Here's the 14th story in my series. If you haven't read the other stories, then I advise you to not proceed until you do. This is a series. It runs in sequence. To understand certain things (especially where Jamie came from), it's best to just start at the beginning. This series is kind of like my very own NCIS season 4. As of this point, the series consists of: story 1 A Link to the Past (comes in 3 parts)… story 2 Wrong Place, Wrong Time… story 3 Second Job… story 4 Daughters… story 5 A Personal Vendetta… story 6 Bless the Children… story 7 Eyes of the Condemned… story 8 Disturbing Affection… story 9 No Man Left Behind (story that introduces Chioke; aka Kid)… story 10 Finger Swap… story 11 Imperfect Heist… story 12 The Color of Skin… story 13 Death to the Jedi… story 14 Brotherly Love (current story). Hope you enjoy it.
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Tuesday
Chapter 1
Early in the morning, around 02:00, a truck enters into a construction site somewhere in the Washington D.C. area. A new office building is being built on the site. The truck drives to the very back of the construction site. The driver parks the truck. He leaves the headlights on and gets out. He walks to the back of the truck. The man opens the tail gate. He grabs the blue tarp and drags it off the truck. The tarp, which has a body in it, quickly drops to the ground due to the weight. The man drags the tarp to front of the truck.
The man opens the tarp to reveal the victim. The woman lying on the tarp is alive. She has a contraption attached to her jaw which makes it difficult for her to make any type noise. Her hands and feet are bound with duct tape. The woman's eyes meet the man's as he looks down at her. The man grins in a sinister manner. He now begins to whistle the "Gilligan's Island" theme song.
The man drags the opened tarp to a small ditch that was dug for some purpose to deal with the construction of the building and that will eventually be filled with cement. He slides the woman into the ditch and walks the tarp back to the truck. While at the truck, the man puts gloves on.
The man walks to the front of the truck where a winch is attached. He releases the brake to the winch and starts pulling out the heavy duty wire. The man continues to whistle to the "Gilligan's Island" theme song as he pulls a long length of the wire out from the winch. He walks toward the ditch. He tosses the wire over a steel beam. The steel beam is directly over the small ditch where the woman lies in fear for her life. He grabs the hook attached to the end of the heavy duty wire and pulls it down a bit more. The man steps into the ditch, stands next to the lady and looks into her fearful eyes.
"I know what you're probably thinking… This man is going kill me." The man said. "Well… You're right. I am." He assured the lady. "But I'm killing you for a good cause. Your death will serve a purpose. It's for the greater good…" He said. "Ah… Who am I kidding, right? But your death will serve a purpose. It may not be a good cause… Well… To me it is. Probably not for you though. But at least it's for some purpose instead of being a pointless, non-meaningful death." He added. "I have a family member who is a federal agent, works for NCIS. It stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, but I'm sure you already know that since you're in the Navy. Or you should. And if you didn't, than shame on you." He said. "Anyway, I haven't seen my family member in such a long time and I'd just like the chance to say hi. That's where you come in. You're gonna help me reunite with my family member." He added. "I know, you're probably thinking… Why does he keep referring to the person as; family member. Well… Let's just say… I like the sound of the word; family. I'm very big into family. I believe in the power of family because it binds us together." He paused for a couple seconds. "Actually… I'm lying. Though, family does bind us together in certain ways. As for you… The bind to your family will be severed. And even though your family will miss you dearly due to your untimely demise, you'll at least help me reunite with mine." He said. "I know I can just go to NCIS Headquarters to find my family member and say hi, but that'd be a pretty boring way of doing so. Killing you is just a more… How shall I put it… It's a more interesting way to reunite." He added. "Your purpose will be served with great appreciation."
The man starts whistling the "Gilligan's Island" theme song once again. He grabs the hook and pulls the wire down toward the woman. He attaches the hook to the contraption on the woman's jaw. After placing the hook into the hole of the contraption, he gets out of the ditch. He pulls the heavy duty wire from the other side of the steel beam until it slightly yanks the woman's jaw. The man walks away.
The man walks to the truck. He throws his gloves into the truck. He now grabs a single key. The man walks to the forklift off to the side. He sits down in the forklift seat and uses the key to start it up. He drives the forklift to an area close to the ditch. The man uses the forklift to lift a piece of thick sheet metal which he moves it to the ditch. He lays the piece of sheet metal across the ditch, covering part of the woman's body. He now drives the forklift to get another piece of thick sheet metal. The second piece of sheet metal is also used to lie across the ditch to cover the woman's body. Both pieces of sheet metal are set to leave a thin gap of a couple inches where the heavy duty wire is hanging out of.
The man uses the forklift to place stacks of concrete blocks onto each of the pieces of thick sheet metal. The concrete blocks are to add more supportive weight for what he has planned. When finished, he drives the forklift back to the area where he found it. He turns the engine off and leaves the key in the ignition.
The man walks to his truck. He presses a button to operate the winch. The winch begins reeling the heavy duty wire in a little bit. He leaves the wire with a little leverage so it's not pulling the woman. He applies the brake for the winch. He now walks to the driver's side of the truck and gets in. The man turns the engine on.
From inside the ditch, beneath the thick pieces of sheet metal with concrete blocks on top, she hears the engine of the truck. With fear in her eyes she looks up at the heavy duty wire and the contraption attached to her jaw. She panics as she sees the wire moving slightly. The wire is pulled. The woman's head is yanked up toward the pieces of sheet metal. The top portion of her head and her neck are pressing against either of the pieces of sheet metal. Her jaw lies within the gap between them. The woman hears a crackling sounds coming from her jaw. Finally, the woman's jaw detaches from her skull and blood bursts out. The woman's jawless body falls to the bottom of the ditch and her jaw launches upward as the truck pulls it over the steel beam. The woman is now dead.
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At close to 05:00 in the morning, Gibbs is parked outside Ziva's apartment building. He's waiting for her to go out for her morning run. Gibbs sips his coffee and is gratified about the peace and quiet of the surroundings.
Eventually, Gibbs notices a woman come out of the front door to the apartment building. He realizes it's Ziva as she turns her head. Ziva puts her orange hat on and jogs off in her usual direction.
Gibbs waits a couple minutes before getting out of the car. After getting out, he closes the door and runs to the apartment building. Gibbs knows the apartment building doesn't have a security camera so he picks the lock of the front door. Once inside, Gibbs walks to the stairs. He runs up the stairs to the floor where Ziva's apartment is.
Once at Ziva's apartment door, he puts latex gloves on and carefully picks the lock in order to not leave any noticeable markings. He enters into the apartment. Since Gibbs is practically computer illiterate, he avoids the infernal machine which is what his label for a computer is. He walks into Ziva's bedroom and begins searching.
Gibbs hopes, in the two hours Ziva is gone, that he'll find the evidence from the Ziva/Amir interrogation from a couple days ago during the time they were working the Star Wars case. The evidence Gibbs is hoping to find are the two hard-drives from the observation room, the cassette tape from the evidence locker and the digital memory card from the Director's office; all of which happened to mysteriously disappear before given to a translator. The only person who knows what the conversation was truly about is Ziva, since she was the only one who could interrogate Amir due to his native language being Hebrew and not knowing much English. All record that the interrogation ever took place just vanished and Gibbs still suspects Ziva of not telling the truth about what was said during the interrogation; that she knew Amir and was protecting something. If not finding the evidence that disappeared, Gibbs hopes to find something that answers the questions which plague his mind about Ziva having some type of connection to Amir.
Gibbs continues searching Ziva's apartment. If he moves anything, he puts it back exactly the way it was before moving it; in order to not leave any trace that he was ever here.