Hey guys! This is my first fan fic, so I'm sorry about the cruddyness of it. I'm still in Twilight denial, so I'm writing this to hopefully get over that.

Spoilers: Twilight and Kill Ari.

Disclaimer: NCIS and the characters aren't mine.

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Katie?...

Gibbs, Kate & Tony stood on the rooftop laughing with releif that Kate was OK. In the heat of the moment they'd all forgotten they were wearing the vests. Then it came. The bullet that ended it all.

Both men reacted completely differently. Gibbs on one hand saw what happened right away, and boy was he pissed. He knew exactly who that had shot his best agent straight away. As he looked over at the building that the bullet had come from he felt compelled to say the name.

"Ari"

Tony on the other hand took a minute to realise what had happened.

Where'd she go? Kate was standing right there a second ago. Wait. What's this stuff on my face? Is that blood? My blood? No, Kate's blood. OH MY GOD! Then he fell to the ground as he realised what had just happened. "Katie? Oh God no!" he sobbed over her lifeless body. "Katie, it's OK! It's just a superficial wound. It's OK! Ducky'll patch you up in no time. Isn't that right Gibbs? She's gonna be fine"

"Come on Tony, get up." Gibbs was back to his normal heart-of-stone self. "She's going to be fine. Ducky'll take good care of her, now come on, we have to find Ari."

Tony struggeled to hold back the flood of tears that was already leaking out. "Why do we have to find him boss?" He croaked.

"So we can kill the bastard. That's why DiNozzo. That terrorist scumbag shot Kate, and now I'm going to make him suffer for what he's done." he stated feircely as they started down the stairs. McGee would be wondering what was taking them so long to come back down, after all Gibbs had destroyed the bomb, and that was almost an hour ago. And if Gibbs knew McGee he would have called the paramedics, the police, Ducky and half of the population of DC by now.

As they reached the bottom of the staris McGee came running over to them.

"Alright boss! You got it just in t..." he trailed off as he saw Gibbs' determined glazed eyes and Tony's tear streaked face and blood spattered clothes. "Uh wh-what happened boss? Uh... Boss? What happened? Why has Tony been crying?Is he hurt?" When he got no response from Gibbs he turned to Tony "Tony? Whats wrong? Did Kate kick you in the balls again? What did you say to her this time? Wait. Where is Kate? B-boss? Tony?"

They both just ignored him and kept on walking towards the car. Just then a rather eager looking platinum blonde paramedic jogged up to them.

"Hey, you two were on the roof right? There was shooting going on up there right? Come over here, I need to check that you're both okay." Gibbs took one look at her and kept walking.

"Hey! I said I need to check you out!" she said as she grabbed Tony's arm and began dragging him over to the ambulance. Gibbs knew that right now Tony was very edgy, more so than himself, which was saying something.

"I don't think you want to do that. I think you'd better wait until our guy shows up." Gibbs said warningly to the young paramedic.

"No I really think I do want to do this and if there is anything wrong with either of you, you might be either critical or dead by the time 'your guy' shows up. And if I know NCIS 'your guy' is a coroner so he would actually be a help at your autopsy!"

At the word "autopsy" Tony snapped. He broke free of the girls grip and started yelling. "What would you know about NCIS? What would you know about our people? How dare you say something like that! We all know how to take care of ourselves and not get shot! Don't we Gibbs!" The paramedic just stood there, shocked. "I... I'm sorry. I didn't know I was insulting you, or your team. How about you and your agents just come over here for a minute. I just want to make sure everythings OK with you all. Really." she said, motioning towards Gibbs & McGee. For a moment the older agent looked as though he would explode when he turned to the paramedic and said "DiNozzo isn't the boss on this team. I am. And I told you it wasn't a good idea to take him. I think we would all appreciate it if you left now. Right now."

The girl left and Tony stormed off towards the car, then stopped halfway and collapsed on the ground, sobbing. McGee summed up all the courage he could manage and walked over to Gibbs. "Look Gibbs, I know something's wrong, especially after what just happened with that paramedic. If nothing was wrong Tony would've been over her like a bear over honey! Now tell me, where is Kate, what the hell is wrong with Tony and who's blood is that?"

"Look McGee, why don't you put that fantastic brain of yours to good useand put 2 & 2 together." Gibbs replied angrily. "It should be obvious!" McGee pondered this for a moment then it hit him like a tonne of bricks. Kate was dead. How could this have happened? Why her? Why now? He and Abby had gotten so far with their little matchmaking scheme for anything to ruin it now! Kate had just realised that morning that Tony had feelings for her. They could have been together, despite Gibbs' stupid rule.

"Wh-who... Sh... Who did this boss?" he asked shocked.

"It was Ari Haswari. And I doubt there'll be any of him left after Tony gets to him." As he said this he looked over at Tony who was now beating the ground with his fist. No doubt he'll have a few broken fingers from that thought Gibbs.

There was an awkward silence which was ended by McGee rambling. "Um... Does Abby know yet? I think she should know. They are best friends after all. Were. And Ducky, I'd better let him know, she's like a daughter to him. What about, what about her family? Who'll tell them? Will you? I... I think you should do it. Not the director. Or the civilian police. The Director doesn't know her well enough, he still mixes her up with Katriona in book-keeping. And they especially wouldn'twant to hear it from him seeing as he's the person responsible for her, you know, death. Being that far in the line of danger and..." He was cut off by the sound of Ducky & Jimmy pulling up in the truck.

"So sorry were late Jethro, but Mr Palmer here got us lost again. Now what seems to be the problem?" he said light heartedly. Then he spotted Tony sitting on the ground about 5 meters away, still covered in blood and staring into space. His eyes had glased over and were beginning to drift in different directions. "Oh dear. What's the matter with young Anthony there?" he started to walk over to him when Gibbs grabbed his shoulder.

"Your patient is on the roof Duck. Take a body bag and the gurney. You'll need them. It's. It's Kate." he almost whispered her name. It was too painful to say it right now. He was the reason she was dead. If it weren't for him Kate would still be alive. If only he'd shot Ari when he had the chance.

"Caitlin? What's wrong with her? Is there a paramedic up there with her? Wait, did you say take a body bag? She isn't..." he trailed off as the truth sunk in. Caitlin was dead. That's why Anthony was staring into space, Jethro was looking defeated for the first time Ducky had ever witnessed and Timothy looked as though somebody had just run over his pet dog, then backed up over it. Jimmy just stood there shocked as Ducky walked slowly back to the truck to get the required items. He hadn't really known Kate that well, but she was nice to him. She treated him like an equal. Like a friend. Nobody else had done that for him. He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't realise that Ducky had already reached the stairs.

"Hurry up Mr Palmer. I don't want to take all day doing this. In truth I don't want to be doing this at all, but it would be a dishonour to dear Caitlin's memory to get another coroner to do this."

"Coming Doctor. I really think she would have wanted you to do this for her. I don't think she would trust anybody else to do it."

In all the emotion, the only one who didn't know about this terrible tragedy was Abby. Really she should have been the first to know after Gibbs & Tony. Kate & Abby were as thick as theives. Nothing could seperate them. Except this.

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