Disclaimer: I don't own any of NCIS, the characters, the plot or Major MassSpec. If I did, Tiva would have happened a while ago...

Author's Note: I wrote this in a few minutes after watching the beginning of the episode. I wanted to get this down before I watched the rest of it, but I'll watch it now. (I apologize if it doesn't match up, but I'm hoping that it won't matter too much.)

Dedications: To all the other fans who are still rooting for these two to get together.

Enjoy.


I hate lying to Tony.

I lied when he asked me what I was thinking about. Yes, I was thinking about him. But I'm not thinking about anything else. I should be, but when I think of Tony it gets very difficult to think of anything else. It always has been.

I've been thinking of Tony a lot recently. His smile. His laugh. The faces he pulls when he's trying to concentrate. The faces he pulls when he isn't. His jokes. I enjoy them, even the bad ones. But I cannot tell him that.

There are a lot of things I cannot tell him, like how much he means to me, or that hearing from him a few moments ago made me smile.

I tell him I'm thinking of him. I shouldn't have. I try to change the subject. Of course he doesn't bite, he is Tony.

I had to end the conversation before I said anything else.

There are a lot of things that I cannot tell him. There are even more that I want to. For now, when he asks me if I would like some company, I say this:

"Yes. :-)"

I hope he gets the message.


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