[It'll happen whenever he gets up the confidence to do it. Given that Ziva hasn't rejected him yet, he gets that confidence more and more often.] You took a pretty bad fall, that's what. The concussion probably messed with your memory.

Sora, I think. [There's a split second of hesitation from him before he snatches the AI chip out of her reach. For once, it's not a trust issue - she's one of the few people he would trust with it. He just can't get past the very specific brand of agony that seems to come along with the AI from the Mother of Invention, and he doesn't want to expose her to that. Not yet.]

[Of course, now he needs an explanation as to why his paranoia is rearing its ugly head in what should be a safe space. Um.]

Don't- not yet. We don't know what's going to happen - right here isn't a good place to test it.