Chapter 26 – Gone
Another fire man came out if the building and went straight over to his Chef. The fireman whispered something in the Chef's ear before heading back into the building.
"Agent Gibbs my men are saying that the girl wasn't in the apartment." The Chef told Gibbs.
Gibbs turned around to see Ziva on the ground with DiNozzo trying to comfort her. Gibbs nodded to the Chef and went over to his team. He did know how he was going to tell them that Charlie wasn't in the apartment. He looked over at Jen and she could tell that something was wrong.
Tony stood up when he noticed Gibbs walking towards them. "Is Charlie ok, Boss?"
Gibbs took a deep breath before he answered, "They are saying that Charlie wasn't in the apartment."
"What?!" Tony couldn't understand how Charlie wasn't in the apartment.
"My….my…father is…..behind all of this." Ziva chocked out.
"Ziver how do you know that." Gibbs asked kneeling down in front of her.
"Sometimes when we have needed information out of a mark, instead of interrogating them they would take a close family member- like a wife or child- and set a fire to the part of the house where you couldn't save them. They want you to believe that they are going to die in the fire until you're told they weren't in the house. The mark will then tell Mossad anything. The mark is then killed, some then will let the family member go but must of them…" Ziva could bring herself to finish the sentence.
They were all stunned at what Ziva had just told. They all knew that Eli wasn't the nicest of people but to hurt Charlie that was an all-new low even for him. Ziva was starting to fear that she would have to go back to Israel to get Charlie back. She would do anything to get Charlie back and she knew that if she went back Eli wouldn't kill Charlie. However she knew that if she went back, she would never see Tony again. Then there was the twins, there was no way she take them to Israel with her. She wanted them to have a different childhood to the one she had. But she didn't want to leave them and not get to watch them grow. She hated Eli for what he had done but she knew he would have gotten his foot solider to do all of his dirty work. She needed to talk to him. Ziva stood up and went back to the car and jumped in to the driers seat. Gibbs, Jen and Tony did see her leave their side until they heard her driving off at high speed. The three of looked at each other wondering where she could of gone. It clicked to them all at the same time. Getting back into Gibbs car- Gibbs drove, Tony rood shoot gun and Jen was in the back.
***NCIS***
Ziva sprinted into NCIS, running up the stairs to the bullpen she headed straight to MTAC. Ziva ordered the tech furiously to contact Director David. Ziva waited passionately as they connected to Tel Aviv. Ziva turned around when she heard the door open to see Tony rushing in followed by Gibbs then Jen.
"Ziva, it's good to hear from you." Eli said when he appeared on the big screen.
"Cut the crap!" Ziva shouted at the top of her lungs to her father in English.
"Don't you…." Eli started but Ziva cut.
"Shut up. You can't tell me what I can and can't do. Now where is Charlie and don't tell me you don't know what I am talking about because I KNOW FINE WELL YOU DO!" The anger had built up in Ziva and she was letting it all out.
"Ziva, I do not know what you are talking about. However you did make a lot of enemies over the years. Why don't you come back here and I'll help you fine the girl."
"No. You have twenty minutes to call whoever has her and have her brought to the Navy Yard. If you don't I promise you the only reason I will be returning to Israel is to shoot you. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!?"
"See what they have done to you Ziva, they have turned you against me."
"You did that yourself, Eli." She knew calling him by his first name would infuriate him. "My home is where with NCIS, Tony and our three girls. You can't change that. Just give us Charlie back. She is just a child. I will never be able to forgive you if anything happens to her or the rest of my family." Ziva stormed off with Tony following.
Tony grabbed Ziva's hand when they were outside of MTAC and pulled her close to him. He held her tightly as she broke down in his arms. Tony tried to be positive by telling her that everything was going to be ok but he knew Ziva wasn't buying it.
***NCIS***
It had been three hours since Ziva demanded her father to return Charlie to them. Neither of them where surprised when Charlie hadn't been returned. After Ziva had left MTAC Eli had told Jen that he wanted Ziva to be returned Israel immediately and that she was not longer Liaison Officer between NCIS and Mossad. Jen hadn't told Ziva that knowing that she probable return until she knew Charlie was safe even then Jen was pretty sure that Ziva would go to Israel just to shoot Eli. McGee had called to inform Gibbs that Abby was going to be ok but a doctor had had her sedate when she wouldn't calm down enough for the doctors to give her a proper exam. Gibbs had asked McGee to come back to the office to hack into Mossad. McGee didn't want to leave Abby but Gibbs promised him that he could go back to the hospital in the morning before Abby woke up.
The whole team was down in the bullpen. McGee was typing away at his computer. Tony was going thought CVTV footage of the street outside the apartment trying to identify the kidnappers. Gibbs had had two agents positioned outside the apartment but they were killed but a gunshot to the head so he had just finished informing their families. Ziva and Jen were sitting at Ziva's desk taking care of the twins. Ziva felt useless but there was nothing for her to do until they had Charlie's location.
"Her necklace." Everyone looked at Ziva for an explanation behind her random comment. Ziva looked up to see them all staring at her. "I got McGee to put a tracker behind one of her pictures in her locket."
McGee was about to active the tracker when Tony's phone rang. Tony put it on speaker, "Hello."
"Daddy." Charlie voice echoed through the bullpen.
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