Summery: After Ari shows up at Kate's apartment one night the assassin and the agent begin to fall dangerously in love and must survive everything this world throws at them. Twilight and the Kill Ari's never happened.

This is set about a month after Ari held Kate at the farm. Twilight and Kill Ari's never happened.

Disclaim: I do not own anything do not sue me. If I did own NCIS Kate, Ari, and Jenny would not be dead!

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I took a deep breath as I walked thought the door to my apartment and saw Ari. I wondered how he would react to me nearly getting blown up. There was always the option of not telling him but the scratch on my forehead when I hit the deck would give it away.

The whole team had fussed over me and Gibbs had gone nuts about me putting myself in harms way until I reminded him it was what federal agents did, Abby had almost killed me when she hugged me, Ducky had looked at the scratch on my forehead and taped it up while Tony and McGee had guilty looks on their face. But after all of that they let me go home early to rest and now I had to explain all of this to my lover. Great.

Ari looked up at me surprised how early I was home then his face twisted when he saw my cut. He immediately came over to me with a worried look on his face. "Caitlin my love what happened?" He asked.

"My team was sent in the field and there was a car wired to explode, I found it and sent Tony and McGee running, and just before it went off I hit the deck, and they sent me home to rest." I explained. He careful brushed some hair out of my face and examined it. "I'm fine Ari." I lied. I had not been fine, I had almost died. "It's what we federal agents do." I said to try and comfort him; maybe he would stop worrying over me.

It obviously didn't work because his expression didn't get better, it got worse. He sighed and kissed the other side of my forehead that didn't have any scrapes or cuts, wrapping his arms around me and pulled me into his lap as we sat on the couch.

"Caitlin you must be more careful I could have lost you." He whispered.

"But you didn't." I reminded him.

"But I could have love. Do you have any idea what that would do to me?" He asked. Suddenly I felt so guilty.

He kissed the back of my neck and then the back of my head. "I- I'm sorry Ari I had no idea that-that…" I struggled with my words. "Shhh Caitlin." He tells me. "You don't have to talk, sleep." He says as he gently rocked me back and fourth. "Love you." I muttered as I drifted to sleep. "Love you too Caitlin." He said right before I fell into a needed sleep.

Carefully I waited an extra ten minutes to make sure Caitlin was asleep before carrying her to bed and climbing in with her. Today she had gotten very close to dying, she could have died from an explosion. I winced the thought of my Caitlin dead, it hurt me.

Caitlin tossed and moved closer to me in her sleep. Smiling I pull her close to my chest in a protective way. I could never loose her no matter what, it seems what happened was someone trying to kill her team again.

Two weeks ago on a SWAK case Agent DiNozzo had almost died and she could have caught the plague, and when I found out about all of it I gave her an hours scolding and when I was finished I saw that she had gone to sleep during some part of it and had carried her to bed, I was so angry and worried I made her take leave to relax and stay safe.

Now someone was after her team again and no matter what I couldn't let that happen. If I took leave from Mossad I could follow her and her team to make sure she was safe, it was a risky plan and if Caitlin found out she would be furious but I had to protect her no matter what I could not let the woman I love die.

Groaning I woke up to a beeping cell phone on my night stand. "Todd." I said as I opened it. "Hey Kate it's Tony just checking up on you are you okay?" Tony asked.

"Fine. Did you guy's find anything out?"

"Yes actually the boss wanted me to warn you Ari was seen leaving the country earlier yesterday." Erlier? Yesterday? "Uhhhh Tony when was the bombing?"

"Yesterday why?" "Yesterday what time is ti now?"

"Six in the morning." Crap. I had slept through the rest of the day and the whole night. "Crap! I'm coming in, sorry I hadn't realized I slept so much."

"It's fine Kate boss said to sleep as much as you want." He assured me. "Hmmmm... still coming in." I said before I hung up on him. How Gibbs like. Going into the kitchen I saw a note on the table in Ari's handwriting.

Dear Caitlin,

Something came up at Mossad and I had to return, I was going to wake you up and tell you but you were so peaceful I could not. Be careful when you return to NCIS.

Love, Ari

Sighing Kate put the letter down and got her purse and bag before walking out the door and on her way to NCIS.

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