A/N – This was due to be written earlier this week and posted but I couldn't as you may have seen the awful attack on Manchester arena. This is my home town. It's been a surreal week. We have shown the world that these evil people cannot bring us down #westandtogether
Anyway, let's get onto chapter 5 and the search for our Ziva and Jennifer this chapter jumps between the lads out in the field and the girls in MTAC – quite a long chapter as well – I hope you enjoy please leave comments if you do :)
Disclaimer – Not mine just borrowing them
Even after all this time?
Chapter 5
Special Agent Ellie Bishop very rarely felt out of her depth when it came to cases, she had done her fair share being at NCIS and NSA. This one though was hard, even though she never personally met Ziva she knew she meant a lot to the team. When she started at NCIS she asked about the empty desk and who was there before but it was a subject that was avoided even when she asked Abby she would just brush it off. Finally last year Tim finally opened up, even though it was a little he spoke to Ellie about Ziva and explained all about her, about what happened to her whilst at NCIS and spoke about Tony and Ziva, how he travelled half way around the world to avenge her death when they all thought she was dead, and how he shot her supposed boyfriend and the time he took three months out of work to go and find her after the Parsons case, after all this Ellie couldn't believe they were talking about the same man. But after today it all made sense to Ellie.
Sitting back in the chair in MTAC Ellie sighed and was trying to work out a plan in her head to help the boys on the ground, the door opening to MTAC disturbed her thoughts and she watched as Abby came bounding in and sitting next to Ellie.
"So, what's the plan" Abby started, Ellie remained against the back of her chair and just nodded at Abby, watching her friends movements she threw a questioning look her way "Ellie, you ok?" Abby asked
"Abs, what would happen if we don't find Jennifer and Ziva alive?" Ellie asked, she leant forward a little and rubbed her face
"That isn't an option Ellie, we have to"
"But what if? I mean what is this going to do to the team?" Ellie sighed, Abby understood where she was coming from.
"Honestly, I know me and Tim will be devastated but Tony, I mean the guy has called off his own wedding to go and find her, to me that shows that he is still in love with her, he always has been and will always be" Abby finished, looking at Ellie's alarming face she gathered she didn't know about Tony.
"What? The wedding has been called off!" Ellie shouted a little louder than intended, Abby just nodded and shrugged "Well we cannot fail, then can we?" Ellie finished, she scooted forward and started typing on the computer connected to the big screen in MTAC.
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Agent Gibbs and the rest of his team arrived into the small make shift village that had been set up since the drug problem has escalated. They took a seat in the smaller of the tents and waited for the group leader who was leading this mission.
"Agent Gibbs? I am John I am the team leader here" Gibbs just nodded at the man who sat down opposite them he watched as he pulled out a few files and placed them on the small desk that they were all now crowded around.
"So, you are here from NCIS and here regarding the mission navy girl Jennifer yes?" John asked, he placed his reading glasses on and scanned over the notes he had made before the team had arrived.
"also Miss David" Tim replied, John looked up at the agents sat opposite him, he looked confused and back down to his notes.
"Oh, I was just told you are here for Jennifer" John questioned looking at the three agents
"We are here for both" Tim replied with a small smile
"Oh, since when has NCIS been bothered about civilians?" Tim opened his mouth to reply but Tony got there first.
"Well if you did your job properly and protected those girls we wouldn't have to be here now would we? Tony snapped, the little tent office went quiet, Tony felt Gibbs hand on his shoulder a signal to calm down.
"Well we are here to rescue both so tell me what you know" Gibbs snapped sending a warning glare to the older gentleman sat opposite him. John gave a little nod and placed a file out in front of the three men
"They went missing nearly three days ago now, we believe that they will still be alive, even though these drug cartels don't like us, they will try and warn us to back away and cause us issues but they have never killed us or even kidnapped us, so these two missing girls it's a strange one" John finished he placed down a few maps as well "This is where they went missing, where the burnt out convoy was, we tracked tyre tracks for about a mile west and then we lost them" John explained
"We need to establish communication with our team, do you have somewhere here that we can do that?" Tim asked, John nodded and stood up and signalled for the guys to follow him.
Arriving into another small tent they saw computers and screens with people tapping away, it was a little surreal that a UN charity had all this technology, for Tim though it was heaven.
"Set up at this one, we can establish a connection to your team" John nodded, Tim instantly took charge and sat at an empty computer, he tapped away for a little while and finally managed to bring up a connection to the NCIS data base, he logged onto his own account and requested a connection to MTAC.
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Abby and Ellie jumped a little as a notification came through on the computer, it was a request for a live feed from a 'Timothy. ' Ellie tapped a little and moments later his face appeared on the big screen. Ellie stood up from her chair along with Abby and walked out to look at the screen.
"Abs, Ellie, hey" Tim smiled
"Hey Tim, you all ok?" Just as she asked the other two agents appeared in the screen.
"Any news Bishop?" Gibbs asked, Ellie nodded and went back to the computer, she brought some files up and sent the link over to Tim so he could follow what she was talking about.
"Well since you've left I have exhausted all possible connections and contacts that I have across the DEA and NSA and I think I may have found something useful, on the night they were took, I have satellite footage of a van heading west from a burning area, I presume it's the burnt out convoy, the van heads west for around a mile and stops, two people get out for around 5 minutes and then they carry on for another mile or so before I lose the coverage" Bishop took a breath and looked at her co-workers.
"Anything else?" Gibbs sighed, Abby stood waved a little and jumped on the spot
"Well since McGee is not here I have done his job, I have tracked Maria Reynosa, for a wealthy drug cartel she isn't half stupid, she made a call yesterday into the high security prison that is holding Alejandro, they had a ten minute call, NSA are currently decrypting the call for us, I have though tracked her movements as late as 2am this morning, she made a bank transfer to a corporate company called 'Mesas Autenticas' it's a handmade table company that established thanks to non-other than Alejandro and Paloma, we think it was a cover because their business accounts are all fake for tax purposes, the location of the warehouse linked to this company is three miles east of Barillas, I have a feeling they may have taken the girls there Gibbs" Abby finished she watched as her three friends all gave her a small smile
"Send us what you know Abs" Gibbs nodded, Abby saluted and the video feed shut off. Turning to Ellie with a big smile the girls sat back down and carried on tracing what they could do to help the boys.
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Tony walked out the small tent into the Mexican heat and took a few deep breaths, they had a lead and it was a good one. He felt a little over whelmed, at the end of all this and they did find them both it will be first time he saw Ziva after two and half years, was he readt? What would he say to her? He had always played out their next meeting in his head, it would be like a film running in the rain down the road, falling into each other's arms and crying declaring their love to each other. Tony shook his head and told himself to grow up.
"Dinozzo, come on, Abs has sent us the last known location of Maria" Gibbs shouted, Tony turned a little and nodded at his boss. The three agents climbed into the awaiting car and started to head away from the camp and towards the Guatemalan boarder.
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It had been a few hours since their last contact with the boys down on the ground, Ellie and Abby were still stuck in MTAC tracing what they could, searching on who they could, they were trying to do anything just to get the boys closer to Jennifer and Ziva. An email popped up on Ellie's computer, opening the email she quickly scanned and started to bounce on her chair.
"Abby, NSA have decrypted the call" Ellie shouted, Abby wheeled herself to where Ellie was sitting
Bishop,
We have worked out the call that was made from Maria to Alejandro, basically they talked in code, we have established some information though, he mentioned the visit from the father killer, Maria mentioned the daughter of the father killer, also about a warehouse of tables that is keeping the daughter and friend, there is a mention of if you throw a table heavy enough it will sink to the bottom of the river – I think this is implies about a plan to get rid of the girls. Also, Alejandro warns Maria not to open the door to the man that killed her uncle.
That's all we have hope this helps Ellie
Agent P x
"Forward this to Tim now, this is proof they are holding the girls there, I have traced Maria's movements she has been in and out of that warehouse the last two days, she has to be there" Abby started to tap away on Ellie's computer, "I will phone Gibbs" Ellie pulled her phone out and scrolled to Gibb's number, ringing a few times Gibbs finally answered
"Yeh Gibbs"
"Hey Gibbs, NSA have got back to me, they have information from the call Abby is emailing Tim now with a copy of the email but looks like the girls are at that warehouse" Ellie started
"What about Maria"
"Abby has traced her to that warehouse the last two days she hasn't been there today but she has been there"
"Great work you two keep me updated" Gibbs hung up and Ellie gave a little smile towards Abby.
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"McGee, email over from Ellie in regard to the NSA" Gibbs nodded at his younger agent, pulling his phone out he pulled the email up and quickly scanned it. His face fell a little towards to the end of the email. "Words McGee" Gibbs snapped
"Uh Boss, by the sounds of it the girls are at the warehouse but it seems there is a plan" Tim trailed off looking towards Tony who raised his eyes at Tim "They talk about throwing them into the river" Tim finished, Tony sucked in a deep breath and looked down. Gibbs noticed this action and pulled the phone off Tim, He scanned the email himself and understood what Tim was saying. He chucked the phone back at Tim and turned towards the driver
"Put your food down we need to get there now" Gibbs snapped, the car jerked into life and started at a faster pace towards the town of Barillas.
"Boss…" Tony looked over at his boss who remained emotionless
"Dinozzo, we will find her, we have done it before and we will do it again now snap out of it I need you" Gibbs lightly hit the back of his head and smiled a little.
After two hours the team finally arrived at the town on Barillas, they pulled up to the burnt out car, the bodies had now been moved and locals were milling around trying to find out what was going on. Tony and Tim climbed out the car and examined briefly the wreckage, looking around for any clues or any sign that would help them. Tony bent down as something caught his eye, it was shining, picking it up he breathed in a little and stared what was in his hands, he traced his fingers along the golf chain down to the star of david hanging off it.
"Is that..?" Tim started, Tony looked up and nodded, he stood up and looked at Tim
"That is Ziva's" Tony mumbled, he reached into his own pocked of his pants and pulled out an exact match to the one in his hands.
"We are going to find her Tony and you are going to hand that back to her you hear me?" Tim patted his friends back and guided him back to the car where Gibbs was waiting for them. Tony placed both of the necklaces in his pocket and climbed into the car.
"We have just had confirmation from someone from the Gulf Cartel, Maria is at the warehouse" Gibbs stated, the car pulled away once again heading towards the warehouse and hopefully Ziva and Jennifer.
A/N – We get to see Ziva in the next chapter! But are we going to be in time? Anyway hope you all enjoy this chapter – I am not quite sure! Hopefully next one will be up soon.
Happy Sunday
Nat x