Here is the next chapter. Not a lot of action yet but we get more Tony and Ziva moments so I hope you guys enjoy that. I want to thanks everyone who's reading this, and a special thanks to those who reviewed and let me know your thoughts on the story. Please keep reviewing and letting me know if you like it. Like always I don't own any of the characters.

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"Wake up detective" It was now 7:30 am and Ziva was impatiently trying to wake up the snoring detective without any success. She was usually up by 5 for her morning run but because of the previous day's events she had fallen sleep. She woke up with a headache and in desperate need to run. She loved running, it took her away from all her problems, and today she needed that more than ever. She needed to think and whith the morning breeze hitting her face she did her best thinking. The detective, however, was not helping her in any way. She took a moment to really look at him. She found him to be very handsome. He was quick with his mouth and in the two encounters she had with him she felt he hid behind his dry humor. He seemed to take his work very seriously, the day before she could see steam coming out of him because his precious operation hadn't been a success. She was also frustrated and a little bit scared, but she didn't show it, she couldn't because if she did then everything she had been working for the last nine months would go down the drain. "Damn it detective, get up" she finally yelled and this seemed to get him up.

He looked around confused, this wasn't his apartment, it was too clean to be his apartment, suddenly he remembered the night before and where he was. A good reminder was the gorgeous woman standing in front of him. "Ms. David you are up"

"Obviously. And you were not. Is this how you plan on protecting me" she couldn't help herself.

"I was just resting my eyes, but I had everything under control"

"Of course you did. Anyways I am going on my morning run and did not want you to think I had escaped" she said it in a mocking voice, she knew she could easily escape him.

"Well thank you for that." He was more awake now and looked outside the windows, it still looked dark outside. "It is absolutely necessary to go out running. I mean a rich girl like you probably has her own gym, why go outside and run."

She decided to ignore his comment about her being a rich girl. "Even if I did I like running outside"

"Well perhaps we can make an exception today and not go running"

"Detective I thought you were here to protect me not try to impede my daily activities"

Tony wanted to yell at her. For god's sake someone had tried to kill her and she was acting like nothing happened. "Ms. David I am not asking you to stop running, just today. I need to present you to the rest of my team and we need to establish a schedule for your protection."

Ziva was very frustrated, she couldn't go out running and now she was going to have to be around more cops. Damn it, if it wasn't because her father had begged her to accept the police protection she wouldn't be in this situation, but she couldn't deny her father anything. "Very well detective you win this one but like I said yesterday don't for one second think I am going to comply with all your requests." She then disappeared into her bedroom and slammed the door in his face.

"Wouldn't dream of it!" he yelled after her. What a great way to start the morning DiNozzo. He took out his phone and dialed Kate.

"Todd" she answered with a sleepy voice.

"Hey sleepyhead"

"DiNozzo what do you want so early?"

"Early. What do you mean early? I've been up for some time now. Of course I understand the Cap. kept you busy the rest of the night." He couldn't help but tease her about her relationship with Captain Gibbs.

"Oh please! So how was babysitting duty?" she knows he hated protection duty and didn't think twice about reminding him.

"Oh, it was peachy." The sarcasm in his voice was indisputable. "Anyways, I need you to get everyone together. She needs to meet the team and we need to arrange a schedule."

"At the precinct?"

"No, we have to be careful. They'll know she's going to be under surveillance but I don't want them knowing every agent's face. Let's meet at her offices. She's the president so I assume she has an office there. McGee has the information be there in an hour."

"Got it"

"Oh Kate, don't forget to say hello to the Captain for me."

"Tony you need to get yourself a woman and stop minding my life so much"

"Oh but it's so much fun"

"See you in an hour DiNozzo" and she hanged up.

He sat around and waited for about twenty minutes until she got out of her bedroom. She was now dressed in a business suit and had her hair up. She still looked amazing but he liked her better with her cargo pants and simple t-shirt.

"I assumed we are going to your work so the rest of my team will meet us there"

"Thanks for letting me know detective" she moved around the apartment until she reached the kitchen. It was big and comfortable. Tony had looked around the apartment during the night when she went to sleep so he had seen it already. What he didn't expect was to see her getting ready to cook. "Would you like some breakfast detective or are you like all cops who only eat donuts?"

"No, I pretty much eat anything" and it was true, he could eat just about anything.

"Very well I shall make us omelets"

He nodded and just looked at her as she moved around the kitchen. It was obvious that she was very comfortable there and he couldn't help being curious as to why the heiress to a multimillion dollar company would do her own breakfast. By the look of her apartment she didn't keep a maid, and yet everything seemed to be clean and in order. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Do you know how to do coffee?"

"That's my specialty" he got up from the stool he was sitting at and headed towards the coffee machine. He found the coffee right beside it and got to work. In a few minutes both the omelets and the coffee were done, so they sat down in a small table that was in the kitchen to eat. They kept looking at each other when they thought the other person wasn't looking. Tony decided that since she was kind enough to do breakfast he would try and be nice. "Ms. David I appreciate the breakfast and again I am sorry about you not being able to go running."

"Ziva. Remember detective my name is Ziva."

"Right Ziva."

"Don't worry about the run. We don't always get what we want in life, do we?"

She offered him a small smile and he was sure she wasn't referring to the run. "That's weird coming from someone in your position." He knew he shouldn't but he was hoping to find out more about her, he needed to because she was an enigma that fascinated him.

"You mean the money?" he slowly nodded but didn't say anything in the hopes that she would continue, and she did. "I would give it all up you know?"

"Why?"

Ziva looked at him and couldn't help but smile more, he was obviously curious, and for some reason she felt she could talk to him. He wasn't the type of snobs she was always around and it felt good to talk to him. Of course his smile probably had a lot to do with it; the man could get anyone to do his will with that smile. "Because it makes me feel like a mark. Everyone is always looking at me, waiting for me to make a mistake. I was free you know, before I had to step in for my father I had a life."

"I am sorry I know he had a stroke."

"Yeah, he did and now I am in charge, so I guess there's no point in dwelling in the past. Are you done?" she signaled to his plate, now almost empty and he knew she was done talking about her. He picked it up the last piece of his omelet and handed her the plate.

"Thanks for the breakfast Ziva."

"No problem detective"

"You can call me Tony remember." she nodded but didn't say his name and went back to putting the plates and cups in the dishwasher. He wanted her to say his name; he liked how she said it.

"How many in your team?"

"Seven counting me. But only five with enough field experience to stay with you."

"I see"

"You'll meet them all in a little bit"

"And you trust these people?"

"With my life."

"Very well, I shall trust your judgment then." What she didn't want to say was she didn't trust anyone to keep her alive. "Well I am ready to go Tony."

"Is your driver waiting for you?"

"I don't have a driver. Who you saw yesterday is my father's driver and my father's car. I have my own car and I enjoy driving it too much to give that up."

"Okay I will follow you in my car then."

They reached the garage in silence. He saw her approaching a red mini cooper, he approached his Jeep. Just before he got in his car he heard her say "Try to keep up detective!" and then she laughed. He then remembered McGee's mention of her speeding tickets.

Fifteen minutes later they were outside TelAviv Imports and Exports. Tony was still gripping his steering wheel as if his life depended on it. The woman was crazy, in the short drive she had made at least 30 traffic violations, not to mention the fact that she made a 35 minute drive in 15 minutes. He had no choice but try and keep up with her, which meant almost dying a couple of times.

A valet came to take his keys and he was more than happy to hand them over. She was speaking to what looked like the head of valet.

"Saul it's just a bit unbalanced. Would you mind having Steven take a look at it?"

"No problem, Ms. Ziva it will be ready for when you leave."

"Thanks Saul, you're an angel." And then she kissed him in the cheek and gave him a hug. The older man smiled and returned the hug.

"You take care Ms. Ziva"

"I will" she started walking towards the entrance of the building with Tony on her heels

"What was all that about?" he asked casually

"Nothing important. He makes sure my car is in top shape."

"Speaking about cars, did you buy your driver's license?"

"I most certainly didn't. I took the test like everyone else and passed it with high marks" she seemed insulted by his comment

"Then what were all those crazy stunts you pulled back there?"

She laughed and he found himself getting lost in her laugh, it was a great sound and it made her even prettier "Were you afraid Tony?"

"Terrified actually. I don't tend to try and kill myself while I drive"

"I don't either, I just like the speed."

"Oh, that explains it." He knew it didn't but he let it go. Her driving like a lunatic was obviously something she did often and wouldn't stop doing any time soon.

They were now on the elevator heading to her office in the 22nd floor. He noticed she was well liked. She stopped several times to talk with employees. She apparently knew them all well because she even asked about their families. As soon as they stepped off the elevator they greeted by a middle age woman with a friendly face.

"Good morning Marie" Ziva stopped by her desk and picked up several documents

"Good morning Ziva" she looked at Tony as if questioning his presence.

"He's a good friend from my childhood, Marie this is Tony, Tony Marie" pleasantries were exchanged and Tony stepped behind her once more. "I need you to postpone the board meeting until next week."

"But Ziva you know they are pushing for it"

"I know, but they are just going to have to wait" she seemed to get tense when speaking about the meeting and he couldn't help but wonder why such a strong woman would be scared of a board meeting. Her comment at breakfast about people waiting for her to make a mistake came to his mind and he thought that maybe it was the members of the boards that were always watching her.

"Okay" the secretary realized she didn't want to discuss it. "Ziva there are some people in the conference room waiting for you. One of them gave me her name, Kate Todd."

Ziva looked over to Tony, who nodded. This was his team that she needed to meet. "Thanks Marie. I'll take care of it."

She started walking and Tony just followed, assuming they were going to the conference room and they were. She opened the door and there was his team. Ziva immediately stepped aside and let him enter while observing his team. There were two women. One looked to be of Asian descent, her eyes were down looking at a file, the other one was a beautiful brunette. She was the first Tony approached and Ziva couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy of the way they looked at each other. It was stupid, she had just met Tony and only because of extreme circumstances and she was getting jealous over the looks he gave this woman. No, Ziva needed to keep those thoughts out of her mind. She looked around the room and saw three other men all looking expectantly towards Tony.

"Ziva this is my team. My second in command detective Todd" he gestured towards the brunette woman, she gave her a warm smile but Ziva just nodded. "This is detective Lee" the Asian girl looked up from what she was reading for a moment to acknowledge her and then went back to reading. "This is McGee, Grayson and Findley" he motioned to the three men; only the one named McGee offered her a smile, the rest just nodded. "This is Ziva David"

"Nice to meet you all. I thought you said there were seven in your team"

"Ah yes, detective Langer was inside the restaurant yesterday and we don't want to risk anyone recognizing him"

"Very well. You can use this office as long as you need. I need to get to work. My office is right across the hall."

Tony nodded his thanks and watched her leave; of course he couldn't help but admire her figure as she walked out. "Okay, this is the situation. They tried to kill her yesterday and we believe they will try again. Meaning this is our chance to catch them. Lee you and Findley will work from the precinct. Keep working our sources; we might be able to get some insight into their next move. Langer will help you with that. McGee, Grayson and Kate you guys will be with me in the field. Someone needs to be with her at all times. I'm still on her until seven. Kate you'll take over, then Grayson and McGee. You guys know the rest" they all nodded and headed to leave. Tony had complete confidence in his team. They knew what they had to do and did a fine job. Only Kate remained behind like he knew she would.

"Tony don't get involve like that"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I saw the way you were looking at her and how you called her by her first name."

"Kate you are imagining things. I didn't look at her anyway and she asked me to call her Ziva."

"Whatever, you say Tony. I am just telling you don't fall for her. It could end badly."

"Yes mother."

Kate knew when to shut up; she just hoped Tony listened to her for once. She saw that spark in his eyes when he looked at her and it worried her because she didn't want to see Tony get hurt. Kate was a good reader of people, and she had a suspicion that Ms. David was more involved that she let on, she didn't know why, but she just knew Ziva David was hiding something.

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