………..A few hours later……….

It was still Wednesday but 1.17 PM…Everyone was exhausted and nothing new had come up. Everyone had been sent home an hour ago so they could be fresh tomorrow morning. Those who didn't want to go were forced to go and in the end only Gibbs, Daniel and Anthony were left at the office.

"Shall we go over everything again? Maybe we need another five minute break?" Daniel suggested.

"Danny…" Tony said before Gibbs interrupted him.

"What I said applies to you too. You're going home to get some sleep. The police or the FBI will call if anything happens. We can't think straight because we're too tired and that isn't helping them. They need us to be at our best right now and you clearly aren't."

"So where is the nearest hotel?" Daniel asked.

"Danny, you're staying with me. I'm not letting you out of my sight and I have a good guest room." Tony quickly said to him. Tony had a feeling every word which came out of his mouth was important and he didn't want to miss one of them. Time was surely running out and he didn't want it to be his fault that they died because he wasn't paying attention.

"You don't need to. I can pay for a hotel room." Danny slightly protested but he rather stays with someone he slightly knew then all alone at the moment. He kept wondering what would happen if was left alone. Would he go insane or also get kidnapped? Would he do something stupid which made things so much worse? Somehow he thought that around Tony and Gibbs he could think much better than if he was alone. They had the same goal and fighting for it became much easier when others were doing it too.

……..At the Dinozzo house………….

"So which room is mine?" Daniel asked.

"The one next ours…There's a lot of stuff there but not on and around the bed." Tony said with a low voice when Daniel opened the door.

Daniel saw baby things in the room. Blue, green, white, yellow and pink baby things…

"Di…I mean Diana never bought any stuff because she was so worried about something happening to the baby. She had tried for so long and the doctor said that it was impossible for her to have kids but they never found anything wrong with her. Then she met me and she got pregnant. It's as if it was faith. She could only get pregnant with the right man which was me. We were both so happy and my joy was so big that I bought so much stuff and planned so much for our baby…Diana always expects the unexpected and understands my crazy ways so she didn't say it bothered her but deep down inside I knew it did. She has a big imagination and always thinks about the things which are most likely never going to happen. How many 20 year olds write a will and sets up trust funds for her family in case she dies? I always said that she could be a great writer because her stories always get a new twist which no one ever expects. I swear that if I didn't know this was real I would have thought I was reading one of her stories…I'm sorry I'm just rambling nonsense." Daniel said to him.

Tony thought about what Daniel said and what he thought about not so long ago at NCIS.

"These stories you talk about…What are they about? Who have read them and can I read them?" Tony asked wondering if that would give them clues.

"A few are on the internet and others saved in our home computer. Lately she hasn't had time to write but when she comes up with a genius scene she tells me and knowing someone listens and gives feedback is enough for her." Daniel further explained.

"When did she write her last one and are any of them about kidnapping?" Tony continued asking.

"I think she finished her last one in the beginning of the year. I can show you the ones which are on the net and get my family to go home and send us the other ones which are saved on the computer but I think we need to get some sleep now. Not everything she does can be involved in this kidnapping." Daniel said to him wondering what Tony was thinking.

"No but we can't leave something out. Goodnight." Tony said before going straight to his room.

……………

As soon as both hit their beds they fell asleep and it was much needed for both of them.

It was the same for Gibbs.

Two others who were tired of sleeping because it was the only thing they did except for talking, were two women trapped in a cellar.

………………

"Get up…Take of your shirts…You're being filmed for something special. You're going to write a letter too. Just write of what is written on this paper. Sign it with your names and I want you to write half each so they can see both wrote it. When we come back we want the letter written, signed and you two without you shirts. Your bellies must be shown." One man said to them while standing on the stairs. Two other men were behind him but with the little light they had they couldn't see their faces.

"Give us some food, please." Diana begged and Kate took her arm to show that it was a wrong move. She knew this was the wrong thing to do in a hostage situation.

"You got water. Isn't that enough?" one of the men asked.

Diana looked at Kate and Kate looked back at her. What would they say?

"No, it isn't…We'll see you soon." Kate replied and then the men hurried out leaving the things on the stairs. She said it in a calm way.

"I'm sorry…We both are so hungry and we need the food…I had to ask." Diana apologized.

"Don't be…I understand…Let's just do as they say for now." Kate went up and picked up the papers and pen.

"We should send a secret code with the letter." Diana suggested.

"They'll see it and we only got a pen. We can't actually mark the letters." Kate said not understanding what she meant.

"Yes we can…First we write the whole letter and then I check my part. I'll put an extra dot on the letters which will be in the secret message and they'll just think that is where the pen stopped. You'll do the same on your part. If our husbands are smart which I think they are then they'll see our handwriting isn't usual." Diana explained to her.

"If they don't see it then I know Abby will but it can take them a long time before seeing it." Kate told her.

"I want meet your Abby. She seems fascinating." Diana said with a smile. She had heard a lot about Abby, Tony and the rest over the last few days.

Then they went to work.

…………Thursday the 11th 7.45 AM…………

"Welcome back…I got a bit worried that you wouldn't come…What have you been up to?" Gibbs asked when Tony and Daniel came to the office.

"Checking dead ends and sleeping…We'll fill you in later…Should I say boss? Tony suggested that." Daniel said to Gibbs. They had slept a lot but also talked a lot. Talked more than they ever expected.

"Boss if fine…I'm glad you came because the reception just called and said we got a delivery. It's urgent they said. I sent McGee to pick it up and he'll be back shortly." Gibbs told them.

A minute later McGee had come back.

"Maybe we should open it in the lab just in case." McGee suggested.

Gibbs nodded and all four of them went to Abby. Tony filled Gibbs in on what they had done last night which in the end seemed like dead ends. Gibbs still thought it was important knowledge and he wanted to find out more later.

They found a letter and a DVD in the package. Abby put the DVD in the computer after searching for fingerprints on it.

…………….

"First you see two bellies with two babies in it." A voice which had clearly been altered in a computer said. They could see the women standing there only in their bras.

Then the next image came and the women had their shirts on again. The camera then zoomed in on their faces. Everyone could see their pain even if they were really calm.

"Then the two babies were no more." The voice said.

Two shots were heard and the next image they saw were them lying on the floor with blood around them. Both Kate and Diana had their hands on their bellies.

"That's hell for you." The voice said and the film ended.

"There were so many separate sequences…It could be a trick filming and why now and not several days ago?" Daniel said in denial.

"Check the letter…Please read it…" Tony begged because his mind didn't want to believe what he saw just as much as Daniel didn't want to believe it.

…………

The letter was short with only ten lines which really didn't say much. It stated that they were kidnapped and the DVD would show it all. Nothing important did it tell them. The sadness became quite overwhelming in the room and Gibbs didn't know what to do.

"They know us very well and from what you've told me they don't come up with their ideas themselves but rather steal them. The place where they are must have something to do with someone's life. I want to find out any property you have been at, bought, rented or something like that…Maybe someone in your families have been at that place before or something else. Diana owns a lot and has her company or charity been involved with something which can help us…Everyone should be working at that while Daniel and Tony stay here in the lab with Abby."

"Why here? I want to be out there!" Tony protested.

"This is all we got and as hurtful as it is you two alongside Abby are the best ones to analyse them. Kate and Diana are imaginative as you say so show me how imaginative they are. Tony I know you've thought her some thingsand she has thought you some things over the years so we really need to use that knowledge now. See if she wrote something or did something on the tape which only you would understand." Gibbs asked him. He knew that Tony would also notice everything he had thought them.

"Yes, boss." Daniel said.

"Yes, boss." Tony then said too.