Previously...

Yasmina and Ziva looked to each other, "This incident was not by chance," Ducky said looking between the two of them, "This was a targeted attack on both Mossad and the United States Military," he looked down to Rakeem and then the Stephenson, "I am sorry to inform you but this was Murder in the first degree."

Continuing...

Yasmina walked out of the autopsy and into the hall as Ziva spoke with the ME's. She pulled out her iPhone from her back pocket and began to go through her contacts. She clicked on an old friend's cell phone number and debated on what the time would be in Israel and if it was worth it. After simple math in her head, she knew it would be worth it: it was only 0400pm in DC so it was only 1100 at night in Israel. As the line began to ring, the nerves began to get to Yasmina. Could she really ask her friend to deceive her boss just as a favor to her?

Before Yasmina's mind could contemplate that, her old friend Sarah answered in a bit of a gruff tone. It was understandable; she had most likely worked all day. "This is Rahmen," she said with a small yawn.

"Sarah? It's Yasmina,-"

"Yas! Oh my gosh! I am so sorry for your loss. I was just told about Officer Kalleum before leaving today. I know you two were close to each other." Sarah was much more awake now that she knew who was calling her.

"Sarah, I need to ask something of you and I will understand if you do not feel comfortable accepting it," Yasmina did not want to get her hopes up that she would do this, "But I am asking you as a dear friend for this favor,"

There was a long pause on the other end of the line, "Anything, Yas. You name it," Sarah said beginning to take in the seriousness of the situation.

Yasmina took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "I need you to look into Rakeem for me. I need you to look into what he was working on with out me and what other assignments he has had recently."

"Not a prob-"

"There is more," Yasmina said quickly, "I need you to keep this to yourself. I can not have Director David finding out about any of this. This is the most important part, please understand that,"

"Okay, Yasmina. I will keep it covert, I get it. I will call you as soon as I get something." Sarah said as she yawned once more, "I will take a two hour nap and then I will get working. Director David had me work for a day and a half and I just got home, but I promise I will start working on this for you soon." Sarah swore as she hung up with Yasmina.

After being assured that everything will be kept under wraps from Director David, she felt a small bit of relief. She slid her phone in her back pocket and walked back to the autopsy doors as the elevator doors opened to reveal Gibbs. The two of them stood silent a moment and simply stared at each other. After a few moments of their intense looks, Yasmina caved under his gaze, "I…I called my… my contact in Mossad. She said she was going to look into Rakeem as well as keep it quiet," she choked up. His blue eyes were like ice as their stared her down.

He took a couple of steps towards her and she found herself wishing that Ziva had come out with her to make the call so she would not have been alone now. Then a bit of courage ran through her as she reminded herself just who she was. She was not someone that should be this intimidated by a man. She was Yasmina Aaliyah Haswari and she was not going to be intimidated by anyone. She squared her shoulders and shot his strong gaze back at him. Then something changed in him, he backed his gaze down in intensity. Then with a small nod, he muttered, "Good," and looked away from her and into autopsy. Yasmina let out a long breath and walked in after him and quickly ran up to Ziva's side as she spoke with Palmer. "Got anything for me Duck?" Gibbs asked.

"He did and I have it, although it is a lot, so I was thinking I present it to everyone at once," Ziva said boldly speaking before Ducky could answer.

Gibbs looked between Ducky and Ziva and sighed while shaking his head, "Alright Ziver, come on." Gibbs said as he walked out of autopsy and to the elevator with Ziva and Yasmina on his heals.

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After gathering the team in the bull pen, Ziva stood in front of the flat screen with Yasmina at her side. Yasmina was able to talk and co-explain their theory with Ziva by her side to have her back when ever she would stumble in her speech or confuse her English. Once they both had explained everything in their findings to the team, McGee sat baffled in his chair. He didn't seem to have been onto any of what the women had uncovered. Gibbs sat unphased, as if he was trying to pile onto what they had already discovered. Tony was just Tony. He looked like he had fallowed everything fine, but he had no idea as to where to go from there. In fact, tony and McGee shared the same look at that moment.

"Abby should get help going through the video feed from the club," Gibbs said, verbally making McGee get up and go down to her lab. He then looked between the three people left, "While Yasmina is waiting for more information from her contact, I want you two to look into our guy and see what he was working on," Gibbs said as he stood and moved to the elevator, no doubt going to get more coffee.

Yasmina sighed and instantly felt as if she was worthless. After all, she was not worth anything to the team until she got information from Sarah and that would not be for at least another hour or so. Ziva jogged over to her desk and quickly started getting to work. Tony sighed and rubbed his hands over his eyes. "Is something upsetting you, Tony?" Yasmina asked having yet to move.

"Ugh, I'm just tired is all," he said as he leaned back in his chair.

Yasmina walked over to him and leaned on his desk as she looked down to him, "Why not take a break for a little bit?" she suggested.

Tony smiled and Yasmina smiled back at him as she bluntly sat on his lap and began to go through his computer games for a two player. Tony kept one arm loosely around her waist for support as she looked through his game collection. He looked over to Ziva who was looking straight at him. Tony spoke to her with his eyes to reassure her that Yasmina was nowhere near any competition for her. Ziva smiled and shook her head as she continued working on her computer.

"Why is the only two player game you have a racing game?" Yasmina asked as she clicked it to begin playing.

"Well I don't usually get the company when slacking off and when I do it is with Abby and she liked it because she always won." Tony explained as the game fully loaded. Tony leaned forward a little bit and began to race with Yasmina. After the first couple of games, Yasmina began to win. Tony groaned slightly as he began to loose, "Your getting the hang of this aren't you?" he muttered as the game started over again.

"Yes, I like this game. I understand why Abby likes it," Yasmina teased as the game started again and she was quickly in the lead. Tony groaned lightly and tried to catch up with her but ultimately lost to her again.

"Ok, I'm done," Tony said with a heavy sigh.

Yasmina smiled and leaned back to rest her back on his chest. She felt Tony's arm around her waist tighten and she smirked. She was comfortable with Tony, almost in the she used to be with Ari. Tony was so nice to her and he wasn't like other men that would be nice to her and expect sex in return. Ziva looked over to them and smirked at the sight of her younger half sibling lying so comfortably on Tony. She knew he was not interested in her and -though she would deny it aloud- she was very thankful that he was not interested in Yasmina because that meant he still had interest in her.

Yasmina looked to a large clock on the wall and sighed, it had already only been two hours since she placed the call to Sarah and Yasmina was getting more and more impatient. "Ziva, what time is it in Israel?" Yasmina asked not wanting to do math.

"It's about one in the morning there. Why do you ask? And -more importantly- why are you asking in Hebrew?" Ziva replied not even needing to look up from her computer screen.

Yasmina sighed and turned her head so that it was comfortably nestled on Tony's shoulder, "Thank you and I have no reason for speaking in Hebrew other then I know it annoys Tony and it is fun to poke at him," Yasmina explained

Ziva and Yasmina both chuckled and Tony sighed again, "Now you know it annoys me when you do that," he muttered wrapping his other arm around her waist as she felt her phone begin to vibrate.

"Tony, let go," she said as she swarmed to stand.

"What if I don't want to?" he teased childishly as he slowly let go of her. She rolled her eyes playfully at him and stood to her feet.

She walked behind him and lightly kissed his temple and muttered, "To bad," as she pulled out her phone out of her pocket she walked over to the large window and looked out to the view of the ship yard. "Officer Aaliyah," Yasmina said with a serious tone.

"I am going to begin by reminding you that if you have any questions while I am speaking you are to hold them till the end and then I will answer them to the best of my ability," Sarah said from the other end of the phone.

Yasmina smirked, "Okay Sarah, just say it," Yasmina said as she began to focus in on her friend's voice so she could take it in.

"I did as you asked and I looked into was Officer Kalleum was into recently and it turns out that Director David had really thought something of him. He had him working on two other operations not including the one with you in America. The first seems to be just a simple one that maybe you knew about already -you just didn't know you knew: he was assigned to be your 'protector' as it is listed. I am going to guess it was guard detail. The second listed is the in-tell collection with you over sea's in America, but the third was the one that got my attention. It was originally under 'classified', but I hacked in and it turns out he was working with a 'peace organization' in Washington DC. Most of the file was vague and very coded with the information that was in the file, but I got the gist of it. From the information listed in the file, it was that I member of our organization or military and a member of the American's organization or military and we're to be the 'peace makers' between the two countries. I also ran through his phone records for the past two weeks and one number repeats over twenty times. I traced it down and it belongs to a Marine on a base in northern Virginia. Sorry but I couldn't get more specific then that, turns out the American's are good at keeping something's secret." Sarah paused to take a deep breath and sighed, "Okay, that's all I got for you just now Yas. Anything else you need?"

"Thank you so much Sarah, you were a tremendous help here, I'll let you get some well deserved sleep now. I'll make sure to call if I need anything," Yasmina assured her as they said their goodbye's and hung up the phone.

"Anything?" Ziva asked from behind her.

Yasmina sighed heavily and nodded. She turned to her and walked back over to Ziva's desk, "I think I may have a connection between your man and mine." she stated with a trickle or anxiety in her speech and posture.

"What is it?" Ziva asked curiously as she noticed the difference in Yasmina.

"Bring up your man's call log for the last two weeks," Yasmina said as she stood next to Ziva and leaned in slightly to get a clear view of the screen as well. "Now narrow it down to see if any out going or in coming calls repeat to an excessive amount," she instructed. Ziva did as she was told and narrowed it down till only one number appeared. Yasmina pointed at the number on the screen, "That is Rakeem's cell phone."

"Are you sure?" Ziva questioned. She knew that she could only remember a few select numbers herself. With the technology today, you didn't need to remember everyone's number anymore because your phone did it for you.

Yasmina looked to her with an intense look, "Yes, I know his number by heart," she stated with strength in her words.

"Then that means our Marine and your Officer were in contact with each other before they set foot in that bar," Ziva said as she sighed and stood up from her chair, "Did you find out anything important?"

"Well," Yasmina began as she walked out from behind Ziva's desk and began pacing slightly, "Rakeem was working on multiple assignments at once but that only one that bares any significance at this moment is the 'peace organization' operation. According to my contact -Officer Sarah Rahmen- the file on the operation was marked as classified which means that it was likely not approved by the Director but was felt to be necessary by other high powers. In the file was information stating that they were going to use two people from the two countries to represent the peace between the countries and bring them closer as allies."

Ziva and Tony both watched her as she unraveled near everything that must have just been said in the call. "Then it was no accident that they were both there in the bar together because that's where they were told to meet up," Tony said as he stood and looked to Ziva.

Ziva looked from Tony to Yasmina, "Someone killed them because they did not want the peace between America and Israel,"

Yasmina rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, "I can think of over twenty countries' that fit that description Ziva," Yasmina rolled her eyes, "How are we supposed to interrogate nearly twenty countries and accuse them of murder without causing a panic?"

"You don't," Gibbs said from the entrance to the bull pen, "You get them to turn on each other,"

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