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Here are cross-references to the Alex Rider book series and the Neverending Story (last sentence although I translated it freely from German to english because I don't know the original English sentence).

Please review this story so that I know if I should write stories like that again.

(If you like to read a similar Tony-based Fiction, visit my story 'Hell'. For reading another M-rated story (I had my reasons for rating it M), you can eg read 'Betrayed' (Ziva/McGee).

Chapter 7

'Ziva, McGee', Gibbs showed the agents where to go to secure the house.

Ziva went in from the back door while McGee kicked open the front door and went in, his gun in front of his face.

'Clear', she shouted and saw Ziva entering the kitchen as well. After one minute it was clear: DiNozzo wasn't here anymore. 'What now, boss?', McGee asked when they stood together in the living room.

'We have no idea where they went. Or she has already killed him and now gets off the body', Ziva said hysterically.

'Thanks for your optimistic prospect', McGee looked around but saw nothing.

'We have captured each head member except for two. That means she has some other members of Scorpia as help', Gibbs said

'Which means they can be everywhere', Ziva finished the sentence. 'Is that blood?', McGee asked and went to the couch. 'Well, at least it's not much', Gibbs said and they started taking probes for Abby.

'The good news is that this blood is not from Tony but from Caroline', Abby told the three special agents. It was far after midnight.

'And the bad news?', Ziva asked.

'That Tony is still in danger?', Abby answered.

'Or dead', McGee muttered silently.

'Don't be so pessimistic', Abby said sadly.

She wasn't quite optimistic as well.

When Tony woke up, the first thing he noticed was that he had a horrible headache. And he had already thought that after being poisoned it was worst that could happen. Now he was taught that he had been wrong. He opened his eyes and recognized an office room.

He sat up and closed his eyes in pain. He felt his head.

'Careful', a female voice said.

Tony looked around. He was indeed in an office room.

Caroline was standing at the window looking down on the street.

'Washington is a beautiful city', she said. Tony crawled slowly to the window. He must be somewhere 55th or 56th floor and the cars down there were small.

'Where am I?', he asked and stood up.

'In the Washington version of Scorpia headquarters', she explained not looking at him but at the traffic in the streets.

'What if I ran out of the door now and out of here?', he asked. 'Just theoretically.'

She smiled. 'First of all I think, that I would be faster with my gun. And second, there are recently about thirty-two members in this building right now and I just need to set off an alarm to lock all doors and make them search you.'

Her voice was very calm and still friendly.

Tony couldn't imagine her getting angry or losing control, she was very self-disciplined.

'Great, why didn't you kill me at my house?', he asked.

'I wanted to but plans were changed in last second.'

He remembered her getting so close and seeing the joy in her eyes but then she had received another text message and she had just knocked him off.

'NCIS will find me', he said confidently.

'I know', she turned to him and looked him into his eyes.

He was frightened what a nice impression her eyes actually had, he had fallen in love with her dark brown eyes. But he also remembered her nearly killing him so he shouldn't fall in love with his killer.

'Inner conflict with yourself?', she asked and stepped nearer.

He didn't step back. 'What?', he tried to hide that she had obviously succeeded in reading his mind.

'Well, we had a really nice night together and if I wouldn't have the order to kill you, I assume you would like to…go deeper', she smiled at him.

Why the hell was she so right.

'No', he stammered.

'You're such a bad liar, Tony', she smiled at him.

What the fucking hell was up with him? He couldn't even lie to her anymore. But she was a woman…a very pretty woman. But he had been able to lie to women, even pretty women before. He sighed.

'When are you going to kill me?', he asked. Gibbs, McGee and Ziva needed to be fast.

'Pretty soon. When I get new orders.'

'Why were they pulled back?'

'Eight head members already got arrested. It's such a fast step backwards. We need to be more carefully', she explained.

'Where is the boss? The 12th member?', Tony asked.

'Europe.'

'One of your members died. You need to recruit a new one.'

'I shot the other member.'

'Why?'

'Orders. He died exactly in the room above us', she said and quickly looked up.

'Who is your boss going to recruit?', Tony asked.

'My sister', she smiled at him.

'Your three years younger sister. Of course', he sighed.

He had to admit, he had been a bit blind.

Love makes blind, he thought.

In that moment the door was opened. A man, who looked like his origins were somewhere in South-Europe quickly spoke to Caroline in Italian. Tony didn't understand a word. Caroline stayed calm but obviously was very angry. Finally she pulled out her gun and shot the man.

'You can't count on anyone these days', she murmured in English so that Tony could understand it.

She walked to the door and spoke Italian with another man. Several men arrived and pulled away the dead body. She gave orders to him and finally disappeared. Two men went in and walked toward Tony.

'Hey, calm it down, boys', Tony said when he looked into their angry faces. The last thing he remembers was that something very hard hit him on the head. His vision first got blurry and then black.

He woke up again. He woke up from having fainted far too often. He looked around. It was white and clean. A hospital. He turned his head around.

'Tony, are you awake?', Ziva asked.

Tony nodded. 'What happened?', he asked slightly confused.

Ziva sat down at the edge of his bed. 'We managed to locate your cell phone. Caroline obviously told one of the men to search you and deactivate the GPS-chip in your phone and he obviously failed.'

'Therefore she was so angry', he said.

Ziva nodded. 'Well, we entered with a special force of FBI who also had found out the same like we. We arrested over thirty members of Scorpia. As that was their first mission after rising again, it more than failed.'

'What about Caroline?', Tony asked. Headache.

'She escaped. We have no clue where she is. There are also no hints on Dr. Medici, the actual boss of Scorpia or Katarina Montebello, Caroline's sister. FBI assumes that all three are going to hide in Europe somewhere and either build up a new, stronger version of Scorpia or cooperate with any other crime organizations like Mafia or any Mexican drug cartel.'

'Perhaps they should write a letter of application of Reynosa drug cartel', Tony laughed.

Ziva laughed, too.

They got closer to each other.

'I was so scared about you', she whispered. 'That she would kill you.'

'Oh, no woman can kill Very Special Agent DiNozzo', Tony laughed and now their faces nearly met.

In that very moment the door opened and Gibbs and McGee entered.

Ziva quickly pushed back herself and stood up and stepped back. McGee raised an eyebrow and Ziva showed him not to say anything or he would regret it very deeply. 'How are you DiNozzo?', Gibbs asked.

'Great. When can I get out?', he asked smiling DiNozzo-ish.

'They want to keep you here for surveillance. Ziva told you everything?'

'Yeah, no sign of Medici, Caroline or her sister.'

'Do you have any idea?'

'No, why should I? She nearly killed me?'

'Just wanted to know', Gibbs said and walked out of the room.

'So, tell me. What have you done last night?', Ziva asked coming nearer. McGee tiptoed back to the door.

'Hey, McGeek, don't rush off or she'll kill me.'

'Only if you have to regret something', she said.

'No, we just talked and she knocked me off.'

'You were knocked off by a little woman?'

'A little ninja.'

'You called me like that once.'

'Yes, because you are my little ninja.'

He smiled.

She smiled.

Meanwhile Caroline arrived at the Milano airport. She was welcomed their by her sister who was accompanied by Dr. Medici.

Katarina hugged her sister.

'Hey, long time not seen. How are you?', Caroline asked.

'Good. Passed my exams and am finished now.' They spoke Italian.

'Let us go. FBI set us on an international wanting list', Dr. Medici told them two.

Outside of the airport a black car waited for them. They stepped in.

'Hurry up', the driver said. 'I don't want to let my boss wait', he added and started driving through the crowded Italian streets.

Of course, they didn't want to.

Dr. Medici had arranged a meeting with an important big wheel in Italian organized crimes who already had had an eye on Scorpia and who was now very pleased to get three new and highly qualified members. And he had agreed that they would take revenge on both NCIS and MI6 for finally destroying Scorpia.

They would grow, rise and finally throw the world into a chaos that has never been there before.

And this time, it won't be for sure if NCIS could tackle this task.

But this is another story and will be told at a later date…

The End...?

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Okay, it is not the end: The next story will be called Scorpia Rising II. If you liked this story, then you should check out the follow-up. ;) And yes, it also will be Tony-based.