Chapter Eleven - "Unraveling"

She watched him through the glass; he was all smug and cocky as if he knew he just got away with everything he had done. Gibbs said it himself there was nothing linking him to any of the murders, nothing. Ziva just couldn't figure out why there would be nothing, there had to be something anything to prove he did it, they had said they were getting closer. They had said they would be able to prove he killed all those women. He wasn't going to just walk out of here and get away with it all. Ziva wasn't about to let that happen, not now, not ever. She turned to the guy operating the feed for the interrogation room.

"Gibbs asked me if you could go and take a walk, a long walk" Ziva said to him. The guy didn't question it, he got up and left. Ziva left the observation room, and walked into the interrogation room. Without saying a word, she walked over picked up the empty chair and then put it under the door knob. She wanted to make sure no one could come in, she needed to do this and if Gibbs or any of them knew they'd try and stop her. She turned to face Matt; he just looked at her with this evil smile.

"Oh look Ziva's trying to be big and bad and scary" Matt said, almost as if he was talking to a little kid. Ziva just walked over to where the chair she just took used to be. "I'm so scared."

"You will not be getting away with this" Ziva finally said to him.

"I already have" Matt said to her, as he leaned back in the chair. "So what are going to do to stop me?"

"Nothing" Ziva said to him.

"Well that's weak" Matt said with a laugh. "I really thought you had more fire Ziva. You sure did before."

"Rule Sixteen" Ziva said. She knew he'd never understand what she was talking about, but that was the point.

"I think someone's losing their mind" Matt said to her. "Now what per say is rule sixteen?"

"You will not be getting away with this" Ziva said to him again.

"You stupid little girl" Matt said to her. He got up from his chair and walked around the table and over to her. "I already have." He said with a laugh. "Your little friends can't pin anything on me, I made sure of that. Those women, they were just pawns in a game, useless." Matt moved closer to her, so he was only a few inches away from her. "But you, you're like all the rest. You keep your mouth shut, so it's as if it never happened."

"You're wrong" Ziva said, she really wanted to back away, but she knew she had to hold her ground and stay strong. Otherwise he'd think he was getting to her.

"Look at you trying to be all strong" Matt said mocking her a bit. "I'm guessing no one is around, because if they were, I'd already be 'dead', right?" Matt laughed again. "You made a big mistake coming in here, and an even bigger one locking the door." He just gave her an evil smile. Ziva swallowed hard, she knew what he was talking about, but wasn't about to let that happen, not again. All she was trying to make him confess, or do anything that would get him to prove he killed all those women. She really thought Gibbs would have been back by now or at least someone would be around. "It's just you and me, Ziva." He brought his hand up and gently touched her face. "Alone again."

"Is there anything we can use?" Gibbs asked Tony and McGee. They were up a creak without a paddle and weren't sure how to swim back to shore.

"Abby is working on it, but right now it's all 'circumstantial'" McGee said using air quotes around circumstantial.

"So we need to get him to confess" Tony added in. "I think I have an idea" Tony then pulled something out of his desk, before looking up. "I'll meet you back in interrogation" Tony said before taking off.

Gibbs just shook his head, he didn't know what Tony was planning, but if it worked then he'd be happy. He and McGee started to head back towards to the interrogation room, when they noticed the tech operator heading back that way as well.

"Gary, what are you doing?" Gibbs asked. Gary stopped and turned and looked at Gibbs.

"Agent David said you asked me to take one of those long walks" Gary said to Gibbs.

"Damn it, Ziva" Gibbs said before taking off to the interrogation room, McGee and Gary following close behind. Once they got there, they all walked into the observation room. "Turn that damn camera on" Gibbs yelled before rushing out of the room. He walked over to the door, and started hitting his with his side to get it open. He didn't care if he ended up dislocating his shoulder he wasn't going to stop till he got into this door.

"So tell me Ziva you scared yet" He said to her. Ziva knew she was, but she wasn't about to let him see. She needed him to think he had it all and let him just talk.

"You cannot hurt me" Ziva said to him, trying to stay strong. Just then they heard pounding on the door. Ziva knew that meant Gibbs had found out. She knew she only had a small window.

"You want to bet. I'm guessing it won't be long before your boss gets through that door." Matt said to her. "Which means you're smarter than I thought you were Ziva. You knew he'd come running. "

"You are not as smart as you like to think you are" Ziva said to him. Matt moved closer to her, Ziva swallowed hard.

"Or so you think…" He started to say as he brought his hand up again, he then lean in to her ear. "Ziver" As soon a Ziva heard him call her by that name, she heard Gibbs voice in her head. "You've gotta trust your judgment, Ziva. Moment you don't, it won't be almost." … "You are stronger Ziva, I know it, and I've seen it. You just need to find that again." … "You are one of the strongest people I know and one of the toughest. You have been through hell and back, and you are still standing." Something inside Ziva snapped, Ziva grabbed his hand, turned him around and pushed him down on the table. Holding him there with all her might.

"You messed with the wrong person" Ziva sapped at him. Just then the chair fell down and Gibbs came rushing in.

"This bitch is crazy" Matt said, trying to pin everything on Ziva.

"Don't I know it" Gibbs said as if he wasn't anything knew. He walked over and took Ziva place, only instead of holding him, pulled him up and hand cuffed him. "You should get that lawyer now." Gibbs said to him as he brought him back to the chair he was first sitting him and pushed him down to sit in it. "Ziva. Outside. Now" Gibbs said. Ziva without another word, walked out. Gibbs walked over, picked up the chair and put it back at the table, before leaving the room and closing the room. "What were you thinking?"

"I did what I needed to do" Ziva said to him.

"That was a stupid move for you and this case, Ziva." Gibbs said to her.

"What case Gibbs, you said so yourself you had nothing to prove he killed all those women. I gave you proof" Ziva said to him.

"We were playing him to get him to confess, we needed him to believe he had gotten away with it. He was more likely to slip up that way" Gibbs said to her. "This is why you needed to stay in the conference room."

"I needed him to confess and I got it" Ziva said to him, she then just walked past him and back towards the conference room.