A/N: I am so so so so so so sorry for this literally taking forever! I have had a lot of family issues that I have hindered my ablility to work on this story. 1st: I have moved three different times 2nd: Durring these moves somehow I lost my notebook that had this story in it. 3rd. I couldn't see myself re-writing this chapter so I spent forever trying to hunt it down. Finally I found it and now I have had time to sit and finish it and post it. I do hope that I have not lost too many readers due to my lack of being able to post regularly. Please read and review and send me some ideas please dont flame me. I know I am not the best writer, I will soon be getting a Beta for my chapters so they will get better I promise.

Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS; thank God because they would have plotted to kill me off by now.. :(


Gibbs, McGee & Ziva stormed through their final construction site and were highly upset to yet again find nothing. Just as they were piling into the car Gibbs phone rang. It was Abby…

"Abbs… This better be good news!"

"It is Gibbs; well I believe it is…."


Kate was getting annoyed with the lady standing in front of her.

"Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much?"

The woman seemed to not be fazed by Kate's comment.

"You see Kate, Curtis and Gibbs; they were both in the marines together. They were both leaders of different squads. During a training mission, Gibbs' squad was supposed to be heading out, but at the last minute their squads got switched. Curtis' got send into a trap. His whole squad died! To this day he has been so furious with Gibbs. He promised his men, he would get Gibbs for what happened and avenge his squad's death!"

Kate looked on as if someone had told her they killed her mother.

"Gibbs is way too smart to fall into one your traps!

Curtis just laughed as he linked arms with the woman and headed out the door.

'I hope Gibbs finds me soon.' Kate thought as she reminisced of the story that was just told. 'I'm sure Gibbs to this day lives with the guilt of all those men.' Kate let a stray tear fall.


"Are you sure Abs?" Gibbs announced as he re-entered the car.

"Ya Gibbs. According to recent phone records that I pulled, Curtis has had one number that he has called numerous times over a two week span. Of course it was an untraceable number, so they thought, although they have never met the skills of me Gibbs. I mean it was hard at first, I honestly thought that I was not going to be able to…."

"ABBS! The number?"

"Oh right, sorry. The phone number belonged to a Holly Spencer. Here's where it gets real goods Gibbs. I traced Holly's background and she took over her dad's construction business. There is one construction site that is co-owned by Spencer and Hammelton. It is at 532 W Coal St."

Gibbs didn't even give Abby a chance to say good luck. He shut the phone and peeled off in the direction given.

"I take it we have another lead Boss?" McGee questioned while placing his hands on the door, clutching for dear life.

"Ya think McGee?"


The tears continued to fall as Kate had let all her emotions come out. At this point she has little hope that Gibbs was going to find her. Curtis and Holly make their way back towards Kate with amusement on their face.

"Katy, Katy, Katy, you were wrong."

Kate gave him a confused look.

"Gibbs is not coming for you. He doesn't care about you. He has two kids now."

Kate just kept staring.

"I wouldn't want him to come anyway. I want to see you suffer at the thought that you can't get him!"

Curtis started fuming.

"HOW DARE YOU!"

"No how dare you!"

Both Curtis and Holly turned at the voice. The person at the door had his gun drawn and a look of sheer blood lust.

"Gibbs! You have to leave, it's a trap!"

"Kate are you OK?"

"I'm fine just my wrist hurt." There was no point in arguing to get him to leave, he wouldn't.

"Ah Gibbs, what a pleasant reunion."

Gibbs looked at Curtis; the face was starting to seem familiar. The thing is he just couldn't place him.

"You seem to be having trouble remembering me, I do feel hurt, but since I am feeling a little generous I will refresh your memory. Think back to your gunny days Marine. Two squads, same head in command. At the last minute the mission's got switched. It was a set up."

At this point everything came rushing back to Gibbs. 'No this could not be the same Curtis. The Curtis he knew died with his men during their training exercise. This could not be him.

"No, Curtis died with his men. You could not be him."

Curtis gave an evil chuckle

"Are you really that naïve? You are a special agent; you should be smarter than that!"

Gibbs lowered his gun just a hare as to look Curtis more directly in the eyes.

"You wanted people to believe you were dead."

Curtis walked behind Kate and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Well, well, there is the Gibbs I have heard so much about. Knowing too much for your own good. You are correct! When my squad was killed I was the only one who survived the blast. How would that look to our head in command? My whole squad gone and yet I still live. They would think I was behind it. It did not take me very long to determine the situation, as a way for me to start a new life. I didn't even give myself time to second guess my decision. I took off my dog tags and threw them near a pile of dead bodies, threw my hat and gun and took off. I kept my first name and changed my last. Things were going pretty good until about 3 months ago. I lost my job because they said things were just not adding up with me. Needless to say they fired me and everything has spiraled down since. Then I see you in town one day with a pretty blonde. Your life seemed to have played out real well. I didn't like that! Why should I sit day to day suffering with all this while you went along with your merry life? So I did some research into your life, found out about your team. Then it hit me on how to get to you, through your team. I knew you would protect your team no matter what. I looked into each girl on your team. That Ziva chick, she is hot, but I knew she came for Mossad and I didn't want to mess with her. So I started looking more into Kate here."

Curtis squeezed Kate's shoulder rather hard causing her to wince in pain. Gibbs glanced at Kate's face and held his gun back up pointed at Curtis.

"Get away from her Curtis. I'm here and that's what you wanted, just let Kate go now."

Kate looked at Gibbs in utter shock. If he thinks she was just going to leave him here, he had another thing coming.

"Now, now, Gibbs that was rude. Here I was telling you a story and you jump in yelling at me."

Curtis stepped away from Kate and moved back over to Holly.

"As I was saying, I looked in Kate, found out her likes, dislikes and where she hung out when she was not at work. We got to know each other and slowly started learning more about you. When I found out about your wife being pregnant, well it set me off. Here I am not able to have children and here you are killing one off and pop out two more!"

At this Gibbs was outraged. Not only did he talk about his wife and kids, he just slammed him on Kelly's death. He started walking towards Curtis with a rage. Curtis smiled and reached to his belt. He quickly pulled out a revolving pistol. Gibbs stopped and smiled. Curtis thought he had scared Gibbs, he was going to win. Gibbs holstered his weapon and went to lean against the nearest wall. Curtis didn't lower his weapon, but he rounded in front of Kate for a better angle.

"Gibbs! What are you doing? He is armed!" Kate screamed.

"You seemed to have found a bit of confidence in yourself Gibbs."

Gibbs just continued to smile and looked at Curtis. He could tell that it was starting to get to him. Gibbs looked over Curtis' shoulder at Kate. He could tell she was trying to think of a plan. Curtis had angled himself right in front of her. He brought his attention back to Curtis. He could see the sweat that was slowly developing on his face. Good, Gibbs thought, I have him guessing. Gibbs pulled away from the wall and started slowly walking towards Curtis.

"Curtis, Curtis, Curtis. I had you all wrong."

Curtis just looked on at Gibbs with confusion. Why did he have this confidence; that is not how it is supposed to be.

"Had me all wrong, how so?"

Gibbs continued slowly walking towards Curtis.

"I thought you were this out of control man who cared for no one but himself."

"Ya well what do you think now?"

Curtis slowly lowered his weapon so he could look at Gibbs face to face. Gibbs started looking around the room. He had Ziva and McGee circling the outside of the building waiting for his signal. However, yelling Elf Lord may not carry all the way outside. He saw the small window close to the top. If he shot out the window it would signal them. Question is how does he do that without Curtis pulling the gun on him. Gibbs looked back over Curtis' shoulder to eye Kate. She looked at Curtis, the window, then back at Gibbs. She knew what he needed to do. Gibbs gave Kate a wink.

"Well Curtis I believe you to be a PAIN IN THE ASS!"

Before Curtis had time to think Kate had wiggled out of the ropes (causing her hands to bleed) and used her feet to kick Curtis so hard he fell. Holly finally aware to what was going on charged at Kate. Kate picked up her chair and used it as a blockage between her and Holly. Gibbs reacted fast; he whipped out his sig and landed two bullets in her arm and leg causing her to fall.

McGee and Ziva heard the shots ring out and ran for the nearest entrance. When they made it inside Gibbs had Curtis pinned to the floor and his gun thrown across the room. Kate had Holly down by her head. They both looked up as McGee and Ziva came to them.

"How nice of you to join us McGee..." Gibbs expressed as he handed Curtis over to McGee to be handcuffed.

"Sorry Boss got in here as fast as we could."

Ziva went and took over for Kate as Gibbs came to her. He gently took her hands and looked at the deep rope burns that were bleeding pretty badly since she squeezed herself free.

"We need to get those looked at right away Kate."

Kate didn't say a word she just nodded her head and followed Gibbs and the rest of her team out of the building.


As the people were wrapping her wrist up, Kate took a moment to think of how this all could have gone if Gibbs had not come for her. She saw Gibbs talking on the phone, probably with Hollis letting her know that they had found her and she was ok. As soon as she saw him hang up, she ran to him. Gibbs had to brace himself from her impact. Kate started crying into his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Gibbs, I never saw it. He seemed at first like an amazing guy."

Gibbs just smiled down at her.

"Kate, we can't all judge people's characters. However; when things started to seem wrong, you should have come to me."

"I just didn't feel that with everything that was going on with you, Hollis and the new babies, I needed to be bringing in my problems. I thought that I could handle him. I was going to break up with him."

"Kate don't ever think you can't tell me something, no matter what the situation is. We all care about you and if things had gone differently tonight none of us would have forgiven each other. Being a team means we have each other's 6 no matter what. Don't forget that Kate."

Kate felt like such a child for not knowing that to begin with.

"I am sorry Gibbs."

"It ok Kate, glad we all came in the nick of time."

Kate smiled; she truly had a family that cared for her, no matter what life through at her there would people that would be there for her through thick and thin.


Gibbs: I was about ready to fire you ass!

Me: I'm sorry I has some family issues!

Gibbs: *SMACK* Did you just yell at me!

Me: *rubs back of head* Sorry Boss. Just a lot on my mind and I'm trying to work on this story!

Gibbs: You are lucky that we got Kate. If something had of happened to her I would have smack something other then your HEAD!

Me: *shivers in fear* I would never hurt Kate.

Kate: You left me there with HIM! You couldn't have moved after I was saved! HOW RUDE!

Me: -_- This is not how this is supposed to work. I write for you! Not ganging up on me!

Gibbs: I am grounding you to your desk till you have successfully write another full chapter, then maybe you can get back on my good graces.

Kate: And maybe it will give you sometime to think about what you did to me!

Me: My own imagination is grounding me.. How is this possible.. Do I dare disobey.. *sneaks a curious peak at Gibbs* nope better just work... O-O This is gonna be a long night..