Zee first met Anthony Dinozzo when she was on holiday in New York

A/N: welcome to The Coffee Shop Chronicles. It is my great pride to offer them to you lol. Anyway, just a series of drabble-esque pieces that I decided I ought to write and post. They use my OC 'Zee' from 'Of Coffee, Love and Free Muffins'. All team members will be involved, but Tony is the catalyst for them all being introduced to Zee (with the exception of Kate and Ziva, but you'll understand that when you read). Hope you enjoy.

Warnings: none, I don't think…

Disclaimer: nothing is mine. Unfortunately.


Zee first met Anthony Dinozzo when she was on holiday in New York. She'd been sat on a bench in Central Park reading a book – The Golden Torc by Julian May – when he'd slumped down beside her. They'd gotten talking about the Saga of the Exiles, books that they both loved.

They'd stayed in touch after she'd gone back to Washington, meeting up whenever they could. She'd been his best friend and confidant when things got bad. He'd been her best friend and protector through several bad relationships. But they were never lovers – although many thought that was the logical progression of their relationship, especially Zee's parents. They both knew that they were just to similar for it to work out between them.


Zee first met Abigail Sciuto when Tony was giving her a lift home, not long after he'd started working at NCIS. It was her birthday and she was working the late shift at the family coffee shop just to get the chance to see him. Tony had brought Abby in – citing the best muffins and donuts around – just to give her the present he'd bought for her. The goth had instantly taken to the spunky waitress – better than she'd taken to Tony.

It was Zee's biggest claim to fame that she'd been the one who succeeded in instigating Tony and Abby's inseparable friendship. It also started their weekly Friday night movie marathon. Every Friday they'd get together and watch and criticize their favourite movies for several hours before they fell asleep curled up on the couch together.


Zee first met Doctor Donald Mallard the first time Tony had been severely injured while working at NCIS. She was down as his emergency contact and next of kin so she'd had to sign multiple forms. Ducky had been attempting to get news on Tony's condition. He'd ended up consoling her while she'd worried that she might be about to lose her best friend.

Ducky had done his best to assure her that he'd be fine, pulling on what little he had known about Tony at that time. She'd ended up crying on the kindly old ME's shoulder babbling on about how she couldn't lose him after everything he'd done for her. Ducky was the first person to peg them as having a brother-sister relationship straight off.


Zee first met Leroy Jethro Gibbs around the same time. Or rather, after Gibbs caught the guy who's shot Tony. Much to her eternal embarrassment, she'd slapped him after he'd rather callously demanded who the hell she was and what the hell she was doing sitting in his Senior Field Agent's room. Already tense, upset and worried, the harsh questions had inflames her infamous temper.

IN the end, they'd made their peace, sat on either side of Tony's hospital bed as they waited for the man both of them had become inordinately attached to, to wake up. Neither could explain why they liked Tony so much, they just knew that they both held him dear in their hearts. That night, Tony had two guardian angels watching over him as he rested.


Zee first met Caitlin Todd shortly after Gibbs had hired the girl on the spot. She'd come in to grab coffee for herself, Tony and Gibbs. Zee recognized the orders for Gibbs and Tony instantly – she'd been giving it to one of them for over a year. As always, she put the team's breakfast beside the coffees. Kate had frowned in confusion – she'd only ordered the coffees.

Zee laughed and explained that she was basically the supplier of NCIS' number one team's coffee and breakfast and so knew their order off by heart and always sent them breakfast. Kate had been surprised but took it gracefully and accepted the complimentary 'Welcome to NCIS' muffin with a grin.

Zee first met Timothy McGee when she'd arranged to meet Abby for lunch and the forensic genius had dragged the new agent along. It had amused Zee how nervous the geek was around her to begin with, but it quickly got tiresome. So, she'd started an animated discussion about Guild Wars with Abby and that had drawn him out of his shell.

Zee knew the time, but appeared to be the only one aware of it's passage as they debated the pros and cons of each of the professions as a primary or secondary. They were in the middle of a huge argument about whether ritualists were any good – Zee said yes, Tim said no, Abby wasn't sure – when Abby and Tim realised that they were late for getting back.


Zee first met Ziva David when she'd been visiting NCIS to drop off coffee, muggings and donuts. Comfort food for her still grieving friends. Everyone – even Ducky – had tucked in, knowing full well that it was Zee's way of conveying her condolences and dealing with her own grief. Except Ziva David. She looked at the high sugar foods, frowned and then politely declined anything. Zee decided in that instant that she disliked the Mossad liaison agent with a passion.

Everyone in the bullpen except the woman in question noticed Zee's dislike for Ziva. She wasn't the kind of person who openly declared dislike, instead she hid it well and offered sly insults cloaked as compliments. Her victims never knew she disliked them. She was good like that, she could hide her true feelings about someone and let them think that she liked them.


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