Hunted

Fear

Just when we thought we lost him.......

He jumps out right in front of us and has a gun pointed at me.

"Any last words?" He asks with that sinister sound in his voice.

Tony speaks up. "Yeah. I've got something to say."

"And that is?" He is caught by surprise because no one has ever responded like that even in movies.

"ZIVA RUN!" Tony yells as he lunges toward the man. I run as quickly as I can the opposite direction. I hear several gunshots go off. My mind thinks of tony dying automatically but I force myself to keep running and finally I stop and take a break at a tree. I can feel a knot in my throat the size of a horse. Then I finally hear the sound of tony whispering. "Ziva? Ziva!" I go towards him.

"I'm here," I say quietly. He takes my hand and continues walking. "What happened?"

Tony looks at me with a look in his eyes that I've never seen before... "I shot him in the foot so it should slow him down. But he's still after us... We're being hunted. I've already taken the battery out of my cell phone. I'm guessing you did that as soon as you left NCIS. We need to keep moving. Maybe we can try calling Gibbs later. But he's too close for us to stop now." He continues walking.

"Tony... I need to tell you something.. And I guess now is as good a time as any."

"What is it, Ziva?"

"Tony, I'm-"

"Ziva! Look out!" He pushes me down and ducks as a bullet goes by and a gunshot rings out. He grabs my hand and runs. We run for several minutes and finally slow to a walk. "Maybe we can talk later Ziva. Now is not a good time. We really need to keep looking out."

"Oh.. Ok. I guess you're right.." I try not to sound too upset about it but tony can tell. I don't know how long I can live without telling him. I'll have to tell him later.. But as for now, I wait.

We find a nice little spot off to the left by a river and hide ourselves so that it would be hard to find us and we lay down and sleep. We wake up to footsteps nearby. We try to stay as quiet as we can. Finally the footsteps fade. But we stay still another ten minutes just to make sure. We go out and get a small drink of water and eat some crackers I just happen to have had with me when I packed. Those crackers are the only things (besides a knife - Rule 9) that I brought.

We continue walking. "Tony I don't know how much longer I can walk. And you are looking very weary as well. We can't keep this up for much longer.."

I look at him.. He looks back at me with the same look from earlier... I finally realize what that look is.....

Fear.

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