Chap 4

Spoilers: A little it of twilight…wait, okay the last scene of twilight but apart from that the story's all my doing.

Gibbs entered a fitful sleep; he began to twist and turn as he fell in the dark hole he called 'his nightmare'

They broke onto the roof of the warehouse guns drawn and at the ready. Gibbs went out first then Tony then Kate. They split up and took turns looking around them trying to find Ari Haswari. Out of the corner of Kate's eye she saw an old wooden splintered door open and a burly man with an ugly looking rifle pointing directly towards Gibbs.

"Gun!" She yelled. At the tone of her voice both Gibbs and DiNozzo quickly turned around and took aim at the shooter. Unfortunately the gun man shot first.

Kate was prepared she dove in front of the bullet zooming towards Gibbs and it hit her squarely in the chest; she was sent tumbling face first in the ground. Tony was too dazed to react so Gibbs in a fit of fury fired his Sauer 3 times in anger. The first shot penetrated the man's right lung the second his gut and the third his heart. He watched the man drop his rifle and fall forward to the ground dropping the rifle down beside him.

He re-holstered his Sauer and ran towards the fallen Kate. HE and Tony rolled her over to get met with the woman they both loved with her eyes closed. Gibbs tore the blouse she wore and opened it to reveal her bullet proof vest. There in the middle was a shiny golden round contrasting against the black vest. She groaned and gently shook her head back and forth.

"Damn…" She whined as she opened her famous mocha brown eyes. Gibbs and Tony Smiled and brought her up to stand.

"How do you feel Katie?" Tony said keeping his hand around her tightly to stop her from falling over. Gibbs did the same thing to her other side. She shrugged them off her and took a few steps forward.

"I just got shot at point blank range Tony, how do you think I feel?" She said sarcastically bringing a hand through her tasselled hair and drawing her blouse together and hastily re-buttoning the buttons that Gibbs didn't rip out…so one.

"You won't be doing Pilates tomorrow?" Tony said cheekily. Gibbs's face displayed an ear to ear smile and he put his hands to his hips.

"The protecting job is over Kate." He said Kate and Tony smiled and she ran a hand over her vest.

"You did good today Kate." Tony said clapping a hand on her white shoulder.

"For once…DiNozzo's right." Gibbs said amused Tony nodded at her as she walked in front of them with a shocked look on her face.

"Wow, I thought I'd die befor-" Gibbs heard the shot but didn't react in time the next thing he knew was his white shirt and neck were sprayed with a splatter of crimson red blood. He looked at Kate in distress and saw her eyes widen and her fall backwards to the ground. Her hair was encircled around her and she had a surprised look on her face. A bleeding circle assaulted her perfect creamy skin on her forehead. He looked over at Tony; his face sprayed with her blood as well but didn't care; he immediacy fell to his knees beside her and cradled her body in his arms.

Gibbs whipped around bringing up his Sauer and pointing it towards where the shot came from. He squinted his eyes at a nearby warehouse and he swore he saw Ari's disgusting foreign face smirk in approval.

"Ari…" Gibbs said between his teeth.

Gibbs shot up in bed, his covers twisted in a tight knot around his lower body. His whole being was wet from sweat, his hair matted to his head as he searched around his room for a clue of where he was and what he was doing there. As he ran a hand to clear the silver hair from his eyes he turned his head around to meet a sleeping Kate.

Her book had fallen to the ground in a heap bending many of the pages in the process. She was leaning on her arm on the headrest. Her hair had fallen in front of her face like a veil of chocolate brown hair covering her milky white features. From what her hair didn't cover he noticed that she had a small pout when she slept, and that also her many worry lines and stressed lines disappeared.

From the bed he untwisted the covers quickly has a wave of nausea swept over him like a sudden blast of wind. He bolted from his bed and sprinted to the bathroom. He had just arrived when he started to throw up in the toilet. He didn't notice Kate wake up and come into the room before he felt a cold compress being held on against the back of his neck. He felt the coolness of it run down his body as he got rid of everything he had since breakfast.

Kate stood there as she yawned a little as she dabbed his neck with the cloth. When there was no more moisture left on the cloth she wet it again and this time placed it on his forehead.

When Gibbs finished retching he took a few deep breaths and absently flushed the toilet. He pulled down the cover and sat on it. He wiped the left over through up on the back of his hand and he sighed deeply closing his eyes. Kate leaned down in front of him and wiped off his hands. Gibbs stared at her the whole time with a loving eye. Kate then rang out the cloth, wet it again and this ran it over his face, when she was done she threw the face cloth in the sink and got him a cup of water.

"Thanks Kate." Gibbs said as he accepted it and took a mouthful she blushed at his kindness. He gargled the water as if it were mouth wash and bent over the sink to spit in it. When he turned around Kate had left and left him alone in the bathroom. He sighed and closed and locked the door behind him and went to take a shower.

Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to update had a lot of schooling issues and tons of homework hope you enjoy it…Review please….

Brit -xox-