Chapter 10:
Callen must have fallen asleep, because the next thing he knew Gibbs was lightly shaking him. Callen woke up with a start, and frantically looked all around the break room, his eyes finally settling on a still unconscious Ziva. He asked softly, "Is she alright, has she woken up once?"
Gibbs softly replied, "No she hasn't, but Ducky said, "That's not unusual in cased like this."
Callen nodded as he whispered, "There's something I need to talk to you about, can we step outside."
Gibbs nodded as Callen fluidly rose to his feet, and they went out into hall. Callen said as he leaned back against the muted orange wall, "Jethro, I think you should know that I asked Vance if I could take Ziva back to LA with me where she could recuperate, then she could work with my team, and decompress, and have some obviously much need space from certain members of your team. I just thought you should know, I thought I owed you that."
Gibbs was quiet for several minutes, he knew Ziva had a severe dislike of DiNozzo now because he killed Rivkin, and that she probably would ask Vance for a transfer. He also knew that if she did that, it would be part of her SRB. They were interrupted, when Ziva came shuffling to the doorway, and weakly asked, "I need to see the director."
Gibbs nodded as Callen took her hand, and helped her to Vance's office with Gibbs trailing behind him. As soon as she walked into the squad room DiNozzo jumped up, and tried to give her a hug, but she shot him a withering death glare as she growled, "You bastard, how dare you try to hug me after what you did, I was beaten tortured, and raped repeatedly because of you."
As the words left her mouth, she began to sob heavily. Callen growled as he roughly stiff armed DiNozzo out of the way, "Move now."
As they continued a shatterec DiNozzo looked at Gibbs, and mumbled, "I knew she had been through a lot, but I had no idea she was…wow."
Gibbs replied, "I know Tony, just give her some time and maybe she will forgive you. Perhaps if she decides to go to LA with Callen, it will help her heal."
DiNozzo's bowed head shot up as he asked, "What do you mean she's going back to LA with Callen? Who the hell is he to her anyway?"
Gibbs replied in a hard voice, "She's probably going to go back with Callen to heal, and then be a part of his team, and as to their relationship, it's none of your damn business DiNozzo, so drop it."
When DiNozzo went to say something else, Gibbs barked, "I said ENOUGH DiNozzo."
Then he turned on his heel, and marched up to Vance's office.
Do y'all want me to show the conversation in Vance's office in it's entirety