Chapter 1 Welcome Back
Once the elevator doors opened and they stepped out everyone was waiting for them. As they made it to the bullpen everyone started clapping for them. Ziva was stunned by everyone's acceptance of her being alive and back. She didn't deserve these people in her life. She now knew what it truly meant to be apart of a family. For these people had become more her family than her real family. Abby was careful not to squeeze Ziva to hard when she hugged her but was so happy she was home. Even though she was aware of everyone's eyes on her the only person she could look at was him. How after everything they had been through he could still look at her like that, she didn't understand. After several minutes everyone started heading home for the night, when Ziva realized she had no where to go. Her apartment had been blown up before she went back to Israel. Gibbs read her mind before she even spoke and told her she was going home with him. When she put up no protest everyone realized how badly she had been effected by the whole situation. The team knew this was not the same Ziva that had left them but that with time she would come back to them. She had lost her spunk, which made them realize that if it had be anyone else they would not have still been alive. Abby rounded Ziva up some essentials and then Gibbs took her to his house.