Tony sauntered back to his and Ziva's motel room. He slowly climbed up the stair way that had pieces of trash littered though out it. His few hours of sleep was really starting to catch up with him, and they hadn't even been to the crime scene yet. When he reached the door to his room he opened is cautiously, thinking back to the time he and Ziva had once shared a room and he had walked into the room to find her soaking wet in nothing but the small bath towels that the hotel provided. It had taken all of his will power not to throw himself at her then, and now since the situation between them had changed, there was no way he would be able to hold himself back if he walked in on her in anything less than one her usual conservative outfits. If he found himself in that situation and then was caught by Gibbs, he surely would feel the most painful head slap of his life. Luckily, she was lying on her stomach reading again, fully clothed.

"Honey, I'm home." He called out in a sing-song voice. His entrance had caused her to roll over to look at him, while laughing at him.

"How long until we leave?" She asked and stretched out her arms, causing her shirt to lift the slightest bit so Tony could see her smooth skin. He turned around and pretended to look in his drawers, silently cursing himself for finding the simplest action so extremely sexy of her.

"We'll probably get a call from Gibbs anytime now." Tony said after glancing down at his watch. Once she heard his answer she got up off the bed and walked into the bathroom.

Tony closed the drawer he had opened and walked over to the bed. He flopped down on his back and used all of his strength just to keep his eyes open. Now that he thought about it, he had actually gotten a considerable amount of sleep,at least six hours. Six hours may not seem like a full nights rest, but between the crazy hours at NCIS and having the most beautiful woman in the world sharing a bed with him, six hours was quite reasonable. Half of the time during the night he would just lay there staring at Zivas sleeping form, which probably sounded creepy, but he just enjoyed watching how completely peaceful she looked while she was when she felt completely safe, she never actually looked at ease. It might of had something to do with her Mossad training, but she was always checking her surroundings for enemies, most of the time he could tell she didn't realize she was even doing it. If it were even possible, she looked even more beautiful when she was asleep. If he had the chance to watch her sleep, he could barely pull his eyes off of her so he could sleep. If she ever found out she would probably kill him, but that was just a risk he was willing to take.

Before he had even realized it, Ziva had crawled into the bed with him and had her head resting on his stomach.

"What are you thinking about?" She asked him.

"Hmm?"

"When I walked back out here it looked as though you were deep in thought." She explained.

"I was thinking about you." He answered, and she could her the smile in his voice.

"Anything specific?" She pushed

"How you look while you sleep." He said, chuckling slightly, causing her head to bounce lightly.

"Oh, I hate it when you watch me sleep."

"You know I watch you sleep?" He asked, slightly shocked, but he shouldn't have been surprised. She was always aware of her surroundings.

"Do you really believe that you could watch me sleep without me realizing?" She asked

"Well-" He started to say but was cut off by the ringing of his cell phone. Ziva, figuring the call was from Gibbs, got up and began to put on her shoes that were beside the bed.

Exactly as Ziva thought, the call was from Gibbs, letting them know he wanted their butts down stairs so they could leave. After making sure they were both appropriately dressed for running around the woods, Tony and Ziva grabbed their bags and headed down to meet Gibbs and the others. When they got downstairs everyone was waiting , well everyone except Kristy. After about a minute of waiting for Kristy, Gibbs was getting extremely impatient . Gibbs cleared his throat, simply to just make Tony uncomfortable.

"You guys go ahead,"Tony said to Gibbs. "I'll go get her." Tony said before walking off in the direction of Kristy's room.

Gibbs, McGee, and Ziva all got into the car and headed in the direction of the camp grounds.

"So.." McGee said after a few minutes of silent driving, which was driving him crazy. "How are things with Tony?" he asked Ziva.

"Fine." Ziva said quickly. There was no way she was going to talk about this in front of Gibbs.

"Just fine?" Gibbs asked with one of his lopsided grins.

"Things are going very well, if you must know." She answered. She tried to act calm but was betrayed by her own face when her cheeks started to redden.

"You're blushing!" McGee said when he looked at her from his spot in the drivers seat.

"I am not."

"Are too."

"Am not."

"Are too"

"Am not."

"Hey!" Gibbs barked. They immediately shut up when hearing his outburst from behind them from the back seat. "I do NOT need you two bickering, we had enough of that when DiNozzo was around!"

"Right, boss." McGee said, driving in silence didn't seem so bad now.

When Tony reached Kristy's room he knocked loudly three times. He stood there for minute before he knocked gain, still getting no answer from within the room. Tony was pretty sure Gibbs already disliked Kristy, and if she made any form of delay in the investigation, he surely would dislike her even more. Tony stood there for another moment before turning and looking back at the other members of his team. Agent Patel looked extremely annoyed, and Jones looked as if she was ready to kill.

"Kristy?" Tony called through the door. After getting no reply he reached for the handle, to see if it was locked or not, it wasn't. He turned it and walked into the room to see Kristy walking out of the bathroom. She had barely any clothes on. She wore a plain black tank top that was extremely tight and a terribly short pair of jean shorts. She looked up to see Tony staring at her with wide eyes.

"What the hell are you wearing?" He asked. "You're going to investigate a crime scene like that?"

"Well isn't it going to be warm?" She asked innocently.

"No. The suns going down and we're going to be in the woods."

"Oh well, we should be going though, Don't wanna keep Gibbs waiting."She said sweetly as she passed by him and headed for the car, swaying her hips more then usual because she desperately hoped that Tony would be watching.

Tony followed her to the car, not paying her any attention at all.

"He doesn't want you!" Agent Patel whispered as she got into the car next to Agent Rizzo. The only response she received was a simple shrug.

Tony and his team arrived at the crime scene fifteen minutes later than the others, and were greeted by a quite annoyed team Gibbs. Gibbs even sent Kristy to get them all coffee. The second they had got there he had barked; "Rizzo, make your self useful and get us all coffee!". She whined like an immature school girl before she actually turned and walked back to the car and drove off.

The scene had already searched by the local authorities and the bodies were at the city morgue. They were simply checking to make sure they hadn't missed anything. Gibbs had mad sure that the story had kept quite. No news reports. The camp grounds were busy this time of year, in September was cooler at night now and all the children had started back to school. Gibbs theory was that whoever killed them hadn't expected them to be found so soon, and he would probably be coming back to move the bodies to a more hidden area of the woods.

"What campsite boss?" Tony asked once they all had gear in their hands.

"412" Gibbs answered and Tony glanced to see what site they were near now, he finally found a sign that read '1'.

"And where would that be?" Tony asked, hoping that the campground wasn't at the top of the mountain.

"At the top." Gibbs groaned, except for Ziva who seemed to think climbing up steep slopes with gear was fun.

"We can't drive up?" McGee asked

"No, McGee. If he comes back he'll see the tire tracks." Gibbs said, as if it were obvious.

"If he comes back, he'll see our cars." McGee pointed out.

"But he won't think were at his camp site if it's all the way at the top, if we were going to the top he would of thought we would have drove."

"Right boss." McGee said before starting up the hill.

The camp grounds were extremely empty. By the time they were halfway up they had only seen two other campsites that were filled. It was quiet except for all their heavy breathing and the sound of squirrels and birds in the trees.

Ziva slowed down her pace so she could walk next to Tony who was bringing up the rear.

"Why are you back here?" She teased

"We're being followed." He whispered back "I'm surprised you didn't notice."

That was when she saw it. There was someone hiding behind a tree. She couldn't see them, but she saw their hand resting on the side of the tree.

"How do you know it isn't Agent Rizzo?" She asked, figuring that was exactly something Kristy would do, considering Ziva found her extremely immature.

"It's a man." He said back and she nodded. "It's getting dark" he said as he looked up at the sky only to find it still quite light out, but the trees were blocking most of the sunlight.

"Gibbs is going to have us camp out here tonight." She informed him

"What? Why?"

"He thinks that tonight of all nights will be when the killer comes back to move the bodies. His gut told him, but if someone actually is following us" She paused to look over her shoulder to see the man duck behind fallen tree trunk "he probably knows something about it, and if he's the killer, then he wont come back tonight and it will be a waste of time...Do you think we should find out why that man is following us?"

"No, he doesn't necessarily know were investigating, and he might just be a curious camper." He said, and it was trua. None of them had their NCIS jackets on because it was too hot and they didn't have their hats on because of the darkness the trees provided.

They continued up the hill, Ziva and Tony talking about everything and anything to make the climb more enjoyable. The next three times that Tony had looked back he didn't notice the man anywhere, and when he asked, Ziva said she didn't see him anymore either. They didn't realize that he had simply gotten better at hiding on his travels uphill behind them.

sorry it took so long to update, i had midterms all last week so i had a lot of review work to do. please review! more reviews push me to update sooner!

-xoxo 4gentDiNozzo