A Very Tiva Love Tale

Authors Note - This story is how I would have liked season 7 to go. Please review! :)

Chapter 1 – Home Again

Antony DiNozzo stared at the empty desk in front of him, tapping his finger impatiently. Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David was due to return that morning so he had arrived at 0700 so that he would be there when she walked through the door, so that it would seem more real.

After what seemed like an age, the elevator doors opened and an over excited Abby skipped in dragging a yawning McGee behind her.

"Is she here yet? Is she here yet?" Abby bounced up and down on the spot in anticipation.

"Not yet, Abs" Tony replied as McGee sat down at his desk.

Yet again, the elevator doors opened and Gibbs and his coffee entered but as the doors closed, a hand appeared to stop the doors shutting. Everyone stared as a figure walked out of the elevator.

"Ziva" Abby ran to hug her friend. Gibbs smiled as he sipped his coffee, McGee grinned like a Cheshire cat and Tony just sat there, unable to believe that the woman he loves, the woman he thought he had lost, was standing right in front of him.

"Welcome home, my dear" Ducky and Palmer arrived at the opposite end of the bullpen with grins the size of Jupiter on their faces, grins that dropped when they actually saw her face, bandages covered the grazes but they didn't cover the shear look of fear and terror in her eyes but still overjoyed to be back home. Understandably, she wasn't over her ordeal with the terrorists.