A/N: Okay so ya… here it goes… Not gonna update for awhile after this so srry!!!

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"Alex, I'm so sorry," Danielle said. "It's all my fault."

"Your fault," Alex snapped, "How is this possibly your fault."

"I should have gotten away. I was trained by the best. I should have gotten away and then he wouldn't be harmed." Danielle said.

"Danielle, you know I don't care about him. He was dead before I walked into this house today. He has been dead to me for a long time." Alex said.

"Alex, I…" Danielle started.

"Don't worry. Let's just get this over with." Alex says pulling her to Gibb's car.

Alex and Danielle go into the car. McGee got into the driver's seat and brought them back to headquarters.

"Where's Gibbs?" Danielle asked as they walked into headquarters.

"Catching a ride with Ducky." McGee said. He led them to the interrogation rooms. "I'm gonna need you guys to go into separate rooms."

"O." Danielle said. "Okay." Danielle gave Alex a hug goodbye and went into the first room. Alex followed McGee to the other room.

"Here you go. Um… its nice meeting you. Danielle has said a lot about you. I don't know if this was a good time to say that but I am saying it." McGee said.

"It's okay. I also know her dad is gonna need some time to get used to the fact I'm a guy. But if I could, am I aloud to see Dani. I want to tell her something." Alex said.

"Sorry. You can't." McGee said sympathetically.

"Okay…" Alex responded.

Tony's House…

"I can't believe she choose that kid over her own father!" Tony said pacing around his living room.

"Tony, you were yelling at her. Alex is also her friend." Ziva said trying to calm him down.

"I'm her father." Tony yelled.

"Well the way your acting, I would think you were a psychopath." Ziva said.

"Huh?"

"Tony, that boy just killed his father to save Danielle's life. Alex's father…he was…." Ziva said.

"He was what? What was he doing?" Tony said in an angry tone.

"He was trying to rape her!" Ziva yelled. "That kid, Alex, just save Danielle's life. Do you know what's gonna happen for the next couple of weeks, even months?"

"Rape! That bastards lucky he's dead!" Tony yelled.

"TONY! Do you understand what is going to happen next?" Ziva yelled getting his attention.

Tony shrugged.

"Danielle is going to have nightmares. She is going to remember Somalia and she won't be able to sleep. Danielle is going to have her own personal hell on earth! Alex is going to be with her. He is going be around here! If you don't like him, then you better suck it up because Danielle is gonna have him around a lot!" Ziva said.

"Not if I can help it!" Tony said grabbing his phone and walking toward the door.

"ANTHONY DiNozzo! If you leave this house, I will have no choice but to shot you in the leg!" Ziva yelled.

Tony stopped at the door and turned to look at Ziva. She had her gun pointed at his leg.

"Come on Ziva! I need to talk to her, knock some sense into her!" Tony said.

Ziva's phone started ringing.

"David."She said into the phone.

"It's McGee, Gibbs need you to come down to the office." McGee said.

"Hold on…" Ziva said in to the phone. Ziva turned to the open door and yelled, "TONY! You leave this house and I will slash every one of you tires and you will have to drive with me everywhere!"

After a few minutes Tony walked back into the apartment. Ziva had a victory smile on her face.

"Okay, what do I do with Tony?" Ziva asked.

"Um… Gibbs said to bring him in. Also he can't leave the bullpen unless he has someone with him!"McGee said.

"Okay." Ziva said hanging up her phone. "Tony, let's go!"

"Where?"

"Work." Ziva said.

INTERROGATION ROOM 1:

Gibbs stood behind the mirror, looking into the room. Tears formed in his eyes when he looked at the girl huddled in a ball in the corner of the room. She had tears in her eyes. He watched her as she gently rocked herself back and forth. Finally he couldn't take it anymore. He stormed out and went into another room.

"Gibbs!" Alex said looking him.

"Listen, I need you go comfort Danielle. But you can't say anything. Nothing related about this case!" Gibbs said.

"Okay. Um… where is she?" Alex asked.

"Followed me." Gibbs said. He led Alex to the door.

"Can I talk to her about the trip I just took? Can I tell her the truth?" Alex asked.

"Sure." Gibbs said walking into the room next door.

Alex took a deep breath and turned the door knob. He slowly opened the door. When he walked in it broke his heart to see Danielle curled in a ball in the corner.

She didn't turn around when she heard the door open. She didn't move.

"Dani…" Alex said.

Danielle turned around at the sound of her best friend's voice.

"Alex?" She said.

In a quick moment he was already over to her corner. She wrapped her arms around him.

ABBY'S LAB:

"McGee!" Abby yelled.

"What? Abby, what's wrong." McGee said running back into the lab.

"Abuse!" Abby said with her hands over her mouth.

"What?" McGee said. "Abby use complete sentences!"

"Alex was abused! His dad, his dad…. He was abused!" Abby said.

"Are you sure?" McGee asked.

"Definitely, all the signs are there!" Abby said. "And where is Ziva! You said she would be here by now!"

"She is, just she can't leave Tony alone." McGee said walking toward the elevator.

BULLPEN:

"Ziva! Please, just let me talk to her!" Tony begged.

"No! Now it's either you stay in here and stop complaining or I stick you in the elevator and turn off the power so you're stuck!" Ziva said.

"You would never!" Tony said.

"Don't try me!" Ziva said.

"TONY!" Gibb said walking into the bullpen.

"Yes, boss." Tony replied.

"Come with me, Ziva, I need you to interrogate Alex." Gibbs barked.

"Yes Gibbs, what room?" Ziva said.

"2." Gibbs replied

Ziva walk toward interrogation. She put her hand on the door knob and slowly turned it. She walked in and sat across from Alex.

"You must be Ziva." Alex said.

Ziva gave him a questioning look.

"Danielle told me about you. At first you were her teacher, then you where there when she was kidnapped and now, you just in her life every day. She has told me a lot about you." Alex explained.

"Alex, I need to know what happened." Ziva said.

"I already told the geeky looking guy? Alex said.

"No, not from today, think back." Ziva started. "When did he start to hit you?"

"What?" Alex said.

"Your dad."

"He doesn't hit me." Alex said.

"You don't have to protect him, he is dead, Alex." Ziva said.

Alex took a breath.

"Alex, listen, I don't have the best dad in the world either. I know you want to protect him. Even after everything he has done to you, you still want to protect him. I have been there. I still do it. How about we make a deal, if you tell me about your dad, then I'll tell you about my dad." Ziva said.

"Why do I want to know about your dad?" Alex asked.

"Your life won't seem as bad." Ziva laughed.

"O. Okay, well, it all started about 8 years ago. That's when my stepmom, Kevin's mom started saying inappropriate stuff to me. She would say how dumb I was and stuff just to get me mad and upset. My dad didn't do anything about it. After a couple months he finally joined in. Kevin was about 1 at that time. I had stayed at Danielle's house instead of mine. They really didn't notice I was gone. I remember the first time my father hit me. It was late at night and he had just got home from drinking. Turns out he had found out my stepmom had died in a car crash earlier." Alex said. "He was so angry that he went up stairs to the nursery and looked at Kevin. Kevin looked a lot like my stepmom. My dads got really angry and picked him up and threw him across the room. Kevin was crying. I yelled at my dad to stop and how it wasn't Kevin's fault. He hit me once across the face. Really hard. I lay on the ground to stunned to move. He left and went out for more drinks I can only assume. I went over to Kevin and saw he had a broken arm. I took him to the hospital and got a cast. I told the doctors that I had dropped him by accident and he hurt his arm. My dad wasn't answering his phone and they really didn't question me so I was free to go."

"How long ago was the last time he hit you?" Ziva asked.

"Two years." Alex said. "I was in the military camp. Also I made sure that Kevin was away because my dad would have hurt him to."

"Did you ever try to stop him?" Ziva asked.

"No. Danielle had, once. It was about 4 years ago right before Danielle was taken. She had threatened to kill him if he touched me again. Danielle has some guts. She came really close to killing him. She had a knife to his throat." Alex said.

"Did he stop?" Ziva asked.

"No." Alex said quietly. "Danielle had disappeared and he could do it without fear of her."

"Thank you. I guess I have to tell you about my father." Ziva said.

"That would be nice." Alex smiled.

"Okay well, I don't talk to him at all. When I was five my mom had died. My brother Ari had helped my take care of my younger sister Tali. She was only two at the time. Ari had joined Mossad when he was fifteen, to start training. I was about eight at the time. By then I had already shot many guns, I had learned how to throw a knife and hit the target every time and I could defuse a bomb." Ziva said.

Alex nodded to show her to go on.

"Well as time went on my father shaped me into the perfect Mossad officer. I was his dream officer. Long story short, my dad used me. I was an officer first then a daughter. He had sent me on many missions that were kill or be killed. Then I was moved to NCIS. I stayed here for three years then was sent back after my boyfriend of the time was killed. My father sent me on a suicide mission. He had planned on killing me." Ziva finished.

"Wow, your right. I do feel better about my life. I am really sorry for what happened to you." Alex said.

"Well my dad used to tell me 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'" Ziva said.

"What's gonna happen to me and Kevin?" Alex said.

"I don't know. I would guess once the case is settled you will go to social services and they will take it from there." Ziva said.

At that moment Gibbs walked in. He gave Ziva a nod telling her to leave.

"Alex, you are being brought to a safe house until your brother gets back from wherever he is." Gibbs said.

"Oklahoma. He is visiting family. Actually he is visiting his mom's mother and father. I had asked them if they could watch him for me about two years ago. They had kindly accepted. Although they had disagreed with their daughter getting married, they were very supportive after she died." Alex said.

"Good. Let's go." Gibbs said leading the way to the elevator.

The boys walked to the elevator in silence. Once they got in Alex watched as Gibbs hit the elevator switch.

"Um…" Alex started.

Gibbs just starred at the doors.

"Gibbs, you hit a button." Alex said.

"I no." Gibbs said.

"Okay, just checking." Alex said.

"Do you know why I was at your graduation ceremony?" Gibbs asked.

"Uh.. I thought you said it was classified." Alex said.

"Nope. Just wanted to know if you remembered." Gibbs said hitting the switch letting the elevator start again.

Alex got a confused look on his face. He then turned the elevator off and looked at Gibbs with confusion.

"You are him." Alex said.

Gibbs only starred in at him.

"You are the guy who brought Danielle to the boarding school like 10 years ago." Alex said.

"Eleven." Gibbs corrected.

"You told me that you were a Marine." Alex said. "You told me to watch Danielle. You had noticed how close we had come in the few days we were together and said to take care of her. I didn't know what you were talking about until later when I was older. I failed you."

"Failed? Last time I checked you had just saved her." Gibbs said.

"Humph. Well I remember now! I told you I wanted to be a marine to! I said that I wanted to fight the bad thing in the world. You told me that when that day came you would be there." Alex said.

"I was there, like promised." Gibbs smiled.

"I don't know what to say. Thank you. How did you even know that I was going to become a Marine?" Alex asked.

"I saw your name on the military list. I just wish I had connected you to Danielle sooner." Gibbs said.

"Thank You." Alex said.

"Yup." Gibbs said.

"So where is this safe house?" Alex asked.

"Ha. You're coming home with me!" Gibbs laughed.

Alex let out a small laugh not knowing what was in store for him.

A/N: Okay so I won't be updating in a while because I have lots of stuff going on in the next two weeks sorry! Please review!