Today was going to be Ellie Bishop's first full day as a part of the NCIS team. She stood in front of her wardrobe trying to put together an outfit of which she could feel comfortable, yet respected in. She decided to go with the blue jeans with the cotton white shirt; flattering but still considered a mature outfit. Ellie left her apartment and decided to grab four coffees on her way into the office hoping it would get her new colleagues on side.

Tony heard the familiar 'ding' of the elevator and looked up to see a blonde walking towards the bull pen with four Starbucks coffees in hand. 'This ought to be good he thought to himself. He already knew that this was Ellie Bishop, the replacement. Yesterday Gibbs had handed her a bulletproof vest and let her tag along on the mission. Tony thought she was just hear to finish off paper work considering they arrested Petty Officer Luke Kingston for his wife's murder yesterday.

"Good morning everyone" Ellie said. Tony just smiled back at her. He still couldn't come to terms with working with another female since she left.

"Good morning Ellie, what you got there?" Tony heard from the far side of the bull pen. McGee popped his head up from behind his computer to investigate the drinks Bishop had bought in.

"I stopped for coffee on the way in and thought I would grab everyone a drink since it was my first day today" she said as she placed a cup on McGee's desk then Tony's. I got on for Agent Gibbs too but apparently he is not here ye... "Who isn't here?" She heard a voice behind her. She turned around to find Special Agent Gibbs standing staring at her. "Ah you, but you are now, ah I bought coffee" she said confidently with a smile. "Too much sugar, can't drink it" he replied as he placed the cup down on his desk and walked up to the Directors office.

"Don't take it to heart, he is always like that" McGee said assuring her she had done nothing wrong. "In fact, our old team memeber Zi.." He paused mid-sentence to find Tony giving him the ultimate death stare. Her name was mentioned around here at all as everyone, especially Tony was still having a hard time with her absence.

Ellie noticed that Tony hadn't said anything to her since she had arrived this morning and began to worry that she wasn't welcome. McGee decided to give Tony a moment to himself and suggested to Bishop that he would take her on a tour of the building starting in the morgue with Ducky and working their way up.

After McGee and Bishop left, Tony opened up his top desk drawer to discover the necklace of his soul mate sitting inside, exactly where he had left it ten minutes ago when he last looked at it. "I miss you like crazy" he whispered and closed the drawer. Tony hadn't slept a full night since his return from Israel and when he did sleep all he could see was her face and how happy she would be, then the dream would turn to a a nightmare and something bad like a bomb or gun fight would harm Ziva and she would drift away. At this point he would wake up in sweat and tears calling her name, but never being able to reach her. He wanted her back so badly, to have to hold in his arm and kiss good night for the rest of his life. He made one promise to himself and that was the next time he seen her, he would never let her go again because suffering this pain all over again would most likely kill him.

McGee and Bishop were in the elevator on their way to Abby's lab.

"What was that about?" she asked.

"Tony?"

"Yeah"

"Oh, don't take that personally, it's just that Tony is in a really difficult place right now after losing his previous partner."

"Did something happen to her? Did she die?"

"No, not at all, this job gets to people. She is one of the strongest people I know, but eventually everything got to her and she has decided to take some time away from everything to regather her thoughts. Her and Tony were very very close and nobody will break that bond between them. It takes along time to find a partner who you will trust with your life and they trusted one another with so much more than that"

"Oh, I see, is he going to be okay?"

"We don't know, but it is Tony, so he will make a few jokes to cover up the pain inside. And he just appreciates not mentioning her name or her memories around him, just makes it easier."

"What was her name?"

"Ziva. Ziva David."