The last chapter SNIF, thank you all to stick with me through this whole thing, more explained at the end of the chapter

CHAPTER 30 Saved from a life that would have hurt like hell

When the team got the call from the hospital to come there as quick as possible they were worried. With the whole team they had gone to the hospital. Only to hear the heart breaking news that Ziva David was dead.

Everyone had their own thoughts, but most of all Tony hated himself for not ever telling Ziva how he felt.

The next hard thing to do was call director David, when the whole team was in MTAC they were surprised to see that Ziva's fathers had tears in his eyes. He made sure that Ziva would receive a Jewish burial next to her sister, and that the team would be flown over to Israel.

Ever thing went as good as it could go. They were flown to Israel the next day, tomorrow just round sunset Ziva would be buried.

Neither one of them had stopped crying; even Gibbs had constant tears in his eyes. With the loss of Kate they had thought that it would not be worse would something like that ever happen again but it was. It was Kate ten times over.

They all had had their last look at Ziva early in the morning, they past a devastated Eli David. Why was it that people only could see what they had done wrong to someone when that someone was dead or dying.

They all thought she looked like an angel even in the simple tachrichim in which she was dressed. She looked beautiful, like a fallen angel.

They all had gone in separately to say their goodbyes. The first one was Ducky, he told Ziva to be safe where ever she was, and that they would think of her, and never forget her memory. Next was Gibbs

"You were always like a daughter to me Ziver" more words did not came out of his mouth, when he went outside he passed the team.

Mcgee went after Gibbs, leaving Abby to the arms of Tony.

Mcgee stood a little awkward next to the coffin where Ziva lay, she lay so still, so not like Ziva.

"I thought that after Kate I never had to see another sister lay so still, but now I do. I promise I will help Tony move on. I mean you guys were made for each other, I even wrote a book about it and I know how much you would hate it to see him slip away for hanging in the past. Guess this is goodbye, yes, well, I'll remember you Ziva"

Abby walked when Mcgee passed them, for a while she just stared at the dead body of Ziva. She could not the words out loud, because if she did it would be all too real. She just closed her eyes and walked away. Saying she loved Ziva over and over in her head, knowing that Ziva would hear them it they were spoken or not.

The hardest one was Tony, he walked in, at first he did not dare to look at her. This was not how it was meant to be. If he only had acted earlier, this would not be happening. When he looked at her the tears in his eyes started to fall.

"I am so sorry Ziva I should have told you before, I do not know why I never did and" He took a breath "I love you, I have from the moment we've met, and I would do everything to get you back"

"I know"

That voice that sweet voice was hers tony spun around and he saw her. She seemed to glow. A white dress was neatly following her curves, her hair dangled from her shoulders.

"Ziva I am"

"Don't be, you have to keep on living, for me Tony"

"I can't without you"

"It is okay Tony, I would rather be with you but I am happy here Tony, really. And I am sorry I never told you before, but I love you, with all my heart, even if it is not beating right now, I do Tony never forget"

"I cannot live without you Zi, I love you too much"

"Yes you can Tony, I promise you one day, you'll be here too. For now you have to live the life you have before you, I will always be here, waiting for you, waiting for us to be together"

"okay I promise, I'll live for you Zi, I love you"

"I love you to Tony, I will be looking down upon you, if you keep remembering me I will always be with you, until we are together for real, goodbye Anthony Dinozzo"

And with that she disappeared. Tony walked out the door; he retrieved himself in his room until it was time to go.

Round sunset they got to the graveyard. The team and Director David had all black ripped of ribbons bound round their arms. They all saw Ziva's friends and family, already standing by the grave. Together with two child hood friends, an uncle and a nephew, Tony and McGee carried her coffin to the grave.

Before the Rabbi began to speak Ducky was asked to the front. It was not a normal Jewish tradition but Eli David would know one thing, Ziva would have liked her family there, her real family not him, and she would have liked that they would have spoken, even if it was brief. When Donald Mallard started his poem, Eli got tears in his eyes, it was no tradition but at the tone of voice and the faces from her family Eli could finally see why Ziva had wanted to stay in America. Why she loved them and had opened up to them. Because each of them loved her back just as much even possible more.

Ducky's words rang through the silence cemetery where the sun was setting.

"I can almost see you smile
In the shadows of my mind,
Bringing to me the peace
I have struggled so hard to find.

I can almost hear your voice
Telling me "Be not saddened nor afraid,
Just remember all the good,
How we loved and laughed and played".

I can almost feel your touch
whipping away my every tear
as I stand among my shattered dreams
letting me know you are still near.

I can almost hear you say,
"One day, you'll be here too.
Live the life you have before you
for I will be here, waiting to welcome you".

We thought of you with love today,
But that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday,
And the days before that, too.

We think of you in silence.
We often speak your name. Now all we have is memories,
And your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake,
With which we'll never part. God has you in His Keeping.
We have you in our Heart"

At the end everyone had tears in their eyes. The rabbi took over and said the traditional prayer. Every one walked to the grave in which the coffin lay. And all put a few hands of dirt on the coffin which was now in the grave. After that they said their condolences to Eli. After that they washed their hands as respect for the dead, the sun had just reached the earth and was slowly being buried in the ground just like Ziva. And Gibbs, Ducky, Eli, Tony, Abby and Mcgee understood why the only thing Ziva had ever let written up about her burial was that it had to be with sunset. Because when the sun touched the earth, it was a moment of peace, the moment where you saw the life below and the eternal starry sky above.

Eli David walked to them.

"I must apologize" he said, the whole team stopped with getting in and stood beside one another, all touching or holding hands.

"I have never seen why Ziva was so fond of you, I must admit that I thought she was a disgrace when she spoke of you as family but now I can see you are her family, something I have never been. For that I thank you, for the time that Ziva was with you, you have given her so much that I could not"

The team nodded and to everyone's surprise Abby walked to him and gave him a hug. When she let him go they saw that a tear had made his way down Eli's cheek. They got in the cars but Eli stopped Tony.

"I have never done right for my daughter, but I know that she wanted you to have this. She had left it behind when she went to Somalia, but even though I thought she was dead, then I was not to fond of you all so I never send it. She left to one for you and one for her family"

Tony took the two envelopes.

"And I believe she would have wanted you to have this"

With that they said their goodbye's Tony got in the car, holding Ziva's Star of David necklace tightly in his hand. They left for DC together, as a family, and they would keep Ziva's memory alive, because Ducky's words had been true she would always be in their hearts.

And Tony also knew that Ziva's words had been true, he would see her again, she would never be gone, not completely.

What no one had known was that the whole time a woman was present behind a tree. No one saw her but she had the same hair and dark brown eyes as the woman they were burring. Full of tears. This was the woman who had escaped to late, who now saw the reason for her survive lay in the ground. She also saw the people that were standing around her daughter's coffin. People that were sad, even from the distance she could see that those people had loved her. She heard the footsteps beside her, and knew the pain that would take her over, that they had found her sooner than she thought. And she was right within moments she was gone from the world, to her daughter.

The first thing she saw was a girl, a young man and a young woman, her children and then she realized that it had been best that her daughter had died.

They may not have been together living but they were together in heaven. And when she had given Ari and Tali a warm embrace and had now her little darling her princess Ziva in her arms she knew it was true that Ziva had left so many that loved her behind but she had been spared from the pain of life, she had been spared from all the pain the world could and would have caused her. She was safe here, up in heaven, spared from a life that would have hurt like hell.

And there it is the ending of the story, I hope you are not to pissed of at me how I have ended the story, but something in me told me that it was just the way this story had to go. Someday I will write a one-shot about the letters Ziva left the team but for now this was the last part of the puzzle, the final lines of the story.

Thank you guys for sticking with me the whole story, and very thanks to the ones who reviewed this story, I hope you give me one last review and tell me what you thought of the whole story in general. Only don't say anything about the bad grammar and spelling in the beginning I am working on fixing it now the story is finished.

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