Chapter 15

The next couple of days, Nicole had been training her butt off.

"No I don't care anymore! I want to go back to D.C now! I'll walk or swim home! You're an ass!" She said.

Mathew grabbed her by the arm and dragged her to the same room where he dunked her in the water. "Your being a little brat, your not doing anything your suppose to be doing! You need to learn respect." "Well in my eyes you earn respect and you haven't earned it!" She shouted.

He tied her hands with a rope so she couldn't move, he walked to the other end of the room, "looks like I'm going to have to break you!" He grabbed a whip, he whipped her once, "nine more!" after the nine, she had tears in you eyes. He untied her, she kicked him where you should never kick a man.

He fell to his knees, "that's what you get!" She said to him. He got up and grabbed her throwing her into a chair, this has been the first time she'd been tied to a chair. Yesterday she got 20 lashes and was tied to the chair and beat the whole night. He tied her feet to it too, he slapped her in the face, "your strong for a girl your age. So that's why your in training."

He got a bucket of coals and a hot rod, he put the rod in there until it got hot. When it did he burned her on the upper thigh. She knew she shouldn't struggle, it would burn more but it was so hard not too, tears started running down her face. It was just an inch burn but it hurt like hell. He threw it across the room.

At NCIS

Every member of the team talked to Vance even Gibbs. But he wouldn't let them go get Nicole.

Ziva was getting sick of it, she was pissed and wanted her child back. She marched up there and ran into his office, "Vance I don't care anymore, fire me or whatever, I'm going to go get my child!" She stated roughly.

He moved his toothpick around his mouth, "okay. Your free to go." He said.

Which shock Ziva, she thought he would shout or something. She tilted her head to the side before she could speak, he stated, "you come back with a job." She smiled at him and nodded, she walked out of his room with a weak smile. Tony asked, "well?"

"I can leave to go get her," she said. "Your coming back with a job?" He asked. "Yep," she said. Vance looked down at them, "go get her you all!" He called, They looked up at him with a smile on their faces.

Back with Nicole

A few hours have past, tears and blood too. While he was abusing her, the NCIS was packing so they could come save her like they did with Ziva. Her attitude was sure broke now but he kept beating her.

"Where's your home?" He asked, "here," she answered. He left the room, he came back in 12 hours, which now NCIS was on the plane.

She hasn't ate in 29 hours and going, she was weak and hungry. This whole thing was like a flash back with Ziva. He came back in and started yelling, he grabbed the whip and started lashing at her arms. Nicole didn't say anything, just tears were falling down her face.

Ziva kept tapping her finger on the arm rest on the plane, Tony grabbed her hand, "it's going to be okay," he said.

"How do you know?" She asked, "cause Gibbs is never wrong," he said. "Rule 51," she stated to him. "It's going to be okay," he repeated.

With Nicole

"Kill me!" She screamed. It had to be beating her bad for her to beg him to kill her. "End it!" She screamed.

He stopped and held a gun to her head and asked, "this is what you want?"
She sobbed and nodded, he put the gun at his hip. He put a sock in her mouth, and started beating her again.

The plane landed and the team got off the air plane. "Where now Ziva?" Gibbs asked, since he didn't know this place. She said, "let's get a car and the place is only 35 miles to the east," she stated. "Okay, that should take 30 minutes," Tony said, Ziva looked at him, "I meant 15 minutes," she smiled at him.

Matthew didn't know what was coming to him. Nicole was still tied to the chair, sitting there taking the abuse. Her body was trying to go numb, her lips were busted from being slapped so many times. All of a sudden the door was kicked down and Ziva, Tony, McGee and Gibbs were there holding their guns. Matthew was reaching for his gun but before he could grab it Ziva shot it in the shoulder. McGee ran over to him and took his gun away from him. A few men came running in and Gibbs held his badge up and said, "NCIS USA agents!" He placed his finger on the trigger and aimed for them, they backed off. Ziva and Tony ran over to Nicole her head was down and she looked around, "mom, dad?" She said in a dry, hoarse voice.

"Yes it's us," Ziva said. Tony cut the rope from her feet while Ziva did the rope from her wrists. She did the best to her hug her parents but she was very weak. Nicole looked at her mother, "I understand why you don't like talking about it." those words made Ziva's eyes water, now her daughter had been through what she had been through. That was one of Ziva's biggest fear, she wanted to be a good parent. Tony picked his daughter up and they all started to walk back to the airport.

"Where's grandfather?" Ziva asked, "he left for something, he won't be back for another 24 hours," she stated. McGee said, "ninja mom to the rescue." Gibbs gave him a death glare. When they got back on the plane, they started to have Nicole drink.

"When is the last time you ate or drank?" Gibbs asked. "Around 48 hours ago," Nicole answered. All they had was peanuts, "here eat this." "No I'm not hungry," she said. "You need to eat," Ziva said. She started to eat and after a few peanuts, she grabbed a bag and puked. They handed the puke bag to McGee to threw it away. "Sorry," she said. "For what?" Tony asked. "Puking and being this way," she said. Gibbs said, "no! Don't say that, your fine, your a strong girl. Most girls this age would have died. Don't say sorry."