On The Other Side of the Door

HI, ^^ memories again plus some swearing later in the chapter. Sorry it took a little longer to post it took me a little longer to get in the right mood to sit and write. :)

"Ziva!" Tony's voice stretched across the room as he sprung to his feet and ran To Ziva.

Ziva turned to face the shooter before even realizing she was on the floor in Tony's arms.

The man, still un-named held the gun to Tim's head and pushed him through the door and out the back.

"NCIS, Freeze!" Gibbs his tone was serious.

"Ah, agent Gibbs. I was wondering where you got to." He had his arm around Tim's neck with the gun to his head.

"What do you want?"

"I thought I made it clear that all I wanted was Agent McGee, and now you could have lost an agent all because you couldn't follow a simple rule, to let McGee come alone."

"I think you knew I wasn't gunna let that happen"

"Maybe I did, or maybe I didn't. Then again I love to play games."

"You call this a game?"

"Like chess and you're the pieces." The man realised that he had loosened his drip on Tim and then re-tightened it, making Tim let out a groan.

"Boss…" Tim could feel the gun being pushed closer to his skull.

"Shut up"

"Go… Ziva." The arm around his neck was holding his words down in his throat.

"McGee?" Gibbs looked Tim in the eye, raising his eyebrow.

"Go"

Gibbs lowered his gun and looked at the other man who was stood near the car, he gave Gibbs an evil smile. Gibbs looked back at Tim and then went back into the cabin. He knew it was I bad Idea but he also knew holding them at gunpoint would not help; even if he had shot one of them the other would take a shot at him.

What else could you have done Jethro? They had both him and you at gunpoint the only thing you can do is track them from NCIS and hope that you're not too late.

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"Come on, we better get going."

"Yeah, your right. We need to get the game started." The man let go of Tim the swung his gun around slamming Tim in the face, he could feel the cool liquid dripping down his temple as he slipped into darkness.

^^ "Agent McGee?"

"Yeah."

"I'm Special Agent Notting, this is Agent Beth Martin. She will be assisting you with the case." Special Agent Notting was a large well-built man in his mid-forty's with Short blonde hair that had small grey shoots spread out unevenly. Agent Martin on the other hand looked around twenty five, very young for an FBI agent, she had long black and tanned skin. She smiled at him.

Tim couldn't help but look at her eyes, they were bright green.

She was beautiful. She held out her hand offering a handshake.

"Agent Timothy McGee, nice to meet you" He gave affirm hand shake that clearly caught her by surprise.

"Oh, that's umm quite the firm handshake there."

"Sorry" Tim felt a little embarrassed.

"Right well Agent Martin could you show Agent McGee around the office."

"Yes sir, come on McGee" She walked out the door Tim following behind he felt new all over again, well then again he supposed he was.

"So, what'd he mean by office?" Tim had caught up to her know and was walking by her side.

"Well it's not really an office, this is a secret investigation. So we get our own area to work. You know with computer, a couple of desks a small lab area, oh yeah that reminds me we have to do our own lab work until the forensic analyst can help." She stopped at the door.

"Here we are."^^

Tim woke up; he was still in the car. He could see it was dark outside by the small reflection on the window. He must be down by the seats behind his kidnappers.

His hands were still bond by what felt like some kind of wire that had been cutting into his skin as he moved around and properly when they put him there. He wanted to just curl up and disappear; he could remember some of his case and from what he could remember these guys were sick psychos. He would give anything not to be there right know. He closed his eyes and tried to remember more about the case at least then he would know what to expect when they got there.

^^ It was around 12:30 am Tim could feel his eyes resisting to obey his commands to stay open, then Beth walked in with a smile as if she had just had a hole night's sleep handing him a coffee.

"Good morning Tim" Tim? Since when did they switch from Agent Martin and Agent McGee was he meant to call her Beth. Then he realised he was taking forever to speak and it was getting weird.

"Morning, umm Beth" He sat back in his chair and sipped his coffee.

"So how long have been on this case?"

"To fucking long." Tim was a little shocked, they had gone from just met to calling each other by their first names and know apparently casually swearing. What the hell, it did kind of nice not have to talk formally seeming as they would be spending a lot of time together on the case and it was to work with someone a little different for a change.

"Yeah I know that feeling"

"It's just, this is all so sick" She had thrown her pen down and held her head in her hands.

"Do you know what these bastards do? They kidnap innocent people and play these sick games with them and they think it's funny they send tapes to the family's, I mean as If killing them and playing their sick games the torture them and them just as there about to die they help them."

"And then?"

"They put a gun in there hand and give them a choice kill themselves or kill a loved one" Her voice was angry Tim could tell she had had too much of this case and from what he had heard he could understand why.

"We're going to find them, Beth" He tried to sound calm and understanding.

"You know, just before they hired you there was this woman they kept her for two months. By the end she couldn't even walk, they made her choose between her daughter and her son and when she refused they shot both her kids and they forced her to shot herself"

"Beth…"

"Yeah yeah yeah I get it, it's going to be ok, and we're going to catch them. Look it's just I've heard it all before and they always get away at the last minute and then some poor asshole has to pay for it"

"Got it"

"Look I'm sorry it's been a long week"

"It's ok, the job it gets to you sometimes" Tim put his coffee down and carried on reading through he files.

"It sure as hell does" Beth took a breath and ran her and through her hair and started typing on her laptop.

The two sat in silence for the rest of the night until they had to go home at 4:30am as Tim would start work at NCIS at 7:00 am he figured he could get a couple of hours sleep before and then hope it was an easy day without any cases as he would be back at the office at 10:00pm. ^^

Tim woke back up, the car had stopped and he could hear them getting out the car and then they open the door pulling Tim out onto the hard floor outside.

"The Games begun McGee, let's have some fun"