The underlined words are ASL (American Sign Language) the words in italics are another language (english written but not said) which i will specify. This is set in season 7 of NCIS after they rescued Ziva and she's a full agent. Also set in season 3-4 of Criminal Minds. Disclaimer i do not own criminal minds or NCIS.

Ziva's apartment 1:32 a.m.

Emily woke up in a cold sweat, once again she had dreamt about Cyrus and his attempts to break her. She got up and hit her foot on the corner of the nightstand while at the same time as saying a string of bad words in Italian.

Emily had fallen asleep in her casual clothes so she made her way to the restroom and changed into her comfy pajamas.

She walked out of the restroom and was startled when she walked in the living room to see Ziva awake and staring at her.

"AGH!" Emily screamed.

"AHH!" Ziva almost spilled her tea.

"What the hell?! You scared the shit out of me!"

"You are the one who woke me up by yelling not so nice words in Italian!" Ziva yelled.

"Oh, sorry about that. I stubbed my toe on the nightstand." Emily explained in a regular tone.

"Oh," Ziva looked at the bags under Emily's eyes. Despite the nap at the hospital she was still extremely exhausted and sleeping uncomfortably for a few hours didn't help. "Nightmare?" Ziva concluded.

"Yeah, you?" Emily could sense the little tension in Ziva's shoulders leave.

"I too had a nightmare. Tea?" Ziva offered her.

"No thanks, I'm more of a coffee kind of gal." Emily smiled at her generosity.

"Well with that concussion of yours you won't be drinking coffee for a while."

"NOO! COFFEE!" Emily exaggerated and made a sad face, "how am I supposed to live without coffee?"

"I think you'll figure it out." Ziva laughed and sipped her tea.

"Wait, what if we make a deal."

"I'm listening."

"Me have no coffee, you have no coffee."

"I don't like this deal."

"We can all do it. OH, what if I can get the entire team on board? Well except for Abby she kind of run on it." Emily pitched her idea and Ziva looked at her like she was crazy.

"Gibbs? Without coffee?" Ziva put her cup on the book stand positioned next to her.

"We will never know if we don't try." Emily sat down next to Ziva on the couch.

It was silent while Ziva debated herself in her mind, "how do you think your team will take it? Leaving I mean."

"I don't know honestly. It's not like we'll never see each other again, I live with Spencer and i have occasional girl nights with JJ and Garcia." Emily sighed, "but I've barely recovered from Cyrus. The team went over my head and made me go undercover knowing that I wasn't comfortable with it. I don't know if I'll ever really forgive them for that. But what I do know is that I never should've came back on the team if I didn't trust them. And that day was the day that the bond had broke."

"When do you start for us?" Ziva asked off topic.

"Tomorrow I think." Emily huffed, "Yeah i start tomorrow but my team will still think that I'm just consulting on a few cases. When they get back from this case I'll go to the BAU and tell them."

"That's a good plan." Ziva added.

"Yeah." Emily whispered feeling her eyes getting heavier by the minute.

"Well we should probably get some.." Ziva's voice dropped as she saw Emily peacefully asleep next to her. "Ok, never mind."

Ziva stood up and grabbed two blankets from the basket beside the TV stand. She placed one on Emily and sat down next to her and draped the other on herself. "Ill get up soon." Ziva told herself, it was a lie, she quickly fell asleep next to the other woman.

NCIS bullpen 7:59 a.m.

"Ok I'm staring to get worried, where the hell are they?" Tony asked the other agent in front of him. Both of the brunette ladies had failed to yet show up to work and Tony was starting to get a little worried.

"Emily's at the hospital and Ziva is probably there with her."

"About that Gibbs," Tony sat up from his chair ready for what was about to come, "Ziva and i went to see Emily last night. After i came back with coffee they were already in the elevator, and when i caught up with them in the parking lot they took off."

Gibbs glared at him as he got up from behind his desk and made his way over to his agent, "What did you say?" Gibbs raised his hand and slapped Tony on the back of his head. Gibbs rushed to get his gun and badge out of his desk.

"Where are we going boss?" McGee had just walked in when he saw the two agents rush in the elevator, he hurried inside and pressed the lobby level button.

Outside of Ziva's apartment 8:13 a.m.

McGee knocked three times until Tony pushed him aside. "I got this McGee," Tony backed up and raised his leg.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Gibbs got in front of him, "I have a key DiNozzo. How about we try that first instead of knocking down the door?"

"Yeah that would probably work boss. Sorry." Tony let Gibbs put the key in the door and push the door open.

The three men pulled their guns out but when they walked into the living room they quickly put them away at the sight of the two brunettes sleeping on the couch. "Aren't they both supposed to be light sleepers?" Tony asked.

"By the looks of it, they'd have to be exhausted if they could sleep in those positions." McGee tilted his heads trying to make sense of how they could possibly be comfortable.

Emily was rolled up in a fetal position with one leg stretched across Ziva's torso. Ziva on the other hand was snoring like an elephant, both of her feet hanging off of the side of the couch while the rest of her body was angled just perfectly for the both of them to fit.

"HEY!" Gibbs yelled scaring both of the women and causing Emily to fall off the couch.

"I'm up. I'm up." Emily quickly stood up straight, hiding her dizziness, Ziva jumped up ready to attack but both of the agents quickly relaxed when they saw the faces of their team.

"Oh it's just you guys." Ziva allowed her self to rub her eyes and wake herself up.

"What are you guys doing here?" Emily asked. She sat back down and wrapped herself in the blanket that somehow managed to escape her grasp in her sleep.

"It's tomorrow and you guys are late." Tony explained.

"What?"

"How?"

Both of the questions overlapped.

"Take the day off." Gibbs ordered cryptically.

"What? No I can get ready in the blink of an eye." Emily protested.

Before Ziva could voice her concerns Gibbs quickly shut them up, "come on let's go."

Both of the women scrambled to their feet, "where are we going Ziva?" Emily switched her language to Hebrew while she talked in a hushed tone.

"I do not know." Ziva answered still staring Gibbs in the eyes.

"Pack your bags you guys are staying with me." Gibbs have them notice of his plan and replaced them on the couch.

"Wait what?" Emily was confused even more, "I don't want to impo-"

"English Emily." Gibbs reminded her.

"Oh, sorry." Emily whispered in embarrassment, "I don't want to impose, everyone's helped me enough."

"If you're going to be apart of this family then you should know that we do things for each other, even when we don't want them to."

"What do you mean boss?" McGee asked, "apart of this family?"

"Um. I was going to tell everyone at once but since half of you already know I'll just tell you." Emily only made the two men even more confused by her statement. "I'm joining your team. I'm going to be a liaison agent between the bureau and NCIS."

"Really?" Tony had a huge smile across his face.

"Yes really. I was supposed to start today but you all saw how that ended up."

"I'll call Leon and clear the day off for everyone." Gibbs pulled out his phone and dialed his 'bosses' phone number.

Emily realized this was her cue to go and get her go-bag that she thankfully didn't unpack. She walked into Ziva's room knowing that McGee was right behind her.

"Are you comfortable with this?"

"With what? You joining the team? Yes I'm ecstatic for you!" McGee clarified.

"Are you sure?" Emily turned around to read him.

"Yes Prentiss, I'm sure. You're basically my idol why wouldn't I want you on my team?" Tim asked.

"Because you're not very good with change."

"Why do you think that?"

"I'm a mind reader remember." Emily smiled at her terminology.

"Yeah, I'm not good with change." McGee paused as he saw Emily frown, "But, who is? I was serious about what i said I'm happy to have you on my- our team." McGee was successful when he saw a smile on Emily's face again.

"Thank you agent McGee."

"Please call me Tim ."

"Then you'll call me Emily."

Tim held his hand out for Emily to shake but Emily decided to bring him into a hug. They were interrupted by Tony walking in, "Guys Gibbs said- HEY! How come no one told me that we were hugging in here?!"

"Because you are always over-dramatic about it Tony." McGee explained rolling his eyes.

"Come on, bring it in!" McGee and Emily obeyed his request and they all hugged for a few seconds until they were interrupted.

"Guys what is taking so lon-" Ziva stopped mid sentence when she saw that three of her colleagues were hugging. "Big hug?"

"I think you mean 'group hug' Ziva." Tony corrected while still hanging onto Tim and Emily.

Ziva rolled her eyes, "same difference Tony."

"Well are you going to come over here or what?" Tony waved her over.

"We can't do a group hug without bossman!" Emily exclaimed, "L.J. ! GET IN HERE!"

Gibbs came rushing in with his SIG out at the ready, "Yes?" he asked when he saw no threat.

"Come on!"

"What?"

"You know what, Gibbs." Emily gave him a knowing look.

Gibbs patted Ziva's back walking them into the three's hug.

"Isn't this just the best? Team NCIS together forever!" Tony smiled largely.

As Emily looked around at her new team- family she saw nothing but happiness, as laughter and cheers filled the room she knew she had made the right choice to stay with team NCIS.

A/N- Hello readers! it's been a while but i'm back and ready to start writing again!!