Happy new year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Special thank you to quibilah who helped me write the conversation between Jenny and Ari.
Disclaimer: nope don't own, if I did, this story would never have been written because Ari would be dead before he killed Kate.
Gibbs hung up hit cell forcefully and slammed it down on the workbench.
"Damn it!" he shouted as he ran up the basement stairs and out the door. Once in his car, he sat for a moment before jamming his key into the ignition and backing out of his driveway at full speed. How could I have let this happen? I was supposed to keep her safe! He took Kate from me, not Jenny too, I won't loose her again.
He pulled into NCIS HQ with a squeal of tires and had practically jumped out of the car before it had stopped. Sprinting to the elevator, he hit the button to summon it and waited impatiently for it to come. Behind him, he could hear other the engines of more cars. He had called his team on the way here and now they ran to catch up with him as he stepped into the elevator.
"Boss," Tony puffed as he caught up with Gibbs,
"Agent Gibbs," Ziva said, not even out of breath. She had come in with Tony, who had been following her around at Gibbs order, "what is going on?"
"Ari is not working for your people,"
"What are you talking about? Of course he is, I'm his control officer,"
"You haven't been controlling him very well then, unless your working with him,"
"I am not! And neither is he, he has done nothing wrong!"
"No, I don't think you are working with him. But you know Director Shepard? Your friend? Ari kidnapped her!" they were both yelling by now but when Ziva heard his last sentence, she froze along with Tony and McGee, who had just come up.
"And I'll tell you something else; when I find Ari, he's dead."
Jenny winced as she woke up, her head was pounding and her neck hurt. Did I fall asleep at my desk again? She opened her eyes to see the interior of a car and gasped, the events of earlier flooding back. She whipped her head around to face Ari, who was driving the car down a deserted mountain road. She moved a little and realized her hands were tied behind her back. She struggled more, testing the bonds, when Ari spoke,
"You're not going to get out of those," already having figured that much out, she slumped back in her seat and glared at him.
"Might I ask what you are hoping to accomplish by kidnapping me?" her façade sliding into place,
"You are going to help me get my ultimate revenge on Gibbs," Ari said looking at her through the corner of his eye, studying her carefully,
"And how do you come to that conclusion?"
"Ah Jennifer, I thought you were smarter than that. Love can make a man do anything. Once he sees I have you, he will come. Right into my trap." Ari said, and there it was, the reaction he'd been hoping for.
Jenny smirked, "sorry to disappoint you, Ari, but he's not going to come. He hates me," she finished, sad and quiet, trying to ignore the hope that rose inside her; there was no way he could still love her, not after what she did.
"Oh, how wrong you are, Jennifer. You might think he hates you, but I have been watching the two of you. And I am quite good at reading people, and, of course, you must not forget Ziva knows much about the two of you."
"Ziva," she repeated her name softly, she was the only one who knew that her friend and Ari were siblings. She felt a new wave of anger at Ari, who had told Ziva nothing.
"No, you're wrong Haswari, even if he did care about me he wouldn't come. We don't negotiate with terrorists, he knows that," Jenny was trying hard to believe her words, he doesn't care, he won't come. He can't.
"How sad that you don't know how much you mean to him. You are just what I need to complete my plan,"
"And what plan is that?" She asked warily and in return he looked at her with one of the most evil grins she'd ever seen.
"Well, my original plan was to lure him here with you and kill him. But if he does not come, by some chance, I already have a back up plan. Surely, after all the women he's lost in his life, the death of the only other woman he's truly loved would send him over the edge?" He laughed to himself as he saw her face pale measurably.
"What are you talking about? He would never kill himself!" She started not believing what she was hearing.
"Have you wondered, Jennifer, why it is that I have been going after the women Gibbs cares for?" Ari asked, and Jenny was speechless, she had no idea what the answer was for that, she remembered back when Gibbs had said that, he seemed to know the exact reason for it, and it frightened her that it was enough of a reason to frighten Gibbs.
"Oh so he never told you? Never when you were in Paris? Oh yes, I know about that." Ari said at her look of shock when Paris was mentioned.
"And just what is it that he never mentioned to me?" She asked, unsure if she wanted to know the answer.
"This is sad, the two of you were so close, and he never said anything, all of his exs knew. I wonder, did he not trust you enough...answer me this, and I will tell you. Why is it exactly that you left him in Paris Jennifer?" he saw her face pale even more as emotions ran across her face.
"I had a job offer..."
"Don't give me the line you tried to sell him, I know you took the first job you could find, why exactly did you leave him?" He said once again.
"He was engaged, I wanted to get further in my career, and he didn't love me, Happy?!" She said, knowing it was a lie. She couldn't tell the truth, she had no idea what that was anymore.
"This is where you are wrong, Gibbs was engaged two months after you left him, probably in attempt to forget the pain you caused him."
"Stop. I know full well how much pain I caused him. I felt my heart break when I left him and I still feel it every day!" Jenny was trying hard to control her emotions now, knowing she was giving Ari exactly what he wanted by getting upset, but reliving that pain was too much.
"I answered your question; now you tell me why it is you think that Gibbs will kill himself over me?" Jenny asked wanting to change the subject.
"Oh dear, no time to talk now I'm afraid. We have arrived and I have much to do," he got out of the car and walked around to her side, gripping her arm tightly so she couldn't run. Not that I'd have much chance getting away. She surveyed the dozen men walking around the house.
He led her through what she'd guessed was an old safe house to a small bedroom. At least I'll be comfortable, she thought bitterly. He sat her down on the small bed and reached behind her to cut her bonds, though he still held her wrists. He pulled out a gun and dug it into her shoulder.
"I would prefer that you don't try anything, I would hate to hurt you when you've just arrived," he whispered to her before releasing her hands and backing away, gun still pointed.
"I wonder, how does it feel to know that you are going to kill the man you love?" he asked her before closing and locking the door.
So? What did you think? Next chapter will be more of the team. If anyone has ideas for what the team should be doing I really need some!