<span style="font-family:Assistant"><span style="font-size: 15px">"The only similarity that I see between you and my father, is the obvious one. I do not know what all Ari saw in you that was similar to our father. But the one thing that I saw was, the job always comes first. Above everything else. Including family.." She said softly. "My father -- my and Ari's father, cared more about molding us into weapons than the fact that we were children. That we were <i>his</i> children. You want to know a harsh truth Agent Gibbs? Both Ari and I lost our mother's when we were young. We never knew what happened to them, not really."<br/>
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"Our father always said that one of his enemies attacked, and ended up killing his wives before he could save them. But I found out the truth a few years ago when I was on a job with some of his most trusted men. They got drunk and their mouths ran freely. My father killed my mother, and Ari's, because they found out what kind of man he is, and tried to get us away from him and divorce him. He did not want that, so he killed them." She looked up and locked eyes with Gibbs when he placed himself between her and Ari's body. "I am fine, Agent Gibbs."<br/>
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"Death is a part of life. It has been a constant part of my life since I was 8. I know you are trying to be kind, and it is appreciated, but not needed." When she hung up from taking to Jenny, and Gibbs asked about what would happen to her life in Israel, she nodded. "That is correct. I would not just be banned from my home. I will be hunted <br/>
by my father's men. By Ari's friends. But I can take it. I knew that this would happen when I made the decision to do this when I was in MTAC. And I still went through with<br/>
it, because it was the right thing to do." <br/>
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Ziva gave him a tiny smile when he said that he couldn't let her get hurt for protecting him. "Agent Gibbs, I appreciate the gesture, but it is unnecessary. You do not need to worry about me. As I am sure you learned when your agent did a background on me, I can take care of myself. I am used to doing it." She stopped talking as Jenny showed <br/>
up, along with the police, and everyone started going over the crime scene. The yellow and black crime scene tape went up and she saw Dr. Mallard and Agent DiNozzo step off the elevator together and head in their direction.<br/>
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She was glad when one of the investigators asked her to follow him to another room in the building for questioning. She saw that Agent Gibbs was being led away as well, probably to be questioned, too. She spared one last look at Ari's body, and then smoothed out the mask on her face that she was used to wearing to hide her feelings and emotions from anyone and everyone. A few hours passed and after the questioning was over, she was allowed to exit the interrogation room, simultaneously letting out a grunt of surprise and reaching for her gun.<br/>
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Right when she ran into someone, and looked up to see Agent DiNozzo before her. Her hand twitched on her gun a few times, before she forced her hand away from it and down at her side. "How is Agent Todd?  And where is Dr. Mallard? Has he moved Ari's body yet? I want to get started on preparations to get him sent home..."</span></span>