Guys, I'm putting the Kill Ari Chapters on hiatus for the time being. For those of you who live on the East Coast and in Massachusetts, I'm sure you've heard what happened in Woburn, Massachusetts the night after Christmas. For those of you who don't, one of my dad's co-workers, a 34 year veteran on the Woburn PD, was shot and killed during a botched armed robbery. He was the first police officer to be shot and killed in the history of our police department. The week following Officer Maguire's murder was hellish and now, a week later, things still aren't any better yet. I cannot emotionally handle writing a chapter about Kate Todd being shot and killed and then kill Ari in the same chapter. I'm having issues about leaving my dad when I go to work and when he leaves, despite the fact I know that he's going to be okay (he has a desk job these days, thank God). What I need in this situation is a light hearted, family chapter and that's what you're getting God damn it! Please enjoy this chapter and I will eventually finish Kill Ari Part 2. Once you know I'm not a big ball of mush thinking how affected by this a young teenage girl would be once the truth sinks in.

Twenty year old Kate Gibbs woke up suddenly and couldn't put her finger on what had awoken her. Rubbing her eyes, she rolled to see what time it was. 3:25 am. Kate groaned and then noticed the small figure standing at the foot of her bed.

"Jay-Jay, what are you doing up?" she sleepily asked as she moved towards her seven year old brother.

Jay-Jay sniffled and rushed into his sister's open arms. "I had a nightmare."

Kate smiled and hugged the trembling little boy as she settled the two of them back into her bed. "Do you want to talk about it, Buddy?"

"No," Jay-Jay replied, and Kate could just hear the pout in his voice.

Kate sighed and ran her hands through his curly, red hair trying to figure out how to make the stubborn boy talk. "You know," she said finally, "a dream is a wish, it's a special kind of wish."

"Really?" Jay-Jay asked, missing the Disney reference Kate was using.

"Mmhhmm," Kate replied, continuing on. "It's a wish your heart makes while you're sleeping."

"So?" Jay-Jay asked snuggling down next to his sister.

"Well, you know how when you make a wish you're not supposed to tell anybody or it won't come true?" Kate asked him. At Jay-Jay's nod she continued, "Well, if you tell somebody about your dream, it won't come true. And a nightmare is just a scary dream. So talking about it will make it better."

"Really?" Jay-Jay asked, his voice filled with surprise.

"Really," Kate said, reassuring the little boy. "So what happened?"

There was a moment of silence, and Kate started to think that Jay-Jay had fallen to sleep on her, but was proved wrong by the little sniffle and the sudden wet spot on her shoulder. "What's wrong, little man?"

"Are Mommy and Daddy okay?" he finally asked, looking up at his sister in the dark.

Kate realized she wasn't getting back to sleep anytime soon, and turned on her bedside lamp. "Mom and Dad are fine, Jay. I promise."

"How do you know?" Jay-Jay demanded, sitting up and glaring at Kate.

"Would you feel better if I called Mom and you talked to her?" Kate asked reaching for her new iPhone.

Jay-Jay nodded in agreement and scooted closer to his big sister and hugged her while she scrolled through her contacts for Jenny's number.

"It's okay, Jay, it was just a bad dream," Kate said soothingly and rubbing his back while her phone rang.

"Hello?" Jenny's voice came over the phone on speaker phone, groggy and sleepy sounding. After all, it was 3:45 in the morning.

"Hey, Mom," Kate said, sounding a little bit more chipper than she felt.

"What's wrong, Kate?" Jenny asked immediately. Kate could hear Jenny already shaking Jethro awake in the background.

"I had a nightmare," Jay-Jay piped in.

"Oh, Sweetie," Jenny cooed through the phone as Jethro stirred next to her. "Will you tell me about it, Jay-Jay?"

Jay-Jay bit his lip and looked at Katie and thought about what she'd told him about dreams and nightmares. "Okay, I guess," he said finally.

Kate smiled at him, trying to encourage him to talk to Jenny.

"You and Daddy went away for work and you never came home," Jay-Jay said quietly. "And the social worker lady wouldn't let me live with Katie and I never saw anybody again and I was scared and I hated it. Tony and Abby and Timmy and Ziva couldn't even get me away from the place and I wanted to come home so bad and I couldn't," Jay-Jay said rambling on and starting to cry again. "And then, then there was this thing chasing me and chasing me and I couldn't keep running and then I woke up before it caught me."

Kate hugged the little boy tight and rubbed his back as he hiccupped.

"Jay, you know that would never happen," Jethro said, his voice was heavy with sleep, but the sound of his voice helped Jay-Jay calm down.

"It won't now," Jay-Jay said happily.

"What do you mean?" Jethro asked through a yawn.

"I told you guys about it," Jay-Jay said slowly trying to explain this to his father. "Kate told me nightmares are like dreams and wishes. If you want them to come true, you don't talk about them. If you don't want them to come true, you gotta talk about 'em."

"Exactly!" Kate said, ruffling Jay-Jay's slightly-longer-than-usual hair. Instead of being just longer than the Jar Head cut, Jay-Jay's hair was starting to cover his ears.

"Problem solved then," Jethro said. "Back to bed both of you. Jay's got school in the morning."

"Daddy," Jay-Jay said with a giggle, "it is morning!"

"Then you have school in five hours. Now go to sleep," Jenny said with a sigh. "Love you, Little Man."

"Love you too, Mommy."

Kate looked down to see her brother's eyelids drooping as she said her goodbyes and hung up.

"Ready for bed, Squirt?" she asked him.

"Can I stay with you?" Jay-Jay asked sleepily.

"Sure, Jay-Jay," Kate replied pulling the blankets back and letting her little brother snuggle up to her side. "Sweet dreams, Squirt."

Kate's answer was the sound of Jay-Jay's deep and even breathing signaling the boy had fallen back to sleep.

Hey I'm ALIVE! I didn't realize how heavy of a workload I was getting with school and two jobs. I'm going to quit one of my jobs soon I think so no worries guys, I'll be making time for you again!

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