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Chapter 2 – Not what I wanted to hear

After roughly 15 more minutes of combing through corridors and numerous rooms the team finally found the room they had been scouring endlessly for only to find...

the room was empty. Their was nobody there; not nurse nor patient.

The bed was made and seemed untouched, the machinery was completely switched off. No fluid in the drips. Absolutely nothing.

Except for a chart on the end of the bed.

Tony knew it was against hospital policy to read a patient's chart but he figured that since there was no sign of a patient staying in this room that it was okay, that and he was sick to death of not knowing anything useful, so he marched over to the bed picked up the papers and began to read them.

Gibbs made no move to stop him and left the room to find someone who could tell him why the person him and his team and searched all over for was not where they were told she would be.

McGee just stood by the door not knowing what in the world it was he should be doing.

He watched Tony as he read through the document in his hands.

Tony read and re-read the name at the top of the page not believing it, he couldn't believe it, wouldn't believe it.

Silently he prayed that it was a trick of his eyes, that the words would somehow rearrange themselves into a different name. But they wouldn't.

McGee noticed Tony had paled and had started shaking and so he calmly walked over to his friend to see what had made him react like this.

"To-ny is everything okay?"

"No probie everything is not okay! How could Gibbs not have told us earlier?"

"Told us what exactly?"

"THAT!" Tony had lost all of the calm he had and jabbed the letters at the top of the page with his index finger.

McGee read the words that Tony had pointed to, not quite believing it himself.

There in the top right hand corner was the name: David, Ziva Rivka

Gibbs was franticly trying to find someone who may know where his agent was but no one seemed to know the answer.

He began back tracking to the front desk and as soon as he reached it he slammed his hand down hard onto the pale wooden desk and demanded to know where she was.

"Sir miss David is still in surgery, however she should be out soon" The nurse at the front desk politely informed Gibbs.

"Why the hell did you send me to that room then?" Came his furious response

"Miss David will be in that room after her surgery which I believed would be finished by now, I apologise, however if you like you and your other agents are welcome to stay in the waiting room until her surgery is finished."

And with that Gibbs stalked off to Ziva's room to collect Tony and McGee.

Ziva's Room

The moment Gibbs walked through the doorway he was assaulted with a lot of questions from both McGee and Tony as to Ziva's whereabouts and condition.

"Why didn't you tell us it was Ziva?"

"Is she gonna be okay?"

"What happened to her?"

"Where is she?"

"Okay, okay shut up for a second and I'll answer your questions!" Gibbs was really tired of being pestered for answers.

"I didn't tell you cause you would have both panicked and assumed the worst, I did not want to have to keep calming you two the hell down all day. Secondly I don't know what happened therefore I don't know if she's gonna be okay. Lastly she's in surgery so move your asses down to the waiting room. NOW."

Both agents started marching out the door and headed straight towards the waiting room.

Tony, McGee and Gibbs sat in the waiting room neither one of them had said a word, all three just sat staring, the walls, clock and floor had become remarkably interesting.

Gibbs looked at the clock once more and noticed the time 12h00 they had been sat in the waiting room for an hour and half Gibbs noted.

'I should probably give Abby and Ducky a call, tell them what's gone on' Gibbs thought, he pulled out his phone and dialled. There had been two rings when Abby picked up.

"Hey Gibbs what's going on? You guys have been gone for three hours and I've not been told squat"

"Hey Abs listen is Ducky with you?"

"Yeah why?"

"Good I'm gonna tell you what's happened, put me on speaker Abs"

Abby did as she was told and glanced over at Ducky who had an anxious look on his usually happy face when he was with Abby.

"Alright good, now, me and the guys are at Bethesda..."

"Oh my God what happened? Are Tony and Tim okay?"Abby interrupted

"The guys are fine Abs. It's Ziva"

"What! But Ziva wasn't in work today"

"I know look we don't know what happened just get down here as soon as you can" With that Gibbs hang up the phone.

Abby and Ducky arrived fifteen minutes later and made their way to the waiting room where they saw the perturbed faces of their co-workers who had still not heard anything.

Gibbs had just finished explaining how the director had received a call from Bethesda that morning saying that an NCIS employee had been brought in earlier that morning and that her ID said the name Ziva David and so Gibbs had been informed and he brought the team here to find out what had happened to her, when the doors leading into surgery opened and Ziva was being wheeled out.

The team immediately stood when a doctor approached them.

"Are you here for Miss David?" a female, Chinese looking doctor approached the team, she had a friendly yet sceptical look on her face clearly saying she wondered why here was so many people in the room and why three of them had guns.

Everyone nodded their head

"Are you family?"

"Nope they're her co-workers and I'm her boss. Ziva doesn't have any family in the US, so I suggest that you tell us what happened to her." Gibbs took charge and started staring the doctor down.

"Very well. I'm doctor Chan I will be looking after Miss David whilst she is here."

"What happened to her?" Ducky piped up and asked the question on everyone's mind.

"I'm afraid Miss David was brought in this morning at about 7h30 with multiple stab wounds to her torso and one on her right leg, she also has some nasty cuts and bruises covering most of her body and well it appears that she was...raped"

The team stood gaping at the doctor as though she had grown a second head.

How had this happened to Ziva?

"W-will she be okay?" Abby barely choked out the question, mascara tainted tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Physically she should be fine now, the surgery was very successful and she should be awake in no time , we just need to wait for the drugs to wear off"

The doctor gave them all an apologetic smile before leaving the room.

The team stood dumbfounded by what they had just been told, no one moved an inch in over five minutes until Ducky was again spoke up

"Well I believe we should go to Ziva's room, I'm sure she would enjoy some friendly faces once she is awake."

"Yeah sure" Gibbs agreed.

Ziva's Room

When the team reached Ziva's room there was a collective gasp at what they saw: Ziva looked terrible, her face was purple with bruising, her left cheek had a long cut that had been stitched shut, her lips were coated in dry blood from what the team assumed was a busted lip, her eyes were bruised and one was swollen.

Her arms had a few cuts and bruises scattered down them but were not too bad overall; her wrists however were badly bruised from being bound by what everyone could guess rope or wire.

Not to mention that she was hooked up to machines and drips.

Gibbs reached over and gently brushed a strand of hair from Ziva's face, when she began to stir and her eyelids fluttered.

"Ziver? Ziver can you hear me?"

"Gibbs?" came his croaked response

Gibbs was about to say something else when a small voice came from the door and stopped him in his tracks.

"Ima?"

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