Episode 6: Tiva- A moment of Weakness.
The Team go out to the bar. Ziva has just lost her father and gets rather drunk to drown her sorrows. Tony ends up taking her home and she asks him to stay. She confesses her love for him and they end up sleeping together.
Chapter 1
Drunk
At NCIS headquarters, the team are getting ready to go out for the happy hour at the local wine bar. It's been 7 years since Kate's death and those who knew her are going out for a drink in her memory. Abby thinks that Kate would have been pleased that she and McGee had made it work, she'd be even more pleased to know that Abby and McGee are expecting a baby. If it's a girl Abby and McGee are going to call her Kate, much to everyone's pleasure.
Unfortunately, it's not just a memorial drink for Kate but for Ziva it is a memorial to her father, who died a few weeks before. They enter the bar in pairs. Abby with McGee, Ducky and Gibbs, Tony and Ziva and Jimmy and Breena, his fiancée. They take their usual seats at the bar. Abby on a bar stool beside Ducky and Breena. Jimmy and McGee stood behind them, arms wrapped around their women. Gibbs, Tony and Ziva sit at the other end of the bar. McGee rests a hand gently on Abby's stomach and her 'barely-there' bump. She smiles at him and lays her hand over his as the baby nudges her. McGee smiles and Ducky places his hand below McGee's and smiles at Abby. She smiles back, gleefully.
Ziva slowly drowns her sorrows in liquor. Tony offers to drive her home an when they reach her apartment she asks him to stay and he accepts but insists on sleeping on the sofa. So, they both sit up with coffee for a while, talking.
"I've been learning Hebrew, Ziva." Tony said as she carried two mugs of coffee over to her sofa.
"You have, Tony?" Ziva asked shocked.
"Yeah, I don't know much yet, Ziva. I've learnt one phrase which seems apt to your situation."
"Oh, what's that?" She asked as she settled herself beside him and handed him a mug.
"Thanks. Aht lo Levad." Ziva smiled at this.
"Very good, Tony. I know. Thank you." Tony smiled too; pleased she was proud of him for a change. Aht lo levad he had found out meant 'you are not alone.'
They continued talking before Ziva said goodnight and wandered off in the direction of her bedroom. Tony settled down on the sofa and waited listening for Ziva's slow breathing. He fell asleep too after several minutes, only to be awoken suddenly to screaming.