New Chapter :D well in the story at the moment it's probably not that happy.
A fair bit happens in this chapter - a lot of page breaks. It might not seem like it, but it does.
I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS.
When she woke, she was in what looked like a bunker; she knew it wasn't because she could see light pouring in through a window too low down the wall to have half the room under ground.
She blinked a couple of times, regaining focus. She took in the room; she was lying on a plank of wood held to the wall with chains and screws on a dirty, thin mattress that had one small pillow which her head was on. There was also a single wooden chair across the small room, she was being held in. Over on the wall next to her at her head was a door about six meters from where she was, she couldn't look at the door long, just long enough to be able to tell it was a door her head was sore. The window was low, but it was just to high for her to see through at the angle she was on, and even from where she was lying she could tell that the window had been somehow blocked. Maybe the bottom part blocked off and the top part left to allow light into the room. It was bad news for her, however and what ever the reason was, it meant that neither the door nor the window would provide her with any hope of freedom.
Before she decided to move she assessed her self while lying down. She had an uncomfortable throbbing in the back of her head - clearly from where she had been hit - her hands were tied behind her and she was thirsty, and a little hungry, but that was all she could tell.
She sat on the side of the bed and could see that where she had been hit had been bleeding from the small blood stain on the already filthy pillow. It wasn't anymore though.
It was eerily quite. She didn't want to move, afraid that what ever had caught her might come in; she needed to prepare herself before they came in again.
From what she could tell, it was nearing sunset. No one had come to see if she was still there or alive, let alone awake.
Throughout the course of the day Ziva managed to get her tied hand from behind her back to the front of her. She was now pacing the small room, quietly.
It wasn't much longer until she heard the distinguishable sound of a door unlocking. She mad her way to stand behind the door when it opened.
The door opened then shut, as the door shut, she lifted her handcuffed hands up and over the man's head. She brought him closer to her and applied more pressure to the chains of the hand cuffs by bringing her arms closer to herself.
"I would advise you against that, Ms David," the man said. She felt something hit her abdomen and immediately knew that it was some form of a weapon.
She released her grip on him and moved away, "That's a good girl," he stated. Ziva stared at the object that was pushed against her. She was right it was a gun. The man turned around, he looked familiar to Ziva, but she couldn't place him.
"Sit down," the man ordered her. She sat on the bed, "Did you enjoy your time at IDF?" he asked then it hit her, "Abner Ezra," she said in recognition.
"Well done," he replied, "Good to see that you recognize me," he finished.
He walked closer to Ziva, "I did not know you worked for Mossad," she stated.
"I don't, I help others with difficult mission involving the IDF," he said.
"Why did you not help me?" she asked.
"You didn't need it," he replied.
"Why am I here?" she asked.
"You will see in good time," he told her. He lifted the hand with out the gun and examined her face. She wasn't sure why. She shivered slightly at the touch in discomfort. He turned and walked out.
Ziva could hear him bark orders at some one, though she couldn't tell what they were. Then a few moments later a boy, not a man like Ezra was, a boy - not much older than her self - came into her room with a pained expression on his face.
As he walked closer she stood and walked in the opposite direction to him, keeping eye contact at all times though.
"Please don't resist. It will only make this harder," he begged.
"For who? You or me?" she asked.
"Both of us. I don't want to hurt you," he said. She couldn't move any further, she had hit on of the walls.
"What's your name?" he asked her.
"Ziva," she replied.
"Ziva," he whispered to himself, "That means Brilliance" he informed her.
"Yes, I know. What is it to you?" she asked.
"Nothing. I was just wondering," he said, "Look, I have been sent in here to punish you, to beat you, not kill you," he explained, "Although I wouldn't be able to tell you why,"
"That is okay, I deserve it," she said briefly remembering what had happened before hand, her telling Aaron, therefore failing her mission, and feeling like a failure.
"No one deserves to be beaten," he said. He walked closer to her, knelt down and picked up some dirt off the ground, "This might work," he said to himself as he rubbed some of the dirt onto Ziva's arm, side, and face.
"It doesn't look exactly right but it will suffice for now," he said.
There was something strange about his boy, he didn't seem like he would ever lay a violent hand on her. Ziva stared at him.
"I am going to have to look like I've been hit," she said.
"I am not going to hit you," he said.
"Well at the moment I look like I fell," she explained.
"I am still not going to hit you," he said.
Ziva studied him for a minute. She brought her lower lip into her mouth and bit down on it hard until it was bleeding. He looked at the blood dripping from her mouth in disgust. She has bit the corner of her mouth so it looked like he had hit her and then she fell.
"You didn't have to do that," he said.
"I didn't want to get you in trouble," she said, "You are helping me,"
"What is taking so long?" she heard a voice come from out side the door.
"Nothing, I'm finished," just before he left Ziva grabbed his hand and ran it down the cement wall drawing blood along his knuckles. He looked at her, "Now it looks like I dodged a few and you hit me," she said quietly. He nodded and went to the door opening it.
He left and Ezra came back in. Looking in admiration of what the boy before him had done to her, "I did not think he had it in him," he said.
"Here, I thought you would be thirsty," he said.
"I'll pass," she said. Her lip had begun to swell and it was making her voice sound a little strange.
"Your loss," he said and walked out, re-locking the door behind him.
It was nearing six in the evening, Ari stormed into his father's house after being able to read the orders he sent to Ziva. He slammed the door behind himself and ran angrily up the stairs to Eli's office.
"I knew you had something planned for her," he yelled after swinging the door open so hard it bounced back on the hinges.
"I'm sorry?" Eli said looking up from his work.
"She told me something felt off about her mission this morning and I sent her her orders, it turns out there is more that one mission that includes her. What the hell have you done!" he exclaimed.
"I have done nothing," he said.
"Yes you have, and you will tell me now or I will find out some other way!" Ari exclaimed.
"What has happened?" Eli asked his son.
"Nothing as far as I know. I sent her the orders and it turns out their not her's. They talk about her kidnapping and capture and firmly states not to kill," Ari angrily explained, "The orders come from Mossad, no way to know who sent it though,"
"Nothing would have happened to her. Stop worrying about her, she is more than capable," Eli said.
"Until you take away the mask she wears around you, her weapons and her cover," Ari said.
"There is no cover," Eli stated.
Ari looked at his father in disbelief, "You're telling you sent her investigating, on a defence base, surrounded by better equipped and better trained people, with out a cover?" he asked.
"I believed it would make it easier for her," Eli replied.
"So you chose easier for her over her safety?" Ari said still pissed at his father.
Eli looked at Ari then he seemed to make a decision, "We are going to go to the base and we will see her. She will be fine. Okay?" he said.
"Yes," Ari replied forcefully.
Half an hour later they sat in the reception area to the base that Ziva was currently on. It took another hour before someone escorted them to a private office.
They walked in, "Good afternoon gentlemen. What can I do for you?" a man Ari didn't recognize but according to his name plate on his desk was Abner Ezra said.
"I want to see my sister," Ari demanded.
"Who is your sister?" Ezra asked.
"Ziva David," he replied.
Ezra had a look briefly cross his face. It was gone before Ari could tell what it was though.
"Very well, I will take you to her. She should be around her dorm by now," he said, "If you wait back out in the front room I will find someone to escort you to her,"
Ari nodded before walking out. He was too wound up to sit; he was too worried about his sister. He paced the office. He better be able to talk Ziva out of this when they saw her. He would not allow her to be in as mug danger as she possibly could face. She wouldn't talk to him for a few months, but at least he would know that she was safe.
After another hour of waiting, some one took them to her dorm. They knocked once and a girl opened the door, "Hello," she said greeting the three men, "Can I help you?" she asked.
"We are looking for Ziva David," their escort said.
"Uh... she not here. I haven't seen her all day, and she has been sneaking out every night. I don't know where though," the young girl said.
Something felt off. She wouldn't just disappear. She couldn't, it was impossible.
"Do you know anyone who would have seen her last?" Ari asked.
"Yeah. There's a guy in the same group as her. I think his name is Aaron Kasher," she explained.
Ari felt his stomach drop. If that guy was who he was alleged to be, if she had gotten too close to the truth, he might have gotten to her. He suddenly found himself hoping that the person following the orders had got to her. At least then, assuming that she had found out about the strategies, she had a chance of still being alive.
"Thank you," he said and began walking to the room that Aaron Kasher was in after getting directions.
About half way between Ziva's dorm and Aaron's, something on the ground shimmering in the light hanging over the path, caught his eye. He stopped and walked over to it.
He picked it up examining it, it was the knife that he had given his sister a few years ago, not to be taken to school, but to be kept in case of an emergency. He memorized the spot. He would come back here and have a look around after he spoke to Kasher.
He continued walking until he arrived at the dorm he needed. He was about to knock when he heard someone from behind him, "Can I help you?" the person asked.
"Are you Aaron Kasher?" Ari asked.
"Yes. What can I do for you?"
"Have you seen Ziva David?" Ari asked.
Kasher had a flash of anger crossed with hurt cross his face, "Yeah earlier, why?" he asked back.
"Can you run me through when you saw her throughout the day?"
"Sure. I saw her at the phone booths earlier, than we... Um..." he said not sure how to explain to this man that he had had sex with the person he was being asked about. He wasn't one to brag about his sex life - that was something to be kept between him and who ever his partner was, "... We slept together, then she went back to her dorm, after we went to a clearing that I found about a month ago, we have gone there together ever since," he said.
"So you used her?" Ari asked grabbing him from the front of his shirt and pinning him to the wall behind him. If this guy had slept with than killed his sister, he would suffer.
"What? No, she was using me!" he exclaimed, "She told me that Mossad had sent her to investigate me because they believed that I was selling strategies," he said.
"You have no idea where she is now though?" Ari asked releasing his grip.
"No. I can show you to the clearing, if you would like," Kasher said. Ari nodded and began to follow Kasher before stopping, "Just one thing before, is Ziva okay? Where is she?" he asked only concern filling his voice.
"I don't know," was all Ari said.
"Who are you?"
"Ziva's brother," Ari stated.
"So I just told the brother if the girl I'm dating that I have slept with her?" Kasher said.
"Don't bring that up again and I won't rip your head off," Ari stated. It was a lame threat but it had real meaning behind it. Aaron didn't want to push that boundary; the guy looked like he was serious.
By the time they had finished looking through the clearing and where Ari believed Ziva to have been taken from, it was close to ten at night.
"Hey listen. I don't really want anything to do with Ziva at this moment, but I also don't want her to get hurt, if you need any help, ask me. I will try and find what I can from here as well," Aaron said to Ari, they had since introduced themselves to each other.
"Okay," Ari said and walked away from the base.
Aaron thought about it on the way back to his dorm. If some one were to have taken her while she was on base, this person wouldn't have been able to take her off of base. This mean, he concluded, she was either A: still on base, B: she had somehow gotten off of base before being taken.
Eli was waiting for Ari in his car. Ari stepped in and murmured a 'thanks for nothing' to Eli.
Ari knew what he had to do now and it wasn't going to be easy.
"Can you take me to Rivka's house?" he asked.
"Why?" Eli asked.
Ari looked at him in disbelief, "What do you mean 'why?'" Ari asked, "Her eldest daughter has gone missing for a few hours that we know of, and she wouldn't have told her mother. Rivka would be worried sick. Now Ziva is actually missing, no one knows where she is, and you still don't want to tell Ziva's mother?" Ari asked.
"I will drop you off here; you can walk the rest of the way. I am going to do what ever I can from my office," Eli said pulling over.
Ari got out of the car and slammed the door, He couldn't be more blasé if he tried, Ari said to himself.
It took two minutes from where he was dropped of to get to his sisters' house. At that moment he was very glad that Rivka liked him, at least they would start out on the right foot.
He knocked a couple of times before the door opened to reveal Tali.
"Hello," she said, "Ima, Ari is here," she yelled throughout the house.
Rivka quickly made it though the house to the door, "Please tell me you know where Ziva is," she begged.
"I can tell you where she has been, not where she is now," Ari said, "Can I come in?" he asked. Both women stepped aside. He walked in he found his way to the lounge room.
"I am not sure how to tell you this, Rivka," he said taking a seat.
"Has this got something to do with that thing Abba was sending her on?" Tali asked out of no where.
"What thing that your father has sent her on?" Rivka asked.
"A few months ago Eli offered her a position on a mission on the IDF base," Ari explained, "Ziva, being the stubborn person she is, took the position even though I advised her from it. Ever since she had been suspended from school she has been there," he finished.
"How did she even get to see him? She was here all the time," Rivka asked.
"She snuck out, she would walk there, and I would drop her back. She has been going to Eli's house for a while, and recently he has been teaching her more with weapons and defence and all that. I have not one doubt in my body that she would not go down with out a fight," he said.
"Ari, what are you trying to tell me?" Rivka asked.
"Earlier today she asked me to send her her orders because she wanted to review them; I searched her name and sent her the first one that could find. Since she is not an official member of Mossad, I didn't believe that there would be more than one order with her name in it. It turns out there is, the one that I sent her was about her. Someone has been told to capture her, not to kill. That is all I got from it, who ever had sent those must have other ways of communicating with this person," he explained.
"Where is Ziva now?" Rivka asked becoming increasingly worried and more wound up by the second.
"I don't know, we cannot fond her on base and the person who had saw her last, the man she was investigating, and her had got into an argument, and he walked away from her," Ari looked between the two, Rivka had anger flashing across her features, he wasn't sure who she was mad at. Tali looked more worried than anything, he eyes were glassy and her bottom lip was shaking as she tried to keep her emotions in control.
"Where is Eli?" Rivka demanded fire in her eyes.
"Mossad," he replied.
"Can you stay here with Tali?" she asked him as she stormed out the door.
Ari looked back at his younger, usually up beat sister; she was taking deep breaths now, trying not to cry.
"Do you think she is okay?" she asked him. Ari nodded, but didn't fully believe it himself. Tali could see this, "She will be okay, she promised me!" Tali said with conviction, "She is not going to die," Tali said stubbornly, hoping that if she was as stubborn as Ziva was it would keep her alive. Her voice was clear but Ari saw when the tears rolled down her cheeks.
He walked over to her and wrapped her in his arms, "She would never break a promise to her sister," Ari said believing it more this time.
Ari decided to stay with Tali even after Rivka returned - hopefully after having a go at Eli with little to no mercy, Ziva got her fire from somewhere. Their father had fire too but not as much as Ziva. She seemed to have inherited from Rivka. He stayed with them until morning.
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