Finding Lost Love

Chapter 2.

Six months later:

The search for Ziva had continued for both Tony and Tanya, but now they were well settled in Paris in their respective apartments. They had also been lucky because they had originally said they would all live together, but when they had viewed the one apartment, they had also discovered that the one next door was also available, so they then decided that Tanya would have the one next door, then that way she could be independent at the times when she wasn't looking after Tali, but as things went she and Tony in the short time of being together had become great friends, in fact because of the way he had also become a close friend to her brother Robert while they had been in the UK and the way the two of them had behaved at times she was considering him being like another brother to her. So even if she'd been with Tali for the day, while he had time with her she would cook something for them to eat altogether, then after they'd eaten, she would do the clearing up while Tony settled Tali and got her ready for bed, once Tali was in bed they would then either talk about how their search was going or just enjoy a movie together sharing a glass of wine.

With Tali, Tony had also become an amazing father to her, which showed in how she was coming on in leaps and bounds. She was talking really well in both English and Hebrew, although sometimes she would still go into Hebrew only and Tanya would have to translate for Tony, but through his lessons he was also picking things up a lot more. Not only that she had already begun to pick up some basic French through the little playgroup she had gone to at the nearby church hall near to their apartments a couple of mornings a week. Tanya also enjoyed the playgroup to because on a Friday it was the morning where parents or carers were invited for a coffee morning and she loved the chance to get to know a few people and watch the kids playing together. Although with everything that was going on in their lives they were also guarded about what they told people about what had happened and was happening in their lives.

For Tony just as he was beginning to think about what he would do for a job, one quite literally dropped into his lap. He'd been contacted by someone from Interpol explaining that they were in the middle of setting up a task force which would work with various agencies and law enforcement round the world in solving cold cases, for this job there would be one central task force based in Paris, while there would be another team going out there to work in the field and liaise with the people involved in the cases, with his involvement with both law enforcement and also his years with NCIS they wanted to give him the job as head of the team. In this job he would work with the teams at home base and the field team, but he wouldn't ever be in the field and the recommendation for him doing the job had come from Director Vance.

When the offer had come in he had talked everything through with Tanya and as she had told him, even though it would be just office based and most probably doing a lot of computer work, he had the skills to do it, plus he wouldn't have the worry of being out in the field or having to carry a weapon as he had done in the past, and because they're part of the job would probably be an unknown factor in things he shouldn't have the worry about people coming after him or getting hurt as he did in the past, even if he did still have that worry from his past career. Her then adding that the job could also give them access to other things as well could be good for them with their search even if he would have to be careful of not getting caught doing it. So he took the job, but he also set a few ground rules and among those was that he wouldn't work late because he wanted to be home so he could be there to have time with Tali and be able to put her to bed.

The team he put together came from all walks of life from ex-cops to both ex agents from NCIS and also the FBI, with a few former agents that worked in Interpol to. His second-in-command Hayley Peterson had come from London and was an ex-cop both having worked while she was in the army as a military cop and after that had worked at Scotland Yard specializing in terrorism, she was just coming back into work again following having had her baby girl Amy and also with her husband now settling down after having been in the Royal marines, but having now left and was now working in the business world in the head office of the company he worked for there in Paris. With her being a new mom, but wanting to work and be there for the family was also an advantage because it meant that she ensured that Tony left early so he could have the time with Tali that he got. The whole team got on, so much so it became a tradition very quickly that the team with their wives, husbands or partners would get together on a Sunday, along with their kids if they had them. They would start off in the bar a few blocks away from their apartment with Tanya leaving them early to sort out the rest of the roast meal she would put in the oven before they left, and the team would then come round and would end up devouring it.

To start off with in their search for Ziva things didn't exactly go that well because everywhere that they seemed to turn they ended up hitting dead ends. Then one day when Tony came home from work it was to find Tali sparked out on the sofa while Tanya was deep in concentration, in fact she was so deep in concentration that she hadn't heard him at all, even him standing right next to her and asking if she wanted a cup of tea or coffee. He gave her a nudge, and she smiled as she said "Oh hi sorry."

"I could see you deep in thought; I only asked if you wanted a cup of tea or coffee."

She replied "A tea would be good thank you; I was just looking through what I've got while I had some peace. Tali had a good running around session when the playgroup went to the playground today, so she's worn out, just to warn you though I have a feeling that she may have a cold coming on, as she's been a bit sneezy and sniffly when we got home. I checked her temperature, and that was only slightly up, and as you can see all she wanted to do was sleep."

"I'll wake her in a while; do you want to tell me what you've got there or wait until later?"

She answers "I think it had better wait until later, because of little ears, even if she is asleep."

By the time they had put Tali to bed she was full of cold and they could also tell how much she was feeling ill with how she had got clingy with the both of them although it was slightly more so with her dad. They had also given her some of the medicine they had already got in stock just in case, which by the time they put her into bed she was out like a light, so as they came out of the bedroom Tony said "It looks like we may have to be careful of the pain meds at anytime she needs them, as from how she's been over what we gave her I think she may have inherited my problem with pain meds."

"What do you mean?"

He says "I don't know if Ziva told you, but I have a real problem when I'm given strong pain meds, because they make me go loopy. As I don't like the feeling they give me if any Dr. makes an attempt at it then I refuse to have them."

"Or you refuse to go to hospital completely, I knew, but Ziva only told me about the time when you broke your nose in an incident after she'd been with the team about three years."

He responds "So she told you. For that time it was thanks to one corporal Damon Worth that did it. I had a broken nose, McGoo had a dislocated shoulder and Ziva ended up with one hell of a black eye and cheek. It happened again later on as well after the accident the both of us had when Bodnar crashed into my car, but that time I somehow ended up not having the full dose, so I was only a tiny bit loopy."

"And Bodnar was the one that killed Eli and the director's wife Jackie, that began the events to bring the team down with Benham Parsa at the helm and your hunt for Ziva happened?"

"That's right, so what are you getting at with that?"

She answers as she gets the laptop powered up again "Well, this is what I was puzzling over."

"Ok, but how come?"

She replies "Well, I may be just taking a guess with some of this, but from looking through this stuff I got, it seems that from those Mossad officers that went rogue along with Bodnar Orli thought all of them had either been caught or killed, but this may or may not be true, it looks to me like there may have been a couple of agents they either missed out on or just didn't know about, which honestly I would think wouldn't have been possible to happen. These two went into hiding after Parsa was killed and what they thought was the rest of the Brotherhood of Doubt had been killed or rounded up, and then of course we have those that escaped and came after agent Gibbs on the orders of the group that went into allegiance with Alejandro Hernandez. From what I can see from this is that not everyone from the remaining group got caught, this isn't complete so I can't say this is definite, but it looks like a couple of them joined forces with Kort to fire bomb the farmhouse, and I have a feeling that Ziva knew about it and that is the reason why she ensured it so that Orli got Tali to you and then pretended to be dead for safety, because she knew that you would keep Tali safe. I know that with what I've got here doesn't go any further, but I have a feeling that Ziva found out about these people were after them, got Tali to you and has possibly gone into hiding or is trying to track them herself, so at the moment I don't have a clue as to how many are out there and are they still trying to track Ziva or I hate to say it, could they be after you too?"

As he then goes off to get his laptop and as he joins her again he says "Can you send that stuff over to me, so that I can help you with this and see if I can find out anything. If this is true I just need you to promise me something?"

"And what is that?"

"You will keep yourself safe and Tali safe, if you see anything suspicious you get in contact with me right away or the cops. I know that I didn't really want us to have a life where we were constantly on guard, and yes I know that this group could have come after us at anytime seeing as it is now a good couple of years since they were taken down, but they may be coming back to life again if they have regrouped and it could be a possibility if some of them were involved with Kort… grrr you know that I'm glad we got him out of the way, and even if he is gone now, it just brings up all my regrets over that whole bloody op that Jenny got me involved in."

She replies "I will promise to keep us all safe, but promise me one thing too? That you will keep yourself safe and don't try to do something yourself about things, get help from the team or Rob or even your friends back in DC, don't go all lone wolf. I love you as much as I love Ziva and I want to have you both in my life safe and sound, being a happy family without having to worry about people coming after you."

"I promise you I won't do anything stupid, for the moment Tali is without her Ima and I don't want to leave you two alone in all of this because I want you both safe and sound too, even if I know that you can take care of yourself in many ways."

She then gets the giggles as she remembers the time that both Rob and Tony were teasing her, because of Rob telling tales about how she would attempt to use self-defense on him when she was a teenager and would miss spectacularly, while they were in London. Not believing that she could take care of herself the two of them had tried to set her, with her keeping quiet she had not only done self-defense classes to an advance stage, Ziva had also taught her quite a lot too. As it had, then been Tony who had crept up to her in the set up, she had steeled herself ready for him and let him get his hands on her, but she then jumped into action and he'd ended up on his ass surrendering to her hold she'd got him in, the thing that had made her laugh the most though on that day, was how Rob had kept going on that it had just been a pure fluke she had taken Tony down, and even though she knew that Tony who was still on the floor at that moment trying to get his breath back was shaking his head at Rob to stop goading her, he still kept on. So when she stalked towards him with a deathly stare on her face, he had eventually tried to get away from her falling over his own feet and ending up on his ass on the floor.

After sending him everything she'd got, he then said "So how did you get all this, anyway?"

She answered "That would be thanks to Rob, he's trying to find out what he can to help us, and he's also set up a secret network for us to use for all this, just in case those involved try to get in and find out what we're doing. You know him the geek he is, I know he taught me a lot, but there is still loads I don't understand, and he said he's also set up all these bells and whistles up on the system, so he knows if anyone attempts to hack into it, he gets an early warning to it and he can then warn us. Not only that he has also set up on it some secret E-mail addresses for both you and me, so that when the time comes and we find Ziva, but can't get her home, we will all still be able to communicate in secret with one another."

"So we'll get what we can from all of this and remind me that I owe Rob a huge favor now for doing all this for us. I was also thinking with what you said about everyone in DC, let's see how we get on first… but what would you say if I said if we got stuck with anything and couldn't get any further then I was to ask McGee for his help in this? He might do, but I don't know if he would be willing to."

She replies "You never know he might do, and I think that could be a good idea because at least that way I will also know that there is someone helping you and us, so that you won't go all lone wolf with this. If he helps us all you need do is, give him the codes to the network and our E-mail addresses, as then that way we can keep it all quiet about what we're all doing."

"Ok, I'll see how this goes and take it from there." He then does a wry smile and adds "You know it is so good you've done all of this for us, are you really sure you wouldn't want to do this as a career once Tali is at school?"

She says "I'm very sure Tony, but I will always let you know if I change my mind, and anyway I am really enjoying this, for me though this is about finding my best friend and getting you together as a family, when that time comes I know that I will have to think about things more, but I will always be here for all of you no matter what."

After that she decides that as it's getting late, she could go back to hers and head for bed, so after shutting the computer down she gets up from where she'd been sitting on the floor with the laptop on the table, when her bones crack as she gets up, Tony gives her a smirk so she says "I can't help that, it's because I've been sitting a bit too long down here."

"Which is why you should listen when I say we may find it easier if we did this on the dinning table, because that way we can still sit together and see what we've got, without you ending up getting stuck on the floor."

She says "I know, but perhaps we'll do it next time, but for now I'd better be off. What do you want to do over Tali tomorrow?"

"Lets see what she's like in the morning, but if she is still as clingy with me as she was tonight, then most probably I'll say I'll stay home or just pop into work for a while and see what's going on before I come home again."

"Ok."

The two of them then hug and she goes back to her apartment, while Tony stays up for a bit longer plowing through everything that they had got, then goes to bed himself after doing a final check on Tali.

A/N: So here's the next chapter for you & I hope that you all enjoy it! It is just a bit of a filler one for this time

just to catch you up on how Tony, Tali & Tanya's lives are going so far! Of course there will be more to come & there

may be hints at a possible romance coming up for Tanya, along with the continuing search, the question is will Tony go

all big brother over the possible romance & be all protective over her?

A special thank you also to YaleAceBella12, DS2010, NCIS-Kingdom, Debbie & Guest for your reviews! Xxx. D. :0)