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A/N: Okay, this will contain spoilers of Season 9's finale. If you have not seen it yet, then please don't read any further until you do. However, the director in this will be Jenny and not Vance.

In Your Arms

"Ziva, did you find anything in the director's car after we found her?" Gibbs asked, looking over at the Israeli agent.

"No, nothing out of the ordinary. There weren't any prints and nothing appeared to be tampered with." She replied, shaking her head.

"Dearing is after her car, not her." He said, as the team started getting ready to evacuate. "Jen, he placed something in your car, where is it?"

"It's right outside the building." Jenny said, looking over at Gibbs.

"Get everyone out of this building." Gibbs said, as he went over to his desk to grab his sig, and to get Cole out of the building.

"Bomb experts are still far away." Cole said, looking at Gibbs intently. "You know I was part of bomb disposal."

"Alright, let's go." He said, staring at him intently, before leading him out of the squad room. "Jenny, get out of here now."

"I am, I need to go get Cynthia and the guys out of MTAC." She replied, as she hurried toward the stairs. "I'll meet you outside."

After almost two minutes of destroying Jenny's SUV, Gibbs found where Dearing hid the bomb, in the back of one of her car seats. "You think you can dismantle this, Cole?" He asked, looking up at the younger man.

"Yeah, it's all about the thrill." He replied, seeing Gibbs glance toward the basement where Abby's lab was, and seeing her still down there gathering up her belongings. "Go get her out of here. This car is too close to the building."

"Okay." Gibbs replied, before handing over his knife to Cole. Rushing inside, he ran down the stairs to the lab and just managed to reach Abby before the explosion, that knocked them both down to the floor.

In the elevator, Tony and Ziva were waiting impatiently for the elevator to get them to the lobby, so they could get out. "Maybe it would have been faster to take the stairs." Ziva grumbled, looking up and seeing the worry etched on Tony's face.

"No, cause just about everyone was taking the stairs, it would have been backed up." He replied, watching the numbers tick down for the lobby. Before Ziva could even reply, there was a loud bang, as part of the ceiling of the elevator caved in, knocking them both to the ground.

When Jenny walked out of MTAC, she saw McGee transferring something off his computer. "Get out of here now McGee!" She yelled, as she headed toward her office, making sure that Cynthia was gone.

"I'm almost finished Director." He replied, as the last of the files had transferred. Grabbing the flash drive out of the monitor, he grabbed his bag and was starting to leave, when he was caught straight in the blast, sending him and a few remaining agents to the ground.

Waking up a little bit later, Gibbs tried to sit up but felt his legs being pinned down by Abby's desk. "Abbs, are you okay?" He asked, shaking the bubbly Goth's shoulder gently.

"Ugh, yeah. Just got some cuts and my head is killing me." She replied, sitting up gently. "I think I have a broken rib though."

"Okay, can you help me get this table off my legs?" He asked, not wanting her to hurt herself further, but he needed to get them both out of the building before it collapsed any further.

"I can try." She replied, standing up and getting a little wobbly. "Okay I stood up way too fast."

"Take your time Abbs." Gibbs told her, even though he knew that time may not necessarily be on their side.

"I'm fine. Which way should we move it?" She asked, not wanting to hurt him further.

"Move it away from you, I should be able to help you push it that way." He replied, as she set her bag and Bert down.

Once they had managed to get the desk off him, they headed toward the stairs, knowing the elevators would be out. "Abby, stay with me. Do not let go of my hand. We don't know how stable the stairs or this building are. Don't look down at any bodies, just look straight ahead." Gibbs ordered, knowing that Abby would probably freak out, if she saw any of their co-workers deceased, or any of his team.

"Alright." She mumbled, as she had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach that the rest of their family were in jeopardy.

"Let's go." He said, as they headed up the stairway, trying to climb over fallen beams and trying to watch out for electrical wires.

"Did Tony, McGee and Ziva get out Gibbs?" She asked, knowing that he wouldn't settle for them not following an order, and he had most likely ordered them to stay out of the building, while he went in to get her.

"I don't know Abby. Tony and Ziver were busy getting everyone off our floor and out of interrogation when I went out with Cole." He replied honestly. "I don't know where McGee or the Director are."

Instead of saying anything, Abby let out a soft whimper when she realized that everyone she cared about could possibly be in worse danger than she was. As they finally made it outside of NCIS, they looked around in horror. The window that faced the floor where Team Gibbs worked, was shattered and half of the side of the building was gone. Gibbs got a bad feeling in his gut when he saw that the part of the building where Jenny's office was at was all but missing as well.

"Abby, I want you to go to my house and wait there. I am not taking no for an answer." Gibbs ordered, as he intended to go back inside and look for his team and other co-workers. "Get your ribs checked out and then go to my house."

"Gibbs, I can't just sit there at the house." She tried to protest, knowing that it was pretty futile, after getting a toned down version of his famous stare.

"This is not up for discussion Abby." He ordered. "You are injured and need to be looked at. I am not injured and can go back inside and look for survivors."

"Do you want me to call Ducky and have him come back?" She asked softly, as he looked back toward the building.

"Yes, tell him we need him on the first flight he can get out here." Gibbs replied, as he walked back into the burning building.

Ziva David never cried, hardly showed a lot of emotion, but as she started coming to after the ceiling of the elevator she and Tony was in collapsed on them, the tears started falling. "Tony please wake up." She mumbled, her body screaming out in pain. "You can not die on me, do you hear me?" Looking around she was trying to find a way to be able to get her and Tony to safety, her knee buckling under her as she tried to pull herself up. "Ahhh!"

"Mmm, Ziva." Tony mumbled, shaking his head clear a little bit. "What happened?"

"A bomb went off and the building was hit." She said, looking over at him. "I am glad you are okay."

"How badly are you hurt?" He asked, having heard her agonizing cries.

"I think I have injured my knee. When I woke up, there were pieces of the ceiling on the back of my leg and knee." She replied honestly. "Can you get a signal on your cell?"

"That's what I was going to check, I don't know how much of one I will get, if I get anything." He answered, hitting send for the first number that he saw.

Gibbs was walking through the rubble of what was left of the squad room, when he came across McGee's limp body laying on the floor. He had gone ahead of the medic squad, not really listening to their protests of not entering the building again. "I need a medic over here!" He yelled, as he felt that his young agent had a weak pulse. "McGee, don't you die on me. You will not die, you hear." He whispered, telling him the same thing he had whispered to Tony several years before, when he had caught the plague. Once he was satisfied that the medics were attending to Tim, he went on another search to try and find Jenny.

Ziva and Tony had been sitting in the elevator, neither one saying much right then. "Well I'm not getting McGee or Abby." Tony said, as he hung up from trying Abby's cell phone again. "The signal is probably jammed, everyone trying to call for help, or trying to call and check on their spouse or whatever."

"Do you think you can pull the doors open?" Ziva asked, as she wasn't even really sure what floor they were trapped on or between. "I am sure there has been a movie made where a hero gets people out of a trapped elevator, yes?"

"Well there was Speed, with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock." He replied with a chuckle. "The beginning of the movie, Keanu and Jeff Daniels had to save like thirteen people from this elevator, cause some mad man attached a bomb to it, and wanted money from the City of Los Angeles to not detonate it more. Jack, who was Keanu and Harry played by Jeff, managed to get the doors pried open from the outside of the elevator and rescued everyone."

"So can you do this or not Tony?" She asked impatiently. After the time in the elevator with McGee when DC had a city wide black out, Ziva had been a little leery of elevators.

"I don't know." He replied honestly. "Do you think you can scoot over here enough to try and help me push the doors?"

"I will try." She said, as they started working on trying to get themselves out of the dangerous situation they were in.

"Jenny!" Gibbs yelled, coughing through the thick smoke, as he made his way up the unsteady and weakened stairs toward her office. He hoped she hadn't been inside the MTAC room, knowing there was no way for him to get in and save her if she were. Walking inside to Cynthia's office, he saw that her assistant wasn't in the room, giving him a glimpse of hope that Jenny had gotten out as well. Going further into the office, he caught a glimpse of red, and saw Jenny crumpled on the floor behind Cynthia's desk, completely unconscious and barely breathing. "Come on Jen, you are not leaving me again." He said, as he quickly grabbed her up in his arms and getting her out of the office. As he made it back to where the squad room used to be, he saw that Tim was being loaded onto a backboard and placed on a gurney to get out of there. Gibbs decided to follow the medics and carry Jenny down to the waiting ambulance.