AS MANY OF YOU KNOW I HAVE BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL. MY BROTHER WAS NICE ENOUGH TO BUY ME ANOTHER LAPTOP SINCE THE OLD ONE BROKE. ANYWAYS HERE IT THE NEXT CHAPTER, IT'S SHORT, BUT THEN AGAIN I WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT, WRITE ALL DAMN DAY.

"Under arrest? Why?" Ziva was beyond confused. "He is the victim!"

"I know Ziva, but Jamie's sister of filing charges for her brother's death. And since there is no evidence what's so ever, it's she said he said." Gibbs explained. Trying very hard not to lash out.

Ziva tossed her head back. "We need a lawyer."

Gibbs shrugged. "Tim is not guilty Ziva."

"I know that Jethro! But we need someone that can help. And I know who to ask." Ziva smirked. Pulling out her phone, she redialed the number.

"It was a one-time thing Ziva." Frank growled.

Ziva chuckled. "Yeah I know, but I need a lawyer."

"Do I look like a lawyer?"

"But you know so damn good one's Frank. Timothy is being charged with murder."

Frank sighed. He knew he should have stayed away. Damn him and his morals. "I'll call back."

"What did he say?" Gibbs asked.

Ziva frowned. "He is going to call back. He didn't say when." It wasn't long before the phone rang. "Hello?"

"Aaron Hotchner." Frank spoke. "He will be there in a few hours. Ziva he is a friend and family if anything happens to him."

"You have my word, Frank. Nothing will happen to the man." Ziva assured.

"Very well. See you soon." The line went dead after that.

"See you soon? What the hell."

"Everything alright?" Gibbs asked.

Ziva nodded. "Yes. Frank said the lawyer will be here soon."

"What's the name?"

"Uh, Aaron Hotchner."

Gibbs glanced at her confused. "The BAU units chief? That Hotchner?"

"I don't know Gibbs. He simply said he was friend and family. And if anything happened to him He will kill us all." Ziva shrugged.

"Did he really?"

"Not in those words exactly, but that was what was intend." Ziva replied in the calmest way.

Gibbs Stared at her. "Would he really?"

Ziva chuckled. "Yeah, he would. Frank is a man of his word and takes family very serious. Seeing as he didn't have one growing up, he protects the one he has now with his life. If something happens to them he'd stop at nothing to get the responsible ones."

"Good man." Gibbs hummed. "You and he have a story?"

Ziva shifted on her feet. "When I was first assigned to work with him, he was in Mossad a good ten years. Father trusted him with mine and his life. He was a son to him. Anyways I was trained by him for a good two years before I was on my own. Well not that I wanted to, but Frank had left Mossad to work with the CIA. I met up with him a year later and we began a small relationship. It lasted half a year when I found out he was in love with his partner in the CIA. That and father forbid me from seeing him."

Gibbs frowned. "I thought he was like a son."

"He was, but when he left Mossad for the CIA father saw that as a betrayal." Ziva explained. "Frank tried to explain why he did, but father wouldn't hear it. Let's just say father went as far as to give Mossad agents the liberty to kill Frank is he was ever seen in Israel."

Gibbs was surprised. "That bad." Ziva nodded. "Why did he leave?"

"Mossad killed his sister, brother, and mother. Frank let it go after finding and killing the ones that did it. Then after a mission, he found his wife and son murdered in his home. He later discovered, Rivok the head of Mossad ordered the killings. She wanted nothing to distract one of her best agents. I don't know how he did, but Frank made sure Rivok never got wind of me." Ziva said.

"Why?"

"If Rivok knew of me, she would have sent to kill me. I was a distraction for Frank in her books." Ziva shrugged. "We kept in touch, but it has been limited." Gibbs simply nodded. He didn't want to know much of their past.

Ziva had taken up a seat in one of the waiting chairs. Gibbs had gone back to the room, with Tim. It was after four hours before Frank and another man walked in. how frank knew where they were was beyond her. The second man was the same height as Frank, dark and handsome.

Frank stopped in front of her. "Ziva this is Aaron Hotchner. Aaron this is Ziva, the friend I told you about."

Aaron held his hand out to her. "Pleasure. Frank said you were in some legal trouble?"

Ziva sighed. "Not me, my team mate. He is being accused of murder."

Aaron glanced at Frank, then back to Ziva. "Okay."

"Problem is he did it." Ziva added.

Aaron quirked an eyebrow. "If he committed the crime, there is nothing I can do agent."

"No, no. It was self-defense agent Hotchner. Only it's a him say she say." Ziva was quick to clarify.

Frank chuckled. "It's he said she said neshema."

"Whatever."

Hotch took a seat. "I need to know the whole story. From being to end."

For the next hour, Ziva explained everything, purposely keeping out Frank's help. "Just today, we got the warrant."

Hotch nodded. "It is going to be a bit tough. I'm not going to lie. You have no evidence in the attack, or what happened in the alley. The PD does. They have the murder weapon, a body, a few witnesses and one man in the hospital." Frank rolled his eyes, leaning back on the chair. "How is the agent?"

Ziva shrugged. "He is better, eating liquids at the moment. The scar is still visible and live."

Aaron ran a hand through his hair. "I cannot and will not promise anything, but I will take this and try my best. All I ask is you be honest and hide nothing from me."

Ziva glanced at Frank, who gave her a shake of the head. "You have my word agent."

Hotch stood, giving her a shake. "I'll contact you later. See you later agent."

"You go ahead Aaron, I'm going to stick around for a bit." Frank said. Hotch gave him a nod and left.

"So I take it, he doesn't know what you did?" Ziva asked.

Frank ran a hand over his face. "They don't know what I do. Period."

"Not even your wife?"

"She knows, but her teammates don't." Glaring up at her, he growled. "I need it to stay that way Ziva. They can't find out."

Ziva frowned. "You never hid your work from your family Frank. Why now?"

"I am taking a huge risk with JJ knowing. It was hard for her to understand and accept it. Her team won't be too accepting. They'd have me arrested within the second." Frank held a small smirk. "I need you to come up with a lie for the interrogation. No matter what Michael says, you counterattack it. Understood?"

"Yes, sir." Ziva hated taking orders, but he was the boss. "I have to see Tim."

"I will see you later." Giving her a kiss on the cheek he walked away.

Ziva walked into the room, to see Gibbs and Tim watching something on Tim's phone. She stayed back and watched. Gibbs had so much love and parenting he wasn't able to give. For many years he held it in, only showing it so much. But then this nerdy and awkward man walks in. Gibbs kept him at a distance but watched him close. The night he shot the cop, Gibbs was calm, but inside he was a mess. Worried about losing the young man he has come to care for. Then the day his sister was involved in the murder, that was one of the few times Tim, stood up to him. Ziva had come to see Tim in his nerdy stage but has also seen him grow and become the confident man he was. She says 'was' because this will harm him. This will make him revert back. But he had the team, Gibbs and her to help him get past it. She just hopes Hotchner can clear his name. Because if he went down for this, she would make sure the ones to blame pay.