Haunted

Rehab

I go to the centre that Ducky recommended. It's a surreal experience, The actual rehabilitation home is fully of service men and women who are missing limbs and here I am perfectly fine, perfectly health compared to them.

I see my doctor who does another assessment and then signs me up for CBT therapy which I'll have to attend once a week. I leave the building and drive to work which started like 2 hours ago, I did clear it with the director and Gibbs but I hate coming in late because then it draws more attention to you.

"2 and a half hours late, the boss is not going to be happy." Tony jokes as I sit down at my desk that morning.

"Don't worry Tony I told the important people." I smile.

"Did you know Tim?" Tony asks.

"Of course I did." Tim lies and ziva looks over at me, I nod at her.

"Ziva did you know?" Tony then asks and I nod at her once more before he looks over.

"Yeah." Ziva replies.

"I can't believe I'm the only one you didn't tell." Tony sulks.

I give it a few minutes but I'm laughing too much and he's still staring at me.

"Fine, I didn't tell anyone apart from Gibbs and the director." I finally tell him.

"You're so mean, I wondered what I had done wrong." Tony replies.

"Your such an idiot." I laugh.

"So where did you go?" Tony asks.

"Now that is for me to know and for you to never find out. don't you have some work to be doing." I reply.

"yep, back to work Dinozzo. Megan take Ziva go check out the base talk to his CO. Ziva will brief you in the car." Gibbs tells me.

Me and Ziva awkwardly look at each other before glaring at Gibbs. In my current situation I wanted to be as far away from Ziva as possible not forced to rely on her.

"Problem?" Gibbs asks Ziva.

"No." She replies grabbing her badge and gun. I do the same and am forced to follow her to the lift.

We walk silently down to the car and both get in with me ending up driving. We sit quietly then Ziva looks over at me.

"So where were you this morning?" Ziva asks curiously.

"Were not here to talk about me. What is the brief?" I question back.

"petty officer Matthew Emmerson found dead on base. Blunt force truma to the head and defensive wounds on his hands and arms." Ziva tells me.

"Did his service record show anything? Fights?, disagreements?, warnings?" I enquire.

"No his record was clean was on the right tracks for the promotion." Ziva replies.

We both went quiet as we drove the rest of the way to the base. While we were there I decided that we should split up since we could interview everyone a lot faster that way. Then we came back together to talk to his CO.

"Matthew was an oustanding officer, always looking out for his fellow officers and we were thinking about giving him the promotion but he hadn't been here long so we postponed it for a month." His CO told us.

"Thank you, you've been very helpful." I reply and me and Ziva leave the base.

"Petty officer Ryan seemed annoyed about the promotion. It's all he talked about when I asked him about Emmerson." Ziva says as we pull off base.

"Few of them mentioned it, we will have to talk to gibbs when we get back." I reply not really wanting to talk to her.

"You don't like me do you?" Ziva asks after a moments silence but I don't reply. How do you answer that question if you actually don't.

"none of you trust me because you all think I'm going to turn out like Ari." Ziva huffs.

"No I don't trust you ok. Your his sister of course your like him! But hey Gibbs and The director clearly trust you so what does it matter what I think." I argue.

"I shot and killed my brother to save your boss and you still treat me like this. What more can I do to gain your trust?" Ziva asks.

"Well Sorry if you shooting a dodgy criminal that held many people hostage and tried to kill our team is not an amazing achievement to us and sorry that I can't just forgive what your family did to mine. I've heard about the great Eli David and I refuse to believe that your not like them." I rant as we pull up to a stop light.

Ziva looks at me but I won't make eye contact and the next thing I know she's got out of the car and slammed the door behind her as she walks across the park meaning I can't go after her even if I wanted to. 

A/N - Pls let me know what you think xx