Hi thanks for the reviews I will update sooner if I get a lot more of them quickly, probably only going to be a couple more chapters now, then I will start the sequel, but have to finish my other stories as well, my bones sequel kind of got abandoned cus I got so into this story and my Castle story. So I might have to update that one first – will keep you all posted

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Chapter 17 –

Tony watched his family, Ziva had exhausted finally fallen asleep her head resting on her lap, as was Tali's, his daughter hadn't fallen asleep yet, she kept shifting on his jacket making little hissing noises of pain, Ziva was holding her hand and she obviously didn't want to wake her mother so she tried not to move around to much.

Tony watched her as she whimpered as she tried to haul herself up into a more comfortable position; he very carefully put his hands under her arms and helped her lift herself, she pulled herself with his help, carefully avoiding waking her mother onto his lap once again "you should sleep" he told her gently "conserve your energy for tomorrow" she shook her head weakly "I can't" she said "my back hurts to bad" he looked at her back laid open by long slices, he looked at the worst one, it stretched from her left shoulder to her right hip, slicing her back clean open, all along it there were smaller cuts, that just stretched from one side of her back to the other, they were red and shiny, blood still dribbling out of them, he could almost see the layer of muscle beneath that had also been cut open.

He rubbed her shoulder, not wanting to touch her back, she closed her eyes and leaned against him wearily "I am sorry Tali" he whispered, she opened her eyes to stare at him confused before closing them, to exhausted "why" she asked "you tell mom not to be sorry and that this is not her fault, why is it you fault, I don't think either of you is to blame", he kissed the top of her head "I am sorry because as your father I am meant to protect you from danger like this and now you and I and your mother are in danger and there is nothing I can do to protect you" he sighed "well I never thought this would be how I would die" Tali snuggled into him "how did you think it would end" she asked, he had to think about that.

"Well I thought maybe of old age, but I thought I would be alone I never thought I would be lucky enough to have a wife and a beautiful daughter, or I would go out fighting, I used to imagine myself dying protecting the president of the United States or something like that or dying saving hundreds of people, I would die a hero or something" he smiled at her "now I see myself dying to save you and your mother, but I know I cant and it kills me Tali, I want you to get out of here so bad, you are to young to die" Tali remained quiet for a minute, before saying "wasn't that a movie, 'never to young to die" Tony laughed "yeah it was 1986, not a bad film actually ninja, I think we have just proved you are definitely mine" Tali gave a small giggle "and daddy" "mmm"

"You will always be my hero"

Tony felt tears in his eyes when she said that, he lifted one hand to try and wipe them away and hide how much that actually meant to him, hearing his daughter tell him that he was her hero. He hugged her tightly, but gently, praying for some sort of miracle to get them out of here.

XOXOXOXOXO

Gibbs was in MTAC 45 minutes early with McGee, Vance arrived with 15 minutes to spare and didn't seem surprised to find them here already, his Kidnap and Ransom specialists followed him in and they took seats out of sight after grabbing a set of headphones each, Vance walked over to Gibbs and looked at him, "I know how you must feel Gibbs but if you don't rescue them, don't beat yourself up about it ok, it is still a very slim chance that we will get them back ok" Gibbs looked at him "they will survive" he said but everyone could see that he was worried that they wouldn't, if one died then the strong bond of the family wound be broken and the structure would collapse, even if they get Tony and Ziva back, they would not have the original family back, Ziva would never get over seeing her daughter be murdered and being told that to was her fault, she would turn away from Tony in an effort of protecting anything from happening to him. And Tony would be heartbroken, he would be so crushed over losing Tali, and if Ziva left to protect him he wouldn't be able to survive, he loved Ziva to much anyone could see that.

If he didn't get the whole family back then he would loose them all anyway. He had to get to them before tomorrow when Tali would be killed, he was pretty certain that Dayan was telling the truth when he said that Tali would die and he had already proved that he had no problem hurting children so why would he have a problem killing them.

He was pulled back into reality by the sound of a conference coming in; he nodded to McGee who accepted it and Dayan appeared on the large screen in front of them;

"Hello Agent Gibbs how is your search going"

"Cut the crap I want to talk to them" Gibbs said angrily and Dayan smiled

"Very well, as promised" he turned and left the room, and the image of the DiNozzos appeared filling the whole screen. Ziva was curled up awake next to Tony who had Tali on his lap, Gibbs could now see her back and it shocked him how anyone could be so cold hearted to a child, she was covered in blood and she would obviously be in an awful lot of pain, Tony seemed to be trying to reassure her, her eyes were closed, suddenly all of their heads snapped up and audio kicked in as the door opened. Dayan entered and Gibbs saw Tony push Tali behind him and Ziva "shalom my friends" Dayan said "don't worry I am not here to hurt you today, as a matter of face I am here because of your friend Gibbs"

Gibbs saw the confusion on their faces and then he heard Dayan say "Gibbs if you are going to talk to them why don't you start" he then left the room locking it behind him

Gibbs looked at his boos who nodded again and then he called out "DiNozzos can you hear me"

"Boss" Tony asked incredulously "yeah Tony it's me are you ok"

"I am fine boss but you have to find us soon, he is going to kill Tali tomorrow, you have to stop him"

Gibbs felt his heart break, Tony was almost begging him to save his daughter, he didn't care about himself he just wanted his daughter to be safe,

"We have the entire agency looking for you Tony don't worry,"

He looked at Ziva lying in Tony's arms "are you ok Ziver" he asked "I am fine Gibbs do not worry about me just find Tali please" she begged

Finally he looked at Tali, she already looked like she was on deaths door, she was breathing heavily and her eyes were half closed "Tali" he said softly and she opened her eyes to look around "how are you feeling sweetheart" she closed her eyes before responding "this is a bit of Déjà vu" she said and he remembered asking her that very same question in the hospital she smiled weakly and then gave the same response "Ok my back hurts like hell" he smiled back and said "I know but it will get better" she opened her eyes and looked around "how can you say that, there is no time for it to get better" "hey don't give up hope Rule 8 kiddo" "never take anything for granted" Tali recited. With a smile Gibbs nodded and then remembered that they couldn't see him "yeah so just because everything looks real bad, doesn't mean it is going to end up bad remember that sweetheart"

He was relieved to see the child smile then, not a weak little ok, I am just going to agree with you smile, a proper I actually believe it smile, "don't let things get you down, that goes for all of you, never ever give up hope I might make that rule 50 something, what am I on now" he asked, Tali's grin widened "I think it is 52 uncle Gibbs" he smiled "good girl at least I know that someone track of them all"

They head the sound of the door opening "Hey" Gibbs said "DiNozzos" they all looked around for where his voice was coming from "yes boss" "don't forget Rule 15" he said, it was Ziva who whispered the answer to that rule "always work as a team" then Dayan entered and turned to smile at the camera and his team all looked up and saw it, Gibbs could see Ziva staring at him with pleading eyes begging him to come and find her Tali.

"Satisfied now Agent Gibbs" Dayan asked and Gibbs responded angrily "I won't be satisfied until you are lying dead on a slab down in autopsy and they are all safe in the bullpen" "then Agent Gibbs I am afraid to say that you will never be satisfied" he waved at the camera "say goodbye everyone, especially you miss Talia because you will never hear from your uncle again I am afraid" he called.

Gibbs took one last look at his team the way they were, together and bonded and at Tali, the child he had grown so attached to, and like Kelly he was going to loose, she was still in her fathers arms, gazing at the camera that they had only just recently noticed and once again her beautiful golden eyes gaze held him in place, trapping him, making him feel terrible that he couldn't save her, her eyes seemed to have a power over him that she could not control. And then Dayan made the slashing motion and the connection was lost.

Gibbs staggered backwards into a chair and put his head in his hands groaning, he hoped that he hadn't just given them all false hope, he wanted so bad to get them all home safe, but now he had less than 24 hours to find them and they were no closer to finding them than they originally were, he looked over in time to see Vance leave MTAC and he followed to hear him shout at the agency "that family now has less then 24 hours, so you had better bring me something, of that child is going to die, and noon tomorrow" the agency began to run around in desperation all of them not frantic as they realised how little time that they now had. McGee came out holding a disk with the video of the last call on it "I'll go give this to Abby" he said, he sounded rather dazed as though he had just realised that he may have just seem his team mates and their little girl for the last time. "Stay with her and see if she needs any help" Gibbs called and then slowly made his way to his desk feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Dayan's men all moved forward and Tony and Ziva felt themselves getting grabbed and pulled backwards they fought but they could not escape, Tali was left on the ground, gasping in pain as the sudden movement of her being jerked off of her fathers lap, pained her back, Dayan bent towards her "are you afraid my darling" he asked with a small smile on his face, Tali didn't answer she just stayed where she was her head bent as she tried not to show her pain.

Dayan grabbed a handful of her hear and dragged her up ignoring her cries, Tony could see Tali's bare feet struggling to touch the floor as he lifter her to his level "answer me child" he snarled "are you afraid" Tali stared into his eyes before replying with as much venom as she could "I am not afraid to die"

A small smile appeared on Dayan's face and he threw her to the ground, "what if is wasn't quick" he said and there was almost excitement in his voice and he swung his leg back before planting it in Tali's side, Tali cried out curling up in agony "what if I started now, and I kept going until tomorrow at noon, it would be the most painful death ever" he raised his foot and then brought it down hard on Tali's ankle.

There was a loud crack and Tali screamed, Tony and Ziva both thrashed "no" Ziva screamed "please no stop please don't hurt her" but Dayan ignored her, he kicked her now broken ankle and Tali howled again tears trickling down her cheeks.

"but what if I wasn't hurting you, it works for your mother" he smiled and then pulled out a gun and pressed it against Tony's forehead, both Tali and Ziva cried out "no" and Tali dragged herself round her face white in pain. "please" she sobbed "no don't hurt him, Bevakasha" (please) he laughed loudly "you and your mother are very similar tateleh" "please" Tali sobbed "I beg of you" Dayan considered her for a minute and twisted the gun pressing it harder against Tony's scull, Tony didn't move, he barely breathed as he waited for his life to either end or be spared.

Dayan slowly put the gun away, he stared at Tali who looked at him tear streaks standing out on her dirty face, and then he turned and hit Tony so hard that his guards released him as he fell to the floor, he hit his head hard on the stone floor and remained down dazed, groaning, he heard Tali scream "no please" and through his heavy eyelids he saw her crouched on the floor, hands up pressing against her mouth fists clenched trembling, he could see Ziva too struggling tears pouring down her cheeks.

Tali cried out as Dayan struck her father, hard, she didn't want anything to happen to him, she loved him to much, "no please" she screamed as Dayan made to hurt him again, Dayan stopped and turned to face her "are you afraid yet tateleh" he asked and Tali nodded eyes soaked with tears "good" he said and he moved over to her and pulled her to her feet smiling when she was forced to put weight on her broken ankle and she cried out again, he laughed and then swung her round so her back could be seen, Tony appeared to be coming round now, because he moved to protect Tali and was grabbed by the guards once again, head still throbbing he looked at his daughters back.

Dayan took hold of her shoulder and leaned in towards her "believe me child I am going to enjoy tomorrow when I make you die a very long and very painful death" he dug his fingernails into the top of the long cut that went from shoulder to hip and Tali began to cry in earnest, she was so white with pain by now, it looked like she would collapse any second now.

Dayan threw her to the ground and then beckoned to his men and he left giving Tali's broken ankle another kick as he left. The moment he was gone Tony and Ziva crawled over to her, she was crying as Tony touched her shoulder, she looked round and then flung herself at him crying harder "hey hey it's ok ninja I'm fine" Tony whispered holding her tightly he looked at Ziva who suddenly fell on him to sobbing as well, "hey it's going to be ok" he breathed "we are going to get through this together, as a team"

But his team mates knew the truth and so did he, so he let them cry until they could cry no more and they stayed together, savouring the last few moments that they might have together in this life.

Hope you like it, next time, judgement day, who will survive?

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