a/n: Okay I know I said I probably won't update for two weeks but I had a snow day and took the opportunity to write this. Hope it holds you!!!

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Bullpen:

"Where is she?" Tony asked McGee.

"I don't know. Ziva said she was going to talk to her and then they would be out." McGee replied.

"What could be taking that long?" Tony asked.

"IDON'T KNOW!" McGee screamed.

Interrogation 1:

"Danielle?" Ziva asked walking into the room.

Danielle was sitting in the metal chair. Her elbows rested on the table and her head in her hands.

"Ziva?" Danielle said looking up.

"Yes dear." Ziva said.

"Can I go home? Where is Alex?" Danielle asked.

"Alex is in a safe house and you can't go home just yet." Ziva said.

"I know about the military school." Danielle said. "If that is what you wanted to know. He told me not to long ago."

"I'm glad." Ziva said taking a seat in front of her. "I need you to tell me something. We are alone. No one will hear this but me. And don't try to lie because I can see right through them. "

"What do you want to know?" Danielle asked.

"I have many questions. One, why didn't you tell anyone about Alex's dad? Two, why didn't you tell us that Alex was a boy? And three, why do you trust him?" Ziva said.

"One, He asked me not to. He said that he would take care of it. When he didn't I threatened I threatened him. Two, I thought you knew. I told my dad but he never listens and then I thought he would have told you. And three, that's like asking you why you trust my dad. I don't have an answer. I would do anything for him and he has shown that he would do anything for me." Danielle said.

"Danielle, I am not against him. I like Alex, well from what I have heard but I just want you to realize your dad is very angry you chose Alex over him. I can see your reasoning, I tried to explain it but he is so stubborn. I just want you to remember that you want Alex to stay around. Your dad is going to try everything possible to get rid of him. I am going to try everything possible to stop him but we both know it will be close to impossible." Ziva said.

"I'm not leaving Alex! He was there for me during my worst days. I need to be there for him." Danielle said sternly.

"Good. Before we leave, I thought that I should do this instead of your dad. For the case, I need to take inventory and pictures of anything he did to you. Any bruises, cuts, anything." Ziva said.

"Oh. Umm…. Well, my arms have hand marks and they are probably bruised but I haven't looked at them yet." Daniele said.

Danielle took of her sweatshirt leaving her in a tank top. She was right. Her arms had several bruises all over, your could see finger marks indented into her skin. Ziva held in her anger as she snapped a picture of Danielle's arms. She wanted to bring Mr. DiNal back to life and then kill him again.

"Anything else?" Ziva asked.

"Um…." Danielle said as she pulled her hair away from her neck showing the bite mark. It was swollen and you could see blood marks.

"Danielle!" Ziva whispered pulling her in for a hug. She held her for a couple minutes till Danielle pulled away.

"Thank you. I needed that." Danielle said.

Ziva snapped a quick picture of the mark then told Danielle to put the sweatshirt back on. Ziva then promised that Tony wouldn't see the pictures.

"Before you go see your dad, I am taking you to Ducky. I want him to look at that." Ziva said pointing to her neck. "It could get infected."

Danielle nodded her head and followed Ziva to the elevator.

Gibbs's House:

"Nice House." Alex said walking through Gibb's from door.

Gibbs gave him a nodded and headed toward the kitchen.

"Where is Danielle?" Alex said loudly so that Gibbs could hear from far away.

"She is with Ziva, and then she will go home. I will take you there later. After DiNozzo calms down." Gibbs said.

"He really doesn't like me does he?" Alex said grabbing a coke can from Gibbs.

"Not as much as you think." Gibbs said leading Alex down toward the basement.

"Really? Wow, you uh… have a boat in your basement." Alex said walking down the stairs.

"Yup." Gibbs said.

"How did you get it down here?" Alex asked.

"I built it." Gibbs said.

"Cool. Can I help?" Alex said.

"Yup." Gibbs said handing him sand paper.

Gibbs watched as Alex sanded down a piece of wood protruding out of the boat structure.

Frozen Tundra:

"Ah… Ziva, Danielle, what brings you down to my frozen palace?" Ducky asked as they came through the automatic doors.

"Ducky, I need you to check something out for me." Ziva said.

"Of Course." Ducky said walking toward them.

Ziva motioned to Danielle who took of her sweat shirt and pulled her hair out of the way.

"Oh my, what have we here? Well come sit down, I'll get my antibiotics." Ducky said.

"Thank you." Ziva said

Danielle went and sat down on the cold metal table. She rubbed her bruised arms which already had goose bumps.

"Here" Ziva said taking off her zip up sweater and handing it to Danielle. She then took Danielle's sweatshirt and put it on.

"Thanks." Danielle said. Danielle zippered it most of the way up but left it open so that Ducky could look at the bite mark.

"Okay, just look to the left." Ducky said

After thirty minutes he was finished cleaning and wrapping her wound.

"Okay, I want you to take some Tylenol when you get home, then change the bandage and put this cream on it every 3 hours. By tomorrow the swelling should go down and you only have to change it every 6 hours." Ducky said.

"Thank you." Danielle said zipping the sweat shirt all the way up trying to cover the bandage. It covers most of it and when she pulled her hair on her shoulders you couldn't notice it at all.

"Thanks Ducky. I'll make sure that happens." Ziva said leading the way out of autopsy.

Bullpen:

"Probie! They have been gone for forty five minutes. Where are they?" Tony yelled.

"Behind you." Ziva said.

Tony turned around and saw Ziva and Danielle walking towards him.

"Danielle!" He said running up to her. "Are you okay?"

"I am fine. I just wanna go home." She said.

"Okay." Tony said looking down at her. He looked at Ziva and then back to Danielle.

"Tony, I can handle the rest of the paperwork. You guys can go home." McGee said looking at Danielle.

"Kay." Tony said grabbing his stuff. He didn't take an eye off of Danielle.

"Thank you McGee, I owe you. How about lunch?" Ziva said.

"Don't worry about it." McGee said walking over to Ziva. "Just take care of her." He whispered so only Ziva could hear.

"McGee, do you know something I don't?" Ziva whispered back.

McGee pulled Ziva away from her desk and Tony.

"Not specifically but she was pretty beat up at the scene. Of Alex wasn't there, she wouldn't be here right now. I can't help but wonder what Tony is going to do." He said.

"I no. That is why I am going with them. Also I know how to change her bandages. Anyway, I will buy you lunch considering you doing everyone's paper work, including Gibbs." Ziva said.

"Okay, whatever you say. I think she needs Alex. There is something between them. I can't tell just yet but, they have some form of connection." McGee said.

"Ya, I figured that to, I don't know what yet, but I will. Take care." Ziva said turning back to Tony and Danielle. Danielle was asleep in Tony's chair and Tony was sitting next to her watching her sleep.

"Let's Go." Ziva whispered.

Tony nodded as he picked her up and carried her to the car. Danielle was asleep the whole way home. The car was silent.

Frozen Tundra:

"Ducky!" Abby yelled into the lab.

"Yes dear." He answered.

"Was Danielle here yet?" Abby said. "I can't find her anywhere."

"She was." He said. "I believe that Ziva took her home."

"O." Abby said. "Was she okay?"

"Physically, yes. Just nasty mark on her neck and some bruises on her arms. Psychologically, No." Ducky said.

"I feel so bad. I wish I could kill that man again." Abby said.

"Me too." Ducky replied.

Tony's House:

"I'm gonna put her to bed." Tony whispered carrying Danielle inside the house.

"Okay, I'll put a movie on." Ziva said walking toward the living room.

Ziva walked over the TV and grabbed the first movie she found. She looked at the cover for a moment then put the DVD in the TV. As the beginning scenes showed up she went into the kitchen grabbed to waters. She looked at the clock. It was 8:30. Gibbs would be here is a half hour with Alex. Gibbs had told her that he would come once Tony had calmed down. Ziva decided that know would be the perfect time to talk to him.

She walked in to the living room and sat next to Tony on the couch.

"Tony, we have to talk." Ziva said.

Tony looked at her.

"About?"

"Today. Alex. Among other things." Ziva said.

"Well I can clear up half of that for you. Today was one of the worst days of my life. Alex, is never coming near Danielle again. And if I knew the other things, I would have cleared them up too." Tony said.

"Okay fair enough, but I have some thing we need to talk about that are not this simple. Before I took Danielle back up to the Squad room, I asked her about Alex, Tony, she needs him." Ziva said.

Tony didn't say anything.

"Tony, are you listening?"

"Ya, I just don't believe you are siding with the enemy." Tony said.

"He is not the enemy. He saved Danielle. His dad was out of control. Tony, he killed his dad. I know you and your dad have not had the best history but wouldn't it hurt if you had to kill him. If your dad attacked me like he did Danielle, wouldn't have you had done the same thing?" Ziva said.

"That's totally different." Tony said.

"How?"

"Because…..you….. Dam it…. Ziva….Do I really have to explain myself. It just is." Tony said.

"You cannot explain it because it is exactly the same thing. Neither of them will ever admit this but they love each other. You know what Danielle said to me today. I asked her why she trusted Alex. She said. 'That's like asking you why you trust my dad. I don't have an answer. I would do anything for him and he has shown that he would do anything for me.'" Ziva said.

"We are in no way anything like them." Tony said.

"Are we? Tony, his dad sends him away. Her mom controlled her life. After Somalia, he put her back together. Sound familiar." Ziva said. "We are more like them then we both realized."

"But." Tony said.

"No! No buts. Alex is a good person. He deserves a chance. I have talked to him. He has endured his amount of suffering as well. Tony, you wouldn't believe the stories. Alex has been abused by his father for a long time. He has experienced thing you wouldn't see in horror movies." Ziva said. "He will get a chance. If it is the last thing I do."

"Ziva, why are you so into this kid?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's because we both have stupid fathers, I told him things about my father. We had a connection." Ziva said pulling her knees to her chest.

"I'll give him a chance. I guess." Tony said.

"YES!" Ziva said standing up. "Good thing to. He is coming over in five minutes."

"WHAT!" Tony said.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Tony and Ziva both turned to the door.

"It's Gibbs. Open the damn door DiNozzo!" Gibbs yelled.

"Here goes nothing!" Tony said turning the door knob.

Gibbs whipped past Tony entering the house. Tony was left at the door with Alex.

"Hello." Tony said.

"Hi, I'm Alex. I believe we got off on the wrong foot." Alex said.

"Yes. Come in." Tony said shutting the door behind Alex.

"Thanks."

"Where is Danielle?" Gibbs asked.

"Sleeping." Ziva said.

"Okay." Gibbs said walking toward the door.

"Gibbs? Where are you going?" Ziva asked.

"Home. Alex will stay here for tonight. I need to work some things out." Gibbs said shutting the door behind him.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know he was going to leave me here." Alex told them.

"It's okay. Do you want anything to drink?" Ziva asked.

"Sure, water would be-" Alex started but was cut off by a scream.

The three of them ran into Danielle's room. She was sitting on her bed clutching her pillow.

"Danielle!" Alex said running over to her bed.

Tony went to go but Ziva held him back.

"Watch." She whispered.

"Alex?" Danielle said through the tears.

"Shh… it okay… your safe." He said kneeling beside her bed.

"He was here. Just like before. It was the same dream." Danielle cried.

"It's okay, your safe now." Alex said sitting next to her taking her in his arms not realizing he had an audience.

"Make them stop." Danielle whispered in his chest.

"I'll try." Alex whispered back. He rubbed circles on her back until he felt her breathing even out.

"You okay?" Danielle asked him.

"Me? Why wouldn't I be?" Alex said.

"Your dad."

"He meant nothing to me." Alex said. He looked at her tear stained face. He could read her like an open book.

"Danielle Elizabeth! I do not regret killing him. Do not think for one second I would have let him continue what he was doing in order to let him live!" Alex said.

"Are you sure?" Danielle said. "He was still your father."

"I promise with all my heart. I will never regret killing him. My only regret is not killing him sooner. Not getting him in trouble before." Alex said. "I don't want you to ever think I regret saving you."

Danielle nodded and wrapped her arms back around his waist.

Ziva pulled Tony out of the room. They had watched the scene unfold. Right before their eyes they saw the love Alex and Danielle so easily denied.

"Tony, he is defiantly worth a shot." Ziva said.

"Ya I guess. I just don't want to lose her." Tony said looking back into the room. Alex and Danielle were still sitting on the bed. "I don't want to be nothing to her. With the kid… sorry… Alex back, I feel like I am worthless to her!" Tony said putting his head in his hands.

"Tony you could never be worthless to her. Give her time. Talk to her. I know it is a hard concept for you to grasp but sometimes when you talk about things, it helps them get better." Ziva smiled.

Tony smiled and pulled Ziva closer to him.

"Really." Tony said. "I never knew that!"

"Ha, come on. Let's give them privacy. I have a feeling they aren't going to be awake very long." Ziva said dragging Tony away from Danielle's door.

Gibbs's Car

"Fornel." Gibbs said into the phone.

"Yo, Jethro, you do realize it is late at night and some people actually sleep!" Fornel said

"Ya, I need a favor." Gibbs said.

"Favor, would thins be NCIS favor or personal?" Fornel asked.

"Both. I need adoption papers. Seeing as you're in charge of the DiNal case now, I'm sure you have the name of the social security worker assigned to the two boys, Alexander DiNal and Kevin DiNal." Gibbs said.

"And if I do?" Fornel said.

"Fornel. Really? Do I have to explain every detail?" Gibbs said reading his mind.

"Well, maybe. You have a history of making the wrong choices. Like your 2nd wife." He said.

"I told you not to marry her!" Gibbs said. "You didn't listen. I need those papers. How fast can I get them?"

"Now if you like but Jethro," Fornel started.

"Okay, open your front door." Gibbs said.

Gibbs hung up the phone and walked to the front door.

"Gibbs! Why the hell are you outside my house at nine thirty at night?" Fornel yelled at Gibbs who was walking up Fornel's driveway.

"Paper?" Gibbs asked

"Here" Fornel said handing him a folder. "Her name is Lisa Riley. She isn't available until a decent hour though.

"That's okay. I still need conformation on the kids. Can't force these kids into anything they don't want." Gibbs said.

"Who is looking to adopt them? They don't seem like they will make a Brady Bunch family." Fornel said.

"Me." Gibbs said turning away from Fornel and walking toward the car.

"You're Welcome." Tobias yelled across the lawn. Gibbs gave a chuckle and got into his car.

A/n: Sooo… Gibbs wants to adopt the DiNal kids….. hmm…. Will we ever meet Kevin…. Hmmm… What will happen during Tony and Danielle's talk??.....hmm…… Alex and tony gonna have a talk?…… hmmm….What happens when Tony find out about Danielle's bite mark. He still doesn't know!!....

Well, please review!!