Author's Note: Sorry this took way longer than I'd hope for me to get around to it. I've just been giving myself an anime overdose. Hope you like this chapter and give me lots and lots of reviews.

Disclaimer: Of course you guys know I don't own NCIS. Right?

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Tony stood silently as he awaited the arrival of his friends and teammates with two Mossad officers.

He was silently huffing away in a corner by himself.

Ziva was one of the officers and he hadn't spoken to her since the day before.

Sure he barely know her and he had travelled far to see her again but for the first moment he had seen her he had felt connected to her beyond reason.

Ziva turned around to see him leaning on a wall looking sad. She sighed. She honestly didn't want this to be happening and how she wished he would smile at her again. Just once.

He had the most amazing smile she had ever seen and he had beautifully expressive eyes. Ziva really was regretting how easily she had allowed her father to manipulate the situation to his liking.

Tony on the other hand was starting to calm down and see some reason.

He sighed. At least he would be able to catch that bastard Haswari once and for all and it wasn't as if Ziva had any choice in the whole matter.

She was only following orders and he knew that he would do the same if he was ordered to.

Tony knew he was being unreasonable but still he couldn't shake some of the threads of betrayal he felt.

He sighed once more reminding himself once more that they didn't even know each other so there was no way he should be feeling this way.

The flight had just started to unload and there was no sight of Gibbs, McGee or Kate as yet so Tony moved behind Ziva and put his hand on her shoulder as he wanted to speak to her.

Normally, Ziva would have reacted by swiftly throwing whoever had walked up behind her over her should or clasping their hand in a death grip and pulling her weapon on them, but she had been watching Tony and was unusually aware of his every move so she knew it was him.

She turned to look up at him and realized that even though the equally sad and angry expression he wore earlier was absent he also did not look happy.

"Can we talk?" he asked.

She nodded and quickly in Hebrew told the other officer, a young but rather stern looking man named Officer Radwan Livni, that they would be having a private word.

"I over reacted," Tony said giving her a half smile.

Ziva returned the smile, "Tony you have the right to react the way you did," she assured him, "if the ties were changed I would have acted the same, yes."

Tony let out a genuine laugh, "Tides Ziva, tides," he corrected her.

"What did I say?" she asked causing him to laugh harder, "What kind of clothing are tides?"

Tony was about to correct her but at that moment her spotted the boss, Kate and McGee.

"Sorry," he excused himself from her side and rushed to them.

Seeing the three of them reminded him how much he missed everyone at NCIS, even the probie.

Ziva watched as he greeted his friends and felt a very unfamiliar stab of emotion as she the brunette woman smiled up at him and embraced him.

She was never before prone to jealousy and here she was feeling mixed emotions all because of a guy she hardly knew.

NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS

They didn't get to Tel Aviv until early the morning after they had left D.C.

Kate had the misfortune of sitting next to McGee on the plane and he kept falling asleep on her and drooling on her shoulder.

It would have been fine if the sleeping and the drooling were the only problems but between bouts of sleep McGee how got violently airsick had chattered on to distract himself.

Honestly, Kate would have taken DiNozzo's constant movie commentaries any day over McGee's drug induced babblings about MIT and computers.

McGee was once again fast asleep on her shoulder as they approached Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Kate took pleasure in pouring half the contents of her water bottle on his head not caring that she was getting wet in the process.

McGee was startled out of his sleep and slammed his head into the seat in front of him.

Kate laughed as she watched him rub his head.

She turned her head to see Gibbs chuckling soundlessly as he observed them.

It was the first time since they had left D.C. that he had shown any emotion other than pure rage.

As they left the plane Kate could help but let her mind wonder to Tony. Ever since he had been shot she had been thinking of him more and more and was seeing him in a different light.

She had always put both McGee and Tony in the same category as her annoying brothers but lately she was surprising herself by thinking of him in a more romantic light.

She sighed. The only problem was that she knew Tony well enough to know that he was a frat boy at heart and wouldn't be changing anytime soon.

Well at least that's what she thought. She after all had no idea that Tony had already began to change.

They exited the arrivals section of their terminal and Kate saw him.

Her heart fluttered a little but she also noticed that he was laughing at something a beautiful, black wavy haired woman had said.

She felt a stab of jealousy and groaned. This was Tony, there was no way she should be feeling this way.

Tony saw them and rushed over to greet them. Kate smiled at him happily and they embraced.

She inhaled his smell and felt as giddy as a school girl. For the love of God she couldn't figure out why she was acting like this around Tony of all people.

Tony didn't notice Kate's odd behavior but Gibbs sure did.

There goes rule twelve, he thought as Tony led them over to meet the Mossad officers who had accompanied him to the airport.

Author's Note: Oh don't worry. I never liked Kate and even though I'm ok with keeping her friendship with Tony there is no way I'd make this a Tate fanfiction. TIVA! All the way.