Author's Note: YAY MORE OF MY SECOND FAVORITE TONY COUPLE! My first, is and always will be, Tony and Nurse Emma from SWAK. Of course, this will be a mix of Tony and Jeanne's POV. This is after she leaves.

Re-read my old work...it's awful. So I rewrote it. :)

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." -Bruce Lee.

"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa.

The woman with the curly dark hair and blue eyes stares down at her phone. But it wasn't the phone itself that she was interested in, it was the name the phone screen displayed so brightly: Tony DiNozzo. The man who owned that name was the reason her normally neat curly hair was unkempt, and her blue eyes on the verge of unleashing tears. But the man also owned her heart. So she'd sent him a letter in a plain white envelope asking him to meet her and tell her the whole truth. And nothing else. Because if she heard one of his proclamations of love, she'd forgive him on the spot. So she waits in the park, hoping he cares about her enough to come and tell her the truth.

He stares down at the letter in his hands, indecision eating away at him. He can forget about her like he has all the other women, just burying the pain and moving on with life, rarely looking back on what might have been. But Jeanne is different. Besides, at the very least he owes her the truth. Even if he didn't owe her, he still would have gone to her. Because he loves her enough to tell her the truth, even if it makes her hate him forever. Ziva had told him she was giving him the cold shoulder, but some naive part of him hopes Jeanne will warm up to him again and love him even though he doesn't deserve it.

So he leaves the office early, gets into his car, and drives to the park where she said she'll be. And he knows she'll be there, because she wouldn't lie to him despite everything he's done to her. It's one of the many reasons he loves her, and always will.

When the car pulls in, she knows it's him. She has long since memorized his car and his style of parking. So when he gets out she's not surprised, what surprises her is that he came. She expected him to be too afraid to come. But deep down, she knows he is anything but a coward even if she won't readily admit it. She loves him for that among other things, and seeing him walk to her...it's everything she can do not to run to him to kiss him. She stays seated on the bench, meeting him with a cool, even look when he arrives.

"Why did you lie, Tony?" She needs to know. Didn't she mean enough to him? Obviously not as much as he to her, otherwise he would never have lied. "After all this time, could't you at least trust me? Or was what we had just a part of your job?" She doesn't believe it for a second, but it's easier to deal with than the truth that he did love her and still lied to her. She thinks.

"I liked because it was my job, not because I didn't trust you. I couldn't risk you telling your father, or..." What? She wants to ask, but she won't. She is too afraid of the answer.

"You just had so little faith that I wouldn't let you investigate because he's my father, isn't that it? Anyone who knows me knows I value the truth more than anything." That last bit is a fact, as well as a jab at him. He takes it in silence, not letting how much it hurts show. But she knows because she knows the man behind the mask,

"I know you do, Jeanne, but..." He sighs, a sigh of defeat. He's decided to stop fighting something, what it is she doesn't know. "I couldn't risk you being angry." Tears begin falling, both of anger and love. She loves that he didn't want to lose her, but she's angry because he was so selfish. But she knows and accepts that part of him, too.

"So this was the best way of me finding out?" She asks incredulously, knowing he never meant for this to happen. He never meant for her to get hurt. But what else could he expect when he'd been lying to her from the day they first met?

"I wanted you to know, I did, but only when I knew you weren't going to hate me. Or leave me." He has that fear because of his father, and she hates his father for it. But she can't hate Tony for it, no matter how much it hurts. "But I guess it's too late now." He's giving up on her, on everything they had. But she won't. No, she's going to tell him he's forgiven and that she loves him- "Goodbye Jeanne." He's gone before she can recover her wits. Gone. Gone forever. Just like her father. But to be honest, she'd much rather have Tony.

She came for the truth, instead she got a broken heart and shattered dreams of rekindling what they had. She wishes she'd told him how she felt before she'd gotten angry. Then he might still be here and she might not be sobbing over letting him leave. She may have fallen in love with Tony DiNardo, but she loves Tony DiNozzo so much more. If only he knew.

But he loves her just as much.

Two days after, she gets a message that sounds to her ears more beautiful than all the angel choirs of Heaven. "It's Tony. I'll be at your favorite coffee shop every day of this week from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. if you want to...talk." She does. She wants to tell him everything, the truth of how she feels. It's kind of ironic really, truth tore them apart but hopefully, it can reunite them.

She goes to the coffee shop, and when she sees him, she kisses him with all her passion, the simple action conveying much more than her words or even Shakespeare's could ever convey. It tells him she loves him and forgives him. He kisses her with an equal amount of passion, and all their past embitterments and heartaches vanish. They have a new start, and they're going to fight for each other with all they have.

Author's Note: I can live with this rewrite. Can y'all? Hopefully so. :)

Thanks for reading! :)