"Help! Somebody help me!"

Tim didn't want to scream because he knew that took a lot of air but he wanted to believe that maybe there was someone out there who could hear him and get him out of there and then the nightmare would be over. He knew that if the car was in a parking lot there could be more people getting their cars, or parking them. With that hope he punched the steel above him and asked for help, but no one came. The minutes went by, and as they did it was harder to keep his eyes open. He tried to stay awake, but his eyes wouldn't obey him and they slowly closed... When Kevin went to collect his "toy" from his car he found him unconscious, and for a minute thought he was dead. But no, that was not going to happen... yet. He wasn't done playing with him.

When Tim awoke again he realized with relief that he could breathe much better, and that he was not on a confined space anymore. He looked around with tired eyes and noticed that he was in some sort of basement, and that his hands were cuffed behind his back. He rested his head against the wall and thought of Abby, of Tony's jokes... Of his life outside that nightmare. The memories made him happy for a while but the feeling didn't last long.

The pain form his wounds and the lack of food and drink were slowly bringing him down, and as the hours went by everything seemed darker. He was hurting, he was lonely and felt completely abandoned. Why wasn't the team already there? Had they forgotten him? Maybe there was some case more important than him... Tears began to fall down his cheeks, slow but steady.

"No! It's not true!" he said to no one in particular.

Pushing those dark thoughts away, Tim composed himself and decided that Gibbs and the others were just about to save him. He only wished they would hurry...


Gibbs was very mad about his encounter with Kevin Hamilton. That guy was playing them! He knew they had very little to go on, almost no solid proof and was enjoying it. But there was a positive side: now he had someone on who focus all his rage and motivation. He put Tony running a background check on him, asking him to be doubly thorough: he knew this guy was good covering his tracks. And went with Ziva to check out the alibi of the man, he was going first to see the sister and then go to the café. Lisa Hamilton was just watching a mindless action movie when they knocked on her door.

"Hello?" Said a woman on the other side of the door.

"Hello, Miss Hamilton, I'm Special Agent Gibbs and this is Special Agent Ziva David from NCIS, we're here to ask you some questions about your brother."

At the mention of him, her gaze dropped to the floor, and she asked the agents to come inside.

"What has Kevin done to get involved with the Navy police?" Lisa asked, after signaled her two guests to have a seat. It was Ziva who answered:

"One of our partners is missing and we suspect your brother might have something to do with it. He claims he was with you this afternoon, is that true?"

"We met for about 20 minutes this afternoon on a café down the street, The Plata café."

"Only twenty minutes?" asked Gibbs, seeing a hole in the man's alibi.

"Yeah." she said, confused. "He left early, said he had some business to attend to. Wait, can you at least tell me what has this missing partner of yours have to do with my brother?"

Gibbs, seeing as the woman had fully cooperated with them felt there was no problem filling her in.

"Your brother, Miss Hamilton, is the current boyfriend of our forensic scientist, Abby. She is also a close friend of our missing agent."

"It happened again…" Lisa said, distraught.

"What do you mean?" asked Ziva, feeling they were finally getting somewhere.

"A few years ago, Kevin had another girlfriend, Mary and her ex-husband disappeared shortly after they started dating. The ex-husband's body appeared three weeks later, apparently after killing himself. But there were strange things about that suicide, there was an investigation and Kevin was one of the suspects. There was no proof to convict anyone, but there was a shrink working with the police who was totally convinced that Kevin had killed him. She investigated, but she didn't find any solid proof. And then, when the case was closed she said that it was going to happen again that Kevin was dangerous. That he would kill again. Of course, at the moment we all hated her and thought she was crazy, but now…."

"Can you tell us the name of that shrink, Miss Hamilton?"

Ziva knew that a psychiatrist who had investigated their suspect could be useful, because she could give them information about the methods and ways of that psycho.

"Dr. Howling."

With this new information Ziva and Gibbs went back to headquarters. There, Ziva spoke with the shrink, who faxed them a study she'd made on Hamilton's personality. The police had not accepted it at the time, but it seemed like a gift form heaven now. There were details about his obsessive and possessive personality who gave new sense to their theory.

Not only that, Tony had found Kevin ona security camera from McGee's neighborhood from the night that he was taken. He had motive, they had him on the scene (or near, at least), Abby had heard McGee on his phone and they also had a scientific report that said he was perfectly capable of doing those things.

"We have him." Gibbs stated and he and the rest of the team went to arrest him, finally seeing some light.

But their joy was short-lived. Even if they knew it was him, they had no idea where Tim was. Hamilton didn't put much resistance to the arrest and went straight to interrogation but he was winning. Again. He didn't answer any of Gibbs' questions but when they ended, then, the psycho started talking.

"So" he began "you know I have your agent and you know I'm very good covering my tracks, which means that it will be very difficult for you to find where I'm holding him. Trust me, I made a special effort to find an untraceable place this time. And every minute you have me here, trying to break me, he's someplace incommunicated, alone and injured and with no chance of getting food or water. It doesn't look too good, now, does it?"

A/N: Hope you liked it! Pleaaaaaase tell me something about the chapter! Do review! Any comment is deeply appreciated by the author :) Next up, we'll have Abby confronting her horrible crazy boyfriend and it's not going to be pretty!

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