Shadows and Lies

by SassyJ

It's the anniversary of Ari's death and Ziva is holidaying in Miami. But all is not as it appears and when she sees someone in the street who shouldn't be there, Ziva starts to fear she is losing her mind. Or is someone trying to drive her out of it?

1. Author's Note

I forget who originally asked the question, but someone asked how could Ari be brought back to NCIS… which naturally set my brain to thinking, how could one re-introduce a dead man? Could it be sufficiently compelling without being ridiculous? Dreams and body doubles being somewhat over-used.

Curiously it was Ziva who gave me the answer.

Kate and Ari are still dead. Ziva takes a holiday, it's the anniversary of Ari's death and her part in it is still painful to her…