This is kind of a shorter chapter since I've been writing on this throughout the rare free time I had while I was away from home for the past 6 weeks. I hope you understand my situation. But I really wanted to post it anyways to give you at least a little bit to read and I really hope you like it!
And I need your help - let me know what you think and what you want to read in future chapters, I'm open for any suggestions and nothing is set in stone so far (:

She was different after Somalia. The light in her eyes seemed to be gone for a long time and Tony couldn't imagine how it would be this time. She didn't deserve so much pain and yet she had to endure it over and over again.
After Somalia Tony had found himself in a church, arguing with a God he didn't really believe in.
But he knew Ziva did and that's when he decided that it could be worth a try.
He questioned him, asked how he could allow so much cruelty but as much as he wanted to find an answer he never quite found it.
He was left with his racing thoughts and pain at the thoughts of Ziva's time in Africa.
And now it was happening again and all he could do was hoping that they would find her soon. Healthy. And still alive.

The whole team was now impatiently looking over Abby's shoulders to see what she had found, hoping it would be the deciding hint.
"Let's see what the file is telling us." Abby looked at her screen highly concentrated, searching her way through all the files to find something useful. After a few moments she let out an exasperated sigh. "Damn. I think they knew that we would eventually find the file. They deleted the exact location; all I can find is something about a warehouse somewhere outside the town. This is…this is catastrophic. "
"Abs! Calm down." Gibbs was speaking up behind her to calm down the clearly upset Goth in front of him.
"Gibbs!" she replied with a reproachful voice. "We need to find her. I mean…how are we ever going to find her with THIS? There are a dozen of warehouses around D.C." Abby pointed at the screen while explaining the misery to him.
"We will find her Abby, ok? Trust me." He always seemed to find the right words when it came to difficult situations. And this definitely was one.
She slightly nodded at him, deciding to trust him once again. There was no other hope left.
While Abby was still composing herself McGee hadn't stop looking through the files and all of the sudden he spoke up agitated.
"Guys, I found something else." The eyes that had rested on Abby now turned to look at McGee who stared at them slightly shocked. "What is it McGee?" Tony asked now tensed from the expression in his partners face.
His answer came out in barely above a whisper.
"They want her back in Israel." McGee paused for a second before he continued.
"And they want her to be the new director of Mossad."
With those words spoken the room fell in silence once again.

Gibbs had sent them home since he knew that his team needed some time to rest and think about the latest events.
They all stumbled out of the elevator and scattered into respective directions towards their cars, even though they all refused to leave the office in the first place because they didn't want to waste any further time but eventually their rationality kicked in and they felt the exhaustion sticking to their bones.
When Tony arrived at his apartment he sunk down on his couch with a well-needed beer in his hand, trying to stop the thoughts from racing through his mind.
He simply couldn't stop imagining what was happening with Ziva while he was sitting here doing nothing but drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

After his third beer he fell asleep on his couch in a rather uncomfortable position but it didn't really matter since he hadn't had rested throughout the last days and he would take any sleep he would get.
Once he was caught in a deeper sleep a dream overcame him.

Ziva stood in front of him, smiling brightly. She was wearing a light summer dress and her hair was falling down her shoulders in curls. He retorted her smile and could see how happy she was.
After a few more seconds he took in the surroundings and recognized where they were.
It seemed like they were in Israel and for a brief moment he wondered why they were there, but this thought didn't last too long.
Just when he was about to focus on Ziva again he saw her turning her back on him, her smile long gone.
She didn't say a word when she started walking away from him and the last thing he saw was the cold expression lying in her eyes before she broke their eye contact.
The view broke his heart and he desperately tried to stop her from walking away, he didn't want to be left behind.
He screamed her name over and over again and that's when he woke up from his dream.
Tony was panting heavily and had problems composing himself while trying to convince himself that it was just a bad dream. Still it left him with a bad taste in his mouth.
"You can't leave me, Ziva." He whispered after what felt like an eternity before he fell back into another restless sleep. Again.

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