"Dinozzo, Take Ziva and come down to Abby's lab she needs your help"
"On it boss". Tony says before hanging up his phone then motioning to his partner " Follow me, Zeeeevah."
"Where are we going and do you have to draw out my name like that?" she asked the exasperation clearly evident in both her posture and voice.
"I do it because I care, and we're heading to Abby's lab. She needs our help." Tony says with a smile, as Ziva rolls her eyes and begins to head towards the elevator.
"Hey guys! Wait!"
Tony and Ziva look back to see the maintenance guy hurriedly trying to reach them.
"Hey Jim, what's up man?" Tony says now fully facing him.
"Gibbs and his meetings are taking a toll on the elevator. I did what I could so whatever you do, don't press the emergency stop button until I can properly sort it out. And tell agent Gibbs the same please" Jims pleas were almost desperate,with cut backs currently being made his crew was short and so he was left to deal with the elevators by himself.
"Will do, Jimbo!" Tony promised.
"Thanks." Jim smiles and walks away
"I thought his name was Jim?" Ziva asked clearly confused by the new title tony had dubbed upon the man.
"Ah, Ziva," Tony says hopelessly "What am I going to do with you?" he finished as he entered the elevator with Ziva in tow.
"That did not answer the question"
The elevator doors jerk closed as it starts its descent rather violently causing both Tony and Ziva to lose their balance, Tony being thrust in a corner and Ziva winding up falling on him. They stayed like that for what felt like forever but was only a minute or so.
"You...Okay?" His breath sounded a bit hitched,possibly from their current situation.
"I'm...Fine." Ziva replied though she sounded a bit out of breath.
Despite a few groans here and there The elevator is silent as it made its descent to their destination,albeit a little slower than normal it's rather.
Not that either tony or ziva actually notice as they continued to stare at each other,Their faces barely three inches apart, Without thought Tony leans his head closer to hers.
"Tony...wha?" Ziva tried with bated breath before being cut off As their lips finally touched.
Any possible resistance or objections faded from her mind, it was like they had entered into their own world their bodies pressed against each other. Tony wraps his arms around her waist trying to pull her even closer to him. She wraps her arms around his neck. They were in bliss. Till reality fully knocked them both back as the elevator started to jerk violently announcing their arrival. Quickly, pulling apart, the elevator noisily opens revealing an impatient Gibbs. Although his expression quickly changed to one of a suspicion as he eyed his two agents both looking, if truth be told, rather guilty.
"Oh, hey boss...umm Jim said to tell you to hold off on your little meetings inside the elevator until he can fix...it" Tony starts looking everywhere but at Gibbs and Ziva. Ziva follows suit as Gibbs start to pin them both down with his biting glare.
"Guys! What's taking so long for you to get in here I really need your help!". Abby all but shouts from inside her lab.
Gibbs slides over a bit to give them room to leave the small cubicle.
"Come on, Ziva" Tony says rather hurriedly as he grabs Ziva's arm and bolts out of the elevator and into Abby's lab. Gibbs rolled his eyes in annoyance and entered into the elevator, he knew what was coming next.
Stepping into Abby's second room, they see Abby with her hands on her hips looking annoyed.
"What took you guys...oh my gosh McGee...oh my...you guys broke rule number 12!"
"What? Why would you think that?" Tony asked flippantly as he tried to put on his best poker face.
"What was that look that you said I had that time, Abs?" McGee asked a smug smile starting to appear on his lips.
"Remove that smile McGee or I will remove it for you." Ziva says nonchalantly, moving over to Abby's table in the center of the room.
McGee hurriedly wiped the smile off his face then quickly he returned to what he had been doing earlier, now fully taking himself out of the conversation.
"No, McGee is right. You have that three little pigs look." Abby says hyped.
"Abby we did not break rule number 12." Ziva says a bit irritated.
"Yet." Abby happily finished for her friend.
"Look, Abby, can we... Look, what did you want?" Tony finally settled on asking,clearly frustrated with the situation or maybe just perhaps feeling like a child being caught with his hand in the cookie draw.
"Fine, but mark my words, this conversation is not over. Now, I need you guys to show me exactly where everything was when you guys arrived at the crime scene. I already have most of it but somehow on its way down here, some of the crime scene sketches got lost."
"Okay." Tony agreed,relieved to have a change of conversation. Both ziva and himself made their way to the plasma screen where Abby had a virtual reconstruction of the crime scene.
A few minutes later:
"Okay, I think that's it" Ziva acknolwedgemd a little too quickly before quickly leaving the room,not wanting to miss his chance tony just as quickly followed behind her.
The only place she thought maybe she would have a chance of escaping him was the bathroom,if there were other agents resent they wouldnt allow him to stay. it just so happend to be her luck that the restroom was completely devoid of her hand through her hair,she let ouf a sigh of irritation. it hadnt taken long for him to arrive and assess that they were indeed he could say anything she cut him off.
"Get out dinozzo"
"No Ziva, about earlier..."
"What about it?"
"You can't deny what was there."
"I am not having this conversation." She rigidly informed him before heading for the exit.
"Oh,no you don't." Tony grunted before going to block her path.
"Tony, move." her eyes seemed to light with a dangerous kind of fire,he could tell she was at her limits now but he wouldnt back down
"No." He responded before taking a step closer to her.
"I'm warning you dinozzo."
"I don't want to live without..." he reached out his hand,lightly he ran his fingers along her cheek.
Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath she looked at him pleadingly. "Tony, stop this"
"No Ziva, what if I told you I loved you?" He asked coming even closer than before.
"Then I would tell you... I would tell you I loved you too but this can not work out between us." She looked up at him, frustrated and begging him with her eyes to stop before he said too much.
"What if I told you I wasn't taking no for an answer?"
"Then I would tell you that is the only answer you are getting."
"And I wouldn't accept it."
"Tony, why are you doing this?"
"I love you Ziva David"
"I... I love you too, Tony, but it is not that simple..."
"Then we'll make it that simple." he gave her a soft reassuring smile.
"How?" Her eyes looked troubled as she gazed up at him.
"Trust me." He responded before fully leaning in and placing a gentle kiss on her lips.
SQUADROOM:
Taking zivas hand in his own Tony leads Ziva into the squad room,his destination gibbs, with her hand firmy in place the stop infront of theri boss' desk
"Boss..." Tony begins.
"This you making it that simple DiNozzo?" Gibbs forcefully pushes back his chair before going around his desk to face Tony, glaring him down as he did so.
Gathering his wit Tony takes one step into his boss' personal space. The whole office stopped moving a as they squared off.
"Yeah boss this is me making it that simple."
Gibbs looks him over intently, before a small tug begun to emerge in a smile.
"Okay." Placing his hands on Tonys face and he gave him a quick pat on the cheek before settling his hands on his shoulder. "Then go ahead"
"What?" Both Tony and Ziva come in shock and disbelief playing across their faces , along with the entire office. Gibbs glanced around the office in that moment as if seeing them for the first time.
"I said go ahead, want me to change my mind? Cause I can." Gibbs relayed to them turning back his attention to Tony and Ziva.
"No boss, thank you." Tony says as brough in ziva for a hug and a kiss on her cheek . Gibbs gently tilts zivas chin up.
"Congratulations Ziver, you deserve to be happy."
"Thank you, Gibbs." Ziva grateful replies with a smile.
Gibbs now deciding to take his leave makes it half way to the elevator before turning around and smacking both Tony and ZIva.
"What was that for?" Both Tony and Ziva asked in unison.
"That's for earlier in the elevator and breaking my rule, I don't want to see it in this office, got it?"
"Yes Gibbs." They both reply.
"Oh and Dinozzo?"
"Yeah boss?"
"Break her , I break you and that's a promise."
"Yes boss."
though his expression had returned to its usual cool expression no one would doubt the light that was playing. Recharting his course back to the elevator in he quietly says to himself.
"One down, two to go."