Continuation of Girls' Night Out Gone Wrong
The team packed up their gear, got in the car, and drove back to home base. "McGee, when we get back I want you to check anything and everything you can about Rodriguez. DiNozzo, I want you to go to the base he was stationed at and find out about him from his crew. Ziva…" Again dazed out, she wasn't paying much attention to what Gibbs was saying. "Ziva!" She came back to Earth, "Yes?" "What is up with you?" Gibbs angrily asked. "Think the booze got to her, boss" Tony jokingly remarked.
Arriving at NCIS, Gibbs ordered everyone out of the car except for Ziva.
"Ziva… you stay"
"Gibbs, I understand that I seem a little bit out of it but-"
"A little? Ziva, what is really going on?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
" Yes, Nothing. May I go, or are you going to continue interrogating me as a child?" Ziva said as she opened the car door and walked into the elevator.
In the elevator, she couldn't seem to think, last night was a blur and there was only one other person with her, Abby. Ziva entered Abby's lab, which was filled with the music at full blast, with her head down. "Ziva? Um… what are you doing down here?" Abby said as she waked to her computer. "…I think… I might have killed that Marine…" Ziva said, her voice both shook and cracked. "Whoa. Ziva that's a big thing to say, why would you think that?" Abby said shocked at what she had heard. "I don't remember anything from last night… I got home at 3… and when McGee said his name I remembered meeting him last night and Ducky said time of death was between 12 and 3… Abby, I cant… I can't be guilty but… what if?" frantically Ziva explained leaving Abby shocked, surprised and overall worried. "Ziva, lets take a step back. We left the bar at 11:30… I called us a cab, so no way it was you…" Pacing back and forth, Ziva began to think, interrupted by the sound of her phone. "David." "Ziva, its Tony, Gibbs wants us to check out Rodriguez's home." "Alright, I'll meet you at the car, bye." Hanging up, she walked to the elevators, stopped only to walk back into Abby's lab, "Abby." "Yeah?" Abby said turning around, "This doesn't leave your mouth… not even to Gibbs…" Ziva established before walking into the elevator. She couldn't be guilty but if she was, no one was going to know…
Silence filled the car, only to be disrupted by Tony and his questions, "So, Ziva… why were you late today, if I may ask?" "No, you may not ask." She said as she looked at her phone for the 5th time in a row. Tony turned left at the light into a quiet neighborhood in Bethesda, Ziva looked up from her phone and her heart beat began to speed up. This area looked familiar… Had she been here before? Stopping at the end of the street, they got out of the car and walked up the pathway to the Petty Officer's home. "Pretty nice place for a single Petty Officer don't you think? Ziva?" Ziva had drifted to the side of the house, finding broken glass and blood. "Tony! Come here!" Tony ran to her, "Is that blood?" Ziva looked at Tony, "I believe so…" Taking out their guns and announcing themselves, they followed the blood trail to the back of the house. "Didn't expect that…" Tony said as he looked at Ziva. They had come across another body.
"Uh…Boss… We have a little situation her" Tony told Gibbs through the phone after he and Ziva had searched the house. "What do you mean by "a little situation", DiNozzo?" you could hear Gibbs ask through the phone. "Well, we went from one dead Marine to two dead Marines… Ziva already called Ducky, he's on his way." Tony said as Ziva waked around the backyard looking at everything that caught her eye. Hanging up the phone, Tony walked up to Ziva, "What are you looking for?" "Anything and everything, that can help solve this case, what are you looking for?" Ziva asked rhetorically. Not noticing her not wanting for an answer, Tony responded, "I'm looking for an answer to my question from this morning…. What's going on? You have been avoiding me for a week, was it something I said? Something I did? Just tell me…" Ziva stopped in her tracks, looking at tony with anger in her eyes, "Tony, if you have to ask, then you know you must have said or have done something, and if you are too incompetent to realize what it is, I ask you to leave me alone and not ask me again. We have two dead Marines, and I am more focused on finding justice for them then dealing with your repetitive questions." Walking back to the front of the house Ziva noticed that on the windshield of the car was a piece of paper. Putting on a pair of gloves, she grabbed the paper and read it out loud as Tony came from behind, "One by one they all shall fall. The Few. The Proud. The Marines and all because of YOU, Ziva David." "Ziva… What do you have to do with any of this?" Tony asked as he took the paper from her hands. "I…don't…know" she said as she stepped back from the car and looked toward the NCIS van that was heading towards them. This meant one thing, it wasn't her… but whoever it was knew her…
