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Chapter 18

Gibbs looked into the dark. Ari did not shoot again. Why not? He looked at Vance on the floor. Gibbs had never liked him but he also felt a bit of pity. He would end this tonight. Gibbs ran to the car and got in. He drove into the direction where the shot had come from.

He had no idea if Ari was waiting for him or not. He also didn't know from where Ari had shot. Gibbs guessed the distance about one kilometer, the range of a 'Kate', M40A5.

He saw a big parking house and entered. When he drove up the circles he saw Ari's motorcycle. He was still here. Gibbs parked and went to the door to the stairways. He pulled out his gun and slackened it, ready to shoot. He opened the door and looked down and up the staircase. He heard steps and looked up. He saw a body moving away.

'Ari!', he screamed and ran up the stairs as fast as he could. He heard a door closing and ran up to the highest level. He opened the door and stepped out. There was nobody to see on the roof.

The door behind him shut again with a loud noise.

Suddenly Gibbs felt the barrel of a gun in his back.

'Drop your weapon, Jethro', a very known voice said.

He was confident and strong. More confident than last time, when he had been shot.

But that hadn't been him.

Gibbs dropped his weapon and he heard how Ari kicked it far away.

'You wanna kill me?', Gibbs asked.

'What did I tell you those many years ago? It is all past. But my hatred is still there.'

'Your hatred against your father. Not me.'

'You are so similar. And you are a father, too. Of two very beautiful little girls. How are they?'

'Still struggling for survival in hospital', Gibbs said. 'Why?', he added.

'Why I had to shoot them? The same reason I shot Caitlin.'

'I am hurt, you god damned bastard. What else do you want?'

He heard Ari laughing. 'Just revenge, Jethro. Isn't that what we all want?'

Gibbs didn't respond.

'You killed the killer of your daughter', Ari said.

'I did nothing to you.'

'Do I look like someone who always needs a reason?'

'Why Ziva?'

'She betrayed me. She betrayed our family.'

'As you did.'

'She hurt me. She was able to kill me. I thought she'd love me as we were siblings. But she disappointed me. She hated me. And I hated her. I showed her that she was not the only one to be able to kill a sibling. So I had to kill her. To cause you and my own dad pain.'

He pressed the barrel deeper into Gibbs back.

'And now I will finish this. What started seven years ago will end now.'

Gerald. Gibbs. McGee. Caitlin. Tony and Abby. Gerald. Ducky. Eric. Theresa. Valentina. Ziva. Gibbs knew that he was the great final.

'Is there anything else you want to tell me? Some last words?', Ari asked with his British-Israeli-German (the actor who played him is German) accent.

Gibbs said nothing.

It was the first time he knew that his team would come too late.

He had always counted on them. But now they didn't have any chance to arrive in time.

He slowly shook his head. He heard a slight noise.

Gibbs sighed. It could not be that easy.

'Say good-bye, Jethro.' An evil laughter followed and Gibbs heard a door shutting closed. Quickly he turned around and opened the door. He ran to the staircase and looked down.

Nobody.

He ran down to the level where Ari's motorcycle had stood. No sign of it. He was too late.

He had escaped. Once more.

But why hasn't he killed him?

He was his worst nemesis and now, where he had no chance of defending, Ari just disappeared. It would always stay a riddle for Gibbs when he walked up to his car to drive back to the hospital.

Ari was incalculable.

But he had had a reason. Ari watched the planes landing and starting to fly. He was at the airport and the sunrise was coming again. Ari looked at his identity card. He looked at his flight card. His flight was called to the terminal and he entered the plane. He saw the airport from outside and twenty minutes later he saw Washington getting smaller and smaller.

Now, he'd return to Great Britain. He hadn't killed Gibbs with a reason. He wanted to kill his own father. To taste the sweetness of this revenge. Now, he would first go to Britain, perhaps become a doctor, or a hatchet man.

Whatever would come.

But he knew one thing for sure. He would return to Israel one time.

And then he will kill his father Eli David.

To show him, how much he hated him, loathed him, how much he was disappointed by him.

And then, when Eli would be dead and Ari had tasted this first kind of revenge, when he will have killed his father, his own father, when he was this evil and emotionless killer who killed his own father, then he will return to encounter Gibbs one last time.

And this time he will shoot him.

Gibbs arrived at the hospital. There he met Fornell, McGee and Tony. They all looked very concerned. Valentina and Theresa were both out of intensive care but had to stay in hospital for surveillance. However, Gibbs explained the two agents and Fornell what has happened.

There had been a lot of losses but now the danger of Dr. Ari Haswari was gone. At least Gibbs thought that. The following day, McGee, Tony and Gibbs visited Caitlin's grave.

Two days later, when the twins already got out of hospital, they all visited Ziva's funeral together.

She was buried as a proud American citizen.

'She would have wanted us to be strong', Tony murmured when he threw a rose on her coffin. He remembered when they together were undercover in that hotel and FBI had thought they would have been the killer pair.

'I miss you', McGee said, even lower. He remembered her telling him twice to delete her bikini photos. He still hasn't. And he wouldn't. They showed a Ziva to remember. Not to watch as porn but as remember her as she was.

Gibbs said nothing. He just smiled. He imagined her lying in her coffin looking at him, smiling. 'Go on, Gibbs. I was the second girl of your team. Take care of your daughter. Protect her. They are both the last ones you have.'

She smiled at him and he smiled back. Her eyes closed but her smile lasted forever.

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