Chapter 1

Okay Guys...chapter one is up! Hope it is okay...tried to incorporate a bit of Tiva in...and dont worry, this is not a deathfic, only minor, non named characters will die, if any. Thanks for the reviews! hope this is okay!

Disclaimer: Only own Maddie, sadly!

Ziva blinked, struggling to clear her eyes of dust. Her ears were ringing, and she bought her hand to her ear, pulling it away at the touch of blood. She remembered standing in the bullpen...Gibbs and Jenny arguing...and then the explosion...the explosion! Ziva finally was aware of her surroundings, her eyes raking over the chaos that had erupted. The roof had collapsed, and she was pretty sure that she was on a floor lower than what she was previously on...maybe the basement? The ex Mossad agent began flexing her limbs and looking over herself, trying to see if she was injured. Even a small jig sent waves of excruciating pain down her right side, and turning her head to look, she saw the skin there was raw and blackened, burnt away almost to the bone. Gritting her teeth she tore her gaze away, this time, searching the vicinity for another life form, one of her team members, hoping, praying they were all still alive.

Looking around, she saw a body lying near hers. The knotted, brown, but now almost black hair helped Ziva identify it as Maddie's. Hope drained out of her at the sight of the blood, pooling slowly outwards from her head, and her pale skin, white next to her olive colour. Turning away from the young girl, whose life was cut too short, she looks around for other members of her team.

"Tony?" Ziva questioned, calling out for her partner, her love. She hoped he was still alive...she had never gotten to say those three important words to him, show him how much she cared. A muffled grunting could be heard towards her right, and it was unmistakably Tony's. At the sound she had missed, the sound of his velvet voice, her heart sped up as she craned her neck to try and spot him.

"Tony? Are you okay?" She calls out, louder this time in hope for an audible response.

"Zee?" His voice is tired and quiet, almost forced. He was lying under a large piece of timber…possibly the remains of one of the dividers. That gave him limited movement, but enough to realise he wasn't that badly injured, maybe a few cuts that would leave some scars. He was lucky, having been the furthest away from the origin of the explosion. Maddie and Ziva…he didn't want to think what condition they were in…or anyone in the elevator….it was lucky it was late and not many people were in the building.

"Are you okay? Tony!" Ziva was almost hysterical.

"I'm fine...few cuts and bruises, nothing to serious! This is like in those James Bond Movies..." He trails off, halfway through one of his movie references. "Are you injured Ziva?" His voice is genuinely worried for her, and she cant help but smile.

"I am fine!" She replies.

"No you're not. Are you injured?" Even he didn't miss the worry and hurt in her voice.

Ziva sighs, before answering, "I am mostly fine. My whole right side is burnt…I can see the bone Tony!" She doesn't try to hide the fear in her voice anymore. "Maddie…I think she's dead Tony! She's bleeding, there's so much blood!" The tears fall freely from her face as she tries to spot Tony, see his face, see for herself that he is alright.

"It'll be okay Zee, I promise. Can you stand?" Tony's voice sounds muffled again. Ziva nods, forgetting for a moment he cant see her.

"Yes!" She calls out, pausing before asking, "Can you see anyone else?" She doesn't wait for his reply, pushing herself to her feet, ignoring the pain that was threatening to overwhelm her, and slowly moving towards the sound of his voice.

"Nope…I'm sort of stuck." A grunting follows this and then Ziva David can see his head, a goofy smile writing itself across his face as their eyes meet.

"Not anymore!" Ziva would almost have laughed if the situation wasn't so serious. "We need to look for the others….I was closest to Maddie when…when it happened. We were over there…if you were there, that means McGee must be over there and Gibbs must be very close…"she trails off, having no idea what to do about everyone else.

Both agents spread out, digging through rubble. Before Tony went looking, he made his way over to Maddie. Nothing could have prepared him for what he saw. Her whole body was red, bits of shrapnel had embedded themselves in her skin, which was pale and deathly white. And he saw what Ziva meant about the blood. Reaching down, he was amazed to be met with a weak, slow pulse under his fingertips.

"Ziva! Maddie's alive!" He called out, finally giving them a small amount of good news. He was surprised to hear Gibbs, not Ziva answering.

"DiNozzo! If you're done playing doctor, get over here and help me and McGee!"

YAY! GIBBS IS ALIVE! AND MCGEE! lol...Feedback would be great!

xx Agent-David101