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Tony awoke to the irritating ring of his cell phone. He groaned and leaned over the undisturbed Ziva, which was weird because she usually jumps up at any sound, he picked up the phone.
"Ya…" Tony whispered tiredly into the phone.
"Sorry to wake you Tony, but we got some info on Hamas." McGee said into the phone. He hated having to wake Tony up, because it usually was followed by a day of torture.
"Err… ok we're coming." He answered looking at the beautiful landscapes of the body next to him.
"Ok, one more thing…where are you sleeping?" McGee had a smile so big Tony could feel it through the phone. Then the phone went dead.
Tony starred at Ziva for a few more seconds before gently taking his hand to her shoulder and shaking it lightly. She moaned and rolled over to face Tony, and then she smiled.
"We have to go to work. We already took a day off." he whispered letting her ears adjust.
She only moaned again and rolled away from him.
"C'mon Ziva, I already used my number one excuse yesterday." He whined.
"Fine." She got out of bed wearing only her underwear and one of Tony's old college shirts. "I'm taking a shower first." She demanded.
"Okay Sweat Cheeks." He joked as his eyes followed her ass into the bathroom, and then was blocked by the door shutting.
After they both took showers and ate leftover pizza Tony found in the fridge, Tony drove to NCIS headquarters. Ziva failed her attempt to lure Tony into letting her drive.
"We're here McAlarm-clock. What's up?" Tony greeted as he and Ziva entered the bullpen and throwing their bags down.
"Hamas claims they had no authorization on David Haswari's mission."
"You mean the suicide bombing." Tony walking over to McGee's desk
"Ya, but they did say that he was hanging around a group that was pretty familiar with Ari" McGee gestured toward the plasma.
Ziva is now standing beside Tony in front of the screen. McGee clicked the clicker and five pictures came up.
"These are pictures of David Haswari with his group. They all worked with Ari at some point. They are running through facial recognition right now, because Hamas wouldn't give us their names." McGee rolled his eyes for having to do extra work that Hamas could have given him over the phone.
"So…where's the Boss Man?" Tony said looking around the building looking for him.
"MTAC." McGee jerked his head towards the stairs that lead to MTAC.
"So why are we here?" Tony scrunched his face in confusion.
"Gibbs thinks it's safer if you stay here during the day."
Ziva stood quietly behind Tony hoping not to be noticed. It didn't help much because McGee wanted to talk to her.
"Ziva? Why did you and Gibbs not want to tell us about... you know Ari?" McGee leaned almost off his chair to look around Tony at Ziva.
Tony backed up to look at her too. Tony and Ziva looked at each other, Ziva isn't sure what to say.
"Well…if word got out that I killed my own brother…this could happen…and…I just didn't want to talk about it OK." She looked down to the ground and nodded. She the n walked over to the elevator, "I'm going to Abby's."
"Good job McSmooth!" Tony groaned and walked to his desk.
"Aren't you curious?"
"Of course I'm curious! But she needs time." Tony understood how she felt. He went through the same type of thing with Jeanne.
"She's had plenty of time."
Tony nodded and looked over o the elevator wondering how Abby is going to take it.
Abby's Lab
Ziva walked out of the elevator into Abby's lab, to be greeted by a jittery Goth running right at her. Abby hugged her in a huge embrace.
"ZIVA!!! I was so worried! Don't worry your safe now." Abby let her go and looked at her, " I know everything, well everyone knows everything, well I hope it's everything, I think it's everything. Is it everything?"
"I don't know what everything is Abby."
"Right. Well I know about Ari, I know why, and I know people are trying to kill you. But don't worry that will never happen because of Gibbs, Tony, and McGee…and you of course, because you have those awesome ninja moves." She moved her hands in a chopping motion.
"Abby, Abby, I know I'm fine." She stopped Abby's attempt of a ninja move.
"Okay, good. By the way, McGee wanted me to ask you: What were the sleeping arrangements?"
Ziva chuckled and had to lie for Tony's sake. Plus if Gibbs found out they broke rule 12, who knows what he'll do to them. "Tony slept on the couch."
"Really! Tony let you sleep in the bed?!"
"Ya, what is so surprising?"
"It's just he never let's anyone have the bed, as he says it 'I'm the senior field agent I get the bed!'" Abby lowered her voice to sound like Tony.
She chuckled again. "I guess he knows what I'm going through. By the way, you are taking this the best."
"Huh? You didn't do anything wrong."
"I guess they just are mad at me for not telling them."
"Ya…I guess." A 'ding' came from Abby's computer, "Yay!"
"What is it?"
"The facial recognitions, I finally got all of them…." Her face fell as she read the profiles, "O boy"
"What? What is it?"
"These people that are supposedly after you, well…seem to be the best assassins in the Hamas."
Ziva matched Abby's worried face as if she were looking in a mirror, that had black makeup on it.
Squad Room
"We got a problem, Tony." McGee faced Tony with the same worried face as Abby and Ziva.
"What?"
McGee turned the monitor around so Tony could see what he was looking at. Tony's face looked dead as he starred at the records of kills these Hamas assassins had.
"Oh shit." Tony said under his breath, "Shit!"
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