I sat up slowly. It had been five days since I had been taken and nothing was getting better. I tried to get off of the bed and over to the water bowl they had given me. I fell off the cot and hit the floor painfully. They had broken five of my ribs, one of my arms, my leg, my cheekbone, four of my fingers, and one of my wrists. Mind you that wasn't counting internal injuries or flesh wounds. I had cuts up and down my legs and arms as well as my arms. I hadn't had food for five days either. I was weak and I couldn't support my weight. I crawled over to the bowl and took two long drinks. I crawled over to the cot again and passed out.

************PAIGE'S POV***********

I knew who had taken Christy but I had no idea where he had taken her. He had disappeared the day he took her. I was in the process of going through his last known location files. He had been all over the city and it was getting hard to keep track.

"Hey ya find anything" G said coming into the office. He had been gone for maybe four hours. Hetty had sent him home to sleep since he had been in here for days. No one had left the office for the first three days. After that I could see the hope fading from their eyes. I sighed and opened the next file. I started to glance at it when I felt a kick inside me. I sat back and rested my hand on my stomach.

"No G I have nothing" I said smiling sadly.

"Kay well let me know when you do" he said and walked over to the computer. Callen was the only one who hadn't given up. I opened the file again and looked through it a little closer.

"Guys I think I got something" I yelled toward the stairs. They came upstairs and looked at me. I grabbed the file and walked over to Erik pointing at a set of coordinates. He brought them up and it showed a house out in the middle of no where. I zoomed the satellite picture in on the screen and looked at the fortress.

"Do I want to know what that is" Deeks said walking toward me.

"Well it's probably where Christy is so yeah you do" I said slowly.

"Okay how do you know and what's the best way in" Callen said looking at me.

"Well he had building done to this place a few months ago but all the work was cement and it's not on the outside plus this is the only place he repeatedly visited." I said looking down at the file and feeling a slight pain in my abdomen "Ohh and the best way to get in is to take out the electrical and then barge in through the front gate."

"Okay well that's good enough for me suit up and call Dom have him meet us there, Erik you run the tech part and Paige stay here" G said quickly taking over.

"Hell no, I'm not going to sit here and wait for you to call me" I said getting up and storming toward G.

"Fine but you are sitting on the sidelines" G said glaring at me.

"Kay" I said smiling happily. Everyone went down stairs and rounded everything up before loading it into the cars and driving to the coordinates Erik sent. They were setting up for the invasion just as Dom pulled up. He got out and ran over to the back of the car suiting up in a bullet proof vest and a rifle. I sighed as he came over. I knew he was pissed I was there but I didn't care this was about Christy. I sighed as I watched them go toward the gate and I heard G ask Erik to cut the power. Sam and Deeks pulled the gate back as soon as the power went out and everyone spread out heading toward the house.

#########CHRISTY'S POV##########

I was lying on my cot when a big man came in and told me to get up. I moved so I was looking at him and flipped him off. He walked toward me and when he was almost there the power went out. The cell went from being dim to being pitch black. I heard running and I heard yelling. I also heard the faint sound of someone calling NCIS. I felt a hand cove my mouth then and the guy drug me to the chair against the wall and handcuffed me to it. He opened the door and pulled out his lighter so he could see.

I listened for thirty minutes as the team walked around upstairs. I was wondering how they couldn't find me when I remembered that the door to the basement was invisible. I started to fight with the handcuffs trying to get out. It hurt to move but I wasn't going to stay in this hell hole one more day. I heard the footsteps go toward the door and I slammed the chair against the wall on accident. The handcuffs hit the wall and broke open as well as the chair slamming against the concrete and making a loud banging. I got up slowly and rubbed my wrists. I saw the little window in the wall and I ran to it. It hurt putting pressure on my broken leg but nothing was going to stop me from leaving. I got to the window just as two guards ran in and looked at me. They were expecting a handcuffed frail person but I was not going to be weak.

"Hey how'd you get" was all the men were able to say. I advanced on them quickly knocking both out within thirty seconds. I ran back to the window and pulled myself up by the frame. I knew it would be a tight squeeze but I could hear footsteps outside my door and I couldn't hear footsteps upstairs. I slammed my feet into the window and waited for the shattering sound before I slid through the window. I hit the ground outside lightly and saw Sam and Deeks speaking with one of the men who had first captured me. Kensi and Callen were waiting for them and Dom was holding Paige back from running inside.

Deeks was the first to turn to see what the commotion was when I broke the window. I heard yelling from the cell and I took off at a full sprint toward everyone when three men came around the edge of the house. I got to Deeks first and I collapsed into his arms. The men stopped chasing me and turned around quickly and ran into the forest.

"Christy hey your okay" Deeks said hugging me before helping me up.

"Well that depends Deeks if you call okay alive then yes but I am not okay, I haven't eaten in days and I have been beat, burned, cut and water boarded" I said leaning heavily against my partner. He flinched and then pulled out his phone.

"Erik I need an ambulance and a few more cop cars there are a lot of people that need to be arrested" He said holding his anger in check. I smiled and walked slowly over to Sam giving him a hug. He held me for a second before letting me go. I went over to Kensi and she grabbed me gingerly and hugged me. The man was still standing there gaping at me. I grabbed a pair of handcuffs from Deek's belt and slammed him against the car.

"I may be weak but I can still beat you. I have friends in the hell hole your going to be locked up in and I think I'll give them a call" I said handcuffing him. Paige came running over then and pulled me into a hug. I winced when she hit my bad arm. Everyone went back into the house and came out with about ten people handcuffed they set them down in a row to wait for the cops to get here.

"Okay okay I know ya miss me but I have many broken bones and probably some internal bleeding so can we be gentle" I said smiling.

"Fine if I have to" Paige said hugging me again. I let go of her and leaned against Deeks again. I saw Callen looking at me sadly. He knew we could only hug for a few seconds but nothing more. I sighed to myself as Dom came over and hugged me.

"Deeks can you help me over to the car cause I need a leaning post" I said to my partner.

"Sure but I can be your leaning post" he said smiling at me. He helped me toward the car and as we walked past G I grabbed his arm and let go of Deeks. I felt so weak but I wasn't going to play weak. I He moved impulsively toward me and wrapped his arm around my waist pulling me into a hug. I hugged him back and then let go reaching back for Deeks.

I sat on the car for a half an hour before the ambulance arrived. They came in and helped me to the back door. They started their cursory examination and as soon as they found out I had broken my arm they shut the doors and drove toward the hospital.

"God can't you just give me a few casts and let me go" I said to the doctor who came into my room. I wanted to go to dinner and get a pizza.

"Ms. DeVries, I can't let you go because we need to put you on I.V. and food drips so we can monitor how you're doing plus we don't know how bad everything is yet. We need to wait till we get the x-rays and scans."

"Fine but I want pizza" I said glaring.

"I'm sorry but we can't do that. Ohh and visitor hours end at eight so I will let your coworkers in but they need to leave after a while understand" he said cockily.

"Sure doc I understand" I said turning toward the window. He left and I heard footsteps come down the hall. Paige and Dom walked in followed by Deeks and Callen. I smiled at everyone but all I wanted was for everyone but G to leave. I needed him and I didn't want to wait to spend the last five minutes of visiting hours to do it. I kept my eyes on him until I noticed Deeks looking at me quizzically. We talked for a while about nothing until the doctor came in.

"Ms. DeVries" the doctor said looking around the room.

"Hi doc what's up" I said.

"Well I have your results would you like you coworkers to wait in the hall."

"Kay lets clear this up now, they aren't coworkers they are family. This is Marty Deeks my partner and brother, this is Dominique Vail my best friends fiancée and my brother, this is my best friend Paige Bennett also my sister. Got it."

"Yes maam" he said coming over to the end of the bed. "Kay so you should be dead right now, you have multiple broken bones and burns not to mention all the lacerations up and down your arms and legs. But that's not the most worrying thing; you have a small puncture in you lung, your malnourished, dehydrated, a little brain, spleen and stomach swelling. We need to get you into surgery and repair the lung and try to stabilize your ribs. We also need to go in and sett all the other broken bones including your cheek bone."

"Wow that sounds bad" I said looking over at Paige. She looked terrified and mad.

She could tell I wanted to be alone and she grabbed Deeks and Dom "Let's get some coffee then go to the waiting room."

"Kay when are you putting me under" I said after watching my friends leave.

"A half an hour" he said simply before walking away.

"Hey" I said smiling at G. He got up and moved over to the bed resting his head on my hand.

"If you ever do that again I swear to god I will kill you my self" he said quietly holding his head against my hand. I smiled and put my other hand on his cheek.

"You better come out of that OR room alive because I can't live without you" he said sitting up and looking me in the eyes.

"Ohh don't worry your not getting rid of me that easily" I said grinning. He leaned in and kissed me softly. I grabbed him and pulled him onto the hospital bed. He tried to protest but I curled against his chest. He wrapped his arms around me protectively. It felt nice to lay there with him for the few minutes before I would be knocked out. I felt a little scared like I always did before any surgery. G could feel my growing tension and he kissed me slowly. I felt happy then, I may be seriously sick but I didn't care, I needed the strength. I couldn't do this alone anymore, I couldn't be alone anymore. I had to tell him everything and there was no way I was going to lose this battle.