<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ziva remained at Kate's desk.. well.. now it was apparently her desk. They had finally finished taking out Ari's cell over the last few weeks, and she had somewhat come to be accepted as part of the team. She looked up from where she had been typing a work email, when the elevator dinged and Agent Todd.. Kate.. walked in. Her eyes slid over to Tony and Tim, and she could see that they were both really spooked by the sight of Kate. Ducky was summoned, and Kate set both her gun and badge down on Gibbs's desk.<br/>
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She also caught the looks of disbelief on all of their faces. The sound of an unfamiliar voice filled the room, and she watched as Kate left, and then turned her attention back to the four men on her team. Each of them looked devastated as the messages played. And she would admit to being surprised when Kate had left a message for her. And the other woman's words caused her to freeze for a moment, before she forced herself not to react any longer. </span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Once the final message had been played, Gibbs turned the tablet off and put it away.<br/>
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Ziva remained quiet for a few moments. That is until Tony and Tim questioned him about the nickname, and two of the rules. And as they talked, she quickly keyed in a few commands on her computer to find out which rules they were talking about. Because as Gibbs and the others taught them to her, she wrote them down. Her eyes widened as <br/>
she read Rule 12, and then Rule 5, and realized what that meant. After the men all fell silent when Gibbs basically announced that he and Kate were involved, she cleared her throat quietly.<br/>
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Then she said, "I am sorry about Kate. I know that all of you are going to miss her, and miss working with her." She didn't know what else to say, so she just figured it was best that she didn't say anything, and instead went back to answering her email. But she did keep an eye on them, without being obvious about it, as she was concerned about all of them and how this was going to affect them from here on out. Her eyes flicked from her computer screen, to one of the four men as she continued to type, though she made sure not to say anything else and risk setting them off.</span></span></span>