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A/N: Well this is our first co-authored story I hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed writing it.
As long days went this had been a long one for Leroy Jethro Gibbs and his team. The arrest and capture of a serial killer whose last victim, a marine, had taken its toll of the team. McGee, who had spent a lot of time baiting their killer in front of a computer, didn't feel tired. To McGee, however, both Ziva and Tony were both a little tense and they looked exhausted, he had seen that sort of thing before but it wasn't the same this time.
"So what are you two planning for tonight," McGee said as casual as he could, forcing the question out of his voice. Now that Gibbs was with Director Vance in conference with the Director of the FBI, Tony, Ziva and McGee were organizing themselves in the bull pen preparing to go home for the night.
"I think it will be a quiet night, McGee" Ziva looked up sighing as she picked up her coat and bag.
"I hear you spend a lot of time in front of a computer," Tony asked as he swung his backpack onto his shoulder, "You're not IMing people overseas are you?"
"Why should I tell you?" She teased back while she gathered some papers from her desk.
"I'm just curious," he replied innocently.
"Well curiosity killed the…cat!" Ziva shot back, proud that she had gotten that idiom correct.
Tony clapped his hands dramatically. "Very good Ziva! Very good!"
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BuckeyeMovieBuff: You know, this is our 22nd chat.
Ninjagurl: So?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: So, I still have no idea what you look like.
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The woman smiled as she typed her response.
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Ninjagurl: That will make it even more exciting for if and when we ever meet.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: What do you mean 'if'?
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She smiled again.
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Ninjagurl: I have a very busy work schedule. Making time for personal 'romantic' reasons, may not be the best use of my time.
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The man grinned at this and quickly typed a response.
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BuckeyeMovieBuff: Who said anything about romantic? Why would you think that?
Ninjagurl: You, you're annoying you know that
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Aww, that's not nice…I'm hurt
Ninjagurl: Oh, you are, I'm just not sure when I will be able to have the time to meet.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Truthfully, the same goes for me.
Ninjagurl: It's nice to meet someone who is as serious about their work as I am.
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The man grinned again, looking around the room he was in.
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BuckeyeMovieBuff: Oh I am as serious about my work as one could be.
Ninjagurl: *Laughs* I bet you are, Buckeye.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: *Laughs* Well I am…take my word for it…
Ninjagurl: So, what do you want to talk about now?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Dunno, any ideas…what do you want to talk about?
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The woman smiled.
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Ninjagurl: I asked first!
BuckeyeMovieBuff: OK Fine. Um. Movies? Ya know what?
Ninjagurl: Movies sound like a good topic. What?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Our current relationship is a lot like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in 'You've Got Mail'.
Ninjagurl: I haven't seen many movies, but that is one that I have actually seen.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Really!
Ninjagurl: Does that mean you've seen it?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: *shrugs* Guilty as charged…but I do like a lot of movies
Ninjagurl: If my partner at work heard that I talked to you about "You've Got Mail" and that you liked it, I'd never hear the end of it.
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The man looked at his bookshelves of DVD's
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BuckeyeMovieBuff: Really…wow…he sounds like one of those only manly movie guys… the ones that think only action movies rule
Ninjagurl: He thinks a lot of things…I leave it up to your imagination
BuckeyeMovieBuff: That bad is he?
Ninjagurl: Oh yes..very
BuckeyeMovieBuck: Okay, but back to the original convo again. What'd you think of it?
Ninjagurl: Oh,cokay. I liked it. I thought that it was very romantic. The way that they were so involved in each other's lives and neither of them noticed it, is such an ironic twist. I think that a lot of people are involved in similar situations. What did you think of it?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Wow. I couldn't have put it any better myself. I liked it too, but if any of my colleagues found out, it'd be the end of me.
Ninjagurl: Why is that? Are you a 'tough guy' or something?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: I'd like to think so, yeah.
Ninjagurl: *Laughs* You sound just like my partner.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Yeah? Well, I'm sure he is 'tough' in his own way.
Ninjagurl: Oh, he is. He just thinks he's more so than he actually is. But truthfully, I couldn't imagine anyone else to watch my spine.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: I think you mean 'back'. You sound like my partner, says things that cause you to look at her twice, sometimes it's annoying, but I think it's really cute.
Ninjagurl: You don't say! I'm always making incorrect idiomatic references! You can probably tell that English isn't my first language…my partner always corrects me.
BuckeyeMovieBuff: This is getting to 'Twilight Zone-y' for my liking. I think it's time that I call it a night.
Ninjagurl: I agree. I have to get up early tomorrow. Talk to you again?
BuckeyeMovieBuff: Of course. Night Ninjagurl.
Ninjagurl: Night MovieBuff.
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The man signed off, shutting the laptop down and got himself ready for bed, thinking about the conversation that he'd just had with Ninjagurl, and wondering if his partner had a good session with her 'mystery guy'. He climbed into bed and closed his eyes, feeling the thrill of possibility of having a conversation the next day.
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The woman logged off of her account, shutting down her PC and started to prepare herself for bed. She smiled slightly as she thought about the time she had just spent talking to her mystery friend. Her thoughts then jumped to her partner, and wondered what he was doing at that moment.
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McGee looked up as Tony stepped out of the elevator his electric razor in hand, hair disheveled, dark rings under his eyes. He slowly walked into the bull pen, dropping his bag behind his desk he sat down.
"Busy night?" McGee asked cheerfully, earning him a grumpy look and a grunt, "Do anything exciting?"
Tony opened the filing cabinet, dumping his razor into the tray and pulling the toothbrush from the cup of water.
"If you must know, my friend kept me up," Tony groaned, "I love talking to her but late nights really suck."
"She?" McGee asked quizzically, "You were talking?"
"Yes I was talking…" Tony stood up; he was working on lack of sleep and was grumpy. McGee questioning him like this was unusual. "I'm not a complete bonehead."
"But…but you were talking," McGee grinned at Tony before he continued, "That just sounds unlike you. Where were you doing this talking when you were doing this talking?"
"At home, Probie," Tony replied sarcastically, "On a computer."
"You were IMing someone?" McGee looked at Tony in astonishment.
Tony walked over, towering over him, "Yeah."
"Ziva?" McGee asked swallowing hard.
"Ha," Tony turned heading back to his desk, "She wishes, my mystery friend has a lot more class. Foreign, but all the good ones are."
"Ever thought it could be a guy," McGee poked at Tony's mystery friend. Tony whirled around to face McGee, "Or not," McGee said quickly.
"She's special, almost like she knows me intimately," Tony sat down at his desk. "I wish I knew her better."
"You don't know her name," McGee's eyebrow rose.
"Nope," Tony shook his head and stared at Ziva's desk, "I wonder if she knows who her mystery man is."
Ziva leaned against the bench in Abby's lab; she looked tired but there was a light to her face that Abby was beginning to see each day. The music was blaring as usual, as Abby walked back over to Ziva and leaned against the bench next to her.
"So?" Abby looked at Ziva before sipping at her Caf-Pow, "You're not drinking Caf-Pows, what makes you look the way you do?" Abby paused before speaking again, "You're not pregnant, are you?"
Ziva laughed and shaking her head before she spoke, "No! I'm not pregnant, that would have to mean I was with someone. Right now I'm not and the only person I'm that close to is someone I've never met."
"Who," Abby turned and gave Ziva a prod in the ribs, "Who is he?"
"Abby, I don't know, I only met him a couple of weeks ago," Ziva sighed at her friend.
"I thought you said you haven't met him," Abby eyed her friend, "So where did you meet him?"
"I was on a chat site a couple of weeks back," Ziva paused for a second, "Call it a fling, but I met him on this place called chatzone. Since then I've been on every night talking to him…late or early I just keep wanting to talk to him, he's,"
"He sounds addictive," Abby grinned at her before she took another sip of the Caf-Pow.
"Oh he is," Ziva grinned at her, "Addictive like chocolate."
"Are you going to eat him alive?" Abby teased her for a second, running out of range of Ziva's fists. Ziva gasping annoyingly as Abby flittered off to another part of her lab.
A/N: Okay thanks for reading this…hope you enjoyed it. If you did then please review.
Special thanks to Cable Addict's best friend vamp926 who served as the beta for this chapter as well as the next one! Thanks vamp!
