Okay so it's been too long since I have written a chapter and I've wanted to put up some chapters so here I am with another chapter. I hope you enjoy this one. For some reason the last chapter I wrote was REALLY fluffy and I don't want this chapter to be as fluffy because it doesn't feel right for the story or the characters. Anyway, I hope you enjoy and thanks to my followers.

Agent T

Tony huffed at Ziva's question.
"What do you mean, 'Who loves you?'" Tony restated her question.

"Team Gibbs loves you. Think about it. You have Gibbs, Abby, Ducky, if you're desperate McGee, and even Palmer. You have a lot of people that love you."

"Does this include you?" Ziva asked.

"FOUND THEM. THEY'RE OVER HERE!" A strange voice shouted from about twenty feet away.

Both Tony and Ziva turned to look in the direction of a woman's voice. The sound came from the end of the bridge. Before long they could see the woman's figure. She was petite and comely.

"Hey, we have been looking for you two since last night. You got really far." The woman had on a black FBI jacket with jeans.

"I'm Federal Agent Marabel Walker. We put together a search team last night when we heard there were two NCIS agents missing. We have FBI, NCIS, and the local police out here. It's been about twelve hours looking and we finally found you. Thank god for that. We are all tired as hell. What's the damage on you two?"

Tony and Ziva didn't speak. They were trying to process what she said. Marabel would talk really fast and in short bursts and it was difficult to follow what she said.

Tony spoke first, "We have a couple scraps and a torn cast."

"Alrightly then I'll just let a medic know. I'll be right back." The woman walked away.

Ziva sat up and moved away from Tony so know one would think anything wrong. About thirty seconds of silence pasted before they could here the woman again, and this time she was with someone. They saw the Marabel's figure again and then Gibbs.

"BOSS!" Tony shouted in excitement.

"How ya doin' Dinozzo?" Gibbs asked in his usual soft, manly voice.

McGee and a few FBI agents followed Gibbs and Marabel. They had two backboards in hand. McGee helped Tony onto one and the FBI agents helped Ziva onto the other one, keeping in mind her sensitive leg. As the team made there way through the trail Tony saw McGee's arm in a sling and remembered that McGee had been shot.

"Probie! Why are you here, what happened, you were in the hospital? "

"Yeah, well it's a long story."

"Cough it up Probie. What happened?" Tony became inpatient.
"Well, Cynthia gave me a call after you hung up on her. She had no idea I was in the hospital with a gun shot injury and couldn't do anything for you. After I gave her the short version of the story she regretted calling me, and at that time I didn't know why she called. I asked her why she called me and she told me that she had just talked to you. She wanted to know what was going on and if everything was alright. She went on and on about tracing Ziva's cell and you telling her that Ziva was in trouble. That's when I decided to call you and see what was going on." McGee stumbled on a rock and caught himself before he fell.

"Are you okay?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Anyway, um, I called you and you wouldn't pick up. After the fifteenth call I called Gibbs and told him the situation. He told me to stay in hospital and not worry about it, but I knew something was wrong and that Gibbs didn't have your location. I ripped off my IV and headed for NCIS headquarters. It was harder than I thought getting out of the hospital, but I managed to make in the bullpen in under an hour. Gibbs was really angry, but I didn't pay much attention to him although it was really hard not paying attention to him. I logged on and started searching. I traced your cell and found it was somewhere in Rock Creek Park the signal from your cell wasn't strong enough to tell me exactly where to look but it did give me a radius. I figured you went after Ziva. I told Gibbs where to look and we drove out here. We searched the park for about two hours, just the two of us before we decided to call on a search team. It took a while, but we found you. Thankfully, we found you sooner than later. It was getting to be over twelve hours and people were talking. Saying we weren't going to find you guys alive. I'm glad they were wrong."

"Yeah me too." Tony answered.

"So, are you going to head back to the hospital when we get back? You aren't fully healed yet."

"I don't know. Maybe I should."

"I think you should." Tony told McGee hoping he would go back so he would risk anything happening.

It took the team about forty five minutes to make it back to the parking lot. They loaded Ziva onto an ambulance that was there on stand by. Tony said he was fine and didn't need to go to the hospital, but he would ride in the back with Ziva. Gibbs allowed it, and McGee unbuckled the straps for Tony to get out. Tony hopped in the back of the ambulance with Ziva who had fallen asleep. She woke up when one of the paramedics placed an IV in her arm. She hissed in pain.

"Sorry." The paramedic apologized.

Tony gave him a look, but he didn't notice. Gibbs closed the doors, and smacked his had against the window to signal the driver it was all clear for take off. The ambulance drove off. It wasn't too long before they made it to the hospital. Tony was placed in separate room than Ziva so one of the nurses could clean his cut. He was anxious to hear news about Ziva. An elderly nursed cleaned him up and took him into another room with a chair and many machines. There was a gap where a bed was supposed to be. After five minutes the door opened and another nurse wheeled Ziva in on a bed. He placed her in the gap and left without a word closing the door behind him.

"Hey, what's the news?"

"They recast my leg, and cleaned my scratches. I got some ice for the bruises on my ribs too. I saw Dr. Andrea Bradley, and she was very sweet. She said I should be good for discharge tomorrow. She wants to keep me over night for observation because of the drugs." Ziva finished her explanation and expected Tony to say something, but he stood staring at her in silence.

Tony was furious. He couldn't believe that he had allowed her to go out with such an evil man. Why? How could this have happened? Tony thought to himself. I should have known. I should have stopped it before it got this far. I had a feeling something was wrong and I was right, but I didn't listen to myself. How could I have let this happen?

"Tony?" Ziva asked confused by his silence.

"Yeah." Tony's head jerked around as he was knocked out of his thoughts.

"What are you thinking about?" Ziva asked curiously.

Tony hesitated, "Well… it's nothing."

Ziva didn't push him any further, and she changed the subject.

"Are you going back to the office today?"

"Yeah, I was going to stop by for a couple hours and go home early. Why?"

"You need to put out a bolo out on Jim, if that's his real name?"

"I will. Do you need anything else? Do you have something at the office that you need?"

"No, thank you."

"Yep, you sure you are alright."

"Yes thank you."

"Okay, um, well I'm going to start heading over there now so if you need anything McGoo will probably be two doors down. Hope you feel better." Tony made his way to the door.

Before he turned the knob Ziva spoke," Do you think it was all a lie?" She emphasized the word all.

Tony turned around to face her. He took a couple steps forward until he was close enough to feel the heat of her hand.

"I think, he doesn't deserve you and you should let him go." Tony said this in a whisper.

Ziva was on the verge of breaking the thin layer of strength she had left. Tony could see she needed some kind of comfort so he began to tell her a short story.

"A buddy of mine in college once told me this quote when I lost one of my best friends in a car accident, he said, 'A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.' At first I didn't understand why he would ever say that to me or how he could tell me to let go of this person that I cared about. Now I realize he wasn't telling me to let go exactly, but rather accept that there are things that are just not meant to be. Why? Well, I don't know. Maybe because there's something out there that's better for you and you have yet to discover it. It doesn't mean it's the end of the world." Tony finished his little speech and watched Ziva's reaction.

"You never answered my question." She spoke after a few minutes.

"What question?" Tony looked at her confused and stunned by the sudden topic change.

"Does this include you, remember? Before they found us, you never answered me."

Ziva stared at Tony who didn't answer.

"You know when we were talking about-"Tony cut her off.

"I remember." Tony said in a short tone.

"Then, what is you answer?"

"You can count on me Ziva. I'm your partner. All partners love each other. I love Gibbs, McGee and you. We're a team."

"Yes we are." Ziva said disappointed.

"What's the matter?" Tony asked oblivious to Ziva's real question.

"Nothing, I'm just tired." Ziva lied and smiled at Tony.

"Well, I'm going to go now and I'll stop by the nurses' station to see if McGee has checked in yet, and if he has I'll tell the nurse to let you know what room he's in so you can have somebody to talk to. I'll see you later."

"I will be right here." Ziva smiled at Tony and Tony smiled at the memory those words brought.

He turned the door knob and walked away leaving Ziva and her heart to ache in silence.

Well here is another chapter. I hope you liked it. Thanks to all my reviewers. I really appreciate it. I should be writing a bit more depending on my time, but I tried and put up as many chapters sooner than later. Thanks again.

Agent T