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Chapter 4

Somewhere between Washington DC and Monterrey, a few kilometers above the ground

'What if she kills Tony?', Ziva asked. 'He will survive', Gibbs said. 'How do you know that?'

'It's Tony, Ziva. Calm down', McGee tried to calm her down. 'What if he tries to call us?' 'He won't call us, Ziva. Calm down!'

Gibbs did not say anything. He looked out of the window. McGee sat in the middle between his boss and Ziva and did not like the position very much. Like always, his boss was so difficult to read.

'What if he tells and Reynosa does not see any further use of him?', Ziva asked.

'When you carry on worrying like that one could think that you'd have a crush on him', McGee said nerved. 'What? A crush on him? Don't be ridiculous, McGee! He's our partner. Don't you worry?' 'Of course I do, Ziva. I do', he said and followed the example of his boss and looked out of the window.

In Mexico, obviously…

'I'm fine, thanks', Tony replied. 'You know what I want.' 'You're not a woman who talks a lot', Tony determined. Paloma just looked at him. She turned around to Carolina who stood beside the scene.

'Carry on', she said to her and wanted to walk away. Carolina did not move.

'Wait', Tony screamed. 'I'll tell you. But leave me down', he said. He was still hanging down from the ceiling and he did not feel his wrists anymore. Slowly his whole hand got numb. 'Tell me first', Paloma said and turned back to him.

Without listening to her boss, Carolina took a box and used it to get to Tony's chains and free him from them. He fell down, unstable to stand and landed on the ground, in the small puddle of his own blood. He rolled out of it, stayed lying on the floor. Carolina kicked the box away and threw the chains on the torture instruments table.

'¿Te ha dicho de hacer eso?', señora Reynosa asked.

'No va a aprovecharnos si es muerto', Carolina simply responded and returned to her aside position to free the way for Paloma who went to Tony who turned in pain around on the floor. He looked up to the woman, she was not tall, did not seem to be very strong. The only thing she had was power. 'I need a password to the NCIS database', she said. She did not perfectly speak English (neither do I). Her accent was strongly Spanish.

Tony just looked up to her. There was no pity in her eyes.

'Three…two…one' 'Okay, okay, okay', Tony said and needed time to think.

'First you'll need my user name.' 'I assume that's Tony DiNozzo', Paloma said.

'Anthony DiNozzo', Carolina corrected her from behind. 'Great. The password', Paloma said impatiently.

'There's a magical word', Tony said and tried to smile.

'The magical words are: Come Carolina, give him the rest.' Tony looked over to Carolina who did not move. Paloma impatiently looked at him. 'I-', Tony started but Paloma signaled him to be quiet. She went over to the table where Carolina stood. When the girls stood next to each other, Tony saw, that they pretty much looked the same. Both had long brown hair, Carolina's was a bit darker. She was obviously far younger and more muscular.

She took a long, black stick, better known as a taser. Carolina sighed seeing her with this. She went to Tony and kneed down in front of him. She did not say a word. She just used it.

Tony yelled in pain, as he had done a hundred times before this day. He did not look at the blue flash of lightening. 'A little thunderstorm', Paloma Reynosa said and threw the taser back to Carolina who put it back on the table.

'The thunder is missing', Tony smiled. 'The Americans. Always having the strength to smile', she said. 'Soon you won't have. The password…please!'

Tony looked at her, taking deep breathe. Every single cell in his body hurt. He felt the blood flooding over his body and dropping to the ground. He could barely hold his eyes open. 'Okay', he said.

'Okay.'