this might be more than one chapter...with how an old operation comes back to haunt Ziva so the team will need to work with an old allie to solve their case but can they do it beofre the badguy has time to do more harm than good?

Ziva sighed as she walked into the bullpen with car seat in her hands while Tony followed behind her. Gibbs glared at his senior agent as took the baby out and could see she was happy he would help out. McGee handed her a cup of coffee he just got, "Thank you Tim."

He smiled, "You need it more it seems."

"He wokeup when Tony turned on the radio and was blasting."

Gibbs smirked when he calmed down, "Here you go Ziver."

Abby skipped in, "Morning Ziva and little man. How come you're here?"

"To tlak about an old OP that had been on with Mossad," she told them.

McGee shook his head, "Wow must be important you left them nearly fifteen years ago."

A man walked over, "Unfortunately something has come back from the past."

Abby frowned at the man, "And this means nothing good?"

"Wouldn't concern her if it didn't but needed in MTAC and will explain in conference room."

Rest of them waited in the conference room for maybe an hour until they joined them once more and Gibbs secured the room.

"So what's going on?" Gibbs asked.

"Twenty years ago, Ziva and me worked for 18 months tracking down a man by the name of Anton Barsky. He was wanted around Europe for tracking drugs, weapons and humans. Every time we got close to him he escaped somehow and the finally time we almost had him but there was an explosion and Mossad had believed he was killed in the blast but not we believe he was severely injured and went into hiding until he believed we would stop looking for him."

"So why are you here?" McGee asked.

"And why right now?" Abby asked.

Ziva answered, "The case that your investigating raised some flags with similarities to what he was doing back than."

"And so with the directors agreeing," Malachi said. "I am joining the case because if this is the same man he will kill anyone that tries to catch him. We lost six officers in that 18 month investigation along with both Ziva and me being out for another six months."

"What does this have to do with NCIS?" Abby was first to break the silence.

"Your current dead sailor was corrupt that already know and the man he was working for has ties to Barsky enterprise so will be working together."

Gibbs looked around before barking orders, "McGee work on finding anything you can on that associate. Tony and me will interview his coworkers again and see what can tell us. Malachi can coorfinate with Mossad and see what else maybe connected to our current case."

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A few hours later Ziva was huddled with her friend at her desk at the moment he was on the phone while she was on the computer both speaking in hushed tones to someone or each other in Hebrew making the others confused. Tony came back from the interviews and dropped bag of food on her desk and she looked up and over at him and tried to smile hoping would reassure him that she was okay. Tony was worried that this would push her to far but she never told him about that case that almost killed her years ago.

Malachi ended his call and whispered something in her ear and handed her the phone and took over at the computer while she walked aware that Tony was following her and stopped by the stairway and he waited until she was finished, "What's going on?"

She ended the call, "Tony this case is hard for both of us."

"What really happened that last time?"

She sank to the floor and he did to, "That explosion...we were both inside that building when it went up and if hadn't had backup around the corner we would have died in the fire. I was in the hospital for 5 months before...even thought of releasing me and off duty for another three."

He wrapped arm around her, "That's why hate hospitals?"

She nodded, "Malachi hates this because it cost him his best friend that day and nearly his life. He was in a coma for the first seven weeks hoping would live and then there for another six months and off duty for another six months not sure if would be able to go back to Mossad."

"That's why such a hardass-" he winced when she slapped back of his head. "Sorry came out wrong."

She glared at him, "That's why our friendship is strong before the whole leaving Mossad. We got each other through hard times."

"Partners until the end?" this earned him a grin. "I can see he still cares and good have him."

McGee walked over, "I have found a connection between Barsky and dead sailor."

Malachi ended his phone call, "And reason why we never seemed to be able to get close to the man."

"There was a mole in the investigation? How you find that out?" Ziva asked shocked.

"Think about it. How else would the man get around everything we tried to do to him but how we find him?"

McGee thought a moment, "Come up with list of people who were there through whole thing but may have not been around for the last op."