Kate & Gibbs: Bête Noir Aftermath

Kate was sitting in her bed, not able to sleep...just because she couldn´t forget the events of that night. A cold shiver went down her spine at the thought of that bastard who hat the nerve to hold Ducky, Gerald and herself hostage in the morgue. She even had the chance to cut his throat with one of Ducky´s scalpels…but she couldn´t, she just couldn´t do it…it was a fatal decision to look into his eyes. Eyes, so honest and kind she just was not able to do it. She blamed herself for Gerald being shot in the shoulder, blamed herself for Ducky having the most terrible time in his life. Kate couldn´t stand the thought of having failed completely. A fact that especially one person couldn´t forget…Gibbs was reall ypissed because of the whole situation, she was lucky to get carried away by the paramedics. A way she was able to escape his anger.

Suddenly she heard a knock at her door. She bit back the tears that would make their way into her eyes. The knock got louder so she had to answer the door…and face a very angry Gibbs.

"Do you always need so long to make a decision, Agent Todd?", Gibbs growled and made his way into her apartment.

"Only if it´s a decision about life and death…", she hissed and slammed the door,"…what do you want, Gibbs?!"

Gibbs turned around, anger, disappointment and concern obviously on his face.

"I want to know, Kate, why you couldn´t stab that damn terrorist, can you please tell me that!", he almost shouted.

Kate´s eyes filled with tears again as she remembered him and the reason why she couldn´t stab him and everything that had happened in the morgue.

"I don´t want to talk about it, so get out of here!!!", Kate yelled and strode past Gibbs.

But Gibbs grabbed her arm and stopped her effectively.

"Watch your mouth, Kate…"

"Sorry, but not everybody can have no emotions like you…some of us do have emotions, you damn bastard!!!"

Gibbs looked closely at his favorite agent…tears of anger and frustration ran down her cheeks, her eyes were red and her chest rose rapidly. Gibbs wasn´t really angry, it was an overactice concern that he felt for her.

"You think I have no emotion?! I tell you something…I got almost insane at the thought of you being down there, I couldn´t stand the thought that you might get hurt by that bastard. I…", Gibbs paused and whiped her tears away, "…I couldn´t stand the thought of possibly losing you before telling you how much I love you…"

Kate was astonished by that confession but still she couldn´t believe it…after all that had happened he told her he loved her?

Gibbs saw her doubt and decided to show her how deep his love was. So he kissed her, caught her lips in a sincere and tender kiss. Kate moaned at the feeling of his lips on hers…something she had dreamed of since being pushed into the little bathroom on Air Force One by him. When they parted, they both breathed heavily.

"So you´re not mad at me because I couldn´t stab him?"

"Not anymore…there´s always next…"

And with that he kissed her again, this time more deeply and more demanding. This was definitely going to be an interesting night...

THE END