Chapter 16
Adam and Amy looked up, according to the clock on the wall it had been two hours since Ziva had left, Amy was cold and Adam took his jacket off and wrapped it around his sister who hadn't stopped the silent tears that had fallen since their mother had left.
"ADAM!" Baker called as she opened the door to the building that Ziva had told them the children were in.
"Over here!" Adam shouted, Baker and Dorneget came running over to the two children in the cage.
Ned looked around and then finally he saw a key under a piece of paper on the table. "I have a key, hold on." He said and opened the cage freeing the two children.
"Did you catch her?" Amy asked.
"How did you find us?" Adam asked.
Ned smiled; this was when the children were most like their father, gathering information. "No we haven't caught Ziva, Your uncle Tim and Grandpa Gibbs have gone after her, and we found you because she called Tim and told us where you were."
Adam frowned, "That's not like Ima…She's gone after Dad…she must be after the money, I saw an email, our grandfather has offered money for my father…Does she have him too?"
Ned sighed, "I can't say, we've been ordered to get you back to NCIS, Dr. Palmer wants to have a look at you."
Both children walked over to the desk and grabbed their schoolbags that had been left there and walked out to the car.
Amy turned to her brother, "Do you think Abba is in trouble?" she whispered in Hebrew.
Adam looked at her surprised, "I think so, or he would have been here himself, if Ima is going to kill him we need to stop her, we will go with them to see uncle jimmy and see what information we can find out there. Maybe we can help." Adam said to his sister.
"You two ok?" Ned asked with a grin as the two children chatted in their own language.
Adam smiled, "Now we're with you, we're fine." He said.
Ziva walked up to the building that she knew Tony was in. She didn't want to see him again, not after everything, but, this was where life was leaving her and who was she not to follow.
She steeled herself and walked straight in surprising Mike Macaluso's head guard who went to aim his gun at Ziva who shot Mike a look.
"Put your gun down, Dmitri you look stupid, you know who this is, if she wanted you dead you wouldn't be standing now." Mike opened his arms as Ziva walked straight past a battered and bruised Tony and hugged Mike. "Ziva, I thought you were not coming." He said
Ziva smiled sweetly, her blood boiling, "How could I not, this man cost me my beloved children and my husband and my position as Director, this one I would do for free," she said shooting Tony a look.
"I heard, Don Perrone was most vocal about your troubles, you are a great asset to him." Mike said.
Tony groaned as he opened his eyes and saw Ziva hugging his father.
"My…Kids…Zi…twins...Ok?" Tony tried asking.
Ziva turned her cold face to Tony and looking to Mike for permission she walked across the room and backhanded Tony, "They are dead," she said her face betraying nothing.
"No…." Tony let out a sob, "Your children Zi…how…?"
Ziva looked up at Mike and smiled. "You do not get to keep what is mine, I picked them up from school like a good mother should, I took them to the warehouse where Ari killed Kate and I shot them." She said with a cold cruel smile on her face.
"NOOOOOOO!" Tony's breath hitched as his heart broke and he crumbled, tears spilling over his face and down his chin.
Mike looked over at her, "You killed the children?"
"That was part of the request from you was it not?" Ziva asked.
Mike nodded, he was amazed how cold and calculating she was, "They were birthed from my body, so it was only fitting that I was the one who decided where and how they would die." She told him.
"I agreed, Ziva Eshel, you are without a doubt the most mercenary, mercenary I have ever dealt with." He smiled. "Come have a drink with me." He held out a glass with scotch in it.
"I assume you want me to finish off your son as well." She said walking towards Tony who didn't even bother to look at him.
She drew her knife and held it under his chin. "I can make his death as painful as you wish." She offered.
"I had hoped that he would join me, I could have had all his contacts as a fed working for my empire, but no…he turned me down, but he has the gall to use my name."
"I'm afraid that Tony would never betray Gibbs….I think they have a 'thing'" Ziva said with a little wink.
"REALLY!" Mike roared.
Ziva shrugged, "I can tell you he isn't all man." She confided in the man.
Mike walked over to his son and lifted his head by his hair. "That true boy….you gay?"
Tony looked at him defiantly, "If I say I am will you kill me." He rasped, "Maybe I'll turn gay and corrupt your gene pool." He spat out.
Ziva shot him a concerned look; if he kept baiting Macaluso like that he'd never get out alive.
Mike's phone rang and he dropped Tony's head and headed over to his lawyer who shakily held his phone to him.
As soon as the room was empty Ziva ran to Tony and started untying his bonds. "Tony…Tony look at me, you need to wait, Gibbs will be here soon and he will find you."
As soon as his hands were free Tony turned and grabbed Ziva by the throat, "You killed them…." He growled.
"I…Did…Not…." Ziva gasped between breaths.
Tony let go and looked at his hands as if he'd been burned, "What?!"
Ziva looked not seeing anyone she turned to him, "Adam and Amelia are safe, McGee should have picked them up by now, I took them so they….." she stopped as a loud pop came from behind her and a red stain formed on her chest….She fell to her knees in Tony's arms as Mike walked back in holding a gun.
"I don't like being lied to." Mike growled.
"Ziva! Zi….!" Tony tried to stop the blood loss, "Don't die…please,"
Ziva lifted her eyes to Tony, a small trickle of blood escaped her mouth, "Tell the children…I lied…I love them…" she said and Tony held her as the light left her eyes.
He reached around her body and felt the impression of the knife in her belt. Looking at his father he threw the knife, Mike screamed as it embedded itself in his chest.
Watching his father collapse Tony held tightly to Ziva's body and waited for his father's men to come in and finish him off.
Even despite everything that had happened between them, or maybe because of all that had happened between them, Tony clung to Ziva's still form.
"NCIS!" Gibbs voice cut through the silence.
After a firefight at the entrance, they hadn't seen anyone. Now coming upon the room Tony had been held in they could see blood up the windows, Gibbs steeled himself as he entered the room.
Mike Macaluso stared blindly as the knife sat in his chest, his last breath focused on his boy, his son, his greatest disappointment.
"Tony….you could have been so much more." He said as his last breath left his body.
Tony wasn't looking at his father, and hadn't moved an inch as he held onto the body of the mother of his children, he heard movement but just didn't care, let his father's men come and shoot him, Ziva had killed his children, he didn't believe her when she had told him they were alive, why would they be. She'd never told him the truth before.
He didn't want to let her go, she was his last link to his children, she had birthed them, and she had killed them. If he let her go then they would truly be gone. So he clung onto her with all that he had.
"Tony…" Gibbs knelt beside his son.
"Tony?" McGee said kneeling on the other side.
"Tony, she's dead, let her go." McGee told him.
McGee tried to move Tony's hand. The hand gripped tighter, "No…" Tony's voice hoarse with emotion rasped out.
Gibbs put his hand on McGee's shoulder, "Call Jimmy to come and tell Fornell, I'll need some back up here."
"Yes Boss." McGee said shooting a concerned look towards his boss and heading out of the room.
"Tony, son…you have to let her go."
"Can't let her go….Dad." Tony let out a sob, "She killed my babies…I let her go they go too."
"Tony." Gibbs' voice was calm, he lifted his son's face and his heart broke at the look he had never hoped to see in another man's eyes again. "Ziva didn't kill them, the twins are safe, and they are at NCIS with Abby."
Gibbs watched as a mask of confusion crossed his face. "But she said…OH!" he finally got it…he burst into tears as he let her body go and Gibbs held him his hand rubbing small circles of comfort into his back.
"its ok son, it's all over, you're safe, your children are safe, it's all over." Gibbs repeated as he looked at the door, he let out a small smile as he realized that McGee was guarding the door so the Feds didn't see Tony's breakdown, giving them the privacy they both needed.
Gibbs smiled; he'd always known that boy would go far.
