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Tony woke up when he smelled coffee and heard voices laughing. Wendy was there when he opened his eyes, handing him a cup from the break-room. He had fallen sleep at his desk. Mulder stood next to Wendy, grinning. He looked outside, it was raining heavily.

"Morning." He said. "Did you girls have fun last night?" he asked and yawned before he gave Wendy a kiss.

She drew a face but nodded. "Yes and when you were not home I thought I could surprise you. Tamara crashed on our couch last night." She giggled. "You need to brush your teeth."

"Good thing, I wasn't home." He grinned and opened his drawer to look for his toothbrush. He often fell asleep at his desk, especially when they had long cases. Sometimes, like today, Wendy came to wake him up. Now he went to the restroom, to brush his teeth. He was kind of angry with his fiancée and Mulder. That they went out while the rest of the team was trying to catch Kate's killer. When they tried to get information from Ziva….

His last dream had been strange. When he thought back he felt hot and cold at once. He had seen her joy, when he had entered the room for the first time. No matter that she had been cuffed to the table. It was like she had expected him to free her and take her away to love her. Love her… Well, he had freed her after he had killed her. Yesterday it had been a shock to find his dream was a real person. Talking, moving, breathing… killing. But when he had asked her about that she had denied it.

He finished brushing his teeth and looked into the mirror. His face stared back. He was tiered and had dark circled under his eyes. She had denied it. And she had not explained why she had confessed. Was his mind so messed up by her that he just wanted her to be innocent? It had been his dream. He made this up. His mind had told him she was not Kate's murderer because he didn't want to believe it. Maybe today he would have the chance to speak to her in person when the interrogation continued. He was Senior Field Agent; Gibbs would give him the chance. But what would happen if she told him again that she loved him, and Gibbs was in the observation room. No. That was something else his mind had made up… she didn't love him. She didn't even know him. Maybe Ziva David didn't know that he had dreams of her every night.

When he came back he saw, that McGee had also arrived and was sitting at his computer. Wendy was chatting with Mulder. The elevator doors opened with a 'Bing' and Gibbs stormed out. He looked angry and as if he was going to rip somebody's head of.

"Where is she!?" he shouted.

"Who?" asked Tim and looked around.

"Ziva David, I was down in the interrogation room. The cuffs are there but she is not. Where is she!?"

NCISNCIS

The director's office was full of people. Gibbs had taken his team with him including Mulder, McGee and Tony. Abby was in her lab. Jenny had asked director David to join them and he brought Ari and Ben-Gidon along.

"How could you let her escape?" McGee asked.

"What happened to the guards, who watched her?" Jenny wanted to know.

"Knocked out." Gibbs said.

"She is very skilled and well trained. May I suggest sending Ari to go and get her?" Ben-Gidon said calmly.

"Why, would we want to send HIM?!" Gibbs asked and shot Ari a glare that told everyone he did not trust him. After everything he had done in the last two years. Taking Ducky, Gerald and Kate hostage. Later he had kidnapped Kate. To Gibbs it was more likely that he had killed her rather than Ziva. But she had confessed.

"I've known Ziva for a very long time. I know how she thinks. I can find her." The young man said confidently.

Ben-Gidon nodded: "Let him get her."

"No, because I think he was the one who freed her in the first place." Gibbs argued.

"What's with the cameras? Can't you use the video to find out who it was?" Jenny asked.

"We already tried director. Most of them were off for about twenty minutes. After that she was gone." McGee answered.

"She is going to finish what she started. She will kill my team." Gibbs said. A thunder outside seemed to underline those words.

"How do you know that? She didn't even tell you, why she killed Kate." Jenny argued.

Eli cleared his voice for the first time: "She has been restless for the last six month. She was one of the persons I considered to become the liaison officer for NCIS. But I chose Ari. She was furious and said I would regret the decision."

"We believe that she wanted the job so she could come to America and work as a sleeper for the Hamas. Maybe she already had orders to kill someone at the NCIS." Ari told them: "I'm pretty sure she missed the shot. She was surely hunting for Gibbs. And she'll be hunting the director too."

Gibbs shook his head: "She shot Kate right between the eyes. She wanted to kill her."

The rain was still hitting the window.

"It does not matter. We need to find her before somebody else dies." Jenny said silently. She looked at director David: "I can assure you that my Agents will do the best they can…"

"And they will accept Officers Ben-Gidon's and Hasrawi's help." The director of Mossad interrupted her.

Jenny nodded but Gibbs said: "I'll not work with Haswari."

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"Boss, I need to talk to you." Tony said as they headed down the stairs to the squad-room. He knew this was not the best time to talk to Gibbs, because he had gotten into a fight with director Shepard in front of his entire team and the 'guest' from Israel, that ended with Haswari leaving the room and cursing in his own language. But Tony had no choice.

"What is it DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked

"I… I think I helped her escape…"

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The elevator was dark and did not move. Tony leaned against the handrail, he had just told Gibbs everything about his dreams. Well not every little detail. He didn't mention how it felt when he and Ziva… No he just told him the important things.

Gibbs looked at him: "You said you dreamed about uncuffing her?"

"Yes."

"And you dreamed about killing her."

"Yes."

"DiNozzo those dreams are pretty serious, but you were not the one who freed her. The cameras in the squad-room where not disabled, you slept the whole time."

Tony was relieved to hear that but… "Why did you look at those tapes? Was I a suspect?"

"No, McGee thought he could find something about your sleeping habit to make fun of…. So you did not free her but you could help to catch her again."

Tony was confused: "How, I mean those are just dreams."

"Next time you have a dream about her you talk to her. Ask her where she is, why she killed Kate…"

"She didn't!" Tony adamantly interrupted.

The look Gibbs gave him was dangerous: "You ask her, why she killed Kate, why she is here in America and you tell her we will get her. Tell her, that you will haunt her every night until she is caught or dead!"

Tony nodded quietly and Gibbs used the button to set the elevator back into movement.

"And tell Wendy to go home and stay there. She might not be safe with this killer running around!" Gibbs said as he left.

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Tony found Wendy in Abby's lab. She was not happy when he told her to go and stay at home but she smiled and promised him a great surprise when he would come home.

Abby looked at her as she left the lab, then she looked at Tony. It took him a minute to confess to Abby who the girl in his dreams really was. Abby was one of the few persons he had talked to about his dreams in detail. She knew everything and now she was shocked.

"Did you tell Gibbs?"

"Yes he wants me to talk to her, as if Dr. Wood would not tell me that in every session." He said and sat down in Abbys chair and looked up to the small windows. It was just past lunch time but through the rain it seemed like dusk.

„I'm exhausted. " Tony said rubbing his eyes.

"How? You slept the whole night and you drooled."

"You saw the tapes too?"

"Yep. But maybe you are getting sick?"

"What do you mean?"

Abby looked at him: "Ever since Kate died you are exhausted. At first I thought you are not getting enough sleep but Wendy told me you sleep like a baby, if you are not dreaming about having sex with…" her voice became darker: "…that killer."

Tony sighed softly: "I feel guilty about that now."

She narrowed her eyes at him: "Just now? You betrayed Wendy with this woman for about three month and you feel guilty now?

"Since I know she is real and that she killed Kate… even though she said she didn't. I don't know what to believe."

Abby sighed: "There is only one way. You need to gain her trust in order to catch her. And then you can start to ask all the things Gibbs wants you to ask."

"He wants me to threaten her."

"Don't, she just might run. You need her to trust you."

"I don't even know if it's real."

"It doesn't matter. Try anyway. You said, she told you that she fell in love with you. Next time you tell her the same. You can build up trust … and then we got her. And when doesn't work … well you tried. That's we could ask for."

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He did not know the hallway he just stepped in. He was just glad to be out of the rain. There was a stairway going to another floor to his right. This house looked better than his place, the stairway was made of wood and it was a nice piece of craftsmanship.

To his left stood a long case clock. It had four hands, all pointing into different directions.

'Time is a funny thing, especially in dreams' it echoed in his mind.

At the end of the entrance hall was a door that stood open. There was a shimmer of light and he felt drawn to it like a moth to a flame

It was a study. In front of the window stood a large wooden desk, on the right side of the room, were bookcases and on the left was a fireplace and wood was burning. In front of this fireplace stood two big green armchairs. And there she was, sitting in one of them. Her legs lay over one of the armrests while her back leaned against the other. She was holding a book and not looking at him.

'Next time you have a dream about her you talk to her'

"What are you doing here?" he asked quietly while he was getting out of his wet coat.

"Waiting." Ziva said.

"For me?"

"No." she was still not looking at him.

"Where are we?"

"Some place safe." She answered and turned the page of the book. He went over and took it out of her hands.

It had no title and when he opened it the pages were blank. "You like to look at blank pages, while you wait?"

She changed her position a bit so that her back was now partly leaning against the back of the chair and partly still on the armrest. Outside the thunderstorm continued: "Not many people are able to read in their dream. For me the book is full of words."

He turned to the desk and placed the book there.

"Why are you here Agent DiNozzo?"

"Tony… my friends call me Tony." He said and went over to sit in the other chair.

"We are no friends."

He smiled. 'You need to gain her trust' "No, I thought we were lovers." He said reaching for her face. She didn't pull back but suddenly there was danger in her eyes or at least on the one she was able to open.

"Don't touch me."

He still smiled: "I made this bruises disappear once, I can do it once more."

"You are engaged."

"To the wrong woman." Was that true?

'You said you dreamed about uncuffing her' "You promised you wouldn't run…"

"I didn't."

"Why did you kill Kate?"

"I didn't."

"Ziva… we are trapped in this dreams. And I think there is a meaning to it. So let's try to find a way out. Out of this dreams, so we can be together in reality." That was what he wanted.

She looked sad: "We cannot. As soon as you find me in reality you'll arrest me, send me to Guantanamo and lock me away for lifetime. You'll go and marry your girl and forget about me. But I'll stay in prison for something I did not do but I had to confess."

A thunder rolled outside and the rain became heavier. He heard the clock from the hallway. Five in the morning.

"Ziva… we can find a way. I promise."

She suddenly sat up straight: "Did you hear that?"

Tony listened but all he heard was the sound of the rain and the fire in the fireplace. But Ziva walked to the door hiding so she could not be seen from the hallway.

"Someone is there." She whispered. With that she was gone and he found himself awake at his desk. His watch told him it was five minutes past five.

tbc