Hi everyone, so here's the third chapter. I struggled to write the bits with Ari at the start so please tell me what you think in the reviews section, you know that makes me happy, especially if you like it, not hinting at anything there (wink), actually I don't really mind what you think as long as you tell me. Anyway please read and I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: If I owned NCIS do you really think Kate and Ari would be dead, no of course not. :-)

Ari had been in the prison for 3 weeks now, but that was long enough. He hated being locked up and not being able to go and do what he wanted. Having said that, some things about being an inmate he actually found mildly amusing such as when he picked his cuffs when he first came and seeing the expression on the guard's faces when they realised, he would have done it again but he didn't want them to increase his security.

In a way, Ari was kind of glad they had arrested him before he had had a chance to pull the trigger. There really wasn't much to do in prison and he spent the majority of his time working out both in the exercise yard and in his cell. Unfortunately, sit ups and press ups weren't very challenging tasks, at least not mentally, as a result his mind had plenty of time to wonder and for some strange reason Ari found himself thinking about Special Agent Caitlin Todd more and more often. He hadn't meant to but she just sort of forced herself into his head.

He was a monster. Ari had accepted that fact a long time ago; he had no problem with the truth. He had not been born one though; it was Eli David who had made him that way. The only reason for his birth had been to benefit the man in his quest for power. He and his siblings had been raised as killers and he had been trained to be the best mole Mossad or any other agency, for that matter had ever seen. A man who had been treated like that could never be anything other than a monster; though Ari had believed that monsters could not fall in love. When he had planned on ending Agent Todd's life he had thought that the attraction he felt towards her had been nothing more than that, but prison had given him time to think. Now he honestly wasn't sure what he felt for her, but he did know that he was glad Agent Gibbs had spotted him in time.

Kate's mind was spinning as she drove to the prison. She was no longer sure if this was such a good idea. Deciding to go was a spur of the moment thing and she was now seriously regretting it, she didn't want to face him, not now, not after what he had tried to do. She'd been able to handle him before but she wasn't so sure if she could anymore. Kate sat fidgeting in her seat as she pulled into the car park; it took all her will power to open the car door and even more to get out. Despite the feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach she knew she had to do this, she hadn't come all this way just to drive back to NCIS and face Gibbs. Kate pictured the look on his face if she had to tell him she hadn't been able to go through with it and winced, she had to do this.

Kate walked into the waiting room nervously. The receptionist/guard had told her to wait there and that the warden would come to get her. She plugged in her iPod while she sat waiting and flicked through her playlist…

"Haswari!" somebody yelled. Ari looked up from the press up position he was in, to see three guards waiting outside his cell.

"Yes" He said.

"You've got a visitor." The guard who had spoken before snapped, attempting to stare him down. Ari didn't react just rolled onto his back and rubbed his face.

"Who is it?" He asked.

"I don't know" the guard replied, "can't think of anyone who would want to see you." Ari just smiled.

"Special Agent Todd?" The warden asked, "Is special agent Todd here?" Kate looked up from her iPod to see, who she assumed was the warden stood by the door in the waiting room.

"Yes." She said.

"This way please." Kate followed him out of the room.

"There will be two other guards in the room with you as well as myself; I hope you are alright with that." The warden asked as they walked down the corridor together. Kate figured he was somewhere in his mid-forties, a largish man with no hair underneath his hat, Kate didn't think he looked that threatening but then again she was used to Gibbs' death stares.

"That's fine" she replied, "I don't want to sound stupid but…" she trailed off unsure of how to phrase her question, "oh never mind." She sighed in defeat.

The warden smiled. "Well, I don't want to sound insensitive or anything but, he's in here because he tried to kill you, special agent Todd, why do you want to see him?

"Closure" Kate replied, "Has he been, err…" she said, trailing off again, she didn't want to sound like she actually cared about Ari.

"He picked his cuffs twice before he even got here, does that answer your question?"

Kate laughed, "Yes and that doesn't surprise me."

"Are you ready?" the warden asked her. She paused before she answered, forcing herself to re imagine Gibbs' face.

"Yes." She said.

"Caitlin" Ari smiled as Kate walked into the room. He looked so comfortable though there were two armed guards in the room with them. 'He hasn't changed a bit' Kate thought to herself.

"Ari" she said as she sat down in the seat across from him, they were separated by one table, the exact same position they were in on the farm a year ago, the last time she had seen him. It felt like yesterday.

"Are you surprised I came to see you?" Kate asked.

"Not at all, actually I expected you to come sooner." Ari said, the grin still plastered to his face. Kate gasped, shocked by his answer, then realised he was trying to do that to her and frowned.

"Really?" she asked.

"Yes, I'm glad you came Caitlin." He said, though his expression had changed now.

"I… Why?" she said, getting to the point.

"I've been thinking about you a lot lately." He said.

"I meant, why did you try to, to kill me?" She asked her voice shaking as she tried to sound calm, he'd surprised her again. Ari's frown deepened.

"I think you already know the answer to that, Caitlin."

"To, cause Gibbs pain… you hate him." Kate said, hurt.

"Yes and no." He replied.

"Do I want to know the other reasons?" She asked.

"No, probably not." He laughed, leaning back further in his chair.

"I thought not." Kate sighed. Ari just smiled.

They stared at each other for a few minutes. 'This definitely isn't helping' Kate thought to herself. Her heart was racing in her chest, from a mixture of fear and something else, but she wasn't entirely sure what the something else was.

"How have you been Caitlin?" He asked, still smiling.

"Fine, considering I may have been dead by now if it wasn't for Gibbs."

"You owe him a lot." Ari said.

"Yes, and I don't owe you anything." She snapped, "You tried to murder me." She leaned forward, days of anger finally coming out; she was almost shaking from the emotion building up inside her and she could feel her eyes becoming watery.

"I… have seen the error in my ways." Ari said, not looking at her, just at the table. His voice sounded genuine but Kate knew better than trust it, to trust him. She could not stop the tears from falling now, coming down her face in small droplets, she looked at him trying to find remorse, regret anything in his expression.

Ari looked up, she was crying. "I am sorry Caitlin." He said. Kate looked at his face, into his eyes and something told her he was not lying, not now. He told her that.

"Yeah and I'm sure you mean that, don't you?" She said sarcastically, also staring at the table. Ari couldn't help but laugh. He leaned back again, sighing…

…"I love you, Caitlin."

Kate looked up quickly, shocked for the third time by his words. She didn't mean for the words to slip out of her mouth as she smiled imitating his position in the chair. "Yeah, I love you too." She whispered. Then gasped, realising what she had said she quickly turned behind her, "Err; I think I want to leave now." Kate said to the warden. As she got up to leave she glanced at him once again.

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