Chapter 6
When he completely transported, his knees gave way and he fell back. He dragged him self up to the wall and sat there with his back to the wall.
"You were so preoccupied with saving Kate and everyone, you forgot about Ziva," Leo said from his chair.
"I don't get it. She was the one who originally killed her brother, why is she now trying to get revenge?"
"Cause when her brother killed Kate, she started to feel sorry for you guys and she felt that her brother was going to far by trying to kill Gibbs team before killing Gibbs, especially when he went after the woman first. She made the choice to kill him then. She regrets killing her own brother, but feels like it was the right choice. But when you killed him, she was never given the option of thinking that. Instead she immediately decided to get revenge on the person who killed her brother. So now she was the one to die this time."
"Just when I thought I had everything fixed, something always comes up. This whole thing is confusing."
"Yeah it is, which is why I'm not suppose to interfere, but at times, I feel like I have too."
"I really thought this time it was over."
"Yeah. It seemed good. Kate actually asked you out on a date."
"She just asked me if I would like to get some coffee."
"Sounds like a date."
"Whatever. Why did she ask me out? I never really seemed to be her type."
"Well you did save her life. The first time she would have had a bit of a crush on you but when you fought and killed Ari the second time, she saw you as courageous and your injuries made you look tough. She also had a history with Ari, and you took him out of her life.. Before she knew you as a timid, shy geek, but after that whole thing, she became attracted to you and you being really smart, just sealed the deal."
"Wow."
"I know. And if you kept that reality, it would have been a really interesting relationship."
"What happens?"
"It doesn't matter now does it?"
"Yeah, your right."
"It's pretty much up to the fan fiction writers to decide what would happen if you and Kate dated."
"What?"
"Don't worry about it. You don't even want to know. In fact I wished I hadn't said that."
"Anyways," McGee said as he got up and walked to the computer, "there's only one thing to do now."
"Your gonna finally give up and accept the truth?"
"No, I'm gonna go through the whole thing till I die."
"What," Leo exclaimed standing up.
"If I want to end this with everyone else alive I have to make it so I die."
"You can't do that."
"Why not?"
"I'm not gonna let you."
"Well you can't stop me. I have to stop this."
McGee typed the info in again and pushed ENTER. The room faded out but then immediately McGee returned back to the room. McGee looked around to see what happen and saw Leo holding up a remote control in his hand.
"What'd you do?"
"I'm not letting you go and get yourself killed."
"Why not? It's the only way."
"What about your future?"
"I'm willing to sacrifice it to save my friends."
"Then you wouldn't do this."
"Why not?"
"In about a few months from when I brought you here, your gonna save all your friends and many other people when you disable a bomb that was planted inside a building you guys went into by cracking the code to stop it."
"I'll leave info on how to stop it and give it to Abby, so when it happens she can disable it."
"And what about Abby. You'll be leaving her behind. Imagine how she feels when you die."
"She'll have Kate. I want her to be happy and for Kate to be alive."
"It might seem like things will be the same if you die and Kate lives but trust me it won't. Abby cares about you more than you think."
"And I care about her too."
"Then don't do this!"
."Nothing you say is going to stop me."
"And what about Caitlin huh? What about her?"
"What are you talking about? Kate is the one I'm trying to save."
"Not Kate, you idiot, Caitlin! Your daughter."
"My what?"
"Son of a bitch, I can't believe I'm gonna do this," Leo said to himself.
Leo raised the remote and brought up an image of a young girl on the big monitor.
"Caitlin A. McGee," Leo said, "Not to far into the future from now, She will be born as your daughter and eight years later she will look like this"
McGee looked at the image his future daughter. She had straight jet-black hair that went down to her shoulder and bright green eyes. McGee saw a little of himself in her, but even though the other characteristics looked familiar, he couldn't figure out who it was but she was beautiful nonetheless."
"Her mother claims she got her intelligence from her father," Leo continued, "but you claim she got her beauty from her mother."
"Who's her mother?"
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that. I wish I could but I can't. Now think about it, if Kate knew about her, would she let you die? Would she let you do what you're going to do?"
"No."
"Exactly. So do you really wanna deny this cute girl the chance to even exist? Would you really do that to your own daughter?"
"You never intended for me to change anything did you."
"Exactly."
"Then why did you bring me here?"
"So you can understand."
"Understand what?"
"That you can't change what happened in the past. Things happen for a reason, and you must learn to live on with your life. If you dwell on the past then you'll never be happy. Remember when I brought you here?"
"Yeah, I was on my way to Abby place. She called me over cause she said really needed to talk to someone."
"Well from that moment, I saw your life go down hill from there. You suddenly go into depression. It affects your job and everything. You push away your friends and get addicted to drugs. Eventually you commit suicide. That whole thing starts a chain reaction with everyone else. Abby becomes depressed and eventually the same happens to her. Tony, Ziva and Gibbs quit their jobs and go their separate ways with problems of their own. It's my job to watch over and fix problems with the space-time continuum, and even though I'm not suppose to interfere and fix problems like this, I feel that I just can't stand back and let this happen. So I went to the source of the problem and brought you here to fix it. So now do you understand?"
"Yeah I do."
"Kate would want you to be happy and continue living your life. I'm not saying you should forget, I'm just saying you should go on living your life. Ok?"
"Yeah."
"Good. Thank God. So you ready to go back now?"
"Yeah. Thanks Leo."
"Yeah sure."
Leo raised the remote and was about to send McGee back, when he spoke up.
"By the way, what's behind that door," McGee asked pointing to the door.
Leo smiled widely.
"Only the greatest secret in the whole universe," he told him.
"Oh."
"Wanna see it?"
"Ok."
"Go ahead, open it."
McGee walked over to the door, cautiously turned the handle, and slowly entered.
TBC in the next chapter….