CHAPTER 3

(Continued from the last chapter)

Tony: Ari, what the hell are you doing?

Ari: (Chuckling) I have been waiting for you to ask me that. As wounding as it is I expected it as soon as I killed dear Caitlin.

Tony: You son of a bitch. You betrayed me, you betrayed your sister, your father, anyone that has ever cared about you in your life. Worse of all you killed someone in cold blood, someone I cared about, and for what? When did you turn into this Ari?

Ari: Who can say why anyone turns out the way they do Tony? Ziva was raised to become a Mossad agent, fearless and never to show a sign of weakness. And then she went and fell in love with you. She got married, left Mossad and is expecting a baby while living in this suburban lifestyle. The polar opposite of what was expected of her.

Tony: She's still one of the strongest people I've ever met in my life. I may not agree with your father's methods but if it turned Ziva into the person she is today then I owe him a big favor for raising the beautiful and amazing woman I fell in love with. That still doesn't answer how you became this person. You were raised in the exact same environment as Ziva and you become a cold hearted killer?

Ari: I was raised to be an assassin Tony, this is what assassins do.

\Tony: Not like this. They don't hurt people just for the hell of it. There was no justified reason for killing Kate. You only did it because you're a cold-hearted son of a bitch who takes pleasure in other people's pain and should burn in hell.

Ari: Well, shame you won't be around to witness that Tony. (He cocks his gun and aims it at Tony.)

(Tony closes his eyes as a gunshot rings out. When he doesn't feel any pain he opens his eyes to see Ari lying dead on the floor with a bullet in his head. He turns his head to see Ziva crying with a gun in her hand. When she locked eyes with him she dropped the gun and ran into his arms. He holds her close and they are both crying.)

Tony: I'm so sorry.

Ziva: Why?

Tony: I didn't want it to end this way. I feel like this is my fault.

Ziva: (Pulling away and shaking her head.) No it's not. You didn't know he would be here tonight, you didn't know he would have a gun, you didn't know he- (She cries even harder.) You didn't know he would try to kill you. And you didn't know I would be behind you ready to kill him.

Tony: I'm so sorry baby (He kisses her head.) Are you okay?

Ziva: (Shaking her head) No, not right now, but I will be, especially since I'll have you to help me get through it.

Tony: And I'll always be here, forever. For Better, For Worse right?

Ziva: (Smiling Slightly) Yes.

(Tony gives her another kiss on the head.)

Ziva: (Wiping her eyes.) You better call Gibbs. He needs to know about this.

Tony: Okay, I'll be in the other room, just let me know if you need me.

Ziva: Okay.

(Tony gives her a kiss on the cheek and walks out and Ziva stays still and stares at Ari's body.

A/N: Well, there you go, sorry for the long wait. I hope you liked it and I'll be sure to update more frequently.