So I have this really irritating friend who says that she is going to stalk me on FFN for the next three years. Yes Sian this is a test. Lets see if you pass shall we?

Anyways, childish games aside. On with the show, ken?

=D I'm so damn chipper today. Don't even know why. I annoyed my mum by refusing to drive her car because I don't like the clutch. Classic. We pulled over on the ring road just to swap seats. Only happens in my life!


Chapter Eleven

"Abby, you've got to let go of him, he can't breath." Tim gently pried his wife off of Tony who at the release of pressure took a great gulp of air and rubbed his chest. The wind was blowing a light breeze around the outside of the hotel as the NCIS team was stood gathered around a taxi.

"I won't see him for two weeks Timmy, TWO WEEKS!" She yelled back at her husband, almost as if he didn't quite understand.

Tony grinned at Tim before slipping off to go and bid goodbye to his boss, and the ex boss' boss. Gibbs and Jenny were standing with Darren and Lissy, Ziva was crouching on the floor talking to Ben who seemed reluctant to want to let go of Ziva's hand no matter what she did. Tony knelt down next to Ziva and smiled at their son.

"Dadda! Momma going!" The boy wailed obviously in the hope Tony would make Ziva stay.

"Am I not going?" Tony asked looking at Ziva with an eyebrow raised.

"I didn't get to finish my sentence actually, he leapt on me when I said leaving." She sighed. Tony chuckled lightly before turning to Ben who was looking up at his father with pleading eyes.

"Hey buddy, momma and dada are just going to have a little holiday, it's only for two weeks and you can talk to us everyday. I won't doubt the fact Ziva will call you up every hour!" Tony grinned to be punched by Ziva. She was about to retort but Ben cut her off.

"Dadda going! Momma and Dadda going? No!" He wailed and leaped at both of them haphazardly. They managed to prevent him from hurting himself in the process but neither knew what to say to him now. It took the two of them another twenty minutes to calm the boy down and get him to release his grip long enough to free themselves and hand him off to Lissy. They hurried the following goodbyes and then jumped in to the taxi.

"Man that kid has your grip!" Tony muttered after ten minutes of silent taxi driving, he was rubbing a spot on his arm where the boy had fastened his fist around and refused to let go.

"You were expecting the child of a federal agent and assassin to be weak?" She asked incredulously. Tony looked at her before shrugging in agreement. She chuckled at him and rubbed his wrist lightly.

"I was thinking though, I mean most people would have this talk before getting hitched but it's a bit different for us…"

"To the point Tony." Ziva cut him off.

"Oh ok, well, we have Ben."

"Yes, I am aware of his existence." Tony nodded absently. Ziva had to clear her throat to bring him back to their conversation.

"Do you want more? Children I mean." Ziva looked at him, her eyebrows knitting in thought.

"I had not really thought about it, Ben obviously wasn't a planned thing… I would not change anything though. Except perhaps his father." Ziva grinned and Tony muttered a sarcastic 'haha'.

"Seriously though, most people discuss this before they get married but we didn't because I mean we had a child already so… I just wondered if you wanted any more."

"I don't know, do you?"

"If you asked me that question four years ago I would have laughed at you. But now, I don't know, I'd quite like to have another kid. I could actually be there for the whole thing…"

"It was not your fault you was not there for Ben when he was a baby."

"I freaked out."

"So did I."

"You didn't run away from it."

"I couldn't…" She said with a raised eyebrow and Tony shrugged again. "It's not like he will remember it." Ziva leaned her head on his shoulder. "He loves you now, and you are there for him, when he is older it will not matter."

The taxi continued on its journey in to the city, the hotel had been built several miles out of DC, it was incredibly quiet out there.

"Did you feel that?" Ziva asked after a few minutes.

"What?" Ziva fell silent after shaking her head. The taxi continued to trundle through the outskirts of DC, they were heading towards the Potomac River to cross on their way to the airport. After another ten minutes the buildings began to thicken and the traffic busier. Another vibration passed through the taxi, similar to the one that Ziva had felt earlier.

"Did you feel that!?" She queried.

"Yeah, it was like … an earthquake."

"I didn't think you got earthquakes in DC."

"We do, but rarely and never bad."

The taxi continued on it's way, a few more tremors were felt by the DiNozzo's as the taxi trundled towards the Potomac. By the time the Taxi had arrived at the bridge news of the tremors had reached a news station that was switched on in the car. Tony and Ziva were sitting silently listening both wondering if what the news reader had said was true.

'The tremors seems to be increasing in size, although we have no official word yet it seems as if this earthquake is working in reverse, precursors before the major. We'll keep you posted on the strength of these tremors and …'

The taxi was almost half way across the bridge when another tremor shook the car, this was larger than all of the previous quakes by a large amount. Several cars in front skidded to a halt following several crashes. The taxi driver managed to stop the taxi without causing any real damage. Tony and Ziva both climbed out of the vehicle and glanced out across the bridge. There was no way to herd the traffic through, they both glanced back to see an increasing backlog of cars.

"Damnit. Greece is going to have to wait Ziva, we aren't getting out of here in a hurry." Tony smiled at her as they heard the sounds of ambulance in the distance. The two both ran through the traffic to the crash scene to assist the injured parties. A large lorry had collided with three cars and was now parked lengthways along the road, blocking all through traffic. The two immediately split up to asses the different passengers before the ambulance could reach them.

Less than half an hour later the three ambulance had sped off in to the distance having spent a good ten minutes trying to get to the collision site and then another twenty extracting all the victims. The police had taken over the scene and were trying to quickly clear the vehicles away to get the traffic flowing again. Another tremor passed through the ground, it was yet again much stronger than the last one and both Tony and Ziva lost their footing as the bridge seemed to sway underfoot.

The two heard several screams before actually realising the imagined swaying was actually happening. The lorry had smashed itself into one of the pylons keeping the bridge secure and it snapped as the tremor had passed through the bridge. The results of the pylon snapping let the lorry skid across the bridge. The bridge seemed to stabilise itself after a while and Tony pulled Ziva to her feet, they could see people fleeing their cars in panic and running in as many different directions as they could.

The two managed to help the police in steering people away from the bridge. The tremors had gotten closer together and so they suspected that they had less than half an hour to clear the bridge and get off themselves. In twenty minutes they were still trying to persuade people to get off the bridge. The ground shook once more and another three pylons snapped with the pressure, all from the same side. The bridge tipped to one side as several more pylons gave way under the strain.

The last thing Tony remembered was seeing Ziva falling behind a car as it slid down the bridge and off the other edge. The last thing he remembered before he himself fell off the bridge with seventeen police officers and over fifty civilians. The last thing he remembered as he hit the icy cold water below.

Gibbs was just loading Jenny into his car when he began to feel the larger tremors, he chose to ignore it and climbed in to the driver's seat. Earthquakes in DC are rare after all he figured. Darren and Lissy had already left to go back to DC and as they lived closer to the outskirts than the rest of the team they would be halfway there by now. Abby and Tim were in the back of the car, Abby sitting behind Jenny and Tim behind Gibbs. Gibbs pulled out of the hotel and made his way back in to DC, he had agreed to drop Abby and Tim off on his way back in.

They were almost at the McGee's residence when they had heard about the bridge over the Potomac being closed down because of an accident. It was ten minutes before the next tremor struck and the bridge would collapse. Gibbs continued to plough on through the streets his driving careful due to his heavily pregnant girlfriend and newly pregnant forensic scientist. He was only twenty minutes away from Abby and Tim's house when the next tremor struck, Gibbs managed to retain control over his vehicle, successful in keeping it within his lane.

The car in the lane next to him however swerved left, swerved straight into the passenger side of the car, Gibbs pulled his steering wheel left to reduced the damage knowing Jenny and Abby would receive the brunt of the collision. He didn't see the car on his right coming up behind him and it crashed head on into the driver's door. The car skidded and eventually came to a stop on the highway. Several more crashes could be heard in the distance.

The sounds of sirens slowly filled the air as yet more ambulance made their way through the streets of DC, utterly unprepared for the worst earthquake to hit. Tim coughed in the back of the car, he tried to rouse his wife, and then Jenny and finally Gibbs but to no avail. He blinked and tried to see past the damage in the car, past the pain in his leg, past the fear over his wife. He passed out again before the ambulance appeared in the distance, screeching its way to yet another accident.

Darren switched the TV on after the second tremor shook through the house. He, Lissy and Ben had managed to find a secure part of the house to sit in, bar the roof collapsing there was nothing that could damage them. Lissy hugged Ben in to her as she watched the horrific scenes coming across the TV from the local news station broadcasting the earthquake. She placed her chin on the boys head and wrapped her arms around him.

"Do you think everybody is alright? I mean, there is like so many people pronounced dead already we just didn't know about it. The death toll is worse than in Israel."

Darren didn't reply to his daughter, he merely slung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her in closer to him, another tremor shook the house and several loud thuds could be heard from various rooms as bookshelves of cabinets fell from the walls. The three sat and watched the news for another half an hour, they watched as the death tolls mounted and so did their fear.

Eventually the news reported announced that the last three shocks had been decreasing in size and so unless it was a fluke then the tremors seemed to be dissipating. Darren, Lissy and Ben watched for another forty minutes until it was deemed that the earthquake was over. Darren and Lissy both pulled out their phones and checked them for messages.

"Nothing, you?"

"Nothing." Lissy replied. "They would have let us know right? That they were all safe, I mean it's manners."

"Ziva would have rung, for Ben." Darren added and Lissy nodded slowly.

"I'll call Tony you call Ziva." Lissy nodded and then punched in Ziva's number, after several tries she turned back to her father. He shook his head and the two then decided to go through the other NCIS team members, Gibbs, Jenny, Tim and Abby were the next four to be called.

"No answer. What do we do Dad?" Lissy stared up at him, tears brimming in her eyes. He pulled her closer in to him and stroked her hair.

"We will find them, I am sure they have just been preoccupied for now, we go to Abby and Tim's house, which was their first stop."


Haha everybody is dead? Maybe?

Loves xx