Just a little something I thought up. I was looking through vids and reviews and such, and lots of people were saying about how Tony went on a 'rescue mission', to save Ziva. This grated on me, since he thought she was dead, and you can't really rescue a dead person.
So this is the result, however short it is. I also used a quote from a song I like as the inspiration.
Disclaimer: You know you're obsessed with NCIS when you get your best friend's sister's best friend into it.
Listening to: Weeping- Live version, by Josh Groban.
"I don't think that I'd be standing here if I'd never found you."
-Take me There, McFly
When they returned from Somalia; from the death-marked hole they'd been trapped in, out of their own choice, people started to notice. Not just autographs and pictures, though those did come in their droves, but recognition.
He'd see someone nod, or smile in his vague direction, and something stirred deep within him.
They called him a Hero.
They said he was on a rescuemission.
Only a few people know it was far from it.
He had genuinely believed Ziva was dead. He didn't want to accept it, but everything and everyone said she was, so he took it as a fact. Acknowledging it wasn't easy, but once he did and the world began to blur around the edges, he realized something.
He had to follow her.
Then, the plan formulated in his head. He couldn't just kill himself straight-up; he had to make sure she was remembered.
It was a suicide mission.
Never in their plans did they anticipate bringing a fourth person back with them.
He had the gun laid out on his coffee table, the note already written and placed by its side. All ready for his grand return.
Kill a man, and then kill himself.
Good plan.
And then, they had found her. And the earth fell back onto its axis and life had meaning- her.
When people call it a rescue mission nowadays, he accepts it. Because even though that wasn't the initial objective, he supposes that was what it turned out to be.
He saved her, yes, but he saved himself, too.
He has her to thank for the fact he's still breathing.
Typical.
Thoughts?
-Kiera. x