Chapter 7

Ziva had no idea why he should listen to her. She also had no idea why he had accepted to meet her. It was the night from the 12th to 13th September. She waited in her living room. He had said he would come over. She felt somehow wrong but she had to know more. The door opened and he stepped in.

'Hey, Ziva. How are you?', he came nearer and she didn't know why but she hugged him. She remembered how she had hit him and how angry she had been. Why on earth should he forgive her? She was not sorry for what she had done.

'I-', she started but just didn't know what to say. He pushed her gently back to the table and let her sit on a chair. 'Calm down. I have heard that about Agent DiNozzo and I'm very sorry', CIRay looked into Ziva's face, where new tears started running down her cheeks. She just looked at him. She couldn't say anything. 'Who…?', she stammered.

She looked into his eyes. They reminded him on Ari.

He had always reminded him a bit on Ari, perhaps this was the reason why she had been so blind.

'We don't know. Our best people are working on it', Ray said in a sad voice.

Ziva didn't know if this sadness was real. 'Terrorists?', she asked.

He shook his head. 'We don't think so but there are already Intelligence services from all over the world working together. And we talked to people in Al Qaeda. They don't know anything.'

Ziva sighed. She needed information.

'You heard this?', she suddenly asked.

CIRay nodded. They both remained silent for a while. 'For a moment I thought there were footsteps I heard', she said. CIRay nodded her to sit down, pulled out his gun and walked toward the door. They listened. Silence. He opened the door. Ziva couldn't see anything.

He kneed down and picked something up from the doorstep. He brought it back inside and put the brown envelope on the table.

'Do you have an idea what this is?', CIRay asked with concern.

Ziva nodded. 'Yes', she said and grabbed the brown DIN B5-envelope.

'And I hope that I'm mistaken.'

She opened it and looked inside. Exactly what she had expected. She pulled out the little visiting card. It was white and had a golden Scorpion on the upper right side. She looked at Ray.

'You need to call your Intelligence people', she said.

'Why?'

'The responsible for these attacks is an organization called Scorpia', she showed him the call card.

He still looked puzzled. She explained him and he immediately called his boss.

They now knew who they were hunting for.

Tony woke up. He looked around. Still the same little room where he had fallen asleep hours ago. He sat up in the bed and looked out of the window. He guessed 30th floor. He had erased all escape chances before. The door was locked and the only thing that stood in this 3x3 meter room was a bed. He knew that the hospital has blown off. And he knew that all this had been planned by Scorpia. And he knew that for him, there was no escaping opportunity.

The door was opened. He looked up. Katarina went in.

'I thought you were hungry', she said and put down a tablet with bread and water in front of him. She had already changed, she now were a black jeans, a black top and a black open blouse.

The gun was in the holster, within reach every second. Before she had put down the tablet, she had shut the door again, of course.

'What if I tried to escape now?', Tony asked hypothetically.

'I would have the order to shoot you immediately', she said smilingly.

'Would you?'

She sat down next to him on the bed. He was surprised. He thought she'd be as cruel as her sister, never hesitating to do any kind of killing or other dirty work that included any pain of any people.

'I have been observing you, Tony, for quite a while. I know you better than you think. You're really nice.'

'Is that the reason why you kidnapped me from hospital?', he asked. His wound was still there, but not bleeding anymore, just hurting.

'No. Alessandro, the new head to Scorpia, wants to demonstrate the world what they are capable to. He thinks it isn't enough to let thousands of people die, he wants that death gets a face.' Tony stopped breathing. 'What exactly does he want to do?', he asked nervously. 'Torture you, film it and show it all nations', Katarina said shortly. 'So you just saved my life to get me killed in front of the world?', he asked and looked at her. She was so cute. She shook her head.

'I told you, that's Alessandro's and Antonio's plan.'

'Antonio?'

'His younger brother.'

'I assume you and your sister have excellent access to these classified information because you sleep with them?', Tony got direct when he got angry.

She nodded and looked out of the window.

It was dark outside.

'CIRay is back in town', she said slowly.

'Why? How do you know?', Tony asked confused. Why was she telling him?

'Ziva thinks you have died in the hospital. Now she wants any possible revenge. She called Ray but he has no idea either. All intelligences work together and they were still not able to find out the responsible for these attacks', she said calmly.

She looked back to Tony. 'So my sister is just on the way giving them a hint.'

'What kind of hint?'

'CIRay and Ziva are at her house. They will receive a message, you know, the little calling card', she smiled.

'Ziva tells Ray what this is about and he calls his boss. Soon all people will know who Scorpia is and before they even got to know their name, they found out, that they should better not mess up with them. And then, Alessandro and Antonio will send them a big brash message, that they have the power of everybody, of every single person.'

'I assume I will be this message.'

'That's the plan.'

'You're not very optimistic. Because NCIS and FBI crossed your sister's way once and they'll do it again?'

She laughed. 'This time it's different. The government, the military, they all have no chance. They know our name but they don't know who to catch. It is always the same. Organizations are founded, they do one big hit, they disappear.'

'Scorpia has been rising so often, they'll do it again.'

'I know. But for that, they have to fall again.'

'What exactly do you want to tell me?', Tony asked confused.

Why did all those pretty, evil women always have to speak so unclear.

She smiled and stood up. 'I'll let the door open. You can take the emergency stairway, it's right down the corridor. No alarm will go off and nobody should see you as those lazy sloths always take the elevator. But let me give you that advise: Do not leave in the next hour.'

'Why are you leaving the door unlocked but tell me not to leave within an hour?'

'Because my sister and I first have to occupy with the two crackbrained brothers', she smiled, went out and closed the door behind her without locking it.

Katarina lay in bed, above Antonio. He smiled at her.

'You're so cute', he said and kissed her.

She laughed. 'Shouldn't we actually be planning the next step?', she whispered into his ear.

'No, we have time. And I guess my brother and your sister are doing exactly the same', he smiled back.

'I know', she said. 'And what are we doing?'

He laughed. 'What do you mean?', he asked, a bit surprised.

'I mean, what are you doing when I tell you that you don't have more than one other minute to live?', she said, staring into his eyes.

She needed to see his reaction. He sat up confused.

She grabbed the knife from her jeans that lay on the other side of the bed.

She held it at his neck. 'I asked you, what you are doing now?', she said and pushed him back down on the bed.

'Katarina, what-?', he asked but she put her finger on his mouth and told him to be silent.

'You will fail. All these big organizations will fail. Organizations are weak. You know why? They have a lot of members. And at least one of these members is a mole. It is always like that. I bet Scorpia has a mole, too. I don't know who and I don't know how many.

I don't count myself as one and my sister either. But we both now that Scorpia will fail and rise, fail and rise, a never-ending circle. And now we're just helping it to fall. To complete the circle. You know, there actually was a time when Caroline and I, we both believed in criminal organizations, like Scorpia.

But within the time we both recognized that they will never succeed. They will always be outbalanced with Secret services, you know, no importance if it's organized crime like Scorpia, terroristic action like Al Qaeda, drug dealing, illegal arms trade and so on. Neither they nor the government wins. But what can the government do against single acting persons or just very small groups?

Nothing, because they're too tiny, not big enough to be caught by their net', she explained smiling at him, pressing the blade of the knife deeper into his neck.

'You're crazy', he moaned.

'That may be', she said. 'But my sister and I, we will have a better life than you. Especially because you're dead pretty soon.'

'What are you two bitches planning?', Antonio laughed.

'We're going somewhere where nobody suspects us, like the Caribbean, Hawai'i, perhaps Spain, and there we'll work as contract killer. Together and we'll help each other all the time. We'll have a pretty good time and when we're too old, we're gonna have a nice life with the money we have gained, retire, do the one or the other small job for the Mafia or anybody else, and live', she smiled.

'Good bye, Antonio. I never had any feelings for you', she said and cut his neck.

The blood drowned off and began to flow down the body. She stood up, cleaned the knife at the bed clothes and started dressing up.

When she walked out of the door, her sister came down the corridor.

'Did everything work out?', Caroline asked her younger sister.

Katarina nodded. She followed her sister down the building.

Only two hours later they already sat in the plane on the way to Hawai'i.

'Tony!', Ziva screamed when he entered the NCIS office. She had returned to the headquarters after CIRay had informed his boss. The government already knew who was behind these attacks and the search was running.

Ziva jumped into his arms. 'How-why-?', she wanted to ask so many questions but couldn't finish one. 'I love you', they both said at one, looking into each other's eyes, then kissing.

'Wow', Abby and McGee said in one voice. They both watched the scene. Ziva and Tony came back to them and he explained to the whole team what had happened.

Gibbs immediately called Fornell and only twenty-one minutes later an FBI and a CIA special force went off to the Scorpia headquarters.

Meanwhile, Tony, Ziva, McGee, Ducky, Jimmy, Abby and Gibbs sat in the office and watched the current news in TV. It showed live the arresting of all the Scorpia members. Antonio and his older brother Alessandro were both found dead in their beds. NCIS team hadn't mentioned that they knew who the killer were. Tony didn't want to, the killers have saved his life.

This was the only way he could thank them, they were the reasons why he still was alive. However, he was lucky, because he finally could tell what he really felt toward Ziva.

The wedding was one month later.

The End...? Well, Caroline and Katarina are still on the run, but why shouldn't two so evil but pretty sisters have a good life without being hunted by NCIS? ;)

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