Please note that this update included chapters 24 to 26. Final chapter should be up around Thursday-ish.
Because I love to repeat myself, I still have two questions for you:
1) Is there anyone here that would be interested in a prequel that deals with the Kadira/Ari relationship?
2) Is there a native English speaker that could beta a T-rated Tiva-story of about 5,700 words? Focus is on general input as well as grammar, especially tenses since I changed them three times when wiriting and while I went back and edited it, I think I missed some instances.
Ziva quickly danced out of reach of the Hamas terrorist. She was panting, pain surged through her face and her side where Kadira's boot had managed to hit. Her ribs already groaned in protest at her ragged breathing, this was not a good sign. She quickly looked around the room. She hadn't been here in a while, she had forgotten where everything was. The lamp was shattered and lying too far away. Luckily, the same was true for Kadira's gun which she had been slammed from her hand as Ziva had tackled her to the ground.
She had been wrong in her judgment; her instinct to survive was stronger than she had thought. She would not let Kadira kill her without a fight. But she would also try to knock her out without killing the Palestine girl. If only she found something heavy enough to-
Her feet went out under her, and Ziva found herself pressed down to the floor by Kadira's weight. She went to struggle but froze when she felt cold steel digging into her throat. Damn. She had forgotten that Kadira had always been carrying a knife since she had been twelve.
The face of her enemy was contorted in fury, and she slammed Ziva's head back into the floor. Blackness surrounded her for a second, pain from the back of her skull almost overriding that coming from her nose. She felt blood trickle down her throat and neck. Kadira must have already managed to nick her skin. She would indeed die tonight.
|Why?| the Palestine hissed at her. Ziva stared into her face, failing to see the girl she had know for the first time since she had come crashing into her life again. It was not Kadira. This was a monster. The beautiful bubbly girl that had played hide-and-seek with her had been replaced by someone that was set out to kill. The concept of mercy was lost to her, reasoning with her would be a futile attempt.
*Because he killed an innocent woman in cold blood! Because he was a monster! He deserved to die, Kadi!* she screamed at her, tears streaming down her face at the realization that the tiny grain of hope for Kadira had been lost. There was no chance to have her back. She would not change, she would not regret her actions. And she would kill her.
Ziva closed her eyes against her tears and rambled of the Vidui as quickly as she could, determined to get as far as possible until -
TBC
I thought we had already established that I am evil for ending an update at an important scene with the last update ;)