AN: Ari and Kate are 25 and Ziva is 22. Vampires can have darker skin tones.
Caitlin Todd was having a hard month, first she gets held hostage by a mysterious terrorist at work. Then for no apparent reason she starts developing feelings for him. And now well she doesn't know it, but she's about to have another encounter with said terrorist.
Caitlin or Kate as she prefers to be called was asleep in her bed dreaming the same dream she had been for a month. In the dream, she would see her colleague Gerald Jackson be shot and then it would be a blur from trying to help him to being rescued. But the part that was always clear in the dream would be when she almost stabbed the terrorist but failed and she looked into his eyes and saw something unexpected, she saw kindness.
Unbeknownst to Caitlin somewhere halfway across the world someone else was having the same dream. That someone was her terrorist, Ari Hasswari but the thing is he's not a terrorist. Not only is he not a terrorist but he was actually doing a good thing when he held Kate hostage. If he hadn't then some very bad people would've gotten their hands on some extremely powerful things that they shouldn't ever have.
So, not only were Kate's terrorist assumptions about Ari wrong but her most basic assumptions about him were wrong to. For instance, Kate because she didn't have any reason not to automatically assumed he was human. The truth is he's not and neither are his family but let's discuss them in a minute.
The truth about Ari is that he's a vampire. But not the kind you're thinking of he doesn't stalk people at night and drink their blood. Also garlic doesn't deter him, you can't kill him with a wooden stake, and he can walk on holy ground. Ari is a good vampire, he is a moroi.
Moroi are mortal vampires meaning they eventually die. Moroi also don't kill people to get blood they take small amounts of blood from willing humans called feeders. Most moroi also have a gift the ability to wield one of the four elements Ari's element is fire.
Unfortunately though, there's another kind of vampire this kind is called, strigoi. Everything that you just learned about moroi well, the opposite is true for strigoi. Strigoi are undead vampires who kill to get blood. Strigoi are twisted in their thinking, they don't care who they kill. Strigoi can't use elemental magic or walk on holy ground. Strigoi have enhanced senses and reflexes and they are extremely hard to kill. The three ways you can kill them are: a silver stake infused with the four elements, decapitation, and setting them on fire. Another big difference between moroi and strigoi are born strigoi are made. The two ways to become a strigoi are: if a moroi intentionally kills someone by drinking their blood they become strigoi the other way is if a strigoi drinks your blood and then you drink their blood and that can happen if you're willing or not.
One more thing you should know about Ari is that he's not only a vampire but he's also a prince. You see the moroi have 12 royal families that preside over the moroi government. Each ruling family is elected by the other families. Ari's family happens to be one of the 12.
You're probably wondering why Ari would hold somebody hostage the answer is long and complicated but here's the short version. Back in the 1950s there was this huge strigoi massacre almost two royal families were almost wiped out. The moroi government panicked they didn't know what to do and Ari's grandfather proposed a solution. He suggested that they break tradition of moroi not fighting and create a kind of intelligence agency to fight strigoi. The government reluctantly allowed him to create this agency. The intelligence agency consists of moroi, Guardians, and alchemists.
Anyway the reason he took Kate and her colleagues' hostage is that somehow humans got their hands on an experimental alchemist potion that could potentially stun a strigoi. The problem is that the potion is extremely lethal to humans the real terrorists figured this out and were going to use it as a biological weapon. Luckily NCIS (the government agency Kate works for) stopped them before they could. The only problem was that humans can't know about the existence of the supernatural so the agency sent Ari into retrieve it.
Ari was awakened by the loud shrill ringing of his cell phone. "Ziva what is it?" he said groggily into the phone. His sister who happened to also happened to his handler on that case said "Ari there's been an attack in DC a whole human family was lost. Abba wants you and me to fly down and find the ones responsible." She said hastily. "Ok, what time does our flight leave?" He asked suddenly feeling re-energized. "Two hours I'll see you on the plane." Ziva said before she hung up.
Two days later
Ari and Ziva had been in the states for two days. They both were exhausted the scene was horrific 5 people dead 2 adults 3 children. They used their contacts and found out that a strigoi named James was most likely responsible. Unfortunately they also found out that he was probably on his way to Russia so they called their father and he told them to track James down and kill him. Before heading to the Airport Ari told Ziva he had to do something and that he'd meet her later. Ziva reluctantly let him go.
Something to understand about Ari is that he sometimes lacked impulse control. When the idea first came into his head he dismissed it as crazy because honestly it was. But the more he thought about it the more he wanted it so he made his decision he was going to do it. He remembered the address from the files at work he broke in to the apartment. He found her asleep in bed.
He climbed on the bed and laid down next to her. Kate's eyes snapped open when she felt the weight shift. His reflexes let him cover her mouth before she could start screaming. He looked directly into her eyes and said "you don't want to scream, do you?" and suddenly she didn't want to scream and she couldn't remember why she wanted to start. "Turn your head." Ari said softly while still looking into her eyes. Suddenly that's all she wanted to do in the world. She did as she was told and Ari moved strains of hair away from her neck.
Suddenly a wave of clarity crashed over Kate what was he doing to her? And why was he here? But it didn't make her react fast enough to stop him from sinking his teeth into her neck. At first Kate felt a stinging pain than suddenly she felt pure bliss a sensation stronger than any time she'd been drunk or high. As he drank from her he realized his theory was right she tasted better than any feeder he had ever used. When he was done he said "I was never here this is all just a dream. You got the mark from a bad date that you won't see again." Kate mumbled "just a dream" while she was still feeling the effects of the endorphins. Ari kissed her on the forehead then got up and left her.