When he looks through the scope, all he sees is a family that is by no means a blood family, but family nonetheless.
When he looks through the scope, all he sees is his worst enemy, triumphant over his victory.
When he looks through the scope, all he sees is the man that so reminds him of his father.
He focuses the scope, steadying it, and fires. The shot rings out as the woman falls to the ground,dead, whatever she was about to say forever lost.
And he says to her, although she cannot hear him, "sorry, Caitlin."
He flees the scene, leaving behind his brass, confident that he will not be held responsible when he has his ever loyal sister to vouch for him.
He looks through the scope and fires a shot into the forensic woman's laboratory, just as his worst enemy walks past.
He does not intend to shoot the child-minded woman, and does not.
This woman reminds him too much of his youngest sister, blown to smithereens by a Hamas bomb.
Again, he leaves his brass behind, knowing that his other sister, the sharp end of the spear, as their father calls her, will support him.
When he stumbles upon Gerald, the former M.E.'s assistant, he takes his chance and holds him hostage as he waits for his enemy's close friend the medical examiner to appear.
He lets Gerald leave as soon as he has the ageing doctor in his grasp, knowing that the incompetent man will run straight to Agent Gibbs, and that will set his plan in motion.
He knows that Agent Gibbs is following the Mossad officer who has his passports, and so he sends the medical examiner down the same road and Agent Gibbs stops the car, before Agent Gibbs finally realises his mistake in stopping to help his friend get out of a non-existent hostage situation.
Agent Gibbs has lost the car with his passports, setting the other man home free.
When his sister tells him that Agent Gibbs has been putting flowers on the rooftop where Caitlin died, he thinks it is a rather romantic gesture, but cannot help but go to Agent Gibbs' house, to sit in his basement with sniper rifle, and wait to kill Agent Gibbs.
He knows that Agent Gibbs is frightened to think that a terrorist could break into his house.
He tells Agent Gibbs why he is doing this, why he is trying to hurt him - women first - and forces him to sit by the stairs.
He is slightly confused when Agent Gibbs smiles at him and tilts his head, and he sees a shadow move in the entrance to the basement and is it a trap? He is sure that his sister, his dear Ziva would never-
He grunts when the bullet hits him and crumples to the floor, dead. It is ironic that the bullet entered his skull in the exact same place it entered Caitlin's own skull.
As the blood seeps out of the back of Ari Haswari's head, his sister walks down the stairs into Agent Gibbs' basement and tells him that the terrorist was her brother.
That night, Ziva David sings to her brother, to her sister, to all that she has lost, and feels nothing but pain.
Well. That was weird. I certainly never expected to write an NCIS fic. How did it go?