Chapter 5

"We need to tell them how much danger we could be in..." I say memories are returning...

"We're in danger?" I turn around and I see that Tony has been standing behind me. From the look on his face he has heard everything.

"Tony! How long have you been there?" I say

"I'll repeat...we're in DANGER! How big a danger? Why didn't you tell us?" Tony starts to shout which catches McGee and Gibbs' attention and they come and stand by Tony.

"Look Tony, I'm sure that Ziva has a good enough reason to not have told us this-" McGee says

"Shut up McGee."

"Actually Tony I do have a good enough reason" I say looking at the floor

"Let's hear it David" Gibbs says anger rising in his voice.

"I did not tell you as I...we thought that they were dead. Or at least we thought that their leader was dead" I say. You could hear a pin drop. "Their leader was my brother Ari. He was my brother but he was against all that Torchwood stood for. He joined a kind of terrorist group called The Pink Shoulder"

"It sounds much more menacing in Hebrew" Jack interrupts

"Thank you for your input Captain"

"Any time, any time..."

"As i was saying...the pink shoulder would set up fake crime scenes so that they could gather more information on us. Follow us back to the hub things like that. We just got used to it. We even had a dummy base entrance fitted..."I look down at the floor to try and stop the flow of tears which are about to fall "One day the crime scene that they set up was booby trapped...as soon as Nick touched the body a gas started to seep out of the drain vent...we tried to run away but it was too late...when I woke up I was tied to the ceiling in a small room with Jack." I say feeling extremely sorry for myself.

"Where were the others?" Tony says his eyes are starting to fill with tears as well. He already knows the answer.

"They were in a connecting room" Jack says. He can tell that if I say anymore the tears won't stop. "They only laid a finger on us once...and that was to slap Ziva when she got too cocky once...the way that they tortured us was we could hear every punch, every slap and every scream that came from the connecting room. One day the screaming stopped. We knew that they were dead." Jack says openly crying. He puts an affectionate arm around me.

"Why were you two separated off from the others?" Tony says the look of shock obvious in his face.

"We were more valuable that way" I say

"Ziva you don't have to tell them if you dont want to...I'll do it for you!"

"No Jack they need to know! We were separated as we were more valuable that way. The daughter of the then deputy director and the granddaughter of the then director of Mossad and the world's only immortal man were more valuable alive than dead. It hurt Jack and I most as the people in the connecting room were family. Jack was in love with Ianto and I was married to Nick" I say again letting my tears fall "By the time we got rescued I was seriously malnourished and depressed. The only thing that made me go on was that I needed to be strong for Sarah and Nick would be sad if he knew that I couldn't face looking at her as she looked so much like him."

"Ziva I'm so sorry" McGee says what the rest of the team are thinking

"Let's catch these evil people before they hurt any more of us" Jack says "Back to work people!"

The rest of the team go back to their desks in silence and get to work on the CCTV footage of the scene.

I begin to leave but Jack stops me.

"Ziva. Go and collect Sarah, the only place that's safe for her now is to be here with you. Take Tony with you"

"Yes Jack " They are the only words that I can say.

AN Sorry about the very depressing chapter and the long time before the update! I hope you are enjoying it and thank you for all of the alerts/favourite story/author alerts! It makes me happy