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You can thank Ziny-DiNozzo for this getting up now. If she had not bugged me about writing the new chapter, it would not have been up until next week!!

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xoxElle

Well this is it now
Everybody get down
This is all I can take
This is how a heart breaks

It had been 10 months since that night at the club when the beginning of the relationship started, and the same thing happened almost every week. Kate would come home to find Ari sitting on the couch waiting for her, staying for days at a time. Although, this visit Kate could tell something was wrong with Ari.

"What's wrong?" She asked quietly as they sat on her couch, she had her head rested on his chest while he had an arm wrapped around her with his hand on the top of her arm. He didn't answer, just continued to lightly run his hand up and down her arm. She lifted her head so she could look at him in the eye. "Something's wrong. You're not being your normal bastard self" She said sitting up next to him.

He just swallowed and sat up straight, then leaning forward with his elbows on his knees. She just stared at him.

"Ari?"

"This is the last time I will be visiting you Caitlin" He finally said. She turned to face him and tried to hide the chock and hurt from her face.

"What? Why?" She asked. He just stood up and began to walk to the door, but was stopped as she grabbed his arm "Answer me" She said a slight quiver in her voice.

"It is too dangerous for me to be near you. I think it would be best if I leave and you never see me again" He said calmly and taking her hand off his arm.

"There has to be a reason you're doing this…Is it your father? Hamas?" She asked grabbing his arm again as he attempted to turn around.

"Maybe it is because I do not return your feelings" He said simply. She let go of his arm like it had burned her, she took a few steps back from him and stared at him with glassy eyes.

"That's not true. You and I both know that" She said angrily. He had never actually said that he loved her. Not yet. Those three words were hard to say for him, she knew that. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose before finally looking at her.

"This is best for you Caitlin" He said.

She crossed her arms and looked down. "Why?"

He groaned. This woman would not let anything go.

He stepped forward and put his hands on her upper arms "Caitlin. This is the reason that I should not have become involved with you"

"Is someone after me?" She asked, still not looking up at him.

"No" He said "My father has sent me on a mission that I will most likely not return from"

Kate's head snapped up and she stared at him "So you decided it would be safer to break up with me?"

Ari thought for a moment "Yes" He answered.

"Oh" She said softly. That's when he realized that she's crying.

"Caitlin" He said in a gentle tone, hooking his finger under her chin so that she would finally look him in the eye "I will make you a deal" He said "If I survive this mission, I will return to you straight away. But if something does happen to me, I will make sure you are notified"

She wrapped her arms around his waist and rested her head on his chest, all the while thinking how that less than 5 minutes ago he was ready to walk out her door and never return "I thought it was unsafe for anyone to know about us" She said in a low voice.

"There is only one person I trust to keep this secret" He said. She looked up from his chest with a confused expression.

"Who?"

He let his arms fall from where they were around her shoulders, and briefly thought how his father would react if he found out where Ari was and what he was doing, then led her to sit on the couch again.

"If anything should happen to me on a mission, my sister will come and inform you" He said seriously. Kate's eyes widened slightly. Never in the 10 months she had known him had he ever talked about his family.

"You have a sister?" She asked.

"Yes" He said with a short nod "She is my Half-sister. Her name is Ziva"

Kate raised her eyebrow "Ziva?"

"Yes" Ari said confused by her expression. "Why?"

"Was she at the club that night?" She asked. Ari became more confused.

"Yes"

Kate half groaned-half laughed as she let her head fall onto his shoulder.

"She's the girl Tony won't stop talking about at work. He spent the weekend with her the weekend we met" She said lifting her head off his shoulder.

"I do not think I want to know anymore about that" Ari said looking the tiniest bit disgusted. Kate laughed and placed herself in his lap. He let out an 'Oof' as she did and she hit his chest with her fist.

"Please don't get yourself killed" She murmured into the darkness a few minutes later. "And next time something like this happens. Don't act like you did tonight. I don't want to loose you"

When he was sure she was asleep he picked her up carefully and carried her into her bedroom and placing her under the covers. He placed a letter next to her hand and kissed her head before disappearing out her front door.

Dear Caitlin,

If I do not return, then I am truly sorry.

The ring you will find in this letter was my mothers. When I return, I will try my hardest to; I will make sure to give it to you properly.

Anî ohevêt otchâ

She wore the ring on her necklace, as a reminder that he will come back. When she had gotten to work the next morning she had googled the last sentence and couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the day.

They got a case that day. An ex- Navy SEAL escaped from Leavenworth to find the person who really killed his wife.

And two months later, on the night they were investigating the mysterious death of a SEAL when his D Link broke while going down the side of a cliff, a bullet hit Ari.

And Kate had no clue.

Hehe. I'm mean.

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xoxElle