NCIS

Undoing part 1

Please read the first 13 chapters before this one.

Fourteen hours later...

Tony DiNozzo is carted out of the ambulance and taken into Bethesda Naval Medical Center. He is taken into a room and hooked up to the machines. The nurses leaves as he lays back.

A figure walks in and shocks Tony, when he looks up.

"I saw you on ZNN. I was worried, but I don't know why I'm here, tony DiNozzo."

"Jeanne." he says.

#

The elevator doors open as Gibbs and Ziva exit and head to their respective desks. Abby runs up and hugs Gibbs. McGee, Franks, and Ducky are all there.

"Gibbs. I was so worried that you had left again1 Don't ever, ever, ever do that again! She yells.

She lets go as Ducky shakes his hand, "Welcome back, Jethro. How is Tony?"

"He'll be fine the field doc said. Just need some time to get his strength back."

"Good. Is he back for good?" Abby asks.

"I don't know.", as he looks upstairs expecting to see Jenny waiting, but she is not.

"Ziva! I was worried about you too. I hope you're okay." As Abby hugs her too.

"Yes. I'm fine." as she gives a worried look to Gibbs, with them knowing what has transpired.

"Gibbs." Hollis says from behind him.

"Hollis. Where's Jenny?"

"We are going to here right now.", as she takes Ziva arm. She motions to McGee to do the same. Ziva doesn't resist, knowing her fate is sealed.

They walk over to the stairwell as Gibbs follows.

"No. Not this time Jethro. You'll have to wait your turn." Hollis informs.

He giver her the angry stare and backs off.

"Bit of a hard-ass, don't you think, Gunny." as Franks comes over.

"Yeah." as he looks down to see Franks badge. "You re-think retirement, Mike?"

"Well someone had to save your butt. And it wasn't going to be her." as he motions toward the director's office.

"Speaking of which..." as he stares at Abby.

"Uh, I have some work to do, see yah." as she tries to run off.

Gibbs catches with her and asks, "Why did you do that for Ziva? You know how much trouble you could've been in?"

"I was fired."

"I know. But Jenny reconsidered it. Although you will be reprimanded for it. It's Ziva fault, but never do anything like that again. Understood."

"Uh, okay. Sorry, Gibbs." she says shyly as she enters the elevator.

Gibbs walks out and looks up to the director's office.

#

"Tony. You look like you've seen a ghost." Jeanne says.

"Maybe. What are you doing here? I thought the whole pretending to be someone I wasn't pissed you off."

"It did. But something changed my mind about you. I had to make sure you were okay."

"Yeah. I am." as he struggles to sit up. "Sorta."

He then coughs and looks down at his hand, which has blood on it.

"Oh my god." She exclaims.

#

Hollis and McGee escort Ziva into Jenny's office.

"Thank you, Hollis. That will be all. Please, close the door on the way out."

"Sorry, Ziva." McGee says.

"It's okay, Tim." she responds.

They leave as Jenny takes off her glasses and stands.

"You wanna tell me what the Hell you were thinking Officer David!?"

"I'm sorry, director. I don't know how to-"

"It's too late for apologies, Ziva! You know how many agencies and directors have called me on this? One of my agents goes rouge, and I have to settle them down before someone gets killed."

"I was just following my gut. I knew if I went that Ari would show himself."

"Following your gut. I see working with Gibbs is rubbing off on you."

"Isn't that what you wanted? You brought me here to learn from the best. I was just following Gibbs lead" Ziva yells.

"I know that. Don't worry about Gibbs, he'll get is as well. Now were talking about you. You forced Abby to do something highly illegal and dangerous, of which could have got you killed. Abby has already been dealt with. She can keep her job, which is something I can't say for you." Jenny informs.

"So that's it. We do something, to go around you to get information on Le Grenouille and Ari and you just going to fire me?" she says. "What happened to you, Jenny?"

"Gibbs had clearance from the CIA and FBI to be there, Ziva. You did not. I don't know why you did it. If it was to save Tony, or capture Ari or..." she stops and sits. "You went about it the wrong way, and now you have to pay the consequences."

"The CIA wants someone to hang, for us interfering. And it's going to be me?" Ziva asks.

"Yes." Jenny looks into Ziva's eyes and asks, "Hand them over."

Ziva is stunned by the statement. She slowly hands her Sig Sauer and badge to Jenny.

"What happened, is I am a director now. I can't allow my agents to go off trying to save the world on there own. I know it's not the way we used to do things back in Israel, but things change Ziva. If this changes our friendship, I'm sorry."

She stands and informs, "Officer Ziva David. You are permanently relieved of you duties as an NCIS Special Agent. Effective immediately. One note, your father wants to talk to you in MTAC."

She nods and leaves, "This won't change our friendship, Jenny. I screwed up. And I have to pay for it."

She leaves as Jenny sighs as the difficult deed is done.

#

The doors to autopsy open and Gibbs walks in. "You wanted to see me, Duck."

"Jethro, I didn't call for you." He says and then realizes. "You're hiding from the director."

He nods, "Yeah. Anythings about this guy." as he points to Tony's former cell mate.

"None so far. Cause of death is obvious. Multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. Although if he had survived he may not have been well for long. I found what looked like metal fragments in his lungs and stomach contents. Abby is analyzing it now."

"Ducky! I have something" Abby says over the video phone.

Gibbs gets a call and answers his phone.

"The substance you found in his lungs and stomach was from the water that he and tony drank."

"What is is?" Ducky asks.

"Lead." Gibbs informs. "Tony just began spitting up blood, but there's a security breech there. Gotta go." as he runs out.

"I really hate it when he does that." Abby says.

#

Gibbs exits the elevator as McGee walks up, "Uh boss-"

"Gear up! We're going to Bethesda. Tony maybe in danger."

McGee and Franks don't do anything.

"Let's go, now!" he orders.

"Special Agent Gibbs! My office! Now!" Jenny orders from the balcony.

"Hollis you take Franks and McGee to check it out."

"Yes, director." she responds as the two gear up.

Gibbs walks up the stairs and is very displeased with her actions.

#

"What possessed you to go around me and use the FBI to suffice you vendetta against Ari!"

Gibbs stares at her, "He Jen, if you knew the mission, I wasn't there to find Ari."

"I know that Fornell sent you to find who was buying from Le Grenouille, but what the CIA didn't tell me is that it was Ari."

"Neither did I. That's why Fornell sent me instead of one of his agents. He thought this looked like Ari's work all along. He was Tobias' mole, so he turned to the one person who knew Ari better than he did. And in the end the Frog wasn't even there. Cort was the one who tipped him off about Tony being in the MED. That's why Ari abducted him to get to me. He said the game was back on. We can't let them stop us now."

"I know that Jethro, but if you ever do an end run around me again I'll have you badge."

"You really want someone else trying to take down the frog if he's involved with Ari?"

"It's not my choice, Jethro. The CIA is running the show and we've been told to back off. And that's what I intend to do."

"What about Ziva?" he asks.

"She paid the price for her actions." Jenny informs.

"This isn't like you Jen. I thought you wanted to bring the frog down."

"We have our orders, Jethro. We follow them the best we can. It's seems Hollis does that just fine."

Gibbs nods to her and leaves.

"When I said that if you go behind me again, I'll take your badge. I mean that."

Gibbs leaves and heads to Bethesda to check on Tony.