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Something Missed - Ch 3 - What Did I Miss

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Something Missed
By Alora Blench
NCIS Rated: T
Ziva/Kate/Tony/Abby/McGee/Gibbs
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Summary: It All started with Ziva finding something in a drawer. What could it be and what did it mean?

Part 3: What Did I Miss?

“Kate we have to tell him!” Abby practically shouted at Kate, desperation in Abby’s voice.

“Abby…” Kate said back trying very hard to find a good reason not to tell Tony that she was back. I don’t even remember how this entire conversation started, but what I do know is that if I had to listen to Kate and Abby argue for one more second I was going to snap. Just as they were about to start the whole fight over again for the third time, I finally blurted. “Enough!”

They fighting died down immediately as they turned to face me. I must have really looked peeved because they looked scared, but at least they were quieter.

“Abby,” McGee said calmly beating me to the punch of telling her that it wasn’t our place to force Kate into tell someone, “it’s not our place to put pressure on Kate. When the time is right she will tell Tony.”

Abby put on a pout that would put a second grader to shame. She knew what he had said was true, but she still wanted her way. I didn’t understand why Kate hadn’t just told her first off that she would tell him when she was ready. For the past few days I’ve wondering if Kate would have ever told them about her being back, but somehow fate had made that choice for her. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed my alone time with her and it gave us a chance to really bond, but in a way it was starting to weigh heavy on me.

It wasn’t because of the lack of sleep or anything like that. I felt bad that I had to keep this secret from Kate’s friends, her “family”. More and more I noticed little things they did that somehow related back to Kate. Before I met Kate, those things seemed so normal to me, but now if I looked at Kate and then at them I couldn’t miss it. They kept a part of her alive in themselves. It was small insignificant things, but they were there. Even Gibbs had one, but he rarely showed it. Tony for instance tilted his head just like Kate did when he was joking around or was just plain curious about something. McGee took on her glare when Tony did something “playful” and Abby taps her pencil just like Kate when she was in deep thought. Gibbs had the same glint in his eyes as Kate’s, but his seemed sadder for some reason.

Thinking back on the week that we’ve had, it amazes me that Abby hadn’t brought up telling Tony sooner. What did surprize me though was that no one had mentioned Gibbs’s name in this whole affair. I had this gut feeling that Abby and McGee wouldn’t bring him up either. Did they know something I didn’t? Either way, for the moment I had to keep the peace.

“Kate… I know you’re scared of how he will react, but…” Abby began then trailed off as sadness came over her. I haven’t seen Abby this sad since Jenny passed away. “He’s like our big brother and hiding this from him hurts.” She had her eyes tightly shut and her hands tightly clenched into fists at her sides. I understood now.

“Every time I look at him I can still see the pain of your death haunting him, Kate…” Abby spit out, fighting back the tears that were at the point of coming out. “Please, I know it’s your choice, but please. Maybe by seeing you again and being able to talk to you will help heal that big gaping hole in his heart,” Abby finally finished with a single tear running down her face.

I had thought that I understood, but Abby was confusing me. I wondered if it was Tony she was talking about, or Gibbs. It wasn’t my imagination when I saw a hole in Tony, there really was one, but Gibbs was the same. He had the same sadness in him and the hole I saw in him was even bigger than Tony’s. I wonder if they felt guilt for Kate’s death. How could they if it was just as much my fault as it was Ari’s? Sure I didn’t pull the trigger, but I didn’t stop Ari from pulling it. I was pulled back out of my thoughts by the movement in my peripheral vision and look up to see Kate enveloped Abby in a hug.

“Ok Abbs, I’ll tell him,” Kate said tightening her grip on Abby. McGee moved closer to Abby and Kate so that he could give them a triple hug. All in all, I could see that he felt the same way Abby did about this whole thing. At that moment I felt that odd feeling in my gut again. I usually got it when everyone connected to the people around them and I was left standing alone. I felt out of place and lost.

Considering everything that had happened so far, I was grateful to be a part of the team, but I felt like a replacement. Now that Kate was back I wasn’t really all that needed. Figuring that it would be better to leave for the evening, I made - as Tony would always call it - my ninja escape. I figured I could have stayed and listened to them plot how they were going to tell Tony, but I felt slightly… alienated.

When I got home I ran a hot bath and put on a cd that I liked. The bathtub filling with hot water was the most inviting thing I’d seen all week. Slowly I slipped into the water and let the heat seep into my tired worn out body. It was Heaven on Earth. I was completely lost to the sound of Sara Bareilles singing in the background.

The track changed on the CD player, and I got annoyed with the song. It reminded me of the predicament I was in tonight. I finished up my bath and got ready for bed, feeling very tired. I take it back, my bed was the best thing I’ve seen all year. I pulled a lose shirt over my head and bee lined straight for my bed. As my head made contact with my pillow all my thoughts left me and before I knew it, I was lost in a shallow dream.

I was taking deep breaths to try and go into a deeper sleep when I felt the bed dip slightly next to me. It wasn’t even a second later that I felt a hand on my head. I nearly jumped out of my skin. I had thought the bed dipping was my imagination, like when you’re overly tired you begin to experience symptoms of a hangover even though you haven’t touched a single drop of alcohol, but the hand on my head snapped my mind to full attention.

With all my training it was relatively easy to subdue the intruder. I grabbed hold of the hand that touched me and with an immense force pulled the assailant over my body, using my shoulders as leverage. It was surprisingly easy to get the body of the assailant in a face down position with me stabbing her waist. I used my weight to keep the perp face down while I immediately pinned two gloved covered arms to the back of the perp's back. I could only imagine what Tony would say the moment he saw this compromising position. I could feel the rush of adrenaline rushing through my tired body, screaming in protest at every move I made.

“Oww! Ow! OW! Ziva! Ease up, will you?” Abby pleaded. This was so not happening. How did Abby find me? And get into my apartment? Without me knowing for that matter?

“Ziva! Mind letting go please?” Abby asked again, a slight plea in her voice.

Without a hesitation I let go of Abby and let her get up. I instantly regret it when she spun around and caught me in a death hug.

“Abby… Can’t breathe…” I said, giving a soft hug back.

“Sorry…” she said, pulling away. She had that sad look on her face again.

“Abby, why are you here?” I asked straight out.

“We got worried when you disappeared all of a sudden,” Kate said, standing in the doorway. I wasn’t sure if I was happy or mad that they had broken into my home. They could have called, not that I would have answered, but that was beside the point.

“Why did you go, Ziva?” McGee asked, stepping into the room. His face turned a brighter shade of red as he realised his mistake; I had on only a baggy t-shirt. Without even asking I knew what was wrong. McGee’s face went a deeper shade of crimson as he looked away. Kate and Abby also realizing what had just happened stared to laugh so loud I stared to think that they were going hurt themselves.

I quickly went over to my dresser and pulled on a pair of Looney Tunes boxers.

“So how did you get in?” I asked, feeling the tiredness coming back in full force.

“Front door,” McGee said, holding up a little black leather case that I knew all too well. It was a set of lock picks. I walked back over to my double bed and dropped back onto it. I cracked open a tired eye and watched them watching me. I took a deep breath and patted the bed next to me. Abby’s face was the first to light up with a huge smile.

“Yippee!” she shouted as she hopped on to the bed, causing me to bounce up into the air. I smiled at her, always the one to do things with extra vigour. Kate and McGee also joined us on the bed each taking a seat on a corner. There was enough space for all of us to be slightly stretched out and sitting comfortably. No one asked why I left and I didn’t feel any need to tell them, so it was left alone.

We messed around for a few minutes with trivial conversation before we got to the topic of Kate’s revealing to Tony. At first Kate just wanted to have them invite Tony and let things go from there, but Abby and McGee soon convinced her that this was the perfect time to get revenge for all those nasty pranks he had pulled on her. So the plans were set. Tomorrow night he would get his pranks back in full.

Half way through their plotting, I must have passed out, because the next thing I knew I woke up to a dimly lit room. Groaning I opened my eyes and scanned my surroundings. As I looked to my right I saw Abby and McGee still asleep, with McGee cuddling with Abby from the behind and I had to admit they really did look cute together. When I looked over to my left I was surprised. I didn’t expect to see Kate curled up on her side sleeping next to us. Just to make sure I want going crazy I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and looked again. Sure enough she was still there.

She didn’t fade with the morning’s light. This was new and very surprising. Did this mean that Kate was becoming more stable or stronger? If so would she be able to stay with us the entire time? Whatever was happening, I was glad for it. This was once again just more proof that I wasn’t losing my mind. Kate was really here.

Feeling a smile on my face I looked over to the alarm clock that hasn’t gone off yet. It was a Saturday and sleeping in was supposed to be the main activity for the day, but strangely enough I felt completely rested. I got up from the bed, sure not to wake anyone. Looking over to the sleeping trio I got an idea. A nice full breakfast would be a pleasing change of pace. By the time I was done with the second batch of pancakes I heard the surprizing squeal I was waiting for.

Abby had seen what I saw. Kate was still here. Just to make sure that was it, I went to the bedroom and laughed when I saw Abby’s face paler than normal. I nearly doubled over when I saw the expression on their faces, it priceless.  

“Abby, You alright?” I asked, trying to stop laughing at her messed up pig tales.

“Ziva, Kate is still here.” Abby said, shock clear in her entire being.

“Good morning to you, too, Abby,” Kate said, getting up and stretching out her back. Four people on a double bed didn’t leave a lot of room when you’re sleeping. Kate started to sniff the air and almost instantly she was up and heading past me to the kitchen.

“Breakfast,” she said, with excitement in her voice. I told her to get some, so long there were more coming. Abby and McGee soon followed still both confused.

“How?” McGee asked, pointing at Kate, who was sitting at the table and about to wolf down a stack of flapjacks.

“Does it matter?” Abby asked as she rushed over to Kate and gave her a hug.

“Abby…” Kate whined. She was just about to take her first bite. The piece of flapjack was hanging on her fork inches away from her mouth.

“Abbs, why don’t you get some breakfast. We can solve this puzzle after.” I said ushering her to take a seat around my small dining table. Agreeing, she tool a plate of flapjacks and began to wolf them down just like Kate.

“Here you go, McGee hot of the press.” I said, laughing at my own joke. He took the flapjacks and began to eat as I finished off my own plate of flapjacks. We had a lot to do today and not a lot of time to do it in.

After breakfast, we split into two teams: Abby with McGee, and me with Kate. McGee and Abby researched the paradox that was Kate being here in general, while Kate and I went to the library to see if we couldn’t find some old books on this sort of thing. Needless to say the librarian thought Kate and I were crazy, but that’s her problem. She did mention thought that we weren’t allowed to take the books home so all research would have to be done there at the library.

We had three hours to work. After that we wanted to enjoy the rest of the day with Kate. It didn’t even take Abby and McGee an hour before they found something and ten minutes after Kate and I found something in one of the books. The book was old and looked like it was about to fall to pieces. Lucky for us though the book wasn’t very big, and it could easily fit into a hand bag, so we could sneak the book out without the librarian knowing. While Kate distracted the librarian, I took out a fake cover up book and waited for her at the library entrance.

I don’t know what Kate had said to the librarian, but as we left she was smiling and waving us off. Once we got into my car we burst into laughter. For the first time in years I felt like a child again, a mischievous teenager. Slowly the laughter stopped, that was till Kate and I looked at one another again and a fit of laughter bubbled back up. I could feel the eyes of people walking past us on us. They were giving as weird looks that screamed “You are insane”, but we didn’t care.

The drive back to my house was filled chatter and music. I sort of felt like myself again.

By the time we got home Kate and I were practically dancing up the steps to my apartment. Abby and McGee looked at as in confusion when we finished our dance right there at the front door.

“What?” I asked them when they just continued to stare at us.

“Why are you two so happy?” McGee asked, a mock laugh in his voice.

“We ‘borrowed’ a book from the library.” Kate said, laughter lacing her tone.

“’Borrowed?’” Abby asked, repeating the air quotation marks that Kate made.

“It was in the reference section, so we had to ‘borrow’ the book” I said a smile on my face. “We stole the book and will return it when we are done with it. They won’t even know it was gone.” Abby couldn’t help laughing at us and Tim was slightly shocked.

Once we had all calmed down we started comparing notes. We thought up about ten different theories in no less than an hour. Half of them were unrealistic, but we didn’t rule anything out.

We were seated around my dining table with papers and books everywhere. Here and there you could make out a coffee mug, but other than that it was just papers wherever you looked. It was already about three in the afternoon and we were still trying to dig up information. We would have gone out hours ago, but it turned out to be fun solving the mystery of Kate’s reappearance. We had even gone as far as making a few calls to people that claimed they could talk to the dead.

One of the psychics had actually tried to pull a fast one on McGee and told him that his brother missed him. We all couldn’t stop laughing. Unless McGee’s sister had a sex change and died while we weren’t watching, he didn’t have a brother. A crazy professor had told Kate that it could be that someone brought her back. That thought was a bit creepy.

By five we were ready to do a final read through of our findings before we would head to diner and then to the office. We still had our prank to pull on Tony before the night was over with. Abby would be recording the entire thing from the bullpen cameras. The cameras gave me an idea. To remember this day for years to come we did a group photo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the photo, but when we printed the photo’s out there Kate was standing right next to us. I could have sworn that Kate had wings and a halo the first time I looked at the photo, but at second glance there was nothing, just Kate standing next to us.

“Okay, let’s review our theories; one, she’s here to save someone. Two, she’s her to come get someone. Three, she had unfinished business. Four, she’s looking for something. Five, the greater powers gave her a second chance. Six, Six…” I trailed off looking for the other reasons we had written down on a separate piece of paper. “Has anyone seen six?” I asked, looking around for the piece of paper that we wrote on.

“Wasn’t number six, some creepy Voodoo priest brought her back?” McGee asked, giving up the search for the piece of paper.

“No, that was number eight.” Abby interjected.

“Doesn’t matter, it’s here somewhere. It doesn’t change the fact that we still don’t have a definite reason for me being here,” Kate said with a bit of sadness in her voice. I gave her a smile as a way to assure her that it was okay.

“Kate…” I said, taking her hand in mine. I waited for her to look at me before I continued. “It doesn’t matter why you are here. What matters is that you are here and we get to share that with you.” After I said that sentence I felt incredibly guilty and it was because of Gibbs and Tony. I tried hard to hide the guilt, but it was too late; Kate saw it.

“Ziva?” She asked, her brow knitted in concern.

“Yes, Kate?” I asked trying to play dumb, but she narrowed her eyes at me and I knew I wasn’t going to get away with this one. I really stepped in it this time.

“Abby, McGee why don’t you to go home and freshen up? Then we will meet you at the Pizza Hut in an hour.” Kate said, knowing that I would have kept deflecting with them here. She was taking away all my possible defences. It scared me that she knew me so well.

With a hurried goodbye Abby and Tim left, leaving Kate and I alone to talk. As soon as my front door clicked closed, I winced.

“Kate,” I said, swallowing nervily.

“Tell me what’s going on.” She demanded, keeping her eyes on my face. My gut clenched at the thought of having to tell her the truth. Sure, I could read her, but the same was to be said from her side. She could read me like an open book.

“I…” I started, but was rather reluctant to try to cover up why I felt guilt. I knew I could tell her anything and she would understand, but I got this uneasy feeling in my gut. The same feeling I got when I was still a child and had done something wrong. “I feel guilty that Gibbs and Tony don’t know and that they’re not sharing this time with us.”

I was playing defence and I knew it wouldn’t work all that well. Something in my gut told me she wasn’t buying it. It might have been the look on her face that said ‘Yeah right try again’ or the fact that I wasn’t making eye contact with her any longer.

“Ziva.” She said, her voice even and smooth. “What’s really bothering you?”

‘I could have stopped Ari.’ I thought, but I couldn’t speak the words. I sighed and knew my defeat. It felt like they were stuck in my throat and blocking off my airway. Kate could see that I was having trouble with what I wanted to say so she took my hands in hers as a way to reassure me.

“Ziva, if you’re worried that I’ll be mad at you, don’t be. What’s done is done,” she said, with a sad smile on her face, but with understanding in her eyes. I gave her a nod that I understood, but that wasn’t enough. I had to tell her. As she got up from the chair across from me I got my voice back.

“I could have stopped him.” I blurted out once her back was turned to me. I was scared for the first time in months. I didn’t want to lose a friend, but I had to tell her. “I was sent by my father to kill Ari, but I was so sure that my brother was good that I was blind to the reality that he was not the same brother I had grown up with. He had grown cold and cruel. If I had done my job sooner…”

I knew she understood where I was going with this. The moment I confessed, I could feel all the emotions that I had hidden so deep down bubble to the surface. I felt angry, sad, happy and remorseful all at once. I couldn’t stop the tears that were stinging at the sides of my eyes.

“Ziva, it wasn’t your fault.” Kate said, but I could hear the sadness in her voice. She turned to face me and gave me a smile.
“I’m sorry Kate.” I knew I had to say it. Screw Gibbs and his stupid rules. I let my eyes drift to my feet as I felt the tears make their way down my cheeks. My sight was blurry from the salty water pooling in them, but I could still make out Kate’s form coming closer to me. She pulled me into a hug and let me cry silently.

“He did have some good in him Ziva. That’s why I couldn’t kill him,” Kate said, the sad smile still on her face. I was shocked. Did I hear her right?

“Kate?” I asked, not understanding. Kate could see this and chuckled at my confused look.

“I had the chance to kill him and I didn’t. I couldn’t. Something in his eyes told me he wasn’t bad. I guess in the end he was just pleading for someone to care and help him.” Her words made me feel a bit better, but not much. It made me sad for a whole new reason. I was there for him and he still went and killed Kate. In the end there was no good left in Ari.

Drying off my tears I gave Kate a hug and told her there was no good left in my brother, even though I did want to believe that there was. We put all that aside and got ready to go out for dinner. When we got to the Pizza Hut Abby and McGee had grabbed us a table before the place got too busy.

Even with all our confections I had this funny gut feeling that it would all be alright. Besides we still had to get Tony back. Throughout dinner we ploted how we were going to get Tony back and lucky for us McGee knew Tony would be in the office in about two hours. Tony always went into the office when it was quiet so that he could do some work. Tony’s favourite catch up on work time was nine at night.

So the game was on. We finished our dinner and left for the office. Abby had to sneak Kate back in the way they sneaked her out, but it was all worth it.

Everything was set up and thanks to Abby we had extra eyes in the bullpen. She had installed about five more cameras that would easily be missed by the untrained eye. The only snag in our plan was that Tony was ahead of his schedule. Abby and McGee were in Abby’s lab busy getting all the connections ready for the feed while Kate and I were thinking up ideas of how to get Tony.

We were brought out of our conversation when we heard the elevator door ping. Knowing that it wasn’t McGee or Abby, we went into shock. I gave Kate a nod and made a silent retreat around the corner where Tony wouldn’t be able to see me. Kate turned off my desk lamp and hid herself behind my desk.

The lights in the bullpen save for the lights by the elevator and by the stairs were all off. It left the bullpen dark enough to hide without any trouble. I could feel my heart pounding against my ribcage and I could only imagine how Kate was feeling.

As Tony started his approach on his desk I held my breath. I couldn’t tell if I was anxious, scared or exited. Tony was humming a tune as he looked for something in his back pack. When he got to his desk he put his pack on his desk next to the lamp on his desk and continued his search. Kate took this moment to come out of hiding. Tony put his back pack on his desk and started to take things out of it while Kate came around my desk and leaned against the front part.

She looked in my direction for the go ahead and I gave her a nod. This was it. This was what it all came down to. I could see Kate take a deep breath then put on a mischievous smile. I wanted to start laughing, but held it back with all my will.

“Hey, Tony,” Kate greeted her distracted friend.

“Hey, Kate,” Tony said, back not even realizing what he had just done. He didn’t even lift his head to look at her he just continued looking in his bag. It took him about a minute to realize what had just happened and when it hit home he went ridged. His eyes went wide as he spun around. Kate gave him a smile and her signature wink.

“K…K… Ka…. Kate?” Tony stuttered, his face draining of all colour.

“Hi,” Kate said, again the smile not leaving her face. I so badly wanted to laugh at that moment. Tony on the other hand didn’t find this very funny. He stuttered for a few more seconds then did something not even I expected. He passed out.

“Tony?” Kate said a worried look on her face. “Ziva, I think he passed out.”

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to laugh or if I wanted to panic. I just hoped Abby and McGee got this on video. With that thought I called them on my cell and told them to come up and quick.

“Do you think he’s ok?” Kate asked me when she saw that I was about to start laughing.

“I’m sure he’s fine. Abby and McGee will be up soon then phase two can begin.” I said, kneeling down by Tony’s side. I checked his pulse point just to make sure that he was still with us.

The second McGee and Abby arrived they practically sprinted to Tony’s side. Abby kneeled down on Tony’s right hand side while McGee stood on his left next to me.

“Hey Ziva. Take a picture.” McGee said giving me a funny idea. I quickly got up and went to get my camera and a few props. We took a few photo’s off Tony passed out. McGee nearly started cracking up when Abby put lipstick on his face. I took three photos before getting rid of any evidence that we had made a mockery of him.

Tony gave a grunt as he started to come back to us. Quickly I took my place over him. We all agreed that it would be very funny if I was stabbing his waist when he woke. So with one leg on either side of Tony’s midsection I lightly sat down just above his pelvis. Kate was pacing back and forth her nerves getting to her.

Tony cracked open an eye and looked at the three of us. He gave a groan as he lifted his hand to his head to ease what I presumed was a headache beginning to form in his temples. His hand brushed my thigh as it left the ground, it caused a shiver to run along my spine. Where his hand brushed it left a lingering trail of warmth. Tony noticed the brush and instantly focused on me.

“What happened?” He asked, utterly confused now. McGee gave him a fake worried face. I could almost see the gears in Tim’s head turning. He was going to make Tony suffer for all the times he picked on him. I wanted to laugh so badly right now it wasn’t even funny.

“We don’t know we found you passed out on the floor,” McGee said his voice even and his face without a smile. I could only imagine what this must have looked like from Tony’s point of view. Three heads blocking out most of his view.

“You okay, Tony?” Kate asked, as she came to stand at his head. She looked down at him and completed blocking out the last bit of his view. It didn’t even take a second for him to react this time.

“What the HELL!” Tony shouted as he suddenly shot up into a sitting position. He practically knocked me off with his movements, but as I fell back I grabbed hold of his arm and practically pulled him with me. I don’t know how and I guess I never will, but I have no idea how I landed on my back with Tony between my legs pinning me down with his entire body that was over mine.

With another groan he pushed his weight off me only to stop half way when our eyes locked. I had to remind myself to breathe at that moment. I had a perfect view of Tony’s smoky green eyes looking deep into mine. I was so lost in his pools of green that I barely heard Abby when she spoke.

“You guys want a room?” Abby said with a bit of laughter in her voice. I was thankful for her intervening and yet I didn’t want this moment we had to go away. Tony and I would have to have a talk sometime soon, because this was going down as an opportunity missed. As Abby’s voice rang home to Tony he seemed to snap out of his haze state. He got up from the floor and offered me a hand up before he spun around to stare a Kate.

“Kate?” He asked, still unsure of what to do. I could see he was confused and the fact that Abby and McGee were giving him that ‘Are you OKAY?’ look wasn’t helping much. I almost felt sorry for the guy.

“Tony?” Kate asked a smile planted on her face. I could see that she was beginning to enjoy this now. This was by far the ultimate payback for all the pranks that he had pulled on all of us.

“How’s this happening?” Tony asked as he gave a shiver. He took a step forward to see if it was real.

“Tony? Who are you talking to?” McGee asked a fake confused look on his face. Tony quickly looked around him to make sure there was nothing else out of place. He then looked at each of us almost a pleading looking deep in his eyes that if this was a prank we stop. I could feel my heart clench at the look he gave us, but it wasn’t for me to spoil everyone else’s fun.

“You mean you can’t see her?” He asked the colour starting to drain from his face again.

“See who?” Kate asked a fake confused look on her face.

“You!” Tony nearly shouted at Kate in a panic.

“Tony, who are you shouting at?” McGee asked plainly. I could see the laughter behind McGee’s eyes.

“Not you! KATE!” He snapped at McGee, while pointing at the gap between Abby and McGee where Kate was standing. It started with a snicker from Abby then one from McGee and before we knew what happened we were all in laughter. Between laughs I could see the anger in Tony’s face.

“This is not funny!” Tony shouted at us a scowl on his face. I stopped laughing after his statement. I could see that he was really hurt by what we had done. He looked like he was on the edge of breaking down and all I wanted to do was pull him into a hug and make the pain go away.

It never occurred to me that this man in front of us was so fragile when it came to the dead. I felt bad and slightly ashamed for letting this continue, but none of us thought he would react like this.

The laughter immediately died down when Tony took another step in Kate’s direction. I could feel a chill running through my veins when I saw the hard look on Tony’s face. He took another step then another. I was about to make a move to stop his advance on Kate, but I was too late.

I didn’t have enough time to stop Tony if he was going to do something, but my fears died down as soon as he wrapped Kate in a bone crushing hug. I could see the sadness rolling of his body when he didn’t just grab air, but a real, warm body. I was shocked when a sobbing sound came from him. Was he crying? I should have known better than to think Tony would hurt Kate. She was like a sister to him.

I could see Kate soften as she pulled him closer so that he could cry into the nape of her neck.

“It’s okay. Tony.” Kate said trying to soothe him. I could tell that McGee and Abby felt slightly guilty now for doing what they did, but we would all get past this and grow wise from it. It took Kate a few minutes to get Tony to stop crying. When he finally stopped his eyes were slightly red.

“I’m so sorry Kate.” Tony said leaning his head against hers. He closed his eyes like he was trying to memorize the warmth against his head. Kate gave him a sad smile before she placed a hand on Tony’s face.

“Tony…” Kate said waiting for him to open his eyes and look at her, but he didn’t. “Tony, look at me.”

He fluttered his eyes open and stared deeply into her dark pools of brown. I could tell that he was about to start crying again, but he didn’t.

“Tony. It wasn’t your fault. It wasn’t anyone’s fault. You should know better than to blame yourself for something you had no control over.” She said her voice even and sincere.

For a long moment they shared another hug. But then, he started to ask the same questions we all had. We tried to give him the best answers we could, but it want easy when we didn’t know either. He was still slightly peeved off with us but not because of the prank. He was mad at us for not telling him and I was the one to get the most rap because I knew longer. Kate had convinced him not to be mad at us, but I could see it was easier said than done.

We stayed and talked till the wee hours in the morning, but I could see that everyone was beginning to get tired and we still hadn’t figured out if Kate being back during the day was permanent. All we could do was wait and see, but if it was, then would that mean that she was returning from the dead?

She must have noticed how everyone was beginning to yawn more and more, because she suggested that we go back to my house and have a slumber party like last time. I didn’t mind all the people in my house, but I didn’t think my bed would be big enough for five people. Tony fixed that problem by saying he had a super huge bed and eight of us could probably sleep on it if we wanted to.

I was glad to see that Tony was back to his normal laughing joking self again. We all agreed and left the office to go to Tony’s flat. When we got there we were all speechless. We thought that he was joking about the big bed, but he wasn’t. The thing was huge and I mean really huge. Six people could sleep on the bed with no problem.

Abby and McGee had come prepared with their own clothes, but Kate and I weren’t all that lucky. Now that I thought about it Kate’s clothes did change from time to time. Like today she was wearing a blue blouse, cream pressed pants and black high-heels. I start to wonder why it didn’t occur to me sooner, but I was so preoccupied with other things it was no surprize to me that I didn’t notice it sooner.

Tony handed us each one of his T-shirts and a pair of sweats to sleep in. Once I was changed into Tony’s clothes I felt safe with his musky sent flooding my senses. It was amazing and I wanted nothing more than to bury my head in his shirt and breathe in.

Tony suggested that we watch a movie and see if we couldn’t find another lead to Kate being here. We were all so tired that we agreed. He put on a film with the name Meet Joy Black, but half way through the film though we were all passed out on Tony’s bed.

Last thing I remember before I let sleep take me was McGee and Abby snuggling, Kate and I laughing at how cute they looked and lastly Tony pulling me closer so I could use him as a pillow. I fell asleep with a smile on my face and I could swear Tony gave me a kiss on my head just as I dosed off.

This was the life and I couldn’t wait for tomorrow.
It All started with Ziva finding something in a drawer. What could it be and what did it mean?
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