sorry its taken me a while to update. i really hope you guys like it :) also thanks for all the reviews, they make me very happy :) lol

tametheflame

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kate slowly opened her eyes and took in her surroundings. She was still in the bed and facing towards the window. Slowly she turned around and was met by Tony's face. He was lying there smiling at her.

"Morning." Kate said smiling back.

"Hey, I'm going to order breakfast, you can stay here and I'll call you when it arrives. Ok?" Tony asked placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, ok." Kate said quickly kissing him before he got out of bed, pulling on some track pants he headed for the other room.

Kate relaxed in the bed, the sun danced around the room. She smiled to herself, she didn't regret last night at all, and this for Kate was a first. She slowly got up pulling on an extra large T-shirt and wandered out to the other room. Tony was setting the table for breakfast.

"Hey, why'd you get up?" Tony said turning around to face her.

"To keep you company." Kate laughed.

Breakfast arrived 10 minutes later. They sat down and ate the egg, bacon, pancakes and fruit salad. Ok so Tony didn't go near the fruit despite Kate's telling him to. After breakfast they flopped down on the sofa. Kate rested on Tony's chest.

"What time are we heading back?" Kate asked quietly.

"Um, check out time is 10, so in about an hour." Tony said. "Want to go for a walk before we leave?"

"Sure." Kate said jumping up.

They both got dressed in some nice clothes and headed out for their walk. They walked at a slow pace; the weather was getting a bit stormy and the waves crashed against the beach. Some gutsy surfers were out loving the size of the waves. Kate and Tony watched them as one by one they attempted to ride the waves, some of them were able to, and others fell.

"That's gotta hurt." Kate said as one particular guy came crashing down.

"Yup, it sure would." Tony was grinning though.

They continued walking along stopping now and then to see the waves as they rose with the storm.

"We should think about heading back." Kate said looking at the darkening sky.

Half an hour later they were packed and ready to go. Rain was now coming down as they ran out to the car.

"Wow! We're lucky to get out of there before this hit." Tony said.

Kate fell asleep along the way. Tony drove on autopilot, lost in thought. We haven't even talked about last night. Should I take that as a good thing? He asked himself. He decided not to think about it and just continued to drive. They arrived home just as Kate started to stur. Her eyes opened and she looked around. The weather outside was cloudy but not raining, it must not have reached this area yet. Tony and her got out and brought their bags up to the apartment.

"I'm going to do some cleaning ok?" Kate said.

"Sure, I need to go out and pay some bills and run some errands, want me to bring something back for dinner?"

"What would you like for dinner?" Kate asked walking over to him and jumping up on the kitchen counter as he looked through all the drawers.

"How about I just pick up some Chinese?" Tony asked.

"How many times have we had take outs?" Kate said.

"What's one more time going to do to us?" Tony asked walking up and placing his hands on her hips.

"Fine, but no more takeouts for the rest of the week, got it?" Kate said smiling at him.

"Ok." Tony said kissing her quickly before starting to head out.

Kate smiled and looked around wonder where to start, the apartment wasn't messy it just need some vacuuming and some dusting really. She started the cleaning when her cell phone rang.

"Todd." She said bluntly still dusting.

"Hello Caitlin." Suddenly the line went dead.

Kate stared at the phone; the number wasn't one she recognized. The callers voice was fuzzy to, she couldn't recognize who it was. Who called her Caitlin? Ducky, but he would come up on her caller ID, her parents, they would also come up on caller ID, some friends at the Secret Service called her Caitlin but they probably didn't know her knew number, they could have got it from somewhere, she settled on it being one of them and that they will try and call back once they are in a better area. Kate continued cleaning not really caring about the strange phone call. After dusting everything she started to mop the kitchen and clean the windows. She started to hum as she cleaned more and more. Soon the house was spotless. Kate smiled and glanced at the time. 6 pm, she wondered where Tony was. Suddenly the home phone rang, she finally thought who ever was trying to get in contact with her earlier had been able to get into a good spot.

"Todd." She said again.

"Well, well, well, Caitlin, nice to talk to you again." The voice said, it was still kinda crackly.

"Um sorry, who is this?" Kate asked slightly confused.

"I'm hurt, I guess that year away after I thought you were dead has made you forget me." The voice said.

All the colour drained from Kate's face as she realized who was talking. "You're meant to be dead Ari." Kate said looking around.

"I have decided to come and see you tonight, I'm almost there."

"I'll call Gibbs and he'll be sure to kill you this time." Kate said trying to sound calm but the thought of Ari turning up on her front door step scared the hell out of her.

"If you call Gibbs, I wont just kill Special Agent DiNozzo, I will make his whole life a living hell until he gives up. Do you understand?" Ari said in his normal calm voice.

"What do you want?" Kate asked hoping he didn't already have Tony.

"To come and see you, have dinner and a drink and just chat, catch up on things, I'm sure you will love to tell me what you have been doing for a year. O well, I'm walking up the stairs to your apartment now so I will see you soon." Ari said and then hung up.

Kate didn't want to take any chances. She grabbed her gun and walked to the front door, she stood their waiting for a knock or someone busting in. There was a sudden knock on the door. Kate pulled her gun into a good position and swung the door open pointing the weapon to the person standing there.

"Kate! Whoa, you ok?" Tony asked looking at her.

"Tony! O God, I'm so sorry." Kate said putting the gun back in the holster and helping Tony bring everything in.

"Are you ok? Your awfully pale." Tony said walking up and placing a hand on her forehead.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Maybe the cleaning fumes are getting to me a bit." Kate lied, she didn't want to tell Tony Ari's call, although Ari threatened if she only told Gibbs, the risk was not worth it.

They sat down and had dinner mostly in silence. After that Tony ordered Kate to go sit down while he cleaned up. After cleaning he went and sat by Kate who just sat on the couch looking into space.

"Kate, are you sure everything alright?" Tony asked placing a hand on her knee.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm going to bed. I'm really tired." Kate said getting up she walked into the bathroom to get ready for bed. She looked at her reflection. No wonder Tony's nervous, I look like return of the living dead. Kate thought.

Tony wandered around trying to figure out what was wrong with Kate. Something had freaked her out today and he didn't know what. He sat up for half hour thinking about everything. Was she re-thinking their relationship? But that wouldn't make her pull a gun on him though…would it? Tony gave up and wandered into their room and got into bed next to her. She turned over and leaned into him.

Kate felt safe as she drifted off to sleep, as long as she was in Tony's arms she was safe, but she couldn't be there all the time and who knows what tomorrow might bring…