Sitting on the couch I took a few deep breaths as I waited for everyone to get here. Ari had been right I hadn't even heard his part of the story and I was already judging him. Half of me said he was responsible for this mess and the other half said he should be heard out. I breathed in one more time as Gibbs stormed with Fornell and the others not too far behind.

"Kate!" Gibbs rushed to me and knelt down beside the couch. "You okay?" He asked stroking my cheek.

"I-I'm fine." I tell him as I stared into his crystal blue eyes before looked into Ducky's eyes, who had also knelt beside me. "You don't sound or look fine Kate." Tony tells me as Ducky stares at me. "What happened?" Gibbs demanded.

"He came to talk I think and I-I said some things to him." My tone was hurt and weak.

"What kind of things?" Ziva demanded suddenly closer to me, much more than I would have liked.

"I brought up how he had created this mess and then I told him it was too bad he wasn't dead, and that I thought he would have enjoyed a talk with his dead little sister. I guess you could say I was hitting below the belt." I whispered. Ziva's face looked hurt. "Umm, ahhhh Kate your not feeling guilty are you?" McGee asked me.

I nodded not trusting my voice. "I mean I didn't even hear him out. He said to me just when I thought you'd be the one to understand, and I remembered that day in the morgue. Ducky do you recall?" I sighed and looked away from everyone. I put my face in my head and rubbed my temples. "Yes my dear I do but I don't have the slightest idea of what all this means. Do you?" He asked.

My head snapped up. The last part of Ari's file was that his father used him, and has been using him his whole life. The last paragraph said his father planned on taking him out because he had no use for him anymore. What if Ari saw this coming and created a shadow with the help of contacts? And what if the shadow went rough killing people just to get shot? If he shot me Gibbs would go after him for sure.

"No." I lied to all of them. Gibbs looked at me with an unbelieving stare. Thankfully Fornell's phone when off and I stood up and turned my attention to Fornell like everyone else.

"My men have captured and interrogated one of Ari's contacts it appears Ari saw Eli David was going to take him out and had a shadow created. The man says Agent Todd was never supposed to get shot, Ari never wanted her too but his shadow got very carried away with the killing." Gibbs eminently started cussing, Ziva was hissing, Tony was yelling at Fornell, and I couldn't take it anymore. I had been right and I had said all that stuff to Ari. 'Oh my god I said all that to the man I have feelings for! Wait the man I have feelings for? Oh who cares anymore if I have feelings for Ari! I thought as I quietly slipped passed everyone and walked out of the door and take off down the street. I had to find Ari and make this right.

'It's a miracle I got away from the others unnoticed.' I thought as I slowed to a walk 10 minutes later. It was a good thing everyone was busy yelling at Fornell otherwise I never would have made it this far. I didn't hear anything starting as he left so he must have walked or run away. Smiling I looked up at a hotel that was 50 feet from me. Walking in I went to the front desk. "Excuse me I'm looking for someone." I said politely to the man working the desk.

"What's their last name?" He asked. "David." I answered.

I assumed it would be under David because Haswari would raise FBI and NCIS red alert flags. "Oh, Adam David a middle eastern man with black hair." He tells me. "Yes." I reply. That fitted Ari's description. "He's in room 215."

"Thank you." I tell him as I head for the elevator. Room 215 would most likely be on the third story of the building.

I hesitated to knock on the door that read 215. How would Ari react to me? Sighing I made a quick rapping noise on the door.

Nobody answered so I tried again a few times. After five minutes I reached I into my pocket and took out my lock picking materials. After a few years you begin to pick things up.

Silently opening the door and closing it I saw Ari lying on the bed staring up at the ceiling. I walked over. He glanced at me and sat up.

"I'm sorry." I whispered "I should have heard you out. I mean I was blinded by anger I let it out on you it wasn't right."

"I thought Gibbs taught you not to apologize because it was a sigh of weakness."

"I'll make an exception for you. Ari what I said about Tali and Ziva, was wrong I can't imagine what you went through. I mean your whole life, the way you were rasied and the reason you were created…

My voice trailed off.

"You know what happened then? What my shadow did?" He asked.

"Yes." I whispered before I felt this lips crash on mine. He kissed me with so much passion I couldn't help but kiss him back. We stumbled near the bed and his hands had slipped under the back of my shirt and were gently tugging it off. I broke the kiss when I thought about Gibbs.

"What about Gibbs and the team?" I ask. "He does not matter. We have feelings for each other and we both know it." He muttered before his lips met mine again. 'Oh well screw Gibbs.' I thought. Ari was right anyway.

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