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NCIS
Lexi could feel herself struggling to breathe. The sounds from before had completely gone away. All she knew to do was to take shallow breaths only when necessary. She was scared, but had watched Tony enough over the months since her mother died enough to know that it was all about making it through.
Her family was doing their part, now it was her turn to do hers. She had never said a word about Ziva, knowing that her dad really did love her. It was in his eyes every time he saw her enter the room, in the tone when he spoke of her, in the way he called her 'sweet cheeks' when he thought his daughter wasn't paying attention.
She could imagine her mom's gentle voice, "Stay strong Alexis. Someone's coming. Just stay calm baby. Breathe in. Breathe out. In. Out. You'll be okay."
She was getting hot too, really hot. She was probably running a fever from best guess.
Her leg throbbed, pulsing from the still-untreated wound. Just as her body begged to be hydrated and fed.
Lexi knew her body was weakening, as she felt her eyelids droop slowly until her world was black.
NCIS
Tony watched as McGee and Gibbs took off to chase the kidnapper, which would normally be his job. McGee and he had arrived a minute or so after their Boss.
Tony inspected the building, room by room, closet by closet. His daughter was nowhere to be found. He was about to leave, when he found her broken phone crushed on the floor.
She had been in this room.
"She was here, wasn't she?" A familiar voice said behind him.
"You shouldn't be here Ziva."
"You did not think I could stand still while you were searching for your daughter?" She spoke gently, "We should check outside, maybe the car, yes?"
Tony grabbed Ziva's hand, "Stay behind me, Ziva." With that, he pulled out his gun, and went back outside.
The kidnapper wouldn't have left her out in the open, so that left the car. Once Tony and Ziva cleared the inside, Ziva went to picking the trunk's lock.
She opened it slowly, hoping she could prepare Tony if she needed. If this was a Mossad operation, they would've already found out where she was and disposed of the girl. It was all in the training.
The only way that it would not be would be if her father had contracted an assassin, so as to keep his name clean, and protect the reputation of Mossad.
Sure enough, Tony's daughter laid unconscious hands bound. Ziva saw blood drying and clotting in a leg wound that she knew from experience had been painful.
Overall though, she was okay. She was breathing, barely. "Tony she's okay, but I can't pick her up." Her pregnancy prevented her from even helping here.
"Lexi." Tony said, trying to waken his daughter. He began the rescue breathing, trying desperately to get her to open her beautiful green eyes, just long enough for him to see he was okay.
Tony saw his partner working to control the bleeding in her leg.
NCIS
"NCIS, freeze dirt bag." Gibbs shouted. The man stopped, and turned to point his gun at Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
"Give me a reason to shoot you." Gibbs responded to the unvoiced threat, seeing Tim coming up behind the man, gun at ready.
The suspect didn't seem to have an accomplice, but Gibbs and McGee knew better than to let their guard down.
McGee stood behind the kidnapper, "You're surrounded. There is no way out. Drop your weapon." McGee only prayed that the girl he'd come to love as a niece would be okay. Sarah would kill him if Lexi wasn't okay for their next outing.
Lexi had told him that Sarah was the only friend she had made close to her age. Most of the kids at her school hadn't taken well to her. If, no once, once Lexi got through this, he was going to help her change that.
The kidnapper pointed the gun directly at Gibbs, starting to pull the trigger back. Tim acted quickly, not even second-guessing himself as he shot three bullets through into his heart cavity.
The man fell to the ground, dead before he hit the ground. It was then that McGee realized that McGee had done the same as he had.
"There is one problem, Boss. If this guy is after Ziva, we need to make sure no one else is after her, Boss."
"One problem at a time McGee." The silver-haired man yelled over the sirens, opening his phone to call Ducky and Palmer to tell them to meet them at Bethesda.
McGee did the same, pushing the number one on his speed dial to inform Abby Scioto.
As they walked back toward the abandoned building and car, Gibbs called Director Vance to get another team to run the scene.
NCIS
Tony kept breathing for his daughter. He knew if he were Kate, he'd have said a prayer, but he wasn't Kate.
So Tony just kept on trying to breathe for the daughter he barely knew.
Ziva brought his attention to the sirens, "Tony, the medics are coming."
He heard Gibbs briefing Toothpick, and watched as his Probie stared at his bleeding and barely breathing daughter.
His father's voice pounded in his head, DiNozzo men don't cry. He tried to force down the tears, be a man. Ziva had once told him to do that. Suck it up and deal with the situation at hand.
The tears fell freely though at the very moment a small voice made its way to his ears, "Daddy?"
He knew it would be all right. His daughter was breathing and talking. He smiled, catching a ghost of a smile in Ziva's eyes.
The rest of the family would meet them at the hospital.
Gibbs voice cut through, "DiNozzo. With Lexi. Ziva, I gave you a direct order. McGee, drive Ziva to the hospital and don't let her out of your sight. We don't know this is over."
The familiarity brought them all back to reality and they quickly reverted into their normal roles, following the Boss's lead.