A/N Hey guys! So it has been a very long time since I have posted any of my work. This is just a short one shot based on the preview for 11X2. I'm pretty sure my roommate thought I was nuts when I started jumping on my bed at the end of the preview. How can they leave us with that suspense!? Anyway, if you guys are interested I will continue this story. Mostly this is just to tie us over until next week. If you like the story, please review and/or favorite. Also, any mistakes are mine, I wrote this in a hurry and as a sleep deprived college student.

They stood there in the dark, misty night. The jet was roaring beside them. She told him he was loved. All Tony could do was look deep into Ziva's beautiful chocolate eyes. She said he was loved. His heart pounded. He knew what it meant. She couldn't say the real words out loud. Not yet. She wasn't ready. But it was okay. He knew what she meant. She loved him. He could dance right now. Ziva David loves him. His dream had come true. He lowered his head and kissed her. She kissed back. His heart was soaring. She loved him, she kissed back.

Suddenly the jet engine roared louder. Reality hit him hard like a slap to the face. That was his ride back to the States. She was staying in Tel Aviv. The love of his life just told him she loved him and now he had to board a plane and fly away from her. He couldn't let it end like this.

"Ziva," He said pulling back from that heart stopping kiss, "Ziva, I can't lose you. Not now, not ever."

"You will never lose me, Tony. This, us, it will always be." She whispered.

"Come home with me, Zi. Please. I need you. We all need you." His voice was pleading.

"Tony," She looked down to where their chests were still pushed together. She glanced up timidly, "Tony, I can't. I can't be an agent anymore. Chasing demons only to have them replaced by worse ones, I can't handle that anymore. I am broken, Tony. I can't go back to that."

"Oh, sweetheart, you don't have to be an agent anymore. You don't have to come back to NCIS. Just come home. Come back with me, to your family; our family. Abby, McGee, Gibbs, Ducky, Vance, Palmer and Breena, we all love you." He was begging at this point.

"You love me?" She looked in his eyes so hopeful.

"More than I've ever loved anyone, or anything." She looked around his face for any hint that he was lying. For any shred of evidence that she should run away, back into Tel Aviv never to return to America. She found nothing. Nothing but love; love for her.

"I've already canceled my contract in my apartment. The movers are going tomorrow to pack it up and send it all here. I would have no place to live and-"He cut her off.

"Move in with me."

"What?" She stared at him like he had grown 12 heads.

"Look, I know we haven't even classified what it is that we have going here, but we both know that whatever it is, we're both in it for the long haul. I love you, Ziva David. I have for so many years. It might seem like a big step way too fast, but if you look at the whole picture, it's been far too slow. I can't imagine my life without you. I want you to come home." His voice was gentle, caring. He wasn't pushing, not even begging anymore, just loving. She looked up at him for several seconds. He stared back, searching for some clue what she was thinking. All of a sudden her lips curved into a smile,

"Okay." He grinned.

"Okay? You'll move in with me?!"

She chuckled and nodded. He wrapped his arms around her, picked her up, and spun her around. As he sat her down he captured her lips in his. He could feel her smile into him and that made his heart pound harder.

"I love you, Zi"

"I love you too, my little hairy butt."

End

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