Note: Takes place during Twilight (2x23), when the team raids the warehouse. Takes place up through the moment Kate is thought to have been shot.
NORFOLK, WAREHOUSES, BACK ALLEY; MAY 24, 2005, 13:20
The firing had stopped and Kate saw Gibbs head up the stairs, she saw movement by the corner and then watched as a woman came into the light. She was a mirror image of Kate, the agent walked over to her.
"You must be my shadow?"
"Alijah," her voice was identical to Kate's, "you must be the American that Haswari and his family want safe. It is said you already carry his child."
"I do, three months." Kate pulled off her jacket and gave it to her, Alijah wore the exact same clothes she did.
They traded gear and looked at each other. "May Allah bring you and Haswari happiness. I do this to despise David…he is an evil man." Kate put an earwig in her ear that would transmit to Alijah's…they could communicate.
"I thank you." Kate started toward the back as Alijah started up after Gibbs. It had taken only two minutes to trade gear but Kate knew Gibbs would not suspect a thing. Her life was over; the time with her team had been in their last moments in the car together.
NORFOLK, WAREHOUSES, INSIDE; MAY 24, 2005, 13:20
Kate ran out the alley and waited, she saw McGee by the car. She moved around him without being seen and ran toward the alley that Ari said he would meet her.
She could hear her shadow moaning before telling Tony something, her shadow must have known all about Tony…that had been part of the plan. Make her shadow look, speak and act like her. She had supplied information and the woman had been trained by someone.
"Alijah," she could hear Gibbs helping up her shadow. "Laugh and tell him you thought you'd be dead before you got a compliment."
She heard her double laugh and speak; only words filled the day till the single shot rang out. She knew in that moment that she was no longer Caitlin Todd…she was Kate Haswari David.
She found Ari climbing down a building ladder when she arrived at the truck, she hugged him instantly and held on…beginning to cry.
Ari pulled back and looked at her, wiping her tears away. "Caitlin, shh my love."
"I'm dead to them," she was crying, "I've lost my entire life."
"No," he hugged her and she held on, Ari kissed her head as he spoke. "Your life is just beginning my love, our life is just beginning. Our child is safe, you are safe. As far as Mossad is concerned…I killed you."
She moved back and hit him, "it's your fault. If you hadn't made me fall in love with you…" she hit him several times before falling against him, sobbing.
Ari just picked her up and carried her to the car, placing her inside. "You will blame me for a while Caitlin but in the days to come you will see what we did was for our child." He kissed her head and brushed her hair out of her face. "Know I love you my Caitlin."
Now you know how Kate lived through the shooting...everything occured yet Kate wasn't killed.
