Designated Target Crisis - Prologue
AN: This is what we were shown on screen... The next chapter changes this reality - oh the beauty of fanfiction. Enjoy! :-)
Tony and Ziva arrived at the old abandoned diner and the first thing that they noticed were tyre tracks and the car that they saw from the gas station earlier before. Ziva's heart nearly stopped, she had saved Jenny's life in Cairo five years earlier and she was praying to every God she could think of to make sure that she was alive.
Tony drew up and his gun and Ziva followed his movements, then Ziva saw the gunshots embedded within the door frame and the shattered glass as windows. Tony looked Ziva in the eye and on the count of three, he kicked the door open, his gun drawn. He went in first and saw body's of men, three or four at the most.
He checked the pulse of one of them "Dead" he muttered.
Ziva walked over towards the seating area of the diner and then she saw her old partner lying on the floor. Tony had gone in the opposite direction until Ziva had called him over and they both stared at the blood covered body of Jennifer Shepard, her eyes were squeezed shut and blood pooling out of the wounds she had received from this fire fight.
Tony leaned down, kneeled on his knees and tried to feel a pulse on her neck but he couldn't even feel a flutter of what could of been a beat. He removed his fingers from her neck and looked at Ziva, the unshed tears in her eyes and his. Then the ringing of Jenny's phone brought them out of their mini-trance of sadness, the blackberry lit up and Tony picked it up. He looked at the caller id and he dreaded the name that came up on the screen. 'Gibbs Mobile'
He reluctantly pressed the green answer button and then he heard Gibbs voice "Jen, Jen. Jenny? You there?"
"Uh, Boss?" Tony managed to choke out
"Put Jenny on the Goddamn phone DiNozzo or I will head slap you so hard that your grandchildren will feel it." said Gibbs
"Listen Boss, there is something that you should know, the Director is uh..." stuttered Tony
"Spit it out DiNozzo." Gibbs ordered and shouted at the same time "The Director is what?" he asked
"She's dead, Boss. I am so..." revealed Tony but his apology got cut short when he heard the beep to signal that Gibbs had hung up the phone. Tony turned to Ziva and she got out her phone and dialled 911, "Please state your emergency" said a female voice.
Tony put Jenny's phone down next to her body and then got out his phone and called The Deputy Director, Leon Vance. This was not meant to happen, he should of listened to Ziva. She was worried about the Director, she sensed that something wasn't right and he should of just listened to her. Maybe the Director would still be alive if he had just listened, and in that instant he knew that he blamed himself for her death.
Gibbs closed his phone as soon as he heard the word 'Dead'. Not Jenny, anyone else, but not her. She was the one woman that he truly loved, he had lost her nine years ago in Paris and he wasn't sure if he could lose her again not now. Not forever. He opened his phone and dialled the number for NCIS, so that he could get a flight out to LA.
Tony looked at Ziva solemnly as they waited for the paramedics to arrive outside the diner.
"Gibbs is going to crack it when he gets here, he loved her yet he never showed it." Tony stated soberly.
Ziva looked at Tony then at the ground realising just how hard this must be for him, "She loved him too, she told me in Cairo that he once asked her to marry him, but she left." she said, still staring at the ground.
Tony studied her for a moment "Paris." he said simply, catching the confused look that Ziva gave him he continued "It was Paris where they fell in love and where she left him, they were alone and had to put their lives in the hands of each other every day."
"Not to mention the lonely nights, the comfort that they each brought each other, over all too soon, because they were both too stubborn." Ziva stated quietly.
Tony was about to speak again when they heard the sirens of the oncoming paramedics.
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