Sorry for the long wait guys, again I lost inspiration but luckily it is now back! I just want to take this moment to thank everyone who has followed this story throughout me writing it and for all you lovely comments. I think this probably be the penultimate chapter, but I am not quite sure yet. As usual I hope you enjoy it!

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Kate groaned, stretching her arms as she woke up, glancing around the room and taking in her surroundings. Memories of prisons and kidnappings flooded back into her head and she collapsed back onto the pillow, sighing. She rolled over onto her side and stared at the clock, 6am. Apparently her body had developed a natural alarm system for waking up at ridiculously early times, great. She buried her head into the pillow and prayed for sleep to return, if she was going to be kidnapped she was going to take advantage of not having to get up early for work. Then, of course, she was interrupted as the door opened…

"Good morning, Caitlin." Ari said from across the room, closing the door behind him. Kate didn't move her head to look at him. She just groaned.

"Shut up." She moaned into the pillow, more depressed than angry that he had disturbed her, Ari just laughed.

"You need to get up." He said. Kate spun round to face him.

"It's 6am!"

"Yeah, so? This is normal."

"No it's not!"

"I always get up at this time."

"You've got to be kidding me; you actually get up this early, all the time, voluntarily?" Kate gasped, staring at him opened mouthed.

"4.30, at Mossad we start at 5."

"Like I said before, shut up; you're making me tired just talking about it." Kate moaned again, pulling the covers closer, "where have you been anyway?"

"Getting supplies"

"We're in the middle of nowhere, where did you get supplies from?" Ari smiled at the floor, not answering and placed the bag on the table by the side.

"You need to get up Caitlin." He said, turning to her once again, Kate just pulled the covers over her head.

NCIS hadn't seen this many people within its walls for years. A full scale man hunt was on with one target in mind, Ari. Ziva was involved, much to her dismay; she wanted him alive which was a very different opinion to most people here. She was working with Gibbs and DiNozzo and had been all night, ever since the great Leroy Jethro had figured out Agent Todd was missing.

Ari had taken her, there was no denying it. But what she couldn't get her head around was why, how would it benefit him from taking her? Of course there was the sticky problem of his feelings, but that couldn't be it. Ziva was starting to worry about the mental stability of her brother's head, what on earth was he thinking? Was he honestly insane? These people wanted him dead and nothing was going to stop them, especially Gibbs.

"I think…" Ziva trailed off, she had an idea but was slightly nervous to voice it. She usually wasn't intimidated by men; she'd worked with them often enough, but Agent Gibbs kept throwing her the death glare and it was a little unnerving, to say the least. He didn't trust her, if he ever had. He suspected she knew more than she was letting on and she guessed he was right.

"You think what? Officer David." Gibbs snapped without looking at her.

"I might know where he is going." This surprised him, Gibbs spun around to glare her down.

"Where?" He half bellowed.

"Mossad have a… a safe house of sorts in the US."

"I would have thought Mossad have many safe houses in the US."

"They do but this one only two people know about, Ari and I."

"Why, Miss David, are we only just hearing about this?" Gibbs said, coldly.

"I don't know." Ziva said looking down at her palms, it had only just occurred to her that he might be going to the safe house but that was no excuse, she should have thought of it earlier.

"Where… is… it? Gibbs said slowly, each word crisp and clear like the ticking of a bomb just before it went off.

"South," Ziva said, pulling out her mobile to show him the address. Gibbs didn't say anything, just walked away.

"Can I talk to you, in private?" Tony said to Ziva, he sounded just like Gibbs, a ticking time bomb about to go off. Wow they really didn't like her, Ziva thought as she followed Tony to the lift.

"You lied to me." Tony said, the minute the lift doors had closed, he had flicked the emergency switch and now they were alone.

"No, I didn't." Ziva said, defiantly glaring at Tony, he wasn't as intimidating as Gibbs, at least not to her and she wasn't going to be accused of lying.

"You said there was nothing going on between you and Ari."

There isn't! The whole idea is gross, for goodness sake Tony, you need to learn to trust people, especially," she said, and even though she knew it was silly, pausing for affect and raising her finger to point at him with her other hand on her hip, "When they haven't done anything wrong."

"Then stop lying to me then if you want me to trust you!" Tony was yelling now, angry that this woman had tried to use him.

"I'm not lying to you, there's nothing between Ari and me, he's…he's my brother!" Ziva yelled at Tony, and then turned away but there was nowhere to go.

"You're brother." He said looking at her back, utterly confused and shocked, he wasn't expecting that.

"Yes, my brother, well half-brother really, but we might as well be full blood siblings."

"I…I don't, I'm sorry." Tony said, and then turned to her, anger bubbling through him again. "Wait, why didn't you tell me then? You talk about me trusting you, but how do I know I can trust you?"

"I didn't tell you because I was worried you wouldn't let me help you if you knew, he's my brother and I don't care what he has done; that will never change, no matter what, but I still want to help."

"He kidnapped my best friend! He tried to kill her once already; maybe that was the whole purpose of this BS, he's just trying to finish what he started!"

"No, no way. I don't believe Ari tried to kill Caitlin in the first place, he wouldn't; he couldn't. Not her."

"What that's supposed to mean?"

"Don't you see?" Ziva said, pleading now, "Ari may have shot Agent Gibbs and you're ME's assistant, but he has never hurt her, not once; Tony trust me on this, please, he won't hurt her."

"You're saying…"

"Yes, I am."

"Ziva" Then Tony stopped himself; whatever he was going to say wasn't meant for now, he'd been wrong to doubt her but he knew he needn't say sorry. They stared at each other, neither sure for how long, maybe seconds, maybe minutes; the tension growing between them.

"Tony" Ziva whispered a name full of emotions, everything she felt in one word, his name, and then their lips met and in that moment, they were lost.

"Are you going to tell me today?"

"Tell you what?"

"Where we are going" They were back in the car, driving once again through nowhere, in the same clothes as yesterday. Kate felt filthy, she had managed to grab a shower before they left though it had taken a lot of begging to achieve, but wearing the same clothes for hour's straight, especially after the day she had had felt incredibly unhygienic.

They had been on the road for an hour now and, unlike yesterday, today's conversation was a little bit more thrilling. It was mainly dominated by Kate, pretty much re telling her entire life with Ari passing a few comments here and there; he seemed interested in her story which was weird seen as up until joining the secret service, it was rather boring. Kate was sure his life was more interesting but she wasn't really getting anywhere with that, every time she asked him a question about his own childhood he managed to re-direct it back at her, which was starting to get really annoying.

"Ok, fine. We are going to a safe house, of sorts." Ari said

"A safe house of sorts?" Kate asked, that didn't sound good.

"Yes, it is a safe house but only myself and Ziva know about it."

"Who is Ziva?" Kate asked and she felt a pang of something in her stomach, jealousy perhaps.

"My sister" Ari replied and Kate sighed with relief, despite what had happened between them, she wasn't going to get jealous of Ari Haswari, well not intentionally at least.

"Where is this, erm safe house?" he just smiled,

"Closer than you would think."

Ari had been listening to Caitlin Todd talk all morning, but he wasn't bored, not at all. Her life was pretty un-eventful, up until joining the secret service, but he was utterly fascinated. Ari's own life had been as far from normal as you could get, that probably had something to do with his father being Mossad and everything else that led him to where he was today, which was why he found Caitlin's life so interesting, it was so normal. On top of that there was the fact that he loved hearing her talk, she was so passionate and he found himself falling for her more and more with every word she spoke. The events of last night had been a spur of the moment thing. He hadn't meant to kiss her, he honestly hadn't; he had sworn that he would not allow himself to act on his feelings for her, it was too complicated for everyone involved despite what he had said in the prison, but it had sort of just happened; completely uncontrollable. Ari wasn't sure how he felt about it, usually he didn't like feeling out of control but with her it was different. He wasn't sure if it was good or bad, but right now he didn't care.

Kate stared at her companion for a few minutes. She had come to the conclusion that he was a confusing man, sometimes he could scare her half to death, sometimes he could make her feel weak and small, but sometimes he could make her feel like she was on top of the world. Kate knew that falling for your kidnapper was not a good idea in any situation, even if you didn't have secret service training like she did you would know that but still it had happened. Somebody who didn't know her or the full story would say that what she felt was Stockholm syndrome but she knew otherwise. She knew because if it was Stockholm syndrome she would have been able to stop herself every single time he had gotten to her, she would have been able to stop herself. Maybe at first it had been Stockholm syndrome, now it wasn't; now it was more than that. Kate couldn't help it; she was falling dangerously in love with her kidnapper and there was no way back…