Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS or any characters or anything related. I just own the story and the 2 guys in the chap that I made up that is super unimportant.

Oh which by the way the story is rated T for some language. I don't know why I'm saying this but I just though of it when I wrote the fight scene.

And any mistake is my own mistake, realizing that the previous chaps have too much mistakes. I might fix it in the next week or so since I realized several major mistakes especially with the POV. Anyway I tried hard to pay more attention and edit with the new ones but I apologize for those that I missed.

Tim McGee lit up as the final bell of the day rang. Everyone in the school have been waiting for this day since well the beginning of the semester. It was finally spring break. And when he said everybody, he meant everybody. Even people who liked school like Tim loved that week off. But this year, to Tim, spring break had been extra luring because he could finally get some peace. It was like the Christmas of 1914 in World War One. Well, his conflict was not nearly a tenth as horrifying had that have been but he was still grad for the break.

Now that he thought back to it, Valentine's day weekend was the last peaceful day that he and his friends got. Where ever they went and what ever they did, Jenny and Gibbs' relationship had taken a down hill since that weekend. Well the Wednesday after the weekend anyway. They had been extra and uncharacteristically sweet for them right after the weekend but by the middle of the week Gibbs had practically stopped talking to Jenny and Jenny was quite sour towards him too. But then again, McGee thought to himself, they could have been affected by Ziva and Tony. God, Ziva and Tony. Nobody could really put a finger on it what happened. They have been ...they are being... well... mysterious? Weird? Horrific? What ever it was, it was causing big trouble.

Ziva and Tony had been very close since she moved here. Their attraction to each other had been quite obvious, well really obvious because even Tim saw it. When Tony called in and asked to hang out on Valentine's day and according to Jenny's phone call later that day to Abby, they went to a park, he and everybody was was sure that they would finally hook up. But instead, the Monday after that Ziva didn't even show up for school. She and her brother was absent until Thursday that week and Tony refused to tell anyone anything. Really, if Ziva just disappeared and didn't come back, Tim would have assumed that Tony did something stupid and hurt Ziva. But after Ziva came back she looked guilty, or at least acted that way. Because she kept trying to talk to Tony but he either ignored her, made some joke out of what she said, or came up with stupid excuses.

Ever since Ziva came back from her still unexplained three day absence, Tony has been... too Tony. He made jokes out of everything that anyone was trying to talk to him about that it became impossible to say anything serious to Tony unless it involved football. He had been hitting on every single girl he saw, including the ones he once announced as unattractive. Not only that but three weeks ago, he got back with Jeanne. Jeanne! His obsessive stalker ex-girlfriend that he described as a psycho that nobody could deal with. In fact they have been making out in very, very, public places. The principal had to call them in five times already to warn them that not everyone appreciates public intimate affection. And the times that other teachers and students had either groaned or complained about them? It was too much to count.

All the conflict between Gibbs and Jenny, and Tony and Ziva had made life insufferable for rest of the group. They were often put into the middle of the fight between Gibbs and Jenny which never ended well. And they had came up with hundreds of ideas to make Tony and Ziva get back together or at least feel comfortable enough to talk, but none of them worked. All the teasing from Tony have made Kate super cranky. He and Abby was always arguing about whether or not they should stick their nose into their friends' business. Poor Ducky was stuck in middle of all their problems when he himself had heavy schedule and college arrangements to worry about. He tried his best to give advice to everyone and make things better but he was always torn and even Ducky could not hold it in him all the time and Tim really couldn't blame him. If he was in Ducky's shoes he would have blown up three weeks ago. And Gibbs who usually puts everyone back in line when they fought was in his own huge fight and couldn't really deal with anybody else and school have been a nightmare .

But it was spring break and they could finally stop all that and relax. Tim could not even start to describe how much he wish that by some miracle everything would be better when they got back. Maybe a beautiful level 5 sorceress would come and save you... wait WHAT? What's wrong with you Tim? You're now imagining that some random fictional character would save you? Tim sighed and shook his head as he realized he really needed a girlfriend or at least get away from all the crazy stuff. A week long vacation was exactly what he needed.

He waved as he saw Abby and Kate waiting for him at the stair case door. "Hey Kate, Abs"

"Hurry up Tim, everyone's probably at the bleachers already." Abby said impatiently. As much as he hated Abby calling him Timmy all the time when she stops every time they have a fight he kind of miss it. Right now was one of those times because he had to convince Abby that locking Tony and Ziva in a closet together would not solve their problems. Which was true because Ziva would probably have killed him within a minute. Although he wondered what she would use, maybe a mop, but how would that work? But he was sure that Ziva would find a way anyhow but he was surprised that she didn't do anything when Jeanne supposedly 'accidentally' spilled her orange juice on her cargo pants last week.

"Alright, I'm coming." Tim said as he rushed down the stairs to catch up as with the two he saw them already at bottom of the stairs."So spring break huh? Any plans?"

"Nope" The two girls answered simultaneously.

Tim nodded slowly, giving up his try to make a conversation. When they reached the bleachers, everyone except Tony was there.

"Hey guys! Where's Tony?" Abby asked.

"Home." Ziva said.

"Office" McGee answered at the same time, causing everyone to looked at them in turn.

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Early that day

Tim was walking down the hall way with his math textbook in his hands since his backpack was too heavy to fit in another one of his big, fat, ancient textbook. He was for the billions time that week daydreaming and not paying attention to his surroundings as he accidentally bumped into Greg and Nathan

"Watch where you're going." Greg said as he pushed Tim against a locker. Greg Thomson was a very big wrestler, and boy did he mean big. He wasn't a jerk or anything but he does have a short temper and you don't mess with him.

"Yeah watch it, freak." Nathan Nelson added. Greg wasn't the smartest guy around so he has Nathan, who in turn is a jerk, so technically Greg is a jerk too because he doesn't have his own brain not that anybody would dare to point that out. Jerks and big guys never ended well for Tim and having them together, well it was just horrible. "What ya got there?" Nathan knocked his textbook out of his hands and swayed above his head. Tim being a little shorter than average and Nathan so tall, there was no way he was going to win.

When Nathan saw Tim hang his head down in defeat he grinned and started to tease him. "What's Timmy McLoser going to do when his precious textbook gets stolen? Huh? Call mommy?" He laughed and a lot of people near by did the same. He continue to mock him as he twiddled his fingers. "Ooo... I'm so scared." He started to laugh louder as he realized McGee was really going to stand there letting him tease him without a fight, probably because of Greg behind him.

Just as Tim was about to ran away into the bathroom as always, a tall girl with curled dark brown hair made her way through the crowd. "Hey leave the poor guy alone Nathan." Tim was now really surprised when he realized the beautiful girl was defending him.

"None of your business. What are you? His bodyguard? Wait shouldn't it be the other way around? What McLoser, you need a girl to defend you?"

"Don't make fun of his name Nathan. Which oh by the way, Nathan Nelson? What kind of parents name their kid Nathan Nelson?"

"You..." Nathan was really pissed now. Instead of launching himself at the girl he pushed her way into the crowd causing her to fall down.. "I won't hit a girl, but you McLoser, I don't mind."

Tim's eye widened in fear as Greg made a snapping sound he clenched his right hand into a fist. Everybody around him was cheering.

Nathan put his arm in front of Greg. Apparently he wanted to fight this one himself which amazingly enough made Tim feel a lot better. He still felt sick to his stomach though. Nathan's fist was half way to his face when he closed his eyes but it never came. He opened his eyes and saw a girl was in front of him now. She had brown wavy hair, was wearing a cargo pants and a long grey jacket. Then Tim realized that it was Ziva.

"You don't want to do what I think you want to do" She warned him seriously without a hint of otherwise.

"Oh? And what do you think I want to do that you think I don't want to do?" Nathan smirked at her, somewhat stupidly unaware of how dangerous Ziva could be. But he learned it within the second that he stopped talking. Ziva kneed him in the stomach and pressed him against the locker where Tim had just been.

"Do not play games with me!" Ziva exclaimed with her lightly accented English. She tighten her grip on his wrists. "How does this feel? You like being slammed against a locker?"

"Fuck you bitch!" Nathan hissed.

Everything else after that happened very fast. Ziva narrowed her eyes, she released her right hand from him but before he could move her free elbow crunched against his nose making it bleed. Greg, who had being observing this whole time decided that it was his time to interfere, had Ziva in a headlock. Ziva gasped for air but it was a show because at the same time her heel met Greg's groin causing him to fall. But she wasn't fast enough when Nathan punched her in her face as she was trying to regain her position. She was on the ground and Nathan was now on top of her. He kept hitting her but somebody hauled him backwards. It was Tony, Tony had started to brawl fight with Nathan, and Ziva was now facing Greg ready to take him down when he got back up.

"What in the world...!?" Vance snarled in anger as he made his way through the crowd trailing off as he saw a girl on the ground with a scraped knee, a nerdy guy in the corner looking scared, two boys rolling on the ground smacking each other, and a wrestling champion and a Israeli girl ready to fight.

The four immediately straightened themselves turning to see their principal as he dropped his mouth and his toothpick fell out.

Vance now completely fumed barked orders to the six people still remaining, "You," pointing to the girl who first defended Tim, "Get a bandage. You," now looking at him, "Get to class" and turning himself to the four troublemakers. "You four, OFFICE NOW!"

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"Why didn't you tell me this Timmy? You could have gotten hurt. Ziva could have gotten hurt. Tony could have gotten hurt. Why didn't you tell me?" Abby started to rapid fire all of her questions at him.

"Well I'm sorry, you seemed to be too busy blaming me for ruining your plan to lock Ziva and Tony together in a janitor's closet!" Everybody was surprised at that, but Tim was still focused on the morning incident. He turned to Ziva. "I'm sorry"

"What are you sorry for Tim?" Ziva turned to look at him and Tim was surprised to see that she wasn't joking, she really didn't know.

"Well it's my fault that you and Tony got suspended. I should have defended myself and then it would not have happened this way. I'm just a burden to everyone." He explained hanging his head down. Ziva pushed him aside and dragged him to the back of the bleachers.

"You are right." Tim hanged his head even lower but Ziva snapped it up and when he looked her into her brown eyes he could see that she wasn't angry but was instead very sincere. "You should have defended yourself. You may not be the strongest guy in the world, or fastest, or the funniest. But you are a very smart, charming, and great guy. Don't let anyone, and I mean anyone, tell you otherwise. Be confident in yourself."

He was about to say thanks but Ziva had already dragged him back to the crowd. "My father is away this week and I would like to invite all of you to a dinner tomorrow evening at my house."

Everybody lit up at the news and all agreed to go. Then Ducky asked a question that Tim was aware of before anybody else but did not dare to ask. "Would Tony be there?"

"Yes he agreed to come before he went home." She answered quickly.

"That is great." Ducky smiled.

"Sister, this is not a good idea" Tim for the first time realizing that Ari was sitting at other side of the bleachers observing the whole time finally finding a gap to interrupt between everybody's happy outbursts.

"I know what I am doing. Father is away this weekend." Tim looked around and saw that everybody was confused as much as he was. Except maybe for Jenny who was looking really intense as if trying her best to pick up a few of the Hebrew that she would understand, but clearly failed and Ziva probably knew that as she did not bother to speak in private as she did with Tim.

"I know you want to make it up to Tony and your friends but there is another way. It is too dangerous, you know very well that father can come home early just as easily as for him to leave without telling us. It is not a good way to convince him to let you stay here in America next school year, and you are already suspended."

"You do not have to stay." Ziva said flatly and turned back to her friends. "Tim and Abby would you mind walking home without me? I think I need to prepare for tomorrow and need to do some shopping. I only stayed to tell you about the dinner."

While she grabbed her back pack, Tim asked. "Do you need us to bring anything?"

"No, you do not have to come with anything, just yourselves. See you tomorrow, yes?" She smiled and turned to walk towards the street.

"I will go with her. Good bye." Ari gave an empty smile and nodded at them before following his sister.

Maybe miracles can happen, Tim thought to himself, not by some magical people, but just people.

I know there's some confusion for since it jumped one months and the first half with absolutely no dialog is boring but it's just so much more fun and better for me to write this way. Any question unanswered will be answered soon, like in the next chap. Anyway...

TBC and please review