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Ari Haswari never had been a man to make false promises. Every vow he had given he made come true. There never was an exception. And so he didn't broke the one he gave to Caitlin Todd.

It was dangerous just because he did not know if she would be prepared and arranged a trap but also because everything he did in the past. After Kate was kidnapped twice, Gibbs was shot and wasn't allowed to kill Ari the second time they met face to face. He was sure everyone was looking after him with the will to shoot the second they saw him. But he wouldn't have been who he was if that had stopped him from keeping his promise. It wasn't long after the wound in his shoulder was gone when he showed up at her apartment….

It was late at night; almost midnight when Kate heard noises from the floor. She got up and pulled the T-shirt from the day before over her short spaghetti top and then she grabbed her gun from under the pillow. She didn't make it to the front door because in her living-room stood someone, staring right at her. Pointing the gun out on him she slowly walked backwards turning the light on. Disbelieve reflecting in her eyes she was facing Ari. He didn't do anything else than looking into her eyes, a grin plastered on his face.

"I told you I would be back", he said never taking his eyes of off her.

"What are you doing here?" Just like Ari Kate didn't make a move. She was still holding her gun to his chest, never really wanting to take the shot. She never asked how he knew where she lived because the answer was something she did not want to know.

"I wanted to apologize for everything I put you through. And I promise when I leave just now I will never come back into your live ever, Caitlin!"

Kate couldn't say a word. Was he really apologizing for his actions? The man who had done bad things to her and her colleagues. The worst thing he had done to her was placing himself in heart without her even knowing. Just with that he put her in more danger than with everything else. And now he just showed up at her apartment late at night, apologizing and disappearing from her live? Kate thought she must´ve heard something wrong.

In her thoughts she almost did not recognize Ari had turned around and was heading to the door.

"Don't!" Ari turned around, preparing to put up his hands and facing Kate´s gun (somehow he new from the start than this would happen)

But Kate had dropped her gun on the floor now staring at him with hurt and something one easily could interpret as love in her eyes. Without any protection she crossed her living-room, stopping one foot away from him. She waited for him to do the next step. Kate was hoping that she didn´t have interpreted his look wrong. Kate knew that if this was a trap she was walking right into it. There she stood without a knife, her gun laying meters behind her on the carpet, without any chance of running away if he grabbed her to kill or kidnap her.

Knowing that she didn't move as he reached forward to her. His hands placed on her hips, lightly not in the meaning of harming her. Feeling his soft touch she dared to lay her own hands on his chest, feeling a wave of heat rushing over her body as she was this close to him. Not long after, she slowly traced her tongue along his bottom lip begging for entrance, which he was willing to give her.

Their kiss started out slow, both not really sure if the other´s just playing. But soon the kiss became more passionate and Kate´s hands went from grabbing his shirt to his neck dragging him closer to her.

"Kate! You okay?"

Kate was torn out of her thoughts by Tony standing in front of her desk, looking worried. Her eyes shot up from the still untouched document on the table. Since she had come here this morning there was plenty of time she could've wrote it but she never got further than reading the headline. Now it was almost 10 p.m.

"Yeah. I'm fine! I think I'm heading home trying to catch some sleep." , Kate replied closing the folder hoping Tony hadn't seen the empty pages. Kate could tell by the look in his eyes that he didn't believe her. Tony could tell by the look in her eyes that she was lying.

"Still nightmares from the shooting?"

"Something like that", she nodded "Night, Tony!"

"Night, Kate!"

While she was waiting for the elevator to come she couldn't help but smile sadly to herself. She thought how funny it was that until the day she met Ari she never had any bad dreams and now she was haunted by nightmares of his death.

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*