Still Alive

Tony was awakened by an amazing smell. It smelled of Sausage and Bacon and eggs, all these foods and it smelled wonderful. He sat up with groggy eyes. He looked over to his kitchen hallway and then the clock. She was hungry this early??? It was 5:00 am and they didn't start work until 6:30 even and hour early. They normally started at 7:30. He sat up and stretched his tired muscles, he let out a loud yawn. Tony got up and started to zombie walk to the kitchen. "Ziva what are you making this early?" he yawned.

"Oh shoot, food for you. I didn't mean to wake you up. I'm sorry Tony."

"Like breakfast? Wow. I can live with that." He said shuffling his hand through his crazy spiked up hair. She looked over to him and began to laugh. " Does my hair look like a porcu-swine." He grinned.

"Oh go away, you always pick on me." She turned and began to cook some more. She was chopping the onions up for the omelette's.

"Well I will go take a shower."

About 20 minutes later he got out of the shower and got dressed, she was dressed and ready. He pushed a comb through his hair and walked to the table. There was food galore at the table. There was pancakes, eggs, an omelette's for the two, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy and juice. It was an amazing breakfast and he ate as much as he could. When the two were done, Ziva set her fork down. "Tony...please don't-

"I won't say a word." The two kept eye contact and then laughed it off.

When they were about to leave for work they both decided it might be best to car pool. He said maybe every other week they could switch cars and who would drive. She was driving this week and he would drive next week...if he was still alive that was.

When the two got there, they went to the elevator and when they got to the squad room Gibbs, and McGee were there in surprise. The two were alive and in one piece and joking with each other. They were OK?

" So how are you Ziva?" McGee asked.

"Good. Why do you ask?" She asked in confusion.

"Just wondering." McGee said as the two walked past them and sat at there own desk. Ziva was about to ask him not to bring up the night before at work and Tony wasn't going to, to begin with. He began filing papers when Palmer ran up the stairs saying she was awake and beginning to talk. They all got up and walked down.

"Get away from me! Where is he! He saved me from this world and put me down away from everyone else!" She screamed pointed the scalpel at Ducky. " Listen here my dear, I am not going to hurt you and I am sure you are going to be OK. Look here." Ducky walked over to a chart " You're vitals are all fine and you are OK. Nothing is wrong with you."

The blonde let out a shriek " You don't understand my life was hell and he saved me! He was in the Navy and brought me love and care every month. He said he was going away for a while so he would be back soon and I would have to listen to my new master for a while! So I did, everything was fine until this one guy came in and gave me-

Gibbs walked into autopsy, he walked over to the girl and looked her in the eyes. The girl moved the blade up to his neck. Tony and Ziva all moved quickly to their guns. " Go on do it. But let me tell you, we just saved you. Now you can either listen to us or be blinded by this guy."

She held the blade with shaky hands and finally set it down nervously. She began to cry, her blue eyes were filled with water and sadness. Gibbs moved her hair out of her face. She leaned against him and cried. She was scared and basically brainwashed.

The team gave her some clothes and began to ask her questions. She was shaken up and would not respond to anyone but Gibbs. So he finished the questioning.

"So can you tell me why you wanted to go down there?" He asked.

" Because my master wanted me to." She stated.

"Who is you're master?" He asked.

"His name was William." she said crying.

Gibbs looked back at Tony and walked over to McGee " our perp was the guy who locked her up." He said

" But who shot him then?" Ziva asked.

"I don't know. McGee you never told me how the questioning went with his special someone with the same last name as him went." Tony said

"Oh well-


McGee and Gibbs walked through the fenced in yard and knocked on the door. Gibbs showed her his badge and ID. He asked if he could come in for a while, and she opened the door genuinely. She was a sweet woman and Gibbs told her the sad news. The girl began to cry and said she had a feeling something bad had happen. Gibbs tilted his head and asked why she would think that. She responded with "When I came back from overseas I noticed he had been acting weird. Almost distant and not himself. He finally showed me some papers for a divorce and I was so upset with him all I wanted to do was talk with him. But he refused and said he had found someone else." With that Gibbs and McGee left. But the girl didn't notice McGee was off around the house investigating. There was a gun rack but it looked like one of them were hunters so that was nothing strange. They had a cat and also lived near the yellow pines so that explained the plant sub alpine larch on his shoes.

McGee concluded, Tony looked at McGee. " What kind of guns did she have?" He asked.

"Uh...I don't know. some rifles and shotguns."

"McGueezy! come on!" Tony said slapping the back of his head, which then lead to Ziva slapping Tony's. Suddenly they were just slapping each-other's head. Gibbs walked over to the three and slapped the boys heads. " What about her."

"She didn't do anything wrong. Tony go and speak with the girl again and Ziva go investigate." He winked at her giving her a hint to look for anything suspicious. The two left and McGee went over by the girl. The girl looked up and smiled at him. Gibbs was surprised and introduced the two. They instantly began to talk. Gibbs left the two alone but before he left he leaned in and said " get some info for the case." He then walked away.

Tony and Ziva were in the NCIS car, the dodge Charger and they were quiet, glancing over at each other every once in a while. He wanted her bad last night. He wanted her bad now, he didn't know how to bring it up. He opened his mouth and asked her " Last night I think we had to-

"Much wine?" She laughed

"Except we barely finished a glass." He stated with a smile.

" Your house is nice. But I will make sure to leave you alone and pay you back with in a month. Is that alright?" she asked looking forward into the distance.

In all truth he didn't want her to leave. He liked her company, even if it was just talking. He liked her by his side, in his house. He liked her near. He was thinking the L word but he couldn't ever say it. Considering Gibbs would have his head if he ever found out. He needed to talk to someone but he didn't know who to turn to. He looked over to her " You know if you want you can stay longer."

This can't be happening not to me again, not this soon. This is way to soon for me. I can't believe my heart is moving on so fast. Did Rivkin even love me? Tony's words were so sweet last night it made me want to kiss him and lose control. I wanted him so bad. Just to melt into his arms, but what if this was an act. An act just to get me in bed. What if he was just doing this to play with my heart, mind and body. Did he really mean that he wanted me longer. Why is he doing this to me. How come I cannot figure him out! I can figure out everyone but him! Why??
She looked over to him and smiled and didn't answer him. She didn't need to answer him, she knew he was just saying that she could. She took some lotion out of her jacket pocket. The lotion smelled of Honey and tea. She rubbed it on her arms and then fingers slowly, she then moved up on her neck and down to her cleavage. Tony tried not to look but she was so...gorgeous and tempting. She had this exotic thing about her that drew her to him, he wanted to pull over and pull her in for a kiss. He wanted to so bad but she was back to being comfortable with him and he did not want to ruin that. Even though sometimes he wondered maybe if she secretly was leading him on. He grinned and looked up at the road and continued to drive.

When they got there he leaned over and whispered to her "Ma dame Moisele que nous sommes ici et c'est le temps pour se réveiller" He whispered swiping her hair from her neck.

"Tony you speak French?" She smiled opening her eyes in surprise.

" Only the romantic stuff." He smiled opening his door and stepping out.

"I think we have our shooter. She is moving and is already selling." She stated getting out and standing next to him.

"Well lets not jump to conclusions." Tony said cringing at the sign in the yard. "Kind of hard not to though eh?" He said.

The two walked up the perfect fence and the down the perfect sidewalk leading to a perfect house. Everything looked perfect. She knocked on the door and when the girl opened the door. It was to know surprise that she was smiling happily. Ziva looked at Tony "Hi we are interested in maybe taking a tour for the house."

"Uh you will have to call the Realtor." She said with a cocky attitude.

"Oh come on it took me forever to get him out here. Isn't that right hunny." Ziva asked leaning up to Tony and kissing him on the lips.

Tony kissed her back and closed his eyes. The girl at the door rolled her eyes and smiled " Oh fine cuties. You are new couple aren't you." She smiled adored.

They pulled away from the kiss looking at each other and then looking back at the girl " yeah we are about to get married" She smiled lifting her leg up to pop it. She stepped inside with Tony holding her hand. She didn't have all of her stuff packed yet so they got the tour and were shown the gun rack. Ziva tilted forward and looked at them " Wow you selling these?"

"My X husband probably wouldn't like that."

"Well he is your X? Right." She stated.

" Oh Ziva baby don't ask for that. Sorry that she is like that. Sometimes I need a leash"

"Oh she's right but I can't sell them. Sorry" The lady said. " Well I gave you the tour so go on you can talk and look around." She said walking away.

Tony waltzed over to Ziva " so sweet heart what do you think about our new house?" He asked

" I think I like the one we have." She smiled and spun around on her one heel. He was open mouth shocked. He smiled listening to her. " So it seems are dear Wife has already forgotten our dear William. We need to get something to bring back so we can get the truck." She turned back to Tony.

"We might already need the truck." he said pointing at the broken lock.

She picked up the phone and called McGee who understood right away what she was hinting at. She hung up the phone. " so you think we can maybe keep this cover up?" She asked raising an eyebrow at him. She puckered her lips and walked over to him. Tony took the gloves off and turned to her, dropping the glove in his pocket. She stepped closer to him " So I like you with a glove on."She grinned.

He chuckled with a big grin, he fell over laughing " You know its protocol." He laughed.

" Don't want to leave evidence of something we touched...or maybe something else." She grinned circling him seductively.

"Something like that." He laughed." You know she is not around you don't have to act like you want me."

"Who said I was acting." She whispered cat walking down the steps.

He looked questioningly at her, sneering at her with a charming smile. He followed her down to the steps through the door, the girl was out side packing still. " Thank you" Ziva said.

Tony wrapped his hand through her fingers gently, he held her hand warmly and at first she smiled warmly about it and didn't return the holding but she did finally." Yes thank you we will definitely be calling you." She smiled and walked away with him in hand. The two didn't let go of each other for a while until they had to go on separate sides of the car. Tony followed her though and opened the door for her, he went to the other side and then got in his side. He opened his door and finally sat down. He started the ignition and was off. He went down the street and parked in another person's drive way. The two waited a while for the truck to get there. It did take 20 minutes for the two of them to get out there. So it probably would be a while.

Tony looked over to Ziva and smiled " Man I am tired. I might have to take a nap when I get home." He said yawning.

" Do you nap often?" She asked in confusion.

" Is that strange?" He asked in amusement.

" No I just was wondering, I am just very active and always have to do something. I really like to read. But I don't have many books." She said.

"What do you like to read?" Tony asked in curiosity.

" Men's magazines." She grinned.

They looked at each other immediately " Page 65" Escaped both of there lips at the same exact time. They laughed and she looked up at him and noticed she was the only one laughing still. She looked over at him and saw he was just watching and looking at her. She looked away fast and bit her lower lip. "Can you imagine that girls face when she see's us...again." She laughed.

"haha, yeah Gibbs will be thrilled about that one." He laughed.

When the truck passed the car and blinked the lights twice at the Charger. Tony followed the truck over to the scene and parked near them. Gibbs stepped out of the car and saw the moving trucks. McGee pointed a little slow at noticing things. Tony walked behind the team with Ziva.

"So you called it in, lets see your proof." Gibbs stated a bit annoyed with the running around.

Tony stepped forward and pointed at the moving truck and walked through the gates. He rang the door bell and the lady answered the door talking to another voice. " One minute sweet heart, I will be back in a minute." Is what you could hear through the door. Ziva and Tony were in the front. The lady was not thrilled " What do you want?"

"Federal Agents, NCIS-

"Wait this is a joke right? NCIS?!" She shouted.

" Yuppers we have a warrant for this house."

Tony pulled the paper from McGee and stepped into the house. The lady was furious and watched Gibbs pass. " Wait Mr. you said the last time you came was the last time you would bother me." She asked blinking her long eyelashes at Gibbs.

" If you were not involved." He said pulling away and walking with his team. Tony walked up to the Gun rack. He pointed and took some pictures along with McGee. Ziva took all of the weapons and ammo from the rack and packed them in big bags. She took them outside into the truck.

" I am not involved I am trying to move on. Get away from here." She said.

" you can either come clean now or later in interrogation."

She glared at him evilly and turned her back on the team. Tony walked behind Gibbs quickly and showed him the ladies planner. ( 8:50 was blank) "she has noalibi " He said out loud.

The girl began to laugh and then booked it through the halls, " McGee!" Tony shouted chasing the girl outside. Ziva was coming back in to collect some more evidence but was pushed down by a door that was slammed open. It knocked her down, leaving blood running down her face. " Ziva you alright?"

"Go, get her!" She shouted.

He listened and ran after her, gun in hand. The girl was sprinting through the woods. Tony kept running after her, she was a fast runner. His steps heavy and were carefully placed on the ground. He glanced up and saw her disappear. She had ran down hill, Tony still followed. He galloped down the hill step by step and had lost her. He looked around and she was no where to be found. When suddenly she jumped from behind a tree at him. A gun shot went off firing loud and clear. Ziva sat up and looked up at the direction Tony ran. Her eyes widened in fear, Gibbs dashed out and knelt by her.

"Are you ok." He asked her. " Where is Tony?"

Ziva stood up and wiped the blood from her face " I am fine. Did you hear the Gunfire?" She asked.

" Yeah I did" Gibbs said walking to the forest." Did he run this way?" He shouted.

when suddenly a voice could be heard, straining. " anything you say...or do...can be used against you, you have a right to an attorney." He said in pain pushing her up the hill. " If you cannot afford one the state will provide one for you." He finally made it up the hill and McGee ran forward and took the girl. Before she was taken to the Charger she spat at Tony " I didn't think you were a cop." She shouted angrily.

" I'm not I'm-" With that he fell, Tony fell to the ground and heard Ziva's voice and Gibbs voice. But the world was spinning. His arm hurt, or was it his shoulder. He didn't know but his left arm was soar, and his world was going black. Gibbs shouted for McGee to call 911. That was it... he thought. Everything was now black and dark.