CHAPTER 1:

It was a dark rainy day; Ziva David was running around the track of the college where she attended. She kept running until she suddenly slipped; doing a couple of summer salts and finally landed on her back.

"Are you okay?" A voice said from behind her.

"No, I think I twisted my ankle." Ziva said as she looked up to see a man, about the same age as her; she had seen him around before.

"Okay, let me help you." He said as Ziva put one of her arms around his shoulders.

"By the way, I'm Ziva." She added as she limped down the hallway and sat on a chair outside of the nurse's office.

'I'm Tony… Tony DiNozzo." He replied as she nurse came out and looked at her foot.

Over the next couple of years they had become best friends, Ziva was smart, funny and they were there for each other until that dreadful day. That dreadful day when Ziva had to move back to Israel with her father. To tony it felt like his heart was being ripped out that day knowing that he would never see her again… or so he thought.

10 years later…

Tony was sitting at his desk thinking back on the day that Ziva left, he missed her so much, so much that he was going to cry.

"Hey Tony! What ya thinking about?" Abby asked as she walked up to him.

He removed his hands from his face and replied as a smile formed on his face, "Oh, I'm just thinking about an old friend."

"An old GIRL friend." Abby asked curiously.

"Ish…" He replied.

"OOOH! Tony has a girlfriend!" Abby chanted as she jumped around the room. Tony grabbed her lab coat and pulled her down to his eye level.

"She is NOT my girlfriend!" Tony hissed.

"Whoa! Calm down dude!" McGee said as he sat down at his desk.

"Does anyone have the time?" Tony asked nervously.

"Yeah, it is 5:05… why?" McGee responded.

"I have to make a call." Tony said as he got up and walked outside.

Ziva was balancing her gym bag, purse and laptop while trying to look for her keys when her cell phone rang.

"Shit!" she mumbled to herself as she found her phone and answered it.

"David."

"Hey Ziv, just making sure you got home alright." Tony said as she sat down on a bench outside of the NCIS building.

"A-Ha!" Ziva exclaimed as she found her keys. She could hear Tony laughing on the other line.

"What?" she asked as she unlocked the door and finally was able to put her stuff down.

"Oh nothing."

"Yeah sure… oh and Tony did you forget I am a trained Mossad? I can protect myself." Ziva added.

"Okay fine, I just wanted to hear your voice again." Tony admitted as he got up and walked down the side walk going who knows where.

"What are you dong tomorrow?" Ziva asked.

"Working… why?"

"Because I am coming into town tomorrow for business and I am going to spend the day with you." Ziva said sternly.

"Um… do you want me to pick you up from the airport?"

"Nah… you work for NCIS right?"

"Yeah…"

"I will meet you outside of the NCIS building at 8:30 sharp."

"Deal." Tony replied as a smile formed on his face.

"Can't wait! Good night." Ziva quickly added before she hung up.

Tony hung up and stood there for a minute until he decided to go inside. When he got inside he sat at his desk, he put his hands on his forehead: everything was moving so fast it felt like there was nobody but him. He was so happy that he was going to see her again, he couldn't even explain how he felt at that moment but he had to make a bigger decision… How did he feel about her?