"What do you want?" Stella asked the man standing in her doorway. She didn't like that the man had a gun in his hand. What could this guy want, I don't know him and by the expression on Kate's face she doesn't know him either Stella thought as she looked over to where Kate was standing.

"I want to play with you" The man said.

"What?" Kate asked

"You heard me. I want to play with you, and when I'm done your guys ain't going to find out what happened to you" the man said with a smile on his face. That statement made both Stella and Kate freeze in their spot. He wants to play with us and kill us afterwards? Stella asked herself. She didn't want to die know. So many times had she been close to death, but nothing had happened then. She sighed, about the times of her near death experience or Mac's because all those times she wanted to tell Mac how she really felt about him, but never did. Now I will never get that chance.

"They will find us before you can do anything" Kate said. She knew it wasn't true but had to believe it. She hated herself right now for not telling Gibbs about what was going on between them. He will never know that I really love him and that he is going to be a father.

"Of course they are... Kate, right?" Kate looked at him in shock. How did he know my name. "Oh.. you didn't think I would know your name, and you're the profiler. You must know when you want someone to get hurt for what they did to you, you must do the same to them" the man in front of them said. Stella looked at him for a couple of minutes before it hit her. He was after Mac and Gibbs. So Kate was right, it was something personal. He wants them both to suffer.

"If you're after Mac and Gibbs why are you here?" Stella asked even though she knew the answer. Stella, he wants them to suffer and what's the greatest way to do that? Take away the only thing they love... but Mac doesn't love me. This guy isn't very smart after all Stella said to herself.

"I'm here to take away the ones the love. You see, I have been studying them for some time now, and I have seen how they are around you two. You are my final piece in this case, but I only need one of you with me.... hhmmm who is it going to be?" the man said, to no one in particular.

Kate and Stella looked at each other. They knew what this meant. One had to go with him and the other would be left behind, no one would be sure they were going to live. Stella knew what she had to do. She would be anything to make sure Kate got out of this alive, she would give anything to make sure of that.

"You know what... I'm going to let you two decide that" the man said and walked past them into the bathroom, still making sure he could see what they were doing. Kate and Stella didn't have time to talk to each other before the man came into the living room again. He looked at Stella and then at Kate before he spoke.

"Who is pregnant?" he asked. Kate and Stella looked at each other. Stella could tell that Kate was scared of what to do, so was she. She knew she had to take Kate's place, going with this guy wouldn't be safe for Kate, Stella just hoped Kate would survive if this guy was going to do her any harm.

"I'm the one there is pregnant" Stella said and looked at a shocked Kate.

"I don't believe you" the man said. Kate didn't say anything she was too scared of what would happen to her now that the man didn't think Stella was telling the truth.

"I'm telling you the truth, I'm the one that is pregnant. Please don't hurt her" Stella said

"I don't believe you" the man said and walked over to them both. He knocked Kate to the floor with his gun and turned to Stella.

"Tell me the truth and your friend will live" the man said.

"Okay, Okay... Kate's the one that is pregnant. Please don't hurt her. I will do anything for you to not hurt her" Stella pleased the man

"I know you will, trust me I would have taken you anyway. Can't wait to see Mac's face when he finds out you're gone. To bad I can't be there." the man said and lifted his guy.

In Mac's office

"We have another crime scene Mac" Flack said over the phone.

"Okay Jethro and I will be there soon... Don have you heard from Stella?" Mac asked. He was getting worried about Stella. She normally would be the first in the office, after himself of course, and yet he hadn't seen her. Flack was Stella's friend too, so maybe she had called him.

"No I haven't heard from her. Mac you know that you'll always be the first to hear from her if she's late, so why ask me. I wouldn't know anything about that, well maybe just that one time when you two were still not talking after your fight, but that's all. She will be there when you come back, but right now we have a new body" Flack said. He could hear that Mac was worried. He knew Mac cared about Stella even thought he wouldn't admit it.

Mac hung up with Flack and turned to Gibbs.

"We have a new crime scene. Hopefully the girls will be here when we come back" Mac added when he saw Gibbs question about the girls. They got to the crime scene fast. It was just a few blocks from Ground Zero. The body was a woman found in an alley. They saw Flack standing next to the victim and walked up to him.

"We haven't found any ID yet, but she looks like she could be between 30-35 years old" Flack said and looked from his notes to Mac and Gibbs.

"Okay, well it looks like it's the same MO as the mother and daughter. Gunshot wound to the head" Mac said as he looked at the body.

"Was there anything else?" Gibbs asked. He had a feeling there was something different about the last two crime scenes. He started to kill marines to get our attention, they were males. Why kill women after stopping with killing marines? Gibbs asked himself. He couldn't find the connection between the two things.

"Well there was another note" Flack said and both Mac and Gibbs turned their head to look at him. "I don't know how to say this, but this offender is making this personally" Flack said and gave Mac the note.

This was the past. The next will be the present

Mac read the note two times before he handled it over to Gibbs. Mac looked at the woman before him and though about the last crime scene. A woman and her daughter, then another woman. No more marines. The past. The next will be the present. One will hit harder than you think. Could this be... No, could it?

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