A/N I know I promised this much sooner but I keep having problems with my uploader - it displays a blank webpage then the internet freezes. I dunno why but I think it's fixed cause it let me upload this. Anyway a nice long chapter for you all x :)
I hope you enjoy it and if so review, if you hate it review but be constructive, okay? Tell me what you want to happen because I haven't written anything beyond chapter 10, that's when the case is fully solved and everyone has come to terms with it. I don't wanna end it there so please submit reviews, I have had one request for either Eli David to make an appearance or Rivka David (ziva's mother) And yes that is her name! It's not said in the show but it is said across the internet.

Lastly, please don't hate me for Macey Carlson, I know she is a bitch but I just thought it would stir up some tension and arguements. Not to mention I love it when I write a character I hate because it really helps me write more because I wanna see what I can do to them or what trouble I can have them cause.
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Chapter 8 – The Truth, The Past and Another Problem

Ziva was about to go to sleep when she remembered exactly why Amad Sayed looked familiar and she knew exactly who he really was and knew how she had met him...

Ziva grabbed for the call button by her bed and immediately began slamming her finger down on it. In no time at all she heard a nurse coming.

"All right! All right! Calm down I'm here, what do you need?" The nurse sounded pissed off at Ziva for beating the poor call button.

"I need you to call NCIS" Ziva's voice was urgent

"Why is it so important?" Ziva did not like this woman at all

"It is important because I need them here to tell them something about why the hell I am in here and if you do not call them in thirty seconds I will personally kill you with your own name tag!"

The nurse woman paled before racing from the room to call NCIS. Ziva had a look of satisfaction on her face before she remembered why she needed the team down here.

The team had just walked off the elevator and each went to their own desk. Tony was the last out and despite what happened at the hospital he started to smile, Ziva hadn't said no just that she wasn't ready after what had happened.

As he sat on his chair the legs fell apart and he crashed on to the floor. Hard.

His face turned red and he immediately jumped onto his feet. McGee and Zaria couldn't help but laugh at Tony.

"PROBIE!" He instantly blamed the junior agent

"I didn't do it Tony, I swear, it wasn't me" McGee defended himself against Tony's accusation,he hadn't done it but it was understandable that Tony assumed he had done it.

"Well then who-" He redirected his glare at Zaria who was still sat laughing "It was you!"

"Yup, Ima told me you did that to her one time and it seemed the perfect thing to do to you" The girl panted as she spoke, she was out of breath and holding her stomach as she laughed too hard.

"Why would you-, What did I- I'll get you back for this" Tony swore

"No you won't DiNozzo" Gibbs had been watching the scene and decided he needed to intervene before he had another prank war.

"Why not Boss, she did this for no reason, last time I did it because Ziva did the thing with thee binoculars"

"Because DiNozzo, if her or Ziva don't kill ya for getting her back I will, I do not need another prank war or anybody else getting put in hospital" Gibbs sternly told his senior agent who seemed to take in what his Boss was telling him.

"Yes Boss" With that Tony went to reassemble his chair from the pieces it was in.

"And you" Gibbs turned his attention to Zaria "No more messing with Tony's stuff, not his chair desk or any other equipment, got it?"

Zaria sighed "Yes Gibbs" and took out her schoolbooks to catch up with all her work.

A few short minutes later a familiar voice sounded over the quiet Bull-pen.

"Agent Gibbs my office now" Director Vance didn't look happy and neither did Gibbs as he slowly rose from his computer chair and then quickly headed up the stairs to the balcony and into the Directors office.

Director's Office

As the two men entered the office, Director Vance went to sit at his desk while Gibbs walked in front of the desk and remained standing.

"What do you want Leon" Gibbs smirked to himself when he saw annoyance flask in Vance's features.

"Besides you out of my office, I wanted to inform you that Bethesda just called, seems Officer David has some news related to the case and she wants you to go down so she can tell you"

Gibbs was instantly serious and furious that Vance had wasted time in bringing him upstairs just to tell him when he could have told him downstairs and Gibbs could have been straight in the elevator and on his way to the hospital.

"You couldn't have just told me back in the Bull-pen! Why the hell have you wasted this time Leon!"Gibbs was sure that Cynthia could here him shouting, heck everyone in the Bull-pen probably could but he wasn't particularly bothered nor concerned about it.

"Agent Gibbs, I also brought you up here for another reason. I'm placing a temporary agent on your team in David's place while she'd out and I wanted to make sure that there wouldn't be any... problems"

At first Gibbs just stood frozen in his place before hardening his eyes and glaring at the man sat in front of him. Then he lost it.

"I do NOT need a new agent and I certainly do NOT want one! My team is perfectly capable and you God damn well know it!"

"I never said your team wasn't capable Agent Gibbs, however you are an agent down and I feel it would be better if you had a full team on this case. Now she should be arriving now and I would like her to feel welcome and to get started right away" Vance stood from his chair and motioned Gibbs to the door. Gibbs didn't move.

"Agent Gibbs need I remind you that Officer David has called for you" Vance looked smug, he knew Gibbs would cooperate and get back to the case, meaning he'd have to take the new agent along with him.

"Fine" And with that Gibbs stormed out of the office.

Back in the Bull-pen a young looking woman with long straight blonde hair that came to rest just past her shoulder blades stepped out of the elevator. She was wearing tight dark jeans and a loose white blouse.

Tony and McGee sat at their desks gaping at the woman. Zaria paid no attention and just carried on with her school work.

"Hello I'm looking for Special Agent Gibbs and his team, I'm the new Agent on his team. Can you help me find them?"

Both men's jaws dropped further at her statement. What new Agent?

Tony got up from his desk and slowly approached the new member, his face displayed no emotion what so ever.

"Errrr I'm Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, I'm senior Field Agent on Special Agent Gibbs' team and the man over there is Special Agent McGee" He flashed her a grin before making his way back to his desk.

"Oh good well then I'll just- Who are you?" She was now glaring at the young Israeli girl sitting at Ziva's desk who just carried on with her work and gave no answer to the aggravated blonde stood in front of her.

"Excuse me I said-" She was really infuriated that the child in front of her was ignoring her completely as though she wasn't even there and was about to loose it before Tony interrupted her.

"This is Zaria, Agent...?" Tony let the question drift so she would hopefully fill in the blank.

"Agent Carlson. My name is Macey Carlson. Now why is Zar-whatever in here?"

Zaria hated Macey straight away.

'How dare she! She thinks that I should be interested in her! She's taking Ima's place and expects me to stop what I'm doing just to tell her my name when I don't even want her to talk to me and then she can't even remember it! How dare she!"

"Zar-whatever is right here!" Zaria rose from her seat and glared and the woman "Listen just because you walk in here doesn't mean I have to stop what I'm doing for you. It certainly doesn't mean I need to act nicely with you, especially when you don't seem to have the decency to remember my name Agent Carlson! My name is Zaria, Zaria Neve David!"

Tony and McGee stood in absolute shock. Zaria had been more or less quiet girl and she had certainly not been aggressive with any of the team. In fact at first she was shy around most of them (Abby and Ducky being the exception to that). The team had put it down to the fact that although they were her mother's best friends, they were strangers to her and so thought she was just shy around new people.

Yet here she was being openly hostile and aggressive with a woman she only met less than two minutes ago!

Gibbs had watched the exchange from up on the balcony along with Director Vance and he smiled at Zaria's little outburst.

'Kid's got fire, huh, like her mother she hates superficial model type people, wonder if Ziva inspired that or if it's a David thing' He chuckled at his thoughts then went to get the team so he could get to Ziva.

"Listen little girl I don't know who the hell you think you are but you do not talk to me like that! I'm the federal agent here and you're just some kid who's here for God knows what reason, if you speak to me like that again-"

Agent Carlson's rant/threat was cut off by Gibbs

"Gear up we're going to Bethesda again, Ziva just had the staff call us, she's remembered something else"

Tony and McGee were at the elevator in seconds, Agent Carlson however took her time.

"Zaria get down to Abby's Lab, we can't take you this time kid it's not a social call" Gibbs felt horrible that he couldn't take Zaria back to see Ziva again, unfortunately he didn't know what Ziva had remembered and he didn't need Ziva editing anything for Zaria's sake.

"Yes Gibbs, I understand" Was Zaria's quick reply before she headed down to Abby's Lab.

The team and Agent Carlson headed out, with Gibbs Gibbs staring at his new Agent the whole time.

Outside Bethesda

As the team got out of the car, Agent Carlson had never been more happy to be on safe unmoving ground.

'How does he still have a driving license!'

The boys tried not to laugh at her face but found it very difficult, the poor girl looked petrified the entire drive. Admittedly Gibbs did drive a tad worse than usual for her.

Gibbs, Tony and McGee made their way to Ziva's room again with Agent Carlson trailing behind.

"So why are we here?" Agent Carlson questioned

Tony and McGee looked to Gibbs to answer, their faces showing uncertainty as to whether or not she needed to know.

Gibbs saw his agents look to him and so he sucked in a breath and told Agent Carlson what he thought she needed to know about Ziva's condition.

"Officer David was attacked last week and has been in here ever since. At first she couldn't remember what happened but then after a while she remembered and said she was sure she had met the guy before. However when we got a match on the DNA sample she swore she'd never met the guy. Now she remembered something else and we're here to find out what"

"Officer David? Don't you mean Agent David, Agent Gibbs?" Carlson was sure that any person on an NCIS team was referred to as an Agent not an Officer.

"No Agent Carlson I don't mean Agent I mean Officer. Ziva doesn't work for NCIS officially, she's here as Liaison Officer from Mossad. She was on my team before the attack and until she's out of here and off of her med leave I'm stuck with you. Now if you're done wasting our time we're here for a reason."

Gibbs didn't like his new Agent, he didn't like any changes to his team especially new members that seem to ask a lot of questions that don't really need answering.

"Yes Agent Gibbs" Carlson knew that the team didn't like her because she was replacing Officer David but still she thought she deserved some respect or at least a chance, after all it wasn't her fault Ziva was attacked or that she was assigned to their team.

Ziva's Room

Ziva was sat alone in the white, clean room in the soft, warm bed that she had been in for over a week. She was sat half way up leaning against the pillows that were covering the metal headboard that was not too comfortable on it's own.

She tried to keep herself calm but it was proving to be an impossible task. She was beginning to get impatient that the team had not arrived yet to find out what she had found out: She had to tell them soon. She had trouble keeping herself relaxed, every time she tried she tensed even more and then her bruises and wounds ached and hurt.

She contemplated getting the nurses to recall NCIS to find out where the team were. But that would just make her even more impatient.

She stayed sat for a few more minutes, unmoving and silent, listening to beeping and humming of the machines around her. Her patience nearly expired when she heard the creak of the door and when she snapped her hard, tired eyes to the sound she was greeted with the sight of her team and a strange woman following closely behind them.

"Gibbs! Oh thank God! What kept you Gibbs?" Her voice changed with each exclamation ranging from: Shock to relief to hurt.

"Sorry Ziver, when I got back to NCIS the Director called me to his office to tell me about your call but then he decided to tell me about your... fill in." He purposefully did not use the word replacement for three reasons: One, it would hurt Ziva. Two, it suggested that Macey would be with them permanently. And three, Ziva was not gonna be replaced at all! The team and Gibbs would not allow it.

"That is okay Gibbs but I figured out how I knew Amad Sayed or as I knew him Adam Yased" Ziva drew in a breath then slowly exhaled, she saw that Gibbs had raised his eyebrows at her wanting her to explain her revelation.

"Adam Yased was Ari's best friend Gibbs, I only ever met him once Gibbs and even then it was only for a few minutes. Do you remember the party I told you about? When I was fifteen I went with Ari to his friend's party? That was the same Adam Gibbs!"

The team stared at her incredulously. That was all they had missed? A trick of letters? Seriously, switch two letters in each name?

It was Agent Carlson who spoke next, much to everyone's annoyance.

"Why would your old boyfriend's best friend try to kill you Officer David?"

Ziva and Gibbs gave her murderous stares for that question.

"First of all Ari was not an old boyfriend Agent..."

McGee supplied Ziva with the name "Agent Macey Carlson Ziva"

"Thank you McGee. Ari was my half-brother Agent Carlson and the reason Adam tried to kill me is something I can only guess at but I believe it is the real reason. I believe he knows the truth Gibbs." Her voice softened into a whisper and there was a hint of fear in her words, her eyes looked into Gibbs' trying to convey the rest to him alone.

Gibbs knew what she meant.

"How would he have found out Ziver?" Gibbs, for the first time, was at a loss for an answer and needed to know if Ziva knew the answer.

"I do not know Gibbs, I wish I did but I never told a soul about it" Silent sobs shook Ziva as she tried to compose herself.

Gibbs went to calm Ziva while Tony, McGee and Macey all stood fully confused as to what Ziva and Gibbs were talking about.

As they stood and watched their Boss comforting their co-worker Agent Carlson turned to the two men stood beside her

"What are they talking about? What does the suspect know?" she whispered to the agents.

"No idea" was the joint response before Tony turned to face her to continue his response

"And the guy is not a suspect because we know he did it, we do not suspect he did it" He was harsh, he knew it, but he couldn't help it.

Agent Carlson just turned away from him and turned back to Ziva and Gibbs.

Ziva had calmed down and her and Gibbs were discussing something that the other people in the room could not hear. Then the two turned and faced the team and Gibbs spoke

"Alright now you guys know about Ari, except you Agent Carlson. Ari Haswari was Ziva's half-brother who killed Special Agent Caitlin Todd three years ago. You don't need to know all the details, but he eventually tried to shoot me in my basement-" Before Gibbs could carry on with the story Tony interrupted him

"We know all this Boss, Ari tried to kill you and you shot him what's all this got to do with Ziva's attack? I mean the guy already knew they were related"

Gibbs sighed "That's just it DiNozzo, we falsified the report. I didn't kill Ari, Ziva did"

Everyone's eyes widened at the revelation and there was an audible gasp from each of them.

"So that's why you think this Adam guy tried to kill you? Cause he found out that you really killed your own brother?" Agent Carlson looked at Ziva accusingly, and didn't take the accusation out of her words either.

Tony and McGee glared at Agent Carlson for what she just said.

"You would rather I let him kill another innocent person Agent Carlson" Ziva's voice was low and threatening, her chocolate brown eyes bore into Agent Carlson's intensely, daring her to say something else.

Agent Carlson stared back, not backing down but then she noticed the similarities between Ziva and the girl from the Bull-pen. The eyes, the face, the hair, not to mention the similar threatening voice the only difference being the volume at which they both spoke.

"You look just like the little ignorant brat that was sat at my desk in the office earlier" She said more to herself than anyone else but every person in the room heard what she said: including Ziva.

Ziva's eyes flashed with anger at towards the new Agent

"What did you just say?" The tone of voice was menacing and Tony and McGee flinched at it. Gibbs watched the scene in front of him, slightly amused at how dense the new agent was. How she hadn't guessed that Zaria and Ziva were related was beyond him, and the fact Agent Carlson didn't know she was pissing off the assassin lay in front of her aided his amusement.

"The girl in the office today, she seriously needs an attitude adjustment. She not only ignores me when I walk in, but then she wouldn't even answer me when I asked who she was. The when as I was talking to Agents DiNozzo and McGee she blows up at me cause I forgot her name. Then she screams it at me and goes back to ignoring me. I was about to tell her how she should treat me but Agent Gibbs broke it up."

"What do you mean tell her how she should treat you?" The venom in her tone was obvious.

"Geez why do you sound so pissed off with me? I was gonna tell her not to talk to me like that, I'm a federal agent and she's just some kid who probably got herself into some serious trouble, I mean why else would she be at NCIS? So I was gonna tell that if she spoke to me like that again I would not be as nice with her"

Ziva chuckled to herself, Gibbs started wondering if he should shut his new agent up and Tony bet McGee $50 that Gibbs would need to physically hold Ziva back. McGee took the bet believing Ziva had more control than that.

"The reason she was at NCIS Agent Carlson was because she is my daughter. I believe you said she told you her name did she not?"

"Yes but I don't really remember it"

"Her name Agent Carlson is Zaria Neve David, if you had remembered this you may have realised why we looked alike before you pissed me off and insulted my child in front of me! And she was not at your desk as you seem to have thought, she was at my desk where she will stay! And if you go anywhere near her again or move her off my desk you will be in the hospital not me, are we understood?"

Agent Carlson paled at the threat. But soon regain herself.

"Yes Officer David"

Tony handed McGee the money while they were both stood in the corner snickering at Agent Carlson's mistake.

Gibbs decided it was time to leave before Ziva hurt herself trying to strangle the new girl.

"Come on time to get back to NCIS and find the bastard that did this" He turned to Ziva and gave her smile before turning to leave. Agent Carlson swiftly left the room without another word to Ziva. McGee said a quick goodbye and get well soon. Tony gave Ziva a soft smile, before quickly telling Ziva what Zaria had done to him earlier on. Which Ziva couldn't help but laugh at despite the pain it caused her.

"See ya later Zee-vah" and he gave her one last smile which was returned

"Bye Di-Nozzo"

After that Ziva shut her eyes and went to sleep, thinking about how much trouble Agent Carlson would get herself in with the team.

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