A Dangerous Mind
By HockeyRocks, 2009
Pairing: Established Kibbs
Disclaimer: NCIS and all the related characters belong to DPB, no copyright infringement intended. The same applies for the lyrics in the beginning of each Chapter they belong to the rightful owners as mentioned.
Warnings: This story is completely AU (since Kate is alive and well), furthermore there are (many) OOC moments and it is set in 2007.
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"Once more I'll say goodbye to you.
Things happen but we don't really know why.
If it's supposed to be like this, why do most of us ignore the chance to miss?"
All These Things I Hate by Bullet for My Valentine
Prologue
"Alright Alex, I want you to go ahead to the car and wait there for me. I´ll be there in minute I just forgot to buy some apples." Julie Hodge said and the four-year-old boy nodded slowly, but not moving a single inch. The blond woman looked down at him, raising an eyebrow in question.
"Can I have the gummy bears while I wait for you?" The child asked and shot her a bright smile. Julie just nodded and fetched the small plastic bag out of the shopping cart. Still smiling the child grabbed the bag and the blonde opened the car for him with the remote control. Like always the best parking spaces were already taken when they arrived, but Alexander was old enough to go alone to the furthest corner of the parking lot. "Thanks, mom."
"Don´t eat them all alone, okay? I´m sure your dad wants some too in the evening." She called after him and the redhead nodded, turning around and walking towards the car. Julie turned around as well, heading back into the supermarket to get what she forgot. This time the queue in front of the cash point was longer and she became slightly nervous because she let her son wait outside alone for so long. Finally the blonde woman stepped out into the blaring light of noonday sun, hurrying over to her car.
"Okay Alex now we can head home now…" The woman said and her smile vanished completely as soon as she recognized that her son wasn´t in the backseat waiting for her. Quickly she scanned the surrounding area from her position inside the car, but there was no sign of her son. She tried to calm herself by thinking that he was just playing a game of hide and seek with her so she stepped out of the car again and took another look. "Alright you won, Alex, but now we have to leave. Come on the game is over now I have to fix dinner before your dad comes home."
Impatiently tapping her foot on the concrete ground she waited for the redhead to appear just from anywhere. After another minute there was still no sign of the child and Julie started to worry, she rounded the car and when she found the still closed bag of gummy bears she knew that there was something really wrong. "Alexander Hodge where are you?"
"Excuse me, have you seen my son? He is four. Red hair, white t-shirt and brown shorts… About this height." Julie held her hand up as if she was putting her hand on his head, but the older woman she had asked just shook her head. The blond woman went over to a man who was loading his groceries into his truck, but he didn´t see Alex either. Ever so slowly the woman was becoming desperate and doubts were creeping up in the back of her head. Obviously she hadn´t taught him Stranger Danger well enough. "Have you seen my son?"
Another no and she finally got her cell phone to call the police. They told her that he probably just ran away and would come home the next day. If he didn´t come back the next day she should call again and then they would start searching for him. Frustrated the woman hung up and threw her groceries into the car, starting another round on the parking lot to see if Alex really wasn´t anywhere. When she couldn´t find him after two hours she finally climbed into the car and drove off. While driving home she was already contemplating what she would next. Probably it would help to call all his friends to see if he showed up there.
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A/N: I know this is short and that is why I simultaneously posted the first Chapter.