Tony opened his apartment door to find five people gathered around the island in his kitchen. Ducky, Jimmy, Abby, and McGee were all waiting in tense silence. He should have known Gibbs would call Ducky and Jimmy. Gibbs was using his coffee machine. Go figure. Tony stood at the island between Ducky and Abby; they all waited silently for Gibbs. Finally, he came to the island. Set his cup of coffee down silently leaned against the island.
"Well do you expect me to guess what's going on!?" Tony gave them the run through, giving as many details as he could. They stood there for a few moments after he was done.
"What purpose would torturing Ziva serve? We all know she would never reveal any information- she'd die first!" Ducky exclaimed. Tony shook his head.
"No, she would do that, but she wouldn't…show this weakness. Not over torture for information. This is personnel, whatever it is…it's targeting her, whoever, whatever this is, the target is her." Gibbs glared at him until he shut up.
"We aren't theorizing yet. What we are doing is going to that apartment and look at that closet." Tony felt stupid for not thinking of it first. Abby nodded.
"I'm coming to." She declared. Ducky nodded.
"Well, of course we all are." Gibbs paused for a moment after ducky said that.
"Ducky?" Ducky turned to Gibbs as he tried to put his jacket on.
"Yes Jethro?" Gibbs looked like he always did with a case-which seemed a bit impersonal to him, but he wasn't about to say that.
"Can you think of anything that could give Ziva those bruises?" Ducky sighed. He obviously didn't want to think about this. But he did think it over before he answered.
"It sounds like she was beaten. Fairly badly too. From what Tony described about the marks on her, I'd say she was choked, beaten, possibly with a blunt object, and held down, since she had hand-shaped marks on her arms." They all paused at once.
"Oh my freaking…" Abby gasped
"You don't think this guy ra-" Tony was cut off quickly by a head slap from Gibbs as they all filed out the door to their various transportations to go to Ziva's old apartment.
"Who says it's a man, Tony?"