Chapter 9 Final
Ducky was doing the autopsy; three dead bodies placed on different tables all had bullet holes in their chests. "Find anything Duck?"
"No nothing, a clean shot, no exit wound, no bullet. Are you sure that there was nothing at the scene?"
"Nothing..." Gibbs sighed, he had send the rest of the team home, told to get some rest, look at this case with open, fresh eyes. "So how do you get shot without leaving a bullet?"
"Anything can be a bullet, with enough force behind it. What's that look on your face Jethro?" Gibbs took the seat next to him and again sighed. "I think Ziva is hiding from me and this time I don't think I can help her this time."
"You think this is something that she has to deal with her on her own? Involving her father maybe?"
"No, I don't know...Maybe... there's still a lot that we don't know about her."
"She was a different person back then. She proved that we can trust her."
"I know, but she is no longer protected by Mossad or her father, it makes her vulnerable."
"So what are you going to do?"
"What else can I do? Except wait for her to come to me."
"What if she doesn't?"
"It might be too late." Both Gibbs and Ducky looked at each other then at the bodies.
Coming out of the shower, with a white silk robe on her and drying her hair. She sat down on her brown leather sofa and was going through a red leather book, deep in thought reminiscing. "So it has finally come to this... The side that we are on and not by choice..." She sighed and let a tear roll down her cheek, she knows that her sleep won't be a peaceful one; she took out another Citalopram pill and headed straight to her bedroom leaving the book on the coffee table up on the page that she was looking at.
Climbing into bed and head on her pillow she waited for the sleep to come and the screams to stop.
The page that she was looking had a photo it showed two young women glowing, happy and for that second not having a care in the world.
Enjoying the moment of being free and innocent.
To Be Continued in... Two Sides of a Coin
"We both knew this day would arrive, when we had to face each other."
"We were born enemies, but grew as friends."
"Does she know? Does she know about me?"
Gibbs stares as the two women head for the ladies. Once enter Ziva put her hand the woman's chest, she looked Ziva's hand, then at Ziva. "Take your hand off me, as unlike last I will hit you back."