Chapter 11
Tony finally awakes inside the abandoned house somewhere in Lower Pennsylvania. He's lying on a table and is tied down to it so he can't move. He also has duct tape over his mouth. Tony turns his head to see Larry standing next to a small table. Larry grabs a knife off the table and turns to Tony as he hears Tony trying to struggle to get free.
"There's no point in struggling Anthony." Larry said.
Larry walks over to Tony. He's holding the knife in his left hand as he approaches the table where Tony lies. Tony continues to struggle. Larry is now standing right next to the table. He slowly peels the duct tape from Tony's mouth.
"Help!!!" Tony exclaimed.
"Haha! No one is ever gonna hear you're screams." Larry said. "Except for me, of course."
Larry slowly lifts the knife up and begins pushing it towards Tony's face. Suddenly, the door to the room swings open. A knife goes flying through the air and penetrates into the wrist of Larry's left arm. He immediately drops his own knife. Larry looks to the door and sees Ziva standing there with her gun pointing at him.
"Gibbs!" Ziva exclaimed to get his attention.
With his right hand, Larry pulls the knife out of his left wrist. He places Ziva's knife on the floor and picks his own up.
"Don't do it! I will shoot!" Ziva exclaimed.
"No you won't… The families of the victims want answers and I'm the only one who has em. You can't shoot me." Larry stated.
Ziva really wanted to shoot him, but Larry is right, the families do want answers and he's the only who has the answers to these horrific crimes. Larry runs to the side and out a side door. Once outside the door, he spots McGee, who also points a gun at him, so Larry runs up the stairs to the second floor of the house. Gibbs finally runs into the room where Ziva is trying to untie Tony.
"It took you all long enough! I was about to become…" Tony begins to say but Ziva placed the duct tape back over his mouth.
Ziva looks at Gibbs.
"He was complaining about being saved." Ziva stated.
"I'd put it back over his mouth too." Gibbs said. "Which way did Larry go?"
"Through that door." Ziva points in the direction.
Gibbs runs to the door where he meets up with McGee by the stairs.
"He went upstairs and this is the only staircase in the entire house." McGee stated.
"Then we have him trapped." Gibbs said.
Gibbs and McGee slowly and cautiously start moving upstairs to find Larry. Once at the top of the stairs, Gibbs and McGee are pointing their guns in all directions. Larry runs across the hallway into the last room that he hasn't checked for an escape route yet. Inside the room, Larry tries to pull the wooden boards away from the window so he can get out. The wooden boards won't budge.
"Shit!" Larry exclaimed.
"There's no place to go Larry." Gibbs said as he and McGee enter into the room.
Larry turns around. Gibbs and McGee are both pointing their guns at him. Finally, Tony and Ziva enter into the room as well. Ziva now points her gun at Larry. Tony and Larry just stare at each other. Larry clings onto his knife. He slowly raises his right hand to show the knife to Tony much better.
"You see this knife Tony… I used it to gouge the eyes out of each victim as I listened to their screams. And you know what… It's the same knife I'll use to gouge the eyes out of Jamie." Larry stated.
"You fuckin piece of shit! I'm gonna kill you!" Tony exclaimed as he tries to advance toward Larry.
As Tony tries to advance to attack Larry, Gibbs grabs him in order to hold him back. Tony struggles to break free from Gibbs, but he won't allow him to get away.
"Calm down!" Gibbs exclaimed as he looks into Tony's eyes. "He wants you to attack him. Don't give him the pleasure." He said softly.
Gibbs lets Tony go. Tony walks toward the back and just paces back and forth a bit. Gibbs looks to Larry.
"You found the bodies… So what?! That doesn't mean anything. I could still get off cuz you actually need to prove that I did it in the first place. How can you connect me to those bodies?" Larry asked. "I bleach the shit out of everything in this house and this knife. I make this place spotless. You won't find a damn thing." He then looks to Tony. "I'm gonna send you Jamie's eyes."
Tony stops and stares at Larry in anger.
"All of you leave the room." Gibbs stated as he looks at Larry. "Now!"
"But…" Ziva begins to say."
"Go! Now!"
Tony, Ziva and McGee leave the room and close the door behind them. They stand outside the door, wondering why Gibbs made them leave the room.
"Look you piece of shit slime-ball mother-fucker… Don't you ever talk about Jamie like that!" Gibbs exclaimed. "You're going to spend the rest of your miserable life in prison, where you belong."
"You must be the father. What makes you so sure I'll spend the rest of my life in jail?" Larry asked. "I will kill her. I'm gonna cut her pretty little eyes out and I'm gonna enjoy every minute of her screaming and begging for mercy. Are you willing to take the chance that I'll go free? So, I'm not worried with having to spend the rest of my life in jail cuz you're not going to let me leave here alive... Do you get what I mean?"
Gibbs, who has his gun still pointing at Larry, finally tosses it into the corner. Larry watches as the gun is tossed.
"What are you doing?!" Larry exclaimed.
"You wanted Tony to attack you… Well… Now, you're just gonna have to deal with me attacking you." Gibbs stated.
"If you think you can take me old man, then the pleasure will be all mine."
Gibbs steps closer to Larry. Larry charges and tries to swing the knife at Gibbs. Gibbs dodges the attack. He grabs Larry's wrist with his left hand. With his right hand, Gibbs punches Larry in the stomach, then uppercuts him in the face. He then bashes his knee against Larry's forearm. Larry drops the knife. Gibbs then grabs Larry and throws him into a cabinet.
Meanwhile, outside of the room, Tony, Ziva and McGee are just talking.
"How did you guys find me?" Tony asked.
"Jamie stashed a GPS locator in your jacket." McGee stated.
"Wait… Why?" Tony asked.
"Why do you think Tony?!" Ziva exclaimed. "She didn't want you going off to kill a man in cold blood."
"She's been worried about you this whole time." McGee said.
There's a moment of silence as Tony realizes Jamie didn't actually mean what she said in the lab the previous day.
"What do you think Gibbs is doing in there?" McGee asked.
They suddenly hear a loud bang on the other side of the door, like a human body was slammed against it.
"It sounds like Gibbs is reading him his rights." Ziva stated.
There's a brief moment of silence between them.
"Did anyone take the bag with the dead cat out of our trunk?" Tony asked to break the silence.
"You mean to tell me neither of you did so while I was in that horribly smelling cave?!" Ziva exclaimed.
"I have an excuse… I was abducted." Tony said. Then he points to McGee. "But he wasn't, so he should've done it."
"I was overwhelmed by the stench! I was vomiting… Then I got shot with a tazer gun!" McGee exclaimed. "Ziva should've done it."
"Did I not mention the fact that I was inside the horribly smelling cave?" Ziva asked.
The three of them look at each other and come to one conclusion.
"Gibbs should've done it." They all said at the same time as they nod their heads.
After a couple more minutes, the door to the room finally opens. Gibbs steps out of the room and the team looks at him.
"He threatened me. It was self-defense." Gibbs stated as he walks away.
Tony, Ziva and McGee all look into the room. They see Larry lying on the floor, all beat-up. He lifts his head off the floor and looks at them.
"I'll go arrest him." Tony said.
Ziva hands him her handcuffs. Tony walks into the room. He steps close to Larry. Tony slaps the handcuffs around Larry's wrists as hard as he could.
"Arh!" Larry screamed.
"I forgot a knife went into your left wrist… Did that hurt?" Tony asked. He then places his hand on the part of the handcuff that's around Larry's left wrist. Tony squeezes it in order to wrap around his wrist as tightly as it can possible go.
"Arh!" Larry screamed again.
"Is that too tight?" Tony asked. "Well that's too damn bad."
Tony forces Larry to stand. He punches Larry in his already bloody face. Then he forces Larry to walk toward the door in order to get him out of there.