Chapter 8
Kelly had hardly slept the night before, her mind wondering to much, for all she knew her husband could be alive and the one man she feared could be out to kill her. She hated to say this but she had wished her husband was dead and that it was just over. Or the better option would be her husband being alive still.
She jumped when she heard the door bell. Killers wouldn't ring the door bell would they? She walked slowly down stairs and to the door. Opening the door hesitantly a man at the other side smiled mischievously at her. IT WAS HIM. Quickly she tried shutting the door but he pushed against it. She gave up and ran towerds the back of the house. Running into the kitchen she grabbed a knife. As she turned he was standing in front of her and pushed her hard against the cabinet.
"You were supposed to die." He whispered into her ear in that sickly voice she still had trouble forgetting. He took the knife and pressed it against her neck. She could feel the cold metal as it touched her skin. She closed her eyes tight wanting it to end.
Then the click of a gun in her ear. Opening her eyes she saw Tony with his gun against Dahl's head.
"Drop the knife and step away with your hands up." He said calmly.
"Don't think you will find your husband. He's being kept quiet. Shhhh." He said with a metallic laugh. Kelly's mind went back to the night he had raped her he had said those same words.
"Come on dirt bag." Tony said pulling him to the door. Kelly sighed, leaning up against the cabinet taking slow deep breaths.
"Are you all right Kelly?" Ziva asked putting her hand gently on her shoulder.
"Just a little shook up is all. Thank you."
"We were just doing our job." She smiled. Gibbs rushed in.
"Kelly…"
"I'm fine dad." Kelly said standing up straighter.
"Come on I'm not leaving you here by yourself and you are safer at NCIS." He said putting his arm around her and taking her out to his car.
NCIS headquarters was utterly quiet as Kelly sat waiting in a conference room upstairs. She was alone in the room, her thoughts the only thing to keep her company. The door opened and Jenny came in smiling. Kelly stood up quickly.
"Please tell me you are smiling because you found him." Kelly pleaded.
"Yes, we found him." Kelly let out a sigh of relief.
"When can I see him?" She asked quickly.
"Your dad's bringing him now we can meet him down in the bull pen." Jenny replied calmly, Kelly threw her arms around her.
"Thank you." Kelly whispered.
"Don't thank me, the real thanks goes to the team." Jenny smiled pulling away from Kelly.
The two women walked down the stairs to the bull pen where the rest of the team was waiting.
"I wanted to thank you all. You don't even know me but you still have all treated me like family. And not only that but you found my husband."
"You are family Kelly, we all are. Your Gibbs' daughter and he's like a father to all of us." Ziva smiled, Kelly just nodded as she heard the elevator doors open.
Kelly spun around to see Nick walk off followed by her father and Lukas. When Nick saw her they both ran to each other and wrapped themselves in each others warm embrace. Neither of them cared that people were watching, they kissed like they did when he would come home from out at sea.
"I'm so glad your safe." Kelly said kissing him.
"I don't give up remember?" He smiled "He didn't hurt you again did he?" Nick asked.
"No he tried but he didn't."
"I'm back and I'm not leaving you."
"But what about the Navy? That's your life."
"I'm leaving, you and Lucas are all I care about." Nick said with a grin.
"Promise me something then."
"Anything."
"Get to know my dad." Kelly smiled.
"I can manage that. As long as your dad is willing." Nick said looking back at Gibbs.
"I have the feeling neither of us have much of a choice." Gibbs smiled. "But you may want to start getting to know the rest of my family." Gibbs nodded to the rest of the team. Nick nodded and slowly everyone started to introduce themselves. Kelly snuck away and walked over to her father.
"Looks like you got your hero back." Gibbs said.
"I got both my hero's back." She smiled kissing him on the cheek.
"Listen I understand if you don't want to but Dinozzo and I are going to intarigate Dahl and I wanted to know if you wanted to watch." Gibbs said.
"Can I?" She asked.
"Yeah I'm letting you do this." He replied. Ten minutes later Kelly and Gibbs stood in the viewing room watching Tony with Dahl.
"I've been waiting almost eight years for this day." Kelly said watching Dahl.
"You don't have to watch." Gibbs said.
"No I want to." They stood watching, only Kelly was having a hard time listening to what Tony was saying. Gibbs kept watching Kelly, she knew he wanted to know what had happened. "It was my junior year at Stanford." Kelly said in the silence.
"I didn't ask." Gibbs replied.
"You didn't ask very loudly." Kelly turned to face him, her back to the glass. "I was at a party, we knew about the murders but there hadn't been one in quite a while. The party was across the street from my fraternity and I had gone with my house. We got really drunk and I remember Dahl being there, he was the last guy that I would ever talk to but I remember he kept looking at me and it must have been the shots but for some reason we got to talking and I had just met Nick but we weren't serious. He was flirting with me and I remember blacking out and when I woke up I was on a mattress and he was on top of me…. I'll save you from the details but he got done and he grabbed a knife and he started teasing me with it and… He stabbed me twice then tied me to the bed. But he didn't tie it tight enough because somebody was coming and I was able to free myself and call the cops. They caught him trying to leave campus. For the longest time I didn't want to confide in anyone except for Nick but he was in the Navy and gone half the time."
"That little slut was supposed to die that night. She put me in jail. What came to her she deserved."
"She disserved to think her husband was dead?" Tony said stopping mid pase.
"She deserved that baby I got her pregnant with, but then she went and got rid of it." Dahl smirked.
"He got you pregnant?" Gibbs asked.
"No that was a rumor that went around because I left campus and people wanted to share some gossip that went way to far." Kelly explained. "I can't watch anymore." She said storming out. She ran into one of the bathrooms and turned on the faucet, splashing cold water on her face.
