A/N: Well here is chapter 9! they finally catch the guy ! woo! It's a short chapter (only half the size of the last one) but that's because I'm saving the interrogation for the next chapter. Which was the most fun to write- Gotta love Gibbs when he's interrogating someone! I hope you like this one as it's really quite boring but it gets better. And I loved my reviews again! Thank You so much!
Chapter 10 will be up in one week, or sooner as I don't really have any plans for this week so I may just upload it sooner.

Chapter 9 – Case Closed – Part 1

Bull-pen

When the team returned they immediately went to work trying to track Adam Yased instead of Amad Sayed. Agent Carlson was about to sit down at Ziva's desk (Zaria was still with Abby) when McGee stopped her.

"Your desk is down at the end not here. This is Ziva's desk and while she's in the hospital it's being used by Zaria." Gibbs half smiled at McGee for stopping Agent Carlson, the last thing they needed was for either David to be arrested.

"Well Zaria isn't here and neither is Officer David." She was determined that she wasn't gonna let them push her around and move her out of the way like she wasn't on the team because she was.

"Look Zaria won't always be with Abby and when she's not she up here and I guarantee she won' hesitate to tell Ziva about this and neither will one of us. Ziva wasn't joking when she said she'd hurt you for sitting at her desk and moving Zaria" McGee was quite authoritative when he spoke and Tony and Gibbs were impressed.

"Fine" Agent Carlson huffed and she moved to the desk at the other end.

The team resumed with their work determined to catch this guy by the end of the day.

Abby's Lab

Zaria was sat next to Abby listening to the music that was blasting through the lab. Both working on something: Abby on the forensics, Zaria on he school work.

They both looked up from their work when they heard the swoosh of the doors signalling someone's arrival.

"Hey guys! Came to tell you the break through with the case" Tony's smile was infectious and both girls smiled back at him.

"OhMyGod! What breakthrough?" Abby was bouncing with excitement as she jumped from her chair and over to Tony who just smiled at the Goth.

"Ziva remembered why Amad Sayed was familiar to her, his real name is Adam Yased and he was a friend of Ari's"

"Uncle Ari?" Zaria questioned

"Yeah" Tony cleared his throat "Abby maybe we should talk outside for the next part" He didn't feel like telling Zaria what really happened to her Uncle Ari.

"Okay sure" With that the two went outside the lab to finish the conversation.

"Okay Tony what's the bad news? I mean I presume it's bad news if you didn't want Zaria to hear it".

Tony exhaled "Ziva shot Ari Abs, not Gibbs and she thinks that that is why Adam Yased tried to kill her"

Abby raised her shaking hand to her mouth

"Oh. My. God.!" She slowly breathed out, punctuating each word.

"Yeah and I didn't want Zaria to hear because if she doesn't know I certainly don't wanna be the one to tell her, I mean it could ruin her relationship with Ziva if she found out that Ziva whacked her own brother"

"Yeah I guess, so why do you think they lied? Gibbs and Ziva?"

"I don't know Abs, maybe it was too dangerous for Ziva. I don't think Mossad would take kindly to her killing her brother to save a stranger"

"hmmmm, well I guess I should get back to trying to track Adam Yased"

Tony nodded "Yeah you do that Abs, I'll get back upstairs and see if we can come up with anywhere he might go to"

With that they both went back to doing what they should be doing.

When Abby walked back into her lab she went over to Zaria who was engrossed in what she was doing.

"Hey what are you working on mini-z?" Abby wanted to find out more about the young girl. Sure they knew a bit about her but not much.

"Nothing really, just stuff" Came the typical teenage response.

"What stuff?"

"Nothing, just drawing now, I finished all the school work I had for today so I started doodling" Zaria didn't lift her eyes from the notebook.

"Oh, can I see?" Abby noticed the girl seemed distant today and wanted to try and coax a proper response from her.

Zaria shrugged "Sure"

And she handed Abby the notebook.

"Oh wow!" Abby looked at the "doodle" as Zaria called it. It was a drawing of a large beautiful, old-fashioned stone house. There were four visible small windows along the front of the house, a large double wooded door in the centre with another smaller window across the width of it at the top. There were small patches of grass at the front on either side of the cobblestone road that lead up to and around the house. The roof of the house was quite small and appeared to be slates. The whole thing seemed so calm even especially without colour.

"Wow this is amazing, you have quite the talent for drawing" Abby was actually impressed with it.

"Thank you, it's our old home in Tel Aviv where both Ima and I grew up." Zaria said sadly.

"You miss Israel?" Abby had never heard Ziva talk about her life in Israel or her childhood in depth. Only the vague comment.

"Yeah I miss Tel Aviv sometimes and Sabba and Savta,, but we live here now and I like it here as well" A smile formed on Zaria's face, she really did love living in DC with Ziva.

"So how did you get so good at drawing or as you seem to think doodling?" Abby wanted to lighten the mood a little and decided that drawing was a much happier topic of discussion.

Zaria laughed at Abby's random change in topic

"Ima taught me, I always liked drawing and colouring don't get me wrong, when I was younger Ima saw this and helped me with it" They were actually Zaria's favourite times with her mother.

Abby looked shocked "Ziva can draw?"

"Yup she just doesn't do it often, she prefers playing the piano or cooking"

"Wow guess there's a lot of things she likes to hide, I mean I know about the cooking and I figured she played the piano since I saw one at her apartment when she had us over for dinner. Hey wait a minute, where were you when Ziva had us over for dinner?"

"Oh I was at a friends house and I'm guessing Ima didn't exactly let you go exploring the entire apartment, she wouldn't do that even now that you all know about me"

Abby thought about it for a moment

"True she wouldn't like it if we did that. Crazy, private ninja chick" Abby muttered the last part. Zaria laughed at what Abby had just said.

"Hahaha you've been spending too much time with Agent DiNozzo Abby"

"No I haven't! We all think she's a crazy ninja"

Both girls were laughing now.

Bull-pen

Tony walked into the Bull-pen determined that he was going to catch Adam/Amad. He walked over to his desk, he was a man with a mission and a promise to keep. He wouldn't break that promise!

When he lowered himself onto his chair he switched on his computer monitor and as soon as it came on he was away, searching for any clues, any leads, anything on both Adam Yased and his alias Amad Sayed. McGee turned his head and watched Tony get straight to work without a word to anyone else or even a sign of acknowledgement.

Gibbs looked across the Bull-pen and saw all his agents at work, he didn't speak or smile just observed. He knew everyone was absolutely determined to solve the case quickly and that everyone was stressed and tired. Well, apart from Agent Carlson but she'd only been there for half a day, plus she didn't know Ziva personally and the only conversation they'd shared was their first meeting which didn't exactly go well.

After another 90 minutes McGee leapt from his chair.

"Boss I think I've found something!" He seemed relieved that there might finally be something of a lead.

"Well what are you waiting for McGee spit it out!" Gibbs urged, sometimes McGee seemed to always think he needed permission to speak or do anything.

"Boss the airport just emailed in that a man fitting Adam Yased's description just tried to get through customs using a fake passport, they're holding him now. Apparently he has three other passports on him. Two with the names, Amad Sayed and Adam Yased his real passport"

"Good work McGee. Lets get down there now and get this guy into interrogation." Gibbs was already walking into the elevator.

The three agents quickly followed suit.

Tony smiled and phoned Abby to tell her that they had finally found Adam Yased and they were going to get him.

Abby's lab

"AHHHHHHHH ohmygod,ohmygod,ohmygod,ohmygod!" Abby squealed loudly and caused Zaria to jump up from her seat startled. Abby then snapped the phone shut.

"Abby what's wrong?"

"Nothing they are going to get Adam Yased and bring him in! They finally found out where he was! He was at the airport and customs got him for using a fake passport!" Abby watched as Zaria's face lit up before she jumped up, ran over to Abby and hugged her.

Airport

Gibbs, McGee, Tony and Carlson walked into the immigration office where Adam Yased was being held, all of them felt confident that they were going to get him back to NCIS in no time.

The air surrounding them was light and no one felt the need to start a conversation as they were happy to just think about what they'd do after the case was closed.

' Maybe Vance will give us all some time off and I can start working on my current book. The publisher has been hounding me about getting the next few chapters submitted for editing and proof reading' McGee smiled at having time to get hos book sorted.

' I can't wait to finally have this case closed. Then I can work on finding out about Ziva when she's not at work. I'm sure Zaria will tell me a few things about the mysterious Ziva David' Tony smirked. He knew that he could also spend more time at the hospital visiting Ziva.

'When this case is finally over I can get back to my boat. Heaven knows I haven't worked on her properly in a while and I need to get the stress out of my system somehow. The sooner we get back to NCIS the sooner I get this guy in interrogation and sent down' Was what Gibbs was thinking about.

'Thank God this is nearly over! When this is over I'm gonna get this team to like me! I'm sure they'll like me eventually and Tony is pretty cute and from what the other teams have told me he's quite the womaniser so it can't be that hard to get him to like me' Agent Carlson carried on thinking about how to get each member of the team to like her. The only one she couldn't come up with a plan for was Gibbs. But there had to be a way, right?

When they walked into the room where Adam Yased was Gibbs walked up to him, roughly grabbed his shirt and forcefully pulled Yased up and then shoved him into the wall.

"The only reason you're not dead right now is because there are people around who think you're a human being who deserves a life!" He then let Tony cuff him and they made their way back to NCIS. Adam Yased in tow.

A/N: Who can't wait for Gibbs to interrogate him? *puts hand up and shouts ME* Please leave a review and PM me with ideas for after the case.
Love you readers from Nathalie x :D