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CHAPTER 10 – Something Different

The next morning the whole team were at the hospital, but no one wanted to go in alone. Except Tony, but it was a bit hard with the rest of the team standing next to him. And he could not simply tell them "Yeah guys if you just want to wait outside I will go in and hope I see the eyes of the mother to my daughter" They were being called as soon as she was beginning to move in her sleep again. A sign she was now only sleeping and not because of the medication she got.

When Gibbs arrived with Ducky they all stepped in. The nurse had said that just this once, they could all go in. They softly walked in the room. Ducky sat down on the chair next to her. Gibbs leaned on the other bed that was not filled. Tony stood next to Kate, and McGee and Abby were on the other end of the room.

They all saw that she began to move, and within fifteen minutes her eyes fluttered open. None of them said a word though.

"Hello" she said as soon as she noticed them but so soft from the pain it caused that it was barely audible.

Something felt different than before. I remember everything vaguely only the actual car crash and the walk to NCIS. But that is it. When I try to think to hard my head hurts.

Because her head hurt Ziva raised her hand to her head. Abby gasped. When Ziva placed her hand against her head she felt the coldness of something she thought she had left behind what seemed a life time ago.

"Ziva is that a…" Abby said, Ziva did not hear the rest of it.

She just looked at her hand, there it was. The ring he had given her, the ring which held the promise to be together no matter what, and the ring she had left on his nightstand years ago. She looked up at Tony, not believing he had 1) kept it all those years, 2) he gave it back to her now, even after everything.

"Tony what" Ziva managed to say

In the time she said that Tony walked to her and grabbed her hand the team watch with open eyes.

"It is back where it belongs" he said to her, there were tears forming in her eyes. How could he be so forgiving after everything she had done to him?

He leaned forward and kissed her. For the first time since she had come back, the awkwardness was gone, it was just them. It was a soft kiss, Tony didn't want to hurt Ziva but all the emotions were there. When they parted Ziva was weakly smiling through her tears. The smile may have been weak, but only because she did not have much strength, although the smile did reach her eyes. And the rest of the team saw for the first time the woman Tony had fell in love with. And the one to break this wonderful moment was Gibbs.

"What the hell is going on? Out you four!" he pointed at Kate McGee Abby and Ducky, they left though they had to pull Abby out, and Ducky gave Gibbs a look that told Gibbs to take it easy on them. When they were gone Tony and Ziva just looked at each other.

"Okay, now spit out, what is going on with you two?" Gibbs asked anger in his voice but not his face.

Tony hesitated for a moment and looked at Ziva. They said nothing until Ziva nodded weakly, and then Tony took a big breath and told Gibbs "Well, as you can see we are engaged, you could say again or still"

"How again?"

Ziva pressed her hands against her head, and started to make weird noises.

"Zi what's wrong?"

Gibbs run to the hall and called for a nurse, Ziva suddenly sat up, her hand went down from her head to her mouth, the nurse came in just in time to grab a bowl and hold it up for Ziva when the vomit came out of her mouth. This long after the time she got in throwing up was not a good sign. The nurse motioned for Gibbs and Tony to move out of the room, but after seeing how Ziva held Tony's hand she let him stay. The checkup went fast, Ziva got some more painkillers and Tony was being told that they had to try and keep her as calm as possible.

Then the nurses walked back out to the waiting room, where the team where.

"Everything is fine with Miss David, but give her a moment to calm down. Her concussion is a little bit worse than we thought at first, but everything is under control right now. She may want to sleep, so you can all go home. But that is up to her" And she walked away.

Tony sat down next to Ziva holding her hand, he saw she was tired, but she still managed to speak

"Tony, we have to tell them, all of them not just Gibbs"

Tony looked up to her and nodded "But not now, tomorrow you need to rest" he kissed her head and wanted to walk away.

"Please do not leave" Ziva asked. Tony turned around and grabbed her hand for a second really tight.

"I will be back in a second" He told her, which relaxed her enough to let go of his hand and let him walk to the others.

When the others saw him coming Abby was the first one that jumped up and started to question Tony. "What is going on? Why did you kiss Ziva and that ring?"

"Not now Abby" Tony said "We will tell you everything tomorrow" that he said while looking at Gibbs "All of you, but right now Ziva needs her rest, she needs to sleep" with that Tony walked back to Ziva. He was just in time that he could see her eyes close.

He sat next to her, he only left her to eat but was back in half an hour. In the night the nurses did not send him away so he fell asleep with his head on his arms, on Ziva's bed.

And like Tony had thought the team were there the next morning. Ziva had been awake just ten minutes; she had drunk something so her throat did not hurt as much. They all sat down, Gibbs was the first one to speak

"Well spit out, the whole story" he ordered.

Tony began just as yesterday. "Well as you can see we are still or again, depends on how you look at it, engaged"

This time Abby broke him of "Again?"

"Yes Abby, we were engaged before. A little longer than five and a half years ago we met each other, we had been together for less than two years when I asked her to marry me" They both smiled at the memory.

"Why did you not marry then?" Kate asked

The smiles that were on their faces melted like snow on a hot summer day. This time it was Ziva who spoke up "We were together for a year when I found out I was pregnant, we had a beautiful little girl"

"Is that Emma my dear?" Ducky asked, Ziva nodded

Gibbs turned to Tony "Then where the hell is your daughter? I don't care what went wrong with you two then, even if we did not know about it, I think your daughter deserves to see her mother"

Tony head fell down; Ziva knew that it was up to her to tell. With tears in her eyes she spoke up, everyone culd hear the sadness in her voice, which also reached her eyes.

"She is gone" it was nothing more than a whisper

"How gone?" Gibbs asked. Abby, McGee and Kate all looked at each other in a worried way.

"Three years ago, we came back from Israel, and she was…" the tears now fell from her eyes "She was taken from us" Tony put his arms around her to let her know it was okay to cry, and let her know that he was there for her.

Gibbs temper changed "Why did you not tell us? We could have searched"

"You don't think we didn't!" Tony snapped "We searched for her for half a year, by then we did not speak and we barley saw each other, it just, we couldn't do anymore, but we never stopped searching"

"Drew" Ziva whispered

"What?" Tony asked her

"Drew, he had information, and he was" it all came flashing back "Shot"

They gave Ziva time to think "I remember"

The talk with Drew, the shot "I was driving back to NCIS when he ran on the street screaming that I had to go. He fell down with a whole in his head, there was a black car driving behind me. The man inside of the car shot at me, when the bullets broke my window I was slightly hit" She raised her hand to the cut on her for head "they pushed me of the road"

"Ziva who are they? What information?" Tony asked eager to know.

"Drew was the one undercover. He was supposed to infiltrate the group that probably holds Emma, he told me they were talking about a girl, and he said he would contact me if he found out that it was Emma. If he had not contacted me than he would" she was broken by her own sobs. Tony held her close.

"I think that is enough Jethro" Ducky said Gibbs looked at him, and wanted to ask more, but Ducky gave him a stern look and pushed them all out.

When they were standing outside of the room Gibbs spoke

"McGee, Abs, see what you can find out about Drew Michaels and his op. Kate see what you can find out about Emma, talk to Ziva and Tony but wait until tomorrow"

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