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NCIS HQ WASHINGTON DC
FRONT GATE ENTRANCE
1820 ZULU
"Boss are you ok?" Tony bellowed as he skidded to a halt where Gibbs was laying on his stomach.
"Ack, I feel like I was hit by a bus!" Gibbs moaned as he rolled onto his back, revealing the multiple cuts and scratches on his face, arms and hands to the small huddled group around him.
"Nope just a car boss," Tony quipped back with a huge smile on his face.
Just then the shrill call of Gibbs' mobile interrupted the silence that had fallen over the quartet, as they assessed the damage to the surrounding area. "Gibbs," he mumbled, "WHAT! Were coming just stay in your office Jen," without waiting for a reply he hung up the phone and started to run towards the buildings entrance, "Hymat is in the building he's after Ahelia, this whole thing was just a diversion," he threw over his shoulder not once slowing down his pace to check if his team were following.
NCIS HQ WASHINGTON DC
BULL PEN
1830 ZULU
Gibbs carefully opened the stair well doors just enough for Tony and McGee to sneak through with their weapons drawn and raised. Taking a quick scan of the bull pen they could see Hymat weaving in and out of the desks as he made his way towards Ahelia who was now trapped in the corner of the room.
Gibbs silently signaled to Tony and McGee, and quickly but quietly circled around their suspect. When all three were in position they raised their weapons and bellowed simultainiously, "NCIS, PUT THE GUN DOWN."
Lunging at the last moment he grabbed Ahelia and spun her around so he could use her as a shield. With one hand wrapped around her tiny throat, and the other holding his weapon, he continuously darted his gun back and forth between the three agents. Slowly he started to edge towards the emergency exit door.
As they passed close to a desk Ahelia noticed that sitting on the table was a letter opener. Taking a peak at Hymat she carefully reached out and grabbed the sharp item, making sure she had a firm grasp on the handle, she then swung her hand back and rammed the object into his thigh.
Without thinking Hymat dropped the gun and his hold on her throat and grasped at the protruding metal stuck in his thigh, unsure on if he should pull it out or leave it in. As soon as he had released his hold on her, Ahelia ran to where she could see Abby and immediately hid behind her gothic friend.
"Don't even think about it," Gibbs growled as he watched Hymat edging towards his discarded weapon.
Tony quickly cuffed Hymat and he and McGee took him straight to the interrogation room, "I'll be down in a minute DiNozzo, I'm going to check on Ahelia," he stated as he rushed over to the little girl.
"Are you ok?" he questioned as he crouched in front of her, his hands were thoroughly checking her over for any injuries.
She allowed a small smile, "I am fine, it was just a little scary, but I am fine now, yes?" she asked as she bit her lower lip.
"Yeah, you are safe now Ahelia," he murmured. Cupping her cheeks with his hands he delicately placed a kiss on her forehead and drew her into his arms, "your safe now princess," he whispered again, wanting to reassure her just as much as him that she would be ok.
NCIS HQ WASHINGTON DC
INTERRORGATION ROOM
1915 ZULU
"Now, for the last time," Gibbs said as he sat down at the table in front of Hymat. "Where is Ziva David?" he asked.
"I don't know what you are talking about!" Hymat stated.
"Don't give me that, you may as well tell me where she is as your already going away for a long, long time."
"You have nothing to hold me with," smirked Hymat.
"That's were your wrong. We have enough evidence to charge you with, two counts of kidnapping one being of a Mossad Officer, one count of attempted kidnapping. One count of causing grievous bodily harm, two counts of taking hostages in a Federal building, two counts of destruction to Federal property, attempted murder on three federal Agents, and I can go on. Now, where is Officer David?" Hymat folded his arms across his chest and looked away from Gibbs.
Gibbs had had enough, he had been interrogating Hymat for the last half an hour and still hadn't found the location of Ziva. Banging his fist down on the wooden table he made Hymat jump in his chair. Storming around the desk to the suspects side he grabbed him by the throat and pushed him up against the wall. Grasping his weapon from it's holster he primed it and held it to Hymats temple. "Now, I'll give you a choice. You can answer my questions or I'll make you, understand?" he looked at the two way mirror and signaled to Tony and McGee who were watching. A few minutes late Tony walked in holding a small box. Gibbs smiled as he maneuvered Hymat back around to his seat while Tony opened the case and pulled out a pair of pliers and a knife. "I think you have an idea on how this works," he nodded to Tony and he grabbed one of their suspects hands while Gibbs placed the pliers near the mans fingers.
"Wait," Hymat yelled as his eyes darted from Gibbs to the pliers hovering near his finger tips. "T-There is an old abandoned ware house just north of Olney on Georgia Avenue, that's where you will find her."
Gibbs turned to Tony, "Tell the Director to bring up the satellite imagery in MTAC, she'll need to be our eyes until we get there. I don't want them moving Ziva before I deal with Rhani." He turned back to Hymat, "If I find out that you have lied to me, I wont just stop at your finger nails," he paused. "Your toe nails and teeth will follow!"
ABANDONED WARE HOUSE
GEORGIA AVENUE, OLNEY
1930 ZULU
When Ziva awoke she realised that she was laying on an old mattress. Her third interrogation had taken place only two hours ago and Rhani still didn't have the information that he needed. Carefully she tried to open her eyes so she could investigate her surroundings, but her left was completely shut due to the swelling caused by Rhani's new attempt at forcing her to talk. Her right wasn't much better but at least she could see out of it. Stifling a groan she delicately stretched out her tired and aching muscles. Without thinking she flexed her hands and quickly regretted the action as a throbbing pain quickly coursed through her finger tips. Trying to ease the pain by taking deep breaths she slowly stood up from the floor and shuffled over to the open door to her room. Obviously Rhani had thought she would have been out for longer.
She had only gone about twenty meters when she came across two barrels that had wires and other components attached to them. Looking around at her surroundings, she saw for the first time all the crates that were marked with either Hydrogen Peroxide or Acetone. She didn't know that they were manufacturing bombs but suddenly all the questions that Rhani had been interrogating her for, now made sense. He wanted to assassinate the Israeli President, the Israeli Prime Minister and the American President.
Picking up a screw driver and some other tools from a table near by, she carefully eased the cover off one of the control panels. Taking note of the contents she pulled out 6 wires. She sighed when she saw they were all red. Struggling to hold a pair of pliers due to her painful fingers she gently split the protective coating off them. Finally she finished and had exposed two red or live wires, two black or neutral wires and two yellow/green or earth ground wires. After a few minutes she had rewired the device and all that was left was to activate it. Reattaching the panel she then turned her attention to the key pad so she could set the timer. Knowing that time was running out and she didn't want to give them time to escape or disarm it, so she only set it for ten minutes. After she had pressed enter it started to count down, she rose off the floor from her seated position and headed for the back entrance of the ware house. Seeing a tree line thirty meters away she started to stumble towards it. She had just made it through the doors when her vision started to blur and she tumbled to the ground. Dizzy and vision impaired she got on to her hands and knees as she was determined to drag her self the rest of the way if she had too.
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