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Chapter 16

Ziva found Avshalom on the way to her father's former office.

"Ziva? Is that really you?" Avshalom asked surprised to see her.

"Hello Av. It is nice to see you again. How have you been?" Ziva asked her old friend with a solemn look on her face.

"I've been well. I am happy to see you here solving your father's murder." Officer Hassar looked calm and like he had nothing wrong.

"Av, can you please come with me?" Ziva asked.

"What for Ziva? Is everything alright?" Hassar asked her, beginning to get nervous.

"Yes. Just…Why don't we go for a walk?" she offered him.

"Sure. We can catch up while we do that," he said. He slipped his hand in hers, and they walked.

Ziva led him toward the interrogation room subtly. When they arrived, she stopped abruptly.

"What is wrong?" Avshalom asked.

Tony came around the corner into the corridor. "We need to talk."

Hassar looked at Ziva in hurt and shock. "Ziva? What is this?"

Ziva just shook her head, and walked into observation. Gibbs and McGee were already there waiting for her. McGee looked at her with kind eyes. "Are you gonna be okay?" he asked.

She nodded to her friend and turned to watch.

-INTERROGATION-

"Sit down."

"What is the meaning of this?" Avshalom asked.

"About the murder of Eli David, and how your bullets were found in his torso. How much you were upset when Ziva left Mossad, temporarily, then permanently," Tony explained.

"What does my friendship with Ziva have to do with this?" he asked again.

"When Eli let her work with NCIS in Washington, you weren't a happy camper. You wanted Ziva all to yourself here in Israel. So you tried to convince her to stay here."

"So what if I did. She did not, and I did nothing about it. How can I be guilty of anything if Director David's took place five years later?"

"Well the problem is that Ziva came back. Her father sent her on a suicide mission, and you weren't okay with her dying as soon as she got back. NCIS found her and took her home, so she became an agent. That's where you lost control. You snapped, and you got into a fight with a Mossad officer," Tony said steadily.

"I will admit that Ziva and I were close. And that I was sad when she became an agent. But I would not kill her father just because he sent her there. She and I were close friends, and I care about her," Hassar said.

Tony knew this was going to be hard, and so did Gibbs. So he walked into the room and gave Tony the signal to leave.

"You wanted Ziva to be more than a friend to you. You have for a long time. I can bet that ever since you were teenagers, you wanted something more," Gibbs said, knowing that he was right.

"Ziva and I were only friends. Very close, but still only friends," he said. Avshalom was beginning to get angry.

"You were friends until she left on her liaison position. But you never forgot about her. You kept her in your heart. You fell in love with her." Gibbs knew that he was breaking the officer. So he decided to see if he could snap him.

Tony saw Gibbs nod to him, and he saw Ziva on the verge of tears. Then he turned on the light to make the glass like a window.

Hassar saw Ziva with the tears that had begun to stream down her cheeks. "Oh my goodness. Ziva," whispered Avshalom under his breath.

Gibbs walked over to his whisper in the officer's ear. "Are you in love with her?"

Hassar nodded his head. He said nothing, but the tears were beginning to well up in his eyes.

Gibbs whispered again. "Do you want to see her suffering like that?"

Hassar shook his head. His tears started to fall. He mouthed to her, "I'm sorry Ziva. I love you."

The light in observation turned off, and Ziva's face disappeared from view.

Gibbs went back to his side of the table. "Did you confront Eli about Ziva's suicide mission?"

Av nodded his head, and then he spoke. "I got into a fight with a Mossad officer about Director David's judgment. We got angrier and angrier. Eli David was there and he tried to make us stop. He got close to me to try to console me. But I pulled out my gun, and fired at his chest. Then I shot over his shoulder, and I wounded the other officer."

"You killed you director out of love for his daughter?" Gibbs asked.

"Love can make a man do crazy things. But revenge can make a man absolutely insane," Hassar said to Gibbs.

"I know."

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