Summary: Set in S5E16 “Recoil,” when Hoffman tried to kill Ziva in a warehouse and she killed him, instead. What if that scene had gone a bit differently?
It was a beautiful day in Washington, D.C. in an empty warehouse, as Hoffman stood with a hand gun aimed at Ziva’s head, Ziva standing in front of some bars, her back to him, as he had ordered her to do.
As he pulled the trigger, she turned around to face him and gave him a flying kick, which he hadn’t expected her to do, since she was undercover. That made the gun fly out of his hand.
Revolver free, he came at her and grabbed her, pinning her to the floor with him on top of her. She kicked him off her and crawled towards the abandoned revolver. And as she did, she felt him grab her waist and drag her back towards him, away from the weapon.
Somehow, she got slammed against the bars by him and felt pain by her abdomen, before she could kick him some more. She ignored the pain though and managed to get a good kick in from where she was seated on the floor, making him stagger back a few steps and drop the bloody knife.
As he came towards her, gun in hand again, her vision blurry and dim, Tony came in, his own gun aimed at him. She saw him stop him and Gibbs arrest him and walk him out. Then she saw Tony put his own gun away and rush over to her.
He knelt at her side and was about to ask if she was okay, until he saw that she was injured.
“Hold on, Ziva,” was all he could say.
As he applied pressure to her wound with a hand, trying to keep her from losing a lot of blood, he could tell that she was losing consciousness.
The last thing she saw was Tony’s face, before everything went black for her.
A few hours later, after she was taken care of at the hospital, she slowly came to to see that tony was seated in a chair at her bedside.
“Hey,” he greeted.
“Hey,” she greeted back to him.
She gave him a smiled and he smiled back.
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