Chapter 7 (Jolene)
'How far have you got?' Vance stepped in front of Gibbs' desk. Gibbs looked and stood up to be on the same height. He hated to look up to Vance.
'We are close.'
'Not close enough. You have been investigating this simple murder for nearly a week now and haven't made any progress.'
'We are absolutely sure that Marlene Kolmkman hired Sabrina for the murder on Simon. We also think that the newest murders on Janina and her boyfriend Kevin are somehow related to it.'
'Why should Marlene kill Janina when she just brought us on her attention? Janina could have been arrested for the murder' Vance said.
'This is what we don't understand either' Gibbs explained.
'Then find out' Vance shouted and walked straight back to his office.
'What's up with him?' Tony asked suspiciously.
'I don't know but I'll find out' Gibbs answered confidently and followed the director upstairs.
'Did I ever tell you to knock?' Vance asked when Gibbs came in and closed the door behind him.
'What's up?' Gibbs asked directly. He didn't want such power games. Vance sighed understanding that Gibbs meant it serious.
'About a month ago I had to make a testimony in court because I was a witness in a case that is more than over ten years ago. However, three weeks ago, I received the first threat that if I repeat my testimony next Friday, the day of the next official hearing, they will kill me' he explained neutrally.
'How serious?' Gibbs asked worried.
'He has relations. Yesterday I got a letter, telling me he's hired a killer.'
'Why should he tell you?'
'He thinks I wouldn't believe it.'
'Do you?'
'I can watch after myself. You should rather watch out for your own killers. I want your case to be finished within the end of the week.'
'You can't push a murder investigation. We need new evidences but there were none at the crime scene.'
'Search again!' Vance barked.
'They were clean.'
'They?'
'We suspect an organization. Sabrina was hired by Marlene and Linda is protecting the hatchet woman.'
'What about the faked evidences?'
'They must have at least someone third who is cleaning after her.'
'Then find him!'
'Or her' Gibbs muttered and left the office. He doubted when the first three suspects were women that the forth one was a man. A small society of dangerous and mad women murdering.
He didn't quite get the aspect that they were a well organized team of capable betrayers and murderers.
'I wanted to thank you' Jolene smiled.
'No matter' Sabrina muttered while she was wetting her knife.
'The strip club now is under my control. The drug trade is booming' Jolene explained.
'Greet all my friends in Mexico' the profi killer knew that all the drugs were imported from Mexico and cleaned out, which means polluted with harmful additional substances, in the USA before it was sold to the drug addicts and teenagers wanting to try something out. Of course, only well paying dealers and knower of the subject got the clean drugs which only causes the usual side effects.
Jolene stood up. She was twenty-eight, what a surprise. She was tall and muscular, having been a volleyball player and cheerleader at High School. She knew her subject although after her first try in the age of sixteen she would have never guessed to become such a powerful drug dealer and wanted person living in hiding from the law. But she had to admit, she had always loved the idea of doing something forbidden. She had never been addicted to drugs, neither her current boyfriend although they both liked to get high and…
It was a dark Wednesday afternoon and it was cold outside. 'You sure you wanna do this now?' Carina asked. Sabrina nodded and Caro parked in front of the house, the opposite side of the street.
'Now, get out' she smiled and the killer stepped out of the car to walk over to the Vance's house. She rang the door. Not what a usual killer would do. Carina watched her friend waiting for the door being opened.
'That's gonna be a long night' she muttered to herself in German language and took out a manga from the glove box.
'Yes?' the wife opened the door.
'Excuse me, Mrs. Vance. Is your husband at home? I'm a friend of his work' Sabrina said friendly.
'Well no, but I assume he'll come later in the evening. Won't be so long. Do you want to wait?' she asked innocently.
'That would be nice' Sabrina said smilingly.
Sabrina stepped over the dead bodies of the two little children. Such a shame, so young, she thought. But there was no choice. Well, there was, however, it didn't matter, for her. She walked down to the living room and sat down on the part of the sofa that wasn't spilled with blood. She looked at the body of Mrs. Vance. She was a beautiful woman but in such a cruel world we live in, even the beautiful had to die (the character's thoughts, not mine). She looked up when she heard a car. She stood up from the couch and looked outside. Vance got out of the car but Special Agent Gibbs accompanied him.
'Shit' Sabrina coursed. She only had brought a knife because she haven't had thought that it would get any difficult. But Gibbs only complicated the situation and made it worse.
Sabrina didn't have a problem with showing him she was the killer. But after that, she must become more careful, perhaps change the village. She got next to the front door and when Vance opened it, he couldn't see her.
'Oh my god' he stammered and stopped when he saw his wife lying half on the couch and half on the floor. Gibbs pulled out his weapon immediately and looked around like a good cop did. Vance forgot his training and ran over to his wife. He felt her pulse. There was no pulse. 'She's dead' he cried. 'Where are your children?' Gibbs whispered. He thought the murderer was still in the house and he was right.
'Upstairs' Vance hoped. Gibbs nodded and walked up the stairway. Sabrina crawled behind the other sofa and wasn't noticed by the men. Gibbs checked the room upstairs while Vance still cowered over the corpse of his wife. Which cruel person would do this? He was alone and couldn't defend himself.
Sabrina just had to use the opportunity. She walked toward Vance who didn't notice her. Suddenly he stood up and turned around.
'Sabrina?' he asked shocked. He knew her from the photos.
'Yes' she whispered and nodded. She smiled at her next victim.
'What…did you…?' he stuttered. Sabrina was surprised that a trained agent like him was so unable to do anything in such a moment. She nodded again to answer his question.
'And you will be my next victim' she said in a dry voice and took her knife she held in back of herself. It still drowned of blood. Leon Vance looked at the knife. He opened his mouth to speak but Sabrina was faster.
Gibbs looked at the two bodies. 'Holy god' he muttered and couldn't move. Who was able to do that?, he asked himself. 'Leon?' he screamed down.
Suddenly, there was a response. But not a response he had expected. A loud scream, then silence, then a door closing. Gibbs ran down the staircase, taking more than three steps in one. He arrived in the living room, and directly looked into Leon's open face. He eyes were open, the blood was drowning out of his mouth, flowing on the floor, building a small puddle of blood, flowing together with the blood coming out of his neck, his cut was slit open. Gibbs didn't waste any time but ran outside the house. He only saw the car driving away in the black evening.
But he was sure to recognize Sabrina's smiling face staring at him.
This was the moment he swore that it was not the last time they have met.
To be continued…
I know it's a very short ending but Gibbs is still after the organiztion and won't rest until he gets revenge for the murder on his boss Leon Vance...
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Sabrina5312 writes the follow-up, Target II which is a crossover between NCIS/ The Mentalist where the team will move to Sacramento because of a new case.
Sabrina5312 and DarkLemony, two friends of mine, translated this story Target into German and can now be read on the German FanFiction webpage.
The original German story Target II by Sabrina5312 can also be found on this German website. I translate it into English and upload it as soon as I can (The first chapter is already online).
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Target: (Original language) English (Original Writer) someone Anonymous(Translated into German by) Sabrina5312 and DarkLemony
Target II: (Original language) German (Original Writer) Sabrina5312 (Translated into English by) SevenofMine
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