Hi, so I took the song lyrics out, thanks to an anonymous review who kindly let me know I actually wasn't allowed to use them. My bad, still getting the hang of all this stuff years later. :) You can find the lyrics by googling You by Keaton Henson – each chapter is based on a verse. NOW on with the summary.
A series of moments – some like the famous bathroom d'n'm's, some sad and burning like a swig of bourbon, some like that particular photograph taken in paris that would look better in black and white – and all shining a little light on the love between our favourite Mossad Liaison and a Very Special Agent. Friendship/Romance because, with these two, it's the same thing. Rated T because (I'm a nervous wreck) things might be developing that way. I'm not sure at the mo.
Set Season 11: Tony leaving Ziva in Israel.
He waited for the morning in her arms.
His heart was finally quiet. No longer the storm of grief raging and railing, screaming for Hell and for mercy in the same breath, promising revenge and eternity in the same moment. It had broken – both heart and storm – grown weary and empty of rain. Left nothing but the lingering scent of lightening and a whispering of sand.
Like her. Wild and electric, yet soothing – like the cotton sheets and wrinkled dreams wrapped around them.
They had given themselves this one night. Just this night until morning. To say goodbye. And he hadn't slept, didn't want to miss a second. Neither had she.
The deep pulse of her heart beneath his cheek, its echo ever-reaching until it found the vibrations of his own, was like poetry and he wished he could hold onto this moment – hold onto her – for the rest of his life.
But the curtains let out a sigh and the morning light slipped through and pooled onto the pillow.
Her shiver was as soft and swift as a moth's wing. He breathed her in, knowing she was doing the same, and told himself to let go. Their lips found the other's and couldn't bear anything more than the briefest of touches lest they refuse to let go.
"Shalom," he murmured against against her lips.
"Goodbye," she whispered.