This is the second chapter of my, what if story. Kate knows now that Ari was arrested and that he was trying to kill her. As always please review and tell me what you think, I am, at least looking forward to continuing this story even more, I hope you are too! There is a scene in this story based on the one from Kill Ari part 1 so some of the lines are taken from the show though this scene is my version of what happened, yes, you guessed it, Tiva!

Disclaimer: Same as always, don't own NCIS

It still hadn't quite sunk in yet. He had been trying to kill her, not Gibbs. Gibbs was the one who had shot him in the shoulder, Gibbs was the one who had threatened to kill him on more than one occasion and Gibbs was the one who he had tried to blow up at the coffee shop, not her, yet it was her he had been aiming at on that roof top. Fornell had told Gibbs and Gibbs had told her, he'd also told her that Ari was now in prison.

Kate just couldn't bring herself to feel happy about it though; Gibbs, her boss, was most definitely thrilled. It wasn't obvious, as he wasn't the sort of person to show his emotions easily, but she noticed. He seemed to smile more easily now at DiNozzo's pathetic jokes or was slightly more forgiving when Mcgee messed up; it was like a huge worry had been lifted from Gibbs' shoulders and he was so much more relaxed because of it. In a way Kate was glad, she didn't want to go through again what had happened with Gibbs before they had found out Ari was, supposedly, Mossad not a terrorist. The other two agents, DiNozzo and Mcgee, were also very pleased; they discussed the topic all the time and always with smiles on their faces, but Kate could not bring herself to feel the same way, her smiles and laughs were always fake as she tried her best to convince her co-workers that she too was pleased that Ari Haswari was now in prison.

She told herself and anyone who noticed that her smiles were fake, namely Gibbs, that being nearly murdered was not something that occurred on a day to day basis, despite their jobs, and that she was simply in shock. Her boss appeared to believe her but there was something about the way he would sometimes watch her while she was working at her desk that told her otherwise.

Kate paced her apartment that night. She wasn't completely sure what was bothering her so much but something was. She collapsed on her sofa, staring at the ceiling. She'd been telling Gibbs all day that she was fine but the truth was she wasn't, her head was spinning and her mind seemed to unwillingly recall the few conversations she had had with the man who had recently tried to kill her. He'd been surprisingly polite, for a terrorist, that was and although he had shot both Gerald and Gibbs he had never once hurt her, not even when she had tried, and failed to stab him. He'd even prevented that Bassam from hitting her though she had no idea why, what did she mean to him? Apparently nothing.

Kate sighed and got up from the sofa and walked into the kitchen. She opened her fridge which was pathetically empty and turned to the freezer taking out a pot of cookie dough ice cream and getting a spoon from the draw. She turned a film on once she was back in the living room but wasn't paying any attention to it, she didn't even know which one it was.

"I love you, Sophie" the man on the screen said to the women.

"I love you too, Jack" Sophie cried, throwing her arms around the man in front of her and kissing him passionately…

Kate laughed at the two, "how many love stories turn out like that?" She said to herself and got up to bin the, now empty, pot of ice cream. She had finally turned her attention to the screen after pondering what motivations he had for trying to kill her for the last hour and a half and was glad that she did, she needed something to distract her, if not for long.

'In the most famous love story, Romeo and Juliet,' Kate thought, 'they both end up dead. What does that say about romance then?' she wondered, aloud now, 'Is it always doomed?'

"Kate, get up" someone was yelling way too loudly for this time on a morning.

"What for?" she yelled back, it was Tony.

"Work, genius, your late and the boss is mad, though I think it is his way of showing concern." Tony said, poking her, it was then Kate realised she had fallen asleep on the sofa. She grabbed the clock of the coffee table and stared at the time.

"No," she said, more to herself than Tony, "no, no, no, no!" Kate jumped up from the sofa and ran across the room, grabbing her things as she went. "Who died?" she yelled to Tony through her bedroom door as she hurried to get dressed.

"Nobody." Tony replied.

"What?" she asked, sticking her head through the door.

"You're just late." Tony smiled at her.

"Then why couldn't you have just called?" Kate asked.

"That's what I said, but Gibbs insisted I go get you, he seems to be worried about something, anything in particular?"

"No, of course not." Kate replied

"He seems to be worried about Ari." Tony stated from the living room.

"Why would Gibbs be worried about Ari?" she asked

"No, he's worried about you about Ari."

"DiNozzo, that makes no sense."

"I mean, that he thinks you are worried about Ari."

"I'm not" Kate said a little too quickly.

"I know" Tony replied "but Gibbs doesn't think that."

"Well Gibbs is paranoid then."

"Gibbs doesn't get paranoid, he gets suspicious." Tony said as Kate, now ready to leave walked into the living room to join him. There was something in his voice that seemed to be questioning Kate, Gibbs sounded just the same when he spoke to her.

She sighed looking down at the floor as she replied. "There's nothing wrong DiNozzo, can't you just live with that?"

"I can, but Gibbs can't, he thinks you're lying to him." Tony said as they walked down to his car.

"I would never lie to Gibbs." Kate said, but even to her, her voice sounded weak, like she was lying…

"Finally." Mcgee said nervously as Kate and Tony walked into the bull pen, "Gibbs is in MTAC and he seemed pretty annoyed Kate." She gulped and turned to go up to MTAC but walked straight into Gibbs, this wasn't her lucky day.

"Special agent Todd, nice of you to join us." Gibbs said as he pushed past her to get to his desk.

"Gibbs I'm so sorry, I slept in." Kate gasped as she rushed over to his desk.

Gibbs looked up suddenly, both hands on the surface of the desk as he replied, "up all night thinking?" he asked, the accusation clear in his voice.

"Yes, I mean no. I'm fine, Gibbs, I've been telling you that for the last few days."

"Then why don't I believe you agent Todd?"

'Maybe because you can always tell when someone is lying' Kate thought to herself but didn't say it out loud.

"Get to work." Gibbs snapped walking past her, "Oh and Kate do that again and I won't send DiNozzo get you, understand?" Gibbs asked. Kate gulped and nodded heading to her desk and sitting down.

The bull pen was awkwardly quiet that morning. Gibbs was up in MTAC the entire time with the new director, Jenny Shepard. Kate had only seen her once and hadn't even spoken to her but it seemed like this woman meant business, there was also something between her and Gibbs which Kate could not put her finger but then again she didn't ponder it for too long.

By the time Gibbs came down from MTAC, Kate had decided what she had to do. She hated hiding her emotions from her boss though he did all the time. She had to sort this out, she needed closure. Gibbs still wasn't talking to her when he came down from the Multiple Threat Alert Centre, he acknowledged Tony and Mcgee but ignored Kate; she had to put an end to this.

"I need to go to the prison." She said simply as she stood in front of her boss' desk.

"I'm sorry?" Gibbs asked.

"You've suspected that I'm not fine and it's true." Kate looked down before carrying on. "I just can't get over it; he tried to kill me Gibbs. I need closure, I need to ask him why, so will you please give me the afternoon off so I can go to the prison and ask him. I just need closure."

Gibbs looked at her for a minute before answering. "Fine, but Kate if it doesn't make a difference…"

"I know Gibbs." She said and ran to her desk to grab her coat before he could change his mind. Gibbs sighed as she left.

"I'm going to get coffee." He said and left as well.

Tony sighed leaning back in his chair. He was about to continue with the report he was typing when somebody walked into the bull pen. Tony sat up quickly when he noticed it was a young woman. "Hi, who are you?" He said quickly getting up from his seat and walking over to the woman, smiling.

"Ziva David, Mossad" she said flashing her ID then walking away from him to the other side of the bull pen without even looking at him, this bothered Tony for some reason.

"You're Israeli?" Tony asked and it dawned on him that her voice sounded different somehow, it had a middle eastern accent to it that tony found quite compelling, this woman had barely spoken three words but she was already intriguing him and differently to most women, it was not her beauty that had caught his attention but how, though he was pretty positive she had never even set foot in the NCIS headquarters before, she already seemed perfectly at home in the environment and also to some extent how she didn't seem the slightest bit interested in Tony at all.

"Very good, the way you made that connection, Mossad, Israeli." She said continuing to walk away from him. She had a slightly masculine walk Tony noted, like she was used to working around men.

"What can I do for you Miss David?" Tony asked her.

"Nothing," she replied with confidence, "I'm here to see special agent Gibbs."

'Typical' Tony thought before replying. "How do you know I'm not Gibbs?"

She just laughed as she walked over to sit in Mcgee's seat leaning back like she was impersonating Tony. "Gibbs?"

"He'll be back in an hour." 'That means you'll have to wait' Tony thought to himself, now glad that his boss was out. He wanted her to stay longer. "Are you sure I can't help you?" He asked her.

She tutted, "I don't think so." Tony got up and walked towards her.

"I'm special agent Tony DiNozzo" he said, Ziva David just smiled and removed her hair from the head band she had been wearing, Tony couldn't help but stare.

"Why are you here?" He asked, trying to get his mind back on track.

"Your special agent Gibbs arrested a Mossad officer the other day; I'm here to find out why."

"So I can help you." Tony said. "If you are talking about Ari Haswari he was arrested because he tried to murder my best friend." Tony snapped at her, annoyed now.

"And where is this best friend?" Ziva asked. Tony DiNozzo was an interesting man she thought, he was very different to the men she had worked with before, he was, well she wasn't completely sure she just knew she wanted to know more and Ziva David usually got what she wanted.

"She's…" Tony said, pausing for a moment trying to decide if it was a good idea to tell Ziva that Kate had gone to see Ari or not, "out." Tony finished.

"Oh" Ziva sighed.

So that's the end of the second chapter. I think I like it better than the first, please tell me what you think and if I should carry on though I'm quite enjoying writing this story so I probably will carry on writing any way He he!