Ziva and Tony both woke up by a loud rapping noise on the car window. Both jolting awake, stared wide eyed in alarm at each other before grabbing at the nearest garment to save themselves from further shame and humiliation.
"Ziva?!" Abby distinctive voice shouted. Abby narrowed her eyes and squinted, trying to make out the other person in Ziva's car.
"Oh. My God. Tony?!" Ziva's eardrum nearly blew as Abby squealed through the car window.
Ziva decided it was time to confront Abby and quickly pulled on her blouse and cargo pants and stepped out of her car.
"Look Abby I can explain" pleaded Ziva. She knew what Abby was going to think. That Tony had made a move on her and it had led to this, treating her like another one of his many female friends.
"Ziva! You and I are like, friends – no we're not friends – we're best friends. How could you do this to me?!" Abby nearly screamed.
Ziva was confused, she thought that Abby would be angry about her sleeping with Tony not about her not telling Abby about her and Tony. Not that there was anything between them anyway.
Abby continued, "Just what are you two doing outside my house anyway? I thought McGee was coming over last night and looking after – "
Ziva put a finger to Abby's lips to silence her. "Tony and I decided to come over instead, McGee wanted to finish his novel so we did him a favour, yes? Now stop fretting."
But unfortunately Abby had not finished her lecture. "Ziva! We're meant to be a family! I'm your wacky Goth sister, Ducky is our grandfather, Gibbs' is our Dad, McGee is the geeky little nerd at school who pretends to be a Elf Lord, Palmer the autopsy gremlin who swallowed PVA glue when he was 2 – don't tell him I said that." And Abby and Ziva both smiled at each other. "And you and Tony are like this –" she crossed both of her pointer and middle fingers together on each hand and held them up to Ziva's face. "I can't exactly say Tony is our brother since that would just be ew if you did what I think the two of you did last night." She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.
"But you and McGee did it, yes?" Ziva retorted.
Abby flinched, how could Ziva just say that as if it meant nothing to her? "Yes. But now we're friends and anyway Tony's a playboy so that's different Ziva."
"Playboy? I don't think I'm quite familiar with that adjective of Tony" Ziva asked confused.
Abby rolled her eyes and said, "You know Ziva…sleeps around and goes to - "
Once again Ziva stopped Abby from talking. "As far as I know, nothing happened between Tony and I last night okay Abby? So Gibbs does not need to know about it either." Ziva felt that it was better this way. Just to pretend this never happened. After all she hadn't really meant for all this to happen. Or did she?
"Well, Gibbs' is going to find out anyway Ziva." Abby was slightly pissed at the two of them for not telling her about them and she turned around on her black stilettos and marched toward her front door.
"Morning Sweetcheeks!" a cheerful greeting came from within the car.
"Not now Tony, not now." Sighed Ziva.
X
As soon as Ziva came to work she walked into Abby's lab to see her and McGee squealing and jumping up and down. Well at least that was what Abby was doing and McGee was just nodding and taking in his best friend's excitement. Ziva always knew there was something going on between those two, but McGee was just too shy, and Abby was refusing to make the first move.
Ziva cleared her throat loudly.
"Oh! Ziva! Um…I'll just be going." McGee stuttered and quickly exited the lab leaving Abby and Ziva to themselves.
Ziva started first. "Look Abby, I am really sorry about what you saw this morning. " Ziva swallowed loudly. Abby still had her back to her, cuddling Bert and making him fart every so often but Abby was trying to ignore Ziva.
"I won't forgive you Ziva. And I won't forgive Tony either." She said stubbornly and crossed her arms tightly.
Ziva was just about to try talking to Abby again before Gibbs interrupted. "David what are you doing down here? We got a lead on a suspect. Find Tony!" Gibbs said angrily before narrowing his eyes at Abby suspiciously before returning upstairs with Ziva.
Ziva couldn't face seeing Tony again today. She just needed some headroom to clear her thoughts and organise the miscellaneous unorganised floating matter in her brain. But as chance would have it she had to go and bring in a suspect into interrogation with Tony.
"Come on Zee-vah, let's go before Gibbs gets even more pissed than her already is." Tony hopped onto the elevator with Ziva.
Ziva pushed the emergency stop button with her back and stared at Tony as the lights in the elevator turned off.
Tony flinched nervously and stared back.
Well she did make the first move, thought Tony defensively. It's not like I jumped her.
I should never have let my feeling show for Tony. It was wrong. All so wrong. And now my professional relationship with Tony has crumbled to pieces since I can't even stand in an elevator with Tony a metre away without feeling so damn horny.
"Ziva, look, you can't pretend forever that nothing happened between us last night." Tony reasoned.
Ziva's eyes narrowed. "Watch me" she retorted.
"If you think you're just another one of my conquests you're wrong. You have no idea how wrong you are! You're special Ziva!" Tony nearly shouted.
"So I am not just another blonde busty woman who can be found any night on a weekend at your house?" Ziva taunted. She didn't want to believe that Tony had feelings for her too, that would just make everything worse.
"Of course not! You're the – you're my …" stuttered Tony, not quite able to finish his sentence.
"You're pathetic Tony. You can't even say a few simple words." whispered Ziva icily. She was glad that she didn't have to admit her feelings for her co-worker since he obviously didn't return them. Ziva pressed the elevator button again and the lights came back on. With her old mojo back into shipshape Ziva pushed her way out of the elevator first leaving a self loathing Tony behind her.
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