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CHAPTER 9

~A few airports later ~

"Boss, we found her." Tony said to Gibbs on the phone.

"Bring her in." He said in a no nonsense tone.

"Well we don't exactly have her, but we know where's she headed. 137 Ida Belle Lane. Zip Code 22747. She got off the plane and got into a taxi. I told Ziva. She and jackass I mean Michael are on their way." McGee began typing.

"And you are?"

"On my way to on my way, boss." And with that Gibbs hung up.

~NCIS~

"McGee, look up the address. See what it is."

"Done and done, boss. It's residential and the current owner is Shane Charles."

"Any relation to Robert Charles?"

"Direct actually. Robert is Shane's son."

"Call Ziva. I got Tony." Gibbs said reaching for his phone.

~With Ziva, Shane Charles' house~

Ziva and Michael pulled up to the house. The house was almost mansion like in size and the drive way was full of cars. One of the reasons neither Ziva nor Michael paid much attention to the car they had parked in front of. Both walked up the long stretch of the front lawn to the door, hands on their guns.

"McGee said Robert's father owns it. So we may have Natalia and Roberts in here." Ziva said. And with that both entered the house.

~With Tony, outside house~

Tony and Ariella pulled up behind the car that was behind Ziva's. Both got out of the car. Ariella stopped when she heard a soft thud come from the trunk. A thud so soft, Ariella would not have heard it had she not been so close to the trunk when she passed.

"Tony come here." She motioned him over. "Listen to this."

Tony got closer to the trunk and heard the soft thumping. "Someone's in there." Tony walked over to the driver's door. Luckily it was unlocked and he was able to open the door to pop the trunk.

"You may want to call Gibbs." Ariella said, staring into the trunk.

"Who is it?" Tony asked, jogging back to Ariella.

"Natalia Najeeb." She said, looking at the woman in the trunk. The badly beaten woman who was barely conscious. Tony flipped his phone open, calling Gibbs. Ariella called for an ambulance and began helping Natalia out of the trunk.

~With Ziva, in the house~

Ziva and Michael had been searching through the house. No sign of Natalia or Robert anywhere. As they reached one of the last rooms on the bottom floor, Ziva stopped dead in her tracks. She was frozen in place staring at what was in front of her. She saw the dead body of Robert Charles laying on the ground but that wasn't what had her stopped. No, it was the person that was standing over his dead body. A concerned look on their face as they saw Ziva.

"Ziva, we've got to get out of her now!" The person grabbed at her hand but Ziva didn't budge.

The person turned to Michael. "Grab her, now. We gotta go!" She said, urgency in her voice.

~With Tony, outside~

Tony was on the phone. "We found Natalia. She was in the back of a trunk. She's alive but barely. She looks like she was beaten then thrown into the trunk."

"Who put her there?" Gibbs asked.

"Working on it, boss." He said looking back at Ariella and Natalia. He saw Natalia lean over and say something to Ariella. Ariella pulled back, fear etched across her face.

"Tony there's a bomb in the house." She yelled over to him from her spot.

"Which house." Tony asked panicked, and half yelling into the phone.

"The one Ziva and Michael are in." She yelled in a panicked voice, pointing towards the house.

Tony's face paled. "Boss, Zi . . . Zi . . . Ziva and" Tony slightly stuttered before getting cut off by Gibbs.

"I heard Dinozzo. McGee's trying to call her cell." Gibbs said trying to mask his concern.

"It's going straight to voicemail, boss." McGee said, not even concealing his worry.

"I'm going in." Tony said into the phone.

"No, Dinozzo! You stay put." Gibbs yelled. And as he said it, he heard an explosion go off through the phone, shortly followed by Ariella screaming. The last thing he heard was what he guessed was Tony's phone crashing on the ground as he dropped it and the connection being lost.

TBC . . . .

Author's note: So it wasn't as long as I thought but how was it. Let me know please review!!! Yeah wow, it's really short!