Chapter 5

I love you all! So many people have added this to their favourites/alerts and I'm so happy but I do still like reviews... (Still don't own either of them! Or the friends quote that i am using again and used a while ago but forgot to say I didn't own it!)

"Walter what did I tell you about feeding Jean mysterious foods that nobodies heard of just to see what happens?" Peter says as Walter stands up from feeding the cow something that looks like lettuce but, knowing Walter, it probably isn't.

"Ah Peter my boy, I am feeding Jean the dulse plant. It grows on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is great source of minerals and vitamins and has high protein content. It grows attached to the rocks in Ireland, Iceland and Atlantic Canada. It has large leafs, coloured from deep rose to reddish purple. Strange but true, it can be eaten directly from the rocks where it grows. In Iceland people eat it with butter, but also it can be used in sandwiches, soups and pizza. You'd be surprised how nice it is...would you like to try some?"

"No Walter I would not. Liv, Walter, Astrid come here there's somebody here to see you."

"Is it agent Broyles? I do like his aftershave"

"No Walter" Peter says as the others gather in a group around them. Olivia makes a special effort to be near Peter. "Guys, this is Ziva David. She's joining the Fringe division from NCIS"

Ziva goes to each person and shakes each of their hands.

"Hi, FBI agent Astrid Farnsworth, Walter... calls me Astrid or Astrix or Asteroid or any other name that begins with Ast"

"Hello, Agent Olivia Dunham"

"Hello Miss David. I am Walter Bishop"

"Peters father?" Ziva asks

"Yes my dear"

"Peter?"

"Yes Astrid?"

"I didn't want to interrupt the meeting of our new companion but..."

"Spill Astrid. Now."

"There was a strange incident at the Navy Yard in Washington."

"What happened Astrid?" Olivia says suddenly interested

"A NCIS agent was seriously injured by a...shadow apparently"

"Wait! Which Agent?" Ziva says praying that it wasn't McGee or Gibbs or God forbid it be Tony.

"One Anthony DiNozzo"

"Oh God why Tony?" She asks her hands coving her face.

"Shall we go and check it out?" Peter asks

"Yes!" Ziva shouts "I am sorry I did not mean to be so forward on my first day. It is just because I knew- loved Tony and I never got chance to tell him something that he needed to hear before I got on the flight"

"Well then Walter pack your travel chemistry set! We leave now!"

"Thank you Peter. I will repay this favour"

"No need David. Walter are you coming or not?"

"Oh how exiting Peter. To meet our new agents old companions. Should be quite entertaining"

As everyone exits the lab Ziva lingers behind a little to speak to Agent Dunham.

"So are you and Peter a couple?"

"No he is my friend who is a boy. Nothing more."

"Ah yes Rule #12"

"Excuse me?"

"Gibbs-my boss at NCIS has all of these crazy rules #12 'Never date a co-worker'"

"And did you ever break it?"

"Ah well they go alongside with some of my own crazy rules. Rule #3 some rules are made to be broken"

"So that's a yes?"

"Why do you want tips Agent Dunham?"

"Olivia please. And no like I said Peter and I are just friends"

"Okay I believe you" Ziva says while tapping the side of her nose and climbs into the back of the car.

IN DC AT BATHESDA NAVY HOSPITAL

"Hello I am Dr Walter Bishop with the FBI and I would like to talk to Agent DiNozzo" Walter says to the middle aged nurse behind the counter.

"Do you have ID?" She says

"Um well...um..."

"Sir, I cannot let you in unless you have ID..."

"Peter! Olivia! This lady wants some ID that you won't let me have because I'll probably lose it..."

"Walter I'm coming" Olivia wanders over to him with David and Peter in tow "Hi Agent Olivia Dunham FBI, consultants Walter and Peter Bishop and ex NCIS agent Ziva David"

"Ms David?" The nurse says

"Yes" Ziva replies just wanting to see DiNozzo and tell him what she had wanted to for so long.

"Agent DiNozzo has been asking for you, but as we didn't have your current address or phone number we had no way of contacting you"

"That is quite ok, which room is Tony in?"

"Room 101 upstairs on the left"

"Thank you" Ziva says and turns to the rest of the team "Guys. I would really appreciate it if-"

"I understand David. We will interview the other team members." Olivia says and places a comforting hand on Ziva's shoulder.

"Thanks you Olivia"

Ziva makes her way to the shiny, silver lift and presses the button for the floor above. She inhales and exhales as deep as she can possibly do, a trick she learnt in Mossad to control her anger, as the doors open to reveal a hospital floor covered head to toe with sickly green wallpaper. Room 98, 99, 100 and finally room 101. She knocks on the door lightly and pushes it open.

"Zi? It that you?"

"Tony" She runs over and they hug and Tony wipes the tear falling from her dark brown eye. "Tony...I...I...the way that I...what I said..."

"I understand. You don't feel the same way."

"No Tony what you said was what I have wanted to hear since I first overheard you having phone sex-"

"Hey! I've told you before-"

"I know I know you were talking to Kate!" She laughs "Anyway I've wanted to hear those words from you for so long that when I finally did I could not take it and under the circumstances..." Tony leans in and stops her talking with a kiss. When they finally break free they look into each other's eyes and say:

"I love you Ziva"

"I love you too Tony"

And they start to chat. Not like they ever could when they were under the watchful gaze of Gibbs, McGee and Vance. They both realised that the other wasn't as strong as they made out to be. Ziva didn't understand why she had left NCIS and Tony couldn't understand how he could work at NCIS without her. Finally the inevitable question occurred.

"Ziva, what are you doing here?"

"Tony, I work for Fringe division, we investigate strange cases and your case well it was too good to resist..."

"You came out here by yourself?"

"No, the rest of the team are interviewing Gibbs, Abby, McGee, Ducky, Palmer and Vance while I am up here. I should probably go and get them really"

"Yes you probably should get to work. Send them up David. Oh and by the way Zi?"

"Yes?"

"I did not know you knew 'Friends' so well"

"Excuse me?"

"The way we left it at the airport. Friends 'The one with the free Porn'...Ross: I love you, Emily: Thank You"

She laughs "I'd hoped you had not noticed"

"What? Mr Movie doesn't know his Friends quotes?"

Ziva laves the room and goes to get Walter, Peter and Olivia and probably get squashed to death by one of Abby's mega hugs.