I own nothing just so you know.

You're reviews, alert, and favorites are appreciated. I'm glad to know that you are happy with this story.

NCIS

Tony DiNozzo walked down the street, shock written on his face. He had it from two sources. His little Lexi was gone, and for once Tony had no idea what to do. There were no clues at the crime scene. He'd checked it over three more times after he found out his daughter was missing.

Now, DiNozzo was barely of the fact that he was walking toward the Navy Yard. Lost in his shock and fear, he missed the voice call after him from his own car, until Ziva had parked it and grabbed onto his shoulders.

She turned him around to face her, only to find dried tears and puffy red eyes. Ziva asked gently, "Where are you going Tony?"

Ziva had heard the despair in Tony's voice in the moment he put the phone down. She knew Gibbs would be pissed for leaving her 'safe house' to go find Tony, but it was something she had to do. She had a 'drowning' feeling in her stomach about this.

"You shouldn't be here, Ziva. I'm going to the Navy Yard, and I'm going to find and kill whoever took my…" Tony said, anger sliding to the surface more as he continued onward.

Ziva steered her boyfriend toward the passenger seat of the car and drove them both to the Navy Yard in silence. Neither really knew what to say or do here. Tony was the first to open his mouth, as they stepped onto the elevator.

"Zee, you don't need to be here. Who knows where your father is looking for you, and I don't want you hurt."

"I cannot sit and do nothing. I can take care of myself, Tony." Ziva answered

NCIS

Gibbs walked out of the hospital, finally assured that Abby was okay. He had practically dragged McGee away from Abby, but he needed someone to help with finding Lexi.

Gibbs wasn't quite sure that Tony could stay level headed about this.

Ten minutes and six ran red lights later; Gibbs and McGee stepped out of the elevator. Immediately, Jethro told McGee to get to work.

Meanwhile, he motioned for Tony and Ziva to follow him up to the Director's office, knowing he had no choice now but to involve Vance.

He was down to one fairly okay agent, no forensic scientists, and because Ducky was taking his mother to see her sister in Scotland, Palmer was the acting ME.

This whole situation could quickly turn into a disaster with a scared child at risk.

NCIS

Lexi woke to a black, empty room. Once the man realized that she was sending him in circles with Ziva's name, he decided the young girl needed to be punished.

For once in her life, Lexi was glad that her step-father had been such a violent person, because it prepared her a little for the man's violent behavior.

The man had yet to even ask her about her cell phone, but she had yet to be able to get a signal. She tried every time he walked out the room.

Once again, she pulled out the phone, turning it back on. Lexi had been turning it off to conserve the battery.

Lexi used her arms to pull herself around the room, pushing herself through the pain. She had almost made it all the way around the room when she got a single bar.

Lexi pressed her dad's speed dial. She hated talking on the phone, and knew this was going to be hard, but she had to try.

It hadn't even rung two times, when she started hearing the broken sounds that meant her dad was saying something.

"Daddy, they want me to say where Ziva is."

Her father's voice came through again, "Le...kee…one…unc…prob…an…ace…call."

It took her a few seconds to make something out of the garbled syllables. She came up with something along the lines of Lexi, keep on, Uncle Probie can trace call.

"I'm leaving it on dad."

"Are…okay?"

"I'm scared dad. I'm really scared."

"I'll….there…Gibbs."

"They're after Ziva dad. You have to protect her."

"Will…Ziva…Prob…got…coming…"

Lexi would be happy except that she looked up to find the man standing angrily in the door.

NCIS

Gibbs had left Vance's office only for his phone to ring. Ziva and Tony headed down to their desks. Vance had agreed to temporarily play interference between NCIS and Mossad over Ziva, and that gave him someone else to help, even if there was no way he was letting her into the field.

He opened the phone to hear Abby's concerned voice, "Gibbs, Gibbs, I remembered I was talking to Lexi and you were right Gibbs. I think she's at least partially deaf. She was staring at my lips the entire time I spoke, just like my mom and dad always did. Gibbs, she's got to be scared. So scared. You've got to find her Gibbs."

"Abs, I'll find her. She'll be okay. I promise. The best thing you could do for her right now is to feel better." Gibbs answered.

With that, he closed the phone, hearing McGee and DiNozzo scream up to him. McGee had apparently gotten a trace on Lexi's phone.

They had already grabbed their gear, and DiNozzo was holding the elevator, but he noticed that Ziva had geared up as well, about the same moment that Tony realized it.

Simultaneously, Gibbs, and Tony told, "Ziva, stay here."

Ziva David watched the door behind McGee, Tony, and Gibbs

NCIS

Alexis fought as hard as she could as the man drug her outside by her throbbing leg, from the knife the man used to stab her in the leg in frustration at her not telling him where Ziva was.

Her hands and legs were both tied with a chain and her phone had been destroyed. Alexis was drug out to the road and seconds later left unceremoniously next to a car for just long enough for the man to open the trunk.

She felt herself being hefted upward and struggled awkwardly trying to get out of the man's grasp. Nothing worked though, as she was stuffed into the trunk like a bag of luggage.

Almost immediately, the trunk latch closed, but not before her eyes caught her Uncle Gibbs' as he drove frantically toward the man's car.

She felt the rattle of the engine as it started before being thrown against the other side of the trunks. Lexi could only imagine the shrill sound of tires screeched as he ran from Gibbs.

That didn't matter though. Gibbs had found her. Her dad and Uncle Timmy wouldn't be much farther behind, if they weren't in the car with him.

She smiled, working on controlling her breathing.

She was safe.

Her dad was coming.

Her family was coming.