44A/N: Hey there! This is my first Kate and Ari fan fic! Yeah!
Summary: What would happen if Bassam came back to get Kate for embarrassing and hitting him, in Reveille? What happens when Ari finds out and risks his life to save "his Caitlyn"?
Set about two months after SWAK. Twilight never happened.
Disclaim: I don't own NCIS. I mean if I did, Kate, Ari and Jenny wouldn't be dead, Ziva and Tony would be together and NCIS would play year round!
Dedication: To all the Kari fans!
How to save a life
Chapter 1: Anywhere but Here
"Boss, Kate's not picking up her phone" McGee said as he tried for the fifth time to call her, but it when straight to voicemail. Tony tried calling her home phone, while McGee tried to call her emergency phone. Neither one picked up.
"When did you last see her?" Gibbs growled at Tony.
Tony swallowed hard and answered with an answer he knew Gibbs wasn't going to like. "Boss, the last time I saw her was Friday when we all left from work."
"Grab your gear!" Gibbs yelled at them as they grabbed their gear and headed to the elevator right behind him.
"Boss, where are we going?" Tony asked him as he just barely made it into the elevator before the doors closed.
"You two are going to her apartment, to see if there is anything there. Call me if you find something." Gibbs said as they stepped out on the garage level.
"Well, then what are going to do Boss?" McGee asked confusion lacing his voice.
Gibbs just stared at him with the infamous Gibbs stare. Tony, being the senior agent knew that the stare meant to stop prying and to just go with it.
"Come on McGoo, let's go raid Kate's apartment, for blackmail material." Tony said as he dragged McGee to the other car.
Kate woke up with a throbbing head ache. She was in a filthy room. It looked like nothing had lived there in decades. She heard shouting outside. It was in another language. It got louder as it got closer to the door of the room she was in. The shouting sounded like Arabic or Hebrew.
Kate looked down at the ropes that bound her. She was sitting on a chair that was worn yet sturdy. She tried to move her arms but they were bound by her wrists around the back of her chair.
As her head started to clear, she could feel an agonizing pain in her left wrist. She swore that it was broken. Her head snapped up as the door creaked open. Then one of the people that Kate had come to hate in her life time, even though they had only met once before entered the room.
Bassam.
Yeah, once with him was enough.
As he came into her line of vision, she noticed that he had the sickest smile on his face that she had ever seen.
"So, Miss Todd. I bet that you are curious to why I had you brought here." Bassam spoke with a heavy accented voice.
Kate stayed quiet even though her mind was reeling with questions. Bassam was circling her like his prey.
"Alright then. If you are going to play, I believe the phrase is, hard to get. Then I will give you a hint to why you are here." He said as he back handed her across the face.
Her lip busted in the same place that it had month's prier.
Kate flashed back to the day at the farm.
Flash Back:
Kate's phone rang. She knew that she was in trouble.
Her kidnapper reaches over and grabs her phone.
"Who is Gibbs" He asked as her held up her phone as evidence. Great timing Gibbs. I mean couldn't you have called, when hum I don't know, when I'm not being held captive by a terrorist!
"He's my boyfriend." I knew that I probably shouldn't lie, but what's the worst that could happen?
"Where does he work?" He asked
"Iraq." I answered not exactly knowing where this was going.
He chuckled then out of nowhere, his hand flew up to my face and he hit me. My lip was throbbing as I glared at him.
End of Flash back:
"I'm here because that bastard Ari let me hit you, aren't I?" I asked with anger lacing my voice. I had already been though enough and now one of Ari's little minions is going to kill me. Great!
"Yes that is why you are here. Not only did you physically injure me, but you humiliated me in front of other operatives! They are now all saying: "Oh, we shouldn't send Bassam to do this job, because he got shown up by Ari's little Caitlin!" He shouted with more anger and vengeance in his voice that Kate had ever heard in her life.
The one line that caught her attention in his ranting was "Ari's little Caitlin"
Does he speak about me to his friends or is he just letting Bassam play with me before he comes in and tries to smoothes it over.
Bassam's crazy laughter pulled Kate out of her thoughts once again.
"Ah, but this time there are no rules. No Ari here to protect you. When he finds your body in his safe house, he won't know what to do. The police will believe that he committed the crime and he will be deported and charged with the murder of a federal agent. And I will be free!" He said all of this while unpacking his tools.
Kate could see knives glistening in the small amount of light being let into the room from the window behind her.
I never thought that I would think this but, I really hope that Ari comes soon!
Bassam hovered over her with a small stiletto knife and a grin on his face.
Oh this is going to be interesting.
Oh Cliffy!
Sorry but I just couldn't resist the evil cliff hanger. I will update tomorrow or the next day.
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