So here is the next chap, and it's a big one! over 4000 words, wow, 6x12 Caged has alot of great moments!
Chapter 39 – Under Cell and Key
When Ziva woke it was to the steady breathing of Tony, he wasn't snoring, just breathing deeply and loudly.
She sighed in content, and rolled in Tony's arms,
"What's matter?" groaned Tony, waking from the movement,
"Nothing," Whispered Ziva, "Go back to sleep my hairy butt."
Tony pulled her closer to him and started to kiss her neck,
"Why would I do that?" he asked between kisses before staring to nip, bite, and taste her smooth skin.
Ziva gasped and felt her heart speed up, "Tony… We can't… Trina will hear."
"Then you better learn to be quiet." Growled Tony as he rolled on top of her and gently removed her underwear.
Half an hour later Ziva was biting Tony's shoulder and had managed to not let a scream out yet.
"You… are so beautiful Zee." Tony whispered into her hair, "I love you so much."
Ziva stoped biting and looked up, she lent forward and kissed him softly, "I love you too," She mumbled into his lips before pulling back slightly to look deep into his eyes; a mistake.
At the exact same moment Tony's hips bucked and he thrust deep into her one last time causing a scream to escape Ziva's lips.
Tony quickly covered Ziva's mouth with a kiss, smothering the sounds of her scream. They heard rushed footsteps and quickly Ziva sent Tony a mental message;
Pretend to be asleep Tony, I will deal with this.
Tony lay down and started to breathe slowly and deeply while Ziva climbed off him and straightened the blanket.
"Mum?" Whispered Trina from the doorway, "Are you ok?"
"I am fine Catryn, just a…" She struggled for the term, "Bete Noire."
"A nightmare."
"Yes that is the word I need; a nightmare." She looked at the clock; 0430, "Trina why are you up, it is 0430, go back to sleep."
"Can't," said Trina, "I'm still jetlagged."
Ziva laughed,
"Mum?"
"Yea?"
"Can I stay in here with you?"
Ziva looked at Tony then nodded, "Ok."
Trina climbed up between Tony and Ziva then gasped, "Mum, what's that bruise from?"
Ziva looked and saw a horrible purple bruise on Tony's shoulder from where she had bit it.
"I do not know." She lied, "Ask him later today."
"Ok."
* * *
Later that morning when the DiNozzo/David household was wide awake and eating breakfast Trina looked at Ziva and asked, "Can I come into NCIS with you? I can stay with Abby, and I'll take my laptop and a book so I won't get bored."
Ziva looked at Tony, "If it is alright with you Tony I don't see why not."
"Ok then Kit-Kat, if you wanna, you can come."
"Awesome!"
* * *
Trina, Tony and Ziva walked into NCIS Tony and Ziva having a playful tiff with each other while Trina tried unsuccessfully to remove her mother's hands from her ears.
"She was not smiling at you Tony." Said Ziva; keeping a firm but gentle grip on Trina
"Ziva, some men can hit a baseball 400ft, others build rocket ships that sail to the stars, I can stop a women's at twenty yards."
"Her name is Hannah and she's asked me out to lunch twice." Ziva accidentally held up two fingers,
"Who's asked you out to lunch twice?" Asked Catryn,
"You?" Asked Tony,
"Did your rocket ship just take a nose dive?"
"No, it just landed on a different planet."
Ziva sat down with a smirk on her face and placed her hands over her stomach in an absent minded embrace of protection to her un-born baby.
"What rocket ship?" Asked Trina, as she sat on Ziva's desk,
"Look, two days ago you told me my car would be ready yesterday and the bill was $270." McGee's spoke into the phone, "Then yesterday, you told me my car would be ready today, and the bill was $400, now you're telling me, my car's gonna be ready tomorrow?" He listened for a moment, "How much?"
"One octave or two?" Asked Tony,
"Two." Said Ziva and Kate (who was sitting at her desk working quietly) at the exact same time,
"Six hundred dollars?!" Exclaimed McGee and Trina and Tony laughed,
"Okay, I understand but-" McGee continued, "Tomorrow? Ok then… Thank you." He looked at Tony, "My crank shaft is wearing out."
"There is no question what's going on that involves you and a shaft, McSofty." Ziva could help but chuckle under her breathe,
"Tony." She warned, nodding toward Trina,
"Well Tony," Said McGee, having not heard Ziva, "Sometimes it's not always the best policy to be tough it can end up costing you more in the long run."
"I'm guessing you got more then your fare share of wedgies as a kid." Grinned Tony,
"I can be tough when I have to be." Said McGee,
They all stared at him.
"What?!"
Ziva held her hands up in surrender, as Kate bit her lip and Trina tried not to burst out laughing,
"Nothing." Said Ziva, "I mean you do have your… strengths."
"And weaknesses." added Tony, "But remember people can be loved as much for their weaknesses as they are for their strengths."
"Take no notice of him Tim." Said Kate, "I'm sure Tony is an expert at people being loved for their weaknesses."
"Hey! I have a pregnant goddess of a fiancée and an almost daughter, what more do I need?"
Ziva laughed as Gibbs walked in, "SQUID, long dead, come on." He walked to his desk, briefly putting his coffee down to grab his badge and holster his SIG. "Ziva? What are you doing here; you're off for the rest of the week."
"Trina wanted to get to know the team a little better." Explained Ziva, but Gibbs had already started to walk away,
Kate walked past, "See ya Ziva, Catryn."
"It's Trina!" Catryn called after her,
"Hey, Ziva." said Tony as he grabbed his gear, "Did you accept." He paused, "Lunch with Hannah?"
"Who's Hannah?" Asked Trina,
"Coming through." Said McGee irritably, passing between Tony and Ziva,
They looked after him, "Stay safe." Said Ziva,
"And you."
They kissed softly and Trina wolf-whistled as she giggled,
"Love you."
"Love you too."
And Tony hurried, only just jumping in the elevator in time.
"This may take a while, let's visit Abby and then we will go on a shopping trip."
* * *
"She was suspected in the disappearance and murder of Lieutenant Neil Pauletto but, since his body was never found she was only prosecuted for the other two murders." McGee told Tony and Kate about their suspect, Celia Roberts.
"She was sentenced to one hundred and seventy-five years in Maryland State Prison for Woman."
"I hear the first hundred are the hardest." Joked Tony,
"Well Abby has confirmed that the knife that killed Pauletto is the same one that Celia Roberts used on her first two victims." Said McGee,
"Open." Grinned Tony, holding his arms open, "And Shut." He brought his arms together,
"Well DiNozzo," Said Gibbs as he walked in, "It'd be easier for everyone if we just get her to admit it." He went to his desk and sat down,
"I'll get the confession." Said Kate, standing and walking to Gibbs' desk,
"Why you?" Asked Tony, incredulous,
"Because Tony, I am a woman and women open to other women. It's the way things go."
"You mean like you, Abby and Ziva, the other month, at that sleepover?" Asked Tony, "Come on, after eleven years in the joint, all ladies, she might welcome a little change of pace." He straightened his jacket and tie,
"Tony you're engaged! And about to be a father." Exclaimed Kate,
"Well Katie, a virile man could be just the thing to loosen her lips."
"Well you are the expert on loosening lips Mon, I'll give you that." Kate winked,
"Grr." Growled Tony,
Gibbs turned and looked at Kate, then turned to Tony, "McGee." He said and McGee looked up, "Get me a signed confession first thing tomorrow morning. Don't come back without it."
"You got it boss."
"Hey Tony guess what!" Called a voice, they turned to See Ziva and Trina walking towards the bullpen as Gibbs walked away.
"What Kitty?"
"Mum said we can go to the ice rink tomorrow." She smiled brightly,
"Oh… Jeez, ahh. Ok, but our case isn't officially closed so Gibbs might want me to…"
"Oh," sighed Trina before brightening and turning to Ziva, "Can we go the next day instead?"
"If Gibbs keeps Tony tomorrow then, yes."
"Yes!" And Trina hugged her mother, "Can I see if Abby is still here?"
Ziva turned to McGee, "Is Abby here?"
"Should be."
"Trina you can go say hello in a minute, we are not her for a visit; we're here to take Tony home."
"Ok." Trina walked around and sat in Ziva's desk,
"What did Gibbs ask, McGee?" Asked Ziva,
"He wants me to get a confession." And they all looked at him again, "What?"
"It's just you gotta have the stuff, be tough, no one to bluff." Said Tony, making Trina laugh,
"So, I have to be a really bad poet?"
"I call my style 'Tough-Bluff', it's hyphenated."
"Really? 'Blow Hard' actually seems more appropriate, that is not hyphenated."
Tony smiled and got up walking to McGee, "You're going to convince a woman to confess to a crime."
"Yea so?"
"When's the last time you convinced a woman to do anything, McGee?"
"Just last week," Said Ziva, walking forward, "McGee convinced me to lend him ten dollars."
"Ten Dollars, Murder One." Said Tony, pretending to weigh them in his hands,
"My last ten dollars." Explained Ziva as McGee picked up his back pack, slowly gathering his things,
"When you asked me I was determined to say 'no', but there was something in the way you asked, before I knew it, I was opening up my wallet."
"Really?" Asked McGee,
"There is no doubt in my mind; you will get that confession McGee."
"Mum." Said Trina, "You haven't got the full story…"
"The full story?" Asked Kate,
"Well," Began Trina, "Last week, before Mum took me home, I was sitting up here waiting for Mum to come back up from talking to you and Abby, and I was kinda hungry…
"I'm hungry, is there like, a vending machine or something?" Asked Catryn,
"Uhh, yea in the break room." Replied McGee,
"Cool, can I have some money?"
"I don't have any change, sorry."
"Can you ask Mum then?"
"Why don't you ask her?"
"'Cause I'm not sure what she's like yet. Please Tim?"
"I don't know Catryn." Said McGee, hesitating,
"Trina." She corrected,
"Sorry."
Trina walked over and picked up a paper clip from McGee's desk, fiddling with it in her hand. She looked up at him, "Please?"
McGee looked down at the paper clip then back to her face, "Okay," He sighed, "How much do you need?"
"Ten dollars."
Tony was laughing in his chair, "You gave in to a twelve year old?"
"When she picked up a paper clip?" Asked Kate, confused as she was unaware of the danger of the paperclip,
"I can kill someone nine different ways with a paperclip." Explained Trina,
Kate's mouth fell open with shock, "What!?"
Ziva grinned, "Nine?" and she hugged her proudly, "I'll teach you the other nine later."
McGee sighed, "Well, thank you Ziva, I guess." And he walked away,
"He's toast isn't he?" Asked Tony,
"Oh yes." said Ziva, "Burnt toast."
"You can kill someone multiple ways, with a paperclip?" Said Kate slowly, trying to come to terms with it.
* * *
When Tony, Ziva, and Trina sat in the car on their way back home.
"Does Gibbs want you tomorrow?" Asked Ziva,
"Yeah, I can't start my week off until the current case is closed." replied Tony, "So I'll leave as soon McGee gets that confession."
"Mum?" Asked Trina from the back of the car, "Can we go to NCIS again tomorrow, seeing as we didn't stay for very long today?"
"Tony?"
"'Corse."
* * *
McGee walked across the prison grounds on his way to get the confession,
"This way sir." Said a female guard; and she lead him a few yards ahead to another guard; this time male.
A bell sounded as McGee walked forward, "Hi." Said the second guard,
"Morning." Said McGee,
"Put Celia Roberts in an attorney room in the back, to give you guys some more privacy."
"That's great, thanks."
"Through here." Said the guard as the door buzzed and opened,
They walked through and were about to enter another door when;
"Tim?" Asked a female voice,
McGee turned and saw a short blonde woman, "Brenda Cater..." He said Slowly,
She squealed "Hi!" She ran and jumped into his arms, when she jumped down she was still grinning broadly, "I have not seen you since, oh what, graduation night at FLETC?"
"Yea, I remember it well." Said McGee awkwardly,
Realisation came onto Brenda's face, "Oh, those were your shoes that I… blagh."
"Italian Shoes."
"Jamaican Rum." Joked Brenda,
"Empty stomach… So I see you left the Federal System."
"Yea; better pay, closer to home, so..." She shrugged,
"Official visit for me; I'm here to see Celia Roberts."
"Oh, well, good luck with that, Celia's a real piece of work."
"Most of 'em are." Said the other guard,
"So um, where are you stationed?" Brenda asked McGee,
"Navy Yard."
"Oh, well I'm here… obviously." She laughed nervously,
There was a small silence which McGee broke, "Well we should, uhh, you know, get together and catch up, have a drink sometime."
He could see Brenda trying (and failing) to contain her joy, "That sounds great, will you call me? Or I'll call you, you know, what ever works right. Ok?"
"Ok, I'll have to check with my girlfriend she'll probably want to double date."
"You have a girlfriend?" Asked Brenda, obviously crest fallen."
"Yea."
"Ok, yea. Just uh, call me ok?"
"Ok."
"Ok."
McGee started to walk again,
"Bye." Said Brenda,
* * *
Abby walked into the bullpen and went to McGee's desk,
"McGee isn't here Abby." Said Kate,
"Oh yea, I know, he's slumming in the prison, and we're supposed to have lunch. I'm just returning his computer game.
"I do not understand the fascination with electronic games." Said Ziva, looking up from her book, "It shortens attention span, curves productivity, and kills brain cells."
"Enough with the long sentences." Said Tony, "Who can follow all that?" Kate laughed and went back to her work,
"Take a look at this!" said Tony, pointing at the plasma, "This is McGee before he tries to break the hooker from hell." His photo on the plasma morphed to have a stupid smile, "And this is him after she gets into his head." The picture morphed again to show horror and shock on McGee's face.
Abby and Trina laughed, and Gibbs walked in saying; "What about a picture of you actually working DiNozzo?"
"Um, I'm working on that." Said Tony as Gibbs' phone rang,
"Yea Gibbs." He answered, "Yea." He hung up then stood, "Maryland Woman's Prison," Abby looked sharply over, "Let's go."
Kate and Tony started to grab their gear and Ziva looked between Gibbs and Abby.
"Wait," Said Abby, "That's where McGee is. Is everything ok?" Gibbs looked at her, "Everything's not ok, what happened? Gibbs!"
"Abby," Whispered Gibbs, "I'll call you… Alright." He walked toward the elevator leaving Abby looking sad and confused,
Tony quickly bent over to Ziva, "Love you." He whispered,
"I love you too." She replied, kissing him softly, "Be safe."
"I will." said Tony, "See ya Kitty." He ruffled Trina's hair,
Abby looked over at the plasma and stared at the morphed image of McGee.
* * *
Twenty minutes later Abby paced nervously her phone pressed to her ear, "Come on, Tony! Come on. Please."
"I am sure he is fine Abby." Ziva tried to soothe,
"You can't know that!" Exclaimed Abby, just as the phone went to voice mail, "Argh, you do not ignore calls from me!" She glowered at the phone, "Ziva you're fiancé is seriously dead. I'll kill him and leave absolutely-"
"No forensic evidence." Said Ziva, "I know Abby, but please, there's nothing to worry about just yet."
"Nothing to worry about? Ziva! I have no idea what's happened, he could be injured, or dying, or dead or-"
"Or he could be perfectly fine." Finished Ziva, "Abby, just sit down, or listen to music, there is no need to panic just yet, in fact, you shouldn't panic at all if you can help it; I doubt the stress is good for the baby."
Abby gasped, "Oh my God!"
Ziva took Abby down to her lab after leaving Trina with Jenny (who was glad for an excuse to stop doing paper work)
"Ziva what if he's dead? I couldn't live with myself if he was dead! I'd have to raise our baby alone! He'll have father issues and grow up to be a drunken addict who you have to throw in jail for murder and I'll be the one responsible!"
"Abby! He will be fine, McGee is a fighter and he'd do anything for both you and your baby. Now please, calm down." Reasoned Ziva,
Abby sighed and sat in her chair placing her hands over her stomach, "Thanks Ziva, I'm not sure if me and my little guy would make it if anything happened to Timmy."
"Little guy?"
Abby pointed to her stomach.
"You are having a boy then?"
"We decided to keep it a surprise, though I can tell. I'm having a boy."
Ziva smiled, "You are going to be an excellent mother, Abby."
"Yea," Said Abby, "And you already are."
Ziva smiled in an almost tearful way and whispered, "Thank you."
* * *
Kate and Tony walked out of the room and heard a phone ring, Kate pulled her cell out of her pocket and answered, "Abby McGee is fine."
"What happened!"
"Abby-"
Tony stole the phone from her, "Hey Abs, the Probie is alive and safe and well, we'll tell you more when we get back, tell Zee I love her, bye." He hung up and gave the phone back to Kate, "Ah Puppy, what am I going to do with you?" He asked smacking her butt lightly.
* * *
McGee was taking photos of their body and as an inmate hovered behind him threateningly.
"Nothing happens to me, you hear me?" Said Brenda,
"Or what?" Asked the inmate,
"Or you'll wish you'd been sentenced to death, not life."
"Oh ok," Teased the inmate, "You guys mess with this dude, you mess with Brenda, good to know." Some of the other inmates laughed.
* * *
Abby sat with her arms wrapped around Bert trying to concentrate on the game of go fish that Ziva, Jenny and Trina were playing.
They heard a beeping and Tony and Kate walked into the far lab where Abby, Ziva, Jenny and Trina were.
Abby looked up and saw Tony holding an evidence box; she put Bert down then got up. "They haven't hurt Timmy have they?"
"We don't know, we haven't heard, Abby." Said Kate,
"Got something for you from Trembles apartment Abby, we need to figure this out before sunset." Tony told Abby,
"Define before sunset!"
"Before the sun goes down." Abby frowned and shoved passed Tony and Kate, cutting off Tony's movie reference. "What's that for?" He asked,
Abby placed the Evidence box she'd taken from Tony onto the table in the middle of the main lab. "The sun sets at around 5:02, so does that mean we have until 5:01?"
"Before sunset." Said Kate,
"That could mean now! Not good enough! I can't take this, everyday you guys go out and I never know if you're gonna make it back! It's killing me, I can't sleep at night, and I'm developing some sort of weird twitch."
"Abby, there will always be a risk in our jobs, I've said it before and I will say it now. There is a chance one of us might die every time we walk through the door."
"Then get a safer job."
"Then you wouldn't see us at all." Pointed out Tony,
"True." Said Abby, "Still; Sucks."
"Abby." Said Kate as Tony pulled a pen from his pocket and held it out,
"Fingerprints, hard drive, bed sheets." Said Abby; as she checked the clipboard and box,
"Evidence of sexual activity." Said Kate,
"McGee's gonna be okay, right?" Asked Abby,
Tony laughed, "You kidding? Stuck in a woman's prison, it's every guy's fantasy." Kate and Abby looked at him, "Maybe not McGee." He shrugged,
"And it better not be your's." Said Ziva as she walked into the main lab having lost the game of go fish,
"Of course not." He said walking behind her and wrapping his arms around her waist.
* * *
"Yea Abs." Gibbs answered his cell,
"How's McGee?"
"Well he's fine." Said Gibbs, "What do ya got?"
"Define fine!"
"Needs us to do our job before sundown."
"Ok, Ducky found calcium oxide crystals in the dead guard's kidney's. Well that's a huge red flag, so I ran a special toxin screen and sure enough it's turned up."
"What?"
"Ethylene Glycol."
"Anti-Freeze?"
"Yea." Said Abby, "Someone was poisoning him Gibbs, he died from the stab wound; but with the levels of Ethylene Glycol in Tremble's system he was a dead man walking anyways."
* * *
Ziva watched as Abby and Trina sat at the computer in Abby's lab, playing around with photos and how Trina would look in five years, and how Tony and Ziva's baby would look, and her and McGee's.
Tremble had been raping an inmate's daughter, and it was all Ziva could think about. How could she protect her daughter from the world? What would she do if she ever lost the closest family she's ever had? What if she was sent back to Mossad? Trina would have to go with her, and the baby; but could she leave Tony behind? No. She could never leave him behind. Never.
* * *
Gibbs, Kate, Tony and McGee walked out of the elevator and into the bullpen, questioning their beliefs of Celia Roberts being Tremble's killer.
"Tim!" Called Abby, "You're home!" She opened her arms out and ran to him pulling him into a tight hug,
Good to see you too Abs." Said McGee hugging back and kissing her cheek.
"We had total confidence in you McGee." Said Ziva looking up from her game of scrabble with Trina,
"Obviously." Said McGee; looking at the morphed photo of him after 'Celia gets into his head'.
"Well maybe just a moment of doubt." Said Tony,
"Just a small, almost non-existent moment." Said Kate,
McGee's cell started to ring, "McGee." He answered, "You told me my car would be ready today." He said as he sat down,
"One octave or two?" Asked Tony,
"Listen up, because this is what you're gonna do; you're gonna take the first estimate, and you're gonna reduce it by ten percent, then you are going to find my part, install the part and have my car parked out front and ready for me when I walk out of this building in thirty-two minutes."
"Wow." Said Tony, "Who would guess that McGee would grow a pair in a woman's prison?"
"I put away killers for a living, that's what I do, now you do exactly as I told you and we won't have any problems. Understood? …Good. Clock's tickin'." He hung up,
"Wow McGee," Said Abby, "Your time in the big house, really changed you …I like it."
* * *
Trina's yawn echoed from the living room into the kitchen where Ziva and Tony were talking.
"I think it's time for someone to go to bed." Laughed Tony and he walked out to Trina, "Come on sleepy head, bed time."
"Ok." Yawned Trina, she got slowly up and stretched.
"Up you go." Said Tony; lightly pushing her up the stairs.
Trina brushed her teeth and shuffled to her room, flopping onto the bed.
"Uh uh." Tutted Tony, "You are not in your jimmy-jams, Kit-Kat."
Trina groaned and pushed herself into a sitting position. Tony picked up her pyjamas off the floor and walked to her.
"Arms up." He said,
Trina raised her arms and Tony pulled her jumper and shirt off, then pulled her pyjamas top down over her head, before helping her get her arms through the sleeves.
Tony then helped her stand and pulled her track pants down then held her pyjama pants open for her. Trina stepped out of the track pants and into the pyjamas, letting Tony pull them up for her.
"You are one tired little girl." He commented,
"Mm-hmm." Agreed Trina; as she climbed into the bed and under the covers. Tony pulled them up and tucked her in, sitting on the edge of her bed,
"'Night sweet heart."
"Night Dad." Mumbled Trina.
Ok if anyone wants me to write certain sections of the AKaaP story line, i've decided i will. So if you want more about how tony and ziva got together, what tony and kate's relationship was like, a more detailed version of ziva and gibbs' drunken accident, or even more detailed Bethany/Ari i'll write it for you! So keep an eye out!
Lots of Love
~~Clai