Wow...thank you. I try with Ziva, but she's a damn hard character to get a grasp on sometimes.

As for the grammatical/verb tense issues...I'm currently betaless. Which means that my natural grammatical skills show through. Not good. I think mainly it's the fact that in this fic, I was trying to write in the present tense...that's how it was coming out, but I wasn't sure how to express certain things with it.

If you happened to have any specific suggestions/corrections/etc., I would seriously love to hear them. It would really be appreciated, especially as I'm working on a loose sequel to this in the same sort of tense.

And once again, thank you for reading and for your feedback. :D