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Chapter 4

When they arrived at NCIS it was very late and almost all of the workers had already gone home. But as they arrived at their bullpen they found Abby and McGee waiting for them, Gibbs having called them from the car. The moment they stepped out of the elevator Abby ran towards Ziva who stepped round AJ asleep in his pram to hug her friend.

"I'll take him to the conference room" Tony said quietly and after setting one baby monitor down on his desk he took the pram and the other monitor towards the conference room where hopefully, AJ would sleep whilst they looked for his older sister.

Once he was gone Abby looked at Ziva. "Do you think this is Mossad" she asked "trying to take Tali again?"

Ziva let out a shaky breath "I don't know" she whispered "it is very possible but I don't believe my father would take Amir as well, unless he had a plan for him too."

"Whoever it is we will find them" Gibbs said firmly. "Abby here is Tali's knife and both of their cell phones, see if you can get anything from them… we also collected a couple of cigarette butts, but they might be unrelated of course."

Abby nodded and after giving Ziva one last hug she took the evidence and headed off to her lab.

"McGee I need you to pull security camera footage, as much as you can, try and track Tali and Amir's movements from the moment they left school till they entered that park. Tony will help you go through it when he gets back" Gibbs continued.

McGee sat down and instantly began to type any trace of weariness leaving him as he began to search for his honorary niece and her best friend.

"Ziva" Gibbs said and Ziva looked up at him "do you have any contacts you can trust in Mossad?" he asked.

Ziva nodded slowly "only a couple" she said.

"Call them" Gibbs instructed "see if they know anything about this, we need to know if this is once again Mossad."

Slowly Ziva headed over to her desk and reached for her phone. It wasn't long before she began to speak in Hebrew to whoever was on the other line.

Gibbs waited until Tony was back and was helping McGee scan through all the security footage before he called Director Vance. As he expected Vance wasn't too pleased about being called so late but when he heard about what had happened he said he would come in immediately. Before hanging up though he pointedly said "you know I have been seriously considering fitting that girl with a tracking device. Now I really think it would be a good idea."

Gibbs didn't warrant that with a comment. He just hung up before calling the airports to ask for lists of all flights and their passenger logs. He wanted to know who had come into the country recently.

When Vance arrived he immediately came over asking what they had. "Airports are sending over passenger lists" Gibbs said "I have asked them to go back at least three months."

"I have called all of my contacts in Mossad and any family members that are still alive and speak to me" Ziva said putting down her phone "none of them knew anything about my father taking Tali again. One of my Mossad contacts told me that he wanted too but so far hadn't acted. They all promised to keep an eye out for anything and will call me back if they hear anything."

Vance nodded "what time was your daughter supposed to arrive home?" he asked.

Ziva shrugged "she and Amir usually arrive home between 1800 and 1830 because we usually aim to have dinner around seven. If she is running late she always rings which was why at 1900 when she still wasn't home I knew something wasn't right." Clearly thinking things over Vance nodded.

A small cry sounded through the baby monitor then and Ziva quickly rose to her feet and headed off to fetch her baby son who had obviously woken up in a strange room and was wondering where he was.

"Ok I think I might have something" McGee said from where he and Tony were sitting looking at two computer screens. They both rose and everyone gathered round the monitor to see.

"Ok so we first found Tali and Amir leaving the school together at the normal time" McGee began "as usual they walked to the gym, booked a studio for five and then sat down in the cafeteria where they did some homework" he showed them all surveillance of Tali and Amir sitting at a table with some drinks, bags on the floor beside them with their homework spread across the tables.

"Then they go into the gym and spar as usual before coming out at 1805" McGee continued showing them the footage of Tali and Amir exiting the gym looking slightly dishevelled but talking happily.

"They walked to the bus, boarded it and then got off at the stop at the other end of the park to where you live" McGee added as the footage showed Tali and Amir heading into the park. "Unfortunately we never saw them leaving" McGee said and Gibbs frowned "how is that possible" he questioned.

"Because they didn't leave on foot" Tony said quietly and McGee rewound to the beginning of the video.

"See this van" he said pointing to a dark coloured van in the background of the shot "it followed them from the school to the gym, from the gym to the bus stop. It then followed the bus to the park where it continued on down a street where it stopped out of sight of cameras for a few minutes. Then at 1821 it was caught on this camera heading northeast on the 295… we haven't managed to find where it leaves, I am running the partial number plate now."

"Good work both of you" Gibbs said quietly before they all looked round as there was a small mumble of "Tahleee" and they saw that Ziva was coming back with a tired looking AJ in her arms and pushing the pram in front of her. The little boy was clutching his toy rhino and curling his little toes up against the cool air but his eyes were fixed on the plasma where there was a picture of Tali and Amir walking down the street.

A look of apprehension crossed over both Tony and Ziva's faces seconds before the little boy looked up and asked "where tahleee moma?"

Ziva faltered briefly as she looked down at her son waiting for the answer "Tali's with Amir neshama" she whispered running her hand through his dark brown hair "they are gone for a few days."

AJ frowned. He didn't of course understand everything Ziva said to him but he seemed to get the general message. "Tahhlee gone" he asked and Ziva nodded before biting her lip as he pouted he bottom lip "no" he said stubbornly "wan tahlee."

"Oh my aheva I want her too" Ziva whispered pressing her lips to the top of his head "but she'll be back real soon." AJ didn't look like he was going to accept his mother's promise but then to their relief he rested his head down against her chest and snuggled down obviously still tired and not fully understanding what was going on.

Ziva moved slowly over to the others rubbing AJ's back "can we run facial recognition on the driver's face" she asked and McGee quickly zoomed in.

"It's blurry but I'll go down to Abby and work on clearing it up" he said and disappeared off whilst Tony headed over to his desk to call Tali and Amir's school head teacher to ask if they had seen any vans around their area recently.

Gibbs looked round at Ziva still standing there hugging her son. Her phone rang then and she glanced at it before looking at Gibbs "can you hold him for one minute" she asked quietly and he nodded and carefully took the small boy into his arms allowing him to shift around to get comfortable as he moved over to his desk and sat down thinking.

He couldn't understand why someone would come after both Tali and Amir after all they had been through. They had both made it pretty clear that they didn't want anything to do with anyone in Israel. Would Mossad have come after Tali and taken Amir too? What could they possibly want from her? And was Amir actually a target as well? Or was he just taken for being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

He frowned then, as another thought occurred to him; was Tali actually the target? Or was it Amir? Out of the two of them Tali would be the more likely of the two, but he wouldn't rule out the possibility that she wasn't the intended target.

He looked over at Ziva who was speaking rapidly in Hebrew again. She sounded pleading and he saw Tony look up at her from his desk with sad eyes. Gibbs knew he really hated seeing her so upset. God forbid he had seen it enough over the years. They really were magnets for danger that family they didn't deserve it any more than anyone else, yet it did keep happening, he just hoped that after they found Tali and Amir that they might finally find some peace.

Ziva hung up the phone and sighed "one of my contacts in Israel said he couldn't find anything hinting that Tali was in my father's sights again, I asked him to keep looking and he said he will but I don't know what more there is we can look for from Israel."

Gibbs nodded as she rose and moved back over to him. He carefully handed her back her sleeping son watching as she cradled him protectively. He knew how she was feeling. She had had Tali ripped away from her so many times that deep down she was terrified the same thing might happen to Aiden. Tony, Ziva and Tali were all so protective of AJ; no one wanted him to have the same childhood that Tali had.

He looked up at the image of Tali and Amir on the screen staring at the two of them as they entered the park. Then he frowned and slowly stood up moving over to study the picture.

"DiNozzo" he said slowly and Tony looked up "did you find Amir's bag at the scene?"

"No" Tony said slowly "why?"

"Because he is seen entering the park with it but you didn't find it… so where is it?" Gibbs asked looking at him.

Tony frowned "I'll go double check the park again" he said leaping to his feet "But if it isn't there then that must mean that…"

"Whoever took them took it" Gibbs finished "and why would they take Amir's bag but not Tali's?"

Tony nodded and dashed out of the bullpen.

Gibbs looked at Ziva "can you get a hold of Amir's emails" he asked and Ziva nodded "what are you thinking Gibbs?" she questioned.

"I just have a hunch" Gibbs responded and as Ziva began to type with one hand, the other wrapped round her now sleeping son, he then quickly headed towards the elevator deciding to go get his tired team a coffee.

Once in the elevator he found himself pulling out his wallet where he tugged a dog-eared photo out of one of the slots and studied it.

It had only been taken a couple of months ago in the height of summer when everyone had been having a barbeque round his house. They had all invited Amir as well and he had enjoyed seeing what a gentleman the boy was towards Tali.

The picture had been taken after lunch when everyone was just sitting around. AJ had been crawling round the garden at a remarkable speed before he had eventually tired and had headed over to where Tali and Amir were sitting in the grass and Tali had lifted her little brother up to sit on her lap.

That was when Tony had pulled out his phone and told the three of them to smile and had captured this beautiful image of Tali grinning at the camera hugging her little brother tightly as the boy laughed delightedly, holding one hand out towards the camera. Amir was sat beside them grinning, not at the camera, but at Tali, smiling at the look of joy on her face.

"Hang in there you two wherever you are" Gibbs murmured "just hold on, we will find you just give us time."

But the hunch he was having was telling him that something wasn't right with this whole situation. And time was not something any one of them had the luxury of having.

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