Abby finally had exactly what she had wanted, her freedom. After taking a long nap she woke to begin her new life in New York. She had already begun to unpack the master bedroom and selected which room would be the nursery. The third room would be Bishop's. After a couple hours work she decided she had done enough. She turned on the TV in the living room and finally settled on a cable airing of "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" she rubbed her belly and smirked. That would be a perfect way to take Ziva down. Claim that she was carrying a baby for McGee and Delilah and now had the intentions of killing Delilah. She probably had a hundred lies about Ziva's pregnancy but she would do anything to get her hands on that money. It was the money she deserved, the money that she had been promised by Senior. Of course at that time she was just going to pretend to be pregnant and alone. While Senior would feign financial troubles and his own medical problems. Of course Tony's cancer had changed things and they ended up having to go the route of Tony's will. Unfortunately for them Tony proved to be cold hearted in the end. Not even caring about his father or any of his friends. Until Dwayne came into the picture Abby was totally screwed. Dwayne was her saving grace. Together they had hatched the scam to kidnap Tali and murder her, placing the blame on Breena Palmer. According to the text she had received on her burn phone Tali had been taken. Now all that needed to be done was plant the evidence on Breena. Abby was pulled from her thoughts by the sound of the burn phone ringing.

"She's gone"

"Tali's dead"

"No! She's gone! That little bitch escaped!"

"Did you at least get the evidence placed on Breena?"

"No! The damn police arrested me. Stupid pigs!"

"OK uh I will get some bail money together."

"I am being held without bond."

"I am coming down there. You just sit tight."

"Yeah of course. If I don't shoot these damn pigs first!"

"You are going to be fine. You are..."

"NO! GOD DAMMIT! IT WAS A JOKE! A GOD DAMMNED JOKE! FUCK YOU! YOU WORTHLESS PIG!"

"Dwayne? Dwayne?! DWAYNE?!"

"Inmate Peters has been taken to solitary."

Tobias Fornell found concentrating to be just about impossible. He had woken to the news that Jethro had tried to commit suicide and just hours later little Tali DiNozzo was a missing person. She had since been found alive but the case was quite disturbing. Tali had been taken from the park and thrown into the back of a van. The girl had managed to break out of the van and was discovered by the police after running out into the street. She had gone on to give a near perfect description of her abductor and Dwayne was arrested at a routine traffic stop mere moments later. Unfortunately the case only got more disturbing from there. Tali described an incident in which Abby had broken into the Palmer's beach house and tried to convince her that Ziva was in the wrong. His desk phone rang and he yanked it off the cradle praying that he was about to hear good news for the first time all day.

"Hello?"

"Tobias you have to help me."

"Actually no I do not Abby. In fact you just gave me a direct line to arrest your ass."

"Arrest me? But why?"

"Well for one thing Dwayne Peters just gave you up as an accessory in the kidnapping of Tali DiNozzo and for another thing you broke into a private residence and verbally accosted Tali."

"No please don't believe those lies! Dwayne only took Tali because he found her alone at the park. He looked and looked for an adult but nobody was around. His baby sister was murdered by a man after she was mistakenly left in the park. He was just triggered. As for me I was just trying to see Tony, Tali must have just had a nightmare."

"Abby she covered in blood in the middle of the highway and a gun was found in the back of the van."

"No it was an accident."

"That is no accident."

"Yeah you know something else that isn't an accident? When somebody cuts Emily's breaks."

"Did you just threaten my child?!"

"Spare me and release Dwayne or Emily gets it."

Ziva had not let her daughter out of her arms since bringing her home. Words could not express the joy she felt in knowing that her daughter was home safe. Leon had apologized profusely for allowing her to be kidnapped but Ziva knew that it was nobodies fault. Little kids took off in the blink of an eye and all it took was another second for something to go wrong. That is why she had taught Tali about stranger danger and self defense as soon as she could toddle. She had prayed that it would never be anything more than a mother's concern and a way to tire out a wild toddler, but today her fears had come true. By the grace of God, Tali had known exactly what to do in then some. Now the awful man had been taken into custody, there was a BOLO out for Abby, and Tali was once again safe.

"Ima! I'm hot!" Tali cried.

"I am sorry Tali. I am just so scared." Ziva explained.

"It's OK Ima, you taught me to protect myself." Tali assured.

"Just don't leave my sight until you are thirty." Ziva replied, releasing Tali from her grip.

"What about the potty?" Tali asked.

"OK fine you can potty on your own but you have to allow me the same luxury." Ziva replied.

"Ima" Tali laughed.

McGee stepped into Gibbs' living room and soon discovered Ziva sitting on the floor with Tali sitting on her lap. The little girl had been weighing heavily on her mind since the hospital. He had always known that Tony was a hell of a lot smarter than he let on and Tali had certainly gotten her father's smarts. He could practically hear Tony arguing that Tali had Ziva's brains. Ziva was brilliant too but Tony had always seemed to have a superior degree of intelligence. A gift that for whatever reason he hid.

"Shalom McGee" Ziva greeted.

"Ziva there is something that we need to discuss." McGee replied.

"What?" Ziva asked.

"It's Tali, she's brilliant." McGee replied.

"I know" Ziva replied.

"No I mean she is brilliant. She has a well above average intelligence for a two year old. How clearly she speaks, the details she remembers, I mean look at these blocks this castle is perfect. Did she write this?" McGee explained, picking up a near perfect drawing of Tony and Ziva the declared them Abba and Ima.

"Well yes but I helped her with the spelling." Ziva commented.

"Ziva this is amazing." McGee gasped.

"I don't get it, how can Tali be a genius? I am smart but I was still chewing on the rug at Tali's age. Does it have to be genetic?" Ziva questioned.

"Well sometimes a child just develops an above average IQ but in Tali's case I think that her brains came from Tony." McGee explained.

"I always suspected that Tony was playing dumb. I just wish that he could have seen how smart Tali was. Maybe that would have inspired him to be more open with his brilliance." Ziva explained.

"I always wondered why he played dumb. I just hope that it was not because of me." McGee commented.

"Gibbs said that he was like this before." Ziva remarked.

"God I miss him." McGee admitted.

"Me too, I see so much of him in Tali." Ziva replied.

"Me too" McGee replied.

"Is there a way to test her for being a genius?" Ziva asked.

"I can get in touch with my friend at John's Hopkins." McGee replied.

"No matter what she is a great kid." Ziva replied.

"She really is." McGee agreed.

A/N: Abby pretty much screwed herself threatening Emily. As for Tali, is she really a genius? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.