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Everyone ran as fast as they could from the cellar. They didn't want to risk their lives even though important evidence would be lost. When everyone had left the house no explosion had been heard. Were the kidnappers only fooling them? The seconds which passed by seemed like hours but in the end they heard a small explosion like only the TV exploding. The frustration became bigger when they had to get the all clear from the bomb squad before they could enter the house again. It could take hours if they were unlucky. They knew they didn't have that much time on their hands. It was a race against the clock which it seemed like they were losing. They were rather chasing than looking for them. The kidnappers never wanted Caitlin and Diana to be found which became so much clearer after this fiasco. They had been so close but still so far away. Everyone was sure that at some point the women had been in that cellar and the kidnappers had found out they were on to them.
"They aren't here. We shouldn't be waiting for the bomb squad." Daniel said really frustrated.
"We're running out of leads…What's in that house and the website are our best chances to find them right now." Gibbs urged. He was just as frustrated, mad and miserable as Anthony and Daniel but he tried his best to focus on his goal which was to find them soon. He just hoped he would find them alive not dead.
"They are just playing with us…Wanting us to find them dead…I'm not waiting until that moment because I know they're alive. I can feel it. My wife isn't dead!" Daniel said before taking off. Tony ran after him and managed to grab him and stop him.
"Wait…I don't want to find Diana and tell her that her husband died in the search for her. She would never get over it. Do you want that on your conscience?" Tony asked him. He had thought about doing the same but Gibbs and Abby had talked him out of it.
"You are just trying to talk me out of it. You aren't doing a good job in finding them. It's clear they are somewhere connected to Di. I'll search every house she has wanted to buy until I find her." Daniel said trying to get out of Tony's grip but Tony just put his arms around him so he wouldn't run away. Daniel couldn't strict straight and couldn't remember half of which just came out of his mouth but he knew he wanted to run and get out of there as soon as possible.
"I'll search until I find her…I'll search…" Daniel yelled as Tony accidentally dragged him down to the ground just to keep him still. Daniel started to cry and Tony couldn't help but to shed some tears too.
Gibbs walked up to them but didn't say a thing because it would do no use. He just observed thinking that this was what they needed right now. To release all bottled up feelings.
When they came there everyone saw them as two NCIS agents doing their job even though one wasn't a NCIS agent and the other one was off duty…Now everyone saw two destroyed husbands sitting on the ground not knowing if they'll ever be able to pick up the pieces of their lives without their wives…
"I'll search every house she…ever wanted to buy…" Daniel said again when he looked at Tony and Gibbs.
"Danny…I'll search with you." Tony said but meaning he would do that together with the police.
"You're on to something…Every house she wanted to buy…It isn't every house her charity or company wanted to buy but every house Diana wanted…" Gibbs said as like he knew exactly where they were. He had to think straight for all three of them at the moment.
"She never wanted to buy a house…"Daniel answered after a while. He had to calm himself down and Tony had to do that too.
"Are you sure?" Gibbs asked as Tony loosened his grip around Daniel.
"The day she had a child she would start her search for a house to stay at during the summers and maybe winter holidays. Trust me, I know my wife and she wouldn't dare start the search now. Not until the baby is born…She had tried for so long and had given up trying when we started to date. She is so afraid of something going wrong that she never becomes happy about something until it is really finished or there. Getting pregnant isn't the finish line it is holding the baby which is." Daniel answered after a while. He thought everyone thought it didn't seem much when telling everyone this but he had shared something very personal about his wife. He didn't know if Diana would approve of it and it took a lot of emotional strength to tell unknown people about it.
"Did Kate ever speak about a special house?" Gibbs asked Tony.
Tony thought long and hard while sitting on the ground next to Daniel. Gibbs still stood at the same place not moving a feet.
"Soon after Kate found out she was pregnant she once told me about someone she met a long time ago who said that if she ever had a child she would find a house which went through both winter and summer…I can't remember more but it sounded like lullaby when she said it to me." Tony said to them.
"A house which had seen both white and green…A baby will never cry where this house will lie…I can't remember if there were anymore." Daniel continued.
"That's it…You know it…How?" Tony said very confused.
"They know each other…That's the explanation. Do any of you know where it is?" Gibbs said before any of them could say anything. Coming to that conclusion was easy and not far fetched during these circumstances. So far everything which had happened led to that conclusion.
"It's a dream house which doesn't exist." Daniel told them.
"Danny…Please think…Where would she put this dream house? Has she written about it? Told anyone else about it?" Tony asked but rather pleaded.
"Maybe her sisters but I doubt that…Like her stories they are a well kept secret until they're finished." Daniel explained. Everyone knew now what he meant by finished. When she held her baby the lullaby was truly finished.
"Then why did she tell Kate?" Tony wondered. The questions in his head about how the two women got to know each other became more. He had never met Diana but he was comforted by the though she was there with Kate after hearing everything about Diana the last few days from Daniel.
"Faith maybe…" Daniel suggested.
"I know you two already know the answer but the light hasn't turned on yet in your heads…The place where she met Kate…Do you know when she came up with the lullaby?" Gibbs asked Daniel.
"That story I've heard a million times. When she was 17 but the year when she would become 18. Before she won the money. It was when she went to Boston to check out a college. She came up with it there and she sang it so many times until it became perfect. Someone she met there helped her with it. Could it have been Kate?" Daniel wondered.
"I don't know…she checked a lot of colleges but it seems possible…" Tony said to him. He hoped so much that they were still alive and in Boston. If it was Kate Diana had met all those years ago then he hoped he could rescue them soon.
"If she checked out a house in Boston surely someone would know." Gibbs then said.
"Isn't there a Boston house on the charity list?" Daniel wondered.
Gibbs went back to his car to look at the list but no Boston house was on it. Then he called the charity organisation and they got back to him saying they found some big payments had gone to Boston over the last year but no one had bothered to check what it was for since it only said housing next to them on the computer which was a word they used for the summer homes but since if wasn't on the official list of summer homes they didn't know about it…The charity said they would call him back soon with more information. Gibbs suggested that maybe they had been hacked.
Gibbs told Tony and Daniel what he knew and they awaited the call.
Gibbs cell rang and they told him Mrs Alexanderson had strictly forbidden them to buy a house in Boston and they didn't understand how and why payments during a year had gone to Boston. After a bit of digging by the charity they gave him the address of the house in question.
………….In a truck……….
Kate and Diana lay in the truck and they had been told they were going to their final destination which they thought only could mean one thing. They had been blindfolded and tied up but Kate had during the bumpy ride pressed the ropes she was tied up with against some metal in the truck which after a long time had worn down the ropes so she could free herself and Diana.
"Caitlin…You're a great person and I wish we could have become friends and talked a lot more." Diana thanked her for untying her.
"We're already friends. We have plenty of time to talk before we get there. Tell each other all the things which have happened in our lives like…Do you want to hear how Tony proposed to me?" Kate suggested because she wanted them to only talk about great things not sad upcoming things.
"Yes, and then I can tell you how Daniel proposed to me…Maybe we can talk about our old memories from Boston…I still remember the lullaby we came up with. I planned on singing it for my baby." Diana told her.
"You can still sing it for your baby because we aren't going to die…And I only helped you with your lullaby…It isn't our lullaby…Why don't we sing it for our babies before we start telling each other how we got proposed to." Kate suggested.
A shiny house in the summer
Is a shiny house in the winter
It sees both white and green
Always sunshine is seen
A baby will never cryyyyyy
Where this house lies
A baby will never cryyyyyy
When she closes her eyes
Kate and Diana only managed to sing it once together but it sounded heavenly.
The truck had stopped and terrified but also strengthened they saw how the doors opened.
"We're here. Hurry up and get out. I can't wait to get rid of you." A man yelled harshly. He didn't even look in so they wondered if he had forgotten they were tied up even they weren't now.
Kate whispered to Diana that this was their only chance of getting away but she asked Diana if it was too risky since they didn't know how many they were. Diana said it was too risky but if one survived it was great so she could try. Kate then whispered back saying that there also was a chance they wouldn't kill them since they could have done it at the beginning but never did. The kidnappers were very unpredictable. Diana said that was true but they had to make a quick decision.
They whispered some more and a decision was made.
The man opened the doors some more and he saw they weren't tied up anymore.
"I don't care if you got free because we have the weapons and you don't." the man yelled at them.
…………….Back with NCIS……….
NCIS had logged in at the web address since they had left the house but the screen was dark and they couldn't see or hear anything. It was like no one was there. They wondered if it meant there were two dead bodies lying there. NCIS had alerted the Boston police but everyone wondered if they would get there on time. Meanwhile they could only watch on the screen and hope for the best. It wasn't all they did because they were also headed to Boston.
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I suck at writing songs so the lullaby isn't good but I came up with it. Guilty as charged.
I hope it wasn't too messy and that you could understand it.
I'm glad FF got updated so fast because it meant I could post this earlier than expected.
I hope you enjoyed it. You probably have a lot of questions like will they ever see something on the screen and what kind of plan did Caitlin and Diana come up with.