Tim took a hold of his chair and slowly sat down. The whole team, plus his parents, where giving him a questioning look.

"Timothy, I asked you a question. It's not nice to not answer. How are you enjoying your time with your parents?"

"I wish..." He cleared his throat, "I wish they didn't have to be here."

"I'm sure you do, but I bet it's nice seeing them after so long."

Tim looked up at Gibbs, and Gibbs gave him a "Is that him?" look. Tim nodded.

Gibbs and the rest of the team hurried over to Tim's desk.

"Start running a trace," Gibbs whispered to Tony.

Tony nodded then ran to his desk and began the trace.

"Please, put me on speaker, Timothy," Jack said. And, even though Tim couldn't see him, he knew Jack was smiling.

Tim looked over at his parents. His mom was rubbing her hands together, a worried look growing on her face. His dad stood there with an arm around her, looking emotionless.

"Why?"

"Now's not the time for questions, Timothy, just do as I say."

"Okay." Tim put the phone on speaker, "It's on."

"Good. Hello, Agents Gibbs, DiNozzo, and David. It is nice to finally speak with all of you."

"We wanna talk to Sarah," Gibbs replied.

"I'm sorry, not right now. We wouldn't want Mike and Carol to have to hear their daughter crying would we?"

Ziva looked back and noticed that Carol looked like she was about to faint. Ziva quickly went to her desk and moved her chair over so she could sit down.

"What do you want?" Gibbs asked, "We can meet your demands-"

"I have no demands, Agent Gibbs. I simply want to play a game… a puzzle, if you will. Sarah is simply part of that puzzle. You all are. Timothy is the one who makes the puzzle complete. He is that final piece that gets put into place. Play the game right, and the puzzle will be completed. Play it wrong, and I just might have to throw a piece away… I'd hate to have to do that… Timothy, take me off of speaker now."

Tim did as he was told and put the phone back up to his ear, "Okay."

"One moment please."

Tim covered the phone with his hand, "He put me on hold," He whispered to Gibbs.

"H- hello," A scared Sarah said a couple of seconds later.

Tim's eyes widened, "Sarah!"

Carol stood back up and both she and Mike moved closer to Tim's desk.

"Tim, when- when are you gonna get here?" She asked. She sounded exhausted.

"I'm looking Sarah. I won't stop until I find you, I promise."

"I- I believe you."

"Good. Sarah, is he feeding you or giving you anything to drink?"

"Water and… and milkshakes."

"Okay, that's good." It wasn't good, Tim knew that, but it was better than getting nothing at all.

"Tim… I don't… I don't want to be here."

"I know you don't," Tim replied as he ran his fingers through his hair. He could feel tears coming to his eyes, but there was no way he was going to cry. "You won't be there much longer, I promise." He regretted that promise the second he spoke it. There was no way to know just how long she would be there.

"O- Okay."

"Aren't you glad I let you talk to your sister?" Jack asked, coming back on the phone.

"I'll be glad once you're dead," Tim replied, forgetting everyone around him.

The hatred in his voice surprised pretty much everyone. No matter how angry Tim got, they had never heard him speak like that before. Those few words made his team realize just how bad the situation was.

Jack laughed, "I'm sure that is true. Goodbye Timothy. I will talk to you later. Oh, and by the way, Abby has a beautiful apartment. I love her bat figurines, they are very interesting… Although I am sure you have already seen them, many times."

Jack hung up and Tim did the same.

"Anything on the trace?" Gibbs asked Tony.

"Not a thing."

"Abby's still in her lab, right?" Tim asked, his heart pounding.

Ziva shook her head, "No, she had to go home for a while. She has no hot water, so someone was going to come by and fix it this evening. Why?"

"Oh my God." Tim shot up out of his chair, jerked his desk drawer open, grabbed his gun, and ran for the elevator.

I know, it's crazy, crazy, crazy short, but I didn't want to go any further. Plus, I haven't felt well so this took a lot longer to write than it normally takes me. It usually takes two hours for me to write a 1,500 word chapter, and this took about six hours.

Sorry it's so short, but I hope you enjoyed it anyway. Review and let me know :)