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"Well this is irritating" Ziva growled to nobody in particular.

"What is? Maybe I can help." McGee asked from the other side of the bullpen. It was nearing the end of a slow week at NCIS, the sun dipping low in the sky, and casting orange beams of light across Ziva's desk and keyboard, which she pounded angrily. "Stop hitting it" Tim sighed as he walked over.

"It's my Facebook account. It's being all itchy."

"Glitchy?"

"Yes. Whatever." she rolled her eyes and pushed a stray hair behind her ear "It froze and it won't let me click anything."

"Here...lemme see..." he tapped the keyboard for a moment, and the entire open page dissapeared. "There. Now you just have to re-open it." he smiled and returned back to her desk while Ziva mumbled under her breath

"I didn't want to re-open it..." her phone belted out a mechanical tone. "Yeah?" she said into the reciever as she crooked the phone in between her neck and shoulder, so she could talk into the lower end.

"Ziva - come into MTAC immediatley. Bring Mcgee." Gibbs demanded without a shadow of hello.

"Kay-why?" but he had already hung up. She shrugged, hung up the phone, and stood. "Mcgee, come on."

"Where are we going?" his hand hovered over the backpack on the floor.

"MTAC." he stood without touching the gear and followed Ziva up the stairs.

IIIII

The room beeped and buzzed like the inside of a microwave. Quiet employees shimmied around glowing monitors, wearing headsets and occasionaly whispering into them. Gibbs sat in the row of theatre chairs next to an unfamiliar man to Ziva and Tim.

"Since Tony's on call" he said as they walked up, again, no greeting "I need you, Mcgee, to de-crypt a video threat we got from Israel." with the world 'Israel' Ziva's stomach twisted into a knot. Gibbs stared expectantly at them both.

"Wha-what do you want me to do, Gibbs?" Ziva asked after a slightly awkward moment of silence. He stood as he spoke and turned to leave:

"Help him."

IIIII

"I don't know why he's asking me to help you." Ziva said as they walked down the stairs to the bullpen "I know nothing about encryptions."

"Maybe he wants you to help inspect the video feed."

"Possibly." she finished thoughtfully as she sat down at her desk. She glanced over at Tony's empty desk and bit her lip, then turned quickly to see if Mcgee had noticed. He hadn't.

"Uh, lemme bring it up." Tap tap tap click tap "Got it. This is really easy encryption...why didn't he have someone in MTAC do it? Alright..." Mcgee spoke softly to himself Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap click click "oh. okay."

"What?" Ziva asked, mostly to be polite.

"It's layered encryptions. Layers of simple ones on top slowly making their way down to the bottom with incrisingly difficult. Kind of fun, actually almost like a video game..." he trailed off. Tap tap tap tap tap "This should only take a few more minutes."

"Good. I'm going to the restroom." As Ziva left, the elevator doors slid open, and Tony walked in.

"'Sup McNerd? Where's Ziva?" he said quickly as he threw his gear onto the floor with a thump

"Bathroom. Aha! Gibbs wants us to take a look at this encrypted video...lemme just bring this up..."

Tony walked over tp the screen as a video box flew up. Tim grabbed his remote and joined him a second later. The video started playing, with a theatrical old time countdown. "Shouldn't we wait for Ziva?" Tony answered, but a black screen popped up as it had reached one, and a voice played over, in sync with some simple white texted word flying across the dark landscape.

"It's not what you can do for your country...but what your country can do for you..." The voice said ominously. Suddenly, an image flashed across the screen.

"Oh my God-" Mcgee and Tony said at the same second. The video was of Ziva, tied to a chair, hend bent, haired splayed over her face in bloodied matts. The door open as her interrigator walked in. Ziva whimpered.

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