Safe Haven: Chapter 1
"This reminds me of the movie Inception. You know. Where the car flips over and it lands up right," Tony calls from the bottom of the small hill where a dark gray BMW lays. The team was at Quantico investigating a car crash that might have been murder. Ziva pops up from the spot where she is taking photos.
"What is Inception?" Ziva questions as McGee and Gibbs clobber down the hill.
Tony gasps in mock distress and a horrid look appears on his face.
"You don't know what Inception is? I am appalled," Tony exclaims. "Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Cobb who goes into people's dreams and convinces them to do things that he wants them to do."
"I do not get the point," Ziva counters.
As Tony starts to argue, Gibbs slaps him on the back of the head. Letting out a wince, Tony gets back to work.
"On it boss."
"Whacha got?" Gibbs asks, looking back at Tony.
"Well, from what is here, we know that the driver was shot in the head. But, I see that the angle of this bullet is unique to say the least. It comes from the top left corner making a forty-five degree angle from the center of the window." Ziva states as a whine comes from the trunk, interrupting her.
The team of four whipped out their guns. Gibbs motioned for McGee to pop the trunk as Tony and Ziva edged up to it. They slowly lifted up the door, revealing a chocolate brown and snow white husky marked with the letter 'M' on its forehead and a teenage girl with blood gushing from her temple and a picture death-gripped in her hands. After the initial shock passes, Gibbs whips out his cell phone and dials 911 while McGee runs to find Ducky. Tony and Ziva work to remove the makeshift seat belts wrapped around the dog and girl. Lifting the husky off the girl, Tony shouts out to Palmer who had just arrived.
"Palmer, get over here! You're good with dogs right?"
Carrying the girl out of the trunk, Ziva runs to the road. After she sets the girl down on the ground, she starts to bandage up the worst of the cuts and aids Ducky with the stitching. When that was done, the paramedics arrive and load the girl up into the ambulance. Shouting came from the truck when they can't get the picture away from her grasp. As she falls into a coma, Tony hops into the ambulance to see what hospital they are going to and slowly wiggles the photo from her grasp.
"Bethesda, sir," one of the paramedics replied.
"Thanks."
Tony jumps out and looks down at the picture. His eyes grow wide as he slowly brings his eyes up to look at Ziva. Moving his eyes between the picture and a bloody Ziva, he walks over to her and hesitantly hands her the picture.
One look at the picture is all it takes. Almost in slow motion, Ziva faints and falls to the ground. At the last minute, Tony puts out his hands and grabs her by the waist to keep her from hitting the pavement. The picture floats to a stop in front of Gibbs.
It is a picture of Ziva when she was a teenager. She was in a hospital bed, holding a newborn baby girl.