Back by Ziva

I really wanted to go back but how. I want to be with the team, my family and with my mother too. I think I have tell Tony soon how I feel. Just look back we had so much fun together. There are so many examples. Like those.

Anthony DiNozzo: Are we fighting?
Ziva David: If we were, you would be on the floor. Bleeding.
Anthony DiNozzo: Okay, I accept that as a likely outcome. So you're just annoyed with me?

Ziva David: Do any of your ideas come from reality?
Anthony DiNozzo: Sure. Just not your reality.

Anthony DiNozzo: Three hot, young babes learning what's really important in life.
Ziva David: Defending their country?
Anthony DiNozzo: No. Firing machine guns while wearing bikinis.

Ziva David: What do you know about the American Dream?
Anthony DiNozzo: Let's see: I'm a white male, age 18-49, I have a loud mouth and a gun... I AM the American Dream.

Ziva David: [Viciously kicking the photocopier] Die, you stupid machine!
Timothy McGee: She seems unfazed.
Anthony DiNozzo: Those are standard Mossad-style, copy-machine assault tactics, McGee.

Anthony DiNozzo: Supermodels date guys who look like George Clooney, or have George Clooney's bank account, or of course the actual George Clooney.

But how should I tell him? Suddenly everybody was gone and I was alone again. Am I dead now or not? I asked myself.

The doctor came to the team again and said "She is out of surgery now. She is not awake yet but you can visit her now. She laid there and look so breakable. She was affiliated at so many machines. And there was a bag with blood. Her normally olive brown skin was so pale. She wasn't Ziva. Not his Ziva. She just looked so small.

Tony remembered the time when his mother was in hospital and he laid next to her on her bed and told her about school. Then they watched the little prince together and his mother said "You know, you are my little prince and I will always love you" then she died. And then when he talked with Ziva about her and Ziva said "That which is essential is invisible to the eye"

Back then he wanted to kiss her so bad. He wanted to thank her for everything and now? He was glad that she was alive but he knew that he have to tell her.

Zivas mother sat on her bed next to her and Tony sat on the other side of the bed on a char. Rivka took Zivas hand in hers and whispered something in Hebrew. About 20 minutes later Gibbs said "I am sorry but we have to take you into another safe house. Tony you stay here and look after Ziver ok. Give us a call when something happens here"

"Yes Boss" Tony said.

"I want to stay here" Rivka said.

"We need to protect you Ziva would probably kill me if I let something happen to you. If you don't do it for yourself do it for Ziva" Gibbs said.

Rivka nodded and gave Ziva a kiss on her forehead. Then she left the room with Gibbs and the others.

Tony took Zivas hand in his larger one and said "You scared the hell out of me you know. I thought that you are going to die and that I could never tell you…"

But then a doctor came in. "Hi I am Doctor Grey and I will check if your girlfriend is alright" she said.

Tony nodded and said "She isn't my girlfriend"

"Oh sorry. Your sister?" Grey asked.

"No. She is my partner." Tony said with a sad smile.

"You two are cops?" Grey asked.

"No we are federal agents we work for NCIS" Tony said.

"Her conditions are not as good as we hoped they would be. I just go and get her doctors ok but you don't have to worry" Grey said and went out of the room.

A few minutes later she came back with two doctors.

"Tony is that you?" the one of them asked.

"Derek? Wow it was a long time ago since I saw you how are you?" Tony asked.

"Doing great but how are you is she your…?" Derek asked.

"Ziva is my partner we are federal agents and like you know she got shot. So you are a doctor now?"

"Yes I am the head of neuro"

"Don't tell me that she is not going to wake up" Tony said.

"Don't worry I just want to look if everything is fine because when her heart stopped her brain didn't get a lot of blood"

"Ok" Tony said.

"I am Doctor Hunt" the other one introduced himself.

"Hello" Tony said to him.

He told Tony about Ziva's injuries and after they checked on her they left the room again.

Meanwhile by Rivka

Gibbs brought Rivka to his house because it is safer that way.

"Do you think we should call her father?" she asked Gibbs.

"No" Gibbs said.

"I just think he should know it. He shouldn't know that I am here but he should know how Ziva is or?"

"It is up to Ziver if she wants to call Eli or not." Gibbs said. He didn't want to tell Rivka too much. It is up to Ziva if she should know something about Somalia and the reasons why Ziva hates her father. It is not up to him. And if they would call Eli it would be too much for Ziva. He knows her.

He wants the best for his Agents. They are his family and if it is the best not to tell Eli that she is injured it is what it is and no one would change his mind except Ziva. He also realised that Tony and Ziva are probably going to break Rule#12 soon so he had to talk with Tony.

But he sees everyday how close they are and that they work as a team without words. That they are like magnets. They are like he and Shannon. They are soul mates and he thought that they would keep it out of the office if they are told to.

If being a couple would made them happy he would also be happy and he is sure that it would work. He could feel it in his gut and his gut is always right. The two had a right to be happy. To have someone who loves them and who if there for them every minute in their lives.

Sure he is like a father for them. Ziva called him like that twice. The first time when she was back from Somalia and talked with him in his basement. And the other time when they played baseball. It wasn't Eli who thought her how to play it was him.

"Why wouldn't she want that he knows how she is?" Rivka asked Gibbs.

"Because they hadn't talked to each other in a long time. About two years now." Gibbs said.

"What happened?" Rivka asked him.

"It is up to Ziva to tell you what happened" Gibbs said.

Back by Tony and Ziva

Tony sat down next to Ziva again. He took her small hand in his and silently talked with her. He wanted her to wake up. He wanted to tell her so bad how much he loves her. He just starred at her for what felt like hours.

Suddenly the door was opened again and the doctor which was called Bailey came in.

"What are you still doing here? Visiting times are over" she said in an angry voice.

"I am here because it is my job to look after my partner when she was shot" he said.

"You can do this while we have the visiting times and not now come back tomorrow morning" Bailey said.

"It is my order to look after her because the man who shot her could come back to finish what he did. You don't know how often that happens" Tony said.

So tony was allowed to stay in her room. He was glad that he could because he wasn't only because of that reason with her he was there because he wanted to be. Like he said he couldn't live without her.

She just have to wake up and he would be the happiest man on earth to see those soft brown eyes smiling at him again. He saw through her masquerade every time he saw her. He always knew how she felt even if nobody else knew it.

Sure he was stupid that one time when Ziva tried to get cards for the opera and couldn't get them because it was sold out. He was jealous then. Thought that she would have a boyfriend. He didn't saw the pain in her eyes until she said him that it was about Tali.

He thought it would be nice and a sort of saying sorry and that he would always be there for her. So he bought a CD with the songs from the opera and let it play for her. To see the smile she had on her face back then was so much a gift for her.

Whenever she smiles he also had to smile because he is happy if she is. He loved their movie nights when she fell asleep snuggling into him. He loved it when she cooked for him when he came to her to talk or watch a movie. He loved everything they did together.

By Rivka and Gibbs

On days like this Rivka enjoyed to look at pictures from where they had been a happy little family. She loved to look at those pictures. So she sat down on Gibbs sofa and took out the pictures. To each picture she knew the story. Gibbs sat down next to Rivka when she started to talk about those old times.

"Did you know that Ziva danced when she was a kid?" she asked Gibbs.

"No I didn't" Gibbs said.

"She was such a good dancer. And I don't say it because I am her mother. She was really good. Could have gotten a professional when there wasn't her father."

"Why did she stopped to dance?" Gibbs asked.

"It wasn't Zivas decision. She was so good that she nearly trained every day. Not at Saturdays of cause. So she had barley time to do what Eli wanted. She hated it back then to do material arts because one time she nearly broke her arm and couldn't go to her dancing class then. And because she had barley time for material arts Eli forbid her to dance. He said something like that it was a waste of time and useless. So she could only dance when he was away because of Mossad. He was never there when she was on stage so he couldn't see how good she was and how much she loved it. I think she stopped after we got divorced because she couldn't go to the training then." Rivka said.

"Do you have kids Agent Gibbs?" Rivka asked.

"I had." Gibbs said.

"Oh I am sorry. I know how hard it is to lose a kid." Rivka answered.

Then Gibbs phone rang. It was Tony who wanted to say him how Ziva was. He said it to him and after Gibbs hung up he told Rivka what the doctors told Tony. Then Gibbs called McGee and told him that he should bring Tony some fresh clothes and maybe a few thinks to change and to entertain himself because he was going to stay with Ziva until she is released from the hospital.