Author's Note: Sorry about the long wait, I honestly wasn't anywhere near an internet connection. A friend of mine asked me a few days ago if I didn't mean to say that Ari was in Morocco, messed up and then covered up my mistake so I decided to clear that up in case you're wondering. No I didn't mean Morocco. If I did I would have said Morocco 'cause Morocco and Monaco are too very different countries and I wouldn't make that mistake. I know from "Kill Ari", can't remember which part at the moment, Ari got a French passport and was planning on meeting Ziva in Paris so naturally I said that he went there after fleeing the US, I also said that Ziva looked for him in Paris and didn't find him and I felt like saying that he was hiding in Monaco 'cause France is like there and Monaco is like right there at the bottom all tiny and whatever. I also imagined that Ari would fit in great there 'cause he's kinda posh and it wouldn't turn to many heads if another foreigner turned up in Monaco living it up.

Sorry for the long author's note in history hope will forgive me and still read this chapter.

XIII

It was morning and Tony was already dreading the day ahead. He hadn't a clue why but he was feeling a little squeamish, maybe it was that pasta thing he ate the night before when they had landed in Monte Carlo or maybe it was his version of being love-sick but whatever it he definitely wasn't liking it.

He was suppose to meet his team and Officer Radwan Livni in their hotel lobby in less than five minutes so whatever was bothering him he shoved it aside and decided not to think about it. He couldn't afford to think about it. Today was the day they were going to start drawing Ari out.

Tony ran the plan for the day over in his head once more.

Kate, McGee and Radwan would be driving out of Monte Carlo for the day to a small town nearby to be seen there asking questions, he and the boss would stay in Monte Carlo for the same reason and Ziva would be staying out of sight and coordinating surveillance with four other Mossad agents. With any luck Ari's arrogance would make him go after one or all of them.

Tony hoped that it would work because he knew he was using what happened as an excuse to run away and it definitely was about time he stopped running and returned home.

NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS

Gibbs hated it.

The idea of being used… by anyone, but he was however under strict orders to cooperate so there wasn't much he could do about, well actually there wasn't anything he could do about it.

He had a gut feeling something wasn't right but he couldn't thing what it could be so he pushed the feeling aside for the time being.

The only thing he really wanted to think about at the moment was getting Ari and he hope that the Mossad agents knew that when they find the bastard he'd be the one to put an end to his miserable existence.

I stood leaning against a pillar sipping coffee from his cup watching the other's gather, Tony being the last to arrive as usual.

It was time to get going.

NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS

Ziva met up with the Mossad agents at the location which would be their command center and got ready for the day a head.

She briefed them and gave them their assignments and settled in front to multiple computer monitors to…well monitor everyone's activities. It wasn't a job she enjoyed but she was under orders.

At the moment the NCIS group was split in two groups, Alpha and Beta. The Beta group was heading south-west with one of the other Mossad officers shadowing them and the Alpha group was moving at a slower pace East with two Mossad officers shadowing them. The other Mossad officer was providing security for their base.

Ziva saw Tony's blinking dot on one of the monitors and sighed, even as a dot she could not stop looking at him.

"What's with the sighing David?" she heard Gibbs voice in her ear.

Damn she had forgotten that they were all wear earwigs.

"Aah…nothing I just do not like just sitting here." She covered.

"Suck it up," Gibbs told her, "it's not like you're the one being used as bait."

She heard Kate chuckle in the background and would have said something if they were in any other.

They dropped in to silence after that for several minutes then Ziva noticed something strange, the Beta group wasn't following the prearranged route.

"Beta one what is your current location?" she asked in Hebrew talking to Radwan.

There wasn't an answer.

"Beta one do you read?" she asked getting nervous now.

Again no answer.

"Betas one, two and three come in."

Still no answer.

"What's going on?" Gibbs asked.

"I don't know Gibbs," Ziva said feeling nervous, "Eagle Eye Beta do you read?" she asked trying to contact their shadow.

No reply. Immediately Ziva jumped into action.

She contacted the local LEOs and gave them the coordinates of the beacons to intercept and recalled Eagle Eye Alpha to base and told the man to bring Gibbs and Tony with him.

Something definitely wasn't right, she could feel it and some miles away both Gibbs and Tony could feel it too.

Author's Note: Stay tuned for another chapter of Running Away, Coming Home. Hope you liked this chapter and please review. I like reviews especially if they are really nice ones but I'm not picky if it sucks tell me that it sucks, I'll just cry myself to sleep. lol