Chapter 7
Ari smiled. Then he heard a click. He looked up. Theresa was standing right next to him and pointed her gun right to his head. He stood up and she followed him with her pistol and pointed it directly at his chest, ten centimeters away from it. They stood close to each other, just thirty centimeters away. 'Why?', he asked. 'I am sorry', she said, in her typical British, so sweet accent. 'No, you are not. Or you wouldn't do this', he said, still a bit confused. Was she an agent?
'Who are you working for?', he asked. 'Still MI5? You never quit?' 'No', she answered, telling the truth. 'I am working for FBI now.' She sighed. Now it was time to tell the truth. She did not have to, but she wanted to. 'My actual mission was to infiltrate John's little underground organization but then I met you. And I recognized you. Fornell let my target get changed. To you.' She was looking at him, with her black eyes that were not showing any emotion. Ari really thought he would have loved her. She was so beautiful. He heard steps. Suddenly Theresa stepped forward and pushed her gun in his head. 'Take me as hostage and escape', she hissed. Ari was so surprised that he actually did what she said.
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Gibbs had received the phone call of Fornell twenty minutes ago. He left his cell phone at home and ran to his car. He wanted to do this alone. He had to get Ari, this time. He ran upstairs taking two steps at the same time. He opened the door to the roof of the parking garage. He pulled his weapon and pointed it toward Ari. He was holding the FBI undercover agent in his arms and pointed with a gun to her head. Gibbs saw Theresa's gun lying to meters away from her. 'Let her go, you bastard', he screamed and came nearer. 'She's my life assurance, Jethro', Ari cried back. 'It's a thing between us', Gibbs got a bit nervous but he did not show it. She was a federal agent and he had found out. He saw no reason why Ari should not kill her. 'Step away from the stairway', Ari said. Gibbs did not move. 'I don't want to kill her', Ari said and lay down his head on Theresa's head. He was much taller than her, he was one meter and eighty-eight centimeters tall, she just one meter and seventy-five centimeters which was tall for a woman in her age. With his free hand he ran through her blonde hair. 'You don't want such a young, brilliant and nice agent to die when her life hasn't even started yet', Ari said.
Gibbs moved aside, still pointing his gun at Ari. He could not risk a shot because he could still hit Theresa. 'Thank you', Ari said and smilingly he went by. Before he turned to the stairs, he said: 'Would you please put your gun to the floor?' Gibbs did as he was told. He hated Ari. He wanted to shoot him right now. Ari can never know, how much I condemn him, Gibbs thought. Ari smiled at him. He was such a bastard, Kate has been right. But Gibbs could never understand why she has been so affected by him. He was just a violent and brutal terrorist, so much hatred in his eyes. His eyes were so cold. Ari kicked Gibbs' gun away. He should not have come alone. He saw him walking away with Theresa. He waited upstairs. When they were out of his view, he ran as fast as he could the car-way down to the first floor, of course carrying his gun again.
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Tony tried to call Gibbs. He did not answer his phone. Typical, Tony thought. He bet that Gibbs drowned his cell phone again. He looked around. He sat still in the earth in an itching bush in his front garden. He stood up. He went in front of his front door. Nobody shot him. The sniper must have already gone away. Tony looked at his window. It was broken and pieces of glass were shattered in a one meter circle. He sighed. He opened his door and looked at his cell phone again. Time to call someone. He dialed McGee's number.
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Gibbs arrived in the first floor. He gasped. He had run so fast. But there was nothing to see. He heard a motor. He ran outside and saw a red and white motorcycle driving away in the night. Theresa just stood there and watched. Gibbs ran to her. 'Everything okay?', he asked her. She nodded. 'I am so sorry', she said. 'I could have prevented this. But he was so fast and then pointed his gun toward me', she lied in her soft voice. Gibbs hugged her.