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As the sun began to set behind the tall buildings, the sky was alight with brilliant reds and oranges, pastel like splashes across the sky contrasting with the dull grey of the tall towers and the bright green of the trees.
Isaac Adler sipped his tea with a small smile, having just finished a long shift at the local bakery. He watched as the children flooded out of the doors of the elementary school. Laughing and smiling as they cheered for the day ending. He watched as all different sizes and races of children walked home together.
In this small Jewish community of Hempstead, everybody knew everybody, and that's the way Issac Adler liked it.
Turing his head from the laughing children, he set his gaze on the pretty girl behind the counter and smiled. She was short and petite, her strawberry blond hair and bright green eyes twinkling as she smiled back at him.
They were due to be married in a week.
He sipped his tea, finishing the last bit and holding it up cheekily to his fiancé, she smiled, holding one slender finger up, telling him to wait.
He smiled and winked at her.
It was not until his third or fourth cup of tea and a half eaten piece of apple pie that he had left with his pretty fiancée. She had finished her shift and they were on their way home, for a romantic dinner.
As they walked home together, hand in hand, the sky had darkened and the stars shone brightly, the chirping sound of the birds and a strange hum could be heard in the distance.
The community was small, a few houses and shops and cafe's making up the small town.
The couple stopped short of the door, looking up into the sky as the humming got louder. A strange bright light seemed to be getting bigger, the hum getting louder and shrill. As the light got brighter, the couple could see their neighbours apering from the warm comforts of their home, looking up at the sky,
It was too late to do anything when Issac realized what the light in the sky was.
It made impact and everything was engulfed in burning flames.
Xx
As the sunlight crawled across the newly varnished wooden floors of Tony's apartment, he woke to the muffled sound of a beeping beside his ear, opening his eyes and letting them adjust to the brightness of the room, the muffled beeping became clearer and clearer, accompanied by the sound of a familiar shouting, all thanks to his new next door neighbours. He sighed and closed his eyes, since moving in three months ago, their arguments came like clockwork, every morning at 07:30 the shrill whine of the Chinese American housewife and the rough bark of her Chinese American husband, arguing in their native tongue. For the first week, Tony found it quiet comical, seeming like something her would see in one of his movies, than it just got annoying and repetitive.
Forcing his eyes to open, he stiffly got to his feet and stretched his back and arms, yawning loudly before moving slowly towards the bathroom, he quickly jumped into the shower and turned on the water, letting out a small squeal as the momentarily freezing cold water hit his naked skin , a hasty ten minutes later he was dressed and ready for work, his bag slung over his left shoulder and a flask of coffee in his right hand, he left through the door, his neighbours still yelling at each other as he reached the stairs.
When he had arrived in the bullpen, every agent stood looking up at a large screen that played the news, a story about what they thought was a terror attack on a small Jewish community. What was once a small haven of houses, shops and temples, now rubble and flame.
He moved towards his desk, his eyes never moving from the glowing flat screen television,, blurred images of charred corpses and dilapidated buildings, the only recognisable images seen through a haze of grey smoke.
"Boss, what the hell happened..."
It was Bishop who answered him, her accented voice sounding quiet from behind her desk.
"Someone sent some kind of missile towards the Jewish town of Hempstead...it came from somewhere near the town."
"Where?"
"No one knows, if you had been here on time you would know all this DiNozzo!"
Tony stared open mouthed at the screen, an ache in his heart accompanied by a feeling of disbelief.
"What did Ziva say about this?"
"I don't know. She has not shown up yet."
Gibbs turned off the TV, resulting in an orchestra of groans from the other agents around the room. He then made his way towards the stairs. Tony stopped him midway up the stairs.
"Boss there is something I have to tell you. I went to Ziva's hotel the other night. I asked the man at the desk where her room was..." he stopped for a short while. "Gibbs, she never checked in. They have no record of her."
Gibbs sighed and bit his lip for a moment.
"I know." He said, than continued up the stairs, towards the director's office.
Xx
It was four in the afternoon when Ziva walked into the bullpen, the white collar of her blouse stained with blood. Rushing to her temporary desk, she searched manically through the draws, pulling out a flask and a clean cloth. Pouring some alcohol on the cloth she put it to her head and sighed.
Her heart was racing, the stinging of the wound on her head intensified by the alcohol.
"So what happened to your face? " A voice sounded behind her, Ziva looked round to see Tony.
"What!" She said, Tony realised she may have thought he was talking about her scars.
"I mean, the cut on your head...not...the...the...you know..." he pointed to his face, indicating the scars. Ziva's eyes softened and she threw the bloody cloth to the side on her desk.
"I got into a little altercation."
"Doing what?"
"Getting this." Ziva reached into her bag and pulled out a file and gave it to Tony.
"Last night. That was just a test. Just a show."
Tony took the file from her and looked inside, images of the dead from Hempstead and information about various bank accounts.
"A show for what?" Tony asked.
"Vitaly is selling these weapons to the highest bidder. Last night was not even half of what the weapons that are being sold can do. As far as I know, he has ten missiles."
Tony was silent. His mouth open in a surprised and terrified gape.
"How did you get this information Ziva?"
"You don't have to worry about that Tony." Ziva said, she fell back into her seat and picked up the cloth again, pouring more liquid on it and placing it to her head.
"Where is Gibbs?" she asked. Tony shrugged.
Ziva sighed and closed her eyes against the coming migraine. She could see Tony look at her with worried expression.
"You ok?"
She nodded and closed her eyes tighter. Opening his mouth to say something further he was interrupted by the booming voice of the boss. Turning round, he and Ziva saw both Bishop and McGee walking towards them. Gibbs expression made Tony go ridged.
"How's it going boss. How did the talk with the FBI go, Find out anything new?"
Gibbs ignored Tony and instead pointed a long finger at Ziva, turned his hand round than wiggled it towards him.
"You, with me, now."
Ziva frowned, a sudden pang of fear surging through her. Getting up and throwing the cloth aside again, she pushed passed Tony, following Gibbs up the stairs. When she was lead towards MTAC, a feeling of fear surged through her. She swallowed hard as Gibbs opened the door and stepped aside.
"In."
Ziva complied without a word, her legs feeling heavy as she approached the large screen. She sighed when she saw Orli Elbaz looking down at her, her face sheet white, her eyes wide and her lips a thin line.
"Orli. You look like you have seen a Ghost." Ziva said coldly.
Orli was silent for a while.
"Do you blame me Ziva." She said, gaining her composure, a flash of anger and distrust in her eyes.
"Considering you died over a year ago."
Hope you enjoyed guys, I am getting a bit lost as to where this is going. So bare with me. also, check out my story Serpents lair, it should be updated today at sometime. :) Its a good read. Thanks to my beta also MusicLover who helped me with most of the chapters but i just wanted to try to do it on my own for this chapter. So please guys tell me how i idid :)
