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This chapter is for Ziny-DiNozzo and my bestie Pippy.

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Reveille

Sweet temptation rush all over me
And I think about it all the time
Passion desire so intense I cant take anymore

"You know, you could just stay here for the day. With me" Kate said kneeling on the edge of the bed wearing a singlet top and a pair of boy cut underwear.

"You have to go to work, as do I" Ari said putting on a pair of black pants and then walking towards her.

When he reached her she reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. It had been a few days since he came back and his wound had begun to heal nicely.

She ran her hands down his muscular chest and put her fingers through the belt loops of his pants and pulled him closer.

"Caitlin" He warned against her lips. She broke this kiss and leaned back with a smirk.

"Ok" She said standing up and walking over to the cupboard to get out a white skirt and jacket. Over by the draws Ari put on a black long sleeved shirt.

"You look better without it" Kate smiled as she walked into the en suite. Ari leaned against the door frame and watched as she got ready for work. When she was brushing her hair, he walked up behind her and kissed the top of her head.

"Forgive me" He said before walking out of her apartment.

'I can't believe I slept in a coffin'

'Not just slept'

Kate sat nervously across from Gibbs, trying to get the taste of his awful excuse for coffee out of her mouth.

"Gibbs, you're making me nervous. Scary scenarios are popping into my head. Like you're here to fire me or to tell me that I'm going undercover as DiNozzo's wife" She said.

"I want you to profile a terrorist" He said.

Kate swallowed.

That was worse.

"What terrorist?" She asked, knowing full well which 'terrorist' he was referring to.

"The one who took you hostage. The one you couldn't stab"

"Oh" She said taking the risk and taking another sip of coffee.

"Why didn't you?" Gibbs asked. Kate took a breath.

"His eyes" She said simply. Not wanting to say anything else.

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, Kate, eyes can lie. You meet him again, don't forget that"

"I won't" She said holding back a smirk.

"Profile him"

"He is not an Islamic fanatic. Never used their rhetoric. No mention of Jihad, Allah, infidels"

"Revenge?"

"No" Kate said quickly. Gibbs raised an eyebrow.

"No?"

Kate sucked in a breath "He just didn't seem like one for revenge" She covered. She looked at her watch quickly, not even seeing the actually time "Sorry Gibbs. I have to go" She said getting up and walking out of the coffee shop.

"Oh! He's so cute!" Abby exclaimed as McGee turned the picture of the 'terrorist' into a boy on his first date. McGee looked up at her.

"You think so?" He asked

Abby quickly walked over him "Oh, not cuter than you!" She said wrapping her arms around his neck. He turned his head to smile at her and she quickly kissed him.

"Abs, I'm trying to work" McGee laughed.

"Sorry"

"No, I like it. It's just I can't concentrate" He said smiling. Abby grinned and began to back away towards the door.

"Okay. What if I watch from way over here!?" She said before running into Gibbs.

"What are you doing?" Gibbs asked.

"Nothin'" Abby said quickly.

"Then do nothing at your desk!" He said pointing to her desk in the middle part of her lab.

"Gibbs! This is my lab!" She said walking to her desk anyway, throwing McGee a smirk over her shoulder.

Kate began to walk down the street after having lunch with Tony and Ducky. Tony was so immature sometimes. She shook her head and began to think of something else.

Ari, she thought.

Last night she had barely slept, well, that was Ari's fault. She was so paranoid that she would hurt him because of all his wounds that she refused to do anything with him. That is until Ari, being who he is, manipulated her many times that night. Although, she wasn't complaining.

She blushed at the thoughts of last night's activities as she pressed the button at the intersection. Suddenly a motorcycle pulled up next to the blue mini. Kate immediately recognised it. Ari lifted the eye guard up and winked at her before he sped away quickly through the traffic, narrowly missing cars that screeched to a halt.

Before Kate could do anything someone shoved her into a car.

'That bugger knew anatomy! I even asked him if he was a doctor. He didn't reply but I'll wager he went to medical school in Britain!'

Kate sat in the front of the blue Mini, her hands cuffed in front of her and a very pissed off look on her face. Her phone began ringing in her pocket. The man behind her, who she guessed was named Simi, as the man driving called him that began to feel around on her.

"It's on the left side - on the belt!" She said.

Simi showed the man named Bassam the front of the phone.

"Who is Gibbs?" Bassam asked. When Kate didn't answer he hit her in the face. She felt her lip start to bleed slightly. "Who is Gibbs?" He asked again.

Kate turned her head to him "My boyfriend. He calls me when he leaves the office." She said.

"Where does he work?"

"Iraq" She said glaring at him.

Bassam hit her in the face again, making her lip bleed more heavily.

If this is Ari's fault, she thought, I will kill him.

Kate got out of the Mini in a farmhouse she guessed was about 25 minutes from where she was taken. She gave Ari a glare.

"Caitlin" He said with a smirk before turning to Bassam and Simi. "Who did this?" He asked in Arabic after seeing Kate's lip.

Bassam answered in Arabic "She was insolent"

Ari quickly pulled a gun out from under his jacket and double tapped Bassam in the chest. Everyone in the farmhouse turned to look at him.

"No-one is to lay a hand on her" He said to them all.

"Haswari" Simi said, still standing behind the car. "She would not tell him who was calling her cell" Simi said throwing Ari Kate's phone.

Ari looked at the last received call "Oh. Gibbs called you" He smirked.

"I'd better call him back, tell him where I am. He is my boss" She said, continuing to glare at him.

"Of course. But first some ice for your lip. Then you may call him"

"You told me I could call Gibbs." Kate said as they sat in the living area of the farmhouse. Ari carefully put a piece of ice on her lip. She looked very angry at him but didn't pull away.

"On one condition" He said.

"Surprise surprise" She said "And what am I to say?"

Ari took the ice away from her lip and leaned back "You became quite ill after lunch. You went to emergency, where it was diagnosed as food poisoning. They pumped out your stomach, gave you an IV and sent you home. You'll be fine tomorrow. You just need some sleep"

"And what if I don't say that?" She asked. He leaned forward so he could whisper in her ear.

"Caitlin, this is a mission that must not fail. I need you to do this" He murmured.

"What If I don't?" She said angrily.

Ari sighed and leaned back "Tell our guest how you plan to entertain Agent DiNozzo tonight" He said loudly.

A blond woman in jogging gear, who Kate recognized as the woman Tony had chased after earlier that day, walked into the room.

"I will put a bullet in the back of his head as I run my fingers through his hair"

'Tony's right. Never eat oysters in a month without an R. I'll be fine by tomorrow'

'Where is the pea?'


Kate stared down at Marta's body as it lay dead on the ground as they sat at a picnic table outside, then her head snapped back up to Ari.

"What's going on?" She snarled.

"Call your old friends at the Secret Service. I will tell them all they need to know." He said handing her the phone, she just looked at it "Take it." He said "My Hamas are well trained. They won't kill or capture your President and mine."

She sighed and took the phone from his hand.

"She was beautiful" Gibbs said as he looked down at Marta's body in the body bag as he stood in Autopsy. Ari sat on a table a few meters away.

"Very" He commented.

"Did you make love to her?" Gibbs asked "Then blew her brains out?"

Ari stood "I did not make love to her, though, I did shoot her" He said.

Gibbs face turned angry "What did you do to Agent Todd in here?"

Ari rolled his eyes "I did nothing to hurt Caitlin" He said.

"Do not say her name" Gibbs said turning around to face him. "What now? You go back to the Middle East? You tell them Marta was Mossad, and she blew the op"

"Yes" Ari confirmed.

"Two op failures in a row. I'd ax your ass if you worked for me" Gibbs said

"People who blow themselves apart to kill their enemy have lower expectations"

A few minutes later, Ari had escaped NCIS with a bullet wound to his shoulder. He made his way to the Israeli embassy for the emergency doctors to take care of it, hoping that Caitlin would not worry too much about him.

"What happened Boss?" Tony asked once Gibbs returned upstairs.

"Shot him" Gibbs answered simply. From her desk, Kate's eyes widened, but she quickly covered it and turned to Gibbs.

"Did you kill him?" She asked, keeping her voice strong.

"Nope" Gibbs said packing up his things. "You two go home. I'll see both of you Monday" He said.

Kate couldn't have gotten out of there faster.

"Ari?" Kate said as she entered her apartment, throwing her things down next to the door. Ari walked out of the kitchen shirtless and a bandaged arm with a sling.

"I am fine Caitlin" He assured her.

"Why did you do this today?" She asked crossing her arms in front of him.

"It was a mission Caitlin" He said simply.

"What if Gibbs had killed you this time?" She asked angrily.

Ari turned and walked into her bedroom without answering her, she stood in the same spot looking confused until Ari returned a moment later with something in his good hand.

"I said in my letter that I would give this to you when I returned from the mission last week" He said holding the ring she had taken off her necklace at his request the day after he arrived back. "We may never have the chance to marry, so if we do not, then this will be a ring to show that I will always be near you" He said slipping the engagement ring onto her ring finger. "So Caitlin, if we ever do have the chance, will you marry me?"

Everything that he had done that day to piss her off flew out the window at that moment. A tear escaped Kate's eye and she smiled at him "Yes" She nodded "Yes. I will"

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