Title: Social Networking
Rating: K+
Summary: A little piece inspired by the episode, "Bounce." TIVA cuteness.

A/N: I loved this episode, and I just had to write this! Enjoy! :)

He was in a petulant mood. She could feel it, and she knew she wasn't going to get a moment's peace until she figured out why.

"You're sulking, Tony."

"You never told me you were on Facebook," he said, trying to sound blasé and failing miserably.

"What?"

"Facebook," he repeated. "Mitch Wilkins told me that you're on it. Why didn't you add me as your friend?"

She stared at him, perplexed. "Why would I need to add you, Tony? I see you every day."

"So?"

"I only use Facebook for updates on people I don't see very often. You and I are together all the time."

"You added Mitch."

"Because I hardly ever see Mitch."

"He said he's been over to your house!"

"Just one time, two years ago!"

"Well, why was he asking about you and trying to make it sound like you two were such good friends?"

She threw her hands up in exasperation. "We're not good friends! I barely know him."

"That's not what he said."

"He told you this when you were questioning him? Tony, he was trying to distract you from the case!"

"Well, it worked," he muttered.

"Are you jealous of Mitch?"

"No! … Maybe just a little..."

"Well, you shouldn't be. He's going to be spending the rest of his life in prison."

He brightened. "Oh, yeah. I guess that means he won't be poking you."

"Excuse me?"

"On Facebook," he clarified.

"I think he has bigger problems to worry about," she said dryly.

For some reason, misfortune often befell the men who were interested in Ziva. First Roy Sanders, then Agent Brent Langer, and now Mitch Wilkins. Tony didn't know why, but he was glad that he had less competition.

Another thought suddenly occurred to him.

"Did you add Gibbs?" he demanded.

"I don't think Gibbs knows what Facebook is."

"What about McGee?"

"No, I also see him every day. And I definitely don't want to chat with him online – especially not after what happened with you."

She had a good point, he had to admit. Pretending to be a level 5 sorceress had only convinced McGee that he had found his soulmate, and it had turned out to be a lot less funny than Tony had thought it would be.

"And Abby? Ducky? Palmer?"

"No, no, and no. I see all of them every day, too."

"Okay." He seemed satisfied with that. "I thought it might be like the dinner party…"

Now they were getting somewhere. She should have realized what this was all about. He was sensitive about being excluded from her life, and had been ever since she had invited everyone but him to her house for that dinner party.

She sighed. "If it means that much to you, I will add you… but only if you promise not to post any embarrassing pictures of me."

"But you looked so good in that bikini…" He waggled his eyebrows at her.

She glared at him.

"Okay, okay. No bikini photos."

"I specifically remember telling McGee to destroy those."

"He did. The copies he had, anyway. But the originals were on my camera."

"Tony," she said with a note of warning in her voice.

"Don't worry. I'd rather keep them for myself than share them with everyone on Facebook."

Ziva smiled. She would never admit it, but she secretly felt flattered that he had put up those photos of her on his wall when he had been an Agent Afloat. She had missed him terribly during those months they had spent apart and had kept photos of him as well.

They both knew that she would have made him erase them immediately if she hadn't wanted him to have them.

"Good. Because I would hate to have to post the embarrassing photos I have of you," she told him.

"What? What embarrassing photos?" he asked. "Ziva! Come back!"

But she merely walked away, laughing with delight.

The End!