Author's Note: So. This is definitely the fastest I've written a chapter story. When I used to write for SVU, I never updated this quickly. Goes to show how much more into NCIS I am. Yay!

Oh yeah! I saw the new X-Files movie. I was such a dork. The youngest one there out of 20 people. They were all 30 or older :P but this cute little old man thought I was precious and bought my ticket! We were 'oohing' and 'aahhing' together the whole movie. GO SEE IT! haha.

This one is for Navona again! Always keeping me up with new ideas! I love it!

Chapter 7:

Ziva sat in Jenny's office at NCIS, right beside Sylvia. She admitted, she missed having a best friend. That's what her and Sylvia were as children. Once you hit sixteen, and entered mossad, there was no longer a use for best friends. No longer the time, to have best friends. Jen and Abby were as close to best friends as it came once she joined NCIS.

"Your father tipped me off for a reason, Ziva," Jen told Ziva. "He was trying to protect you I think, in his own odd way.."

Ziva sighed. "Maybe.. but I do doubt that," she admitted. "My father is not interested in keeping family ties, simply in doing what is best for him and for Mossad," she explained. "That is why I know I should not have gone there. Not with everything that has happened," she told Jen.

Sylvia looked at Ziva. "Is he really that cold towards his own daughter?" she asked.

Ziva and Jen said nothing. Both of them knew.

Ziva glanced at Jen again. "Why did you move so fast to help me Jen?"

"I owe you my life Ziva, it may have been years ago, but I owed it to you," Jen explained. "And you're my friend," she admitted. "No one tries to take away my friends."

Ziva grinned.

"ZIVA!!"

Ziva stood up at Abby's high pitched squeal and was immediately bombarded by the forensic scientist, engulfed in a giant hug. "Goodness.. Abby," Ziva said with a small laugh. "I uh.. Are you ok?" she asked her.

Abby stared at her. "Am I okay?" she asked. "Ziva! Are you okay?!" Abby said, putting her hands on Ziva's shoulder.

"I'm fine, Abby," Ziva said, smiling.

Sylvia could only watch the interactions. She wasn't used to seeing this kind of.. 'friendship'. Then again. Seeing Ziva participating in it was even more odd to her.

"Gibbs said you should stay down in the lab with me for a while! Just til they figure things out," she told Ziva. "So come on," she started. "That's an order," she said in her mock-Gibbs voice.

Ziva laughed and let Abby grab her hand and lead her out of Jen's office, leaving Sylvia and Jen to stare after them.

"I've never seen Ziva smile and laugh so much, not since we were children.." Sylvia said to Jen. "It's nice to know she could still be happy," she admitted.

Jen smiled. "We enjoy having Ziva as a part of our team," she explained to Sylvia. "Everyone here will do what they can to make sure she stays."

Sylvia nodded. "Good.. I like it better that she is happy.."

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"Okay!" Abby said, grabbing Bert off a shelf and handing him to Ziva. "Time for some music."

Ziva chuckled, squeezing the hippo and making him fart. Suddenly, she just started laughing. Abby was the perfect person to make her feel so much better, and she knew that must have been why Gibbs ordered her to stay with Abby in the lab.

Abby grinned after turning on her music, and grabbed Bert putting him back on the shelf. "You know what always helps me feel so much better?" she asked Ziva.

Ziva tilted her head to the side. "No, what?" she dared to ask in return.

"A little black nail polish, some dark lipstick," Abby said with a giggle. "Come on Ziva, it'll be so much fun!"

Ziva was in shock. Abby wanted to give her a gothed out make-over? 'Oh god..'

"Ziva!!" Abby whined.

Ziva bit her lip, sighed, and conceded. "Alright, but I swear, if Tony finds out, I will kill somebody.."

Abby laughed. "Deal!"

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Gibbs went down to the morgue to talk to Ducky. But when he got down there, Ducky was drinking a cup of tea, watching something. "What are you.."

"Shush Jethro.." Ducky said quietly before motioning him over towards the monitor.

They could see both Abby and Ziva on the screen, and Gibbs could swear Abby had Ziva dancing with her to the metal music.

Gibbs couldn't help it. He grinned.

"Abigail certainly is the only one who will ever get Ziva to do that, don't you agree?" Ducky asked, turning to Gibbs.

"She certainly is Doc.. she certainly is.." Gibbs said, shaking his head and laughing.

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Gibbs walked into Jen's office, and noticed Jen and Ziva's friend Sylvia. "Any idea on what exactly is going on with this Amzi character?" he asked her.

Jen glanced up and shook her head. "Not much to go on yet, Jethro," she admitted. "I know a bit from speaking to Mossad Director David," she told him. "Amzi and Ziva were together as teenagers, against his wishes that is," she explained. "As far as he had known, Amzi had been dead for years though, from an explosion," she said next.

"So why isn't he dead?" Gibbs asked.

"That, not even Director David seems to know the answer to," Jen said. "Apparently, Amzi's obsession with Ziva hasn't gone away though," she told him. "Apparently it's a 15 year old obsession."

Gibbs was shocked. "How can you obsess over someone for that long?" he asked. "That's ridiculous.."

Jen agreed. It did seem utterly ridiculous to her and him.

Sylvia stood up. "Amzi is not a good person, Agent Gibbs," she finally said. "He never was, and I do not believe that he ever will be."

"What do you know about him?" Gibbs and Jen asked at the same time.

Sylvia was quiet at first. "I think he is Hamas.." she admitted. "And he may be after more than just Ziva's hand in marriage, but perhaps trying to take out her father as well."

"Does Director David know that?" Jen asked.

Sylvia nodded. "I am sure he is quite aware.."

"Then why would he even sanction a marriage between Ziva and Amzi?" Jen asked next. She was filled with questions, and she wanted answers.

Sylvia shook her head. "I'm sorry.. that, I do not know.." she admitted. "But if he is aware, and truly is sanctioning their marriage.." Sylvia muttered. "Then it cannot be good for Ziva.."

Gibbs said nothing, and walked out of Jen's office, leaving the two women staring after him. He went down the stairs, and made his way over to the elevator, jamming the down button until it opened and hitting the floor for Abby's lab.

When he got down there, all he heard was silence. He looked around, and the sight he saw, was almost hysterical. Abby and Ziva were both sprawled out on the floor of the lab. Ziva's head was on Bert the hippo, and Abby's head was on Ziva's stomach.

He smiled and just shook his head. Ducky was right.

Abby was most definitely, the only person who could get Ziva to act the way she did sometimes. And she was the only one, that would likely ever get Ziva in a position like this. He grinned, and simply had to do it, just for his own keepsake. He took the camera off the counter, and snapped a picture, then used Abby's computer to send it to Jen.

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Jen blinked as she received an e-mail from Gibbs, and she pulled it up. What she saw, made her laugh.

Ziva sleeping her with head on Bert, Abby's farting hippo. And Abby sleeping with her head on Ziva's stomach. It was absolutely priceless.

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So :) I hope it was good. I tried to make this chapter more of an upbeat one. Action to come, likely in the next chapter! Which will be up either tomorrow or the next night! :D

Love you guys. Your reviews are what keep me going.

Oh yeah. Check out my new oneshot, Falling! Very angsty and emotional. I was in a dark mood :P

-Rei