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A/N: I know you can all kill me. It took me forever to post this chapter. But school is dieing down a little and I have had more time to write but I know that it is going to pick back up. I write on every free time that I get! Please don't leave me reviewers! I will try harder. I hope you like this chapter it is pretty long but it could have been longer!



Kate looked around the room. It was so dark that it was hard to tell exactly where she was. She could feel the slight breeze on her so they were in a place that had air or there was a window close by that was open. The smell with the combination of the drugs was enough to make her want to throw up and pass out again. Her wrist were starting to rub raw where the rope had her tied to the metal chair. Was that a man laughing in the background and why did he sound so familiar? She could not remember anything, her last memory was her and Curtis sitting out at the park together after eating dinner.

Just then a skinny tall man started walking towards her in the light. She could hear him say something about seeing each other and that he couldn't just let her go.

"Curtis?" Kate whispered is a rasping breath. The drugs had not completely wore off and it was really hard for her to do much of anything.

She could now start to see a figure more precise. The man had a marine style hair cut and wore stylish square frame glass of a goldish color. It was still hard to see with hardly no light. He was wearing a classy button up shirt and slacks with dress shoes. As Kate stared at him she began to notice the resemblance to that of Curtis. It was then that she heard the man say Agent Gibbs. Oh no he was on the phone this could not be good. Gibbs was going to kill her when he finds out that she was keeping this a secret. He wanted her to tell him what was wrong that day and she blew him off. She felt there was something wrong with Curtis. He was acting way to nice and nosy.

"Well I am tired of listening to you think. Say your goodbyes to Kate because you will never see her again." the man slammed the phone shut and turned to look at Kate. The smile was a plane as day. This was Curtis. How could he, what did he want with her so badly. Kate struggled in her chair as Curtis came closer to her. He bent down in front of her and grabbed her chin.

"My sweet Katey. You look so beautiful when you are mad. It is a shame that I am going to have to kill you."

"Why? Why must you kill me? What have I done. I liked you Curtis, I thought that you might have been the one." Kate kinda enjoyed putting on the show.

"Oh shut up. You are not fooling anyone. I know that you have doubted us these past two weeks. But don't worry my pretty little Kate, soon you will not have to ever worry about a bad relationship again." the man turned and headed out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

Kate, her vision able to let her take in her surrounds, frantically looked around for an escape. It seemed to look as if it were a metal shack. The walls were a rustic color surrounding Kate where she sat. She could tell that there was a small venting window on one wall high near the ceiling. Unfortunately to high even if she was able to untie the ropes and escape the chair. The pain in her wrist's were becoming unbearable, but she knew that she need to tough it out. If that was Gibbs on the phone he was sure to have McGee searching things. They will find her, just hopefully before Curtis decided that she had lived long enough.

* NCIS HEADQUARTERS*

"MCGEE! Have you found anything yet?" Gibbs yelled as he came barreling out of the elevator coming from Abby's lab.

McGee looked up from his computer as Gibbs rounded his desk. "Umm. Yes Boss I think."

"You think McGee? You better not think, you better know, or so help me I will find someone else you could..."

"No Boss I have found something." McGee interrupted.

"It seems that Kate has been seeing a man by the name of Curtis Hammelton. He is a former Lieutenant for the Marine Core."

Gibbs could not seem to remember this man no matter what he did. The face was not even ringing a bell. When him and McGee had called Ziva to have her meet them at the address, they were hoping to have found Kate. Unfortunately all they found was a starving cat and leftover food. There was no sign that Kate had even been at that house. Gibbs was starting to get frustrated, Abby had found no forensics from things that they had picked up from the house and it seemed that they kept hitting a brick wall. They needed to find Kate, he was not going to loose an agent because she wouldn't tell him that something was wrong.

* METAL SHACK*

Kate must have dosed off at some point because she remembers thinking about Gibbs and now Curtis was standing in front of her again with a cheeky grin all over his face.

"You are a very pretty girl when you are sleeping." Curtis bent down further, causing them to almost be touching nose to nose.

"Well thank you. I am so glad that I am a fascinating icon to be stared at when I am not aware of it." Kate gave him a sarcastic smirk, which might have been the wrong thing to do at that current point in time.

SMACK! You don't speak to me like that. You are lucky to still be living. If I weren't so nice, I would have killed you along time ago."

Kate wanted to reach up and touch her mouth. She could feel and taste the blood that was now coming out. As every minute ticked by she wished she would have told Gibbs when he first asked. Now she felt bad. First time home with his kids and he had to leave to try and save her. Curtis yelling at her again, brought her out of her thoughts.

"How could Gibbs keep someone like you on his team? Someone of such weak statue. Surely he could have found a much stronger and smarter woman to join his team, but yet he choose you? I think he is getting soft."

Kate just chuckled. "You obviously know nothing about me do you Curtis?"

Curtis anger started boiling up again, but faltered when he heard her continue.

"I met Gibbs quiet a while ago, while I was on protection detail for the President."

Curtis seemed to have let his guard fall however, only momentarily. "You protecting the President, how sad. I see some stubbornness in you which may have helped a little."

Curtis circled Kate where she sat, looking her over as if she was an important piece of inventory.

"It is a shame, no matter how weak you are, that you could not live a much longer life. I'm sure you would have been a great mother or Aunt for that matter."

Kate looked up at him.

"Is it true what I hear. Agent Gibbs is now a father of two?"

Kate didn't know what to say, surely he didn't hear this from her. She was very careful on what information she told her friends and boyfriends, especially about her coworkers.

"How did you know about that?" Kate replied in a rather low and dangerous tone.

"Now, now Katey. There is no need for the anger. I was just merely asking a question. It is good for him you know, he was so broken up after that dreadful accident with his wife and daughter. I think that is why he doesn't remember me. Well don't really worry about that now, he will remember me soon enough."

Curtis turned to leave again, leaving Kate to her thoughts.

-Meanwhile-

Hollis sat in the living room, TV on, wondering what possibly could be going on. It had taken her nearly two hours to get both Krissy and Tony asleep. She was very tired but just could not will herself to sleep until she heard from him. He seemed to have been pretty upset when he left and it would have to of taken something pretty serious for him to have left the house on his first night home with the babies. There were many scenarios that were popping into her head.

Soon she was shaken out of her thoughts by her cell phone going off. She jumped up off the couch and ran to the kitchen table. Hollis did not look to see who was calling.

"Jethro?.." Hollis answered in a sort of panicked voice.

"Yeah Hollis it is me. How are our babies?" Gibbs felt horrible that he would have to ask. He should be there with her.

"They just went down a little while ago. I think they could sense the tension from their mommy." Hollis tried not to make her panic show all that much in her voice so she chuckled a little at him.

"Hollis I'm sorry I had to run out. I feel horrible, but it's Kate. She has been taken."

Gibbs paused for a moment to let Hollis take in what he had just said.

"Hollis, are you OK?"

Hollis could not believe what she had just heard. Kate was missing? How could this be?

"Jethro do you have any leads?"

Gibbs took a deep breath. He knew where this conversation was going to end up, but he could not lie to her.

"To be honest, we have come to a dead end."

He could hear the sigh coming from Hollis on the other end.

"Jethro, something was wrong when she was here."

"I know, I pulled her aside and talked to her. She said there was nothing wrong. What more could I have done at the time?"

Hollis could tell he was starting to blame himself for the situation.

"Jethro, there was nothing you could have done, she obviously did not want to inform you. You know as well as I do that she doesn't share her problems. She is like you in so many ways."

Gibbs couldn't help but laugh. Hollis had a point. The last time Kate had a problem, when she had first come to NCIS, it felt like he was pulling her leg, just to get her to talk. She did remind him of himself but he was not just gonna come out and say it.

Hollis and Gibbs talked for a while longer before McGee came running up hollering "Boss!"

"Bye Hollis, I think we have a lead, call you later."

He hung up before waiting for a reply. He knew she would understand.

"What do you have McGee?"

McGee took a quick moment to catch his breath. He had run up the stairs, when Abby had told him she needed Gibbs, he wasted no time with the elevator.

"Boss Abby has something that could lead us to where he is keeping Kate."

Gibbs took off around McGee towards the stairs. He too did not want to wait. He entered Abby's lab in record time.

"WOW Gibbs! You must have flown down the stairs. I guess your knees feeling OK. Does it still feel OK, because if not I have this special cream tha.."

"Abbs! Kate first."

Abby quickly stopped and turned around to her computer.

"Well Gibbs, when McGee and Ziva returned to the house a second time, I had them do a special foot print test. See its not just a simple footprint test Gibbs. This footprint looks for dust particles that outline a print that is not actually for-see-able by the naked eye. "

"Abbs, the point soon would be nice!"

Abby rolled her eyes, "Gees Gibbs, give a girl some slack to build up the suspense will ya? Patience, look it up."

Gibbs raised an eyebrow. "Swat, look it up Abigail!"

Abby turned back to her computer. Apparently Gibbs was in no mood for jokes.

"The footprint they did end up finding got a match in the database."

"Name Abbs."

"His name is Curtis Hammelton."

"Well Abby we kinda figured that since it was his house! We really need to know where he is keeping her. Do you have anything on that?"

"Well Gibbs, I was not finished. I did some more research and I came up with a little more information. It looks like he use to own many old construction sites before they went under."

Abby typed away at her keyboard bringing up many different old site's by Hammelton Construction.

"Maybe he is keeping her in one of these old buildings."

Gibbs scanned his eyes over the map. He knew it would be a place out of town where there was less noise. The phone call did not have any background noise. It still did not narrow it down.

"Abby get me the addresses of those six on the outskirts of town. We will start with them. Hopefully we can have Kate home by breakfast."

Abby scratched down the addresses and passed it to Gibbs. McGee ran after his Boss. He was happy to have some sort of lead on this. He hated knowing Kate could get hurt and they weren't there to save her. When reaching the Bullpen Ziva was already geared up and ready.

"Abby text-ed me as you walked out the door." She answered to McGee's confused glare.

Three construction sites and Five hours later there was still no sign of Kate anywhere and Gibbs was finally reaching his boiling point.


Kate still sat alone tied to the chair. Her stomach growled and she was dieing for some water. 'The least he could do is give me some water before he kills me off,' she thought. She knew if Gibbs knew she was thinking like this she would be hurting for-sure,but at this point she did not care. She had lost all hope. If they had not come by now, evidence was scarce and they were not going to find her. Just as her head began to lower she heard Curtis coming back into the room. This time however, when she looked back up he was not alone. There was a woman standing beside him.

"You were right Curtis she is beautiful."

Curtis smiled down at Kate.

"You looked confused Kate. Did I not mention I was married. Well not officially anyway. Wouldn't want the police coming after her if I was caught. But for all intense purposes we are."

"So.." Kate began but was interrupted by the woman.

"Do not speak Kate. You have nothing we want to hear. You were just a toy, he used you. His main target is Gibbs."

'Well that was putting it bluntly' Kate thought to herself. 'Who is this woman?'


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Gibbs: Wow. Took you long enough. You know, I am kinda getting tired of waiting for you to post chapters here!

Me: I am sorry Boss. I am doing the best I can really I am. Do you forget that I am a student?

Gibbs: Are you using a smart mouth with me Kelso? You know how this will turn out!

Me: Please no Boss. I will work harder, promise!

Gibbs: I don't believe you. I can see it in your eyes you are LYING!

Me: Well not really.. (backs away from Gibbs)

Gibbs: Oh that's it. (He reaches forwards and pulls me towards him. He brings his hand down hard once on my butt then directs me to my desk)
You will sit here till you get the next chapter done. I want to find KATE!

Me: (wiggles in seat) Yes boss. Getting right on that.