A/N I don't own NCIS or Dead Like Me. if i did, that would kick ass. unfortunately, i dont. Dead Like Me is a show about people that take other people's soul when they die. I hope i havent butchered those two wonderfuls pieces with this.
Kate felt like shit. She felt like she had been shot, and that is exactly what happened.
"Ahh. Owww." She moaned as Gibbs and Tony pulled her to her feet.
"Protection detail's over Kate," Gibbs said softly to her.
"You did good," Tony said to her, with a huge grin on his face. It wasn't every day that she got a compliment from him, so she made note of it.
"For once, Dinozzo's right."
Kate just laughed. "Wow, I thought I'd die before I ever heard a…" A shot rang out, and her response was cut short as she was thrown back from a bullet to her forehead. Instantly, she found herself staring at her boss and partner from across the rooftop. She reeled for a second.
What the hell just happened? She thought as she watched Tony look up from the ground, his face splattered with her own blood.
"Gibbs! Tony! I'm alright! I'm right here, its okay!" she yelled at them, but received no response. "Guys, I'm okay! I'm right here!"
"They can't hear you." A voice from behind her said. She whirled around to see a middle aged man with a dark expression on his face.
"What the hell?" Kate had a million questions running through her mind simultaneously, but that was the only thing that she could get to come out of her mouth. After several seconds of staring at the man, she added 'Who are you"
"My name is Rube." He said nonchalantly. It only succeeded in pissing her off.
"That doesn't explain who you are, or what happened!" She started pacing, trying not to see Tony and Gibbs pulling out their cell phones to call the rest of the team.
"You, my friend, are dead," the man called Rube explained. "And I have the unfortunate distinction of being called a grim reaper. Kate looked at him incredulously.
"You're kidding, right?" she asked him, but somehow she could tell that he wasn't. She tried a different approach. "So, if I'm dead, what is this, some kind of out of body experience?" She didn't even bother to try to suppress the hysterics in her voice.
"I guess that you could say that."
"So, what. Am I just supposed to stand here and watch them look at my corpse?" Kate was still having a difficult time grasping the situation.
"Well, yeah. Unless there's somewhere else you've gotta be." Rube was really starting to piss her off.
"Where am I supposed to go, some afterlife or something?"
Rube started making his way off the rooftop. Over his shoulder, he said "Well, if you're done here, we can clear a few things up before going to see your autopsy. Because you are going to be another grim reaper.