A/N: Your reviews are really going down; I honestly think it actually was something I said…
My mate got Be My Angel off of Cote's site and now I have it on my iPod! Yaay!
I thought I'd have more time at the weekend… That idea went out of the window!
Throughout the day, Ziva learnt that Amy was most certainly a woman: she could indeed multitask. She could solve a case and teach Ziva at the same time. By the end of the day, with some of McGregor's help, they had solved where the serial killer they were looking for was hiding from someone's phone records, had stone evidence from using bullet fingerprinting, and Gibbs, McGregor, Ziva, Ari and Tommy had gone to the warehouse where they had traced some of the phone calls from.
Gibbs had issued both Ari and Ziva with the standard issues weapons, even though Ari already had two on him, and Ziva had her trusty Beretta and her knife set. In the end, it had actually been a brother and sister job, as the two were younger and better trained in running, and they had both run after the suspect, Jorge Montano, drug baron turned serial killer of all the witnesses and the unfortunately not sequestered jury who had threatened to put him in jail for many years for committing the felony of selling drugs.
Montano was clever, but years of taking drugs and using the money he had got from selling drugs to buy alcohol had made his reactions slow and his stomach fat. Ziva easily overtook him while Ari held back a bit. Montano was reaching for what could have been a gun at his side when Ari took a flying leap and landed with his knees on the man's back. Ziva rushed to assist and as Ari pinned the man's hands behind his back and cuffed him, Ziva held his face in the dusty ground.
Gibbs arrived seconds later with Tommy, and then a few minutes later McGregor ran up, puffing and his face was bright red. While Tommy teased McGregor about not being able to run fast and being really unfit, Gibbs and Ari escorted Montano back to the car to take him to NCIS for interrogation. Ziva smirked at the two older agents' teasing; technically Tommy's teasing at McGregor. It reminded her so much of Tony and McGee.
They arrived back at NCIS and Gibbs left Montano in the interrogation room for two hours. Ziva had wondered why he did this, so she asked. His answer was that it makes it easier to get in their head when they're hungry, thirsty, cold and grumpy. She'd smiled at that one. Ari and Tommy had been 'elected' by Gibbs to keep an eye on Montano from the observation room. Ari had decided to ask Tommy on who Lisa was.
The question had made Tommy's eyes go glassy, as if he was about to cry almost. He tried to deflect the question away with a 'you don't need to know' answer, but Ari wasn't fooled by it. He subtly pressed Tommy for an answer, and finally Tommy told him. Lisa used to be in NYPD but had resigned and joined NCIS instead, along with a state house move. Ari could tell that Tommy and Lisa's relationship had been just slightly more than professional.
"And now?" Ari asked, wondering where the NYPD to NCIS agent had gone in the meantime. Tommy sighed heavily.
"She got shot." He told Ari sadly, and was about to say something else when the door to the interrogation room was slammed open. Montano jumped in his seat, and glared at Gibbs as he walked in. To Ari's intense surprise and obviously to Tommy's also, Ziva was with him. She leaned against the wall, eyeing the drug dealer with cold eyes. Gibbs slammed his fist down on the table and Montano looked up at him.
"What?" The Mexican said innocently, ignoring the blazing anger emanating from Gibbs. He smiled angelically and it was all Gibbs could do not to slap the dealer gone serial killer around the head a few times. More than a few in fact. Ziva laid out some pictures on the table. Some of the pictures were of women, some men, some even teenagers. There were about twenty photos spread over the table, but that was a fraction of the actual amount that they had come across.
"You killed these people because they were going to put you in jail. Half of them bought drugs from you on a one off, for god's sake; they had nothing to do with the courts!" Gibbs exclaimed, and pointed to one of the photos of a teenage girl of about fourteen to emphasize his point. Montano rolled his eyes and was about to say something but then Ziva slammed her hand on the table and moved Montano's face so he had to look at her.
"That girl went to my school, you sick bastard." She hissed. The girl's name was Paulina Jakowski, a quiet girl two years below her. She remembered the memorial service they'd held at the school the day after she'd been found. Loads of the people from her class had been crying and so had many people from other years. She'd kept herself to herself, but had helped people all the time and was well liked by most of the school. She'd immersed herself in charity work, while also looking after her mom at home who had multiple sclerosis and making money to support the family. No one knew where her father was, all they knew was that she had moved to America from Poland two years ago.
"So?" Montano said, completely uncaring at the girl's fate.
"She… purchased some… drugs to help stop the pain that MS caused her mom." Ziva growled, and Gibbs put a restraining hand on her shoulder before she did something like assassinate Montano.
"Ziva, go help Amy." He said, and pushed her gently towards the door. Ziva opened the door, and then turned to Montano.
"You sick, fucking bastard." She swore, before slamming to door and heading toward the lift. Ari jumped up and went to follow his sister, but Tommy caught his arm.
"Leave her be." He advised, and Ari sat back down, defeated.
By the time Ziva and Ari left work at five, Ziva was in a better mood after spending time with Amy, much to Ari's relief. Gibbs drove them to Kate's house, and dropped Ziva off there too, before returning to work again. Ari knocked on the door, and it was opened by Kate.
"Hi guys." She grinned. "I was about to go out, you coming?"
"I'll just go get changed." Ari said, motioning toward his clothing, under which he still had on a Kevlar vest from the morning's activities with Montano.
"We'll wait outside." Kate said, and she and Ziva walked down the front steps and sat on the bottom step. "Good day at work?"
"It's great." Ziva smiled. "They are all really nice."
"Great. Catch any criminals?" Kate said jokingly.
"Actually, we did." Ziva said, grinning. Kate laughed.
"You would."
"You never knew Paulina Jakowski did you?" Ziva asked, and Kate shook her head. "Oh, and is Tony coming with us?"
"I was going to head over to his house, yeah." Kate said. "And Abby's meeting us in the park with McGee. They went to some lecture on computer science at Georgetown University today or something."
"Sounds like the type of weekend thing they'd do." Ziva agreed, as the door opened and shut behind them and Ari walked down the steps and lifted the two girls to their feet.
"Where are we going?" He asked, as they all linked arms, Ziva on the right, Kate on the left and Ari in the middle.
"Tony's house." Kate said, as they headed down the road. They arrived at Tony's house after about five or ten minutes, and Ziva danced up the steps to ring the bell. Tony opened the door and smiled at her.
"You called?" He said, grinning.
"We're going to the park. Will you come with us?" Ziva asked, and a even huger grin spread across Tony's face.
"Of course." He said, grabbing the spare key from the hook by the door, walking out and pulling the door closed behind him. Ziva smiled and they made their way down to where Ari and Kate were waiting. Tony's arm was across Ziva's shoulder, and Ari and Kate still had their arms linked.
By the time they walked to the park, they had walked in the road half the way managing not to get run over somehow, and Ziva had got yelled at by a homeowner who had seen her demonstrating her aptitude at gymnastics by jumping up and doing a handstand on the boot of his car, going into a front roll and using the windscreen as a slide.
When they arrived at the park, Abby and McGee were sitting near the entrance to the park on one of the benches, talking. They didn't hear the others approaching. Ziva motioned for the others to be quiet and her and Ari stealthily crept up behind the two and pressed their fingers into the pressure points at the base of the neck.
"AGH!" McGee cried as Ari pressed the point. Abby shrieked and jumped off the bench and glared at Ziva, who was laughing.
"Ziva!" She yelled, and ran after Ziva who'd set off running. After ten minutes Ziva arrived back and sat on the bench. By the time Abby returned, Ziva had regained perfect composure.
"What took you so long?" Ziva asked sweetly, and Abby was about to throttle her, two policemen approached them.
"Abigail Sciuto?" One of them asked, and Abby's face creased in confusion and worry.
"Me." She said, moving forward a little.
"I'm afraid we have bad news."
A/N: Dun dun dun! What has happened? Guess… All will be revealed next chapter!
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