this is my first ncis story and i haven't had time to edit it so be gentle. I will have a edited version of this chapter out by sometime tomorrow. Also this is most defiantly a tiva story.

Disclaimer: i do not own ncis

Echoes In Eternity

A single solemn looking man stood in the middle of war zone that was once the NCIS office. Desks were scattered everywhere some were flipped over others were broken clean in two. Papers from so many case files laid scatted across the floor. However the most disturbing part was the blood. It was everywhere, wherever you turned there were pools of blood on the ground or streaks on the wall. Not far away from each blood stain was the body it came from.

The man in middle of this massacre wore a pair of black jeans that had rips and holes all over them, his crimson red t-shirt lay torn to shreds on the ground next to him. The lights in the room flickered on and off so only flashes of his bruised and battered body could be seen. One of the flashes of light showed a tattoo on his well muscled back. A tree with one side alive and in bloom while the other side was withered and dead, above the tree was a half sun, half moon. To finish it off, right underneath the tree had the words, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

The tattoo itself held so much meaning but the words were from gladiator. One of the many movies this weary and battered man loved so much. Two other things stood out about this lone figure, he wore a crimson red bandana covering his face down to his mouth with a pair of holes cut out for the man's piercing yellow eyes to see out of. They were eyes of a wolf. The other was black chain around his neck with a single wolf's tooth hanging from it.

All of his muscles began to tense and his breathing began to come in short controlled breaths. He was preparing himself for a battle he couldn't afford to lose.

All of a sudden a bestial howl of rage and desperation escaped from the man's lips. Shortly after sounds that no sane human could make replied farther away but the sound steadily got closer and closer.

The masked warrior dropped down into a fighting stance but was shaken out of it when once of the surviving computers turned on revealing the images of Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, and the beautiful Israeli Ziva David. Behind the two agents were Abby Scutrio brilliant and overly caffeinated lab technician, Timothy Mcgee computer genius, Ducky Scottish coroner and encyclopedia of information, Leon Vance director of ncis, and finally Jimmy Palmer ducky's well meaning assistant.

Ziva words flew from her mouth in a panic rarely seen from the former mossad agent "What are you doing? You'll get yourself killed, you're not invincible!

A small smirk crossed our mystery man's face. "Yea I defiantly know I'm not invincible, but I also know I'm pretty damn sexy" he chuckled but this caused him to wince in pain from the multiple injuries all across his body. "And I probably will die but at least I know by doing this you'll all be safe."

Gibbs studied the man for a moment before speaking "I thought you were a hoax but now I see the papers were right about you. You're an honest to god hero." The sandy haired ex gunnery sergeant didn't say words like that lightly. Hell he didn't say anything lightly but he had to tell this man what he thought of him.

"I don't know about all that, I've made too many mistakes some which have cost people their lives. I'm no hero sir; I'm just trying to make up for those wrongs and to honor my duties." He shrugged but his eyes revealed the pain of memories he could never get rid of.

Abby pushed forward her black pigtails swishing back and forth the whole time she was moving. Her normal happiness and caffeine induced energy were clearly gone when she spoke "How can you say that. In the past twenty four hours you've saved all of our lives multiple times. You remind me of Tony" she turned her head and attention to the closest thing she had to a father. "I'm so happy he was away on assignment today Gibbs. He's safe and if he was here he would probably get himself killed trying to protect us" tears began to spill but she quickly regained control of her emotions then turned her attention back to the masked figure. "If he was here he'd be doing the exact same thing you're doing right now and trust me our Tony's a hero"

Gibbs smiled before leaning over to kiss his favorite girl on the cheek like he's done so many times before. When he pulled away and looked at the person across the screen all of his years of reading people told him one thing. This man still didn't believe he was a hero but the words still affected him none the less and it pushed him to the verge of tears. However he could also tell this man would never cry in front of them. For the simple reason he needed to be a pillar of strength for the other people in this room. Gibbs didn't need a pillar but he could see his team did and right now as much as it hurt to admit he couldn't be it. His gaze fell from the man down to his broken leg

Former mossad liaison officer then placed an arm around abby's shoulder and whispered "I'm glad he's safe too abbs. I don't think I could handle anything happening to him"

Ziva couldn't have realized the person they were referring to as a hero had hearing good enough to pick up everything she said. If she did she might of also noticed how his body quickly stiffened as a reaction.

Ducky was the next to speak up. "Dear boy I'm sure you've realized by now we've only known you for a short time but it was enough for us to care about you. I once knew a man by the name Charles Dougherty back in."

The masked hero cut him off "I'm sorry ducky but I can hear them getting closer. It won't be long before there here so you need to get to the point!"

Ducky glanced at Gibbs for a second "Reminds me of you" before addressing the character on the screen again "Sorry you are right. All I wanted to ask was if you could tell us your real name. I'd like to know the name of the man I owe my life to."

Everyone else in the room concurred unanimously "So would I"

A huge charming but goofy grin that seemed so familiar to everyone spread across his face before directing his attention to the stunning Israeli. His smile quickly disappeared being replaced by a look of regret and love. "I'm sorry about Michael. I'm sorry I hurt you and that pain caused you to get captured by the bastard Saleem. I'm sorry I didn't rescue you earlier from Somalia. I should have protected you from all that pain but I failed. Ziva I won't fail you this time, I'll protect you. I'll protect you all, my family. I'm also sorry I never told how much I loved you. You were my KoChav(star)."

"Hey boss I know you probably want to head slap me but can you do me a favor instead. Take care of her. Oh and Mcgoo your level five sorcerer doesn't have shit on me" another sad smile crossed Dinozzio's weary face

The whole Ncis team was stunned into silence except for ziva who could only breathe the word "Tony" out of her mouth. Before anyone could recover from their shock a scream and a door shattering could be heard from the other side of the computer screen.

Tony turned to face the noise and a deep resolve washed over him before turning to see his family one last time. "Shalom sweet cheeks" he launched himself away from the computer screen and into the darkness faster than any normal human should be able move.

Fear consumed Ziva and all she could do was scream " TONY"

One month Ago

"So Zee-vah I believe those were the same clothes you wore yesterday" the class clown known as tony paused for dramatic effect " Your doing a walk a shame aren't you. Alright tell me everything who was he." Quickly changing his mind, "Never mind that I don't need to know who he is I just want to hear every Dirty detail you Dirty girl" He rested his chin in between his hands and leaned forward pretending keen interest but truth be told the whole time tony was joking with her it didn't stop him from having a sinking feeling in his gut. If the playboy extraordinaire was more honest with himself, he would have admitted he really didn't want to know.

The beautiful Israeli women got out of her chair and sauntered over to him moving her hips in a way no man could resist. She placed her hand on tony's desk then leaned in scrunching her nose in the way she knew he loved. In a sultry voice she purred "Oh tony whoever said I was with a guy."

Tony sat there for a couple of seconds letting his imagination work wonder but before he could reply, he felt a whack on the back of my head "Boss?"

"Get your mind out of the gutter Dinozzio!" The sandy haired ex marine known as Gibbs replied all the while sipping on his signature cup of coffee. "Where's Mcgee?"

"He's with Abby boss. She needed his help with defragging something on her computer." Rubbing the back of his head tony answered as quickly as he could. "You know repeated blows to the head can cause brain damage."

Another head slap later Gibbs gave his patented glare to tony even though his frustrations were directed at Mcgee. " well get him up here we have a case."

Five minutes later

Breathing rapidly mcgee exited the elevator as quickly as possible to sooth the wrath of gibbs. Tony couldn't help but make a comment to the probie. "Took u long enough McTardy, did you lose track of time battling gnomes in cyber land with your mighty elflord powers" the last three words were said in a William Shattner imitated voice.

Ziva couldn't help but chuckle and have a little smile creep up on her stunning face. Making her smile like that was enough to put dinozzio in a good mood for the rest of the day. He didn't realize at the time but he risk his life for one of those smiles

Anyway Mcgee just ignored my comment and slightly out of breath addressed gibbs " sorry boss I was helping Abby and had to finish what defragging the hsb drive before any external factors could…" All that excuse received as an answer was another glare by Gibbs. "What I meant to say was it won't happen again boss."

"See that it doesn't Mcgee. We got a dead marine people, gear up"

One hour later a wooded area outside of Baltimore

As soon as the ncis truck stopped at the scene two men came stumbling out of the car. One began to kiss the ground. "I've never been so happy to see solid ground in my life." Yelling over to the other man, "Damn it mcgee how could you let ziva get the keys!"

Mcgee was slowly getting his feet back under him "Tony, I didn't let her she forced me to give them to her."

"She used her crazy ninja skills didn't she," Tim just nodded in agreement. "So sexy yet so deadly at the same time" mcgee and dinozzio both sighed at the same time and said "Ya"

"What was that?" Ziva snuck up on the two agents's causing both of them to jump a couple feet in the air.

Dinozzio took a couple breaths to stop his heart from racing. "Damn it ziva I thought I told you to stop doing that. Plus me and mcgee were just saying riding in a car with you should be ranked up there with dangerous activity's like rock climbing without a harness or dating Paris Hilton!

Despite herself she chuckled. No matter what tony could always make her laugh "I guess you guys are just too weak to handle a little adrenaline in your lives." Mcgee reacted like she expected him to whenever someone questioned his masculinity. Tim stood up real straight and tried to puff his chest out but tony on the other hand surprised her.

The playboy just walked over to her placed an arm around her waist and pulled the former assassin close enough for their faces to be an inch away from each other. If anyone else had tried that with her, they would be laying on the floor in a considerable amount of pain. Ziva could feel his breath on her face and she couldn't help but slightly blush. "Oh ziva trust me I love a little adrenaline from time to time" tony leaned in a little closer and all ziva could think was, is he really going to kiss me. However he stopped just short "but I like living too much to enjoy the adrenaline you cause while driving."

Tony slowly pulled away with a huge smirk on his face. He finally beat ziva at her own game, but that wasn't the only reason he was smiling. Being that close to ziva and coming so close to kissing her made his heart beat so fast it might pop out of his chest at any moment.

It took a couple seconds for ziva to recover cursing herself for letting him get to her like that. As if he would ever kiss me, you got to stop fooling yourself. However she couldn't let tony get away without some form of payback. Plus her competitive streak wouldn't let tony beat her.

Our favorite smart ass began lightly jogging, hoping to get to the crime scene and the protection that is gibbs. She's definitely not going to let that slide without some sort of retribution. I better hurry if I want to avoid any kind of evil scheme she can come up with.

Tony was so preoccupied in his thoughts he never saw the huge wolf stalking him. The ferocious animal leapt out and clamped down with razor sharp teeth onto the unsuspecting agents arm. Tony let out a muffle scream before punching the wolf multiple times in the heads before It finally let go.

Even stunned this animal was not giving up so easily on its prey. It began to snarl while slowly trying to circle the ncis agent. However the wolf didn't realize he picked the wrong target. When the beast charged again and leapt into the air trying to sink his teeth into him, tony quickly drew his weapon placing four bullets into the chest cavity of the creature. The lone wolf gave one last howl of agony before fading into the darkness of eternity.

Tony was too busy trying to get his emotions under control from the sudden attack to notice the wolves eyes were pure black.

Next chapter: A Wolf's Rising

also you guys might be wondering how ziva and gibbs never realized tony was the masked man will be explained eventually so just sit back and enjoy until then.