So, I am still undecided on what to do, so this chapter is more of a filler. So I'm not 100% happy about it, but at least it is something. It has a few things that have been raised and will be addressed in the sequel. This story will kind of end open endedly to make way for the sequel. I know I said this a few chapters ago, but there is about three chapters maybe four planned until the end of this story.

It shouldn't take long once I know what to do with Aaron to finish this story.

Disclaimer: Not Mine.

While Ziva was being assessed by the doctor, Ari took the liberty of ringing Rivka and Eli. Rivka came straight away, with Tali in tow. Tali looked as if she had been crying and Rivka had never looked more worried. The cut on Ziva's leg wasn't as deep as they first thought, and it didn't hit anything major. She just wouldn't be able to walk on it for a while. She needed stitches on both her arm and leg. Eli still hadn't arrived and they hadn't heard anything on Aaron.

Ziva wasn't watching as the doctors put each stitch into her skin. Her mind was else where. She was wondering whether or not Aaron was still alive or not. When the paramedics took over from her brother; he didn't look good. She had basically given him permission to die. Now perhaps she regretted it. It had been around about three months since she first met him. She couldn't believe that she spent so much time trying to work out who was 'stealing from the IDF'. She felt so stupid - she should have trusted her first instinct. She knew he wasn't the bad guy, but she was determined to prove everyone wrong.

"Okay Ziva, all the stitches are in. We want to keep you here for a few nights," the doctor said breaking her train of thought.

Ziva nodded, she didn't have the strength to argue.

As soon as she was taken to her private room, her mother rushed in and began asking how she was, demanding information from the nurses and doctors. Ari came in and tried to keep her calm. Tali all but ran in, attacking her sister with a big hug, "I'm so glad you alive!" she said as Ziva flinched away from the pressure on her arm, "Are you okay?" she asked lifting the hospital gown's short sleeve to see the bandage around her stitches.

"Yes, Tali I am fine," Ziva replied a small smile playing on the sides of her mouth. Tali walked to the end of the bed and sat there - determined not to move until Ziva was out of hospital.

Rivka pulled a chair from the wall to the side of the bed, "Ziva, What were you thinking?" She exclaimed.

Ziva diverted her eyes and looked away from her mother, "I... I don't know," Ziva replied quietly as she looked at the IV needle that was in her hand - re-hydrating her.

"What happened?" Rivka asked gentler this time.

"I cannot tell you that," Ziva stated - she knew the confidentiality policy of Mossad.

"Why not?" She asked.

"Because I can't tell you; I was on a mission. I should have listened to Ari," She said.

"Ziva, you talk to me," Rivka demanded.

"I can't, I want to talk to Abba," Ziva replied.

"He isn't here yet," Rivka said.

"When does he get here?" she asked.

"I don't know Ziva,"

"Ari how is Aaron?" She asked.

"I don't know," Ari said this time, "We haven't heard anything,"

"Can you find out?" She asked. Ari walked out of the room.

"Who is Aaron, Ziva?" Tali asked.

"He is someone I was working with," Ziva lied.

"Tali," Rivka said pulling out her purse, "Go and by yourself something to eat and drink,"

Tali hopped off the bed and took the money that her mother held. Once she had left, only Ziva and Rivka were left in the room.

"What was your relationship with Aaron?" Rivka asked after a few minutes.

"I am not going to have you interrogate me," Ziva stubbornly replied.

"I was so worried about you and you're not even going to tell me why you ran away,"

"I ran away because no one would believe me when I said that Bazak was the one attacking me first. I wanted to stay away from the false accusations, Abba had offered me a place on a mission to get inside the IDF, I accepted because I want to be in Mossad when I finish school next year and that could give me a head start," Ziva dully replied. There was no point in lying.

"Aaron?" Rivka asked.

"He was the person I was investigating. Some things happened that I didn't plan and some things happened that were out of my control," She said.

"Was he your friend?" Rivka asked trying to understand her daughter's thoughts.

"Suspect at first, but he wasn't the person we were after. There was no suspect. He is a decent man. He is a fair few years older, but I do not regret anything I did with him,"

"And what did you do with him?" Ziva looked at her mother. She didn't want to say it, her mother would start talking about sex before marriage and explaining the risks of it among other things. Ziva didn't need that.

"Ziva, Ziva, Why?" She caught on.

"It is a viable interrogation technique, but when we did it, it wasn't for that purpose, before and after, but not during," She tried to explain with out going into too many details.

"Let me guess who told you that," She stated under her breath.

"When he found out why I was there he got pissed at me - I don't exactly blame him. When I walked back to my dorm, someone attacked me, and then I woke up in a room with a small bed. Someone got him too and put him with me. He said he forgave me. One of the guards gave me a gun... And well, we tried to escape, when the 'ring leader' found us and when I got my gun back he attacked me... and... And I shot him," She explained on the verge of tears again.

Rivka moved to sit next to Ziva, gathering her in her arms. Ziva leaned into her hold for the first time since she was around the age of thirteen, "There was another man. Aaron was in front of Ari and me, the man shot Aaron, and now I don't know if he is dead or not," Ziva continued against her mother's shoulder. She wasn't even sure if she should have been telling her this, but she needed to talk to someone; and deep in her heart she knew Eli wouldn't listen to her.

"Did Eli make you do this?" Rivka asked.

"No. He asked me if I wanted to do it and I said yes," Ziva told her.

"Did you know what you were getting yourself into?"

"No,"

Ziva pulled back and dried her eyes when she heard the door open and saw Tali and Ari reappear.

"All they are telling me is that he is still in surgery. They don't know when he'll be out," Ari said.

About two hours later, Ziva fell asleep out of exhaustion. She still hadn't heard anything about Aaron. Tali had fallen asleep in the armchair, she had made it her job to look after her older sister, and Ari was watching the two of them.

Rivka had gone to get something to eat from the cafeteria, on her way back she ran into none other than Eli, "What the hell were you thinking?" She exclaimed at her ex-husband.

"She was ready, I gave her the opportunity," He said calmly.

"She is in hospital now; stitches to her arm and leg where she was stabbed," Rivka said, trying to contain her anger.

"Is she still alive?" He asked.

"Yes, she is distressed and crying - I have not seen her cry in years. Whatever you have done, you fix it!" she said.

"Is the target dead?" He asked, ignoring Rivka's last demand.

"Do you not care at all for your daughter? Do you have no limits? You sent our seventeen year old daughter on a 'mission' and it endangered her life. She was attacked, she was possibly shot at; and you don't care!"

"I care-" Eli began only to be cut off.

"For who? Your family? Your daughters and your son? Or your job and country?"

"I want to see Ziva," He stated.

"No," Rivka said. She walked past him and went to Ziva's room. Eli followed her there.

When Eli reached the door, Ari stepped out, becoming a wall between Ziva and him, "I want to talk to you," He said and walked back past him. Eli followed unwillingly, but the stare from his youngest daughter who had just woke up and his ex wife told him he wasn't welcome at that moment. He didn't want to cause a scene at the hospital.

"My sister is in hospital now. She almost died! Why did you do this to her?" Ari demanded.

"I didn't do anything to her. What? Do you think that I planned this?" He asked.

"It wouldn't be a stab in the dark," Ari murmured under his breath, "The other mission was sent from Mossad. As far as I know; not many people know that she was being sent anywhere. And no one knew that there was a supposed leak in the IDF. Which after doing my own research, I discover that there was no threat or leak,"

"That is what I was told," Eli stated.

"You might be able to fool her; but the days of you fooling me are long gone," Ari said before turning around, leaving the conspicuous threat hanging.

When he returned back to Ziva's room, she was just waking up. She hadn't had a very long sleep; she was still exhausted, but she was too worried to sleep or even think of anything else. Every time the door opened to reveal a nurse checking on her recovery, or the person delivering food to her room, she sat a little straighter, expecting the news that seemed like it would never come.

Finally, a doctor came into the room, asking for everyone to leave the room for a bit. Rivka threw a worried look at Ziva - as did Tali - before throwing a warning look to the doctor.

Please - if you haven't told me already - tell me if you think he should live, I have never really been more stuck...

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