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Chapter 1:
Gun shots rang through the mid-morning air as Ziva and Tony fired at Maddie's kidnappers. The pair had split up while Gibbs had gone in to get his deceased daughter's best friend. Neither of them had spoken a word to the other since their harsh fight the previous night. Tony remained hidden at the front entrance while Ziva had gone out to the far side of the outside building.
He heard shots fired right as Gibbs pulled Maddie into the car. He watched in horror as his boss drove backwards into the bay. Leaping to his feet, Tony sprinted after then while firing at the kidnappers. Unknown to him, his partner was also desperately in need of help.
Ziva's spot had been found by a guard. He was silenced by her ten inch, black hilted knife being thrown into his chest. Bullets rained down on her as she fought to get away and help Gibbs. She was hit three times. Out of the corner of her eye, Ziva saw the car go into the water. Pushing the pain from her mind, the Israeli knocked out the gunman. She then took off towards the spot where Gibbs and Maddie had disappeared. Tony was two feet ahead of her as they drove off the ledge and into the frigid water.
Together they swam to sunken car as Gibbs tried to keep an unconscious Maddie's head above the rising water within the automobile. Tony started to beat the windshield inward until Ziva was able to pry it off. Gibbs pushed an unconscious Maddie out of the vehicle and into Ziva. The ex-assassin handed her off to the man beside her.
Wrapping his arms tightly around the girl, he swam for the surface. Once there he climbed onto the dock and laid her on her back and opened her mouth for air to enter her lungs. Turning he dove for a second time into the freezing water of the bay.
Meanwhile Ziva was attempting to free Gibbs's legs from underneath the steering wheel. The older man glanced at her lithe form and was alarmed to see faint traces of blood surrounding her as he began to lose consciousness. Suddenly Ziva gave a sharp tug and broke the wheel off as Tony arrived at her side. She swam into the car some to push out her boss and father figure to him. Her eyes meet Tony's green ones for a brief second before he swam once again to the surface. Running short on air, Ziva started to swim out of the car when her leg became tangled within the seatbelt. Struggling, she reached for her knife only to realize that it was still embedded in the guard's body. As the adrenalin faded from her body, she began to feel the pain of her bullet wounds and blood loss. Brown orbs closed as her air supply vanished, leading her into the vast blackness of nothing.