Just a little something I had in my writing folder. I adore these two together they make the perfect ying/yang. I hope you like it. It is pure fluff.
"I'm sorry Tony were full," Alice tells him as he walks into the small lobby of a favorite restaurant.
"That's Okay I understand." He sighs softly turning to leave the small family run joint.
Seeing him turn around Karen the owner calls out to him. "Tony, Tony. You come with me, you can share with Penny she won't mind. She has shared a table before."
"Mom, can't you leave well enough alone. No more matchmaking." Alice groans.
"I'm not matchmaking trust me here." She leads the way to a table on the other side of the room
Tony takes in the woman sitting there alone, blonde, glasses, curvy. Completely ignoring everything and everyone in the room as she gazes out the window looking at the setting sun.
"Penny would you mind sharing your table tonight, this is Tony he is a friend of mine."
"I don't mind Karen."
"It's nice to meet you." She says as she offers her hand to him She looks at him with big brown eyes, and with a smile on just this side of innocent.
"Nice to meet you too, Thank you for sharing the table." He tells her as he unbuttons his suit jacket and sits down.
"Not a problem. So do you like being an agent?"
"How did you know?" He asks her suspiciously.
"You're too old to be an intern, you look too smart to be a staffer and you don't come off slimy enough to be a lobbyist."
"Okay, that still doesn't explain how you know." He says just as her cell starts to ring. He watches her talk on the cell her lips painted a deep red. He feels his pants tighten as she sticks out the tip of her tongue to tap her top lip as she listens only to quickly bite her lower lip all in a matter of seconds.
He waits for her to finish her short conversation. She looks up at him and smiles. "Sorry work calls I have to go. It's a good thing that I haven't ordered yet." she stands and leaves a five dollar bill on the table to cover the cost of her coffee and tip.
"Penny, please answer me?"
"It's Penelope, only Karen and children call me Penny. I saw your sidearm when you sat down. You're not in uniform so your not a local cop, but then maybe a detective but I took a guess and said, agent. And from your reaction I guessed right."
"I really would like to see you again. Let me take you to dinner, you intrigue me."
"Anytime just let me know." she says then starts to walk away.
" So how do I find you?"
"You're the agent, you'll figure it out." She answers with a laugh continuing on her way.
He eats his meal and bides his time. Smiling he knows who to ask, Karen she will start him on the right path to her identity.
Weeks pass the longer it takes the more frustrated he is becoming. It was her laugh earthy and dirty all mixed in together. He has to find her, he tried Karen and her daughter Alice neither one of them would tell him anything about Penelope.
Early Friday morning Gibbs storms into the bullpen in a foul mood. "Grab your gear. McGee get your laptop too."
"On it Boss."
"Where is the body?" Gibbs.
There isn't a body Ziva we are going on a field trip to the BAU."
"The profilers Boss?"
"One and the same DiNozzo, we are going to play nice inter-agency meetings for the best units. Ours is the first meetings if they go well then other agencies will be invited to join it."
"A waste of time if you ask me." Ziva states.
"This unit, the main team has a closure rate that equals our own. Ziva, Over ninety percent." Tony shot back.
"How do you know this?" Ziva cocks an eyebrow at Tony as she collects her gear.
"Basketball team I belong to, some of the players work for the FBI."
"I wish to join this basketball team. Networking I think it is called, is good for my career."
"You can't."
"I do not like this. I think I will file a complaint so that you will have to let me join."
"Won't do you any good. We play at a private house, we are not a club, just a group of friends that get together for pick-up games." Tony tells her chuckling as he grabs his gear and coat.
They walk into the unit stopping on the catwalk and look down into the bullpen. "Agent Gibbs." A voice calls out firmly as a man walks closer. "I'm SSA Hotchner. If you'll follow me please."
Hotch leads them to a large comfortable room, they can see a large white board, a plasma screen, and a coffee machine along with a pot of hot water. Gibbs sighs when he sees the coffee thinking maybe it won't be so bad after all.
Upon entering the room Gibbs counts five other agents some standing some sitting each one of them holding a full cup.
Hotch wastes no time introducing everyone as does Gibbs. Once the introductions are out of the way he starts to go to the coffee machine.
Ziva walks closer to Morgan and Reid shaking hands with each of them. "Do you also play basketball with DiNozzo?"
"I don't," Reid tells her firmly.
"Football is more my game. Why do you ask?" Morgan asks her.
"It is not important." she says dismissively before she moves on to the women.
Hearing the click clack of heels hitting the tile floor at a rapid pace. Gibbs sees the profilers smile as the sound gets closer.
"Be a love would you, hold this for me please?." Gibbs watches as a woman with blond hair, dressed in a something that would never go over well at NCIS, too bright and loud, hand something to Tony then lean on him to fix the strap of her very high heels.
"Thank you Agent DiNozzo, sorry I'm late I went back for some tea bags. I'm afraid I took the last one." She tells him as she takes her laptop back.
"You! I've been looking for you for months. You told Karen and Alice not to help me." Tony tells her after she is steady on her feet looking at him with a radiant smile.
"Really? You must not have tried very hard. I knew all about you before I even left the parking lot. Down to, and including, the last two movies you bought for your collection."
"How did you...?"
Tony smiles and watches as she introduces herself to Gibbs and the rest of the NCIS team.
"You are not armed like the rest of your team members, why?" Ziva asks her as if it is unheard of.
"I am not an agent and I rarely go out in the field. I don't believe in guns Agent David." Penelope answers her calmly.
"There are weapons all around you, how can you not believe in them, are you a coward?"
Seeing the look on the faces of his team Hotch stands clears his throat. "Let's start," he orders before anyone says anything that they shouldn't.
"I have one question?" Gibbs asks as he glares at Penelope.
"What is it, Gibbs?" Rossi asks.
"Your analyst.. ." Gibbs starts to say
"How did she know who you all are?"
"Yes."
"There is very little that Penelope can't find out if she has a mind too. Because of the job that we all have and the unsubs that we deal with, she arms us with as much information as she can find. There is very little that she can't find." Reid explains to the team from NCIS.
The two teams worked steadily through the day and the pleasant conversation of their shared lunch. Breaking up into two smaller groups the bosses one and the rest team members in the other. Tony couldn't wait for the day to end he wanted, no he needed, to get Penelope alone. Just watching her interact with everyone made him realize just how different and appealing she is from other women.
The meeting ended with an open offer to help with profiles whenever they needed the extra help. Gibbs offered his team as well if ever they needed help on a Marine or Naval base. Seeing Tony stay and talk to the analyst Gibbs shakes his head. "DiNozzo." He calls out.
"On your six, Boss." Tony quickly replies as he walks away, determined to return to see her again even if it takes days.
Once they were back at NCIS, Gibbs looks at McGee. "Well, McGee what did you find out, in your hacking of Garcia's laptop?"
"Well, Boss..." Tim starts to say.
"Spit it out, McGee."
"I couldn't get in Boss. I was blocked every single time I tried. "
"What else, you're holding back."
"She hacked back I couldn't stop her. She left a picture on my laptop that I can't get rid of, I also have a virus that makes a bow and arrow anytime I try and type anything."
Gibbs just glares and waits for him to continue.
"It's a, well Boss... A tombstone with engraving."
"
What does it say, McGee?" Ziva asks.
"Here lies Elf Lord. Killed in twenty keystrokes by the Goddess."
A laugh from Tony, a soft chuckle from Ziva and a smile from Gibbs is the reaction all lasting just seconds. Before Gibbs yells at them to finish what ever paperwork they had started that morning.
"Boss, come on it's Friday. We've been in a meeting all day."
"DiNozzo. She's not going anywhere. Check your jacket pocket."
Tony removes a card from his pocket and smiles as he reads. Bring red wine, dinner is at eight. Along with an address and cell number.
"Tony. If you hurt her I have it on good authority that Morgan will kill you, that is if JJ doesn't put a bullet in your head. That's what she did to the man that shot her and almost killed her."
"Is that why she does not believe in guns?" Ziva asks.
"Nah, Penelope was raised by hippies in California. She is incredibly smart and extremely dangerous. She is on a watch list, from what Hotchner and Rossi told me she is one of less than eight people in the world that can do what she does.
"She is not your usual type Tony." Ziva states bluntly.
"She intrigues me, there is something about her that I find mysterious leaving me wanting more."
"Get out of here all of you. DiNozzo asks her to please remove the virus so McGee can work."
He doesn't have to wait long for her to answer the door after he knocks. She steps to one side as he enters her small apartment. Somehow it fits her, the whole colorfulness of it.
"I brought you wine and a daisy." He says as he pulls the single daisy from behind his back."
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Don't you Tony?"
He doesn't say a word. Instead, he takes one step forward and brings her into his arms, and kisses her.
A/N: A quote from a favorite movie of mine. Casa Blanca "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."