Afterlife

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS, wish I did.

Spoilers: Bete Noir, Reveille, Twlight, Kill Ari I&II, Seasons 3-8, will jump around.

My name is Caitlin Todd but most know...knew me as Kate.

It's the year 2010 sure but guess what, I'm dead and have been since 2005. Guess what I am? The NCIS's resident ghost, well one of them.

Yeah, strange huh that my only non-living companion was my murderer...yep Ari Haswari. We're pretty much grounded to NCIS and in the past four years have come to terms with having to live with each other, for lack of better words. I mean we're both in this sort of limbo, like there's a reason we're still stuck between living and dead.

No one can see us, no one can hear us but for some reason when we try hard enough a prank will work...I'm teaching him about pranks, taken two years to do so. We do most of them on Halloween and on April Fools Day. May 24, he tends to stay away from me and then I tend to gravitate towards him. I find him in the outside firing range...apparently one was added not long after I died. I know he aches to hold a gun again...touches them or tries to.

We often just sit on the floor by the bullpen, watching the team. Yep, at first we avoided each other but after a year of patrolling, well you could call it haunting, separate floors we began to gravitate towards each other...not that ghosts are affected by gravity.

Our relationship has evolved, to say the least, the first year it was hatred. Oh, we can touch each other, our hands don't go through each other like they do things. I threw a few punches, without a weapon I'm at a disadvantage but hey...I tried. He always had me with one arm around my back and gently pushed me away.

I remember clearly when I appeared, it was not long after my funeral. I tried to leave but I couldn't, like I was and still am trapped within the Navy Yard. I figured NCIS is better then anywhere else so I just stay.

Ari appeared two weeks after me, he was a bit shocked as well...he however can't go beyond NCIS itself. I have a bit more freedom so I often go out and bring news back, what's changed and everything...lets him feel a bit more connected to the world.

Okay so we seem okay with each other now and we are, we put that day behind us like it never happened. We often talk about the morgue or the day he kidnapped me but May 24, well that's off limits...his words not mine, he just knows it upsets me.

Good thing is that I don't have the hole in my head, like my corpse did. I actually have on jeans, a shirt and soft shoes, somehow the clothes change with my mood but that's mostly what I wear. Ari stays the same, usually he'll wear a black long sleeve shirt and black cargo pants with boots but hey, its been known to change to jeans on occasion and maybe a light blue button up...not that I look...right?

Back when it was the first year...well that was hell on earth basically because if you'd never seen Kate Todd pissed, I was pissed. Like I said before, we can touch each other, well I threw a few punches and a few kicks.

Here's our first meeting...well the meeting after death.

A/N: What do you think, Ari and Kate after death having to deal with each other...pull out the popcorn, drat can't see ghosts.