Day 1
He helps her home, one arm around his shoulders. "I still don't understand it." she grumbled. "I was doing fine. How could I have sprained my ankle?"
"You slipped in a puddle of the murderer's blood." He tries to give her a cocky grin, but he can still hear the two gunshots that he thought the murderer had fired. But he'd been wrong. It had still scared him to death. She'd been on the ground in a very scary pool of blood. He'd thought it had been hers, until he'd seen the murderer's body, twitching in a corner.
He helps her through the door until she crashes on the couch. "Oh." she says softly, then looks up at him. "Are you hungry?"
A wry smile plays on his lips. "Yeah. What's to eat?"
"There's leftover Chinese in the fridge that you could heat up." she responds, swiching on the TV.
He returns fifteen minutes later with the food and they sit down to watch TV together. After a while she switches the TV off. "Thank you, Tony." she says softly. "For bringing me home. And staying there with me, even when you knew there was a large possibility the man had escaped." She bites her lower lip before leaning up to kiss him on the cheek and limping into her room. Before she enters she turns around. "Don't forget your key." She points to the dresser and leaves, the door closing only a crack.
He stands there like an idiot as she showers and gets ready for bed. The moment he hears her soft snores he slips into her room and sits on the end of her bed, simply watching her.
Ziva knows he is there. She hadn't been asleep after all, but quickly drifted off once she realised he was watching her.
She has a nightmare, a terrifying dream where she wakes up in a sweat. Saleem had returned and was killing Tony, right in front of her. Knife wounds all over his body, and Saleem finally drove the knife straight through his heart. She could not move to stop him. She could not turn away but was forced to watch as the life bled out of Tony.
She woke up just after he took his last breath.
Tony sees the terror that overtook her in her sleep get squashed as she realises that it was all a dream. She crawls right down the bed and into Tony's waiting arms. He knows the tears are running down her face- so unlike Ziva- and knows it had to have been bad. He presses his lips to the top of her head as she slowly falls back to sleep. He gently puts her back in bed and remains at the end for the rest of the night.
He realises that he's got to figure out how to break Rule 12- and fast.
I know it's really short. Hopefully the next few chapters will be longer!