Okay, so this one is kinda long, probably the longest so far.
By the way just a note: Ziva is still pregnant, but I am hoping to eventually do a sequel to address this. Also I have hit a mental block with Rebecca Shalev. My head is too full of other ideas Sorry about the cliff-hangers on every chapter, not intentional…all the time.
Enjoy. And please Review
Bull Pit
"McGee. Cell phone, bank records. Trace him with everything electronic. DiNozzo, family friends, locations. If this guy pissed on a blade of grass I want to know which one. David…"
"My office. Now!" The director orders appearing behind them, and ignoring Gibb's glare. She follows silently, paying more attention to the various murders running through her head. She vaguely wonders about the ways she calms herself.
"What?" She says shutting the door and leaning against the frame
"You need to be reassessed for your suitability as an agent."
"What?"
"You're status as an agent has been suspended until further notice. Your father is waiting in MTAC to discuss your status. I need your badge and gun." He holds out his hand but she just stares at him, then she notices the file on his desk. Curiosity overtakes her, but she gets it under control and walks calmly to Vance. At the last moment she feints to the side, grabs the file and runs.
"Stop Her!" Vance yells before slowly walking to the catwalk, a pleased expression on his face.
She runs straight through the bullpit, knocking Gibbs over in the process, grabs her pack and leaves the building.
"What the hell was that about?" Tony asks, unsure whether or not to help his boss up. Gibbs curses and looks up at the catwalk. He meets Vance's eye before walking to the elevator. Stuck on the back wall of the elevator is a postit.
Rule 18: It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
He sighs, he'd already felt her put her gun and badge in his pocket when she'd ran into him.
Gibbs walks back into the squadroom
"Uh boss. You may want to see this. We pulled the footage from Vance's office." McGee says. Gibbs watches in silence before walking up to MTAC.
"Shalom Gibbs."
"Director David. You should've told me America was a dumping ground for rogue Mossad agents."
"What are you talking about Gibbs?"
"Ari, Shalev, Malachi, Ziva." He retorts, his voice rising to a yell
"She was rogue before she volunteered to come to you. I did not send her." Eli responds
"Right." Gibbs obviously doubts it, "Malachi?"
"He was her mistake. She will shut him down."
"No she won't." DiNozzo interjects "She's changed. She's human, no thanks to you. You've never been the father she wants, wait, you've never been the human she wants. How about for once you stop the bullshit and save her life!"
"Agent DiNozzo. I'm sure we all know your motives with my daughters safety." Eli replies, unmoved "And why would I contradict my own orders?"
Gibbs stands infront of DiNozzo and indicates for the conversation to be shut down
"Bastard ordered her dead." He snarls
Gibb's Basement
She puts the file down in shock. She had underestimated both Vance and her father, though for different reasons. Eli had ordered her dead, predictable, she thought now. But Vance was a genius. All this time he'd been using her, and when he'd found out that Eli had ordered Malachi to kill her, he thrown her out so she had no restrictions to do what she had to. She is free to fight her own battles. He'd broken down the law for his agents
Sighing she tightens her gun holster and leaves her phone and GPS in Gibbs' basement. As she steps out of his front door she almost reconsiders, she knows Malachi is near her.
NCIS
"Hey Abs." Gibbs says
"Gibbs! You've neglected me!"
"Been kinda busy."
"Did you find her?"
"No I was hoping you had." While Ziva had been comatose he'd delivered some information to both Abby and Ducky
"Well. There's good news and bad news." She says spinning back to her monitors
"Bad news first."
"I ran those photos and fibres and numbers and names and…"
"Abs."
"Right. I ran it all and my babies did their job…"
"Thought I asked for the bad news."
"This is the bad news Gibbs!" He was ordered to kill Ziva, and he has the means to do it. Another thing. Ziva left her GPS and phone and car at your place. She's unreachable."
"What about the bug you put on her necklace?"
"Tracking purposes only."
"Keep me posted." He kisses her forehead and hands her a CafPOW
"I haven't finished yet Gibbs!" She frowns at him
"I know." He smirks, with one hand still behind his back, she smiles
"Good news is, I know exactly where they both are, and where they've been. I also have enough evidence to pin Eli to all of this."
"Only evidence to pin Eli is a bullet through his heart. Thanks Abs." He leaves her the other CafPOW and heads over to Autopsy.
"Hey Duck."
"Ahh, Jethro."
"Whaddya got?"
"Well everyone of them was mentally broken. But Ziva and Malachi are slightly different. Malachi is very impulsive and still retains a lot of emotions which he will act on. He is jealous of the men in Ziva's life, then he realized she was the one choosing the men, so she became the target. He will want to take her to somewhere related to a man close to her and inflict immense amounts of psychological pain on her."
"Like my basement?"
"No. Somewhere that doesn't hold any bad memories. He wants to create them himself, before he kills her."
"And Ari, Michael and Ziva?"
"He broke them all. Ziva, is worst of all. It is as if she is slowly losing the ability to have emotions, due to her supressing them for so long. We can only hope her strength wins through. At the moment she will be very vulnerable and confused, looking for a way out, she will be resigned to her fate, because she believes it is the right thing to do."
"She'll do what's right no matter the cost." Gibbs summarizes, thinking of the postit in his pocket
"Yes. Has she said something to you?" Ducky says picking up Gibbs' tone "I am aware she has talked to you about Somalia."
"Yep. She signed her own death warrant and stuck it in the elevator." He pauses "Did you know she was pregnant?" Ducky looks away guiltily and Gibbs storms out "Would've been nice to know Duck."
"Save her Jethro." He waits until Gibbs is out of earshot, "because we would not be able to save you."
Tony looks up as Gibbs storms into the bullpit and has his gear before Gibbs barks the order.
"Split up. Look for Ziva in any of her favourite places. Radio for backup before going in. Got that?" He stares pointedly at Tony, who nods and they leave.
He'd already checked the theatre, the book store, the bar and the little café they went to before movies on Friday. He was running out of ideas. It's times like these when he needs Gibbs gut. Then it hits him, doing an impression of Ziva's driving he turns around and speeds back to his place.
He looks at his slightly ajar front door and curses, as he turns to get his phone, he hears two noises that make his blood run cold. He hears a shot, and then her scream.