A/N: Wow, it's been a while, but here goes... Short TIVA, because sometimes it's really just what you need. After more than a year not writing, I had to put pen to paper (or fingers to keys, as it were) because the song Breathe, by Faith Hill would just not go away, and I imagined a time in the distant (very distant) future where Tony and Ziva have found a way (some way, any way) to resolve their differences and put their past behind them, wishful thinking really will get you a long way...
I can feel the magic floating in the air
Being with you gets me that way
She opens her eyes, just on the cusp of consciousness. It's her favourite time of day. The brink of dawn. The fleeting moment in time before the daylight awakens the world and steals away the magical spell cast and left behind by the night.
I watch the sunlight dance across your face
And I've never been this swept away
The weak early morning sunlight filters through a crack in the drapes, dancing across his handsome features. Illuminating and surrounding him in a halo of light. A transitory moment in time, and she's swept away by its simple perfection.
All my thoughts just seem to settle on the breeze
When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms
The whole world just fades away
The only thing I hear
Is the beating of your heart
A calming breeze floats through the open window and flutters gently across her face, and she closes her eyes and the whole world just seems to fade away. It's just them, wrapped up in each other, their steady breathing and the beating of his heart, the soothing sounds that permeate through the quiet morning air.
'Cause I can feel you breathe
It's washing over me
And suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove
Baby, all we need is just to be
Caught up in the touch
Slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's suppose to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe
Her cheek rests softly on his chest whilst her fingers trace feather light patterns over his skin. His breath tickles the top of her head and she sighs deeper into him, their bodies melting together, and they just fit, the way it's supposed to be.
In a way I know my heart is waking up
As all the walls come tumbling down
Closer than I've ever felt before
And I know, and you know
There's no need for words right now
She'd trusted him with a piece of her heart, and he guarded it with his life. The walls had tumbled down, her heart had woken, and she felt, perhaps for the first time, the beauty of love. He stirred in her arms, his eyes fluttering open and finding her in an instant. He smiled sleepily at her, a smile that still roused the butterflies in her stomach. He kissed the crown of her head, and he didn't need to speak for her to know he felt.
Cause I can feel you breathe
It's washing over me
And suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove
Baby, all we need is just to be
Caught up in the touch
Slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's suppose to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe
They lay together, enveloped in sleep crinkled sheets and wrapped in one and others arms. It was all they really needed.
Caught up in the touch
Slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's suppose to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe
I can feel the magic floating in the air
Being with you gets me that way...
His breathing evened out and she knew, just because she did, that he'd fallen asleep again. The dawn sunlight continued to stream in through the window, showcasing the dust motes that hung suspended like magic in the air.