Rising of the sun pt 2 Final

CHAPTER ONE – Piece of Cake with a Cherry on Top

Ziva stared at her 'dead' sister a sight before her that she thought she will not have seen until the next life. Apart from the obvious ageing her sister was still beautiful as she remembered.

Before, the joy can be celebrated and answers to questions can be asked. Tali pushed Ziva aside as she saw the state her friend who she consider more of a sister to her all these years was hurt and bleeding. "Aminah… Hold on…. You are not dying on me… Not that night… and not now. You be fine! You hear me? You WILL be fine!" Tali took off her jacket to keep Aminah warm as well as to stop the blood flow. Ziva could all but stand and watch, forgetting about the pain that's over her body and her own injury that stung more then cause her any permanent injury, she once again repeated her sister's name. "Tali?"

Hearing her name been repeatedly being called out she got up and stood in front of Ziva's face. Her temper raged like an out of control fire that would have the strongest of men struggling to control, her eyes blazing as she stared into the eyes of her elder sister. "This is your fault…" It took a while before the infamous 'David' temper took its hold on Ziva and she twice as much made her own feelings known. "…MY FAULT!?... You think I asked for all this to happen? For McGee to get kidnapped! You are PISSED at ME!? ! I am not the one who played dead over ten years ago. We buried you… I…"

"You… let her take the bullet which was meant for you!..." Tali cut her off. "… You cause her pain like last time, when you…"

"…I do not mean to break this warm and fuzzy family' reunion' up. But I am dying over here." Both of the sisters stopped and looked back at Aminah before retuning to the fallen woman, their friend, who was born to be an enemy to them. "Sorry…" Tali turned and went back to tend to her, Ziva followed before being pushed back by Tali. "Like I said you had hurt her before… Be useful and get help."

"Tali…" Aminah warned but the words spoken came out in a whisper that she nearly had to go bend further down to hear them. "NO! Sooner or later SHE has to face the truth on what she did to you and to others. I'm not letting her come near you!" Ziva looked at her confused, but did what she was told and just stood back and watch as Tali struggled to make Aminah more comfortable. She caught Aminah's little smile at her sympathising with her as she try to make sense of all the chaos. "ZIVA!" Ziva turned her head at the direction the voice came from and saw the silhouette of the man who shouted out followed by the man himself. GIBBS!

He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and looked at her taking all her injuries in. His face shown of concern but disappointment as well and he let her know it not by the words he said but the tone that he said them. "You have a lot of writing and explaining to do." Was all that he said, coldly before he too went over to Aminah's side. "Gibbs…" She knew, even before she said his name that it was futile he was not willing to listen to what she had to say. "He's fine by the way…" The shock of having her friend near death and the sudden reappearance of her 'dead' sister gave her a momentarily lapse about McGee. "...McGee… He's fine. You were going to ask about him weren't you? " He said nothing more as he concentrated on the fallen woman before him.

Warm, salty tears trailed down her cheeks as she tried her best to control all emotions that she was feeling right then. That was not the only thing that was playing on her mind, thanks to Alleyah McGee now knows that it was HER that killed Ari and NOT Gibbs and god only knows what else she had told him. She also felt guilty that even after knowing her father used her to replace Rivkin for his own personal cause then for a professional one, she still chose to protect her father over her colleague, who she considers him her 'brother'.

She suddenly felt catastrophic and in the need of fresh air she watched as Gibbs went down on one knee and stroked Aminah's hair and comforting her. She needed to get out of there as she turned to head for the stairs not one of them paid her any attention or notice her leave..

Gibbs with the touch of a father shushed Aminah as she tried to speak, he saw her eyes filling up and wiped the tears when she blinked and they rolled down at the side of her head as she battled to fight the pain that she was in. "Sssh… It's going to be okay, you are going to be fine…" He told her gently as if he was comforting his own child. "We take you to the hospital…"

"NO! NO HOSPITAL!" Tali shouted. "Why?" Gibbs asked as he faced her. "She needs urgent medical attention. More then what you are capable of, what you are giving her." Gibbs tried to reason. "You do not understand." Tali spoke, now in a calm voice. "She can not be taken there. You do not get it? Aminah works there. That will be the first place that, that woman would look. Also knowing she will be guarded by your agents, your people. She will not hesitant to do some damage to the hospital. Damage that would over shadow the Oklahoma bombing, She would not care who she kills, not even children. THAT is how dangerous she is if she is not stopped. "

"Believe me I KNOW how dangerous she is…But your friend needs to be looked at." Gibbs studied her noting that she reminded him of someone that also had a lot of passion, the eyes that showed her true soul underneath of all her hard exterior. "Who exactly are you?"

"That can wait, she can not. No hospital."

"Then what do you suggest?" Gibbs sighed. She thought about what she had been told about this man, if it is true then both she and Aminah will be in safe hands. "Your house. We can treat her there. Your medical examiner can help her. Yes?"

"He works on the dead not the living." Gibbs did not want to involve another member of the team into a situation that seems to be getting messier and messier by the second. "He still has the knowledge of stopping the bleeding plus any trouble; Aminah will help…Please…" Tali begged.

Gibbs felt a hand touch his and looked at the source. "She is right… Mr Gibbs we can not use the hospital without her causing trouble I will not let my colleagues their families suffer for..." She stopped as she coughed up blood. Gibbs needed to calm her down and to get Ducky to see her fast. "Please." Tali begged. Gibbs stood up and took a deep breath. 'This is going be a long day.' He thought before nodding his head in agreement. "Okay we go to mine."

Tali too stood up and smiled, knowing that Gibbs was sticking his neck out for them so she made a deal with him. "You have my thanks as repayment you will get the answers to your questions."

He nodded in agreement. Now all he needed to do now was to figure a way of getting Aminah out of this building, into a car, having a hassle free journey, getting to his place safely and having her looked and treated by Ducky. All this whilst avoiding attention, of course; which there will be considering the amount of bodies turning up. "Be like a piece of cake, with a cherry on top."