So here is the last chapter. I want to thank everyone who has reviewed/favourited/followed this story and I hope you liked it.

It wasn't easy to write which is why it has taken so long but I wanted to get some closure for everyone, especially Tony and Ziva

A few days later Gibbs hung up from the call he had just taken on his mobile and then looked around at his team. They had gotten a case only a few hours after Sam and Jack had left and had finished it that morning, the murderer confessing to Gibbs in interrogation and now they were doing paperwork.

"Oi," he said, to catch their attention. Once they all looked up at him he carried on, "That was retired General O'Neill, he just invited us all around for dinner tonight."

"All of us?" Tony questioned.

Gibbs nodded, "Yes DiNozzo, all of us. Jack is having a little retirement party and wanted all of us there too, as a thank you for helping get Sam back."

"But we didn't really help," McGee pointed out, "They did all the work."

Gibbs shrugged, "When it comes to Sam, just us being there is enough for Jack." He looked between Tony and Ziva and said, "Sam also wanted to know how you pair were doing."

The parting words of Sam and Gibbs had confused the three younger agents and Abby. Or at least they had until Gibbs had pulled Ziva and Tony aside to speak to them. He had taken them into the lift and then had stopped the lift using the emergency switch. He turned to the two agents and stared at them hard for a moment before speaking. "Sam is right; sometimes rule 12 is a bunch of bull."

The two agents gave him a confused looks. In return his lips quirked slightly and then he continued. "Sam and Jack have been fighting their feelings for eleven years and it put a strain on their friendship and on their team. Not a massively obvious one but it was there. They always had to step carefully around each and their feelings." He stopped and saw that the two agents were still looking lost. "Look," he said, "Even a blind man can see how you two feel about each other. I think the only people who don't realise that you two have feelings for each other are you two." Their mouths opened in shock as he spoke. He smiled, "Rule 12 no longer applies, it's gone, kaput. Do whatever you feel is right."

He flipped the switch again and the lift stared back up. He got off and left the two of them looking at each other in shock. "We need to talk," Tony said, leading the way out of the lift and towards the interrogation rooms.

"We do," Ziva agreed.

They found an empty observation room and went in, knowing that they would have some privacy to talk, at least until someone needed the room anyway. "So," Tony said.

"So," Ziva retorted.

They were silent for a moment before Tony said, "Was Gibbs right?"

"Right?" Ziva asked.

Tony looked her up and down, "Do you really have feelings for me?"

Ziva tried to hold his gaze but soon looked away. "Ziva," Tony said gently, reaching out and gently bringing her face back towards him.

Ziva looked down, "I do Tony but I don't want to." She was still refusing to look him in the eye.

"Why?" Tony asked, managing to keep the hurt out of his voice but not completely off of his face.

"Because I'm a killer Tony, anyone I ever have feelings for dies," Ziva said, finally looking back at him.

At her words Tony cupped her face in both of his hand. "So long as you'll have me Ziva David," he said in a soft voice that was brimming with honesty, "I will always be here."

Ziva studied his eyes and seeing the truth there she smiled shyly. Tony smiled back. Ziva's eyes darted from his eyes to his lips and then back up again quickly but Tony didn't miss it. Ziva leant slightly closer and did it again. Tony's smile widened and then he closed the remaining gap between them, which was now only a few centimetres, and kissed her lightly on the lips. He began to pull away but Ziva followed him, continuing the kiss. Her tongue snaked out and poked at the seam of his lips. He let her enter and then their tongues fought as the kiss deepened.

Somehow, he wasn't aware of them moving, Tony felt as his back hit the window. His hands went from where they were still cradling her face and to around her waist while he snaked tighter around his neck and pulled herself even tighter to her.

Ziva was the first to pull away and when she did she was breathing heavily but she smiling from ear to ear. Tony's smile was even bigger as he gently kissed her forehead before he brought his hand up from her waist and brushed her hair behind her ear.

"Well I guess that's this," Ziva whispered.

"That's that," Tony corrected with a smile before he nodded and said, "And yes, we did what we felt was right, just like Gibbs said."

"And it felt very right, at least for me," Ziva replied.

Tony pulled away completely but took hold of her hand and said, "And to me Ziva, and to me."

The two shared a smile before they headed out of the observation room and back towards the bull pen. Once there they let go of each other's hand and went to their respective desks, but not before Gibbs saw and gave them a nod and a smile.

Later that evening they all arrived at the address that Gibbs had given them together, even though they had all driven separately, well Ziva and Tony had come together as had Abby and McGee. They all met on the sidewalk and then headed up the path to the house together.

They all, except Gibbs who had been there before, took the chance to look at the house. It wasn't massive but it wasn't small either and it looked comfortable.

They reached the door and Gibbs quickly rang the doorbell. They all heard movement from within as someone came to the door but then heard Sam saying, in a loud voice, "Don't you dare open that door Jack. Go and get cleaned up now before everyone else gets here."

They all shared a look as the person behind the door, they were guessing Jack, muttered something under his breath before they heard him walk away. They waited a few seconds and then heard as Sam came through the house and opened the door for them. She smiled when she saw who was there and let them all in.

"Sorry about that," Sam said, "Thanks for coming."

They all smiled while Tony and McGee handed over a bottle of wine each and Ziva and Abby handed over some pastries each had gotten on their way here. Sam smiled at them and then gestured them through into the house. She followed behind them and peeled off into the kitchen for a moment to put down the wine and pastries before she reappeared where they had all congregated in the lounge.

"How come Jack couldn't open the door?" Gibbs asked, much to approval of everyone else in the room who had been wondering the same thing.

"What happened to me," Jack said, coming into the room, "Is that I said Sam could stay with me while she was in DC."

Sam rolled her eyes, "Just cause I'm a better shot than you."

Jack huffed and then smiled at the confused looks on the faces around them, "I started a food fight and Sam ended it very quickly and effectively."

Sam just shrugged, "What can I say, you got old sir, you were easy to hit."

Jack huffed but couldn't manage to look upset for more than a few seconds before he smiled and said, "Well I did get you good though Carter, you've got stuff in your hair."

No one else had noticed before but as Sam raised her hand to get whatever was there they all noticed that there was indeed something in Sam's hair. She pulled it out and frowned, "Really Jack, fruit loops?"

Jack smiled before he said, "They were on the side, how could I resist."

Sam shook her head again before addressing the room. "Meet Retired General O'Neill, he looks about a million but has the mental age of about seven."

Jack bowed, "Nice to meet you all." He then frowned at Sam, "I do not look a million."

"Of course not," Sam said in a patronising voice, "But the flour you missed is doing a good job of highlighting the fact that you're not as young as you used to be."

"You're no spring chicken yourself," Jack grumbled as he headed back upstairs to get the rest of the flour off his face.

Sam just laughed and turned to the NCIS team. She studied how close Tony and Ziva were standing and then smirked at Gibbs, "Told you so Leo."

Gibbs rolled his eyes but didn't disagree.

"Why do you call him Leo?" Tony asked, "He hates being called anything but Gibbs."

Sam shrugged, "When we first met I called him Gibbs but then I called him Leo as a joke and it sort of stuck and I've called him that ever since, and since he's never complained I don't see any problem with it."

Tony nodded while Ziva asked, "Where are everyone else? The rest of your team I mean?"

Sam looked at her watch quickly before answering, "They should be on their way."

As she finished speaking Jack came back in and asked sarcastically, "Better?"

Sam nodded and asked, "Do you know when Daniel and the others are getting here?"

Jack shook his head but then his phone rang and he said, "Why don't you ask him yourself Carter."

Sam took the offered phone and put it to her ear, "Hey Daniel." She gestured to Jack and then to Gibbs and his team and Jack ushered them to sit down. "There's the observatory in that big tree at the bottom of the garden, that should be big enough," Sam said into the phone then after a minute she said, "Ok Daniel, we'll see you in a minute."

She hung up and threw Jack's phone back to him, "They're nearly here."

The team were confused by what had just happened but they had come to expect that from these people, especially after how they had healed Sam's stab wound and other injuries. They didn't have to wait long until they heard the back door open and then the group from the day before all entered the room. "Look who we found on our way over," Daniel said moving to the side.

"Hey," Cassie said when Sam and Jack could see her.

Jack and Sam both beamed before Sam moved forward and pulled her into a hug, Jack soon joining them and wrapping his arms around the two of them. When they all pulled back Cassie beamed at them and said, "Mom was right, pity it just took you so long to do anything about it."

Sam smiled at her then introduced her to the room. "Cassie meet Agent's Gibbs, Ziva David, Tim McGee and Tony DiNozzo and Abby Sciuto." Cassie smiled at all of them. "This is Cassie," Sam said.

Cassie turned to look at Jack and said, "Congratulations Uncle Jack, if anyone deserves to retire it's you." Jack smiled at her and then Teal'c handed her a box and she handed it Jack. He opened it and then placed it on the table and pulled Cassie into another massive hug, lifting her feet off the floor. When he put her back on her feet she laughed at him.

Everyone took a look at what was in the box. It was a cake, a 3D wooden cabin complete with a pond and had the words Congratulations Sam and Jack written on the roof of the cabin and Happy Retirement iced onto the pond.

They all had a brilliant night, laughing and joking around with each other, although a lot of the jokes went over the NCIS team's heads. All in all it was a brilliant night and Jack and Sam made the most of their new found freedom as did Tony and Ziva, much to the amusement of everyone else present.