"Now I suggest you let me go because I don't think my guys will be so lenient this time around."

"Lenient? Your pet ninja practically broke my wrist." Jen snorted, Ziva would have a field day if she heard that.

"Believe me Kort, she could have done a hell of a lot more damage if we had let her loose." Kort glared at her and she continued, cocking her head as if studying him. "Did you know that Kort means short in Dutch?"

He glared at her again. Jen couldn't help it, she smiled back, not because she was deluded enough to think he wouldn't hurt her, she knew he would if she pushed him far enough, he had already proved that, but because she knew by now, Gibbs and his team would be tracking her down. She pushed down her regret when she thought of Jethro, not wanting Kort to see any weakness, but wanting Gibbs to barge through the door right now. She glanced towards the door, Kort caught her movement.

"He isn't coming." He said, glee evident in his eyes.

"Who?" She feigned ignorance. He smirked.

"Your Jethro." He said, she narrowed her eyes slightly at the use of the word "your" and crossed her arms in front of her. "I've hidden my tracks, plus, if he finds you, you might already be dead." She just hoped that he hadn't hidden his tracks too well.

"Gibbs!" Abby launched herself in to his arms as he walked into her lab. He allowed himself to pull her to him briefly, not wanting to let anyone know just how worried he was about Jen but needing the comfort of contact anyway. He let her go and waited for her to release him, when she didn't he tugged on her arms.

"Can't breathe, Abs." She let go and smiled apologetically.

"Ooooh Gibbs, that man makes me so angry, you know what I'm gonna do when you find him? Well probably set Ziva on him…BUT if I was Ziva I would…"

"Abs…" Gibbs interrupted, she glanced at him, her mouth open mid sentence, "And how am I gonna find him?" He asked. Abby shook her head slightly.

"I don't know…He has covered his tracks pretty well Gibbs, last place CIA saw him was here," She pulled up a birds eye view of a warehouse, "That was when he slipped passed the surveillance…you could start there, find me anything and everything there and I will tell you something else, right now I've got nothing." She shrugged. Gibbs's phones buzzed and he pulled it out of his pocket.

"Gibbs…" He barked down the phone.

"Gibbs, you could have answered more politely, you might hurt someone's feelings." Gibbs signed to Abby to start a trace on the cell and she typed furiously at her keyboard.

"I'll make this easy for you Kort, tell me where you are and I won't kill you." Gibbs said, glancing at Abby who signed that she needed more time.

"How stupid of me to assume that you would be mature about this." Kort replied.

"Mature? I wasn't aware that kidnapping was mature Kort." Gibbs replied, Kort chuckled.

"I need you to get your computer genius to hack into the Directors computer and wipe everything about me off it." Kort said. Gibbs laughed bitterly.

"What makes you think that I won't just make a copy?" He asked.

"Because I have something you want." Kort replied, and then hung up. Abby glanced at Gibbs, his jaw muscles were rippling and his knuckles around his cell had gone white. She dreaded having to be the bearer of bad news.

"He called from an un-traceable cell, Gibbs."

"Well make it not un-traceable."

"Gibbs, it doesn't work like…I'll see what I can do." She turned back to her computer. He kissed her cheek.

"Thank you Abs." He knew he had to keep everyone on his good side because he needed one hundred and ten percent from everyone if they were going to find her in time, and he had no idea how much time he had.

"Is that it? Is that all you want?" Jen asked incredulously, "Why didn't you just ask me?"

"Because I know you, Director, I know that you would have made a copy…Gibbs on the other hand, I can trust that he won't do anything too…rash. I have a bargaining chip."

"Jethro doesn't play nicely with other people Kort, you know that. He also doesn't negotiate." She said, standing up, trying to put herself on as equal a footing with Kort as she could.

"Still clinging on to the desperate hope that he will save the day?" He asked, scowling at her with scorn.

"I have no doubt about it; But I am also not deluded enough to think that you won't kill me before he gets here but remember this…Jethro will kill you this time."

Thank you Jonah for telling me that Kort means short in Dutch, hilarious! Ooooh and Jonah, another fun fact please?

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