AN/ Here is the first chapter, we will mostly be following Gibbs and Tony but the rest of the team will be making a appearance. There will be memories of Tony's girls but there will also be Gibbs' memories, since the show doesn't show us a lot about Kelly and Shannon, I'll be making those up as I go. Enjoy the chapter and don't forget to feed my plot bunny with a comment :3
Chapter one
Balboa and Ziva rushed into the room. They had heard the shot and came in with their guns held high.
'Call the paramedics and get Ducky here, he's got some guests.'
'Yes Gibbs,' said Ziva and dialed for a ambulance.
'Balboa with me,' Gibbs said with a nod the a unopened door. Gibbs knew that Tony would be behind that door, but in what kind of condition would he be? Bobrov had made it sound like Tony was broken beyond any repair. Gibbs didn't want to believe that but he feared those words.
'You go on in first Gibbs.'
Gibbs simply nods and opens the door. He squeezed his eyes shut at the brightness of the room, when his eyes adjusted he saw Tony laying on a bed tied up.
His eyes open wide and his mouth moving.
'Tony!?', Gibbs spoke relieved. Gibbs saw the blindfold over Tony's eyes and could see some fading bruises on his face. When he came closer to Tony he could hear words coming from Tony's mouth, he had found it strange that Tony didn't look up when Gibbs had spoken but looking closely at Tony he doubts that Tony heard much of anything.
'What's he saying Gibbs?'
Gibbs looked at Balboa with a pained expression.
'Tik tak, tik tak, tik tak...', says Gibbs. 'Get the paramedics In here Rick, now!'
Balboa nods and leaves the room.
'What have they done to you Tony?' Tony however didn't seem to hear, see or notice Gibbs.
His eyes remained wide open staring at the ceiling.
Tony didn't stop saying tik tak even once.
'What does that mean Tony?' Tony didn't answer
'Tik tak as in time Tony?' Again Tony didn't answer him.
Gibbs placed his hand on Tony's cheek, the skin felt cold and damp.
Gibbs checked out Tony's wounds and winced. The places where Tony had gotten hurt in the gun fight had turned bright red and had swollen, Gibbs would bet his boat on a bet that the wounds are hot to the touch from the infection.
'Agent Gibbs?', came the paramedic's voice.
'In here!'
The paramedics came in and started to work on Tony.
Gibbs started to freak out because Tony didn't stop his mantra even once, and in all this time, he hadn't even blinked once.
'So this is what Bobrov meant', he whispers.
'What did he say Gibbs?'
Gibbs sighed and looked at Ziva.
'That we would find a broken body in there probably beyond any repair...though this isn't exactly what I had expected to find.'
'What is he saying?'
'He's ticking like a clock, it's a form of torture.'
'Never seen it before...how is that torture.'
Gibbs saw the paramedics carry Tony out and sighed.
'Many forms of torture Ziva, they blindfolded him in a empty room with a clock ticking the time away next to him. I don't know for how long but I guess for as long as he's been missing, so for those weeks he was blind in a room listening to the ticking of the clock waiting for rescue or for Bobrov to come back, when they did come they would beat him judging from the fading bruises and leave him alone once again, it's not a common form of torture, but a rather effective one.'
Ziva swallowed at the explanation, she wasn't sure how Gibbs knew so much about it but it sounded reliable, reliable and horrible. She has only a digital clock at home, the ticking of a normal one drives he insane, she couldn't imagine to have nothing to listen to but the ticking of a clock for so many weeks.
'Let a other team process the scene, we're going to the hospital', Gibbs says and walks to the car.
Gibbs sat in a chair next to Tony. The doctors had admitted Tony and were pumping him full of antibiotics to fight off the infection raging through his body.
They had confirmed that Tony had been beaten and that they've been starving him. They had given him a sedative so Tony was sleeping now, for the time being.
Due to the sedative he had stopped his mantra but the question remained if he would start again once he awakened.
Ducky had told him to go home, catch some sleep. But Gibbs couldn't bring himself to leave his agent here all alone.
And if he was completely honest with himself, he had to admit that he didn't want to lose the younger man out of his sight for even a second. The last time that had happened Tony went missing.
But a quick nap wouldn't hurt anybody, he thought as his eyes fell closed.
Dream
Full of panic he returned at their home.
'Have you found her!?', he asked his wife.
'No, she's not at the playground and not at the lake!'
'Damn that girl, I only turned for five seconds and when I turned back she was gone!', he says defeated. They had been looking for their daughter for two hours now.
He had called the police but since she wasn't missing for twenty-four hours yet they did nothing.
'Don't blame yourself sweetheart, it happens to me all the time, lost her last week in the grocery store, we'll find her.'
'But where? We've searched everywhere...'
'Let's search the playground again, maybe we missed something.'
He nodded at his wife's words and went back to the playground searching for their missing daughter. That girl got in more trouble then he held for possible.
A sleepy figure crawled out of the play tunnel and yawned.
'Daddy? Mommy? I'm hungry...'
The relief that had flowed through him almost made his knees buckle.
'Have you been asleep here all this time honey?', he asked kneeling beside her.
'Yes, can we go home eat Daddy?'
'Yes Kelly...we can', he says hugging his daughter close'
'I told you we would find her', Shannon says smug. She had been worried to, but since she loses Kelly a whole lot more often then her husband she was able to remain more clear headed then Leroy.
'I'll bake pancakes', she says smiling.
'Hooray!', Kelly cheered.
Gibbs and Shannon looked smiling at each other, thankful that Kelly had been found.
