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Chapter 14 –

Tony's head hurt, there was a throbbing pain at the back of his skull and it hurt, there was a pain on the side of his neck too, he could feel more and more as he gradually began to come round, the first thing he felt was the cold hard floor beneath him, and the flexi cuffs around his wrists biting into his flesh, and he could hear someone talking saying the same thing over and over again "dad, dad please dad wake up" he groaned, he didn't want to wake up, he wanted to roll over and go back to sleep, and wake up to find out that this was all a bad dream "dad" the voice of a frightened little girl begged "please wake up I'm scared daddy" Tali he realised, his baby girl needed him.

He forced his eyes open, Tali was kneeling over him, shaking him desperately, her wrists like his were bound with flexi cuffs, "Tali" he whispered "are you ok sweetheart, have they hurt you" he pulled himself up into a sitting position and as best he could with tied wrists he pulled her onto his lap and cradled her as she shook her head "no" she whispered "not yet", he hugged her as she snuggled into his chest, shivering with either fear or the cold "it's ok" he said softly rocking her gently "we are gonna be ok ninja, I promise everything is gonna be ok", she shivering lessened slightly and Tony still gripping her looked around.

They were in a bare room, with a single light bulb as the only source of light, there was no window. There was an iron door set on the wall to his left, it looked very sturdy and strong. The walls and floor were made of stone, and there was water dripping down them, mould and moss was growing in various places, and there was a terrible stench of rotting in the air, that was all there was in the room, he realised, apart from him and Tali, the room was empty.

"where's you mother" he asked urgently and a sob racked through Tali's small frame "I don't know" she sobbed "she wasn't here when I woke up" Tony hugged her again, trying not to think the worst, it was Ziva, Dayan really wanted, and Tali for afters, he hoped that Ziva was still alive, if something happened to her, he couldn't bare to think of life without her. He knew he had to remain strong, for Tali, she was terrified he knew, this time Dayan actually wanted to kill her, rather than just use her as leverage and his men wouldn't be so easy to escape from this time. He continued to hold his daughter, hoping, praying that Ziva was ok.

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Ziva gasped as she jerked awake instantly beginning to struggle, her wrists were bound behind her back and she was sitting in a chair, Dayan was standing in front of her, looking out the window, looking around she saw that the room had been set up in a similar way to the one at the previous head quarters. There was the bank of computers and the throne like chair next to hers. Looking round she saw guards all glaring at her, huge guns in their hands. Frantically she tugged at her restraints, straining against them, but they were tight and strong.

"are you done" she looked up to find that Dayan had turned and was watching her she glowered at him "where are Tony and Tali" she demanded "where is my family" Dayan simply looked at her for a minute before turning to look out the window again "your family is safe, they are locked up nice and tight, and that is where they will stay until I am done with them" he said without looking at her, Ziva stared at him "please" she begged "let them go, you can have me but please let them go, they have nothing that you want, I am the one you want not them", Dayan laughed, "they do have something that I want Ziva" he walked over to her and leaned in close, Ziva pulled away as he traced a finger down her cheek. "they have the ability to cause you pain, because I know that torture does not have the same affect on you as it does others, you have been trained to cope with the pain to not show it, but if I were to hurt your precious Tali" he smiled at her and Ziva stared at him in horror "I think you might show the pain a bit more"

"you wouldn't" Ziva whispered "oh Ziva didn't you see in the video that I am not afraid of hurting children, and your daughter does fascinate me, she is a little you and I don't want another version of you running round out to get me for killing you" Dayan laughed, "that would lead to a never ending circle of bloodshed" Ziva tugged at her restraints again now terrified for her daughters life "give up Ziva" Dayan said looking at her "I have won, it is over" Ziva snarled at him "I wont give up fighting for my daughter until my dying breath" "oh that might be a bit difficult" Dayan said smirking "she is to die before you and you are to watch, to cause you the maximum amount of pain"

He walked over to the table and poured himself a drink, Ziva hung her head, trying to look in defeat as she continued to wriggle her wrists slowly trying to work them out of the cuffs, Dayan walked over to the chair and sat down, "do what you want to her, except kill her" he said to no one in particular "but make sure she feels it".

A group of his men surged forward and Ziva closed her eyes as they began to beat her, in her mind she saw a memory, one of her favourites.

At the park with the whole team, Tali 5 was running around with Tony who was chasing her, she ran towards Gibbs who scooped her up and began to tickle her and soon her shrieks and giggles of delight were echoing around the field, Gibbs released her and allowed her to scurry over to where Ziva was sitting, Tony dropped down next to her wrapping his arms around her as Tali stumbled forward and fell onto Ziva's lap giggling still, they all sat on a blanket, it was there day off and they chose to spend it together, having a picnic, playing with Tali, Ziva lay down resting her head in Tony's lap watching McGee and Gibbs playing with Tali in the playground, Abby was there too and she was scrambling over the climbing frame like a child herself. Ducky was sitting on the blanket with Tony and Ziva recalling a past memory of his own to Palmer.

Ziva closed her eyes feeling the sun beating down on her closed eyelids and Tony's hand stroking her cheek, Tali's laugh echoing in her ears, that moment was certainly perfect.

That memory got her through what happened to her next, and when she finally opened her eyes when it was over she was rewarded by the look of fury on Dayan's face at her control. "put her with her family" he said coldly "so she can say goodbye and tell her daughter how sorry she is, because whatever happens to her next if all your fault" he said the last part right in her face, but she didn't flinch she stared into his fathomless black eyes staying proud "indeed mother and daughter are very much alike" he murmured as Ziva felt her cuffs being cut, she tried to fight but couldn't she could barely stand, she struggled feebly as she was dragged off towards a strong iron door which was unlocked and dragged open, and she was thrown inside.

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Tony sat up against the wall trying to comfort Tali, but he couldn't, he knew the probability of her getting out of this alive was very slim, how could you lie to your daughter who knew it herself that she was going to die.

He heard shouting and the sound of the door being unlocked, it was opened just wide enough for 1 man to come in and another figure to be thrown in, the man grabbed their wrists and cut the cuffs and left but not before he gave their new cell mate a hard kick in the chest that made them groan and roll over.

The door slammed shut and Tony stared in horror at his wife "oh Ziva" he breathed, "mom" Tali sobbed scrambling over to her, Tony ever so carefully gathered her into his arms and carried her away from the door, laying her down. She looked awful, worse than he had ever seen her, worse than when they had rescued her from Somalia. There was hardly an area of her body that had not been pummelled mercilessly. She gazed at him through swollen eyes "Tony" she whispered, lifting one hand to touch his cheek, he caught hold of her hand and held it "yes" he whispered "I'm here Zee I'm not going to leave you" she closed her eyes for a second before asking hoarsely "Tali" Tony looked up and Tali crawled into her mothers line of sight tears still streaming down her cheeks.

At the sight of her daughter Ziva hauled herself up into a sitting position and held out her arms for Tali to crawl into, Tali lay there fresh tears in her eyes "hush tateleh everything is going to be ok" she whispered, she saw tears in Tony's eyes and knew that he to knew that they were not going to escape this alive. Tony pulled her into his arms and hugged her wrapping his arms around Tali to and eventually that was how they drifted off into an uneasy sleep, afraid to let go.

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The next morning Gibbs came into work to find the bullpen empty, but that wasn't unusual for this time in the morning, he settled down at his desk and tried to start up his computer and remember how to use his emails, but he soon gave up.

McGee came in half an hour later greeting him cheerfully, they hadn't seen or heard from Tony or Ziva since they had bolted out of the bullpen to get Tali, and Gibbs had the nagging suspicion that something was wrong. He waited though until the time that they usually came in though before he started to worry, every time the elevator dinged signalling a new arrival to their floor he looked up expectantly expecting to see Tony and Ziva come striding towards them bickering loudly, maybe with Tali with them, who would come running over to say hi as she always did no matter how old she got.

When they were an hour late, he allowed his worries to come to the surface "McGee" he snapped making the young agent jump "yes boss" he said looking at him expectantly "call Tony and Ziva's home phone" McGee did so putting it on speaker, so they both heard the phone ring before Tony's voice could be heard telling them to leave a message, "call their cells" Gibbs ordered pulling out his own phone and calling Ziva whilst McGee called Tony's. Again both went to voicemail.

He and McGee stared at each other in confusion before Gibbs called the school and asked to speak to Talia DiNozzo "Miss DiNozzo is not in school today" the receptionist told him, she sounded rather surprised, "didn't her parents tell you" "tell me what" Gibbs asked now seriously worried "it was Miss DiNozzo who pulled the fire alarm, we saw it on the video, her parents watched it and bolted out the door" struggling to remain calm Gibbs asked to speak to the head, who had seen the video, he explained what he had seen and said he would send the footage to them, after thanking him Gibbs hung up.

"trace Tony and Ziva's phones" he ordered but McGee was already halfway through doing it, Gibbs already had a sinking suspicion that he knew where they were and when the two blue dots appeared his fears were confirmed "isn't that" McGee asked trailing off, but Gibbs finished it for him "where Tali was held" he said "grab your gear we are going over there".

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It didn't take long for them to arrive, Gibbs drove fast again and when he stopped McGee looked very green but determined. They leapt out and were approaching the warehouse when they spotted Tony and Ziva's guns and phones lying in a pile, nearby there were 2 small pools of blood, walking a few steps they found a third along with Tali's phone and her knife that she carried.

Gibbs stood up and yanked out his phone calling Vance and informing him that the whole DiNozzo family was now missing "even Tony" the director sounded surprised and Gibbs knew why, Ziva and Tali had annoyed Dayan in the past but Tony had never done anything to him "are you sure its Dayan Gibbs" he asked "we will have proof once the security footage from the school car park arrives, we will collect evidence here and then come back" Vance agreed to let them work this case but he didn't sound to happy.

Gibbs hung up and turned round McGee was already taking photographs and taking samples, he grabbed a second camera and followed some tracks trying to figure out what had happened, it looked like after they had been knocked out Tony and Ziva had been dragged over to a vehicle with Tali and been thrown inside, the vehicle had then driven away quite fast judging but the kick back. He took some pictures for Abby to analyse to determine what kind of vehicle it had been that had taken them; he also made a mould before checking for anything else useful, he crouched down and picked up Tali's knife, there was blood on it, not very much but he was still worried, he prayed that it wasn't Tali's blood. He bagged it and her phone and took a swab of the blood, it was only a few drops, probably came from the same place the blood on the knife came from he thought.

Once they had bagged, tagged and labelled everything and had taken many pictures they loaded everything into the car and sped back to NCIS, Ducky and Abby were waiting for them in the bullpen along with Vance who was looking worried, Abby sprinted over to Gibbs "did you find them" she demanded, the look on his face said it all, and her eyes filled with tears "we have evidence for you" Gibbs said quietly, Abby took the box and looked through it, pulling out the bag with Tali's knife, her eyes widened in horror "that's Tali's knife" she whispered "is that her blood oh Gibbs" she fell into Gibbs' arms crying heavily, he held her feeling exactly the same.

Dayan had Ziva now, there was no way he was going to let her escape and he was furious at Tali, the little girl might as well already be dead, he was so mad. And Tony, he had known Tony for nearly 20 years now and the cheeky agent was just like a son to him now, he was innocent in all this but he would protect Ziva and Tali to his dying breath, if his girls were going to die then Tony was going to die too.

Abby managed to pull herself together and the moment she had she grabbed the evidence and ran down to her lab determined to do everything she could to help, but Gibbs feared there was very little that any of them could do to help the family. All they could do was pray for a miracle.

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