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They ended up laying on the big couch surrounded by a lot of pillows and a huge blanket to keep them warm, the only light in the room came from the candles Ziva placed everywhere and the music videos from the TV were playing on low volume as Ziva told Tony about her trip to Israel.
„It somehow feels like you have never been away, everything is still at its place, the house, the trees. Only small things change, like a new big supermarket or the neighbor´s house gets a new painting. The smell of our garden, the lightning in the house I grew up in, those are things I could never forget. But it seems so lonely, forgotten, because it is so empty. I used to live there with my two siblings, my mother and my father. Relatives would visit us. I still have family left, cousins and aunts and uncles, but it is not the same."
„Maybe you need to have your own family, Ziva. Here in D.C. Find a man, buy a house, a home. And in the summer when the kids don´t have to go to school you can fly to Israel for a few weeks. Sounds marvelous to me." Tony´s face was directed to the blanket but his eyes faced Ziva, the puppy face he made said that he was quite happy with this idea and he already imagined Ziva as a mom, waving at her children in the morning when they went to school.
Ziva just smiled at him, narrowed her eyes and then put her hand on his, looked him straight in the eye and said „Tony, I do not have a man, and at this moment I am not quite sure if I will ever find someone I would want to spend my life with, it is not that easy, you cannot just go out and hope the love of your life will meet you at the place you buy your coffee. I am not that lucky, how am I supposed to find that, the one, my soulmate? Do you not think I would like to have such a life?"
Tony heard the concern in her voice, the sincere fear to be alone. „Ziva, listen, there will be someone at some point you will think is like family, he´ll make you smile and he´ll be always there for you. I promise you." He took her hand in intertwined them. „And for now, for the time that you haven´t found them, there´s Gibbs, Abby, McGee, everyone. And there´s me. I am right here and you can never be alone, I don´t know how to stress that enough, as long as I am alive, and I promise you that, I will make sure to be there for you, okay? And of course I will make sure that you´ll end up with the right man. No more heartbreak. You deserve to be loved."
Ziva´s eyes had rested on their hands intertwined, Tony´s thumb slowly caressing the back of her hand. „Thank you, Tony. For picking me up, for staying here, for caring so much."
„Hey,.." Ziva´s gaze went up and her eyes met his. „I wouldn´t be here with you if I wouldn´t enjoy it. You told me that home is where your friends and family are.." „Yes, home is where the heart is and the heart is with the people you love."
„Could you have imagined us being this close? You know, when we first met?" Tony´s voice was soft, he was indulged in the way the lights from the candles played on Ziva´s skin and how soft her features looked. She gave him a smile. „How can I forget that? I walk into NCIS and the first person I meet has phone sex wi.." „No, I did nooot have...just forget that." Ziva´s face had lit up and she gave him a big smile and a serpenine look. „Oh Tony, do not be ashamed." „Just answer the question, please." His expression said that he was eager for it.
„Definately not, how could someone foreshadowed that you are actually a nice and sweet person?" Ziva enjoyed mocking him a little and Tony acted as if was truly hurt though it was obvious that neither of them could have imagined that they would form such a close friendship.
„Tony it is already past midnight." „What, seriously?" Tony and Ziva had just talked about some random memories they shared, they both snuggled up under the blanket, laughing, thinking, talking. „I am getting a little tired." „Then you should go to sleep, I will just take one of the pillows and ..." „Oh Tony." She smiled and got up. „You even consider sleeping on the couch? I have already told you. We can share my bed, it is not as tiny as yours." „Heeey, my bed is wonderful." „Well it tells me a lot about you." Ziva put the lights on in her bedroom and blew the candles out. „You´re coming?" Tony got up and threw the blanket over his shoulder. „Coming sweet cheeks, why don´t you already get in bed so it´s already a little warm when I join you?" Tony heard Ziva laugh. He just loved the fact that he could make her so happy with his antics, so carefree, and he loved how she always responded to his little games.
He took his shirt off and his pants and climbed to her in bed with his boxers. Ziva switched the lights out and the darkness surrounded them, only the street lights and the moon made their way through the window and let Tony know where the small frame of her partner layed, on her side, her face turned to him and her eyes shut.
He admired her dark curls, the way her body frame went down like a curve from her shoulders to her waist and then up again and the curve slowly came to an end at her feet, the lowest part of her body. „Ziva?" „Yes Tony?" „I don´t want so sleep right away. I don´t know if I can just fall asleep now."