Title: Coming Clean

Author: JT Cleo aka Tu

Email: PG13/R

Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS.

Author's Notes: VIOLANCE WARNINGGS! LANGUAGE WARNINGS! GRAPHIC DEATH SCENE!

Child abuse and abuse in general are contained in this chapter and story.

Any and all comments are welcome.

Kate struggled with the chains that held her captive. She ran her fingers over every single link, looking for a defect or weakness. She ran her hands over the bolts and plating on the wall. She could find nothing out of place. Nothing she could use to try to escape. Kate knew Rick would be back. It was only a mater of time. She sighed and leaned against the wall.

She began to work up a profile on Rick. Concentrating on work would make this ordeal go by faster. Kate knew that Rick Frank was a psychopath. He had all three key markers of serial killer. She knew that he had tortured and killed animals as a child. She knew he had a history of violence dating up to the murders of Mr. O'Connell and Jason. Kate could only guess how many innocent people Rick had killed since then. From the blood spatters on the wall, Kate knew at least two people had been tortured and probably killed in this basement. The fact that Rick had a 'torture chamber', lead Kate to believe that these two deaths were not the only he had committed since his supposed death.

Kate could hear Gibbs and Ducky's voices ringing in her mind as she analyzed the scene. Kate knew that they would be telling her to be strong. She only hoped she could be.

Kate was pulled from her thoughts as the door to the room opened. Rick leaned against the doorway sneering down at her.

"Is the stupid little bitch cold?" He said mockingly. "Too damn bad. Do you know what it feels like to die Caitlin? It's like fire pouring through your veins." As he spoke he moved into the room. Kate could see he was holding something behind his back.

"Do you know what fire feels like?" he asked just before the end of a whip bit into her left arm.

Kate bit back the cry of pain as Rick lashed out at her again and again with the whip. She couldn't tell where on her body hadn't been hit. Just as suddenly as the whipping began, it ended. Kate sighed softly. She hoped that this would be all for now. Instead she felt the handle of the whip slamming into her ribs. As she passed out from the repeated beating she rembered the last time Rick had done this.

Kate woke up from the beating Rick had given her. She looked around the cabin. Night had fallen and Rick was asleep on the bed in the corner. Empty beer bottles littered the floor around him. She reached out to the lump that lay beside her.

"Jason?' she asked softly as she gently shook him.

A low moan came from the lump. Kate could feel something wet and sticky on her hand. She gently rolled her friend over and nearly threw up. Jason's face was barely recognizable. His jaw and left cheek were swelled to almost three times their normal size. Kate could just barely see his left eye threw the swelling. His right eye was completely swelled shut. Jason's nose looked as if it had been hit repeatedly by a baseball bat. Kate began to cry silently as she looked down at his chest. Long, angry, open wounds crisis-crossed his chest. She could see that some of them had begun to scab over but most were to deep for that. Kate looked down at Jason's left arm, which was lying at an odd angle. His right arm was hanging two or three inches lower then it should have. Kate gasped when she saw his left leg. It was swollen to almost the size of watermelon the whole way down.

"Oh, Jason." Kate moaned softly to her friend. Kate knew that Jason was hurt really really bad. Even her eight year old mind could grasp that his injures were bad and that without help he was in trouble.

Kate looked at Jason as he began to stir in fear. Suddenly Kate was yanked back by her hair and dragged across the floor. Kate could smell the liquor coming off Rick's breath. She began to scream as he threw her on the wet, sticky table and tied her down.

"SHUT UP YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Rick screamed as he smacked her repeatedly. He grabbed a wooden spoon from the shelf on the wall and began hitting her with it.

"Shut up! Shut Up! SHUT UP!" He screamed at her, spittle flying from his mouth.

Rick kept hitting her for what seemed like hours, until a sound in the corner caught his attention. Jason was trying to move over to help his friend. Rick began laughing. His laugh was like the crazy scientist, Kate had seen in old movies.

"Jason, LOOK OUT!" Kate screamed as Rick picked up the fire poker. He lifted it over his head and brought it slamming down into Jason's leg. He turned it in his hand so the hook was pointing down and began slamming it into Jason's body. He used the poker as if it was an Axe and he was cutting wood. He smiled and laughed louder every time he could hear a bone break.

Kate's screams filled the cabin. Rick continued to beat Jason's body until there were no more sounds coming from it. Kate screamed and screamed until her throat hurt. Rick turned around and looked at her. He had a look of pure evil on his face. His psychotic smile would have made even the bravest man run away. His face and cloths were covered in blood.

"Shut up." He said calmly as he cut Kate's bindings and then threw her against the wall. The last thing Kate saw as she drifted into unconsciousness was the bloody, broke body of her best friend.

Kate came to with a start and scrambled to the sink. She just made it in time. She began to empty what little was in her stomach into the sink. She continued to dry heave over the sink. Kate ignored the pain coming from her body. She needed to try to keep conscious from now on. Rick was only warming up. Kate knew this from past experience. As she slowly turned to sink back on the mattress, Kate saw a bottle of water sitting beside the bed.

She slowly sipped from the bottle, even as her mind told her to gulp it down. Kate didn't know the next time she would get any liquid and decided to save as much as she could. Kate slowly began taking stalk of her injures. They were all superficial. Except for one deep whip mark over her ribs and the constant throbbing in her jaw.

TBC

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FYI: Coming Clean :Gibbbs will be up soon. It is Gibbs take on the story.

Coming Clean will be all Kate.