ONTO SAVING ZIVA! Woohoo! What's going to happen?

Disclaimer still applies... but I own Effie and Kalib.

Gibbs stood up restlessly. He couldn't sit there and do nothing for another minute. It was time to act. "Jen?" Gibbs shook her awake.

"Jethro? What is it?"

"We have to act now," he told her. Jenny agreed and they woke the two boys. McGee was easier to wake... Tony was just a pain.

Finally they started out. They packed the little essentials that they all brought... it barely covered half of the trunk. Gibbs drove straight to Mossad. The four adults drew their guns and searched the perimeter for an easy access opening. Gibbs found a broken window that looked like it led to a basement. He called the others over. They each descended into the cold, damp cellar. McGee and Tony went one way while the older agents went a different way. They searched every corner.

Suddenly Jenny and Gibbs were confronted by two thugs... the ones that had taken Ziva. The thugs shot at Gibbs, the bullet grazing his left forearm. Jenny shot back, hitting the other thug with a triple tap to the chest. Gibbs then shot the remaining thug with a bullet to the throat. Jenny rushed over to Gibbs after the thug hit the ground.

"Jethro, you okay?"

"Yeah Jen, it was just a graze... I'll be fine," he reassured her. The duo pressed on. Looking for any sign of their missing agent.

Meanwhile...Tony and McGee ran into a dead end and started to turn back when they heard something stir. Tony put a finger to his lips to signal silence. McGee followed Tony over to what looked like a jail cell. The pair was horrified at the sight that lay before them. The cell contained two bodies... children.

"Please," one of them begged through cracked lips.

"What's your name?" Tony asked the dying child.

"Effie, and and this is my brother, Kalib," she managed, "they want us to give the location of our parents, but we refused. They locked us up," Effie told them. They each looked to be about seven or eight.

"How old are you?" McGee asked.

"Six, and Kalib is too. We've been down here for a few days," Effie informed them. Tony found a crowbar and pried the cell open. He gently pick up the girl into his arms. The boy backed up into the corner and whimpered. "האח! הם כאן כדי לעזור! (Brother! They're here to help.)" Effie cried in Hebrew. The boy seemed to relax a bit, but kept up his guard. McGee leaned down and scooped up the child. Tony and McGee reached the window. Tony set down Effie and climbed through the window. McGee handed him Kalib and then Effie. McGee then came through the window. The two men rushed the two children back to their car. They settled in the children just to turn around and realized that they were surrounded by thugs.

Tali and Ziva crept through the cellar looking for an easy out. Suddenly, Tali stopped her sister. "What is it Tali?" Ziva whispered.

"Two people... armed. But they don't look like Father's hired guns... one is a woman," Tali observed.

Ziva suddenly thought of something.

"Wait Tali! Is she a redhead? Is she with an older man with grey hair?" Ziva asked hopefully.

"Yes, how...?" her sister asked confused.

Ziva peeked around the corner and her heart leapt. It was them! "Gibbs!" Ziva yelled around the corner.

"Ziva?" Gibbs said with question in his voice.

"Yes! We are walking around the corner now," Ziva said as she and her sister inched around the corner. Ziva then dropped her weapon and threw her arms around Gibbs.

After the hug ended Ziva asked, "Where are Tony and McGee?"

"They should be around," Jenny interjected. They crept back to the window as a stealthy group.

Gibbs went up first and pulled up Ziva, mindful of her injuries, then Tali and the lastly Jenny. They ran to the car just for Ziva to stoop down and notice a bad sign.

"Tony was here," she told them, "this is a button from a shirt only Tony would wear."

"Assuming that's true, then McGee was with him," Jenny said.

"Eli has them," Gibbs stated. Tali, having been trained too, then noticed something else.

"I have found blood," she told them grimly, but then brighten a bit, "the only good news I can tell you from this blood is that it is from neither of your agents."

"How can you tell Tali?" Ziva asked her sister

"A child's handprint," Tali said simply, pointing towards the back window. Gibbs' stomach dropped. What happened?

:O OHNO! What's going to happen next? Will they reach Tim and Tony... *GULP*... in time?

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