Upon entering the house Ziva saw exactly why he had been making so much noise and the probable cause of the ginormous crash earlier. Lying in the middle of the floor of the bottom level was what looked like the ceiling fan of the roof above it. Ziva chuckled, "Looks like you could use some help."

Derek just laughed and said slyly, "That was supposed to happen."

"Sure it was," she said sarcastically, "I take it that was the big crash I heard earlier." She said pointing to the pile of crumpled up ceiling fan in front of her.

"Uh yea, sorry about that. It really was supposed to happen though; just it wasn't supposed to come down that fast. You see I had a fool proof plan involving this rope here," he said indicating a rope laying on the floor next to the pile, "however, I kind of got lost in what I was doing so I went ahead of myself and dropped the fan before I had the rope secure." He reddened slightly and smiled.

"What do you intend on doing with it now?"

"Intend on doing with what?" Derek replied.

"The house! What do you intend on doing with the house?"

"Oh right yea, um well, my original plan was to fix it up and sell it again but I'm probably going to have to put so much into it that I most likely won't gain any profit off it so I might just rent it out or move into it myself."

"Well take it from me; this is a nice neighborhood, especially if you have a family or anything like that." Now she was fishing, she discovered he is most likely not a masked murderer, so time to find out what's behind those beautiful muscles of his.

"Well seeing as how I don't have any family in the area. I don't think I'm going to be too concerned about that." He said chuckling.

"Well I better be getting back to bed, I have an early morning. It was nice meeting you." Ziva said as she made her way to the door.

"Yea nice meeting you too and I'll try to keep it down." He gave her a dazzling smile and she turned to head back to her house. Before she made it to his gate and onto the sidewalk he called,

"Hey were you the one that left the chocolate chip cookies on my porch?"

"Yes that was me why were they no good?" She said, normally her cooking was highly regarded.

"No! I mean yes, they were great. I just didn't know who had made them sense you didn't leave a note." He winked at her and said goodnight then shut the door. He watched through the front window until she was back inside her house and the porch light had been turned off. He smiled to himself and went back to work trying to be as quiet as possible.

When Ziva finally got back in bed it was nearing four o'clock. She groaned and rolled over with the pillow over her head. Luckily for her she fell right to sleep before the noises started too much and she managed to get a couple of hours of sleep before her alarm rang at six o'clock.

Ziva slouched into work the next morning and almost fell asleep in the elevator on the way up to the squad room. When the elevator dinged she slowly made her way to her desk and sat down heavily, ignoring the glances from Tony she was receiving. She heard as Tony got up from his desk and sat on the corner of hers.

"Late night, Zee-Vah!" He said rather cheerily. She looked up and grimaced.

"As a matter of fact yes, I did have a late night last night. What's it to you?" She snapped.

"Sheesh just asking a question. Who was he?"

"Why does it have to be a he?"

"Ok her then?" He questioned. Ziva stuck her tongue out rather childishly, but justice was served as…Whack!

"Leave her alone Tony!" Gibbs said as he walked in.

"Yes Boss!" Tony said rubbing the back of his head. Ziva smirked at him.

"Ziver."

"Yes Gibbs?"

"You ok?"

"Yes I am fine, just a little tired."

"Well we don't have a case yet so why don't you go down to Abby's lab and crash for about an hour on her futon. I call you if we need you." Gibbs said sitting down at his desk.

"Thank you Gibbs." Ziva said as she grabbed her phone and made her way to the elevator.

"Why when I'm tired do I not get to go crash on Abby's futon but Ziva does?" DiNozzo complained.

"Because the only time you're tired of the morning is when you've been out all night with some bimbo, DiNozzo!" Gibbs said giving DiNozzo his signature stare. DiNozzo just huffed and when back to his paperwork.

Ziva arrived at Abby's lab to loud music and dancing Abby. "Abby!"Ziva yelled over the music.

"Oh hey Ziva! How was your trip to Mexico? Why are you down here? Do we have a case?" Abby said after giving Ziva a bear hug.

"My trip was fine and no we do not have a case. Gibbs sent me down here to borrow your futon. I didn't get much sleep last night."

"Oh yea no problem! It's in my office come on I'll show you!" Abby grabbed Ziva's hand and towed her toward her office. After getting her a blanket and pillow from the cabinet Abby left Ziva in the quiet and turned off the lights. Ziva sighed and quickly fell asleep.

After working all night on the house Derek Morgan was very thankful he didn't have to go into work the next day unless they got a case, which he prayed they did not. He had headed back to his current apartment around five thirty and took a shower then crashed not even making it to the bed but to the couch instead, and that's exactly where he was when he heard his cell phone ringing in his pocket. Derek groaned and sat up putting the phone to his ear.

"Morgan" He said sleep thick in his voice.

"Whoa. Someone sounds like they had a rough night." Prentiss' voice rang on the other end.

"Not really rough just long. I worked on the house till about five thirty. What time is it anyway?" He asked heading to the kitchen to make coffee.

"Around one in the afternoon. Anyway Hotch called, are day off is over, we have a case in Washington."

"Wait Washington State or Washington D.C.?"

"State. Seattle to be exact, but that's all I know."

"Wait why did Hotch call you? He normally calls me first." Derek questioned. He had always thought Hotch and Emily would make a cute couple but didn't realize if something was going on yet.

"Hotch asked me to watch Jack last night because Beth was in town and he wanted some alone time with her." Was that a hint of sadness in his partner's voice?

"Oh ok well I'll be there in twenty." Derek said then hung up.