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Love Like Crazy

Digidestend Angel

Chapter 12 – Don't Let Your Prayin' Knees Get Lazy

Groaning, Ziva opened her eyes, blinking a few times. It was pitch black. Did the punch Damon was forced to give her cause her to go blind?

Oh, Damon. Tears came to her eyes when she remembered watching Eli beat Damon to death, literally. She noticed the abuse Eli did to him, which is why Damon punched her in the first place to stun her. Eli had a gun to his head. At least, Damon apologized after. The punch stunned her alright, he had some arm. She had fallen back when Jeanne tied her up to a chair. That bitch. "I knew she was bad news!" Ziva whispered loudly out of anger. "Stupid Tony…"

Ziva finally noticed Eli put a sack over her head. Well, she's not blind, but just in the dark.

She's usually kept her cool about everything. No one would expect her to panic. Get angry, yes, but panic? Never in a million years. But at this time, it was time to panic.

"Help!" She screamed from under the sack, struggling to rip the binds apart. "Someone help me!" She noticed how sore her throat was. Probably because of dehydration. After many minutes of more screaming, she gave up. "Papa!" She knew that one was useless, but it was true. She wanted her dad.

In the bullpen…

"Papa!"

Great…now he was hearing Ziva's voice in his head. As he prepared himself for hell, everyone was getting ready. Marc was cleaning out the stakeout van, while as Kate prepped other agents on the mission and their undercover whereabouts will be. Aiden hacked all the cameras near the ally and on the same street, along with instructing of where agents need to put the microphones. Jenny had already given Jethro a good luck and I love you kiss, then went home to be with the kids. Vance was overseeing the mission.

The mission really was: don't blow Jethro's cover and keep him alive.

Jethro's mission: Get Ziva back, safely, and kill Eli David.

"Gibbs."

Gibbs, snapped out of his thoughts and looked up to Vance, who stood in front of his desk. "Leon."

"You know our plan, Gibbs." Vance told him.

Gibbs nodded. "Yes, yes, I do."

"Gibbs…"

"Yes, Leon?"

"What's your plan?"

Gibbs got his gun loaded and stood up. "You know me well enough, Leon." He tucked his gun away and went out of the bullpen.

"Gibbs!"

Gibbs stopped in his tracks and turned to face the director.

Leon smiled. "Make him suffer."

Gibbs nodded. "That's my plan." And then turned to walk away, into the elevator. Gibbs pressed the "down" button and he heard a ding as the doors closed. Once the doors opened, he walked out, not paying attention to who was around. "Marc!"

Marc closed the door to the van and stood up straight. "Yes, boss?"

"Is everything ready?"

Marc gave a strong nod. "Yes, sir."

"Kate!"

Kate walked up to the boss and sighed from exhaustion. "Everyone has been prepped."

"Aiden!"

Aiden jogged up to his team. "Boss, everything is in place and set." He showed Gibbs something from out of his pocket. "This watch is a tracker. The tracker is inside so no one would be able to find it."

Gibbs nodded and took his old one off, gave it to Aiden, and then put the new one on. "It's a snap on."

Aiden nodded quickly. "Uh, yes, boss, it is."

"Why?"

"Uh…just how Kimberly put it together?"

Gibbs stared at it then shrugged. "Whatever."

The elevator doors swung open and out came Kimberly, running towards them.

"Speaking of Kimberly." Aiden muttered.

"Gibbs!" She yelled, jumping on him for a hung. "Please come back safe! You and Ziva!" She told him when she was put down.

Gibbs gave a nod. "I promise, Kim."

"Abby!" McGee cried out when he and Tony ran down the steps to her "lab".

They saw her working on her oversized computer, didn't even turn to greet them. "Hey, guys. Long time no see." She called, giving them a lazy wave.

Tony raised an eyebrow. "Uh, Abbs, you just saw us like ten minutes ago…"

She shrugged.

"We wanted to let you know we're leaving to go help dad save Ziva." McGee told her, in hopes she won't freak out.

And yet, she was still typing on her computer's keyboard, looking at the screen in a daze. "Oh, that's cool."

"What?" Tony asked, confused.

"Why is he letting you go?"

McGee and Tony got a nervous look. "Uh, well…."

"He doesn't know you're going, does he?"

"Not a chance." McGee said kind of sounding ashamed. "But he needs our backup. He's going in without a gun, backup, cell phone, or anything!"

"He's pretty much going to get both himself and Ziva killed the way he's talking." Tony said. "So we have to go."

"Well, then you'll need backup as well."Abby turned in her chair. "I tapped into the NCIS phone line and unlike Aiden, I found out in the mutual area where the call came from."

"So instead of waiting for my dad to head over there, we can just go to the same neighborhood and see where Dad will lead us." McGee finished.

"I'm going with you, and I'm bringing my laptop to see if it gets another hit on your dad."

McGee and Tony smiled. "Abby, you're a genius!"

Abby smiled. "Old news."

Special Agent Kate was the one who drove Jethro to the meeting place, but had to drive away after he closed the door. "Gibbs…"

"Go ahead. Say what you feel you should." Gibbs told her, looking to the road.

Kate sighed. "I don't want to be negative, Gibbs, but just in case…" She gripped the wheel. "I just want you to know that you are the only father figure in my life and it's been a privilege and honor to be your agent on your team. I've learned so much, I am a new person from when I joined this team 6 years ago."

Gibbs looked to her and smiled. "Thank you, Kate."

Kate smiled. "Please bring our Ziva back safe."

"That's the plan."

"Oh, my god, we are so dead." McGee sighed, rubbing both hands on his face in the taxi. "This is so illegal and we're going to prison, or we're grounded till the end of time."

Tony shrugged. "What else is new?"

Abby squealed. "I'm so excited it worked! I'm a genius!"

"Yeah…a genius hacker!" McGee hissed at her as she messed around with her iPad. "We're in so much trouble!"

"Shut up, McGee!" Abby's mood went from excited to angry. "I'm trying to keep your dad's signal clear. I'm still also celebrating my ability to hack into my sister's NCIS computer security system to track the tracker they put in his watch."

Tony looked at the window, silently praying. She's going to be okay. His sister will be okay.

When Kate turned a corner, she immediately parked the car at the corner. The ally Gibbs was supposed to meet this mystery man was a few buildings away. Kate took a deep breath and tears almost came to her eyes. "Be careful, Gibbs…dad." She smiled.

Gibbs sighed. "Oh great, another dramatic daughter." He gave her a wink and got out, leaving Kate with a grin and laughing.

After he left the car, Kate noticed his gun, badge, ID, and…his watch with the censor. She glared at Gibbs' back. "You idiot." She pulled out her cell phone. "Aiden…we have a huge problem."

Jethro may have looked calm, but inside, he prayed somehow he got his daughter out alive. He didn't care if he lived through it, but as long as he killed Eli and got Ziva out. Oh…Ziva. How he wanted to see her and hug her. He's missed her, even though it's only been a little over 24 hours, but to be honest, he's never been this long away from his daughter. He's never, not known where she was, and by some chance he didn't or he forgot, Jenny always knew.

He jumped out of his thoughts when he reached the ally. No one was there. He inhaled. Was he too late?

Before he could think anything else, a black SUV with tinted windows on every window drove in. A man got out. He had black hair, light skin, sunglasses on, was fairly tall, and he was dressed in all black. How original? Another man got out the other door and had the same details as the first man. Twins, maybe?

"Turn around." The first man demanded. Jethro did as he was told and held his hands up. After the second man patted Jethro down, making sure he wasn't armed and didn't have microphones anywhere, including his ears, he got his gun and smacked Jethro in the back of the head. Jethro let out of cry of pain and fell unconscious on the dirty ground. "Let's get him in the car."

Once the SUV took off, two pairs of eyes watched as they took off, with Jethro in the car. McGee let a tear slide down. "Dad…"

Tony kept his emotions in check. "At least we got the chip on the bottom of the SUV, now let's get back to Abby so she can trace them." Then the two ran back to the taxi still waiting, with Abby inside.

"Where do you want him, Eli?" The man, with a deep voice asked, sounding strained from carrying Jethro.

A big boned man, smoking a cigar, came from the shadows. "Put him in the room with my daughter. Then hurry. We must do this quick since I bet he's got some sort of wire."

"What are we doing?"

Eli chuckled. "Let them burn."

Uh, oh. Not good, eh? Will Jethro and Ziva live?

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-Digidestend Angel-

"I'm already there, take a look around. I'm the sunshine in your hair, I'm the shadow on the ground. I'm the whisper in the wind, I'm your imaginary friend. And I know, I'm in your prayers. I'm already there." – Lonestar

PREVIEW:

As Jethro waited for the bullet to penetrate his chest, he was shocked to be pushed out of the way and slammed onto the ground. Then not even a second later after the gun shot was fired, a body fell on top of him. As he heard his daughter, who has never seen so much death in her life, screaming, Gibbs dared himself to look at the one who took the bullet for him.

His heart stopped.

Suddenly gunfire went crazy and all hell broke loose.