An Agent's Weakness
Sophie swung her sword first and Holly whacked it off her axe before returning a swoop and narrowly missing Sophie's neck. This was a clear advantage. While Sophie was better at hand to hand, Holly had been fencing since the age of 9 and was very good.
"Having fun?" Sophie struck back and cut Holly's thumb. It hurt no more than a paper cut and it only drove Holly even further. "You won't die like your forensic friend. You'll die slowly, and painfully!"
"Yeah, well you can FUCK OFF OUR FAMILY BITCH!" Holly hit Sophie with the axe handle hard and she stumbled as Holly moved in for the kill strike.
"Now now Holly, you're only twelve, you'll regret this one day," Sophie said as she scuttled back. But just as Holly stabbed down, Sophie grabbed the axe and threw it aside, pulling up her sword and laughing. "Gotcha!"
Effortlessly she grabbed Holly up and smashed her brutally hard into the stone wall before once more punching her. She kneed Holly in the stomach and body slammed her into the floor.
"Oww!" Holly groaned. Sophie laughed and grabbed up Holly before throwing her hard against a tree which made her sob with pain. "No, no I'm not done with you yet!"
She lifted Holly by the scruff of her shirt before throwing her across the bridge and sending her smashing into the stone floor of the bridge.
"Don't! Please no more!" Holly begged.
Sophie laughed and moved in for the kill.
All of a sudden she stopped as Darren leapt upon her back and punched her hard in the face, attempting to steer her over the bridge. She fought back but it was no use, he had her controlled. He made her stumble until she flipped him over into one arm.
"Holly! Get out! Get ow!" Darren screamed as Sophie's sword punched through his chest emerging the other side dripping red.
"Darren! Darren no!" Holly screeched as Darren went limp. She looked up as anger and hatred filled her face.
"And now for you!" Sophie laughed as she kicked Darren's body away and raised the sword.
NCIS
Gibbs and Tony now struggled with Rivera and his men while Ziva searched for Abby, Holly and Darren, and McGee raced across the park to get more ammo from the truck.
"Had enough yet Leroy?" Rivera laughed. He'd so far lost five of his men and was not quite so confident as he had previously been. However the loss had just made him more bloodthirsty.
"No!" Gibbs replied. "But you've had it!"
"What?" Rivera teased. Suddenly, Tony's bullet ripped through his forehead and tore his brain apart and emerged the back of his head, sending his bleeding corpse sprawling into his men.
"Come on! Let's flush them!" Gibbs yelled, jumping over his barricade.
"Right behind you boss!" Tony yelled.
NCIS
Ziva spotted the black clothes of the Forensic genius first and raced up the hill.
"Abby! Abby no!" Ziva knelt beside her as she watched the paling Goth.
"Ziva!" Abby said. "Ziva. I'm not hit! But Darren was!"
"Why are you lying down?" Ziva asked in confusion.
"I was knocked out," Abby replied. "Listen, I have a plan."
NCIS
Holly moved backwards, up against the wall, drawing Sophie in as she prepared for the kill.
"Finally, after all this time!" Sophie said. "This is for Uncle Pedro and my cousin Paloma!"
She raised the sword but as she did, Holly kicked her legs as hard as she could and sent the woman toppling over the bridge and into the weeds.
Sophie groaned as she got up, gripping her sword and moving up towards the bridge. The forensic woman was gone but she wouldn't get far, not on a bullet. But oddly there was no sign of anyone else other than the fighters down by the water.
"Hey bitch!" Ziva said. Sophie turned around and lay her sword down. This one she wanted to fight hand to hand.
"Let's go," Sophie said. She launched a kick at Ziva and caught her in the stomach, Ziva retaliated but did not hit Sophie. She grabbed the Ziva and slammed her into the bridge but she kicked back before being ruthlessly hit in the neck.
Sophie backed off as the former Mossad officer shot a hard punch into her gut but quickly returned with a slap which knocked her to the side. She moved up as Ziva forced her to higher ground.
The path was rocky and as Ziva punched Sophie, she almost slipped right away. She held back though, kicking at Ziva's shin and kneeing her in the cervix, making her cry out in pain. She grabbed Ziva's hair and gave it a hard tug, making her scream as she punched the Mossad officer in the chest.
"Happy yet?" Sophie spat.
Ziva was not done yet, she stood down hard on Sophie's toes and punched her in the face, pushing her away but the woman returned with a quick attack and grabbed her face, pressing down on her as she tried to force Ziva's legs out from under her.
"Help!" Ziva yelled.
Sophie smiled and slammed Ziva hard into the ground, wrapping her hands around her throat and choking her.
"You're pathetic you are!" Sophie said, watching Ziva's eyes widen. "No wonder Mossad didn't want you. No wonder your father didn't want you. What are you gonna do? Get your Forensic tech to kill me? She's a little bitch as well you know!"
Ziva gasped for air.
"That coward would probably regret it!" Sophie taunted Ziva about Abby. "She'd go down to my body and cry like a baby. She's not cut out for a government job! She'd be better off dead! I shot her! You know that! One bullet in her chest I'd say she'll be dead by sundown!"
Ziva moved her legs slowly.
"None of you can kill me!" Sophie laughed. "None of you want to kill me! Because you can't kill! Any of you! Not even Gibbs! You're such a peaceful fun loving agency, why would you kill anyone when you could be having fun! You're all failures!"
With all her remaining strength Ziva moved her legs and launched them into Sophie's chest, pushing her up and forcing her to stand as Abby's sword passed through her back and exploded from her chest, spattering Ziva with blood.
"For family, we do!" Abby said ominously. She slowly pulled out the sword and turned Sophie to face her. "And you've broken our family."
With that she plunged the sword in again, hitting a new spot near Sophie's heart. The bitch gasped once and then smiled. Her eyes went blank.
NCIS
"Holly!" Gibbs yelled. He ran up towards the bridge and saw Abby and Ziva, stood sadly beside Sophie, who lay, finally dead for good, on the dirt. "No! She's not..."
He ran onto the bridge, expecting to see Holly lying dead but what he saw was different. Holly knelt, crying as hard as she could, beside Darren whose shirt was covered in blood.
"Why? Why him?" Holly looked up and her face was blotchy with tears.
"Holly," Gibbs was too shocked with the sight of his daughter kneeling beside her dead boyfriend. "I don't know why."
"It hurts daddy, it hurts a lot!" Holly kissed Darren's hand before stroking his face. "Why?"
"He was your Shannon, Holly," Gibbs was crying now too, a rarity for anyone to see. "He was your Shannon."
And together they wept, the wept for Darren and Matt, for Shannon and Kelly, for Kate, Jenny, Paula Cassidy, Mike Frank's and all the others who had died in the line of duty.
The End.
But the story isn't over yet...
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