…………4 hours later…………….

Everyone sat in a big warehouse. It was dark and only a couple of times did the guards turn on the light and then they used flashlights and other big mobile lights so they could see they didn't try to escape. You never knew when they were going to turn on the light. Everyone felt that any minute now they could get killed. Somehow the kidnappers did allow them to talk.

When Tony, Kate and the rest of the team entered the warehouse they saw how Gibbs and the others were there too. Immediately they knew that it was something against them and the rest had been taken just because they were there with them. When Gibbs, Tony and Kate exchanged looks a lot more was said than anyone could expect. As soon as everyone was in the warehouse the kidnappers decided to split them into two groups. The women on the other side and the men on the opposite. The fear Tony and Kate then felt could not be described and the anger Gibbs felt when he saw that couldn't either be described. If that wasn't clearly to make things much worse for them then what was? It was emotional torture and the kidnappers knew that. Gibbs and Tony weren't allowed to sit next to each other but the rest of the men could sit wherever they could. It was another sign they knew who they were and by all means they couldn't let them sit next to each other. Everyone wondered what was going to happen next and why they didn't use the ordinary lights.

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"Do you believe in God?" a marine asked Tony. Tony couldn't see his face but he remembered who the ones sitting next to him looked like from the last time the lights were turned on.

"If that will help you stay strong then the answer is yes." Tony replied. He didn't want him to feel bad because Tony didn't want to speak to him.

"My mother always said think of God in hard situations and I wonder if I should do this now…I'm catholic what are you?" the man asked Tony.

"I'm catholic too but I'm thinking more about my family." Tony told him. Kate was the one who took her religion a bit more serious than he did. Everything reminded him about her.

"All I have is a sister who lives in Boston. Tell me about your family." He said to Tony.

"My wife is pregnant and she is sitting on the other side of this room." Tony stated.

"I'm sorry." The man said and then he couldn't manage to say another word.

"Not your fault…It's mine." Tony said now wondering why he hadn't tried harder to convince her to stay home.

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"Kate, are you alright?" Abby asked her.

"Don't know what to answer…I'm far from fine but alright during the circumstances. All I can think about is who they are and if Ari come up with this. Why can't he get out of our lives?" Kate said frustrated.

"I wonder the same." Abby said to her.

"I never thought this would happen to me when I joined the team." Amanda McAllister said to them.

"Neither did I." Meggy replied.

"We should have warned you better because not until Ari does something to you, you will fully understand how terrorists work…" Kate answered.

"When we get out of here I'll teach you everything you need to know." Abby then said trying to be hopeful.

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"Tony…"Gibbs whispered.

"What are you doing here? They'll kill you!" Tony said quietly.

"I don't care right now. So how many guards are on your side?" Gibbs asked him.

"They are six. On yours?" Tony asked.

"Six too. Are they divided in three and three too?" Gibbs continued.

"Yes…They go between the women and us. There are 8 women in the other group and 8 men in my group." Tony said to him. The men were divided in two groups so they couldn't see each other.

"There are 14 men in my group. So in total we are 30." Gibbs stated.

"You better go back before they see you. They can turn on the light any second now." Tony said worried.

"I'll take that risk. How are you feeling? The air isn't the best in here and I know you…"Gibbs said before getting interrupted. Tony didn't want to discuss his health at the moment.

"How are the others?" Tony then asked.

"Fine…I'll go back now." Gibbs said to him.

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As soon as Gibbs got back to his place the lights were turned on.

"Ok, the women stand up. We're going somewhere." One of the guards told them.

Tony watched how Abby and McAllister helped Kate up and how they all left the room. Everyone who knew they were married saw the heartbroken faces of the two. With all the weapons in the room no one could do anything.

……………….Meanwhile somewhere else in the world…………

"So how are the bank robberies going?" one man asked another.

"Great. We've got enough money now."

"How many have died?"

"Two from our group and due to the power cut I have no idea how many in the world has died. Not so many but that wasn't our goal, was it?" the other man asked the man who seemed like the boss.

"No…Fear and letting them be helpless that was our goal. Make them feel like every poor person in the world." The boss replied.

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"Mrs Gibbs, great that you are here. The Dinozzos are here too. I see you brought your kids. The Dinozzos brought their daughter with them too." Her boss said to her, saying Mrs Gibbs than just Gibbs or Lauren because the kids were with her.

"That's good to hear. What is the latest?" she asked him while they were walking to the room where everyone else was. From their apartment they had walked through New York to get to FBI where Lauren Gibbs worked.

"Several bombs have exploded across the world to take out the power. We know some bank robberies and other robberies have taken place across the world too. There aren't so many satellites phone in the world so the information we are getting is minimal. Only one radio station per city is working due to the power loss and is only sending important messages…The search after the marines isn't so prioritised right now…They can be anywhere. Why don't we talk somewhere else? The kids don't need to hear this." Her boss told her.

"Why don't you go baby-sit Julia while I and the Dinozzos go talk in the other room?" Lauren asked them.

"Ok…" they answered to tired and upset to say anything else. Just as they thought their lives were finally going to get better this happened. Why was it so hard to become happy? Lauren saw this was harder on Nick for an unknown reason. He didn't want to talk about it but he said it was just hard. Isabella took it hard too but you could just sense it was harder on Nick. Lauren tried to think why it was like that because Nick had good parents but somehow they couldn't agree with Nick. Lauren and Gibbs had always wondered why it was so easy for his parents to give up on him. Was it because Gibbs promised to never give up on him even though they lived in different cities which made the difference?

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"I've talked to Fornell. He still insists that Ari couldn't have masterminded this all on his own. Ari is a mystery to us. I have to be truthful. Kidnapping them and letting them go is probably not likely here…I think they got kidnapped so they can be killed. Our resources are limited right now and that makes it a lot harder to find them. I want to prepare you for the worst even though the other relatives won't get this information if we are able to get in touch with them." Lauren's boss told them.

"They can't be dead!" Max said to him.

"Until I see it with my own eyes he is not dead! I know there is something else Ari plans… Just tell Fornell that if I ever see him he won't come out of that meeting alive!" Lauren said angry.

"I can't say that to him and you know that…I know you just got custody of two teenagers and are afraid of being left alone with them and I know you two are worried about Anthony and Caitlin Dinozzo especially since Caitlin Dinozzo is pregnant but there isn't much we can do right now than hope they will somehow come out of this alive." He continued.

……………Nick and Isabella………

"I never got to say that he acted like the best dad in the world…"Nick told Isabella.

"Neither did I…It's funny that just as we get a new set of parents one disappears…I'm so numb right now." Isabella told him while holding Julia who was unaware about what was happening.

………….In the warehouse……

When the women left the room the men were allowed to walk around in the room for a while. Tony immediately went to Gibbs and McGee.

"We need to get out of here." Tony told them.

"I'm already thinking about something to get us out of here." Gibbs said to him.

"We all are." McGee reassured him.

Just then a few shots were fired and they could hear it came from outside the room. The men started to think that the women got killed. Gibbs watched Tony who tried his best to not show any emotions. Gibbs went up to him and hugged him and then they heard a few more shots. That was coming from the room they were in. McGee looked around and saw that everyone was still standing and the shots were fired in the roof. Suddenly all the guards left the room and quickly locked every exit. McGee couldn't stop thinking about world war two…