I don't own NCIS. I wish! Song: Breakeven by The Script
Hearts Refuse To Break Even
Tony straightened his new Armani tie as he casually glanced in the mirror. He decided the colour suited him. "I'll take..." he drifted off. The pretty young assistant smiled, thinking he had caught the alluring scent of her new perfume, "... the tie?"She flirted. "Anything else?"
Tony wasn't listening. He was still caught up. But not with the sexy blonde woman, but the song playing softly in the shopping mall P.A system. Why did it seem familiar? He had never heard it before...
"I'm still alive, but I'm barely breathing. Just praying to a god I don't believe in. Coz I've got time while she got freedom."
Tony's mind flashed to Roy, Michael. The men she loved. Langer, Dunham, Worth. The men she casually flirted with. While he could barely breathe watching their displays of lust, she revelled in it. Yes, she certainly had the freedom.
"Coz when a heart breaks, no it don't break even. While I'm wide awake, no she has no trouble sleeping, coz when a heart breaks no it don't break even."
Flash to Abby's announcement that Rivkin's place stopped overnight in DC. While she was sleeping in his arms, he couldn't even close his eyes, troubled about her choice of men, while she casually flitted about. Yes, he knew that. When a heart breaks, it definitely doesn't break evenly.
"What am I gonna do, when the best part of me was always you? What am I gonna say, when I'm all choked up and you're OK? I'm falling to pieces..."
Yes, in Israel, he was definitely the one choked up. He had plenty to say, but he couldn't make it come all out. If he had said what he felt, she would have come home wrapped in his arms. Or that's how he liked to imagine it.
"Coz when a heart breaks, no it don't break even..." The song faded out.
"Sir? Uh, was their anything else you wanted with that sexy tie, if I do say so myself?" He ignored her last, blatant attempt to catch his attention, thrusting her breasts outwards.
"Um, no thank you, just the tie." He was still in his own world. Yes, Ziva definitely has the smaller part of their broken heart.