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Chapter 13

Meanwhile

"What's happening?" Abby asks walking towards the centre of the room to join Jack and DiNozzo in the middle of the room. "Where's Ziva?"

"Bathroom." Tony replies shaking Jack off his arm. "you got something Abb's?"

"Urm yeah actually I do…well at least I think I do…is nobody going to check on Ziva or…?"

"Abby" Tony almost shouts

"urm…ok then…" Abby says pulling out a clipboard from under her arm along with a remote from the pocket of her lab coat "if you look on the screen on your left the show will begin in just a few seconds" everyone looks to her, humours her and turns toward the screen she was indicating. "if you look very closely you can see that his skin ripples"

"Abby this is no time for jokes"

"Oh Tony I really wish I was. Look." She pulls up the picture on the screen and plays the video. It is easy to see that, as he turns around, his face ripples like someone has thrown a stone into a lake. "see"

"Wait is that…? Why is my dad on that screen?! What? Is he like a suspect or something? Does my mom know? Where is my mom? Oh my gosh!"

"Sarah?"

"Uncle Jack what is this? Where's my mom?" Sarah asks beginning to turn hysterical

"Hey hey hey…chill…Sarah look at me." Jack says matching his eye level with that of the 11 year old. "Nobody is gonna hurt you here. Ok you don't have to be afraid. Your mom's in the bathroom if you want her"

"Thank you" Sarah mouths and practically runs toward the bathroom. "Mom?" she whispers as the door closes behind her.

"You're really good with her" Tony says a look of astonishment on his face "what happened?"

"She just gets like that sometimes. Especially during thunderstorms and when she's around lots of new people"

"She seemed fine with us…"

"Yeah and she will be because the sprog treats you all like her second family and she trusts you. Whenever Sarah has a new teacher or form tutor or headmaster Ziva goes in a week or so before they start and has a chat with them. Just to make sure that they're ok…for her peace of mind and for Sarah's. They're a tight knit little team."

"They sound it" McGee adds as Ziva and Sarah make their way out of the bathroom with Ziva's arm draped over her daughters shoulder.

"Right bedtime for you please" She says

"But mom I'm not tir…" Sarah says stifling a yawn

"Obviously not" Ziva says laughing right come on let's make you up a bed on the couch in Jacks office.

"Do we have anything?" Ziva asks as she returns a few minutes later.

"Firstly, you Ok Sprog?"

"Yes I am fine thank you Jack. Just shock." She says with a small grin.

"Ok so Ziva you may actually be able to help us. Have you seen anything like this before?" Abby asks and shows the clip of the potential suspect.

"Not exactly but Jack I remembered…that day when it all happened had you brought back some form of artefact? A thimble maybe…I remember Ianto saying to me that morning saying something like some kind of thimble that can change the way you see things"

"Ah yes! It should still be in the inventory at the Tel'Aviv base"

"Please tell me this does not involve flying to Israel. I do not think I could handle my father right now"

"Don't you worry your little woolly socks sprog it doesn't involve going to Israel. It's all on the computer"

"McGee" Tony hisses in his ear "he does Zivaisms as well!"

McGee quickly swats him away and goes to join the crowd of people who have now gathered around one of the other computers which Jack is using to search the Tel'Aviv inventory.

"I don't understand" Jack mutters to himself "It should be there. I put it there myself"

"Are you sure Jack? A lot of stuff happened that day and you know things could be forgotten in all the mess" Ziva whispers sweetly into his ear.

"no. Placing the thimble into the inventory is the last thing that I remember clearly and nobody could have stolen it without it registering on the system. Wait! Look…" everyone turns to look at the screen which Jack is currently using. "It says it was checked out"

"by who exactly?"

"urrm"

"Jack?"

"Nick"

"What? No Jack look the date. We were gone at that point." Ziva replies "I did remember something though. I cannot see it clearly though and I may just be hallucinating thanks to the retcon"

"we ever gonna learn what that is?" Tony asks

"What Sprog? What do you see?" Jack replies ignoring him

"Ari. As in Nicks Ari" She replies

"But he seemed like a nice old man. Not like a murderer…" Tony says

"You think I do not know that! Jack this does not make any sense what so ever. Sure Nick and Ari look strangely alike and yeah he could probably have used his ID in all the crazy stuff going on but…Jack…It is Ari."

"I know. I know. But we have to take this as a piece of evidence like we normally would. When did you say you were meeting them for dinner?" Ziva checks her watch

"Tonight apparently"

"Let's treat it like an undercover mission then" Gibbs interrrupts.

"Jeez boss when did you come back? How much did you hear?" Tony asks

"I heard enough. David you're going with DiNozzo and Sarah tonight. McGee, Abbs you're on surveillance."

"What about me?" Jack asks with a wink receiving a quick punch from the Israeli standing next to him.

"You can stay here. We can't risk them recognising you."

"So. We have a plan?"

"yes"

"Everyone. Take a nap. It's going to be a long night" Gibbs says sitting down in one of the desk chairs.