Ok, this is the next chapter. I hope you'll like it.
Chapter two: Do you love your kids?
The stream with the man closed and now they could only see the room with Ziva and Abby.
The whole squad room looked over to Gibbs and his team. Gibbs was looking at the screen in shock.
"Who is this guy?" McGee wanted to know.
Gibbs still watched the screen. Without taking his eyes of it he said: "I have no idea. But we need to figure that out, quickly."
Tony stood next to him and then suddenly hurried to his desk, taking his phone and dialling a number.
"What are you doing?" Gibbs asked.
"See, if I can reach Ziva or Abby."
"They won't answer." Tim said shortly then tuned to his boss. "We should inform the director and ask for permission to use the MTAC for this. It wouldn't be good if the whole NCIS is peeking over our shoulder. Besides there are good video analysing programs and the quality of the speakers and microphones is much better."
Gibbs simply nodded.
Director Vance had a lot of questions and McGee only had few answers. But he allowed them to use the MTAC. When McGee managed to get the video file onto the large screen he also noticed an audio file. Gibbs gave order to turn it on and know they could see and hear Abby and Ziva.
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Abby still sat on the ground looking at Ziva who paced the room restlessly like a captured panther.
"How did we end up here?" Abby wondered, speaking up for the first time since the light was turned on.
Ziva just shrugged.
"The last thing I remember is this Finnigan guy. You know the man in the 'Lucky heaven bar' who pretended to be a federal agent…."
"…and ran out, when I showed him my badge." Ziva added.
"Maybe this is his revenge…" Abby considered.
Ziva stopped and thought about it for some seconds. "Don't think so."
Abby lend her head against the hard concrete and looked up to the ceiling: "What do you think is that for?"
Ziva also looked up. There was a big blue pipe reaching into the room. Small water-drops were dripping out of it.
"Some old water pipeline."
"I want out of here." Abby whispered sadly.
"Don't worry as soon as somebody opens this door, we have the chance to escape. Of course after I'm done with him or her." Ziva said angrily and started pacing again.
Abby remembered. Ziva hated to be locked in somewhere. The time she was captured by Saleem was horrible, even though she never talked much about it.
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After this discussion the girls fell silent.
"DiNozzo, go and check the 'Lucky heaven bar' and try to…." Gibbs started.
"Find the Finnigan guy. On it boss.", Tony said.
"Take McGee with you."
Both agents hurried out of the room.
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Tony drove to the bar like a maniac. McGee tuned slightly green and was happy when he could get out of the car.
"You know you still have to follow the road traffic act." Tim said as they where approaching the bar.
Tony stopped and tuned towards him: "There's a man who has Ziva and Abby under his thumb and god knows what he is going to do to them and you are lecturing me about the road traffic act?" he said angrily.
Tim lifted his hands in a calming gesture and said quietly: "I know it's a bad situation, but driving us both to death won't help. So let's check on the bar."
The door was closed, but Tony could see someone inside behind the counter. He knocked.
"We are closed!", a female came from inside.
"Federal agents! Open the door!", Tony said loudly.
"Yeah, Like I'm going to believe that.", the woman laughed.
Tony knocked again but this time he used his badge.
That helped. The woman behind the counter hurried to open the door.
"I'm sorry… I thought it was some joke. I'm Lina.", she apologised. She was pretty. Long blond hair and dark blue eyes but know she looked shocked.
"It's okay, can we come in for a moment?" Tim asked and she let them in.
"Can I get you anything?" Lina asked, clearly showing her bad conscience.
"No thank you."
"I'm really sorry. There is this man who always pretends to be a federal agent to charm the girls and get free drinks, I just thought…."
Tony cut her of: "You know this guy? His name, maybe?"
She thought about it for a moment: "Marcel… Marcel Finnigan, I think. He comes here often."
"These girls, have they been here yesterday?" Tim asked showing her a photo of Abby and Ziva which was taken at the last NCIS New Year's eve party.
She nodded: "Yes, I remember. She must have been a real agent and scared the guy away." She said pointing at Ziva. "The other ladies last night were grateful and bought a couple of drinks for those two"
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Gibbs had ordered a student apprentice to bring him all the files about every case he had ever worked on. By now there were about fifteen boxes and the poor boy said he was going to get the other sixteen.
But Gibbs just grabbed the first file from the first box. Maybe the silhouette-man was in one of his old cases.
"Agent Gibbs." One of the computer experts, who were constantly working in the MTAC called him: "There is an incoming stream."
He looked up: "Put it through and try to find the source" He took his headset and turned it on.
The silhouette-man appeared as the video opened. "Any leads on me?", he asked.
"No. But you could tell me about yourself." Gibbs suggested trying to get this man to talk.
"That's not the way it works." The raspy voices sounded almost soft: "But, if it makes you happy we can talk a bit. Tell me, do you love your kids?"
Gibbs didn't answer.
The man laughed softly: "Oh I know you have a big family. And you exchange lost members like you change your underwear, don't you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, your first wife and daughter died and you got married easily again and again and again. And you found substitutes for your little girl. First Tony, he is your oldest son, isn't he? Then Abby. Oh the sweet little Abby, now gone. And then Tim…. not to mention Kate… and after her death you simply exchanged her for a new one. Ziva. But no, you didn't want her at first, right? I can't say I don't understand. I don't like her either. Much too powerful for a woman. And she killed her own brother. What kind of person does that? Do you think she will kill Abby to, if that's the way to get out? But enough of this badly raised girl. Tell me, how does it feel to go on after such losses like Kelly, Shannon, Kate or even Jenny?"
Gibbs swallowed and clenched his fists but remained silent.
"For me it was hard. I never found love again after you took it away. I'll ask again: Do you love your kids? Cause they are in danger, and I'm not talking about the girls. They are safe with me, for now. But the boys are at the 'Lucky heaven bar' right? I might just push this button and blow them up."
He saw the man pushing a button and the stream was lost.
"Call Agent DiNozzo!", Gibbs ordered one of the woman in the room with panic in his voice.
tbc