The team stood there silently wondering if this was all a dream. Kate died, on the roof top about 8 years ago! Tony was there and so was Gibbs they saw it! Ducky did the autopsy, how on earth was she standing right there in front of them. Palmer finally clicked into who was standing in front of them. Gibbs was so tempted to say her name, but his shock led to nothing but silence. Kate stood there smiling; now Tony understood why the keeper called her the pale woman. Even though she stood there alive in the flesh her skin was still paler than usual.

-x-

"So you are telling me that your deceased agent... Kate Todd was standing in front of... you?" Vance asked Gibbs while he leaned back on his chair.

"Ya, and she's down in the bullpen right now. In the flesh."

"This doesn't make sense! Right in front of me is the autopsy report stating that she died 8 years ago by a shot in the head by Ziva's half-brother Ari!" Vance was starting to shout. This whole mess didn't make sense.

"Abby ran her DNA. She's the real thing. She even has the scars from where ducky performed the autopsy," explained Gibbs. Vance pierced his lips in confusion. There was no way in hell that this was possible.

"And she was the witness?"

"She said she only saw a man cloaked in black walking away from the hole where the petty officer was killed."

"In a graveyard…this sounds like one of those horrors movies Dinozzo is so fond of," Vance commented.

"We'll figure it out, along with case we will figure it out."

"And you are sure she isn't an imposter?"

"We did all the tests, she's the real deal."

Vance leaned in closer to his desk holding his chin with his hand. "That's what worries me."

Down in the bull pen Tony at first could not bring out any words to say to Kate; however, once all the tests came out positive he couldn't stop talking. All the years of stories he could tell her and show her of how much things changed in the last 8 years. McGee as well engaged in talking non-stop to Kate, and a few minutes later Abby joined in. Ziva was the only one who felt awkward about this. She was Kate's replacement, she never met Kate, and she never knew her. What was she supposed to say? Sorry I replaced you in the team? How did you "resurrect"? A million questions came through her mind, but she could not dare ask any of them.

Once the conversations started to die down, Ziva finally took the courage to ask, "so…how did you come back to life?" All went silent; no one dared yet to ask that question which surprised Ziva. She expected someone as logic as McGee and curious as Tony would ask that sort of question. Once Kate was about to open her mouth and answer she was stopped but an entering Gibbs.

"Doesn't matter, she's back that's what matters. McGee talk to me," said Gibbs. Ziva's jaw dropped to the realization that Gibbs had turned down that questions, Gibbs! Of all people. Ziva clicked back into reality once McGee started to speak.

"The wife has been informed of her husband's death and will be coming in for questioning in about an hour. Her name is Kathleen Walts, thirty two years old and a high school English teacher. She and Jonathon has recently bought a house and were planning to move in next week from their downtown apartment," explained McGee as he clicked the remote which showed images of a beautiful curly black haired woman, and beside it a picture of her soon to be new home.

Tony took the remote from McGee's hand and clicked it revealing a banking document and continued, "both shared accounts, no secret accounts, everything shared. Sounds like she's clean to me, Boss."

Before Ziva was about to add in her findings, Kate stepped in. "I hope you don't mind but I too did some research as a contribution. His landlord said that he last saw him around ten pm that night and looked as though he was in a hurry to do something, his truck seemed to have something in it that seemed unusual." Kate smiled all proud of herself. Ziva was shocked, that was the information that she was supposed to find, Did Kate really do research or did she just steal Ziva's. Before Ziva could protest, Kate took the remote from Tony showing Gibbs the "evidence" of her findings. To Ziva's surprise this was Kate's work.

What? So all of a sudden she comes back from the dead and she is already investigating a crime scene? Shouldn't we be investigating her? She came back to life? That is not exactly normal, Ziva thought to herself.

"Hey hey, missing your old job already?" Tony joked.

"Nice work Kate," complimented Gibbs. "Here…if you want to help." Gibbs pulled out a chair from the empty desk that was beside McGee's. "Okay, McGee…"

"Check all the security cameras in his apartment parking lot so I can get a hit on his vehicle, on hit," McGee finished.

"Tony…"

"Start looking up relatives and friends to see if anything suspicious comes up, on it Boss."

"Kate…"

"I'll go down to see Abby and check up on that fabric you found and see if the data for the fingerprints is ready."

"Okay, I'm off to talk to the wife," said Gibbs as the rest of the team scrambled to their work. Ziva sat there staring at him as he walked away calling his name a few times but clearly Gibbs did not hear anything. She sat back in her chair confused. Kate passed by Tony's desk and Tony smiled back at her. Not just a normal Tony smile, but a TONY smile. Ziva knew that smile very well; she was the only one he would use it with. But now, he gave it to Kate.