyond that sort of thing.

"Miss Heat?" Rook said. "You can go now. Officer Schlemming called the police crime scene unit, but based on his "professional" investigation, they decided there's no reason for them to inspect the rest room. You can go now."

Nikki nodded. "Well, Officer Schlemming may have finished his investigation, but I haven't." She opened the door and looked back at Rook. "Coming, Mr. Rook?"

"Into the ladies room with you, Miss Heat?" He asked, but she noticed he couldn't help smiling.

"Someone has to solve this crime."

Rook looked over Miss Heat. She was trouble, he was sure. She had gorgeous, long legs, a perfect ass, and the face of a model. And she was a high school student. He knew he had to walk away. "I'm coming, Miss Heat." He followed her into the girls' rest room.

Nikki checked the stall. "He waited in here." She said.

"How can you tell?"

She smiled. "The seat is up in this one." She turned to Rook. "What teachers were on this floor?"

"Why a teacher?" Rook asked.

"Duh! This is a girls' school. It has to be a male teacher."

Rook thought. "The only teachers on this floor at that time would be Mr. Davidson, Mr. Vaughn, and Miss Cowell."

"It's not Mr. Davidson. His, um, problem…Um, I saw him earlier. I mean..."

"What you mean, Miss Heat, is that Josh Davidson was drunk again."

Nikki nodded, then frowned. "That's odd." She inhaled deeply.

"What?" Rook asked, feeling a bit nervous about being there with a student.

"There's a strong aroma of Nuit de Passion perfume here. There's only one person in the school that wears that, Miss Cowell."

"You don't think…"Rook began.

"There's only one way to find out." Nikki left the rest room with Rook right behind her.

The first room they came to was Miss Cowell's. Nikki and Rook looked in and saw Miss Cowell sitting there, gently rubbing a pair of girl's panties.

"Miss Cowell!" Rook said. "What are you doing? Where did you get those panties?"

"They're mine." She said defensively.

"No they're not." Nikki said. "Those are Cici's. I saw them when we changed for gym class."

"I don't have to stay here and listen to this." Miss Cowell stood up to leave, but Rook grabbed her. In the struggle, a wig came off.

"Wait!" Rook cried. "You're not Miss Cowell." He pulled off a rubber mask. "It's Mr. Vaughn!"

Vaughn immediately broke down and began crying.

"But where's Miss Cowell?" Rook asked.

"Wherever she is, she's naked." Nikki said. "He has her clothes."

Suddenly they heard a muffled sound coming from the storage closet. Rook opened it. "It's Miss Cowell, and she is naked, and tied up and gagged." Rook tried to not look, but…."And it's not Miss Cowell, I'm afraid. It's Mr. Cowell. Miss Cowell is actually a man."

Much later, when all of the police and school officials had left, Rook and Nikki sat alone in the school cafeteria.

"You were a big help with this, Miss Heat."

Nikki blushed. "Glad to help."

Rook checked his watch. "Well, I have to be going. And I heard from Jeff Hodges. He'll be back here tomorrow. So, it's been nice."

"We could have dinner." Nikki said desperately. "We could debrief each other."

"You're a high school student, Miss Heat." And too damned hot for me to take a chance on taking to dinner. He thought.

Nikki sighed. "Too bad. It would have been great." You have no idea.

Rook leaned over and kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Good-bye, Miss Heat."

Nikki watched him walk away. You haven't seen the last of me, Jameson Rook.

"Richard! What is this?"

"Just an idea I had after this last case."

Martha shook her head. "Jameson Rook with a high school girl? Really?"

"Nikki is eighteen and already accepted at Stanford. It would be legal if they dated."

"And totally inappropriate."

Castle nodded. "I just like the idea of Nikki in knee socks, and a plaid, pleated skirt."

"Nikki?"

"Okay, Beckett."

"If she ever sees this…"

"She won't."

Castle sighed, but saved the story on his computer.