An extra one today as chaoter ten was short. There are longer ones coming up, I promise. Thanks for reading and reviewing :)
Chapter eleven
Gibbs swept into the bull pen like a man possessed. "Tell me you followed them, McGee." Skidding to a halt in front of the big screen he waited for McGee to give him some good news. He didn't acknowledge the other member of the team coming to a stand behind him, but he knew he was there. He hadn't given Tony the expected slap, but was aware that the younger man was on tender hooks waiting for it.
Tony knew he was going to get one at some point, figuring that Gibbs was just biding his time for it to come when he least was least expecting it. Gibbs enjoyed the perverse power he had over his team, but deep down he suspected that they all knew that it was really a show of affection for them all. Even so, Tony was still going to get one hell of a smack at some point, just not yet. They had to find Ziva first and he struggled to concentrate on the screen, his need to burn rubber and kill Hadar making him restless, agitated, and damned angry.
A series of images flicked up on the screen before them and McGee began to reel off what they were seeing.
"Lucky for us, Tony's neighborhood has a camera on practically every corner and we were able to track Hadar's bike for some distance before we…"
"Don't tell me you lost him, McGee. I do not want to hear that you lost him," Gibbs cut in with a shout. Spinning away and plunking himself down behind his desk, he continued. "I want you to check all the cameras within a two mile radius of the last sighting and pick him up again. And then keep doing that until we find them."
"But that's gonna take…"
"You'd better get started then, hadn't you, McGee?"
McGee didn't need any more prompting and slipped behind his own desk and started on the laborious job he'd been saddled with. It was going to take him hours, but then again, this was for Ziva and for her he'd spend the next week looking if he had to.
Grabbing his gun and badge from the drawer, Gibbs signaled to Tony to do the same and began to head out. "You're with me, DiNozzo. We'll be at the last sighting registered and then you're going to guide us from there with what you find from then on, Tim. Don't let us down."
Tim's, "I won't, boss." Fell on deaf ears as he watched the two men pile into the elevator. All three men were on a mission, a mission that meant more to them all than just another job. This was Ziva's life they were trying to save, a woman that had entrenched herself in all their lives. Tim hoped with all his heart that they weren't too late to find her. And with that uppermost in his mind, he set to work.
tbc...