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Chapter Three; Walking on Thin Ice
She stared at him as he was rambling about some new movie he had recently seen. We are back to our old selves- After Jeanne and before Rivkin. When we used to have fun, without caring what was happening around us. Our flirting was harmless and wasn't attacked nor was it unnoticed. It's my Tony.
He tried not to stare at her, as he was fully aware that she couldn't take her eyes off of him. He was sure he wouldn't be able to handle more eye sex between them. Things are the way they used to be. When we used to have fun, flirting, movie marathons, pranks on McGee. I'm glad she doesn't mind me talking so much. She's back. It's my Ziva.
Their walk took them along the streets, when Ziva, eager to make the walk as long as possible opted to walk through the park and near the frozen pond away from her house. Tony agreed, for similar motives, although not guessing that each other shared the same thoughts.
It was freezing cold, the wind was slightly howling. Ziva, although she was wearing her famous green coat, a scarf and plenty of layers was still freezing cold. Tony on the other hand, was too warm and was taking pleasure in watching the squirming ninja.
"Thought ninjas weren't supposed to get cold."
"Well they do. So rather than joke about it, hand over your thermal underwear, or I will turn ninja on you!" She stopped to threaten him. Her eyes were dancing in his signature lusting stare. Her teeth started chattering, making it harder for him to take her as seriously as she was trying to be.
To keep the conversation alive, he kept walking, almost beckoning her to argue with him. There's nothing wrong with an occasional argument. Nothing wrong in finding them fun. But perhaps it is slightly prohibited that I purposely spark arguments to quarrel with the english-confused, hot ninja that I work with. Eh she doesn't have to know.
They reached the edge of the pond, which spread itself over almost the entire park. It was shaped in a huge almost perfect circle. DiNozzo, oblivious and naive to the unchecked and potentially dangerous pond in front of him, kept walking. Ziva was aware of the situation, but for the first time, ignored her instincts and followed the alluring Tony.
"Oh so when I beg you for your thermals because I was suffering from FROSTBITE, no no no. But now, when it's like 35degrees we're like begging. Besides your tiny little body wouldn't fit.
Something crashed loudly, but no reply came. He turned around looking for Ziva, wondering she didn't argue back. She wasn't there.
He noticed the huge hole in the ice. Oh shit!
"ZIVA!" Instantly he stripped off his huge coat and threw it to the side as he was sprinting towards the hole in the ice. He was screaming for help to anyone that was around. Unfortunately there was no one. Just him and what was left of poor Ziva.
Diving as best as he could into the freezing water gave him some thrust and momentum. The water was beyond freezing. Almost everything was dark. He couldn't see his Ziva, he could hardly see anything. He knew he didn't have too much time left in the water before he would freeze. But he was not definitely not losing her again. They had come too far to lose it all.
Frantically searching for any sign of his Ziva, he made sure he could see the entrance hole in which they had both entered. Searching the water again, and then he saw it.
A few feet below him he saw a bright green coat, with a motionless Ziva. Her hair, arms and legs were sprawled out, almost in the same motion as a jumping-jack or a starfish. Her eyes were shut and no air bubbles escaped her mouth. He swam towards her as fast as he could, knowing all too well the escape for them was going to be torturous. His lungs were already showing exhaustion and he wasn't sure if he would recover all of the feeling in his body.
When he finally reached her she still showed no signs of life. He wrapped his left arm around her small waist and began to try and swim with his right arm. They started gaining some momentum and finding the hole in the ice was easier than he thought it would be. The movies he used to watch had given him false assumptions.
His lungs were screaming, telling him to let her go and to save himself. Tony knew quite well this could be the end of them. But never ever would he let her go. If she was going, so was he.
They rose closer and closer to the hole, showing Tony more of his surroundings. After for what it seemed a lifetime, they finally reached the hole in the ice. With whatever might he had left, he threw her out of the water and onto the ice's edge, before pulling himself up and out. His strength was so weak, but the air had never been so beautiful to him. He recovered his breath for a few seconds, before glancing over at his partner. She was still motionless.
Crawling to her as quickly as he could, he stripped off her jacket and some of the other drenched clothes.
"Zi, Zi, Zi you gotta stay with me okay. Come on. You cannot leave me alone with probie. Come on! Don't make me do this Zi." He panickedly rambled, getting more and more frustrated with himself that she wouldn't wake up. He took off another layer and cleared her mouth, preparing for CPR.
"Anyone? Help! Call 911!!" He screamed to anyone that could be around. He started doing compressions on her limp body. He was almost crying. We've been through so much together and to lose it now, because I couldn't give her his damn thermals?!
"Zi you have to stay with me okay?! Agent David! PROBIE! Don't make me do this! This is not how I wanted this to happen."
He performed mouth-to-mouth several times before more compressions. Her lips were blue and frozen. Still no response. He checked her pulse. It was very weak. That gave him some motivation.
"Come on Zi! Come on! You gotta come through okay?! Everyone would miss you too much. Gibbs, McGee, Ducky, ABBY! Me.." His volume changing from yelling to almost a whisper as he mentioned the team members.
More compressions and finally came the sputtering of water he was waiting and hoping for. Ziva rolled over and spat out at least a gallon of water. Tony had never been so happy. When she had finished gagging, Tony collapsed out of exhaustion onto the ice. Ziva crawled over next to him, huddling up close. Her head was on his rapidly rising and falling chest. As he tried to return his breathing to normal, a happy DiNozzo smile formed on his face as he wrapped his arms around her body, with the sounds of ambulance sirens filling their ears.
