Here we go guys, chapter 5! Thank you all so so much for your support towards this story and me. I know that I keep saying this but I really hope that you all know how unbelievably grateful I am. Okay, I spent yesterday with a notepad and pen, spit-balling some ideas about where to take this story. I think that this is going to be a story of 2 parts: Part 1 (Chapter 1 to chapter 7?) with Tony looking for answers and raising his daughter. Part 2 will then look at resolving family issues and thinking about where they are going to live/settling down. I just don't want Tony to spend the whole story chasing after Ziva. He did that for Somalia and then when Parsa was around. He spent months looking for Ziva 3 years ago, but she didn't want to be found then, she was constantly moving locations and they didn't have Tali. Now, Tony has Tali to think about, he wants to settle down and be a family. Please let me know what you think about this, if there's anything that you would change or like to see in a future chapter. If you guys don't like this idea, I'm more than happy to try something else :)

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So this one is set after Tali's nightmare. Tony has managed to get her to sleep again and he asked Nettie to stay in the room with her.

Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday 24th May 2016 2am

"Agent DiNozzo… Tony… what a – "

"You can stop right there, Orli. You knew I was in the country; it was only a matter of time before I came to see you." Orli smiled slightly (I saw a cat smile like that once, sprang to mind, thought Tony).

"I will admit, Anthony, that I expected to see you storm into my office, not my house in the middle of the night." She closed her front door behind him and walked into her living room, Tony following behind. Orli pointed to the sofa but Tony simply folded his arms and leaned against the wall, simply looking straight-faced at her.

"Yeah well, apologies for the inconvenience, but I guess I've got a few things on my mind. Or a few bones to pick with you. You've got some explaining to do Orli, starting with explaining why I've got a nearly 2-year-old little girl crying out for her Ima, something that I can't give her right now. And why you didn't tell Ziva's aunt Nettie that you knew that she and Tali were in danger. And finally, there's the small matter of this." He threw the folded piece of paper onto Orli's coffee table. She stared up at him.

"And this is…" Her eyes looking down, indicating to the piece of paper, before continuing to look at him.

"You. All of your lies. But hey, these are just the best bits from the last few days. I wouldn't be able to fit everything onto one side of A4." spat Tony angrily, trying hard to bite his tongue.

Orli paused and stared at him straight-faced. "Have you finished?"

That one stabbed Tony straight in the heart. He tried not to let it show, but all he could see was Ziva saying the same thing to him, 7 years ago. After a fight about Rivkin.

"Happy reading." With that, Tony walked into her kitchen to make himself his fifth cup of coffee that day.

After a few minutes, Orli joined him in the kitchen and took a seat on the opposite side of the counter, her hands clasped in front of her holding onto his note. They sat in silence for a few moments, extending the tension in room. Finally, she opened her mouth to begin her explanation, but Tony beat her to it.

"Don't." he spat. "Don't even begin to patronise me. I'm through with being lied to, especially by you all of people. Besides, I don't need anything from you now, I've got what I came here for."

Orli sat up straighter at that, eyebrows furrowing at Tony. He wanted to laugh at that and couldn't help the scoff that escaped his lips.

"Don't act dumb with me. You read my list. But if you really don't get it then go ahead, look back at it. I especially recommend numbers 1 through 8."

Orli placed the paper onto the counter and looked through the list again.

1. They haven't found a body.

2. We never saw a survivor being pulled from the house.

3. Don't believe what you're told. Always double check.

4. Where's the smell of smoke?

5. No bruises, cuts, burns.

6. She would have known.

7. Tali was so far from Ziva in the house.

8. Kelev.

"Number 11", Tony extended on from the list, "Trent Kort". Orli looked up at him from the note, wondering what that man could possibly have to do with this. Tony knew he had her attention now, and continued.

"Something that Kort said, has been bothering me for a while. He said that he didn't know that Ziva would be there, in the farmhouse when he had it bombed; that she wasn't supposed to be there. Did Kort have different intel to us? Where did he think Ziva really was?"

"Anthony…"

"Everyone else had intel that said that Ziva was staying in Eli's farmhouse. NCIS, FBI, Interpol, the whole alphabet soup. So WHY would Kort believe differently?"

"Tony…"

"Because she wasn't staying there, was she? Ziva and Tali weren't there. Mossad has eyes and ears all over the world, you knew that it was Kort, not Jacob Scott who was after Ziva right from the start. You went to her and warned her. Maybe once upon a time, Ziva would have stayed there and stood her ground, but she would never put Tali at risk. So she turned to you. And you hid them. You knew where they really were and you had someone tip him off, didn't you?". Orli looked appalled and affronted by that.

"Excuse me?! If you think that I would put Ziva and Tali in danger then – "

"Then what? Huh!" Tony questioned, breathing heavily. Orli stared at him, her lips tightly pursed together.

"She was with you, wasn't she? They were staying here. Don't think I didn't notice the second I walked in here. I was a NCIS Special Agent; I'm trained to notice things. You've got baby food still sitting in your fridge. You've got a high chair over there in the corner. Your entire house is baby-proofed! You don't do that if your "friends" kid is here on the odd occasion. She was staying here, wasn't she? They both were! You DID know something was gonna happen, you and Ziva both knew for a while now! That's why all of their things in the go-bag are still intact. It's why Tali has no cuts or bruises. Why nothing smells of smoke. Because they were never in the fire!"

Tony stood quickly, but edged his way slowly towards where Orli was seated. She turned slightly to face him, staring up at him. He could look pretty intimidating when he wanted to. When it concerned his family.

"You tell me now Orli now, right now, where is she? Where is Ziva?"

Orli continued to look at Tony, not backing down. Finally, she stood up, coming almost face-to-face with him.

"Take what you need of your family's from here, Tony. I think that you will find your remaining answers." With that, Orli walked past him and went upstairs towards her bedroom, leaving Tony alone once more...

A/N: Some food for thought: don't judge Orli too quickly just yet. Why did she have someone tip Kort off? (Your guess is as good as mine!) You guys are all GENUINELY AMAZING! Thank you for encouraging me to keep going with this, I just can't express what that means to me :)