A/N: Okay so this chapter is a little longer!! Please Review! Thanks so much!
Tony really had no idea as to where he was heading, he just knew he could not stay in the bullpen with her. Especially since she was asking him to tell her what was wrong. He couldn't tell her that he couldn't concentrate on work because she was filling his thoughts constantly. So he headed down to Abby's lab.
"Hey Abs!" He scuffled into the lab hearing her goth rock blaring from the speakers.
Abby looked up upon hearing him and narrowed her eyes at him. She leaned over and grabbed her remote and silenced the music.
"What's wrong Tony?" Tony knew better than to tell her nothing. Abby could always tell when something was bothering him. Especially when it concerned his super gorgeous crazy Mossad assassin partner. So instead of saying anything he just looked her in the eyes hoping she would understand. "Ziva." She said as more of a statement than a question.
Tony just nodded. "What happened? What did you do now DiNozzo?" she said in a teasing tone.
"Me?! Why do you assume it was something I did?" he asked in disbelief. He couldn't believe she automatically assumed it was something he did.
"Because I know you Tony and I know you tend to overreact! Don't get me wrong, I love you but sometimes you don't have the best judgment. And most of the time it's because you made an inappropriate joke and she took it the wrong way. So what did you do?" She spoke a million words a minute.
"Well your wrong this time. It isn't anything I did. In fact it was her." He crossed his arms as if to make his point clear.
Abby was starting to get frustrated at the fact that he wasn't telling her what happened. "Look DiNozzo either tell me what happened or leave. I have a lot of work to do."
"Geez what's got your panties in a knot?"
Abby narrowed her eyes at him again clearly saying tell me or die. Tony sighed. "Okay so we just left the director's office and Ziva and I were talking about Courtney. And she said some things…"
"What kind of things Tony?"
"She said that I had changed or that she thought I had."
"Uh huh and?"
"I don't know Abs maybe I have changed."
"Changed how, exactly, Tony?" she asked tilting her head to the side listening intently.
"In what I want." He said shifting nervously and looking down at his feet.
"What y…oh like from a girl?" She said thinking she was finally figuring out what he meant.
"Woman. Ziva apparently feels that I need a woman and not a girl." Abby snickered just slightly then caught a glare from Tony.
"Sorry I'm not laughing at you but she's right Tony. You may have been "pretending" with Jeanne but I think you really did have feelings for her and she changed you. You were actually in a committed relationship with her and now your one night stands don't have the same meaning for you…am I correct?" She looked at him waiting for a response.
"It was different with Jeanne. Everything was different. But does that mean that I have to change entirely? Am I really outgrowing sex?" He frowned at that thought.
"I think your outgrowing meaningless sex. But what is that really upset you about what she said? Is it because she said it?" Abby asked raising an eyebrow.
On that note Tony walked out of Abby's lab. Abby watched him go and just laughed.
Meanwhile Upstairs in the bullpen
Ziva just did not understand. She had been going over and over their day together and could not think of where she would have upset him. She knew she should not care so much but it really bothered her that he was upset with her.
She also thought about Courtney and the conversation she had with DiNozzo about her.
"It is very clear what you would like to have against her." Ziva was clearly annoyed at Tony's oogling of Courtney.
"Excuse me?"
"You want to sleep with her." Saying it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I…well, so what if I do?"
Ziva suddenly was very disappointed. But hid it with a sharp laugh "Same old Tony. I thought the new Tony wanted something more…a real relationship."
"I was pretending to be someone else." Clearly becoming agitated with the conversation and her.
"Well, you could've fooled me. I thought you had grown."
Smirking he said "I'm not particularly interested in outgrowing sex."
Exasperated she says "Sure it would be nice Tony, but it would be meaningless, empty; it would be wrong for you." Calming down just a little "She is a pretty girl, but she is just a girl." Staring directly at him trying to convey her point. "The man you are becoming needs a woman, or at least I thought he did." With that she walked away.
That could not have been the reason he was upset could it? She did not think that he would have cared at all about what she thought about that situation.
Courtney seemed like a nice enough girl but she had no confidence in herself and it was rather annoying. All Ziva wanted to do was punch the girl and be done with it. But she thought against it deciding it would not be worth the trouble.
Ziva wondered where Tony could have gone. She was sure he probably went to talk to Ducky or Abby and she thought about going down there but decided that he needed the time to chill down? Was that the right term? It did not matter. Maybe he would talk to her when he was not so angry. Lost in her own thoughts she did hear the elevator ding and see who had just walked into the bullpen until they were standing right in front of her.
The look on her face was one of pure hate.
"What are you doing here?" she scowled.
A/N: What do you think? Who do you think it is? Ideas?
