So basically this is what happens after what happened in the last chapter, all I can say is poor Kate! As always please review.
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Kate was practically hyperventilating by the time she was out of that room. That was the furthest thing from closure she could possibly imagine and it certainly wasn't good for her already fragile mental health. She couldn't get the image of his face out of her head, he was haunting her and she had only just left him. Her head was hurting from a full cornucopia of emotions so she rested it against the wall of the corridor, trying to get her breathing under control.
"I'm sorry, but do you two know each other or something?" The warden asked her as he followed her out of the room.
"Something like that." Kate replied not removing her forehead from the cool surface of the wall.
"I don't mean to be rude but…"
"Then don't say it then." Kate snapped, a little too harshly, "I'm sorry and yes, I was being stupid, ok?" She said turning to face the man.
"Did you mean it?" He asked, but Kate didn't answer. 'Does this guy know the meaning of sensitive?' she thought to herself as she began to walk down the hall away from him. She heard him rushing to catch her up and had to fight the strong urge to run away from him and perhaps go and cry in a corner somewhere, she had no idea what she was going to do now, if anything coming here had just made her situation worse, Gibbs had said if it didn't work…
Kate's thought was interrupted by the sound of somebody screaming. At least that was what she thought it was at first. The sound of the alarm filled the empty corridors, quenching out the unbearable silence which had nearly been choking Kate and replacing it with an excruciating whining noise that filled her head and made her ears ring almost instantly.
"This way, quick." The warden said, grabbing her arm, there was a panicked look on his face, this was not good.
"You can't sit there." Tony said to the Israeli woman who was currently making herself comfortable at the desk opposite his.
"Why not?" She asked glancing up at him.
"Because that is Kate's desk."
"But Kate is not here."
"Yes, but she is very sensitive about that sort of thing, I mean you can't even go through her rubbish without being yelled at." Tony said.
"Why would you want to go through her rubbish?" Ziva smiled at Tony leaning forward to address him.
"I am an investigator that is my job." He wasn't going to admit to himself that he might have said that to impress Ziva.
"I didn't know she had done anything wrong." She answered concern on her face and in her voice.
"She's not."
"Then I repeat, why do you want to look through her rubbish?" Ziva asked again.
"To know more about her personal life, duh." Tony said, Ziva grimaced internally at this, did he like this Kate?
"Do you have feelings for her?" Ziva asked she had to know.
"No, no of course not she's my partner, my friend nothing more." Tony said, shocked by Ziva's question.
Ziva couldn't help but smile. "Good."
"Good?" Tony questioned her.
"By any chance, is this 'Kate' Special agent Caitlin Todd?" Ziva said, quickly improvising to avoid his question.
"Yes, how did you know that?"
"I've heard about her before that's all." Ziva said casually.
"From who?" Tony asked, curiously; but he was distracted from his question by Ziva walking towards him, smiling as she sat on his desk in front of him and leaning in.
"What's going on?" Kate yelled at him through the sound of the alarm. The warden was clearly on high alert, checking in every direction before they turned a corner, like a small child who had just learnt the road safety laws.
"Do you not know what that alarm means special agent Todd?" He asked glancing behind at her.
"No, I just know it is giving me a headache, well making the one I had worse." She said but he cut her off.
"It means the cell doors have unlocked." He said quickly, "this way, we need to get out of here as soon as possible."
"No kidding!" Kate snapped.
They rounded another corner and that's when they saw them, crowds of inmates, a sea of orange jump suits, in the corridor in front of them, their cell doors wide open. The warden gestured for them to move backwards, "can't let them see us" the warden whispered to Kate as they inched back, slowly.
"I know, I have seen enough TV to know what will happen if they do." Kate whispered, her voice sounded panicked even to her. She really wished they hadn't taken her weapon from her when she came in.
"This way!" the warden murmured leading Kate into a room and locking the door behind them. Kate ran her hand through her hair, spinning on her heals. Her breathing was ragged like she had just run a marathon and she felt like she was about to pass out so she sat on the floor, lying down on her back.
"Can this day get much worse?" She said more to herself than to her companion.
"Well yeah," the warden said turning to her from across the room.
"How?"
"They could find us."
"You just locked the door!" Kate gasped sitting up, her voice high and squeaky.
"These people are criminals agent Todd; they know how to pick a lock." The warden said.
"Thanks for being positive." Kate replied sarcastically. She stood up, pacing the room, she really hated doing nothing. She plugged her iPod in once again, turning the volume up high in an attempt to drown out her panicked thoughts, it didn't really work.
"Put the news on!" Gibbs shouted at Tony from the stair case.
"Why boss?" Tony asked him, more than a little confused.
"Just do it DiNozzo." Gibbs snapped, running into the bull pen. Tony flicked the news on the plasma; it was a bird's eye view of a prison surrounded by people, FBI people. The sub titles read that the inmates had found a way to break free and had currently taken control of the prison, with an unknown number of hostages.
"That's where Kate is." Tony gasped as the realisation hit, had she been taken hostage again? Was she dead?
"That's where Ari is." Ziva whispered from next to Tony. Gibbs stared at the woman who stood next to DiNozzo, he hadn't noticed her before which was strange, for him, he was more than a little confused.
"Who are you exactly?" He asked her.
"Ziva David, Mossad. You must be Agent Gibbs, I have heard a lot about you." She said holding out her hand for him to shake but Gibbs didn't comply.
"Who from? Ari?"
"If you must know, yes."
"Do you not find it a little weird that not long after your 'agent' is sent to that prison, there is a mass break out?" Gibbs asked her, she didn't answer.
They hadn't really been in that room very long but Kate was already going insane, she had circled the small room 11 times now listened to the same song 7 times and was currently on her back for the 12th time. The warden, on the other hand had spent the last, who knows how long with his ear pinned against the door, listening intently for any change, good or bad.
"Who did it?" Kate asked suddenly.
"What?" The warden asked, finally removing his ear from the door. Kate jumped to her feet and began pacing again.
"Was it one of the inmates? One of the guards? Is this a terrorist attack?" She clamped her hand over her mouth at the last statement. A terrorist, she thought to herself.
The warden looked over at her; he didn't say anything as they were now both aware of who had done this, it was him, the man Kate had just told she… She paused, not wanting to recall it. She wondered if it would be possible to block the most awfully painful memory from her mind, she doubted it, but she could still try, couldn't she?
Kate sat with her back to the wall, strategically planning how to block it from her memory, which was if she had to, she may not need to, they could be found and if that happened they could end up dead.
"What's your name?" Kate asked the man who once again had is ear pinned to the door. He stood up and walked a few steps away from her before replying, his back now to the door.
"My name is Phil." He smiled, blushing slightly and looking at the floor, suddenly embarrassed for some reason.
"Kate." She smiled at him, holding out her hand for him to shake when she heard the sickening click of the door being opened…
Phil turned around quickly to face the intruder but was knocked unconscious before he could react. Kate leapt to her feet but was stunned to silence when the man turned to face her. Ari was no longer dressed in a prison jump suit but instead a guard's uniform, Kate shuddered to think what had happened to the man he had got it from. He moved towards her walking forwards slowly, Kate knew she should do something but she found she couldn't move he'd pinned her against that wall without even touching her.
Ari was smiling as he walked forwards, Kate raised her hands weakly in trying to fight him of, but of course it failed.
"What do you want?" Kate gasped as he grabbed her wrists.
"You Caitlin," he said, kissing her nose and forehead several times in between words, "are my ticket out of here." He chuckled while Kate fought him pathetically trying to ignore the feel of his lips on her skin as she did so.
He moved his hands down to her palms squeezing her hand before gently leading her out of the room, out of the prison all together in fact. By the time they were out of the building he was wearing a pair of sun glasses and cap like Phil had been wearing before he was knocked unconscious. Just before they headed out into the open however he pulled her closer, forcing her to walk by his side and as casually as possible as to not get noticed. Kate glanced around at the crowds of people, nobody had noticed them but that was not a surprise. To the rest of the world he was simply a guard leading a visitor from danger and to, what they believed, safety. He led her into the car park and paused there looking around. "Which one is yours?" he asked, not looking at her. Kate just gestured to her black range rover at the opposite end of the car park. When they reached it he turned to her holding out his hand, waiting for something. Kate sighed before handing over her key, she knew it was a pathetic excuse but she couldn't be bothered fighting him, she was honestly too tired, the day's events had pretty much knocked all her energy from her. She did not protest as he put her in the passenger seat and climbed in the other side; she also didn't protest when he started the engine and pulled out onto the road, when he drove away from the FBI agents and away from any chance at all of help.
Kate really isn't doing very well at the being kidnapped and held hostage business is she? I only just realise that people seem to say stupid things quite a lot in my stories don't they? Any way, you know the drill, please review.