Author's note: I did do a little POV jumping, but that's the way I like writing. I try to make the transitions as clear as possible. Just to give you a little warning. I hope you guys like this one! I tried my best, I really did.

Tony felt terribly awkward when he found Ziva with the girl; Ziva didn't exactly let him know why she required his assistance. He never gave it much thought as to why she would tell him to bring clothes and water to a random alley in the center of DC, but he definitely wasn't expecting to walk into some sort of rape scene. When he got there, he pulled Ziva away to speak to her. Actually, more like yell quietly into her ear. Ziva chose to ignore his complaints; she just dressed the girl in Tony's sweatpants and sweatshirt and walked to the car, with her arm around the girl the whole time.

The car ride to the hospital was long and uncomfortable, even though it was only about a ten minute drive. But the tension in the car made each minute feel like an hour, it felt. Ziva had yet to explain anything to him at all. He didn't know who the girl was, what her business was, and why Ziva felt the need to spend her time babysitting the kid. But he chose not to complain any more, he could tell that Ziva was not in the mood.

By the time Tony and Ziva made their way to the hospital with Paige, Gibbs was already there waiting to talk to the two of them. He had gotten a call from Ziva that she might have found a lead on their case, but he didn't know a trip to the hospital was involved. He was almost sure what they did was against protocol in some way or another, but he didn't really care about that. This girl brought the team that much closer to catching the sick bastard they've been hunting for weeks, and frankly, Gibbs was eternally grateful to Ziva. For the moment, anyway.

"Gibbs," Ziva said, calling his name. She had just made sure Paige was getting the proper examination she needed, and now she could relax for a second. Tony was sitting there in the waiting room, staring at nothing off in the distance. He was more than ready to go back to the office. Tony had gotten no sleep last night, and he hoped to get to the office and do nothing for the day. But instead, his day started extra early with this lovely scenario. Gibbs was standing next to him, waiting for Ziva to come back out with some details. He could hear Tony's fingers clicking impatiently on the plastic arm rest of the waiting room chair. Tony breathed a sigh of relief as he watched Ziva emerge from the doors of the ER, with determination in her eye and a notepad in her hand.

"The girl's name is Paige Romano; her father's name is Staff Sergeant Andrew G. Romano. He is currently stationed in Iraq, and her mother died of cancer ten months ago. She is living with her grandmother on her mother's side, Helen Grey..She has no other living relatives besides her father and grandmother. Romano claims she was raped while on her way to get milk for her grandmother around midnight. Apparently there was only one man, and she couldn't see his face, even though the attacker wasn't wearing a face mask. All she remembers is that he was "white and was blonde" Ziva said, reading her notepad she had used to question Paige with while they were waiting for Tony to pick them up. "I know it's not a lot, but it's the best I could get."

Gibbs took the notepad out of Ziva's hand and threw it in down into Tony's lap. His head shot up into the air, his eyes alert for the smallest second before he realized what was just given to him.
"DiNozzo, bring that to McGee. Tell him to pull up any information on the Romano's and her grandmother. We might have something here." Gibbs instructed, stiffly pointing to the door when Tony didn't get up right away.

"Oh, yeah, right away, Boss." Tony recited, bouncing out of his chair, taking a moment to adjust his tie, and headed towards the door. Before he could go anywhere, a stocky woman with graying hair came charging through the entrance and practically shoving Tony right into Ziva.

"Where's my granddaughter? Where's Paige?" She shouted at the nurse stationed at the check-in desk. The young woman looked alarmed and began frantically searching through the registry on the computer, looking for the name.

"I think we found Helen Grey." Ziva said, gently nudging Gibbs in the side. The corner of his mouth went up in an amused smirked, and he motioned for Tony to wait before he headed out to the office, in case they could get any information from Grey. Gibbs walked over towards the old woman, touching her arm to grab her attention, and she turned around sharply.

"I'm busy right now, excuse me." She responded harshly, turning back toward the young woman at the desk. Gibbs reached into his pocket, and said "Special Agent Gibbs, NCIS" as he flashed the gold badge and I.D. Grey turned back towards Gibbs, this time a little more concern on her face.

"What can I help you with, Agent Gibbs?" Grey said, raising her eyebrows coarsely as she said his name. Gibbs flipped closed his badge and put in back in his pocket, starring at the woman with his ice-blue eyes. He didn't exactly like her tone.

"Helen Grey? Your granddaughter, Paige Romano, is currently involved in an NCIS investigation." Gibbs said inferiorly, watching the woman's face become grave with worry.

"What...what happened? Is she alright?"

"Well, you're at a hospital right now, what do you think?" By now Ziva had walked over to Gibbs and joined in the conversation. Grey's face had become even more alarmed by now, and she turned back to the nurse, who now had the girl's room number and information all ready.

"Paige Romano, room 12a, right down the hallway to your left." She began to walk hurriedly toward the door, but was stopped abruptly from Gibbs's arm, which was ejected out in front of her.

"Wait. Agent David goes with you" Gibbs said sternly. "Romano's a witness. We're not taking any chances." Grey turned and looked over Ziva, and Ziva just smiled back politely, with a hint of contradiction in her eyes. She had a gut feeling this woman was bad news.

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