CHAPTER 2

(Continued from last chapter)

Gibbs: I'm sorry I must have heard you wrong. This woman is your what?

Ziva: His wife Special Agent Gibbs. From what Tony has told me you are very familiar with the word.

(McGee starts laughing and Gibbs gives him a glare.)

McGee: (Coughs) No boss I wasn't laughing at that, this is so obviously a joke, Tony's trying to fool us.

Tony: Why would I do that, Probie?

McGee: Because it's ridiculous. You're Tony Dinozzo, the notorious ladies man who can't do anything without making a joke. (Continues laughing)

(Tony, Ziva and Gibbs continue to glare at him.)

(McGee sees their faces and stops laughing.)

McGee: You are actually serious?

Ziva: You can look me up if you would like Agent McGee.

(McGee notices Ziva's stomach.)

McGee: (Sputtering) A-and you're uh you know.

Tony: Pregnant probie, what's wrong with you, haven't you ever seen a pregnant woman before?

Gibbs: We've gotten off track here, what can you tell me about Ari Haswari?

Ziva: He suspiciously left Mossad earlier this year and in the last few months he has acted very strangely.

Gibbs: In what ways Ms. David?

Tiva: Mrs. Dinozzo and he has become very secretive, whenever Tony and I have spoken on the phone to him he has dodged a lot of questions, and he was supposed to come visit us last month but the day before he told us he was too busy to come. When we asked him to elaborate he became very defensive.

Gibbs: Okay, McGee see if you can find Ari Haswari's phone records in the last few months and if he had any suspicious whereabouts, Dinozzo, why don't you go see if Abby could get anything off the bullet and take your wife with you.

Tony: Sweetie I'll meet you down there in a couple of minutes, I need to talk to Gibbs and Probie, it's just 2 levels down.

Ziva: Okay, I'll see you in a few minutes.

(She gives him a kiss on the cheek and walks to the elevator.)

Gibbs: Why didn't you tell us Dinozzo?

Tony: Mossad has a lot of enemies and if they found out Ziva had married an NCIS agent they would be out for blood, even though Ziva left Mossad after we got married. Not that it really matters.

Gibbs: Why's that?

Tony: Because her father is the director of Mossad.

Gibbs: And I assume that's the parent Ziva and Ari share?

Tony: Yeah. His name is Eli David.

Gibbs: Okay, your wife will have to wait while you follow me to MTAC.

Tony: Why?

Gibbs: We're going to have a little chat with your father-in-law.

(Tony looks up and whispers "Dear god save my soul" before he follows Gibbs.)

MEANWHILE IN ABBY'S LAB

(Ziva steps off the elevator and sees the Forensic Specialist looking sadly at a drawn picture.)

Ziva: Are you okay?

(Abby jumps and turns around.)

Ziva: I am sorry, I did not mean to scare you.

Abby: No, that's fine, I'm just a little jumpy today.

Ziva: I am sorry to hear about Kate.

Abby: Did you know her?

Ziva: Not personally, but I had heard a lot about her.

Abby: I'm sorry, who are you?

Ziva: Oh, I am sorry, I am Ziva David-Dinozzo. You must be Abby.

Abby: Yeah, are you some kind of relative of Tony's

Ziva: Yes, I am his wife.

(Abby laughs)

Ziva: What is so funny?

Abby: Did Tony hire you to try to make me feel better because let me tell you he got his money's worth.

Ziva: No, I am really his wife, and why does everybody think that is so funny?

(She holds up her left hand.)

Ziva: Do you believe me now?

(Abby stops laughing)

Abby: Oh my god I'm so sorry, it was just hard to believe because Tony has always acted like somewhat of a playboy.

Ziva: It is okay, believe me I know, that is what he was like when we first met.

Abby: So what changed?

Ziva: I do not know. (She sits next to Abby.) We met at a club in 1997 in Baltimore, I was living there for a few months taking care of some business and some people I met wanted to go to a club and invited me. They kind of gutted me after a while…

Abby: Sorry to interrupt, but I think what you meant when you said they gutted you, you meant they ditched you.

Ziva: Right, that is it. I am sorry, my American idioms are not so good, as I am sure my husband would tell you.

Abby: It's okay, go on.

Ziva: Anyhow. I was sitting alone at the bar when Tony walks over to me offering to buy me a drink, usually I would blow off strange men who offers to buy me a drink, but I don't know why, I just felt some kind of pull toward him. I can not explain it. The next few months we were practically inseperable. For the first time in my life I did not want to go back home, I did not want to go back to my job, I just wanted to stay with Tony.

Abby: Which you did.

Ziva: (Nods) It was not easy, my father was furious with me, throwing away my career for a man I hardly knew, but I did not listen to him, which I do not regret to this day. Five years later we got married on January 1, 2002. We got married in the city hall in Baltimore. We have been happy ever since.

Abby: And now you're having a baby?

Ziva: Yes, (She cradles her stomach.) I am six months along, I am due in September.

Abby: That's great. Do you know what you're having?

Ziva: (Nods.) It's a girl, we are going to name her Tali, after my sister, she was killed in a suicide bombing when she was sixteen.

Abby: God, I'm so sorry, that must have been terrible.

Ziva: (Nods) It was, for a long time I was not sure I would ever be the same again, and I was not for a long time.

Abby: May I ask, what made you want to come out with your relationship today?

Ziva: I will be honest and do not be mad at me, but my half-brother is Ari Haswari, he is the one suspected for killing Kate.

Abby: What?

Ziva: Tony came home earlier and told me Ari was suspected, but in a way it made sense, so I told Tony we should come here and explain everything we know.

Abby: Well, that must be hard, suspecting your brother is capable of murder.

(Just then McGee walks in.)

McGee: Hey Abby I brought down the bullet for you.

Ziva: Where is Tony, I thought he was coming down?

McGee: He was but he and Gibbs went to MTAC to talk to the Director of Mossad.

Ziva: My father. May I go? Tony and my father have never seen ear to ear.

McGee: (Confused) Ear to Ear?

Abby: I think she means eye to eye.

Ziva: Right.

McGee: Sure go ahead, Gibbs already said you could, well actually the new director told him that, she says she knows you.

Ziva: (Nods) Thank you McGee, It was nice to meet you Abby.

Abby: You too.

(Ziva exits.)

MEANWHILE AT MTAC

Eli David: I should have known this would happen, I knew from the day she met you that one day you would find a way to turn Ziva against her family.

Tony: Like it or not Eli the day that Ziva and I got married your family became my family and I would never turn Ziva against that, but as an NCIS Special Agent I have to look at all of the possibilities and unfortunately in this case Ari is one of them.

Eli: And how do I know this is you being objective? For all I know you could have been having an affair with this Caitlin Todd behind my daughter's back.

Ziva: (From the top of the platform) May I have a word on that theory father?

(She walks down and joins Gibbs Tony and Jenny.)

Jenny: Shalom Ziva.

(They give each other a kiss on each cheek.)

Ziva: Shalom.

Gibbs: You two know each other?

Ziva: Yes, she was a witness when Tony and I got married. Now father, Tony is not just accusing Ari because of grief, and we both know your affair theory is complete moose.

Tony: Bull sweetheart.

Ziva: Right bull. Tony has nothing but respect for this family, in fact when he found out Ari was a suspect the first thing he did was have McGee check it again and then he came home to tell me the suspicion and he couldn't believe it. It was me who said we should come here and tell these people everything we know. You do not give Tony the respect he deserves. It was my choice to leave Mossad and Israel to be with him. Yes I did not know him well enough at the time but I had a good feeling about him and I have never looked back, and I married him and we are expecting a baby so I believe I was right to trust my instincts. Now father please tell us everything you believe about Ari's whereabouts in the last few months that seem suspicious.

Eli: (Sighing) Alright, I'll tell you everything.

LATER AT TONY AND ZIVA'S APARTMENT

(Tony walks in while Ziva is getting the mail. He puts his keys in the bowl when he hears a voice.)

Voice: Dear brother-in-law, how nice of you to join me.

(Tony turns around to see Ari standing in his living room pointing a gun at him.)

Ari: I believe we have some things to discuss.)

(The scene freezes on Tony's face.)

A/N: Okay, there's chapter two, I hope you enjoyed in. Thanks for the awesome reviews on chapter one. I will try to update soon!