NCIS:

HAUNTED BY THE NIGHTMARES...

Disclaimer:

NCIS and characters do not belong to me.

SUMMARY:

Every year Ziva is hauted by a nightmare of her Somalia and what could have happened. This year it's been haunting her for two weeks, everyone is beginning to notice. She has been in a bad temper and Tony seems to be getting the worst of it.

CHAPTER 6: ABBY'S LAB...

ABBY'S LAB...

I walked into Abby's lab and was not sure that she had heard me, her music was as loud as she always had it.

She turned around to face me...

"Hey, Ziva, Tim told me what he saw on Fiday mornig." Abby told me and I wondered when he had told her, because he had been in the squadroom all day Friday.

'Great, now the rabbit really is out of the bag.' I thought.

"What, McGee, saw Friday morning..." I began. "

Maybe, McGeek, you should mind your own bussiness and not tell everyone about moments that you walk in on, that are none of your bussiness...this better not end up in one of your books." Tony warned, giving McGee a smack to the back of the head.

I sat down in the chair next to Abby. I had slept better this last weekened, then I had in a little over two weeks.

I was still tired though, I felt Tony come beside me.

McGee went to stand beside Abby and I had a feeling they were waiting on something...

"Do you want to tell..." Abby began.

I closed my eyes and felt Tony put his arm around me.

I then began to tell Abby and McGee what I had told Tony.

* I had been held captive for so long and lost track of time and hope of ever being found.

One day they came to get me, they put a bag over my head and began to lead me somewhere...I hoped they would just kill me and get it over with.

A door opened and I was led inside, I didn't know where I was...

"Questions are being asked in town about missing NCIS Agents..."

I heard Saleem begin and wasn't sure that I had heard right, but then he continued.

"Concerns that U.S. forces might mobilize. One of you will tell me the locations and the identies and the other will die."

Saleem took the bag off my head and I wondered if I was dreaming, because this was I had been dreaming of this for so long. There in front of me sat...

Tony and I knew McGee was there to.

"I'll give you a moment to decide who lives." Saleem told us and then he left.

Then it was jus Me...Tony and McGee.

Tony asked me how my summer was. *

"To..." Abby began.

"Quiet, Abbs." McGee told her and I was greatful, because if I had been stopped right there...

I do not think I would be able to continue and knew I had to.

* "Out of all the people in the world that could have found me, it had to be you." I said to Tony. "You're welcome. So are you happy to see me." Tony asked. "You should not have come." I said to him.

Tony replied, "All right then. Good catching up, I'll just go."

He was strapped to a chair and I knew he couldn't get up.

"Oh, yeah taken prisoner."

McGee was behind me and I asked if he was all right.

"I'm just glad you're not dead." He said and I looked at Tony. "You thought I was dead?" I asked. "Oh, yeah." Tony responed and then I had to know...to ask.

"Then why are you here?" "Couldn't live without you, I guess." Tony replied.

"So you will die with me. You should have left me alone." I said.

Because I had been through so much, since I had been since I had been captured.

"Okay, tried, couldn't." Tony said and then told me that he had been given a truth serum.

"I did not ask for anyone to put themselves in harm's way for me. I do not deserve it." I said, because I dind't feel that I did.

Tony then asked what I was doing and I told him, 'It was justified.'

"Get over yourself." Tony said. "I have. Now you tell Saleem, everything he wants to hear and try to save yourselves. I am ready to die." I told Tony and McGee, at that point I was. *

I heard Abby begin to sob and I was crying harder. The lab doors opened and I knew if I opened my eyes I would see Gibbs.

He didn't say anything, so I continued to tell about my nightmare.

* "That's not how the plan works." I heard McGee say from where he was.

I was not sure I had heard right and asked. Tony said two words...

"The plan." "Tony, they have 30 men heavily armed. They have anti-tanks and anti-planes. What do you have?" I asked.

Tony then told me everything...

"Wait...you got captured on purpose?" I asked him and couldn't believe it.

He said they had. I told him the men were killers. I was thinking there was no way the three of us would get out alive.

"Then we have to stay alive long enough to not get dead." Tony responed. "That would involve us getting rescued." I told him.

Tony confirmed I was right and I was confused.

I asked how long it would take and Tony asked how long he thought we had been talking. Tony began to tell me the plan and at first it didn't sound like there was a rescue plan.

After he finished explaining I understood and he asked if I could fight. I was unsure if I could.

The door opened and I could tell something was about to happen.

Tony asked Saleem what the commotion was. Saleem said they were moving out.

"Oh, well that's good. I was tired of sitting in one place." Tony told him.

"We're not taking prisoners." Saleem informed us.

"Oh, well it was nice talking to you." Tony said and it sounded like he was making a joke about the situation.

Saleem grabbed my hair and pulled my head back. I felt the knife to my throat. *

I started to cry harder and almost could not continue to tell Abby, McGee and I'm sure Gibbs.

Tony pulled me close to him and I leaned on him knowing I had to go on...I had to finish.

I hated everyone seeing me like this, seeing me so...weak and Ziva David was not weak!

* I told Saleem, 'If Tony and McGee did not check in. People would come looking for them." Tony told me to shut up, but I was doing as Tony had already told me...trying to buy time.

I then told Saleem, "Kill me. You'll need the americans as leverage."

Saleem then said that he did not make bargins and Tony asked if he made pizza.

Saleem was distracted, I heard something behind me and knew McGee had done something.

The knife fell from Saleem's hands.

There was a gun shot and I knew McGee was dead.

Tony started to yell, but Saleem shot him before he could say anything more.

I wanted to scream, but I was in shock. *

I opened my eyes and looked at everyone in Abby's lab. Gibbs, Abby and McGee looking at me in shock...

Even Tony looked a little shocked, because I had not told him everything of my nightmare.

Abby was sitting in her chair leaning against McGee, her hand in his and him holding her. I leaned against Tony as he continued to hold me and Gibbs was standing there.

I knew I had heard him come in the lab.

I looked at the ground, as I had looked at everyone I had seen all of them...even Gibbs crying.

My throat was sore and raw from crying as I had told my story, it had been half an hour since I started my story.

I looked at Tony and he finished what I wanted everyone to know.

"Ziva told me Friday night after work. That every year since being rescued from Somalia as the day gets closer, Ziva's been starting to have this nightmare. It's usaully only a couple of days before, but this year...it's been happening for the past two weeks." Tony told them.

"Ziver, why did..." Gibbs began. "Because I couldn't...it was hard enough to dream about it and I didn't think I could talk about it." I said not looking up.

"Ziva, we're you're family and you can tell us anything." Abby said and I looked up as McGee and Gibbs nodded in agreement.

"I know, it's still hard...because I just can't talk about what happened in Somalia. I know I have been at NCIS for a few years, but I'm still learning to trust." I said.

"Tony, take Zi..." Gibbs began. "No, Gibbs, I do not need to go home. I need to work, I didn't have a nightmare this last weekened. In a few days the nightmares will stop as they have done for the past couple of years." I said and got up to head out of the lab.

I walked down the hall to the bathroom and began to wash my face.