This story is based on what I saw from the Promo Good Cop, Bad Cop. The bones that were found. I don't know anything about them but it got me thinking. How far would a human go to survive.
Looney Tunes
Vance was looking at the report in front of him when Gibbs entered the office in his usual manor.
"Leon"
"Gibss"
"What's up"
"The bones that were recovered from the same place as were you found officer David have finally been identified. It's Gunnery Sergeant James Robertson. He went missing two weeks before the Damacles went down. It would appear that Officer David was not the only visitor in Jaleem's care."
After this news Gibbs went in search of Ziva. He told her exactly what Vance had told him and he saw her turn white as a sheet. He grabbed her just before she fainted. He quickly took her down to see Ducky and after a while the colour was coming back into Ziva's face. Gibbs informed Duck about what Vance had told him. Both men didn't notice Ziva looking intently to the bones on the autopsy table.
"Hello Looney Tunes. I finally get to know your real name" She whispered.
She was softly stroking the bones when Gibbs and Ducky looked up to see her doing so.
"You know him" Ducky gently approached Ziva.
"Yes" She whispered again. "I know him. I killed him"
Both men were stunned at this revelation. Ziva was staring into the abyss.
"Telling us might set you free from you burden, my child"
Ducky's hand rested softly on her shoulder. Ziva looked up at Ducky but Ducky could see she wasn't really seeing him anymore she was back there, she was back in hell.
"I was chained to the wall on the left side of the cell and Looney Tunes was chained to the right side. We didn't talk to each other but he sure did talk to himself. That's when I started to call him Looney Tunes. I knew he was losing it. Saleem had gotten to him, he was breaking. "
Ziva shivered but continued with a soft and shaky voice.
"We were not given much food or water and the food that was given to us Looney Tunes took. I didn't care much for the first couple of days but later the hunger drove me to fight him for it. Since I hadn't been tortured that much yet I won most of the times and Looney Tunes grew weaker by the day. One day he was thrown back into our cell and I noticed that they had stabbed him in the stomach. He was slowly bleeding to death."
Tears were running down Ziva's face but when Ducky wanted to console her she slapped his arm away.
"Don't. I don't deserve you sympathy". Ziva seemed miles away, reliving the horror in her own world.
"They didn't even bother to chain him up anymore. They knew he was going to die soon so why bother. To me the only thing I cared about was the fact that he was bleeding all over the food, so I shoved him away but he had already been bleeding onto the food plate. I was so mad but I was also so hungry that I ate it anyway. While I was eating Looney Tunes grabbed my arm. He kept repeating Kill me, Kill me. He started to beg me to kill him and after a while I couldn't take it anymore. He just kept begging me so……….."
A deep ragged breath came out of Ziva but she continued none the less.
" I grabbed his head and began to smash it onto the concrete floor. I kept smashing it until I heard his skull crack and I saw brains coming out."
Ducky began to turn pale and Gibbs tried very hard to fight off his tears but Ziva didn't notice she kept telling her horrific story.
" After I stopped banging his head against the floor I picked up the tray and finished eating and all I could think about was that next time I was going to have all of it instead of sharing it with him. When Saleem came in and saw what I had done all he could so was smile. That godawfull smile he had. He told me that I was his now. You are all mine now, he said. I realized that by killing Looney Tunes I had played right into Saleems hands I had become a animal willing to fight for her food. He had broken me without even going the distance by torturing me to death."
"They didn't remove Looney Tunes, they kept him in my cell for more than two weeks. It wasn't until they couldn't stand the smell anymore that I was told to bury him. I couldn't even hold a shovel up anymore so digging a hole in the ground was out of the question so I just carried him into the yard and dumped him behind some stones and that is where your marines found him"
Ziva went quiet.
" So…I killed him. I killed him because I didn't want to share my food anymore."
Gibbs grabbed Ziva's shoulders.
"You killed him because he was already dying. He couldn't have survived a stab wound to the stomach"
Ziva looked up and stared into Gibbs eyes. Gibbs was frightened by how empty they looked. He knew right then and there that they may have gotten Ziva's body back but the rest of her was still in that African cell Saleem had been keeping her.
"That is what I am trying to convince myself, but you and I know both know that's not true. I killed him because I didn't want to starve to death. Instead of sharing what little we had I killed him for it."
She walked over to the bones.
"I am so sorry Looney Tunes. I am sorry"
Neither men knew any words that could console her so silence was all that remained.
A/N: I thought that it was going to be a one shot but…
Press button and review. Need some chearing up after this. I went to the dark side of human nature.