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Chapter 16

Time passed, but it didn't feel like it did, stuck in their little damp room, locked away, unable to get to their daughter, but forced to listen to her pain, Every time she screamed her parents felt their hearts break into smaller pieces. Ziva buried her head into Tony's shoulder, crying her eyes out, Tony was as well, and his tears dampening Ziva's hair as he pressed his face into the top of her head, her tears were mixing with all the blood and grime on her face leaving streaks as the poured down her cheeks, Tony rocked his wife from side to side trying desperately to reassure her, but he couldn't not when he couldn't reassure himself.

Eventually Tali's screams stopped after what felt like hours, Tony waited; he waited for them to bring Tali back to them, praying that they did. Dayan entered, followed by two of his guards who dragged their child between them, they threw her to the ground but when Ziva moved towards her they blocked her path.

Ziva felt Tony catch hold of her as she made to throw herself at the guards, furious that they were preventing her from comforting her daughter, she looked at her, sometime during the torture she had obviously passed out for she was not moving and her eyes were closed, Dayan smiled and then dragged her limp form round so that they could see her back. Ziva heard Tony let out a horrified gasp, she felt the same, she was trembling with rage now and fear, what if Tali was not unconscious, but actually dead, her wounds were very severe she could see.

Her back had been sliced open over and over again, blood was spilling out, without being stopped, and there was no skin without any wounds on. Ziva looked at the tiny girl in front of her; she looked smaller and younger than ever, now, in pain and on the brink of death. She looked at Dayan again unable to prevent the tears that streamed down her face, which was what he wanted to see, her pain. He was right, she could block out any pain that they inflicted on her but she couldn't, wouldn't block out her daughters pain and suffering. "hurting yet Ziva" Dayan asked quietly, Ziva glared at him, "go to hell" she hissed, but he just smiled "come" he said to his companions "let them say their goodbyes, because the day after tomorrow the child is going to receive a bullet through her scull" he laughed and left carefully making sure he kicked dirt into Tali's bloody back, they left locking the door carefully behind them.

The moment they had left both Tony and Ziva rushed over and carefully carried Tali to the back of the room, "oh Tali" Ziva whispered stroking her daughters face "I am so so sorry tateleh, I am so sorry, this is my fault, don't tell me it is not Tony" she said as her husband opened his mouth "I know it is, don't try and make my think otherwise" Tony looked at her before reaching up and stroking her cheek "she doesn't blame you Zee" he said softly "and neither do I, don't ever forget that, no matter what happens to us, we will never blame you, we love you" Ziva stared at him more tears dribbling down her cheeks "don't blame yourself Zee" Tony begged pulling her into his arms briefly "please Zee don't it hurts us to see you blame yourself"

"but she is going to die because of what I did in the past" Ziva sobbed "no Zee because of what Dayan's father did in the past, not because of you, he is the one who started all this bloodshed" he brushed tears out of her eyes and held her as she pulled herself back together, they then looked back at their daughter lying in Ziva's arms, Tony brushed hair gently off of her face, praying that she would be ok, but he was terrified that she had been injured to badly and that she would never wake up again, he supposed that it would be more peaceful, everything just ending, rather than staring at the barrel of a gun waiting for it to go off and your life to end.

But if she died now they would never get to say goodbye to her properly, never tell her one last time how much he loved her, and that she was perfect. He wanted to say goodbye, make sure she knew how loved she was. He regretted that he had not told his baby girl that he loved her every day, every hour, every minute that he was with her. And now they were out of time.

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Gibbs sat glaring at the agents that scurried around, since the call yesterday he had had not slept and neither had most of the agency who was looking for Tony and his family, he knew time was running out, especially for Tali, the little girl had a matter of days left.

He threw his coffee down in frustration before standing up "McGee" he said "MTAC now, for the next call" his only remaining agent leapt to his feet and followed him up the stairs, Vance was already waiting for them the room already clear of the MTAC controllers. They kitted up, suddenly the door opened and two men walked in "who are you" Gibbs asked angrily but Vance stepped in "they are kidnap and ransom specialists, they have a right to be here Gibbs, don't worry they will just observe and if need be advise" Gibbs glared at them and then at his boss who gave him a pointed look, so grumbling under his breath about how they knew nothing about getting his agents back, he turned fiddling with the controller on the side of his headphones making sure it was on and working.

After that there was nothing to distract him or his team, he paced back and forth wishing he had a coffee to calm his nerves, McGee sat typing furiously and then cleaned his keyboard mindlessly. Vance stood tapping his foot, everyone was nervous, and they all knew it but were not willing to show it.

Finally the computer bleeped and McGee after glancing at Vance who nodded before stepping out of sight with the kidnap and ransom guys. Gibbs turned to see Dayan smiling at him on the big screen and fresh anger at the man reared up inside him like a snake ready to strike.

"Hello agent Gibbs, how is your search going" Dayan asked, he looked very pleased with himself

"I want to see them now, show them all to me and I swear if you lay one more finger on that little girl, I will never stop hunting you down and I will make sure you die a very slow painful death" Gibbs said, and his companions could hear the venom in his voice and knew he meant it.

Dayan however did not seem to believe him "well as you want seem to find your agents and their little girl, I don't think I will have to run very far"

"Show them to me now" Gibbs said quietly struggling to keep his anger under control.

An image similar to yesterdays one flashed up in the corner of the screen, but it was different, Tali was now lying with them, eyes closed and unmoving, she lay in Tony's arms, he was cradling them both, Ziva was leaning on him, gripping her daughter's limp hand as though it was the only thing keeping the small girl alive. Tony was gazing at Tali, pain written all over his face, the hand wrapped around Ziva was stroking her head, as though trying to convince her she would be fine, they both clung to each other and their daughter the way a drowning man would cling to a life jacket.

"I want to talk to them, so I know that is not just a video" Gibbs said, Vance and the experts nodded approvingly but he ignored them. Dayan looked at him for a long minute "why so you can give them false hope that they will be rescued and their daughter will live"

"I don't give false hope Mr Dayan I tell the truth"

Dayan smirked "well this might be rather amusing to say the least alright, but not now, in 3 hours meet me back here, and maybe the girl will be awake by then and you can give her your false hope"

Gibbs glared at him but out of the corner of his eye he saw Vance nodding vigorously so he accepted, "have fun hunting Gibbs and remember the child dies at noon tomorrow so I would hurry if I were you" and with that the conference ended.

Gibbs stormed out of the room shouting for McGee to follow him ignoring Vance shouting at him to come back. He and McGee went down to Abby's lab, the Goth was determined to do her part in the rescue of the DiNozzo family and she was working furiously, her bin was overflowing with Caff-Pows and there were at least 3 more cups on her desk, she was drinking them non stop and was very hyped up, adding to the stress this did make her rather unpredictable, she was working her machines to death, as soon as one sample finished another one was started. He hadn't been to visit her since the whole thing began both of them had been to busy.

"hey Abs" he said as he entered and the caffeinated scientist swung round "Gibbs" she shrieked and launched herself at him "oh my god have you found them, are they ok, are they hurt, have you got Dayan, have you killed him, please say you killed him"

"Abby" Gibbs said quietly "we haven't found them yet" the scientist seemed to shrink when she heard that and instantly became more moody "but Gibbs, Dayan said Tali only has until tomorrow, McGee told me yesterday when he brought me some evidence, you have to find her Gibbs, she is so young we have already lost her once, we cant loose her again" Gibbs looked at her sadly "we are doing our best Abby I promise you, but we need you to tell us what you have for us"

She instantly snapped back into action "right of course" she turned and walked over to her computer where the video of Tali's kidnap was being shown, "I used this to get the face and licence plate of the man and car that took Tali, I am running them now, but nothing yet" she moved over to the table where evidence was lying all over the place "I used the photos and moulds to limit the search for the car, and I now know it is a van that took her, but the tyres are used for pretty much every type of van so they were not that much help after that, next I looked at Tony and Ziva's stuff" she took a moment before talking "they didn't fire their weapons so they were not over powered, I also ran the blood on Tali's knife and it came back as her own" she took a shaky breath before continuing again

"so my guess is that they had Tali and threatened her to get Tony and Ziva to come quietly" Gibbs picked up the bagged knife "they would never risk Tali's life" he said softly "so you got nothing Abs" the young scientist looked at him sadly "they were very professional Gibbs I am sorry, I am running the video that you have of them hurting Tali" she almost growled those last two words "I will see it there is anything we can get from that, but," she said with a grin "you know that second set of tyre tracks, I might get something from those" both Gibbs and McGee didn't say anything they just stared at her "why didn't you tell us that at the beginning Abby" McGee asked exasperated

"oh you know me Timmy I like to build up to these things, and besides I don't think it is going to be much help, it is from a Jaguar and I know there are a few in DC but this one is very new model so I am going to find out as mush as I can about it to see if it could have anything useful and I have already asked for a list of everyone ho has bought one, but they are being very slow at sending me the lists, maybe if we are lucky it's Dayan's and we can track it" Gibbs walked over to her and kissed her cheek "thanks Abs, you might just be the one to save them" Abby grinned a huge grin and took a huge gulp of the Caff-Pow Gibbs presented her from behind his back.

"did you mean that boss" McGee asked as they left her working furiously again "there is a possibility McGee, if she manages to link that tyre track to Dayan's car we can trace it and you heard me with Dayan, I don't give false hope" McGee, seriously hoped he was right.

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Tony awake when he felt movement in his arms, he opened his eyes expecting to see Ziva moving but she was still asleep, he looked over and to his relief saw that Tali had her eyes open, they were moving around, searching for anymore danger, they came to a rest on his face and slowly she mouthed "hey" Tony stroked her head and whispered "hey" back, he nudged Ziva and she woke with a start but relaxed when she saw her daughter's eyes open "oh Tali" she whispered kissing her, slowly they sat up but left Tali on the ground, Tony had spread his jacket underneath her to prevent any more dirt getting in her back and she shifted on it and then gasped, "shh lie still tateleh" Ziva whispered "ow" she sobbed and Tony stroked her head angry that there was nothing he could do for her.

"How long have I been out" she gasped through the pain, "a while" Tony whispered "that was the worst hour of my life" she sobbed "he whipped my back open over and over again and then he poured something into the cuts and that hurt, it felt like getting lemon juice or something in an open cut, I don't remember much after that, Uncle Gibbs looked so mad"

"what" both Tony and Ziva said together "what about Gibbs" Tali looked at them with pain filled eyes "he made me call him, he said he would hurt you both if I didn't so I had to call him, he got him to arrange a meeting like he did with you, he challenged him, he challenged him to find us before tomorrow, Gibbs accepted and then he beat me in front of Gibbs I have never seen him look so mad" Tony and Ziva looked at each other, they didn't want to have any false hope but if Gibbs was looking for them and he had been challenged and had seen the video of the room he hurt them in, he might just might be able to find them. They didn't say anything to Tali, as the hugged her and comforted her as best they could. They didn't want to raise their hopes to have them crushed but they had that tiny inkling of hope inside of them that maybe, just maybe Gibbs would help them save their daughter.

Hope you liked it, don't know if Gibbs is going to find them in time or not, I have an idea for what is to happen but if you have any suggestions let me know, I am open to any and all.

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