Title: The Too Young series: The Forbidden

Disclaimer: I don't own the show NCIS, I'm just borrowing the characters for the story.

A/N: This story is part of my series called Too young, where Ziva is nineteen years old and has been assigned as Liaison Officer to Gibbs' team (just like on the show). She is taken care of by, and also seen as the responsibility of, Gibbs and occasionally also Director Jenny Sheperd who were the ones that decided she could stay at NCIS regardless of her young age.

I wrote "Staying Focused" as the first story about a younger Ziva and I've had to make some changes in that story to make everything work better as a series. "Staying Focused" is still included in the series though of course.

The first change is that Ziva is nineteen, not twenty three and I have my reasons for making that change. The second change is that in this series Gibbs only administers Corporal Punishment to Ziva, (because of her age and the fact that he has taken responsibility for her training and safety) not the rest of the team. The third and last change is that "Staying Focused" takes place at the beginning of season three, not the end of the season. In this story the team has been informed of Ziva's age.

A/N 2: This is the third story about Ziva in my Too Young series.

CHAPTER 3

"I'm going to kill them both for this." Ziva muttered between clenched teeth. She could not believe those two. She was not allowed to drive a car and now she was even driving Gibbs' car. It had been Tony's turn to fill up the car's gas tank after their last trip out in the field, it also happened to be Gibbs' car, and he had obviously forgotten. Earlier they had come too far to turn back before realizing they might not make it to Cornville because of the lack of gas in the car. They had ended up pushing the car up the last street to the gas station right at the edge of the little town she had just recently left and even though it was clearly his fault, Tony still had insisted on being the one behind the steering wheel instead of pushing the car. McGee had argued the more logical approach which was to let Ziva be the one to drive since they were both stronger than her but Tony had reminded them both of Gibbs' rule number fourteen, DO NOT LET ZIVA DRIVE ANY VEHICLE. In the end he had won with his usual strong argument about being the Senior Field Agent.

Feeling the need to catch up to the truck Ziva stepped on it and felt the car accelerate. She could not believe they had just left her while she had gone inside to look for someone who could sell them some gas for the car so they could continue on to Cornville and pick up Warren, their prime suspect. Her guess was that upon realizing that the gas station was old and all the pumps out of use and that there were no gasoline to buy there, Tony and McGee had just jumped on the first truck that had been willing to drive them. But why couldn't they have made the driver wait two seconds for her to come out of the gas station before taking off? That she did not understand. It was very strange. However, while standing watching the truck drive away with her coworkers in the back an old man had walked out on the road and stood at her side. The man had looked very bewildered and asked, "What are those two nutjobs doing riding with crazy old Joe Tanner?" Upon asking him Ziva had been informed that Joe Tanner was their suspect's best friend from childhood and that the two of them were like brothers. She was sure Tony and McGee were not aware of that and that they might end up face to face with Warren even sooner than they counted on. She needed to get there so that she could back them up.

To be continued

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