Just For The Weekend?
"Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo," Tony answered his phone as he sat at his desk in the NCIS squad room.
"Tony!" The woman on the end of the line exclaimed, Tony recognised her thick Italian accent all too well, it was his Aunt Josie. "You no call me no more, I have been very worried about my little Anthony." The way Aunt Josie spoke proved English wasn't her first language.
"Auntie Josie," Tony replied sounding notably less excited than she was, Tony always did all he could to avoid calls from his family, he had de-listed his home number and even changed his mobile number just so he wouldn't have to worry about these kinds of calls. How Josie had gotten a hold of his work number was beyond him, but he didn't have time to worry about that now. "How are you?" he asked her politely hoping like hell she didn't have an ulterior motive for calling him.
"I am good," Josie replied, "but I have been worried for my Tony, you no come visit anymore, all your cousins they have beautiful girlfriends but you? I dunno."
Tony breathed out a sigh of relief, she was just calling to check up on him, he got a call like this every few months since his mother died from a family member, always an older Italian woman, just to check he was still ok. They would ask questions and Tony would give answers, usually lies. Then they would both hang up feeling much better, the relative because they now knew Tony had a beautiful girlfriend and was in line for a promotion at work, and Tony because he knew he wouldn't hear from his family for at least another 6 months.
"Do you have a girlfriend Tony?" Josie asked the usual question and Tony took a deep breath preparing for the usual reply.
"Yes Auntie Josie, I think you'd really like her."
"Tell me about her Tony, what she like?" Josie continued her questioning. This was always the most difficult question, especially if Tony didn't have a current girlfriend, and even if he did usually the girl he was with wouldn't impress his family. He often just described some girl he'd met recently but since Jeanne there hadn't been anyone, he scanned the room hoping an answer would jump out at him, and then his eyes stopped upon Ziva. Tony started to lie….
"Well, she has dark brown hair…."
Ziva entered the bull pen after watching Gibbs in interrogation and sat carefully at her desk. She would have just collapsed onto it but since a recent incident involving Tony and her chair she wasn't going to do that again any time soon. She stretched reaching back over her head and leaning back on her seat, she tried not to make too much noise as Tony was on the phone. He was facing away from his computer looking over the back of the bull pen, obviously looking out for Gibbs. Ziva was pretty sure he hadn't noticed her arrival so she just sat back and waited, listening to Tony describe some amazing brunette woman. A new girlfriend, Ziva thought to herself trying not to feel too disappointed.
The more Tony told Josie about Ziva the easier it became, he didn't know why he hadn't thought of this before, describing someone he knew was so much easier than making someone up. And telling Josie about a woman he actually had feelings for was so much more believable than talking about some random girl he made up. He'd have to remember that for next time.
"She sounds wonderful Tony," Josie was overjoyed to hear about her nephew's new serious girlfriend, "I can not wait to meet this, Ziva." Tony wasn't sure what to say, he knew Josie would never actually meet Ziva, and it would be wrong to get her hopes up too much. Well what the hell? He thought to himself he'd just spent the last 20 minutes convincing his Aunt that his partner was his girlfriend one more lie couldn't hurt.
"Oh I'm sure you'll love her Josie." Whether this was true or not it didn't matter, Tony wasn't planning on seeing his family again anytime soon, why not let them think he was happy? Plus he'd never admit it but he'd liked talking about Ziva, it made him happy to pretend she felt the same way as him, even if it was only for a 20 minute phone conversation.
Tony got back to his apartment just in time for Magnum PI. It was the first time in ages he'd been home in time to watch it so tonight he wasn't going to move from the couch. He'd bought a pizza on his way home and it was now open on the coffee table in front of him, he grabbed the first slice of his pepperoni and sausage pizza with extra cheese as the start credits began. But before he could even get the slice into his mouth his phone rang, did no-one respect the sanctity of Magnum? Placing his pizza back in the box Tony grabbed the phone.
"DiNozzo," he answered the phone, he didn't sound very friendly but he didn't care, they had interrupted Magnum they could pay the price.
"Hey Tony, you spoke to Mum today then?" It was his cousin Dominic, Tony never spoke to his family but this was his second call today, he was starting to get a little suspicious.
"Hey Dom, yeah she called me at work, you wouldn't know how she got my number would…" but before he could finish Dominic cut him off.
"You got her all excited 'bout this girl of yours, Zira?"
"Ziva," Tony corrected him without even thinking about it.
"Yeah, well thought I better call and tell you to bring her along next weekend."
"Next weekend?" Tony instantly became worried.
"Yeah next weekend," Dominic said slowly as if what he'd said had been completely obvious, when Tony didn't respond he elaborated, "my wedding Tony."
Oh crap. Tony thought to himself, Dominic's wedding, he'd promised he'd go months ago, He never went to family functions but he'd been so close to Dominic as a kid he decided he could deal with his family for one weekend. All his cousins would bring dates and he just figured he'd do the same thing but now everyone thought he had a serious girlfriend, and it wasn't just that, they all thought his serious girlfriend was Ziva.
"Right, the wedding." Tony said as if he'd known about it the entire time, "look Dom I haven't been able to get accommodation so it looks like I can't get there." It was the best excuse he could think of as he sat there on the phone.
"Don't worry about that, there's plenty of room for the both of you at the house." Dominic said sounding rather pleased with himself, "You can have your old room and everything. Can't wait to meet this girl, you with a serious girlfriend, who'd have thought?"
"Ha right…" Tony started not knowing what to say. He was just digging himself a deeper hole he had to get off the phone. "Yeah, Dom I got to go Magnums on I'll see you next weekend."
"You still watch that stuff?" Dominic said with a laugh, "well I'll see ya then."
Tony was kicking himself as he hung up the phone, what had he gotten himself into?
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