Here we go! Chapter 12! Enjoy :-)
I DO NOT own NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles are anything related to it. All original characters (Daniel Levi and Skylar Williams) are my own.
Kate continued to cry into Gibbs' shoulder but he didn't seem to mind one bit as he held onto her, like a father reunited with his long lost child. "It's alright, Kate. You're safe."
"I'm sorry, Gibbs," whispered Kate.
"Don't apologize, you didn't do anything wrong."
"Gibbs!" exclaimed Vance.
"Interrogation's over, Leon!"
"I don't think so!"
"I do!"
"Gibbs, why am I in here?" asked Kate.
"Don't worry about it," Gibbs looked at the badge wrapped around Kate's head. "I want Ducky to take a look at you, okay?"
"Okay."
Gibbs gave Kate a gentle kiss on the cheek. "I'll be right back." He got up and left interrogation. A very pissed off Vance followed him into the hallway.
"What was that, Gibbs?" yelled Vance.
"You got your confession, Leon! She's Kate!" replied Gibbs.
"But I didn't get my answers!"
"She has none!"
"She's lying!"
"No, she's not! She doesn't remember the operation."
"You really want me to believe that?"
"Believe it, Leon!"
"How? You explain to me how your "dead agent" has been masquerading as a medical examiner all these years and not remember how she got there?"
"I don't know! But I believe her!"
"Maura was a cover, Gibbs! A cover that should have ended when the operation did. She knew that! If she's gone rogue, we need to detain her and find out who she is working for!"
"You are not detaining her!"
"I will if I feel that she is a security threat!"
"I know Kate! She would never lie about something like this, if she can't remember it's because she can't remember."
"You may trust her but I'm not so easily convinced! Something funny is going on here and I want to know what!"
"So do I! Give me time to talk to her and figure this out."
"I want answers, Gibbs! Until I get them, Kate remains in NCIS custody!" Vance walked away.
Tony, McGee, Skylar and Abby stepped out of the observation.
Gibbs looked at the group.
"McGee, call Ducky and tell him to put down whatever he's doing and get up here. I need I'm to take a look at Kate."
Abby stepped toward Gibbs. "Is it really her, Gibbs?"
"Yeah, Abbs but I want to verify it."
"Now that I've accessed her employee records, I can do a blood type comparison."
"Do it. How long will it take?"
"Couple hours."
"I'll have Ducky draw a sample and send it to you."
"Can I go talk to her?"
"Not now, Abbs."
"Okay, I'll go warm up my equipment," Abby left.
"Williams!"
"Yes, Gibbs?" asked Skylar, nervous.
"Go over this op with a fine tooth comb. I want to know everything about all of Kate's involvements in this!"
"You sure you don't want someone on your team to go over this? I mean I…"
"No, I want you to do it! You're so curious, here you go!"
"Yes sir," Skylar walked away.
Tony stood silently in the hall with Gibbs.
"How did you know?"
"Know what?"
"That Maura was Kate?"
"I just did. Something about her eyes, I knew she wasn't lying."
"So you decide that it would be better to handle this matter yourself?"
"I know I should have said something, Boss but she was scared and I was scared for her. She trusted me and I didn't want anything to happen to her…not again."
Gibbs sighed. "I know you didn't."
Ducky approached the pair. "McGee called me and took me to come up right away. Is everything alright?"
"Define alright?" said Gibbs as he opened the door to interrogation.
Ducky walked inside. "Maura? Gibbs, what is going on here? Why do you have Maura in cuffs?"
"She's not Maura, Duck."
"Jethro, my vision may not be what it used to be but I know that is Dr. Isles."
Tony shook his head. "Try again."
"Ducky, Dr. Isles is not Dr. Isles. She's Kate. Our Kate," said Gibbs.
"That is not funny, Jethro!"
"It's not a joke, Ducky."
Ducky turned to Kate, standing frozen as he looked at her. "Oh my," Ducky slowly approached the woman, looking her over. "Caitlin? Is it really you?"
"Yes, Ducky."
"But how? I…"
"I'll explain it to you but first I want you to take a look at her."
"Of course, let's get her down to autopsy."
Awhile later, Ducky and Tony escorted Kate back to the Squad Room where Gibbs worked at his desk.
"How you feeling, Kate?" asked Gibbs, getting up allowing Kate to sit at his desk.
"Better now that I'm not in cuffs," said Kate.
"Not exactly what I had in mind when I envisioned you in cuffs!" joked Tony.
A swift elbow to the side let Tony know exactly how Kate felt about the situation.
Gibbs smiled. "Yeah, you're Kate alright."
"How she looking, Ducky?"
"She will be fine but she really needs to relax. All of this is not good for her head injury right now," said Ducky.
Gibbs handed Kate some water. "Here, sip on this."
Kate opened the bottle. "How did you find out?"
"The picture you gave to Skylar of the case file was an actual case. One that you were working on. Your name on the file has been replaced with Maura's."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that for some reason you were forced to take on a new identity."
"I don't understand. Why would I need a new identity?"
"That's what we need to figure out but right now you just relax, okay?"
"Okay."
Gibbs signaled for Ducky to join him around the corner. "She okay, Ducky?"
"She seems fine other than her obvious memory loss. She only remembers certain things about herself as Caitlin and yet she remembers everything about Maura."
"Any idea why she can't remember anything about the operation?"
"Haven't a clue. My mind jumps to PTSD suffers. Often as a cooping mechanism, they will block out the event. Perhaps this operation Caitlin was working on resulted in some sort of traumatic event, thus her forgetfulness. The plus side is that she does seem to be gaining memory back. Apparently her being here early today brought back a great deal of memories of her time as an agent. Perhaps with some time and some assistance in the memory recall area, we will find that she knows more about the matter."
"How could this have happened and none of us known? Tony and I were there, we saw her get hit! You had her downstairs and yet here she is."
"I believe that is for the trained investigator, i.e. you, to determine."
Gibbs sighed. "I don't even know where to start."
The lab results came back and it was confirmed, Maura Isles was in fact, Caitlin Todd. With Kate's sketchy memory, it was up to Gibbs and his team to figure out what happened during the Twilight operation. They worked diligently into the night to find out whatever they could. Kate had grown tired and in desperate need of sleep. After an hour of trying to convince Vance that they would not allow Kate to get away and a severe verbal lashing from Ducky about her current condition, Tony was allowed to take her back to her hotel.
It was nearly 3am, Gibbs sat at his desk flipping through pages of the operation looking for any clues as to what happened to Kate.
Skylar ran up to Gibbs. "Gibbs, I think I may have found something!"
"Williams, you're still here?" asked Gibbs, surprised to see the agent.
"I've been going through the op like you told me and I think I know what Kate's job in the operation was."
"What?"
"Kate was a mole!"
"A mole?"
"Apparently, Kate had some kind of affiliation with the terrorist cell that was being tracked down."
"Kate was not a terrorist!" Gibbs defensed for is newly returned agent were up.
"I know! But she had contact with one. Someone named Haswari?"
Gibbs' blood ran cold at the sound of the name. "Ari?"
"Yeah, that's him! Kate first encountered him when she was held hostage by him, here in autopsy."
"What does that have to do with Kate's involvement in Twilight?"
"Ari contacted Kate not long after he escaped."
"Ari contacted Kate?"
"A tap on his phone picked up the call. And apparently the tone of the call gave the impression that he was into her. NCIS approached Kate and assigned her with the task of baiting Ari, getting as much information out of him as she could. She was apparently really good at it, she inquired a lot of information from him including something named Selsi."
"What is Selsi?"
"I don't know but look at this," Skylar placed down a sheet of paper. "This report was written one week before the amendment was added. I got a feeling this Selsi thing had something to do with Kate turning into Maura."
"We need to find out what Selsi is. Who else was involved in this operation? Maybe they know something?" Gibbs pulled out a list of names, reading it to see if he could recognize any of them. "T. Fornell! Should have known!" Gibbs got up and walked off.
"Who's T. Fornell?"
"A bastard!"
At her hotel, Kate laid in bed tossing and turning in her sleep.
The file was dropped on the table in front of Kate.
"This is a matter of national security," said a red-haired woman, circling the table. "You are the only one who has ever gotten this close to him. Your connection to him could help us locate the cell."
"What do you want me to do?" asked Kate.
"He's clearly smitten with you. Use your womanly charm to get whatever information you can get from him but he can't know what you are up to. If he gets wind that you are working an op it could put us and this operation in a very bad position."
Kate sighed. "I guess I better not get caught then."
A light flashed.
Kate sat at a panic table outside a barn with the man in black. It was afternoon, a gentle breeze rustled the trees over the table.
"We cannot do this anymore, Caitlin. I have said too much. It has become too dangerous," said the man in his memorizing accent.
"No one knows about us, it isn't necessary."
"But they do! And I fear that they will come after me…after you. You must do as I say! It is the only option."
"I can take care of myself!"
"Not in this matter! You must do this!"
"No! Forget it!"
The man sighed. "Fine, you leave me no choice." The man pulls a tiny box out of his pocket. "Seeing as this is the last time I will see you for some time, I want you to take this. Keep it safe. When we reunite, I want it back."
"What is it?"
"It's..."
"Kate!" the boomed of Tony's voice from the sofa woke Kate from her slumber.
"What?" shouted Kate.
"You mind? I'm trying to get some sleep over here!"
Kate sat up in bed, running her hands over her eyes. "What time is it?"
Tony reached over to his cellphone laying on the coffee table. "2:55! You've been talking in your sleep for the last hour!"
"These damn dreams!"
Tony sat up. "You had another one?"
Kate nodded.
Tony got up, yawning as he walked over to the bed and sat down next to Kate. "What happened this time?"
"I was talking to the woman for the last dream and I agreed to do some operation for her and it was important that I not get caught."
"Maybe that was Twilight?"
"I don't know? But then, I was at this barn and the man was there and we were talking. It was like we knew each other. He gave me something."
"What did he give you?"
"You woke me up before he could answer!"
"Sorry! At least it wasn't a nightmare this time."
"I guess. We have to figure this out, Tony."
"We will! Gibbs will! Don't worry! Why don't you go back to sleep. You need after today."
"Do you mind?" Kate looked at the bed.
"You want me to stay over here with you?"
"Please?"
"This has to be a Maura thing because you would never think about, let alone want me to sleep next to her!"
"It's not like we're sleeping together, Tony! You're just sleeping in the bed with me. I'm just not fully comfortable sleeping alone right now."
"You want me to protect you from the boogey man?"
Kate tilted her head in annoyance.
"Fine, but stay on your side!"
"Thank you," Kate slide over taking note of Tony's attire. "Are you in your boxers?"
"They're clean. I took a shower while you were sleep, grabbed these and this t-shirt out of my desk."
"You keep underwear in your desk?"
"I never know when I'm going home, have to be prepared! You kept tam…"
"Hey!"
"What's the big deal?"
"The big deal is you are in your underwear! Where are your clothes?"
"It's very uncomfortable sleeping in a suit, okay! You act like I'm naked! Now you want me to sleep over here or not?"
Kate rolled her eye, slide even further over in the bed.
The next morning, Kate laid curled up on her side of the bed while Tony had sprawled out on his side and hers, most of the cover covering his body.
Kate reached over and grabbed the blanket, pulling it forcefully. "Quit hogging the covers, DiNozzo!"
"I'm not hogging the cover," Tony almost incoherently said as he rolled over in bed.
There was a knock on the door.
"Get the door, Tony!"
"You get the door, Kate! I'm trying to sleep!"
"You're the agent in charge!"
"It's your door!"
"What if it's my accomplice here to shoot you?"
Tony pulled his gun from out the side table drawer, placing it on the table. "Got it covered! Now get the door!"
Kate rolled her eyes as she got out of bed and made her way over to the door where the banging continued. She opened the door and her mouth dropped open. "Oh my god... Jane!"
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