Gibbs turned to Abby's office and shouted out. "Come here."

Tony saw the figure he had noticed earlier stand up and move into the lab.

"Tony," Gibbs said, "Meet your new partner."

The figure put their head up and smiled widely. "Hello Tony."

Tony looked in astonishment. It couldn't be.

Gibbs grinned. "Welcome to the team, Special Agent David."

In two seconds, Ziva was in Tony's arms. "How did this happen? You said-"

"We said," she cut him off, "that Mossad wasn't renewing my liason position. Instead, they sent me over as a full-time agent."

"So you're out of Mossad?"

Ziva laughed. "No, Tony," she said, "You are never 'out' of Mossad. I still have the ties and contacts I used to. Mossad just can not call me back to Israel now."

Tony allowed himself to breathe. He laughed with relief and forgot about everything except that they were all okay. Pulling Ziva towards him, he cupped her face in his hands and kissed her.

2 days later.

"I'm sorry, McGoo. Being an ass is my job."

McGee sighed. "Tony, it's not a job and I did a pretty damn good job of it while you were gone."

"And I appreciate that, but now I'm back, you can go back to being a cyber geek."

"What if I don't want to?"

Gibbs walked into the room. "Then I'll head slap you all the way back to Cyber Crimes."

McGee gulped. "Yes, boss."

Ziva stood up. "Don't worry McGee. One DiNozzo is enough. Trust me."

"Oh, come on! That's not fair." Tony yelled from his desk. "You weren't saying that last nigh-"

McGee's eyes widened and he quickly cut in. "Don't want to know. Seriously."

Tony grinned and Ziva rolled her eyes. They were never going to hear the end of this.

"So, McVirgin, scared of sex?" Tony said. "Explains a lot."

"Tony," McGee sighed, "I am not scared of sex."

Tony raised his eyebrows and looked over to Ziva who had sat down again and was leaning back in her chair watching the conversation unfold. "So Ziva. You weren't lying when you said you were a screame-"

"Ahhh! Stop." McGee yelled putting his hands over his ears.

Tony smirked and looked for confirmation from Ziva.

She pretended to ponder it for a moment. "Yep," she said finally, "you're definitely scared of sex."

McGee sighed again ad threw a scrunched up piece of paper at Tony's bin. Tony caught it just before it went in. "We've been over this, Probie." He said threateningly and threw the paper to McGee's bin. To Tony's surprise, McGee caught it.

"I don't care, Tony." He said angrily.

Suddenly Ziva stood up and threw a ball of paper at each of their heads. "Shut up. Both of you."

Tony and McGee looked at each other, then to Ziva.

"Gear up!" Gibbs yelled.

"When did Ziva become the ass?" Tony asked McGee on the way to the elevator.

McGee shrugged.

Ziva laughed.

Gibbs head-slapped all three of them. "I'm the ass."

"Got it, Boss."