Tony was extremely annoyed for the rest of the day. When they had finally reached campsite 412, Tony felt as if he had been walking for hours, but when he checked his watch he noticed it had only taken thirty minutes to arrive at the camp site. Tony was reminded about how much he actually hated camping, though he had never actually been camping before. While other kids he went to school with spent weeks or weekends camping with their families during the summer vacation, Tony spent his summer's alone in 5 star hotel rooms in exotic places, watching movies and ordering countless amounts of desserts from room service. A great amount of Tony's annoyance was also due to the fact that McGee was showing off all of his skills that he had acquired during his days as an all star boy scout. After checking out the crime scene and finding absolutely nothing,Tony had tried to tell Gibbs that there was a possibility that they had been followed. Gibbs hadn't really even been listening to Tony while he was talking and tried to assure Tony that it was nothing. When Tony had asked him how he was so sure it had been nothing Tony had received a hard head slap and had ben told that Gibbs' gut told him it was nothing to worry about. But Tony still could not shake the feeling that it wasn't just 'nothing'. He was sure it was very much something. After Tony had attempted to talk to Gibbs he went to see if Ziva agreed with Gibbs that it was nothing, he hoped that if Ziva said it was nothing it would be more reassuring then when Gibbs had said it. He hadn't been able to talk to her though,because when he found her she was at the top of possibly the tallest tree in the park, for reasons unknown to Tony.

Now, Tony was attempting to put up the tent Gibbs had given him in a neighboring campsite. Jones had put up her, Patel,and Rizzo's tent without any problem and in a matter of minutes. McGee's scout instincts had allowed him to put up his and Gibbs tent in about forty seconds, Tony knew because he had decided to time him, after hearing Tim go on and on about how he could put up a tent in under a minute. Tony had been at it for about ten minutes now, and everything was still on a pile on the ground. McGee watched him struggle while smirking, enjoying how frustrated Tony was getting. McGee would have helped him if Tony just asked. But Tony being Tony was much to proud to ask Probie for help. McGee walked over behind Tony just as Tony was throwing a piece of the tent on the ground.

"Need any help?" Tim asked.

"I'm fine, Probie!" Tony snapped, which caused McGee's smile to grow.

"Where's Ziva?" He asked.

"Not sure. Last time I saw her she was climbing through the tree's like Tarzan for who knows what reason." Tony answered.

Before McGee could reply they heard Ziva's voice from behind them. She made McGee jump, but Tony was quite used to her sneaking up on him now.

"I was getting an idea of what the entire campground is like. And Tarzan was the boy who was raised by monkeys and ran around half naked, yes?" She said.

"He was raised by apes Ziva, not monkeys. There's a difference." Tony said. McGee noticed how his earlier anger disappeared when Ziva came around.

"Where is your agent with the coffee?" Ziva asked Tony. He shrugged in reply, still trying to put the tent up. Ziva walked over and took the two poles out of his hands and began to put up the tent herself. She was finished quickly, it was no surprise she could put up a tent, she could do anything.

"I'm back" Rizzo called out in an annoyed sing-song voice. She got no reply, everyone just stared at had taken so long that no one wanted coffee because they would all be going to bed soon She hadn't actually done anything that should cause her to be receiving the silent treatment from everyone, but everyone just found her so annoying the littlest things seemed huge when she did it. If Ziva had been running a little late nobody would have even thought twice about it, it wouldn't have been seen like a big deal at all.

"You went to get coffee over 5 hours ago." Tony said to her off to the side away from the rest of the group. He had checked his watch and it was 9:30.

"That long? Really?" She asked sarcastically.

"What took so long?" He asked, rudely in her opinion.

"I couldn't find anyplace."

"So you drove around for that long? Is there any gas left?" He asked, growing angry.

"I filed the gas tank before I came back." She snapped before walking off into her tent.

"Tony come on!" Ziva called from in front of their tent, and he jogged over to join her inside.

Once inside they both changed into clothes appropriate for bed. They were taking the first shift. Each tent was going to stay awake for a while and listen to the neighboring camp site to see if the killer came back to get the bodies. from 10-1:30 Tony and Ziva were to stay awake, from 1:30-5 Patel, Jones, and Rizzo were meant to stay awake, and Gibbs and McGee from 5 til whenever everyone woke up.

Tony assumed that Gibbs was giving Patel, Jones, and Rizzo that hardest shift for further punishment on Rizzo fo annoying him, and at this point Tony wasn't going to defend her in any way. When they first started working together she seemed great. She was funny, nice, and a good agent as far as he could tell. She had only been working with the team for a week before Tony became their team leader and Patel, Jones, and Rizzo acted as though they had been best friends for years. Everyone had noticed the change in her personality. She was acting almost like an annoying little teachers pet. She was extremely clingy to Tony, she tried to follow him everywhere. If he went to interrogation, she had always managed to weasel herself inside with him, if he went to get food or coffee she was in the car faster than he was. The only place she had never tried to go with him was the bathroom, which he was grateful for.

"So how would you like to spend the next, uhhm, almost four hours?"He asked her

"I do not know, but I am freezing, tired, and I have five bug bites!" Ziva complained

"Ah so the ninja doesn't like camping?" Tony teased

"How did you guess?"

"I always thought you would be the type who would love camping. You know, always partially covered in dirt, being able to climb through trees, sneaking around in the woods in the dark." He said.

"Those are the parts I like. I can deal with the bug bites, I just hate being cold. When you go camping in Israel it is never cold." She explained

"Well I know one way we could get warm." Tony said as he shot her a seductive glance and a wink.

"You really wan to do that when Gibbs is about 10 feet away?" She asked

"Ooh you're right, it might be hard to explain when he comes to find out why you're screaming." He said chuckling and she laughed along with him until they both heard footsteps coming from what sunded like campsite 412.

"You hearing that?" She asked

"Yup, I was really hoping we wouldn't have to actually get up and investigate tonight." He said as he put on his sneakers and his NCIS jacket.

They exited the tent as quietly as possible with their guns, badges, and flashlights. They slowly made their way to the campsite and they heard the foot steps again. Tony turned on his flashlight and shined it on the campsite. There was nobody there. Ziva then turned on her flashlight to help him search, still seeing nothing. They walked back towards the thick woods behind the cleared out campsite. The shined their flashlights but all they saw were trees. The footsteps they had heard had stopped, maybe it was some kind of animal that they had scared off?

"It could have been a squirrel, yes? " Ziva asked quietly.

"That would to have been one big squirrel for us to have heard in it from inside the tent." he whispered.

"Should we go into the woods and look?" Ziva whispered back

"If it was somebody they could be half way across the campgrounds by now, we'll never find them, this place is huge" He answered

"So we might as well head back to the tent." She said quietly. He nodded and they slowly made there way back. Glancing behind frequently them to make sure no one was there.

While back inside the tent Tony allowed Ziva to cuddle into his arms for warmth. He watched her as she fell asleep in his arms. He let her sleep for the rest of their shift. He loved how beautiful she was, even after a day in the woods. She was easily the best looking woman he had ever met, and he was lucky enough to have her.

"You're perfect" He whispered to her sleeping form, and he swore he saw her blush slightly in her sleep.

The rest of their watch had gone by uneventfully and soon enough it was time to wake the rest of Tony's team so they could be on watch. Tony go up out of the tent alone and went to wake them up. Once he reached the tent he heard a noise from behind him and he turned quickly with his gun raised. He found Rizzo standing behind him.

"Dammit Kristy!" He said breathless. "You should have announced yourself."

"Sorry Tony." She said sweetly. " I didn't want to startle you by calling out, I was just coming back from the bathroom."

"Oh, well wake them up, it's time for your shift." He said. He moved to go back to his tent when she grabbed his wrist and turned him around. Before he knew what was happening she was pressed against him and was kissing him violently. He pushed her off as fast as he could.

"Oh come on Tony, don't act like you don't want me." She said

"I'm not acting!" He spat "What the hell is wrong with you? I'm your boss, this is completely inappropriate! Vance is going to hear about this the second we get back from this trip. You're still a probie, you'll be off the team in a matter of minutes!"

"Is this because of rule 12? Tony, Gibbs isn't your boss anymore, you don't have to listen to his rules!" she whined.

"This has nothing to do with Gibbs. In case you haven't noticed Ziva is my girlfriend." He said.

''Are you scared of her? I'm sure if you just break up with her we can be together!" She said

"I am not scared of her! I am in love with her. Now you wake up the rest of the damn team and do your shift!" He snapped and walked off to his tent.

"Tony!" She called but he didn't answer her. She sighed and went to wake up her teammates. "It's our shift." She said loud enough to wake them as she climbed into the tent. they both woke up instantly and were completely alert as if they were never sleeping

Around 3, Kristy heard what sounded like quiet foot steps.

"Do you hear that?" Kristy asked, and both her teammates shook their heads no. "I'll go check it out."

She grabbed her flashlight and gun and headed out. Agents Patel and Jones watched her leave, neither bothering to accompany her because they hadn't heard anything.

"Ooof" they both heard from a few feet from outside the tent and they saw the light from the flashlight disappear.

"Kristy?" Patel called out. After a minute she yelled it a little louder "KRISTY?"

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