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Ziva and Tali arrived at NCIS and walked into the bullpen at exactly 6:30am, no one else was around. Perfect. Tali sat on the floor behind Ziva's desk, no one would notice her if they weren't looking for her. She pulled out her laptop and started watching her favourite James Bond movie; Cassino Royale. Ziva sat at her desk and started her paperwork.

Tony and McGee waled in about half an hour later. McGee sat at his desk and Tony sat at his, checking out Ziva. She was wearing brown cargo pants and a black long sleeved V-neck sweater. Her hair was tied back, but still hung over her shoulder. He thought she looked worried, but he didn't want to say anything because she would probably do the 'I'm fine' and not talk to him for the rest of the day. He looked over at Gibbs's desk. He wasn't there, probably up with Jen or getting coffee. Just as he put his head down to do paperwork the elevator dinged and Gibbs stepped off. The team looked at their boss expectantly as they didn't have a case. Gibbs just walked to his desk and pulled out his paperwork, the team following his lead. He looked around at his team. McGee was doing some technical thingy Gibbs wouldn't understand, but he was completely focussed on his work. Next he looked at Tony. Tony was clearly bored. He would write something, fidget, and then look across at Ziva. He looked at Ziva the same way Gibbs had once looked at Jenny when they were partners, but he looked kind of worried when he looked at Ziva. Gibbs turned his gaze to Ziva. She was doing her paperwork, but as soon as he looked at her she turned to look at him. She was hiding something. Gibbs as always good at reading people, but it was really obvious. He caught a movent behind her, when he looked he saw a girl, maybe 14, sitting on the floor behind her. He looked at Ziva questioningly, and then he called her over silently.

"Why is there a girl sitting behind your desk?" he asked her simply.

"She is under protective custody. Orders from Mossad." She answered him.

"Why?" She paused before answering his question. She knew it was classified, she also knew he did as well, but she was sure Gibbs would get the information out of her anyway. She sighed before she answered.

"Her name is Tali Brennan. Her grandfather is a very important and powerful man in Israel. Someone tried to blackmail him by threatening to kill her. He did nothing so they tried to go through with their threat. As you can see they did not succeed, but threatened to try again. So she was sent here to stay with me under protective custody." Gibbs nodded his head, took a sip of coffee and walked to the middle of the bullpen. Tony and McGee didn't even look up.

"Oy!" He yelled to get their attention. Their heads snapped up and looked at him, they stood up to join Gibbs and Ziva.

"Do we have a case?" Tony asked."Protection Detail." Ziva was a bit confused, she hadn't expected Gibbs to assign this to the team, after all, it was a Mossad case. Gibbs looked at Ziva, silently telling her to get Tali.

"Tali, come over here please." She called in Hebrew. "This is Tali Brennan. She is 14, under protective custody because someone is trying to blackmail her grandfather by threatening to kill her." She informed the team. She introduced each team member to Tali. Tony looked confused; he pulled Ziva over to the wall with the windows.

"You told me your sister Tali died. You did you lie?" he asked her.

"I did not lie; she is not my sister." She answered coldly.

"Zi, I'm sorry. I…I didn't know." He tried to apologise. She looked up at him, giving him a small smile showing he was forgiven. They looked into each others eyes, the tension growing.

"Hey!" Gibbs's voice snapped them back to reality. They both sat at their desks, bored. Tali was now in a chair next to Ziva's desk still happily watching Cassino Royale. After about 2minutes Tony got up to see what Tali was doing, he instantly recognise the movie and went to take out one of Tali's earphones. Big mistake. Before he had time to think the was lying on the ground with his arm twisted behind his back.

"Holy Shit!" was all he could say. McGee and Gibbs quietly laughed. There was no way McGee would ever let Tony forget being taken down by a 14year old girl. Tali was clearly embarrassed. She offered him a hand up.

"Sorry. Reflexes." She explained. She handed him an earphone and he pulled up a chair. They sat watching for about half an hour, until Gibbs's hand collided wit the back of Tony's head, ripping out Tony and Tali's earphones.

"Playtime's over. Paperwork." Gibbs instructed.

"But that was the best part." Tony wined to no one inparticular.