Tony and Ziva: Fifty Things
Since I got such excellent feedback from my other two Fifty Things, I shall now attempt to do the original NCIS favorite pairing justice. Fifty things about Tony and Ziva. Here we go!
Disclaimer: Please, if I owned NCIS, the Tiva would have begun ages ago.
#1 - Banter
Their back-and-forth sometimes seemed to lean more to the flirtatious side of the scale, but people knew well enough not to bother asking if they were sleeping together.
#2 - Pillow
"If you're sleeping over, that thing goes in the dresser drawer, not under your pillow," he said firmly, pointing to her gun.
#3 - Books
Contrary to popular belief, not everything he quoted came from the movies. People just knew movies better than the books they were based on.
#4 - Coincidence
Gibbs might believe that there's no such thing, but Tony can honestly say there's only one time he disagreed with Rule 39.
#5 - Ninja
It became her unofficial nickname with him, and the day someone else said was the last day anybody else ever did.
#6 - Whammy
"Holy Mother of God," he breathed when he walked into Abby's lab and got hit with a sight he'd never expected to see.
#7 - Baltimore
He was a little rattled after the case with his ex-partner's death. So when he stopped by her place after work, she let him tell her everything.
#8 - Desks
Gibbs sometimes wondered why he ever let them sit across from one another - and why his chair always faced them.
#9 - Carnival
When she told him she'd never been to one, Tony took it upon himself to take her to every stand and on every ride that night.
#10 - Playboy
He flirted with women for a lot of reasons - information, distraction, even for fun - but he tried not to flirt with her for fear of actually falling farther than before.
#11 - DVD
Ziva's eyes widened at the sight of his home entertainment center. "Tony, you have a serious addiction."
#12 - iPod
When her music blared loud enough to be heard across the bullpen, he had to find a way to get her to turn it down without losing a finger.
#13 - Father
They didn't have the best role models growing up, and they turned out just like those men. But maybe they had to, in order to meet each other.
#14 - Playtime
Tony had to drag her away from the office after the day they had. She needed to goof off.
#15 - Paperclip
She'd threatened him before, but he hadn't believed her - until now.
#16 - Dragon
Usually princesses wanted to be rescued by a gallant knight. But she'd be the one who took the sword from the knight and say, "Do not worry, I can handle this."
#17 - Silence
He'd followed Rule 4 faithfully, telling not a soul about his assignment with Jeanne. After a week of being ignored, he'd wished he'd told Ziva after all.
#18 - Chocolate
Even though she's not like other women, he still knew how to make her smile.
#19 - David
The name sounded infinitely more sexy when she had to correct the suspect who said it wrong.
#20 - Ringtone
After she figured out her Blackberry, the first thing she did was experiment with the different alerts for her contacts.
#21 - Notes
He started leaving sticky notes on her desk whenever she had a bad day.
#22 - Hair
He'd seen women with several different hairstyles, gelled and moussed and sprayed within inches of its follicles, but none of them looked so luxurious like hers did au naturale.
#23 - Probie
"I say it with love," he'd said, and for a moment, she thought he meant it.
#24 - Memory
She still couldn't believe, after all this time, that he remembered the first thing she'd ever said to him.
#25 - Kate
They were really something else, she thought with a smirk as she followed the agents for a special day.
#26 - Description
It hadn't been clear, but she always thought he'd been describing her during that case with the Hutton siblings.
#27 - Intrusion
Tony had long ago given up any semblence of privacy afforded by going to the bathroom.
#28 - Connection
They had something special, Gibbs thought. Something he had with Jenny, once upon a time.
#29 - Innocence
She didn't have much left because of her past, but he tried to keep whatever remained so that she didn't lose herself.
#30 - App
He should have never gotten her addicted to Angry Birds.
#31 - Angel
His boyish smile always made her heart flutter, especially when something he said sounded a little too real.
#32 - Devil
She had a sweet face and a smile that angels would fall for, but Tony knew that beneath that exterior slept a legion of demons that she barely kept contained.
#33 - Voice
The sound of her singing stopped him cold. Even outside a crowded room, he'd know her dulcet tones anywhere.
#34 - Mistakes
They'd both made choices over the years, however misguided, that had kept them apart for far too long.
#35 - Mirror
Whenever a case involves the team taking care of a kid, it's noticed that the kid sometimes turns out to be a miniature version of one of them.
#36 - Knife
Even without Rule 9, she carried a blade. When she got bored, she cleaned it in the office.
#37 - Flexibility
He'd always known she was a fit and acrobatic woman.
#38 - Skirt
Tony could barely concentrate the day she walked into the office wearing a black number that made her legs look amazing.
#39 - Paris
Tired of the vagueness, McGee decided to investigate the mystery that was their trip to the City of Lights.
#40 - Designer
His suits were always clean-cut and made him look very impressive. A fact Ziva deeply appreciated when she had to cross a crowded room of good-looking wealthy men and act like he was the only one rich enough for her.
#41 - Holiday
When he'd told her Nisiya Tova, for a brief moment, they'd both wished he was coming with her.
#42 - Bikini
Those three photos were the only thing that kept his life as Agent Afloat any type of sane.
#43 - Matchmaker
Abby giggled as she hacked into the elevator controls and triggered the stop function. "If they don't at least kiss in there, I'll owe you twenty bucks," she said to an aghast McGee.
#44 - Soulmates
She had asked, and he'd blown her off. But then he had to think about why she had asked in the first place.
#45 - AIM
He was mildly surprised when he saw the screen name pop up on his screen.
#46 - Gold
Shakespeare had probably meant it when he warned about all that glitters, but she didn't glitter - she shone. So it didn't count.
#47 - Translation
He'd studied long and hard, practiced endlessly, and had to muster a lot of courage before he had the guts (and the accent) to finally tell her, "Ani ohev otach."
#48 - Idioms
They were few and far between these days, but when she tripped up, he was always there to correct her with a smile.
#49 - Snow
D.C. during Snowmageddon was like being locked in an igloo. But at least they weren't alone.
#50 - Partners
For two people who used to shy away from commitment like children from brussel sprouts, they stayed together for far longer than anyone would have ever expected.
So, what do you think? I tried not repeating any of the prompts from the previous ones.
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