Abby POV

"Wow, you guys sure live exciting lives!" Daniel exclaimed. I had just told him everything that had happened over the past four months or so. I wasn't sure. Keeping track of time was getting difficult now.

"Yeah, do you mind coming back later? I sense that Gibbs will be in here any second now, and if he sees you in here, he might intimidate you to death," Daniel laughed.

"Alright, I'll call you, then," he promised. I smiled and waved at him until he was out of the lab.

Just thought I'd check in…Kate said suddenly. You really pissed Eli off. He'll be back pretty soon for revenge. Now he has a real reason to kick your ass.

"He won't succeed," I vowed to the empty air. "Just you wait, Kate. I'll figure a way out," With that, I began to perfect my very mysterious telekinetic type powers for the remainder of the day. By the time Gibbs came in to tell me to go home, I had the ultimate surprise worked up for him. Gibbs watched as I managed to move a beaker all the way across the room before my mental strength gave out and it smashed all over the floor. After I cleaned up the mess, I explained to him what I had discovered.

"Why does none of this surprise me?" Gibbs asked finally when he could speak.

"Because you know me, that's why," I teased, pecking him on the cheek. "I'll head on home, Gibbs. You already have my report, so, I'll just see you in the morning, then,"

"Half an hour early?" Gibbs guessed.

"Maybe a whole hour if you're lucky, and we all know you're the only one allowed to get lucky," I winked at him and left my lab, everything shut down for the night. I walked on past the car lot, planning to visit Kate's grave before heading home. Maybe she could provide me with some last minute answers as to how I can defeat Eli for good. Harming him would only slow the guy down. As I approached the nearby cemetery, I sensed someone following me. I ignored the feeling and kept walking. Perhaps it was a stray at or squirrel acting very curious.

But something told me that wasn't the case. I stopped for a moment and closed my eyes, remembering an exercise Gibbs had taught me in the early days of NCIS, long before Kate's name ever crossed any of our lips or her face even imagined in any of our heads. Gibbs said that if a sense, such as sight, was not able to be used to see an intruder, that sense is a complete distraction and it should be shut out to let the other senses in. Instantly, it began to work. I heard light breathing behind me, about four feet back. I recognized the scent of coffee mixed with gunpowder. This told me nothing, as it could apply to anyone on the team or an enemy that happened to have just walked out of Starbucks. Keeping my eyes shut, I started to walk forward again. Instantly, the footsteps followed. They were mostly quiet, but echoed just slightly off the road due to the intense silence in the area. I caught another scent as the footsteps got closer: the distinct mustiness of my lab, combined with hazelnut from the coffee. Strong and black. I only knew two people(living, anyway) that drank coffee like that.

"Abby, its me," Ziva said. Despite the relief, my heart still gave a jolt of shock at this fresh piece of news. My eyes flew open and I saw the cemetery up ahead. I let out the breath I had been holding and turned to face her.

"Don't scare me like that again," I told her. "I thought I was about to be attacked or something,"

"Force of habit," Ziva said. "What are you doing out here so late? Gibbs is worried. He thinks you got abducted and ordered me to go find you. Is there something wrong?"

"No, of course not!" I exclaimed. "I was just headed over to Kate's grave real quick before going home later,"

"Ah. I see. May I join you?"

"I wouldn't mind in the least," I replied.

Ziva POV

I did not understand Abby's motives sometimes, but I knew her well enough that there was a method to her madness. So, I tried my best to listen without judgment as she explained her reason for visiting Kate's grave on such a whim.

"So, there has to be another way to defeat your father other than turning him into a slimy slug, right?" Abby was saying now.

"I suppose," I responded vaguely as we entered the cemetery. "He is very persistent when it comes to subduing his resistant experiments," I slapped my hand over my mouth when Abby looked at me.

"What?" Her eyes narrowed. "What did you say?"

"I didn't stutter," I replied weakly.

"Explain," Abby growled. She was shaking with anger now.

"You were one of his experiments, a long while ago," I said. "But Eli erased your memory, so obviously you have no recollection of that time. You were told that you were away from Caf-Pow too long and had passed out. The fainting part was true, but-"

"What did he do to me?" Abby demanded.

"He-He made you psychic, and gave you those powers…I told him to stop, but he was too obsessed and consumed with power and greed that my efforts were futile,"

"Why?"

"It was part of his plan. Whatever you do, don't go here anymore. He has something planned…I can't even tell you, that's how horrible it is,"

"Tell me, I think I can take it," Abby said bravely.

"If you come here to save Kate, you'll succeed alright, but at the cost of your freedom. You'll disappear, like so many other 'failures' of his. You will disappear so completely nobody will be able to find you alive again. I cannot let that happen! You're like a sister to me, Abby. Don't make any rash decisions,"

"Something tells me you already have a plan," Abby said.

"Of course I do," I replied.

"Do enlighten me with the details," She grinned at me.