Hey everyone.

Well, here's the sequal to 'Teenage Wasteland', if you haven't read it, this won't make a whole lot of sense, so I suggest reading that first.

Enjoy, review, you know the drill.

xoxElle

Entrance Wound

Changing Colleges was something 19 year old Kate Todd thought she'd never have to do.

Thanks to the severe lack of students and budget cuts that her previous college in Indiana had received, they decided to close down. In the two years since she had left Miami and Washington she had being living with one of her older Drake, who was engaged and married a few months later.

When Kate had called her best friend, Tony DiNozzo, to tell him about her college closing, he insisted that she come back down to the outskirts of Washington and attending the very high ranking college that he attended.

She agreed. And that's how she ended up standing in one of the many courtyards, waiting for Tony to find her.

Someone was suddenly grabbing her shoulders, making her elbow fly back and elbow whoever it was in the stomach.

"Jeez Katie!" Tony said, doubling over.

"DiNozzo! What did you think you were doing?" She said crossing her arms, but a smile on her face.

"Well, I was going to say hello, but it seems Indiana has a strange way of saying it back" He said before putting his arms around her and kissing the top of her head. "How you been?"

Kate hugged him back. "It was good, I'm glad to be here though" She said stepping back. "You said that you were going to show me to my room, did you get the key? Or did you leave it in some girl's room?" She asked with a smile.

Tony put a hand on his chest dramatically. "You wound me Katie" He said picking up one of her suitcases, but making a whimpering noise at the weight of it. "Did you put Drake in here or something?"

Kate rolled her eyes. "Just show me to my room"

A five minute walk, and an enthusiastic story from Tony about the last movie he had seen later, they had reached the girl's floor of the college residence building.

"This is your room" Tony said slipping the key into the door. "I live downstairs, right under you" He said with a dirty smirk, earning a glare and a scoffing noise from Kate.

"Just open the door, DiNozzo" She said.

Tony grinned and opened the door. "You'll be happy with your roommate"

Kate's eyebrows knitted together as she stepped into the room. The first thing she noticed that it was a large room, painted a calming light brown with a bed on either side of the room with desks next to each. There was a mini fridge tucked away next to the large white couch that was in the centre of the room, facing a large flat screen TV.

What shocked her more than anything, was the fact Ziva David was standing in front of her.

"Kate, it is good to see you again" Ziva said with a smile, stepping forward and hugging her briefly. "When Tony told me you were coming, he insisted that you live here with me" He said, smirking over at Tony, who was putting Kate's bag next to what would be her bed for the next three years.

"Tony didn't tell me you were back in America" Kate said, smiling at her old friend.

"I returned here for college, and Tony insisted I come here" She said. Kate rolled her eyes.

"Hey, you like it here!" Tony said in defence, walking over and flopping down on the couch.

"As much as I would enjoy talking about old times" Ziva said, walking over to her desk and picking up her black book bag. "I have a class. It is good to see you again Kate" She said with a smile before disappearing through the door.

Kate walked over and sat on the couch, hitting Tony's legs so he would move. He lifted his legs up and let Kate sit before putting his legs back down across her lap. She rolled her eyes.

"I thought that you never wanted to see Ziva again" Kate said nonchalantly.

Tony put his hands behind his head so he could look at Kate properly. "I didn't" He said. "But a few months after I got back from Israel, she called and told me why she went back. Then she came here"

"So you two are back together?" She asked. Tony let out a long sigh and ran a hand over his face.

"No"

"But you want to be" Kate said with a small smile. Tony let out a humourless laugh.

"Doesn't matter. She's moved on and I'm happy with being just friends" He said as if he had said it a hundred times. Kate gave him a look.

"Tony DiNozzo, being 'just friends' with a girl" She said. "I don't believe it"

"I'm friends with you" He pointed out, pushing himself up so he was sitting slightly.

She rolled her eyes. "That's different"

"Ziva and I still have our movie nights every Tuesday, and we date other people" He said. "It's like dating one girl, and sleeping with others" He said with a grin.

Kate gave him a disgusted scoff and punched him in the arm, pushing his legs off her and standing up. "You're a pig Tony" She said.

Tony jumped up. "You love it" He said. "I gotta go to class, I was supposed to go with Ziva" He said with his grin spread across his face. "I'll come back afterwards, walk around the school, whoo some guys"

After Tony left, Kate looked around the room, taking a deep breath and trying to take everything in, a hand coming up to absentmindedly fiddle with the locket around her neck.

There was a dresser against the wall at the front of her bed on her side of the room, and in five minutes she was almost completely unpacked, all except the small box that had been buried in the bottom of her suitcase.

She sat down on her new bed, which she realized was incredibly comfortable, and put the wooden box in front of her. She had to take a breath before she could will herself to open it. She flipped the lid and pulled out a small stack of photos and some photo frames. The three framed photos she had were the only ones that she had saved three years ago when she went to Miami, there was the one of Kate, her three brothers and her sister at their old house in Indiana. The second was of she and Tony when they were 7 and their class had had a Christmas concert, so the two of them were covered in tinsel, and the third was Tony piggy backing her when they were 13 outside his house.

She smiled and put the frames on the bedside table before looking down at the photos in her hands. She smiled slightly at the tiny face smiling up at her. The pictures were of her two year old son, who when he was born, was given up for adoption to a couple in Miami called Annabelle and Patrick Bennett, who were happy to agree to an open adoption, so once a month Kate got a letter saying how their son was and a photo. His name was Joel, and in every photo he was clutching the small black teddy bear that his biological father had given him. Kate tried not to think about...him anymore, she found it too painful after all they had been through, so she thought about the son that she hadn't seen since the day he was born, finding that subject easier to deal with.

No-one in Washington knew about Joel, they had gone to Miami when she found out, staying at Kate's sister and brother-in-laws house for the eight months. Kate's father abused her, so she was in fear of hers and the baby's life if he ever find out, so, they left when she was a month pregnant.

She put the photos back in the box and placed it in the top draw of her bedside table underneath other things so if anyone saw it, they wouldn't think anything of it.

Once she had stored her empty suitcase under her bed, she grabbed her bag, which had the sketch book and art supplies she took everywhere with her, and left the room.

An hour later, Kate had looked at barely a quarter of the college and decided to find somewhere to sit and relax for a while. She walked between two of the buildings and found a courtyard that was scattered with trees and picnic tables where students could study outside. She was looking around for a place to sketch when her heart stopped.

Sitting across the courtyard, was Ari Haswari.

Kate stood as still as a statue, so many things running through her head. She thought that she would never have to see him again, hoping that she could put that part of her life behind her.

Ari chose that moment to glance up, locking eyes with her and looking just as shocked as she was. He closed the book he was reading and began to stand.

Kate ran.