After the drama of last chapter I decided I had better write the final one fairly quickly (but didn't)! Here you go, don't kill me, please!
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Elle and the children were then chauffeured to their next stop, where the meet up with Ari, of whom Elle was very happy to see, as it was the first time since she had been taken into NCIS custody. She had seen him while staying with Leo, but that felt like weeks ago, even though it was only a few days. He had dropped her off at the netball centre, wearing one of the local teams colours, as he had been casually told be Ziva that Tony was spending more time with his parents. A quick search on the Internet and they had a plan.
"Shalom," Elle greeted her husband, who cradled her face to kiss her passionately.
Jason who was watching turned his attention back to the kids; he didn't know why she wanted Ari. He was twice her age and it wasn't like nobody else wanted to go out with her, she was beautiful, clever and very witty.
"How did it go?" Ari asked curiously.
"As planned, he's absolutely devastated," Ellie smiled, obviously proud of herself.
Ellie took Alex and Ari took Martin as they walked around the corner and into the large apartment building. Some of the men that were with Ari waited at the bottom of each staircase and in each of the elevators, just in case.
The stopped on Ziva's floor, "wait here you with these three, for a second," Ari instructed the heavily armed Jason.
Ziva opened the door and greeted Ari in Hebrew, glad to see him, "I thought you said it wasn't a good idea to meet in person for a while.
Ari returned her greeting then nodded to his left, where Elle, the children and Jason emerged. Ziva drew her gun, "those are Tony's kids, I recognise them from all the pictures."
"Not entirely true," Ari informed her even though she already knew what he was going to say, "you're not going to shot me in front of your own nephew and sister in law."
"Sister in law?" Ziva took a closer look at the woman they were with, it was Ellie, "and I guess you weren't kidnapped?"
"Of course I was, the president of the United States of America daughter would never have set it up," Ellie told Ziva.
"How did you do it? Tell me how," Ziva requested kindly.
"Let us in and I'll oblige," Ellie said, "if you give me your gun."
Ziva let them in, handing Ellie her weapon very reluctantly, instantly Jason did a sweep of the house and he found at least eight weapons.
"It looks like my sister is becoming paranoid with old age," Ari smiled.
"That's half-sister," Ziva corrected him quickly, "and it looks like my half-brother is a cradle snatcher."
"Ahh funny, that makes you a half sister to a terrorist," Ari sighed relieved that he could finally stop pretending to be a mole.
"I can't believe I stuck up for you, you really did kidnap Kate and her kids," Ziva said furiously.
"Get over it, nobody got hurt, well except that petty officer, Special Agent McGee, that Secret Service guy and that's only the ones that were physically abused. If you count the psychologically harmed, you would have, Tony, Gibbs, Kate, all of NCIS, not to mention the President of the United States of America," Ari smiled.
"You're actually proud of that aren't you?" Ziva asked in disgust, while thinking, how could I have been so blind?
"It is a great achievement Ziva, how many people could kidnap the Presidents daughter from a Government building full of Secret Service agents?"
"You didn't kidnap her, she chose to leave with your acquaintances, if she put up a struggle you would have been noticed. Anyway, you cannot kidnap someone who legally doesn't exist in this country," Ziva smiled.
"So you're going to deny that you had her in your custody?"
"It's not up to me," Ziva said, as she smiled at the kids to comfort them but they didn't seem to be fussed by the situation.
"Anyway, we had better be off, somebody might start believing Agent Dinozzo's ludicrous claims of terrorism," Ari smiled, giving a nod to Jason.
Jason got out a pair of hand cuffs, cuffing both of her wrists to a medal chair that even she wouldn't be able to get out of for at least ten minutes!
"I'll be seeing you, just not for a while, farewell," Ari smiled.
Ziva looked slightly worried, not for herself but for the kids and how they would turn out.
Ellie's women's intuition informed her of Ziva's worries, "no need to stress DaVid, they'll be just fine, they're with me."
"That's what I'm worried about, you little bore," Ziva mumbled just before Jason taped her mouth shut.
"The term is whore, not bore," was the last thing Ellie said before she left with her husband, kids and armed escort.
Ari's plan had worked better then he could have ever imagined, as once his wife had left a devastated Tony he had punched a convicted hard enough to dislocate his jaw. Tony got a prison term of one year for assault (it was reduced thanks to Gibbs), Kate returned to NCIS to find Gibbs had retired, Abby wasn't as bubbly and McGee was starting to make mistakes, life-costing mistakes.
Tony was lucky enough that Kate loved his enough to wait for him, Ziva had told her about Ellie and Ari. Kate felt safe that Ari would look after the children, he wouldn't hurt his own son, nor would he hurt Alex, to whom he had formed a great attachment too. Luckily Gibbs came out of retirement as a special favour for the Director, but only to work part time. So some of the time Tony was boss when Gibbs was taking the day off (to work on his boat).
Even though it wasn't a fairytale ending, things didn't turn out to bad, they all had their lives and good health.
The End
What are your thoughts? I thought it was an appropriate ending, not to cheery/corny or depressing/dramatic. Well maybe a little dramatic!
I might be writing another NCIS story soon (after I finish my Harry Potter story or two) about Ari's friend from med-school, who wants to meet Gibbs!
Seriously, I think I need reviews to help improve my story writing skills!
Love all my reviews,
DF (DinozzoFan)!!