This is just a fun little thing I did playing with the cliff hanger from the season six finale.

Spoilers: Season six finale

Disclaimer: I do not own anything

Divided Loyalties

"Tell all you know about NCIS." The man jerked her head up and she whimpered in pain she could not help it. She tried to take in her surroundings. She was in a stone room with only the chair she was tied to it. It was only then that she realized her eye was swollen and her head was pounding. "Tell me," he hissed again and slapped Ziva across the face. Ziva paused. She had to make a choice.

Her first reaction was a desire to tell the guy all she knew and get the hell out of there. She felt the anger flaring inside her.

She remembered Tony. He had killed the second man she had ever loved. The first had been Roy who died of radiation poisoning. She had finally found it in herself to love again and Tony had destroyed that. He had lied to her about Jeanne. He had never listened to her. If he had then maybe Jenny would not have died and they would not be in this mess. She would not be in this mess. Tony was not the one being tortured. He was safe in D.C. with Gibbs.

It was Gibbs, who had let her walk away. It was Gibbs, who chose Tony over her. Now she was here because he had not cared enough to stop her. They all deserved to die. She opened her mouth to tell the terrorist all she knew and he grinned.

She froze that was Ari's grin. She had seen it so many times before, how could she not know it. It could not be Ari. She had killed him four years ago. She looked at his face with her one good eye and realized that he was too old to be Ari, but grin still unnerved her. She had killed Ari to save Gibbs.

She stopped dead. She could not hand over NCIS. She had killed her brother to save them but she would not die for them? That was wrong and she could not walk away. She felt the anger slide away slowly and it was replace by sadness as she remembered all the members of her 'family.'

Abby was so happy. She was the sister Ziva had lost. Abby would go to any lengths to help any one on the team. Even Ziva when she had just come and Kate had been in the front of everyone's memories, which gave them plenty of reason to hate her.

McGee was the brother Ari had never been. He was smart and funny in his own way. He was the first to accept her when she came and he was loyal to Gibbs, to Tony, and even to her.

Ducky was the loving grandfather she had always, no mater how much she denied it, needed. He was always there for her. No matter what she had done or said, even if it was to someone else on the team. He would comfort her and give her strength.

Gibbs was more of a father than hers had ever been. Her father had forbidden her emotions and never cared how she was. To him, she was just another agent. Gibbs told her not to hide her emotions. He comforted her when she cried and he was always there. Steadily and unmovable present no matter what happened. It took, she realized suddenly, more love to let some one you care about walk away then it took to tie them down. Gibbs had respected her choice and if she was honest with herself she had never expected anything else.

Then there was Tony. She was still a little mad at him, but what he had done; he had done to protect her. Whether it was right or wrong he had done it for her. She could not deny that she had love Michael but she also could not deny that she had feelings for Tony. She closed her eyes and she could almost she his face. He smiled at her.

Her eyes snapped open. She could not do it. She could not had over everything she knew about NCIS. They were her family. They loved her. She did not deserve it. She had run away from them without telling them what she was doing. She knew she had hurt them and now she regretted it. She was almost certainly never going to see them again, but not because they were dead on her information. Her resolve strengthened. She was not going to tell these terrorists any thing.

She felt another fist make contact with her face. She heard a snap and felt the blood run down her face from a nose that was almost certainly broken. "Tell me everything you know about NCIS." She kept her mouth tightly closed. He waited for a minute the pulled his arm back. Before she knew what was happening she felt a fist in her stomach. If she had not been tied to a chair she would have doubled over in pain.

She gritted her teeth. Worse was coming, but she would deal with that as it came. She hoped a rescue party would find her in time, but she knew they would not. Her father would not risk agents to save his own daughter. "Tell me—" the man threatened again.

"I heard you the first three times." Ziva said a steely look in her chocolate brown eyes. He looked at her. His eyes were cold and grey. His brown hair was knotted and to his shoulders. Everything about him seamed to scream street urchin not Mosad evading terrorist. Yet he had not evaded Mosad completely. She was here. Not that did anyone any good. She most likely would not live to tell the tale.

"Tell me--."

"No, I will not tell you anything. Get over it."

I told you I would have it up before I went to bed. I will do my very best to post the next chapter tomorrow but no promises.