CHAPTER FOUR

By the time Tony woke up, Kate had already gone to work. Tony of course missed the little note Kate had left for him so full of worry he went to work. First he called her cell, and when she wasn't answering he went to work.

So when he finally arrived at NCIS and saw he wasn't going to let the issue go.

"Hey" Kate said all cheerfully. You could see she was relaxed and that she slept a bit more than a few hours (for the first time). That would be because she spent the night in Tony's warm, strong arms. He on the other hand wasn't so cheerfully or in a good mood.

"Hey? Is that all you can say?" Kate was confused, she didn't know what he was talking about or what she had done wrong. She though he seemed mad and note that this was the first time she had even seen him like this. It kinda scared her.

"Okay, good morning then." She tried to smile but it only seemed to make him more mad.

"Don't play games Kate." "Okay Tony, I don't know what you're talking about."

"How about me waking up this morning and not finding you beside me. God Kate, what were you thinking leaving without saying something. I was worried sick. I thought… I thought..." Before he could finish his sentence, Kate interrupted him and said: "Excuse me? I left you a note. I left it next to the bed."

Tony ran his hand through his hair and gave that innocent smile. He felt guilty for snapping at her while it was his own fault, just as usual… "ohh" "yeah ohh" Her eyes fell on a man near her desk. "excuse me." Tony kept looking at her wondering what she was looking at.

Kate was starring at the delivery man who just gave their post to a co-worker. It wasn't the normal guy. He was on sick leave but she recognized him from somewhere and it wasn't work related. She took a step closer and saw the same tattoo her attacker had on his arm. The man noticed Kate starring at him, he looked back for a moment and left for the elevator in a hurry.

Kate ran after him and so did Tony but he was forced to take the stairs.

Outside Kate had her gun pointed at the man (Stephen).

"Put your hands up and turn around. I said turn around."

He turned around hesitating. He seemed friendly at the first instant but his smile soon changed into an evil smirk. "What are you going to do? Shoot me? You couldn't before so what makes you think you can do it now." He took a step closer.

"Stay where you are. Don't come any closer I swear I'll shoot."

Stephan laughed and took another two steps closer to where Kate was standing, leaving only a few steps between them anymore.

"Come on Kate… we both know you're not gonna shoot me, so why don't you put the gun down." He kept coming closer.

"I'm warning you." Suddenly a familiar voice yelled her name, telling her to put the gun down and to step back but she wasn't planning on doing that. She wanted revenge for what he did to her. In that little moment she turned around to see Tony's face, Stephen tried to grab her and a gunshot fell.

Kate felt her breath getting heavier. While Tony called the medics, she looked down to see her attacker bleeding to death. She just stood there, looking at him and he was looking at her, still with that smirk on his face. With his last breath he said "I'll hunt you forever"

She was terrified by his words and she shot him a second time, this time right in his heart.

In shock she dropped her gun and fell on her knees crying.

Tony couldn't believe, she just killed him in cold blood, that was so unlike her. He slowly approached her and laid a hand on her shoulder. " I was him attacking you"

She stood up, looked in Tony's eyes and rested her head against his chest yet again. Tony couldn't think of anything else but to hold her.

Later that evening after Gibbs cleared Kate, she went to visit Tony at his apartment.

"Kate?" He could see she hadn't stopped crying yet. Her beautiful eyes were red and she seemed tired. "Can uh can I come in."

He smiled, nodded and let her walk into his living room.

"Can I get you anything?" he asked with sympathy. "No, thank you, I'm not staying long. I just wanted to thank you for uh for everything what you did today and yesterday and well actually for the entire week. I won't forget this." "No problem."

She gave him a kiss on his cheek to thank him. She looked in his eyes, she desperately wanted to kiss him but he didn't seem to make a move so she headed towards the door.

"Kate, wait, there's uh something I want to tell you." He came closer, took her hand and leaded her to the couch where they were now both sitting.

"This is hard" He smiled, she smiled back "When I saw you in the hospital, laying there like that, so hurt I.. No, no when Gibbs told me you were hurt. I felt like hell , I mean the thought of you getting hurt… I.. Wow this is really hard." Kate actually liked to see him like this. Tripping over his words, being nervous like that and she definitely liked where this conversation was going to.

"What I'm trying to say is .." But Kate didn't let him finish. It was taking too long according to her so she took matter in her own hands and kissed him passionately. Tony was the first to break the kiss. He looked down, smiled, took a deep breath and said "I'm falling for you."

Kate smiled back and kissed him for the second time.

He stood up and let her to the bedroom…

THE END

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