Thanks to all those who reviewed, still unsure about who is going to take Tali, though probably not Eli. But if people do want Eli to take her then I was thinking of a sequel, where he has now heard about her and stuff. Let me know what you think

Chapter 4 -

It was a Saturday and because of the new case Tali would have to come to work with them, not that she minded, she loved the office. On the way there, they had to stop to buy more gas and they all went into the shop to buy something to eat, Tony was filling up the car and Ziva was paying when the attack came.

Tali was wondering round the small shop, her headphones in, singing softly, she was only in the next isle across, Ziva could see the top of her dark head, moving slowly amongst the shelves, she heard a bell ring indicating someone entering the shop, she finished paying and turned around, the tension in the room made her realise something was wrong and she looked up assessing the situation.

Outside Tony was still filling up the car, and there was only one other car in the gas station, a big black SUV, there was a man filling its tank. The bell had rung signalling the arrival of 4 big bulky men who were wondering around the store in a similar way to Tali, she watched them uncertainly as she moved towards her daughter and then began to move towards to move towards the door one hand resting protectively on her daughter's shoulder, they were almost out of the door, when out of the corner of her eye she saw all of the men make similar movements.

She reacted faster than she had every reacted in her life 'Tali' she screamed and threw herself at her daughter who spun round a look of confusion on her face. She slammed into Tali hard and they both fell to the ground, at the same moment bullets flew over their head, where they been standing mere seconds ago.

Tony was just finishing when he heard gunshots. On of the windows on the store smashed. Instinctively he ducked before grabbing his phone and pressing speed dial 3. 'yeah DiNozzo where are you' 'boss' he shouted 'we are at the gas station at' he gave the address 'there has been shots fired, I don't know why' 'DiNozzo stay calm' Gibbs began but Tony cut him off 'I cant stay calm Ziva and Tali are in the store where the shots were fired from' there was silence on the other end and then 'we are coming now DiNozzo, don't do anything stupid' 'hell with that' Tony muttered before hanging up and drawing his gun. More shots came from inside as he crept forward, another window smashed causing him to duck once again. He ran to the door and stood to one side; it was strange not having Ziva on the other side of the door, and not busting it down before confronting the danger together. He took a deep breath before bursting into the store.

Tali had barely hit the floor before she was being pulled sideways by her mother; she was pushed behind some shelves by her mother who followed grabbing hold of her and pulling her close, 'Tali are you ok' she gasped, her gun was in her hand, loaded. Tali nodded pressing herself closer to her mother 'who are they? What do they want?'

Ziva looked at her daughter, she was 12 years old and however strong and in control she was, she was not ready for this, she had been taught how to defend herself, but as always when it actually happened, it was not as she had expected, it was scary. They heard voices coming closer and they wriggled backwards towards the door, there was a bang and Ziva pushed Tali behind her before firing her own weapon, one man fell. Dead. Tali stared in shock, she had seen dead bodies before but she had never seen someone die right in front of her before. There was the sound of footsteps and then a shout of 'I see then' somewhere to her left 'run' she screamed to her daughter and they both scrambled up sprinting towards the door.

Ziva saw something hurting towards her and screamed out to Tali to keep running, and she fell under the weight of the attacker, the first thing she did was knee him hard in his privates and trying to push him off her, but he was too big, too strong. She was overpowered as another came assisting the first.

Tali heard her mother scream at her to keep running and although she wanted nothing more than to stop and run back to her, she did, the door was right in front of her and she was almost out when a man stepped out in front of her, a gun in his hand. Tali skidded to a stop, scrambling the other way, when two more emerged one of them holding her mother. They were all pointing guns at her. She looked at her mother, she was fighting but the other men were bigger and stronger than her. They formed a circle around her pressing in while she whirled round and round looking for an escape, when none appeared she backed against a wall cowering away. Ziva could see the fear in her eyes, and it broke her heart.

'take her' the man holding Ziva said and the other two men surged forward towards Tali grabbing her, she ducked down yanking them down before surging sideways into one and then to the other side, both men gasped and one of then cursing her, raised an arm and hit her so hard she fell to the ground, blood trickling down her cheek. She was being pulled upright again to scared, confused and dazed to fight now, when the door burst open and Tony ran in.

As he burst through the doorway Tony assessed the situation in an instant, and he was horrified by the scene in front of him. The store was completely wrecked, products lay all over the floor smashed and broken. And amongst the mess was a group of people. Ziva was struggling in the grip of the largest man who held her by the throat ignoring her struggles. It shocked him that Ziva had been overpowered, she was usually so strong, he had seen her take down a man on steroids only earning herself a bruised cheek. He knew what it was, she was afraid to fight with Tali in the room where the little girl could get hurt. She was a risk taker but she would never risk her own child's life. Tali herself was half hanging, half standing in the grip of the other two men, there was blood on her cheek trickling from a cut on her temple. She was ghostly pale and trembling. He pointed his weapon at the two holding Tali shouting 'let her go now or I shoot' one of them laughed 'oh no you won't Agent DiNozzo, not when its your little girl's life at risk' he pulled Tali more in front of him so her body was blocking any clear shot he had at him, he then pressed his gun to her temple causing her eyes to widen even more. Tony finger tensed on the trigger, but he knew the man was right; he couldn't shoot, not with Tali there in the way. There was a curse from behind and suddenly Ziva was beside him, the other man had obviously been distracted and Ziva had taken the opportunity to free herself, she grabbed her weapon off of the floor and joined Tony pointing her gun at the attackers.

The men began to move and Tony and Ziva circled them like sharks, getting out of their way as they jammed the gun harder against Tali's temple. They followed them outside as they moved towards the SUV. Ziva was trembling, she could take the shot, she had taken similar shots more times than she could remember, but this was different, usually she was confident that she wouldn't miss, but now, she was panicking, if she did miss, she would kill her own daughter. She couldn't risk that.

The boot to the SUV was open now, and they were trying to push Tali inside but she was not cooperating with them, one if them hit her again throwing her to the floor, where her head smacked hard against the concrete, she didn't move, her eyelids continued to flutter dazed. Desperately Ziva called out 'what do you want with her?' the leader smiled 'we are just the people assigned to take her, we get paid to take her, what will happen to her afterwards is none of our concern' Tony shouted 'so you don't care if you send an innocent little girl to her death' the leader smiled 'nope that doesn't bother us at all, the only thing that does bother us is the nice big fat cheek coming our way as soon as we deliver this little darling to our employer'.

Ziva looked at her daughter; her wrists were being bound with flexi cuffs so tight that even in her dazed state she winced. The men finished binding her and lifted her up and placed her into the boot. 'no' Ziva screamed 'please no' but the men ignored her until with a screech of tyres Gibbs' car came skidding into the lot followed by more police cars, then a gin battle ensued, they fired first and Ziva but Tony lunged at her, throwing her out of the way the same way she had done to Tali. She felt pain across her arm though but that didn't stop her from fireing her gun at the man standing furthest away from her daughter, the kidnappers seemed to realise they were outnumbered, as they all turned and leapt into the car, the last man who had remained outside was obviously the getaway car driver, as a second later the car was spinning away, two police cars took off after it, tyres screeching. 'TALI' Ziva screamed her daughters name, running forward, it was Gibbs that caught hold of her, pulling her into his arms and stopping her from running after the car 'Ziver' he said quietly and they could all hear the pain in his voice 'its too late, they got her, there is nothing you can do now'

Hope you like it, took me ages, that is like my 5th draft, still need an idea of who took her and why, if you have a suggestion please let me know, I think it wont be Eli this time but if you want me to write another book where he does take her, maybe set after this one also let me know.

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