Ziva looked up to clock to see it was 7:55. Tony had five minutes to get her out of here before she went " crazy ninja chick" as he had called it. Just then Tony came back into the room with his famous DiNozzo grin shining on his face.
"Can I leave now?" she asked annoyed.
"No, you have to stay for the rest of the day." He told her.
"No, I'M Leaving!" she yelled and he began to laugh and she grew confused.
"I was only joking Ziva" he told her and she narrowed her eyes at him, but got over it quickly enough.
"So I can leave?" She asked, growing excited.
"Yeah, just get changed." He said as he threw her a bag that had clothes of hers in it. She quickly got up with her bag and semi-ran into the bathroom to get changed. She changed faster than Tony had even thought possible, but it was Ziva,so he shouldn't have been surprised .
"Shall we be going?" He asked offering her his arm, which she gladly took.
"We shall."
Tony and Ziva entered the bullpen to find it completely empty. Tony dropped his things next to his old desk and picked up his old phone. He called McGee and he answered on what felt like the hundredth ring to Tony.
"Special Agent McGee" He answered sleepily.
"Where is everyone?" Tony asked
"We're all in the observation room. Gibbs is still interrogating Malachi and Liat...he has been all night. Except I'm not quite sure you can call it an interrogation, not one of them have even made a sound yet. We've been watching them do nothing for hours, I'm not sure what Gibbs technique is, but I hope it works." McGee answered. Tony could easily tell how annoyed he was.
"Alright, McGoo, buh-bye." Tony said before he hung up.
"They're watching the interrogation." Tony told Ziva. She nodded.
"I am going to go and talk to Vance." She told him as she turned to head for the Directors office. Before she got too ar Tony reched out and grabbed her and pulled her close the him. He wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him. He felt her immediately relax in his arms.
She was nervous about talking to Vance. Either he had talked to her father or he hadn't. She wasn't really excited to hear what he had said if Vance was able to contact him, and if he hadn't talked to him that meant he probably was busy figuring out how to cover all of this up. The whole situation still confused Ziva. The Director of Mossad had his two best officers kidnap his only living child just to have them give her back to NCIS. Ziva knew her father well, he was no idiot.
"Don't kill him, Zi." He said. He kissed the top of her head before he let her go. She looked up at him and gave him a weak smile before she headed up to Vance's office. He watched her until he couldn't see her anymore.
He walked down the hall to observation. When he opened the door he saw Agent Rizzo sleeping on the floor on the other side of the room, McGee had his head against the glass and his eyelids kept fluttering shut, Agent Jones was standing next to him, she looked completely awake sipping on her coffee, she was just like Gibbs and Agent Borin. He saw that Agent Patel was playing some game on her phone, not really paying attention to anything but that.
"Good morning folks." Tony said cheerily.
They all grumbled some form of greeting back to him, all but Agent Jones seriously tired from watching the boring interrogation all night.
Tony walked up next to McGee and watched the scene in front of them.
Liat and Malachi sat side by side across from Gibbs, both looking completely calm. Gibbs was flicking through a folder that Tony could see was just filled with blank papers.
"Why have you stayed all this time if they aren't doing anything?" Tony asked
"We don't want to miss anything."McGee said.
Gibbs through the folder down on the table , hard, making Liat jump. Now she looked slightly nervous. If that was Ziva in there during her Mossad days, Tony knew she wouldn't have even blinked.
"What the hell were you two doing?" Gibbs shouted.
Liat opened her mouth to talk but was unsure of what to say. Malachi sat still looking completely calm and bored by Gibbs try to intimidate them.
"Tony, get in here." Gibbs barked.
Tony was confused for a few reasons as he walked into interrogation. 1. Gibbs had called him Tony instead of DiNozzo. 2. Tony had just gotten there and it made no sense that Gibbs had known he was even there. and 3. What good would Tony be in an interrogation with two Officers of Mossad?
Ziva walked into Vance's Office and saw something she didn't expect to see. Hew father was sitting across from Vance and they were laughing. She had just been kidnapped and poisoned by two officers from Mossad and they were laughing, that was sweet of them.
"Officer David, I would prefer next time if you would knock." Vance said calmly.
"Your secretary told me to just come in, but I see how I interrupted, maybe I should go, I could tie myself up, while I wait and save you the trouble. " She said through clenched teeth. Her hands were balled into fists and she shoved them into her pockets before she did something she would regret.
"Ziva, how are you?" Her father asked, ignoring what she had just said.
Was he serious right now?
"I am wonderful actually." She replied sarcastically. "I think I just lost a few pounds from repeatedly puking yesterday,so I guess that is good. I have been really dehydrated lately, so my skin is less oily, which is terrific, Pain is beauty I believe the saying is? Excuse me if I'm wrong, but with the pain I endured I think I should be absolutely gorgeous, yes?" She played with her hair admiringly before she continued with an intimidating smile on her face. "Oh and Tony just saved me, again. I am just like a princess in the movies! With a knight it shining armor and everything."
Her father was speechless. Vance had thought she lost her mind. She just stood there and smiled at them both.
Ziva made her way further into the room and sat down in the chair next to her father and turned to face him, still smiling.
"You are an asshole." She said pointing her finger at him. She just kept smiling while her fathers and Vance's eyes were wide. "I apologize about interrupting you two , I will go." She said as she got up from her seat and walked out the door, not letting the smile leave her face.
Eli turned in his seat to face Vance.
"I think she's lost it." Vance said with his eyes still wide.
Ziva walked down to join everyone in the observation room.
She walked in to find everyone right up against the glass watching intently. Malachi and Liat were standing on one side of the table in interrogation ad Tony ad Gibbs were on the other. Everyone in the interrogation room was yelling, Gibbs at Malachi, Malachi at Tony, Tony at Liat, and Liat at Gibbs. At first Ziva couldn't understand any of them but the longer she listened she could hear a few words from each of them. Tony kept telling Liat she was an idiot, so Liat was calling Gibbs an idiot for hiring Tony because he was such an idiot, Malachi was telling Tony to leave his partner alone, and Gibbs was telling Malachi he was going to destroy him. After staring for about ten Ziva decided to shut them up.
"How long have they been going at it like this?" Ziva asked McGee; who looked down at his watch.
"About a half hour." He answered. She left so she could go into the interrogation room.
At first nobody noticed her. She stood by the door for a minute, just listening to them all, their yelling was quite amusing. None of them were really making any sense, just trying to be loud.
"WHAT are you guys doing?" She yelled and they all stopped their 'conversations' and looked at her
"Just having a friendly chat, Zee-vah" Tony said, giving her a smile. Liat made a disapproving grunting noise when she saw him smiling at her. Ziva shot her one of her death glares that shut her up right away.
"I do not think that was really working out." She said before walked over to Gibbs, she whispered to him "My father is upstairs with Vance, I thought you might want to speak with him.''
The second she was done speaking he was out the door, on his way up to give Eli a piece of his mind.
Tony looked at her for a reason why Tony had left and she just waved her hand, she would explain later.
"So" Ziva said as she sat down putting her feet up on the table. "Why did you do all this?"
They all looked at her strangely because she was so calm. Tony sat down, as did Malachi and Liat.
"We had orders, from your father, we do not know why he gave us such orders, or why he ordered us to give up your whereabouts. We only did what we were told." Malachi answered.
Ziva nodded and she got up, she grabbed Tony's arm and pulled him out of the room with her. They walked a little way down the hall where nobody was so they could talk without being overheard.
"Where's Gibbs?" Tony asked.
"Vances office, with my father." Ziva answered and he looked at her with his eyebrows raised.
"So you spoke to your father?" He asked.
"Yes, I still do not know anything." She said. "Vance thinks I am crazy" She added a moment later, chuckling slightly.
"Why?" He asked, smiling down at her.
"My father asked how I was doing, I told him I was wonderful, how I lost weight from puking, and my skin was not oily because I was dehydrated. I also added I felt like a princess because I had a knight in shining armor that always came to my rescue. I decided sarcasm was better than killing the both of them. They were laughing when I walked in there. Laughing, Tony!" She said.
He could easily tell how much this was affecting her, though she was trying to cover it up.
"Ahh Ziva." Tony said as he gathered her into his arms.
Ziva finally let the tears that had been threatening to fall since she had encountered her father stream down her face while she was wrapped in Tony's arms. They stayed like that until she stopped crying, which only took about three minutes. Tony slid his fingers under her chin and lifted her face from his chest. He placed a soft kiss on her forehead and wiped the tears off her face with her thumb. Tony absolutely hated how many times her father had hurt her, and even though it was a horrible thought, it probably would not be the last time. Ziva placed her head back on his chest and held him tightly and he wrapped both arms back around her.
"You ok?" He asked, kissing her hair.
She nodded and squeezed him tighter, her hug was on the verge of becoming like on of Abby's.
"Sometimes I just wish my life were normal." she said quietly
"I will make sure this gets cleared up and goes back to, well, our normal." He said.
She loosened her grip on him slightly and leaned back so she could look at him.
"Thank you, I love you." She told him. He replied by kissing her lovingly on the lips.
They broke apart only when they heard someone clearing their throat from down the hall. When they did pull apart they saw McGee standing there awkwardly.
"I-I uh didn't mean to uh.. interrupt, but uh Gibbs wants you." McGee said nervously before turning around and heading back towards the bull pen.
Ziva gave Tony one more quick kiss before they too headed back to the bullpen.
Rizzo and Patel were both asleep on the floor , Jones was sitting at Tony's desk, McGee was typing at his computer and Gibbs was standing in front of the plasma looking at something.
"You wanted to see us,Gibbs?" Ziva said.
"Yep, your father told me why he took ya."
Im soooo sorry it's taken me so long to update. Since i haven't updated in so long I made this chapter almost twice as long as my other chapters. Please review so I know people are still actually reading this and Im not just wasting my time.
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