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A little over 2 hours later, Ziva saw a sign for Disney. "They have signs for Disney this far away from the actual place?" she asked unbelievingly.

"Well, we actually aren't that far away. But, yeah, they probably have signs all over the state," Tony answered. "So, are you excited?"

"Yes. I have always wanted to go to Disney, actually," Ziva said with smile. "And what about you? Are you excited?"

"Of course! Who wouldn't be? It's the Happiest Place on Earth! Where all your dreams can come true! And plus, it'll be nice to see my family again."

"Yeah that will be good," Ziva agreed.

About 15 minutes later, Tony said, "Ok now we're about 10 minutes away, so I need to call Carman and let her know what time we can meet them." Tony handed Ziva his phone. "Here will you look for her number and put it on speaker please."

"Sure," Ziva said taking the phone. She found the number, dialed, and put it on speaker. She held it between them so Tony would be able to hear it well.

"Hello?" came a woman's voice from the other line.

"Hey, Carm, it's me!" Tony said.

"Tony, hey! We've been waiting to hear from you. What took so long?" Carman asked.

"Well, we ran into some traffic and a freak thunderstorm. But we're about 10 minutes away now."

"Alright, well, we've already checked into y'alls room for you. We'll send a kid with your room keys to the lobby when you get here, so just text me when y'all pull into the hotel."

"Ok, will do. And where do you want us to meet you?" Tony asked.

"Well, we're eating at the ESPN Club, so after y'all get settled into the room, just walk on down to the boardwalk and we'll find you."

"Alright. See you then. Bye"

"Bye," Carman said and they both hung up.

Ziva laid the phone down and asked. "Boardwalk?"

"Yeah. It's this hotel that is set like at Atlantic City. You know, with all the games and restaurants all along the boardwalk itself? It's really cool. My favorite hotel." Tony said smiling.

"Sounds nice," Ziva said looking at him.

"It is."

A few minutes later, Tony pulled off onto the exit that he knew took them to one of the entrances. "Ok, Ziva, look," he said as he stopped at what many claimed to be THE longest stop light ever.

"What?" she asked looking up. Then she saw the giant signs with Minnie and Mickey on them. Tony looked over to see her reaction. She was smiling like he hadn't seen her smile in a long time.

"We're here," he said and pressed the gas to turn onto the road into Disney.

When they made it to their hotel and parked, Tony texted Carman to let her know they were there. When he got out of the car to help Ziva with the luggage, he noticed two teenage boys walking towards them.

"Hey guys!" Tony yelled. "Wow, that was fast," he said as they got closer.

"Yeah, well we were already in the parking lot when mom texted us," the boy with darker hair said.

"Hey, guys, this is my friend, Ziva," Tony said after giving them each a hug.

"Hey," Ziva said smiling.

"Hey, I'm Trent," the guy with darker hair said giving Ziva a handshake. "His nephew," he pointed to Tony, "and his better-looking, older brother," he said pointing to the boy with blonde hair next to him.

The other boy rolled his eyes and stuck his hand out to give Ziva a handshake. "I'm Baylor," he said.

"It's nice to meet both of you," Ziva said, accepting the handshake.

"You too," the boys said at the same time.

"So, y'all need some help with your luggage?" Baylor asked.

"Umm," Tony thought and looked at all the luggage they had. "Yeah that'd be great. Thanks."

Everybody grabbed a fair amount of luggage and Trent and Baylor lead Tony and Ziva to their room. Once there, the boys gave Tony the room keys. "Ok. I think that's everything. Thanks guys," Tony said.

"You're welcome," the boys said.

"We'll meet you guys down there in about 15 minutes," Tony said as the boys walked out of the door.

"K!" they both yelled and shut the door behind them.

Once they were gone, Tony turned around and opened his mouth to say something to Ziva, but quickly realized that she wasn't in the room. He looked around for her, and finally found her on the balcony. They had a great view of the boardwalk, so he felt like what time they actually spent in the room, would be spent on the balcony. He stood back and watched her for a minute, thinking about their relationship. They had grown progressively closer over the last year, despite Ziva dating Ray and his little fling with EJ. He hoped that this trip would finally give them the push that they needed to say the things that need saying. His thoughts were interrupted when Ziva spoke.

"Are you going to stand there all day or come and join me out here?" she asked without even turning around.

Tony smiled at the use of her ninja senses and walked out onto the balcony with her. "Great view, huh?" he asked.

"Yes. It is," she agreed.

Just then they heard a young boy yelling. "Hey Jake! Go long!" They both looked down to see Trent getting ready to throw a football over a large group of people. He threw it and out of nowhere, a woman came and caught the ball before anyone else could.

"Boys! What did I tell you about throwing the football when this many people are out here?" she asked.

"Sorry mom," they both said.

"Oh, yup see," Tony said to Ziva. "That would be my family." This earned a laugh from Ziva. "Of course, you know the goofball throwing the football was Trent. The other one was Jake, his brother. And then, like always, Momma Bear Carman comes in and stops the party before anyone does anything that could potentially land them in jail."

Ziva looked at him and laughed. "Wow," she said. After a minute, she continued. "You know, Tony. Trent reminds me a lot like you."

"Yeah, he really is. Baylor, on the other hand, couldn't be more different. Quiet when there are adults around, but as soon as there are no adults in sight, he is just as wild as the rest of them. Trent couldn't care less of who saw him do what," he said laughing a little.

Ziva looked at him and noticed he was deep in thought. She decided to let him be and didn't say anything. She was surprised when Tony finally spoke again. "It's hard to believe they just graduated. I mean, I still remember when they were 10 years old and we would play basketball together," Tony said adding a scoff to the end.

"What?" Ziva asked.

"Well," Tony started. "It's just that the both of them use to always say that when they got older, they wanted to play basketball in college."

"And are they?" Ziva asked.

Tony laughed. "Nope. Trent has a scholarship to play football at the Citadel, and Baylor was recruited to play baseball for the University of South Carolina. Hell of a team, too. Back-to-back national champions." Tony paused and then continued. "It's gonna be hard for them, too. They were never good at being apart from each other. Always wanted to do everything together."

They stood there a few more minutes in silent, just watching anything and anyone that they saw.

"Come on Tony, we should get ready," Ziva said walking back into their hotel room. Their entire hotel room was only one room, but it had a double bed and a pull out couch, along with one bathroom. She grabbed a pair of shorts and a short-sleeve shirt and headed towards the bathroom. When she came out she found Tony sitting on the couch, watching TV. He had changed into a pair of shorts, but was still wearing the same t-shirt.

"Are you ready?" Ziva asked, putting away her dirty clothes.

"Yep," Tony said getting up and heading towards the door. "Let's go!" He held the door open for Ziva and they both walked towards the elevators. The ride was silent, but when the elevator door opened, they almost ran into someone. Tony looked and saw it was his cousin Daryn, holding his 4-year-old daughter, Sophie. Daryn was Tony's height, but he seemed smaller than Tony. His hair was a light brown color, also like Tony's. Sophie, however, had long black curly hair.

As soon as Sophie saw Tony she screamed. "Uncle Tony!" she screamed, jumping out of her father's arms, just to jump into Tony's.

"Hey Soph," Tony said hugging her. "Hey Daryn," he said reaching to hug his cousin while still holding Sophie. He pulled back from the hug a put his hand on the small of Ziva's back to introduce her. "Daryn, Sophie, this is Ziva."

"Hey I'm Daryn. Obviously," he said, giving her a handshake. "Nice to meet you."

"You too," she said.

"And this," Tony said, tickling Sophie's stomach to make her laugh, "is Sophie."

"Hi, Sophie," Ziva said.

"Hi, Ziva," Sophie said, a little on the shy side, as she laid her head on Tony's chest.

"So, what are you guys doing?" Tony asked.

"Well," Daryn said, "our dinner reservations are ready. So, I offered to come get y'all and Sophie decided she couldn't wait any longer to see 'Uncle' Tony, so she came with me."

"Oh, well let's go!" Tony said. "I'm starving!"

They made their way to the restaurant, and after introducing everyone, they finally all sat down.

"So, Ziva," Carman said after ordering her food. "You work with Tony, right?"

"Yes," Ziva confirmed.

"For how long?" she asked.

"Um almost 6 years?" she thought, looking to Tony to confirm it.

"Yep," Tony said, taking a sip of his drink. "And what a 6 years it has been."

"I can imagine," Carman said. "I didn't think it was possible for someone to put up with Anthony DiNozzo for that long."

"Hey!" Tony said defensively.

Everyone laughed, including Ziva.

"Actually," Ziva said, "I have worked with him for the shortest amount of time out of all of our co-workers. Everyone else is at or nearing the 10 year mark."

"Wow," Carman said, impressed. "Boys, BOYS!" Carman said when she noticed the spitball fight going on at the other end of the table. "What have I told you about having spitball fights?"

"Mom, it wasn't just us," Jake complained. "Virginia and Kendall started it!"

"OK, I don't care who started it, but I'm gonna end it. Now clean it u-" She didn't finish her sentence because something, which she assumed was a spitball, hit the other side of her head. She turned around to see where the blow came from, only to notice Tony holding his straw up to his mouth and grinning like an idiot. Apparently Tony thought it was funny, but obviously Carman didn't. "You wanna help clean up too?" she asked with a stern look on her face.

Tony instantly wiped the smile off of his. "No ma'am."

"Good," Carman said. "Then I suggest you not do that again."

"Yes ma'am." Tony couldn't help but notice Ziva laughing to his right. "Something funny, David?"

"Yes, actually there is," Ziva said silently challenging him to a staring contest. It was soon interrupted when their waiter came with their food. Their dinner was filled with chatter amongst the entire table.

About halfway through their meal, the restaurant, being an ESPN Club, started with some sports trivia. They would ask a question and if you knew the answer, you could go up to the booth where the guy asking the questions was and give them your answer. If you were correct, they would give you a small prize. Varying from a pin, a t-shirt, or a drinking glass. Between Tony, Daryn, and Travis, they knew almost every answer to every question. Jenna had offered and was excited to go up and give the guy in the booth their answer.

By the time the trivia was over, their table had collected 3 t-shirts, 2 glasses, and about 5 pins.

After everyone finished eating, they all started to head back to their rooms.

Tony was almost to the elevators when he noticed that Ziva was no longer beside him. He walked back to the boardwalk and saw her looking over the railings at the water. He went over to stand beside her and mirrored her position, with his arms resting on the railings. She made no acknowledgment that she saw him, but he knew that she knew he was there. No one spoke for a while; both too captured in the view. He was surprised when she finally spoke.

"They're great," she said quietly, not bothering to look at him.

Tony turned and studied her for a moment, before finally turning back to look over the water. It had gone dark, so all of the lights from the boardwalk were reflecting off of the water. Tony had to admit, it was kind of beautiful. "Yeah, they really are," he agreed. "They always made me feel like a part of their family. Made me feel like someone actually wanted me once my mom died. Since obviously my dad never did."

Ziva looked at him when he said this and could easily see the sadness on his face and the glossy look in his eyes, even in the dark.

"Your father does love you, Tony," she said softly taking a small step towards him.

Tony kept his gaze on the water. "Ha. Well he sure has a weird way of showing it."

"Tony, not everyone is as affectionate as Abby when it comes to showing that they love someone. Sometimes," she paused, taking a deep breath, "they do not know how to tell someone they love them, so they avoid it. Sometimes, they are afraid that when they try and say it, they will say something wrong and it will mess everything up. They do not want that to happen, so they say nothing. It may not seem like he loves you, Tony, but he does."

When she finished, Tony turned to look at her. "Yeah, maybe you're right. Thanks," he said holding out his arm. She accepted his offer and snuggled into his side, laying her head on his shoulder. They stood there a while longer just looking out over the water and enjoying the feeling of just being close to each other.

After another few minutes Ziva pulled away. "Come on, Tony. We need to get some rest for tomorrow." He was about to protest when she cut him off. "Do not tell me that you are not tired. You have been driving all day. You need to sleep."

"Fine," he said, pouting. He turned around to leave and said, "Let's go," and started walking away.

Ziva watched him and laughed. She took a few quick steps to catch up to him and they walked back to their room together.

Little did they know that up on one of the balconies, Daryn and Ansley had seen the whole thing.

"Aw, that was sweet," Ansley said looking back at her husband, who was standing behind her with his arms wrapped around her waist.

"Yeah, I wonder what they were talking about," Daryn wondered, as he started trailing kisses down Ansley's neck.

"I don't know," Ansley said smiling. She turned around in his arms and went up to kiss her husband. He leaned down to return the kiss when they heard their baby, Caroline, start to cry. Ansley closed her eyes and let out a small, frustrated sigh. She started to move out of her husband's loving arms, when he stopped her.

"I got it," he offered. He bent down to give her a quick peck on the lips before turning back into their room to check on the baby.

Ansley looked after her husband and then turned back to look off the balcony. She looked back to the spot that had previously been occupied by Tony and Ziva and smiled. She knew that they weren't together, but she was interested to see where this trip might lead for them. She walked back into her hotel room, and locked the balcony door. She then proceeded to get ready for bed, knowing tomorrow would be a long day.

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