I am so sorry for the long time to update. I had total writers block so it took me a while. This is all from Kate's point of view. I hope it worth waiting for.
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A THOUSAND MILES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Kate was pacing to and fro in her room. Each time she turned she threw a nervous glance out the window. It was not a bad little town, she had decided after several turns. Actually there was nothing little about Omaha, Nebraska. She guessed that the only problem that she had with it was that it was not Washington or Rome.

She turned again, noting thatas she did so that she was starting to wear a familiarpattern in the carpet. 'Why Omaha?' she asked herself, mentally cursing her choice. She could lie, and tell herself that it was because Omaha was the last place someone would look for her. She could tell herself that she came to Omaha because it was a diverse community that would allow her to blend in, and it was big enough that not everyone would know everyone. She could tell herselfall that… but it would be a lie.

She knew deep in her heartthat she had picked Omaha for reasons much less sincere than those. Omaha was the closest thing to DC she could get. Any bigger city would be would be too much of a risk for being seen by Hamas. She could not go home because she was supposed to be dead. She could not go to DC because that was where they would expect her to go and again, she was supposed to be dead. She could not go back to Rome because that was where she was supposed to be and where she had been compromised. In a way, there was nowhere left to go, and the isolation hung heavy on her, so she had come here.

She needed the comfort of the country she was born in. She needed to know that her friends were only a few hours away. That was if they were still her friends. Tony, McGee, Abby, and Ducky would likely be a little disappointed by her actions, but ultimately they were still her friends. Gibbs was a different story. She had worked with Gibbs long enough to know that she was going to be in trouble for not telling him. Then there was Ziva.

Ziva had put everything on the line to help her. Kate knew all too well how dangerous this whole mission had been, and she did not envy the position that Ziva was placed in. Gibbs was going to be mad at Kate for not telling him, but he would be even madder at Ziva due to her background. It was not fair for Kate to pull Ziva back into this and if she had known anyone else to call for help she would have, and saved Ziva from this. Ziva had already done more for her than could have been expected especially since Ziva had never even met Kate until the day before she saved Kate's life.

Ziva could lose her job for doing this. Kate had known that from the start. It was part of the reason she had wanted Ziva not to help. The other part was that she did not want to walk away from everyone and everything she had ever known, while causing the same people pain. The one part of this mission that had come easily to either her or Ziva was that just after it had started, the Director of NCIS had retired. The replacement was Ziva's friend and old partner, Jennifer Sheppard. Kate knew that even if Ziva had no faith in the establishment she would have done it anyway.

Kate stopped pacing, and sank down onto the bed. Her life had been less than perfect from about the time she had started law school. That had been a mistake all of its own, therefore she had quit and joined into the Secret Service. Those five years had been reasonably decent until the end, when everything fell apart. NCIS had taken those pieces and put them back together, giving her the two best years of her life. She was not saying thatthose years were painless, because they weren't. Ari holding her hostage multiple times had a lot to do with it. She silently cursed the Stockholm syndrome, which had kept her from stabbing the bastard when she had the chance. A year after Ari kidnapped her, he had come back for her and that was where the whole mess started.

She had known that she was safe from Ari because Ziva would not have rested until he was dead, but she still needed to be protected from the rest of Hamas. Ziva had saved her, but that left Kate with nowhere to go. She had a life, but knew she could not live it as Kate Todd. Ziva had tried to make the move a painless a possible for Kate, which Kate appreciated, so Ziva had chosen Rome because Kate was a Roman Catholic. This struck Kate as very nice of Ziva especially as Ziva had no obligation to Kate whatsoever. Kate had found the three years she spent in Rome quite enjoyable, even though she was on therun from a major terrorist organization.

Things had settled down and she had almost managed to convince herself she was safe. Then she had seen the member of Ari's old cell wandering on the streets of Rome. There was no use worrying about it now, at least not until Ziva got there. She lay back on her bed and fell into an uneasy sleep.

DREAM—ONE WEEK AGO—ROME

Kate walked down the narrow streets of Rome with a basket in one hand. She glanced nonchalantly at a shop window and froze, her muscles tensing with fear. There was a face staring back at her, and it was not just any face. It was the only face she remembered from the time Ari had kidnapped her. This was Ari's right-hand man. Kate's mind filled with panic, but she fought to stay calm so as to not attract any attention from the man, whose twisted face seemed rather oblivious to the fact that Kate was standing there.Yet she was sure that her cover was compromised and she walked down the street as quickly as she could. When she reached her house she closed the door quickly behind her, bolting it with shaking hands. As her carefully crafted new life crashed down around her ears, she let the tears fall down her cheeks.

END DREAM

Kate jerked up in thehotel bed and looked around, not bothering to stem the tears rolling down her face. There was no one there to see them. She lay back down on the bed as her heart rate returned to normal. She was safe…atleastfor now.

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