Can't Face the Night
Summary: Four chapters; four missing scenes from the 10th season episode "Shabbat Shalom."
Rated: K+
Warnings: spoilers for the episode
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Just borrowing for a bit.
#1) The wounded assassin is on the ground with white foam oozing from his mouth. He bit into a cigarette laced with poison and died.
Gibbs watched Ziva kick the assassin's dead body and knew he needed to get her away and back to the house. During the short drive her raw anger dissipated and changed to regret.
"My father was looking for redemption and I told him his sins were too great."
"You stayed."
"Yes. He asked me to stay." She sighed. "I almost did not."
"You weren't inside when the guy fired." It was a statement, not a question. He also knew she'd gone after the shooter. Twice.
"No." Anguish was clear in her voice. "First I refused the wine….. and…... and then I scoffed at his blessing and ran away."
Gibbs understood because he had done something similar when he'd first joined the Marine Corps and again when he'd buried Shannon and Kelly. He'd been angry at his father, angrier than he could even remember now. He turned the car on Vance's street with the crowd of people and police and sheriff's vehicles and never responded to Ziva.