A/N: A huge thanks to all those who reviewed the previous chapter. Some have been regularly reviewing every chapter and some are new. I am glad to have wonderful readers, there was a guest reviewer whose review made my day, there was no name, so who ever you are thanks a lot. Also another review I found touching was from talimom1997, especially one of your reviews on a previous chapter where you shared your personal story about your necklace and about your daughter I was really touched. I loved writing that particular bit about Ziva addressing Tony as her baby's abba, such terms in native languages does make me feel so happy and sentimental. So on with the story now! Enjoy
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CHAPTER 27
AT THE WAREHOUSE
Tony ran in the direction pointed by Sarah. He made a left turn and saw a limping figure make its way towards a building.
Tony ran faster and caught up to him, he yanked Ray back by his shirt collar and hit him on his face with the butt of his gun, Ray staggered back still clutching his side where he had been stabbed.
Tony took the opportunity and kneed him in his stab wound that left Ray bent on his knees.
Ray tried to pull out Tony's leg from underneath him to make him fall. And while Tony was distracted he felt a blow to his back.
Tony turned around and saw a masked guy trying to hit him again with a baseball bat. Tony kicked Ray in his face and tried to prevent the blow from the other guy.
Ray curled up in pain, leaving Tony to deal with the other guy, both of whom fought with each other for a bit and later Tony took out his gun and tried to fire at the man in front of him.
The man panicked and looked to his right and that is when Tony saw another hooded man aiming a gun at him, seeing his finger go to the trigger Tony jumped behind a trash can in time for the bullet to just graze his skin leaving the skin to burn.
He aimed his gun at the man who he had fought with and was now fleeing the scene and got him in his leg.
"Freeze! Federal agents." came the voice of Gibbs and the second man ran away into the darkness as well.
"DiNozzo, you alright?" asked Gibbs as he kneeled next to his senior field agent.
"Yeah it is just a graze wound. I got one of the men in his leg, so probably some there might be some blood there for evidence, and the other one just disappeared into the darkness. But we did get this dirt bag." he said and kicked Ray's legs.
"Well Carter and the Wilsons were taken to the hospital. Get this checked out at the ER and you can head home. I'll take care of that." Gibbs said waiving in Ray's direction.
"McGee go with DiNozzo and after that drop him off at home. You know where to find me then." Gibbs ordered going towards Ray.
TONY AND ZIVA'S HOUSE
Ziva was squeezing one hand of Ducky and Abby each. She sat on the floor of the nursery and tried to ride the wave of pain.
One agent came running when he heard Ziva's screams, "What happened?"
He asked frantically surveying the scene.
"Is she in labour, do we need to bring the car out front?" The agent asked.
"No she is not in labour, and no we don't need the car just help her to the couch." Ducky said.
"Okay" the agent accepted and went to scoop up Ziva and carry her to the couch.
"NO DO NOT TOUCH ME." she yelled. She was not used to the closeness of random men. She only trusted Tony with her body and that too very minimally.
"Sorry...I...I can walk by myself." she said and with the help of the three of them got up and walked to the couch.
The pain had reduced and now they were just intermittent flashes of pain, but the tears kept flowing.
"Can we go now? I need to see Tony" she whimpered.
"Well all you have to do is ask." Said a voice from the door.
"Tony?" exclaimed the trio together in surprise.
"Well I don't know what's so surprising, but good to see you too I guess." Tony smiled brightly.
Abby went over to Tony and hit him in the arm few inches below his jacket clad bandages.
"Ow, what was that for?" Tony asked.
Ziva got up and waddled towards him as fast as she could, and pulled him into a hug, she started sobbing violently her face hidden by his jacket.
"What is happening here?" Tony asked caressing Ziva's hair, concerned by everyone's sudden outburst.
"Anthony my dear boy you gave us all a near heart attack. And Ziva an almost pre term labour. Timothy you said Tony was shot. We assumed he must be in the OR fighting for his life." Ducky explained.
"Hey I mentioned it was just a graze wound ...but I guess that's when the nurse snatched my phone. Something about no cell phones in ER." McGee explained.
Tony slapped him at the back of the head and glared at him, "way to go McGee." he said. He looked down at Ziva who was still clutching him and crying.
"Hey it is alright sweet heart I am right here. Look at me there is no need to worry." Tony reassured.
"Ducky is she alright? You were talking about pre term labour." Tony asked.
"She is fine Anthony, so is the baby. It's just a case of really bad Braxton hicks, she may have pain medication if she desires. And she is dehydrated too so make sure she gets in lots of fluid."Ducky said.
Later on, one by one everyone left and only Tony and Ziva were left with the agents guarding outside.
Ziva was sitting against the headboard of their bed stroking her belly and drinking the Juice Tony made for her. Tony came in and pulled off his shirt.
Ziva gasped seeing the white bandage with the big red stain.
"Is that were you were shot?" she asked gently running her fingers over it. "That looks nasty." she said and kissed his biceps above the wound lightly.
Tony chuckled and lay down pulling Ziva with him. "Sorry for scaring you and princess." Tony said burying his face in her hair.
"Can we visit Sarah tomorrow?" she asked softly.
"You have taken a liking to her recently." Tony mocked. "Yes we will visit after I interrogate that..." He placed his hand over her belly pretending to cover the child's ears "dirt bag."
He looked down at her and smiled, "We got him Zi, and you should have seen the way Gibbs dragged him over to the car." "Oh, by the way, you and I owe Carter thanks."
She frowned in confusion; "Because she stabbed him in his side." he said grinning.
"So the knife did come in handy." she mumbled before snuggling into Tony's chest and falling asleep.
A/N: So how was that? Please, please leave a review and tell me how you feel about the story line.
