Tony and Ziva: Their Developing Love

Ch. 3:

It had been 8 days since they started the case. Miki was cleared and helping the team (unofficially of course), and they had absolutely nothing. The names at the scene seem to all be fake; the killer must be trying to distract them. As Ziva and Miki walk into the bullpen early into the morning, not surprised that no one else was there. Miki grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from Zivas desk and scribbled something on it, then leaving the paper on Tony's desk.

"What was that?" Ziva asked curious as to what her sister was up too.

"Nothing that concerns you at the moment." Miki says a little slyly.

The girls had started to look for a lead and find anything that might help them when they heard the elevator ding.

"well good morning my little Mossad twins." Tony says as he walks happily into the bullpen.

"Good morning Tony. How was your evening?" Miki asked very intrigued with Tonys good mood.

"Fairly boring, but it's nice to have peace and quiet for once, you know no one screaming." Tony winks at Miki while looking at Ziva.

"Tony sits at his desk and finds the paper that Miki left for him. When she turned back to help her sister he just kept quiet as he read what the paper said.

Lunch?

Miki

Yes, Tony did think Miki was hot and he did enjoy flirting with her, but there was just something weird about dating Zivas sister. He figured lunch would be ok and that's all that would happen between them.

**Hours Later**

It was now around 12:30 and Miki and Tony were both leaving to go get lunch for the team since they still hadn't closed the case and everyone was working nonstop to find the killer.

"So that was an interesting note that I found on my desk." Tony says getting into his car and Miki getting into the passenger's side.

"I figured you read it when you asked me to go with you to get lunch for the team."

"Well I only excepted because I needed to talk to you." Tony becoming a little more serious now.

"Good because I need to talk to you also."

"Well ladies first." Tony says motioning her to start.

"No that is ok, you go first Tony, Why did you accept my invite?"

"Ok yes I do like you, you're fun and extremely sexy, but I honestly just want to be friends. I mean your Zivas sister. And dating you would be weird and not right. It wouldn't feel right. I'm sorry if I let you down, but we can't date."

"Tony, I don't want to date you." Miki says starting to giggle.

"Oh, well why did you ask me to lunch?" Tony is now very confused.

"To knock some since into your stubborn head. God, between you and my sister I have never met two stubborn, blind, and just stupid people."

"Hey, now, I may be stubborn and stupid, but your sister is not. She would kill you if she heard you say that."

"Tony, listen to me, you love my sister. Anthony DiNozzo, you love Ziva David."

"What! What the hell are you talking about?" Tony looks at her, but as he thinks about it could be possible. Do I love Ziva? I mean Miki is definitely my type of girl, and I'm not going after her. I haven't really been with a girl in a while. None of the girls had seemed right. There was something wrong with them that prevented me from asking them out or only going on one date. Was it because the girl I wanted to be with was Ziva. I mean yes I did care about her deeply, but is it love? Miki brought Tony out of his thoughts as she tried to talk to him about his feelings.

"Tony, Tony, TONY!" Tony looked at her then went back to paying attention on the road.

"You were thinking about her, weren't you?" Miki very proud of herself for making this happen.

"Who, what, Ziva um no." Tony says trying not to look Miki in the eye.

Miki let Tony ramble on in his thoughts because she knew the truth. When they pulled into the Navy Yard, Tony put the car into park and looked at Miki.

"What makes you think that I love your sister?"

"Well for starters you look at her like you care when no one is paying attention, or so you think. You don't tease her as much as you do McGee. You guys have a cute flirtation thing going on. And the final thing is your reaction to my comment. If you just liked her and cared for her as a partner or friend you wouldn't be so puzzled and lost in thought."

"hmm, well those are some good reasons." Tony says starting to get lost in his thoughts again.

"Well, I'm pretty sure you do love her, but I want to hear you say. Then I know it's for real and you won't hurt her." Miki states. She loves her sister, but Ziva has never been good at the boyfriend area.

"I don't know, well honestly yes, yes I do love your sister. I think I always have. The first day she strutted into the bullpen I felt something. I never really understood what it was but its love."

"Yay, ok I'm so excited. Now you have to tell her and soon!" Miki says starting to get out of the car and head towards the Federal Agency.

Tony sat there in the car for a few minutes trying to sort things out. I Tony DiNozzo am in love someone. Who knew that this was possible? How do I tell her, do I want to tell her? Miki seemed so sure that I love Ziva, but she never said anything about Ziva loving me back. I can't tell her. Because if she doesn't love me back that would hurt too much. I couldn't deal with that. The pain that the one person in this world that has my heart doesn't want it. No I'll wait, let's see how things go and maybe in the near future I'll tell her.