It was a normal day in the NCIS squad room and as always Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was the first to arrive. The rest of the team often thought of Gibbs as some kind of a Machine as he almost was always there before the others but it was quite the opposite.

When his wife Shannon and his daughter Kelly were killed he did things he regretted like killing the drug dealer who killed his family. From that day on he knew that whoever came into his life he would treat them as if they were family. As Gibbs sits behind his desk to enjoy his cup of coffee, his phone rings.

"Agent Gibbs!" says a familiar voice "It has truly been a long time has it not"

Gibbs slowly began to click on who was speaking to him through the phone it was Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon, he was Ziva's old partner at Mossad, Gibbs was perplexed why he was calling him. Gidon must have realized that Gibbs was displeased at best after all Mossad didn't exactly help Ziva when she was in need.

"Agent Gibbs I am afraid to say that once again Mossad must seek help from NCIS' as we have tracked a terrorist cell to the Washington D.C metropolitan area. I am contacting you on behalf of my director requesting that NCIS help us close down the terrorist cell."

Gibbs remembered that despite all Mossad had done they did help Tony track Ziva down just before she left the team.

He contemplated the issues would come with an inter-agency investigation and replied "Clear it with Vance and be here by 9.00 AM."

Vance had arrived in the office shortly after Gibbs had put the phone down. "Gibbs I have just got off the phone with the Israelis the inter-agency investigation has been sanctioned by Sec-Nav".

Gibbs decided to walk to the coffee shop he had a feeling that he would need it today.

...

Over the course of the following hour the rest of the team arrived. As the very special agent Anthony DiNozzo entered the squad room he took a deep breath and almost sang in a Jazz singer kind of way.

"Ahhh isn't it just great when life is perfect the birds sing and the trees dance and everything is right in the world" as he was speaking he broke into a little dance to get over to his desk.

"Tony what's got you all happy" McGee said. "If you must know McCheesypuff I got a very much unexpected e-mail from the one the only Miss Ziva David" Tony practically yelled as he tried to put on his best impression of a talk show host.

McGee looked up at Tony with a very quizzical look on his face he missed Ziva as did the rest of the team but why was Tony so over the moon? He seemed almost like a love sick puppy. Tim wondered to himself could something have gone on in Israel when Tony was tracking Ziva down. He quickly shook that notion off, Ziva and Tony were just friends they couldn't possibly be something more than that could they? Tim decided to get out of his own head and asked Tony what she said seeing that Ziva hadn't contacted any of the team as far as he was aware since she left.

"Soo Tony" McGee asked quizzically "What did she say?"

Tony quickly reply's "Nothing much McFlappybird just she's happy and is staying with a friend in Tel Aviv" As Tony was talking Bishop came into the office followed by Gibbs shortly after who had a familiar face in tow who was none other than Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon.

Upon seeing him Tony immediately recognised his face this triggered memories of Ziva which if he wasn't careful could very easily overtake so he decided to focus on Gibbs's briefing.

"As two of you are aware this is Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon he will be liaising with us on this case…"

As Gibbs continued to speak Bishop leant over and whispered in Tony's ear "Mossad as in Ziva the person who used to own this desk Ziva-"

"Bishop" Gibbs shouted "Is there something you would like to share with the group?" Gibbs yelled.

At this Bishop immediately, yet shyly replied "No, Sorry Boss"

Gibbs then continued. "As I was saying Officer Malachi has been tracking the organisation for weeks now and Last night he finally got a fix on where their cell is in Washington. Due to our long standing relationship with Mossad he asked for NCIS's assistance in storming the building. The State Department and CIA both say this gang is incredibly hostile however they are involved in the trafficking of slaves so there could be innocents so watch your fire and only engage if a target is hostile. Is that clear?"

Almost in unison the team replied "Yes boss".

At this point Gibbs handed over to Officer Malachi to brief the team on the intelligence that he managed to gather over the past several months so they all headed up to MTAC.

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As the Team along with Director Vance entered MTAC they all sat in the seats and Malachi walked to the front to show intelligence photos on the big screen. It showed armed men guarding the building holding everything from AK47s to Tommy guns.

This prompted DiNozzo to attempt to start lecturing the team on what film it reminded him of. This was quickly cut off by a slap to the back of DiNozzo's head, "Thank you, boss".

Officer Malachi continued "To ensure we get access to the building we will approach it unmarked vehicles, everybody clear? Right lets gear up!"

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Within the hour the team along with Officer Malachi and a few other agents drafted in to support the raid due to the size of the complex were heading to the building.

The team arrived and parked up around the corner from the target building "Right! Is everybody clear on the assignment ? Lets go!" yelled agent Gibbs.

The team approached the front of the building and hugged the wall to avoid guards on the roof spotting them. As they got to the door Gibbs was the first through and instantly took down a guy who had his back to the door. Knowing that DiNozzo was directly behind him Gibbs signalled for him to follow, with that DiNozzo and Gibbs veered to the right of the building and the rest of the team fanned out.

Within a minute or two shooting began hearing this, Gibbs and DiNozzo knew they would have to be especially aware as the guards would be on high alert. As the pair of agent's walked up the corridor they heard shouting which sounded like it was Arabic, Gibbs immediately signalled DiNozzo to stop and crouched down with DiNozzo immediately following suit.

The pair heard what sounded like at least two people running up the corridor the experienced team leader knew that within seconds his and DiNozzo's positions will be given away. Just before the two people turned the corner an explosion rocked the building. Luckily it was small enough not to destroy the building. Yet it was just about big enough to be the distraction the two agents needed. Almost instantly Gibbs signalled DiNozzo to follow and charged around the corner to take what happened to be only two men down.

Gibbs pointed his side arm at the men and yelled "NCIS fre-"before Gibbs managed to finish his sentence the two men charged at the two trained agents.

The two men were luckily unarmed so Gibbs and DiNozzo clearly had the upper hand in the situation. The two agents guns were knocked out their hands as the two terrorists attempted to rugby tackle them. To deflect his attacker Gibbs decided to opt for the ever so eloquent clothes line technique instantly knocking a terrorist out cold. DiNozzo on the other hand wasn't so lucky. His attacker was 6ft+ behemoth and must have weighed at least 300lb. DiNozzo's attacker began to choke DiNozzo whilst he pinned him to the floor.

DiNozzo half shouted and half croaked "Boss a little help here!"

Gibbs walked up to DiNozzo's attacker and easily enough pushed him onto the floor and knock him out with his elbow. As DiNozzo began to gather himself and rise up from the floor to help Gibbs cuff the two suspects he spoke to Gibbs in still a little gravelly voice, "Thanks boss".

As the two special agents cuffed their attackers , Gibbs noticed a very unusual tattoo on both of their left forearms. As Gibbs stared briefly at these tattoos he came to the conclusion they must be some kind of gang tattoos and as a result made a mental note to look at this in more detail later.

Gibbs and DiNozzo both picked up their side arm's and began to walk down the corridor. As the two agents walked down the corridor they came two the first room which had a shut door.

"DiNozzo you take this one" Gibbs asked. "My pleasure boss" DiNozzo said as he kicked in the door.

DiNozzo was the first agent into the room and saw a person who appeared to be female by their build with a head scarf on facing the window.

DiNozzo shouted "NCIS freeze! Let me see your hands" as Gibbs checked the rest room.

Once DiNozzo finished shouting Gibbs spoke softly and uttered the word clear. DiNozzo carefully approached the only person in the room and grabbed their hands and pulled them behind their back to cuff them. DiNozzo didn't know what it was, but as he grabbed this mystery woman's hands he felt a familiar feeling energy about them almost as if he had held this hand before. As he finished cuffing the mystery women and turned around, he saw a face, no, the face he loved and his shock all he could say was "Ziva".