L'amore è Sempre di valore Esso
Author: Sinopa Ariyana
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Warnings: Slash, Romance, Angst, OOC-ness, Smut, AT/AU, Language, Spoileriness,
Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS
AN: RL has been a bitch lately. My sister-in-law having been in and out of the hospital and having had yet another surgery has had me at my brother's place more often than not. I feel like I practically live there some days. My email is also acting up and my Beta is currently MIA. Also most likely due to RL. I'd love to use a line from Labyrinth and say "It's Not Fair" but Life isn't fair and that's what definitely SUCKS. Anyway enough rambling and onto the fic. 2012-4-14
Chapter Ten
They had been searching for Ari for awhile now. Someone had taken a potshot at the new director and it was pissing Gibbs off. Especially as Kelly could be in danger and he knew Tony felt the same way. They just wanted to get the bastard because of what he'd done to Kate.
They were retracing their steps and keeping a close eye on Ziva when the call came in. Wanda Smith had noticed her ex-brother-in-law, Clint, lurking around her apartment building and it had her scared. She'd immediately called Tony who had relayed the message to Gibbs. They asked her to come in to the office to fill out a report as well as get reassigned to another protection detail. She agreed and began to ready herself to go out. She had just started her car and was putting it in drive when someone came up to her window and tapped it, leaving it in drive with her foot on the brake she rolled her window down partially and asked if she could help the man standing at her window.
He gave her a devilish smirk and said "Yes, I have a message from your husband."
That's when she noticed his hand reaching for something in his jacket her mind screamed at her to run and so she floored the pedal, peeling out of her parking space and almost colliding with a tractor trailer. She heard the sound of a gunshot echoing somewhere behind her but she was too scared to turn around and look. She drove as fast as she could to the NCIS building and safety.
Once in the building she headed straight for the third floor where the MCRT was located. Once there she went straight to Tony's desk and collapsed from her adrenaline rush. He noticed that she had a graze on her head and turned to McGee.
"Call Ducky. Have him come up here. Let him know that Miss Smith is here." he told McGee.
Turning back to Wanda Smith he let her know that Ducky would be on his way to look her over.
Once Ducky had arrived on the floor he went straight to the young lady sitting at Tony's desk. As he began to assess the damage he began telling her a story of his youth, being interrupted by Tony's impatient questions.
"Anthony you spend too much time with Jethro. You are becoming as impatient as he is." Ducky chastised lightly before continuing.
"She will not need to go to hospital as the wound does not appear to be that deep. Just a light graze to her temple. As you well know Anthony, head wounds often appear worse that what they are. That being said she is very lucky to have escaped are far worse fate. I for one would like to know how things came about" Ducky said, turning back to the young woman with a softly curious gaze on his face.
Nodding, Tony turned to Wanda as asked her to tell him what had happened after her phone call to him earlier.
"I was getting ready to come here, had been about to pull out of my lot when a guy knocked on my window. I rolled it down and asked if he needed anything. He…He…he said he had a message from my husband! I…n..n..noticed that his h..h..ha..hand was moving and p…p…pan…panicked. I hit the gas and drove here as fast as I could" she half sobbed. It was obvious that the adrenaline of her mad dash here had started to wear off and so came the hysterics.
"Did you get a look at his face?" Gibbs asked her, his voice less gruff than it normally was due to her very recent encounter. He shared a look with Tony. They both had a soft spot for this young woman, she had been through so much throughout her short life and they both felt like overprotective older siblings to her because of the continuous contact that they had with her because of her case that remained open only due to the fact that the man that had murdered the dead marine was still on the loose.
"Yes…Not a very good one though." Wanda told him as she wiped her face of the tears.
"Think you could work with our Forensics expert on a sketch of your assailant's face?" Tony asked while picking up the phone readying himself to call Abby.
"Maybe…I'm not sure. I'll try though." Wanda replied, her voice still shaky.
Nodding Tony made the call to Abby letting her know that Wanda was going to come down and give a description of a man who had just made an attempt on her life. He then had McGee take Wanda down to Abby's lab while him and Gibbs made some calls.
A few hours later Abby called Gibbs and Tony down to her lab to look at the completed sketch.
"Gibbs you'll never believe it! We have the evidence we need to take him out!" Abby told him bouncing on the balls of her feet. They both looked at her questioningly before turning to the computer that held the sketch of Wanda's assailant.
When Gibbs and Tony looked at the computerized sketch that Abby had made using Wanda's description of her assailant they barely held back their gasps. Gibbs gave a half-smile at the sight. This was just the evidence they needed to prove to the director that Ari was not a good guy. You'd think he would have been smarter than this, letting a target get away like he had. Though, the fact that Ari had taken on the role of a hit man for some low life with a grudge showed just how desperate the man must be, especially considering they had managed to make sure that he could not leave the country.
'He should have stuck with being a sniper and not gotten up close and personal with this one. He is either very desperate or too confident in his abilities.' Gibbs thought.
"He must either be very desperate or overly confident and arrogant" Tony said, echoing Gibbs thoughts a moment earlier.
Gibbs took the printed version of the sketch Abby had done and headed up to Jenny's Office. She had been stuck there doing paperwork which was just as well; she couldn't interfere too much with his plans while there.
He just nodded to Cynthia and headed straight into her office and tossed the sketch down on her desk.
"From a would-be victim of Ari's. She's lucky to be alive at all. Now will you let me go after him?" he said without preamble.
She looked at him then at the sketch, a muscle in her eye and jaw ticking. Oh she was pissed to have been played.
"I wil call Ziva. She is his handler after all. She will be able to help us into getting him here."
Nodding Gibbs turned and headed back to the bullpen to await the arrival of Ziva David.
When the Mossad Agent arrived at NCIS her appearance shocked them. Something had obviously happened in the short amount of time that had passed. She proceeded to tell them that she had her doubts about Ari and had managed to make it so that Mossad would not help him until the issue had been cleared up. It had earned her a late night visit from the man that had solidified her decision to wait things out. It also explained the bruising around her cheek and eye. She never saw the pistol that he whipped at her face to knock her out. She had no reason to be on her guard with him other than her niggling doubt.
Almost three hours later they had worked out a plan. Since Ziva had not told Ari of Gibbs' daughter, Kelly and Tony would stay at the office and Gibbs would head home like he had before Kelly had come back into his life. Ziva would call Ari and tell him that Gibbs had gone home. It wouldn't be until later that Tony would learn that Gibbs wasn't the one to have shot Ari but it had, in fact, been his own handler and half-sister Ziva David.
With Ari now taken care of, Ziva on her way back to Israel and Mossad with his body Tony and Gibbs were able to more fully concentrate on the re-emergence of Wanda Smith's ex-brother-in-law and his attempt to hire a hit man to kill her.
It would turn out to be a very revealing and shocking case.
TBC…
AN2: This chapter has been giving me fits. My muses have gotten lost in Jareth's Labyrinth and seem quite content to pop in and out of there like Jareth himself. When they start talking about removing limbs is when I will worry. At the moment they just seem to take a while to get back to me and work on this fic. If the chapters seem disjointed that would be why. I know it's short and hopefully at a later point when the muses aren't cavorting with the Firey's and Sir Didymus I shall endeavor to make this chapter longer and hopefully give it more substance. Thanks to everyone who has stuck with me so far. Your comments, polite criticism, reviews, alerts, and the favouriting have often given my muses a burst of inspiration to work on this fic. Spring is in the Air and my muses havedeveloped a short attention span for the moment. Again Thanks to all who have let me know what they think and hopefully you enjoyed this rather short chapter and will continue to enjoy the rest of this fic. Also note that I feel a desperate Ari would do anything including harm his own sister hence my changing of the events in Kill Ari Pt. 1 and 2. Also If you notice something that is misspelled it would be my fault. My muses came back temporarily and I managed to edited this chapter and since my Beta is temporarily MIA I did it all myself so please let me know if I missed something. Thanks!
Original Date 2012-3-8
Edited 2012-4-14