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Chapter 18: Execution day
It was the day. I woke up at home in my bed and pulled the covers off. I looked at my phone to see the time. It was 0700, so I had 3 hours before I had to be at the jailhouse. I got myself into the shower thinking about how today was going to be.
I remembered that during the psych evaluations and polygraph tests that they asked when and who was your first kill. I realized that it was going to sound pretty bad saying, My Mother. I couldn't be getting second thoughts I told myself. I then looked down at the stitches in my arm and touched the scabs on my face and scolded myself for letting me think she was doing this for her own good.
I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around myself. When I got back to my room, I pulled on a shirt that was black with lace long sleeves, and lace at the top. I grabbed some jeans and pulled them up. I put on some diamond earrings and a pair of lace over silver dangle earrings that matched the lace on the shirt.
Then I walked over to my bathroom and did my makeup and hair. All I did was sweep some silver eyeshadow over my eyelids and swipe on some mascara. I also put my hair into a waterfall braid all the way around. Then I decided to walk downstairs and get some breakfast.
Once I got downstairs, I noticed Ziva making pancakes and saw my dad walk out of their room with wet hair and a nice suit, like the ones he wore to work. Ziva was wearing a pair of maternity dress pants with a nice shirt on. She was also wearing 4 inch heels.
We all ate, and talked about what we were going to do later today. Nobody mentioned the execution and we had a pleasant time. After the clock turned 0920, we left to go to the jailhouse. I went upstairs and put on my heels. I grabbed my coach purse and walked out the door and into the mustang.
At that point, I really realized what I was doing. I was going to a jailhouse and I was going to be watched by thousands as I pulled the trigger on Eliza for a planned execution. I looked out the window and heard Tony and Ziva whispering to each other, wondering if I would be okay.
When we got there a half hour later, I noticed that Abby, McGee, and Gibbs were also there. Either to be witnesses, or to give me the moral support I really needed. I walked into the jailhouse, where they made me go through a metal detector and my dad sign like fifty papers before I was handed the gun.
I took a deep breath trying not to start shaking. Team Gibbs had a 'group hug' and then my dad pulled me into another hug. "Can you do this?" He asked.
I just nodded and he kissed the top of my head. I turned around as they walked out the doors to go to the other side. An officer explained to me what to do. I understood that I had to get perfect accuracy, and that he would be right behind me if I needed backup. I looked out the window and saw Eliza being cuffed down to a chair and I took another deep breath as the officer opened the door and lead me out to the room where she was at.
She was yelling at me and I just blocked everything out of my ears. I couldn't bring myself to look into her eyes until she yelled directly at me. "I can't believe I kept a mistake like you."
I took one last breath and held it in as I raised the gun and three shots rang out in my ears. I immediately let out the breath I was holding in. I looked over at her body. There was blood flowing out of the wounds, and the officer went over to her. He checked for her pulse before announcing "She's dead."
I looked over to my right and noticed that my dad was already running out of the observation room. The officer walked me out and let me go from the room. When I got out, I walked directly into my dad's arms. "Just know my baby girl, you're NOT a mistake." He whispered before everyone came over and added onto the hug. (Please review with how you think it went! Thanks!)
After five minutes, we all got into our respective cars. I got into the back seat and pulled off my shoes. We drove all the way home and I remembered that we were supposed to go out to lunch. "What happened to going to lunch?" I asked when we pulled in the subdivision.
My dad looked over at Ziva. "We thought you would want to go home instead." He said, and I knew he was nicely implying that he thought I was sad after I killed Eliza.
"She was never my mother. After all, you heard, I was a mistake to her." I told them.
"Well, you will NEVER be a mistake in this family." My dad replied.
We drove out to Applebee's and walked in. "Three." We told the worker there and she put us down at a table in the middle.
At the table, we filled the lunch with small talk about what we should do for the rest of the day. I think that they were letting me decide, because they thought I was still sad about what happened this morning, but no one brought it up.
Eventually we made our way to the car. I looked at Ziva's stomach and spoke up. "Eventually, they'll ask. What do you want me to tell them." I asked her.
"Tell them the truth. I don't want them hidden from our past, eventually I will tell them that I was an assassin. I will explain what happened to my family, and Tony will explain what happened to his. We want them to be living a real life." Ziva told me as we headed towards the mall.
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