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Love Like Crazy

Digidestend Angel

Chapter 13 – They Called Him Crazy…

Jethro suddenly was awakening from the smell of smoke. It wasn't smoke from a fireplace nor was it a bonfire. No, everything was on fire.

Ziva!

He realized his arms were bound from the back of a chair. Easy. He took a needle he always wore inside his jacket sleeve and strived to find the lock to unlock the cuffs. He did and sweat slid down his face as he struggled to open the lock. After a few long minutes, they were undone. He immediately took the heavy sack of his face and saw a small body bound to her chair, they weren't moving. "Ziva!" He yelled. He used the needle to undo her hand cuffs and saw the cuts on her wrists, meaning she tried to get free many times. He held her upright as he took the sack off her head. Her hair was a mess, sweat dripped from her face from overheating.

That was the moment Gibbs stepped back into his surroundings and noticed the room was on fire. "Aw, hell!" He looked to Ziva. "Ziva, wake up!" He patted her cheek and called her name.

Ziva stirred. "Dad…" Then coughed. Smoke was taking over her lungs.

Gibbs feared for her life. "No time, come on, Ziva, let's go." He held her against him as she struggled to walk, but he needed her to so he could open doors and such. He took off his jacket and wrapped it around her so she wouldn't burn. He was practically carrying her since she could hardly walk from lack of oxygen, food, and fluids. After he burned his hand to open the now unlocked door, flames surrounded him and his daughter, and that was when the roof in front of him collapsed.

Tony and McGee were outside the burning building in awe. Their father and sister were in that. Tony's heart pounded. "We need to go, McGee! The Firefighters won't be here for a few minutes, but Ziva won't have that long with her weak lungs!" Tim agreed and they were about to run in, but were stopped by… "Jeanne?" Tony asked in disbelief. "What are you- you! You were working for Eli David!"

Jeanne snickered. "Of course I was and still am, since Eli made it out of the building, but your father and precious twin are most likely dead."

McGee growled. "Shut up and move!"

Jeanne got in a fighting stance. "Make me!"

Tony and McGee looked to each other and nodded. "AHHH!" They yelled out the battle cry as they stampede towards Jeanne.

Jethro leaned against a wall that wasn't on fire. His vision was blurry and he was losing consciousness, but he stayed determined. "Dad…" Ziva, still in his arms, whimpered and coughed violently. "Can't…breathe…"

That was it for Jethro. His kid wasn't dying, not today! He regained his senses and left the wall, which was slowly covered with fire and began to pretty much drag Ziva with him since she was too weak to walk.

Abby was blabbing from nervousness to the cab driver who was in shock of the burning building, but stayed to wait for the cops. "…cops shouldn't take this long! I told them Gibbs and Ziva were in there and Ziva was already weak and injured! You would think-" Suddenly her cell phone went off and noticed it was her sister, Kimberly. "Uh-oh." She said before she answered. "Uhh…hey, Kim-"

"Abby, you hacked into my computer system at NCIS, are you insane? That's a federal crime!" Kimberly screamed over the phone in anger.

"I'm sorry, but Tony and Tim wanted to find Ziva so bad so we followed Gibbs-"

"Wait, you followed them?" Kim almost sounded relieved. "Where are you? Tell me now! I'll let the other agents know!"

After leaving Jeanne unconscious outside, Tony and Tim pushed their way into the building; the building was coming down quickly, but they could still see it was a large building with many corridors. McGee coughed. "Should we split up?"

"No!" Tony yelled. He concentrated. He looked to his left and ran that way, holding McGee's hand so he wouldn't lose them. "I feel that Ziva's this way!"

McGee raised his eyebrows, making sure to avoid fire. "How do you know that?"

Tony was so focused, Tim never seen him so determined…never. "Twin telepathy, genius!" Tony stopped suddenly, McGee crashing into him. Over the fire and falling debris, he heard coughing. He kept running through the hallway until the brothers stopped in time from running into their father, literally.

Gibbs wasn't angry, since he could hardly see anymore. McGee put his father's arm over his shoulder and helped him out. Tony took Ziva the same way, but she was close to unconsciousness. "Tony…" She coughed out. "Can't breathe, Tony…" She wheezed out, almost passing out.

Tony almost cried, but concentrated on staying close behind to his brother. "Stay with me, Ziva!"

Suddenly one of the metal patches from the roof fell and Tony pushed Ziva and himself away from it! Tony got up and looked to see if McGee and Jethro were still alive. "Tony!" McGee yelled, dragging his barely conscious father.

"Go McGee, go! I see a window! We'll jump out!" Tony yelled back. McGee nodded and turned around with his dad. Tony picked Ziva up and ran to the window he was speaking off and climbed a metal rod to reach it. He has never moved so fast and was never this strong, but when it came to his sister, he would always be. He turned and saw McGee and his dad out the entrance, then he unlocked the window, but it wouldn't budge. "You're kidding, right?" He yelled. He kept hitting the window, hoping to break it. His palms suddenly got too sweaty to hold onto the rod and he slipped down, Ziva unconscious. "Ziva, no! Wake up!" He now was crying. He couldn't reach the entrance, he couldn't reach the other windows, and his sister was most likely dead now. "Someone please help us!" He yelled against the wall that was failing due to fire.

Suddenly Ziva was ripped from his arms and Tony was alert. "Ziva!" He yelled in fright, but saw that Marc had her in his arms and Aiden was next to him to help him out. Together, they found a way to carry the two weak children out safely.

Once outside, firemen finally arrived and took Tony and Ziva away from the falling building, the agents behind them. A loud noise was heard behind them and everyone covered themselves to not get hit by debris that flew out from the pressure of the whole building that just collapsed all together.

Tony and McGee look to each other. They were just in that used to be building.

Tony looked to Ziva by some miracle she was awake. Apparently the noise woke her by surprise. The paramedics were shocked. Ziva refused oxygen and weakly ran to her brothers arms, collapsing at the same time. Of course, the strong brothers held her up with ease and hugged her tight. They were back together. They felt two other sets of arms around them. They looked to see their tired father and tearstained mother next to them. Now they were back together.

Ziva released her brothers and looked to her father. "Papa?" She asked weakly, unable to comprehend that she was alive and her father was as well.

Jethro grabbed her close and held her protectively. "I'm here, Zivers. I'm here." He smiled ear to ear. He's never been so happy in his life. "And Zivers…" He pulled her away, but held her head in his hands to make her look at him. "You're never dating anyone ever again."

Tony and Tim nodded quickly. "Good call." Tony commented.

After hugs from her mother as well, she was sat down in the ambulance for an oxygen mask. The paramedics were quickly checking the boys for injuries. After checking Gibbs, they demanded that both Ziva and Gibbs go to the hospital with them immediately. Gibbs sighed and gave in. "Alright, let's go."

"I don't think so, Jethro!" Everyone looked to the voice and saw Eli David, looking distressed and angry. "Why can't you just die?" He shouted as he pulled the trigger, the loud bullet leaving the gun.

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 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.

Jethro broke out of his shock as Jenny pulled him behind a police car next to them. He immediately searched for his kids. He saw all three close together, holding each other. "Tony, get them behind the ambulance!" He yelled. Tony complied and he dragged Ziva behind the truck, McGee next to him. Tony and McGee both covered their sister protectively, so she wouldn't get hurt. Ziva was dazed when Kate's glassy eyes looked into her soul.

She heard screams and suddenly everything stopped. It only lasted a minute, but it felt like hours. The three didn't dare move, for fear it wasn't over. Marc was the first one to move and checked Eli's pulse. There wasn't one. He sighed. It really was finally over.

Of course, their hearts were destroyed. Jethro crawled to Kate's dead body. A single, clean shot to her forehead was enough to stop her brain, heart, and everyone else's. He kissed her cheek and closed her eyes. Marc and Aiden came up next to her body as well. Aiden grabbed her hand, as if she would squeeze back or at least comfort her. Marc brushed some strains of hair from her face and looked to her. His partner of seven years was dead. Just like that.

Tony and Tim helped Ziva up and walk back to the ambulance doors to put the oxygen mask back on, but she didn't make it that far when she fell to the ground, unconscious.

"Ziva!"

Well, kids, the next chapter will also be a hard one. It's finished, of course, and it is the last chapter of Love Like Crazy. I figured we should have one death in the story and it made sense for it to be Kate…since she seemed to be closest to the Gibbs family.

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Oh and by the way, I'm 10 weeks pregnant :) Pretty stoked, yet nervous.

-Digidestend Angel-

"…Hello world, how've been? Good to see you, my old friend. Sometimes I feel cold as steel and broken like I'm never gonna heal. I see a light, little grace, little faith unfurl. Well, hello world." – Lady Antebellum

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