A/N: O.k. so I know that the whole kidnapping ordeal causes no Lizzy scenes but I will show within the next few chapters, some scenes of Lizzy and some scenes of Tony and Jeanne. A lot of the last chapter and this chapter will focus on Gibbs but it is important to the story line so bear with me. I'll try to update tomorrow.
Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS.
Chapter 21
The five of them drove to NCIS in silence. Gibbs kept glancing from the rearview mirror to see his wife and daughter. Jenny had not let go of Chloe since hugging her on the side of the road. He needed to get back to NCIS as soon as possible to see if his daughter was alright and to question her on what happened. Upon entering the building, the five of them entered the elevator and went to Jenny's office. Jenny guided her daughter over to the couch and sat her down. Gibbs took out his phone and told Ducky to come upstairs right away with his medical equipment. Gibbs didn't want to question her until Ducky told him that everything was alright with his daughter.
Ducky and Palmer came into the Director's office and smiled at the young girl. "Alright, my dear, let's see how you are." Ducky took out his stethoscope and began to listen to her heart beat but was having a bit of trouble. "You know it would be easier to listen to your heart if you actually let out a breath."
Chloe exhaled and said, "I didn't even know I was holding my breath."
"Your probably still in shock from your ordeal."
"Probably."
Ducky ran a few more tests before taking out a syringe. "What's that for?" Chloe asked fearfully eyeing the needle.
"I need a blood sample to see if you were drugged."
"Can't you just use a urine sample or something."
"If you were drugged, the urine sample would show a negative result at this point due to metabolization. A blood test will give a positive result if you were even after it has metabolized."
"O.k. just be quick." Chloe said holding her mother's hand and looking away from the needle.
She yelped when the needle entered her body. "Sorry, it's been a while since I did this on a living person."
"It's o.k."
After taking the blood, Ducky turned to Jimmy and said, "To Abby, Mr. Palmer."
"Right away, doctor." Jimmy offered Chloe a smile before leaving the room. Ducky wanted to stay behind to read Chloe's mental state when she was questioned by her father.
Jethro sighed before sitting next to his daughter. "Chloe, you know how this works."
"Yeah, you're going to interrogate me."
"No interrogation is for suspects, your a victim."
"So questioning, either way you spin it I still have to relive the ordeal."
Mike couldn't help but chuckle at that. "She's got you there, Probie. Quick as a whip like her mother, right, Madam Director?" Both Jenny and Gibbs glared at Mike while Chloe smiled a little at his comment.
"I know and I'm sorry I have to put you through that but right now your sisters are still in danger and the only way to help them is with the information you give us. So what happened, starting with this morning."
"Well, Annie and I got ready for school just like any other day. Benny came over around 7:20 to take us to school. Along the way we noticed an accident up. Since we had time, Benny decided to take the long way to school so we would avoid getting caught in the traffic jam. This route is off the beaten track and not many people use it any more. We only know about it cause kids at school use it to go and hook up with each other. And no I have never used this road before to hook up with a boy. So we were driving along singing to a song on the radio to annoy Benny, when Benny notices this white van speeding up behind us. He tried to move out of its way but it kept moving with Benny's car. At this point, Benny tried to out run the van but it was to late and the van hit the back of Benny's car. It kept ramming into Benny's car until it hit the car on the side and and the car flipped. I don't know how but I managed to get on the pavement. I guess Annie was in better shape than me cause at one point she was in my line of sight but I couldn't focus on her or answer her when she called my name. The next thing I know, I'm being picked up before I passed out. I then woke up in this warehouse but I was still groggy so I don't remember much, not even how many people there were there. But there was one person that kept coming near us to check to see if we were breathing and I guess to check to see how conscious we were cause at certain points I kept going in and out of consciousness. Thinking back on it now, I think he was drugging us."
"Good, Chloe, but do you remember anything else. Did any of them have tattoos, scars, what did their voice sound like, anything specific about where they were hiding you?"
"I can't remember anything else."
"Chloe, you have to remember something?"
"Jethro, that is enough." Jenny said noticing her daughter's distress and hugging her daughter tightly.
"I'm sorry, daddy, but I just can't remember anything else." Chloe said crying at this point.
"No, baby, it's o.k. You did very well. If you remember anything else just let me know, o.k?"
"O.k." Gibbs smiled and kissed his daughter on the head before hugging her.
"Get some rest. I'll see you soon." Gibbs walked out of the office and motions for Fornell and Mike to follow him. Once the door was closed, Gibbs looked at the two of them and said, "I don't care who is behind this, I want this bastard hung."
"Don't worry, Probie, I'll fashion the noose for you."
"I'm not going to stop you, Jethro." Fornell said with understanding.
Two days later, all of NCIS was on high alert but no one was able to track down the girls or their kidnappers. Hetty had Eric from the L.A. Office working around the clock to help with the investigation. Jenny contacted Chloe's school and let them know that Chloe would be absent while they still searched for Annie and their other daughters. Within the last two days, Jenny had not let Chloe out of her sight. She was afraid that Chloe was still missing and would wake up with this feeling of dread.
She had a gut feeling that this was about La Grenouille and those pictures he sent of her girls. "DiNozzo, get in here." She said over the phone to the agent.
"You wanted to see me, Director." Tony said.
"I have not told Jethro about La Grenouille and I don't want to but I may have to get my daughters back."
"O.k. and what do you need from me?"
"Before I tell Jethro any of this, I need to know if La Grenouille sanctioned this hit and I need you to talk to his daughter and see if he is in the country or is on his way into the country. I'll look into his financials and see if there were any major withdrawals."
"Alright, I'll get on that."
Just then, Agent McGee ran into the room out of breath, "Are you alright, Agent McGee?"
"The kidnappers... sent a... a phone...call. Gibbs is talking... to them... now." The three of them ran downstairs and listened to Gibbs talking to the kidnapper.
"I have to say, using William Decker as an alias was a nice touch." Gibbs said.
"Yes, I thought so."
"Yeah, but all it did was piss me off. Now where are my daughters?"
"Patients, Agent Gibbs, you wouldn't want that temper of yours to get one of your little girls in trouble would you?"
"You sick bastard. You want to hurt someone you come after me like a real man not after defenseless girls."
"I wouldn't exactly call them defenseless, your two oldest fought tooth and nail to try and get away from me. I would imagine that the younger two would have fought back as well but their equilibrium was a bit off."
"Listen and listen good you sick prick, I am going to find you and when I do, I will personally be sending you to hell."
"Well before that happens, I'm going to release another one of your daughters. Rachel is quite fiery like her mother and just as beautiful."
"So where are you going to drop her off?" Gibbs asks sarcastically.
"I'm so glad you asked that, agent Gibbs. I'm sending you a video feed." Just then the plasma showed a Rachel tied up and a masked man in a dingy in the middle of the sea. "Look familiar, Agent Gibbs? If it doesn't ask your wife, she should be very familiar with this view. You have thirty minutes before your daughter is thrown in the water. As I'm given to understand it even someone who is a strong swimmer can only hold their breath underwater for 2 and ½ minutes. Clock is ticking, Agent Gibbs."
"Jenny, what was he talking about?"
"It's the Anacostia, I have a view of it from my office and I look at it every day to clear my head."
"So Rachel and some masked man are in the middle of the Anacostia. Let's move, we only have twenty seven minutes before they throw her in." Gibbs drove as fast as he could and rented a dingy along with his team to get into the middle of the Anacostia. When they got there, they saw the masked man push Rachel into the water before driving away as fast as he could. Gibbs and Tony jumped into the water and were able to get Rachel out of the water. After performing CPR, Rachel coughed up the water in her lungs.
Gibbs drove Rachel back to headquarters. He didn't know how to question her about this and he hated feeling helpless. But that is exactly how he felt. Upon entering the squad room, Gibbs turned to face Rachel, ready to question her about what happened.
