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Almost one week had passed since Ari Haswari was shot to death by his half-sister Ziva David. Everyone at NCIS was acting normal like nothing ever happened but Caitlin Todd was just in the beginning of doing so. It was her first day back to work since she had been almost killed. For her it was like acting in a role play, pretending she was happy and glad the man who took her hostage twice had been murdered by her new colleague.

Never had she told anyone that Ari had been more to her than just a terrorist. For the first time she looked into his eyes down in the autopsy when she wanted to stab him she felt something deep inside her. She just couldn't do it and as he was locking his eyes with her's she felt this incredible overwhelming and incredible stupid urge to kiss him. After all she pushed it on the situation; being in a locked room, a definitively not unattractive man holding her close to his chest. It happens to everyone.

But she never got his eyes out of her mind. She even sometimes dreamt of what would've happened if she had kissed him. In her dreams she desperately wanted to know how it felt to capture his lips with her own, their tongues meeting in a passionate kiss, her body pressed against his´…

And then she was with him again.

She couldn't tell why she took out her gun or why she got into this damn car. She never had the plan to shoot this man. She knew how wrong it was but she couldn't think of killing him. She knew that there never would be a chance for them to be together in any kind of way (she even did not know if he felt the same things or if he would be just playing with her). She knew that if Gibbs would find him, which she was pretty sure he would some day, Ari was a dead man. But she also knew she didn't want him to be dead.

When she was thinking back to this day she could still feel his soft hand on her lips, washing away the blood one of his men caused there. When they were sitting on this bench under the tree, he playing the gentleman-card, a part of her knew it wasn't hard work. He really could be this nice man other than the badly terrorist.

The time he began to play his where's - the - pea-game all she could do was to look into his eyes. They were hypnotizing her just like the first time and also the heavy want to kiss the man right in front of her wasn't new.

But she still was his hostage (for the second time) and she wouldn't fall for him. There were still those lonely nights at home (and she was sure as hell that he would let her go) when she had time to think of everything she wanted to do with Ari Haswari, bad boy and nice guy in one person.

Just before he went to meet Gibbs he slowly took her hand and softly placed his lips on her's. She instantly kissed him back feeling that it was much better than she expected. This was when Kate Todd finally realized that she was drawn way to deep into this.

"I'll be back, Caitlin!", he had said, stepping away from her and making his way to the man who brought her here. He was talking to him in a language Kate wasn't able to understand.

His voice didn't sound creepy and bad while he spoke to her and Kate knew it wasn't a threat. It was some kind of promise that made her heart jump in her chest all the way back to her apartment, where Ari had told the other guy to take her after he would be gone.

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*

Kate walked out of the elevator trying to hide the wave of hate coming over her as she was sending a much faked smile in Ziva's direction, as the young Israeli passed her way. As she was sitting behind her desk focusing on some paperwork having to do with this shooting on the rooftop one week ago, it wasn't hard to see that her mind drifted of after she read the headline of the unfilled document in front of her.

She did not know Ziva David longer than a few days and not quite as good as Tony or Gibbs. She was sure if they had met under other circumstances they would've been almost friends by now. Kate was highly aware of the fact that under those circumstances there wouldn't have been hate or even disliking each other. Even in the situation the two women actually met Caitlin knew that the hate mustn't be there. She never must have fallen for this certain man. But all that didn't change the fact that every time she saw Ziva David she only saw the woman who killed Ari Haswari, Caitlin Todd's secret lover.

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*