The car ride was silent as they drove down the road, the rain pounding on the hood and the windows of the car. Ziva was leaning back in her seat, listening to the calming that was the rain. She thought briefly back to that Medical File. How could he have kept this from them? This was a serious problem that should be brought out into the open. Then again, Tony didn't really let people in like that. Anything deep and he shuts it down. This was deep. Oh this was deep all right. How could he not have told her about this? Weren't they supposed to tell each other everything? Wasn't that what partners were for?

She turned her head to look out of the window, the rain pouring down in streams. Did Gibbs know? What about McGee? Abby? Ducky? Why didn't she know? This changed everything. Everything. Suddenly, the car stopped, and she turned her head to look at her partner.

The car was parked in front of the convenience store, but Tony made no move to get out of the car, "Listen Ziva I…"

"Tony. Save it." She said, reaching for the car door.

"No, Ziva." He pulled on her arm, stopping her halfway, "I.."

"If you are going to talk about Lynn, I do not want to hear it."

"I wasn't going to, Ziva." He said, "I was going to talk about last night."

"What about last night?" She questioned, and he stared at her for a moment or two, studying her eyes. The only sound was the rain on the car.

"What's best for us?"

"Tony, do not do this." She warned.

"I need to."

"Tony." She firmly scolded, "We will talk about this later, I promise you. Right now, we need to focus on the case."

He nodded, "Sorry." He said, and then he let go of her as they both got out of the car, the cold water droplets hitting both of them as they blinked their eyes to see each other. They ran quickly towards the store entrance, ducking under the small canopy, "I hate rain." He muttered as he shook his head a couple of times, to get the rain droplets off of him. Ziva put her hands up and winced away.

"Tony!" She demanded, "Stop it! You're getting me wet!"

"Oh." He mumbled, smoothing his hair down, "Let's just go inside." They opened up the door and stepped into the brightly lit store, looking around. They both squinted a little bit before their eyes adjusted to light. Tony moved over to the counter and shoved his body over the counter top, looking in the backroom. He sighed and then stood back up on his two feet. "No one here." He commented.

Ziva, who was standing behind him, was still scanning the store, "Something feels off." She commented, her voice softer than normal, yet still more on edge.

"Yeah, it's the lighting. They really need to change out these fixtures." He said, pointing to the lights up above him.

"Wrong." Ziva said as she heard the muffled sound of a toilet flush. The door opened in the back and a man walked out; Tony immediately recognized him as Daniel Roberts.

"Freeze! NCIS!" Tony shouted, showing him his badge. And that was it, Daniel Roberts took off.

"NO!" Ziva yelled as she stared chasing after him, her gun drawn.

"Ah! There he goes!" Tony called as he followed Ziva out into the backroom. Daniel threw down a couple of boxes, which Ziva easily jumped over, not even missing a beat in her step as she chased him out of the back door.

"Freeze! Federal Agent!" Ziva demanded as she heard something fall behind her. On instinct, she turned around and saw Tony lying in a heap in front of the boxes. She rolled her eyes, "Tony!" She scolded before she took off around the store to go and catch Roberts.

As she rounded to the front of the store, she stopped in her tracks as she realized that Daniel Roberts was gone. As well as their car. Tony came up behind her, huffing a little bit and drenched in the rain. Ziva threw her hands up in the air in frustration, "Tony! He took our car!"

"Ugh, I really freaking hate rain." Tony complained, out of breath.

"Call Gibbs." She demanded, and Tony pulled out his cell phone.

"I would. But I don't have any signal."

Ziva growled and then kicked the bucket that was sitting by the front door. It was only then that she realized that the store was completely dark. Confused, she went over to the circuit breaker and noticed the torn wires. She slammed the door to the circuit breaker shut.

"What now?"

"He has screwed us here, Tony. He meant for us to be trapped here! He was waiting for us!" She announced as she threw open the door to the store and then started in, the door silently closing behind her. Tony took a few moments before he started in after her. She was behind the counter, slamming the phone down, "The phone does not work." She announced. Groaning in frustration again. She kicked the counter.

"Ziva." Tony softly called, "Ziva I'm sorry." He said as he slowly approached her.

"There is nothing for you to be sorry about. It is my fault. He should not have taken the car, we should have gotten him!"

"What could you have done?" Tony demanded, "Don't blame yourself like you did for McGee when he got shot." He scolded, "Don't you do this."

She wiped a piece of hair away that fell out of her bun as she sank down the side of the counter and sat on the floor. She looked up at him, "How long until Gibbs finds us?"

Tony smirked and sat down next to her, "You tell me. He's your boss."________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

"So Carly Evans killed her own daughter?" Aaron asked, from where he sat at Tony's desk.

McGee nodded, "According to Abby, the cobra venom that she extracted from Carly Evans clothes was the same venom that was extracted from Lindsey Evan's shoulder."

"It could have been planted there." Scott pitched in.

"Yeah," Aaron agreed, "Carly finds out who kills her daughter and her daughter's lover, threatens to tell us. Murderer gets even, kills her."

"But if the same person that killed both Lindsey and Sarah killed Carly Evans….why not kill her the same way?" McGee asked.

"Maybe they ran out of venom." Keating spoke up.

"Or." Lynn spoke up, "We look at this a whole new way. Carly knows about her daughter's lesbian affairs with Sarah. But Carly also has feelings for Sarah. So, in order to be with Sarah, she offs Lindsey, but then Sarah threatens to tell. Carly calls the drug dealer, who kills Sarah in San Diego and then they think they're off clean. Until Carly threatens to tell us that Roberts killed both her daughter and Sarah. So Roberts kills Carly."

"Well we'll find out," Aaron said, "Once Tony and Ziva get back."

"Yeah, by the way, where are they?" Gibbs demanded as he walked into the bullpen, "I haven't gotten a call from them and they've been gone for almost two hours."

"I…don't know, boss." McGee admitted. Gibbs just stared at him, "But I will find out…" Gibbs nodded once, "By tracing both of their cells. Triangulating all possible locations." McGee announced as his fingers flew over the keyboard, "Pinging all the cell towers in the DC metropolitan area." He announced, and then his computer beeped, "No hits."

"Expand the search." Gibbs demanded, watching the monitor.

"Still no hits." McGee sighed, "Boss I…." He started, but it was too late, Gibbs was already gone.

"So where's boss?" Scott asked, looking at his teammates.

McGee shrugged, "I don't know. But this isn't the first time they've disappeared off of the grid."

"This has happened before?" Aaron demanded, and McGee nodded.

"Both of them disappeared three years ago. Once when we found them trapped inside a metal shipping container, and then another when they went undercover as married assassins." Lynn felt a tug of jealousy on her heart. Aaron shared a quickly look with his partner.

"How long did it take you to find them the last time?"

"Almost a whole day." McGee sighed, "Maybe more."

Sorry for the short chapter. But that's all I got right now. Review though! Please! I promise the next chapter will be longer! (Oh, and for next chapter...who else is thinking kissing in the rain?) :D haha

QUOTE:

"Tony, when were you going to tell me about this? When were you going to tell anyone?" -Ziva