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Chapter 3
Tony….
It was another Friday night and Tony DiNozzo found himself dateless and with no plans for the weekend other than with a pepperoni pizza and a magnum PI marathon.
He hadn't been on a date in months, it had been with what's her name, Kara, no Carla, or was it Carly? Something like that, she'd been pretty, or at least he thinks she had, the blond, or was she a brunet? Anyway, she was now just a distant memory for him.
Tony began to think of who the last women he actually had feelings for was, as he walked along the main road coming from the pizza place that was only round the corner, so had decided to walk, the pizza was still in its box, warm, in his hands.
Had the last women really been Jeanne? That had been just under five years ago, had time really gone so fast? If it had taken him that long to find love in the first place, how long would it take him this time, or was love just waiting around the corner?
"Ziva" he mumbled with a heavy sigh, the exotic, ninja he could never get out of his head.
From the moment she had stood in front of him, he knew that they had some sort of unspoken connection, something just drew him to her, whether it be her beautiful brown eyes, her incapability to get American idioms right, her cute snort when she laughed too much or the fact that she had a dark and horrible past that he just wanted to protect her from.
But did he want to more than the friendship they had? Was it worth the risk? Did she even like him like that? What did she want?
He inwardly groaned once more, why was everything so confusing? If only Jenny were still here, he could ask for her advice, she would know what to do for a number of reasons, one he had asked her for advice before about his love life and she'd been more than happy to help him like she had with Jeanne.
Second she would more likely listen than everyone else, Tim would probably take the piss out of him for even asking, Gibbs would just grunt and quote rule 12 before slapping him on the back of the head, Abby wouldn't let him get a word in edgeways as she would hear the name Ziva and just scream with delight and Tony didn't want to go to Ducky with his problems, he already had to deal with Gibbs'.
And Finally Jenny had been Ziva's close friend; they'd saved each other's lives for God sake, been partners. So she would know how the Israeli felt, and could advise him accordingly.
Then the guilt began to rise in him, just like it always did when he thought of Jenny. He should have saved her, she didn't deserve to die, she was a good person and even what she had put the team and Gibbs through didn't change that fact that she was the mother of their little family and that Gibbs loved her more than Jenny knew and they all missed her everyday but were all too afraid to admit it in case it hurt Gibbs too much and he would head slap them all into the next century.
Tony didn't want to end up like Gibbs, having let the love of his life slip through his fingers and not be able to ever get her back. So he decided he should just talk to Ziva and see what happens.
Finally he reached the road that he had to cross to her to his apartment block opposite. Taking a moment to Zip up his jacket to fight off the sudden cold that had come over him, he looked left, nothing was coming, he looked right also nothing coming, he thought it was safe so he began to cross the road.
All of a sudden he saw the blinding light from a headlight of a car that didn't make any indications it was going to stop any time soon out the corner of his eye. He was knocked to the ground.
When he came around a moment later he found that he was lying on the pavement, a dark hooded person stood above him, they had tackled him to the pavement, saving him from behind hit by the car and they saved his life.
His heart was still beating in his throat as the hooded figure offered him a helping hand up, he got up to his feet and looked around dazed, still not sure how all this had happened so quickly. Tony then looked back to the mysterious person and found them holding out the pizza to him, still in its box relatively unharmed.
"Thank you" Tony meant for more than just 'saving' the pizza as well and the person knew it. The person nodded when all of a sudden Tony recognised something, he recognised the friendly green eyes, he looked back to make sure he wasn't dreaming but the person had gone, he looked around franticly but still found no sign of anyone, just the sound of the hustle and bustle of the D.C city centre not far away in the distance.
With that Tony crossed the road and headed to his apartment and once inside headed straight for a the fridge to get himself a cold beer.
Then once he was finally comfy on the sofa he pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialled a familiar number "Hello" a women's voice answered on the other end.
"Hey Ziva, you wanna come over for a movie night?"
TBC….
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