AN: Again thanks for al those reviews, keep them coming! I've decided to put to Tate angst in my story. I hope you'll like it
CHAPTER THREE
Kate thought it would be better if she would avoid Tony for a while, just till her feelings cooled down but she didn't take Gibbs into account.
With Mcgee at some seminar , he was a man short in the field and since he had other things to do, he had no choice but to send Kate and Tony to petty officer Martin's (the dead marine) girlfriend to pick her up for questioning.
Kate didn't feel up for it, especially with Tony being so suspicious. In some way he could always sense it when Kate wasn't feeling herself which meant he would keep bugging her with questions just until he knew what was wrong. To avoid that she would act all friendly and happy.
"Hey Tony, you ready?" "Yeah, just give me a minute to finish my coffee, I don't want to spill any if you're driving, Oh wait that's not possible because even a turtle goes faster then you." " yeah good one Tony"
"Dinozzo, you heard the lady: go!." "uh yes boss, right away boss." A big smile appeared on Gibbs' face and he headed out as well.
In the car Tony was clicking on all the buttons trying to change the station. By doing that he was getting on Kate's nerves. She was nervous enough, she didn't need him doing such things. She just pretend to be happy nor to be friendly, finally she hit his hand and said:"God, would you just leave it."
"What? I'm just trying to find a good station with good music instead of this I don't know what to call it music" Kate rolled her eyes and Tony took that as a note to shut up.
Although she was driving very focused, she could see in the corner of her eye Tony staring at her, like he wanted to say something but he was afraid to. At a weak moment she returned to stare and both smiled. "What?" Kate said after Tony just kept looking at her.
"Nothing, I was thinking about how lucky Mcgee is right now." "Mcgee? Isn't he at that boring seminar?"
" Yeah, together with 26 beautiful women. I remember last year." Kate interrupted him and said with pain in her voice. "You know Tony, I really don't care." And they remained silence for the rest of the ride, which wasn't that long anymore.
By the time they arrived, the blue sky had turned into a dark threatening rainy sky. A strong wind forced the trees to let go of some of its leafs. There was actually so much wind, Kate's scarf almost blew away. This can't be good , Kate said to herself.
They rang the bell a few times but nobody opened the door. Tony decided to take a look around and see if he could enter through the backdoor, then he would let Kate in. This wasn't really procedure but they weren't planning on searching the house. They only wanted to interrogate her.
Tony felt lucky and he was, the backdoor was wide open. He yelled at Kate but she didn't respond, so he assumed she couldn't hear him or she was still ignoring him, although he felt he didn't say anything wrong. In the mean time he had his hand on the doorknob when he felt a hand touching his shoulder. He turned around, thinking it was Kate, but before he could see who it was he was knocked unconscious.
Kate was still waiting for Tony to open the door or at least return to her. He had been gone for some time now, maybe 10 minutes, not that much but still Kate had a bad feeling. She took the same path Tony took, through the backyard. At first Kate thought Tony had pulled another lame joke on her. She thought he was trying to scare her by not responding and not opening. He was probably hiding somewhere but when she noticed the door wide open, she reached for her gun and called for Tony a few times outside, then she entered gun drawn but not before she turned her cell phone on, just in case.. By the door she found what could be Tony's blood.
She heard a car driving off. Quickly she opened the front door and ran outside. The only thing she was able to see was the back of a black van. She sighed and wanted to call Gibbs, but she felt something hard pressed against her back. Her guess was right, it was a gun. A man ordered her to put down her gun which she did. Then a bandage with chloroform was pressed against her mouth and noise, causing her to fall unconscious…