Title: Hard to Find
Rating: T (same as the show to be safe)
Disclaimer: I am poor barista who has been on a leave of absence for months. I am not making money off this just curing boredom. NCIS still belongs to its network, creator, writers, actors, actresses and countless other not me people who bring it to life weekl7
Summary: It took too long for Ziva and Tony to show they had feelings for each other. Who said a kiss is all they shared in Israel? Starts with the birth of their son, and goes back to show how they got there.
Notes: The craving have started, poor DiNozzo.
DiNozzo sighed as he waited for his order. He wondered how it could take so long to roll up rice, seaweed, vegetables and crab meat. Ziva had called him while he was on his way home, saying she was craving California rolls. He found the number for his favourite sushi place, and called in an order. Now he was sitting there waiting on the order, getting very impatient, and so was Ziva who had called him three more times asking when he'd be home with the sushi. He kept telling her he was waiting on the order, but he wasn't sure she believed him. He knew that she was not a woman he wanted to be on the bad side of. The tiny Japanese server finally came over with his order in a bag. He smiled thanking her glad he had paid for it first. He then headed home, and Ziva practically pounced on him.
"Sorry I'll go somewhere else next time," he assured her.
She took the bag from his hand and quickly found the California rolls, along with his favourite pieces of sashimi, tuna and salmon. She didn't even bother getting the chopsticks out of the bag, or use any of the packets of soy sauce or wasabi she just took the maki with her fingers and popped the first piece in her mouth. She made a sound that he had only heard while they were in bed together.
"I had no idea sushi had that effect on you Ziva," he laughed.
She smacked him upside the head, and he cringed. "That is what you get for making a pregnant woman wait!"
"I'm sorry I went to the world's slowest sushi place, I promise you I'm not going back there."
She had stuffed another piece into her mouth. "This is so good Tony. Are you not going to eat yours?"
He nodded and put their respective plates on the table as well as finding two shallow bowls. He mixed some of the wasabi into the low sodium soy sauce he had in his fridge and began to eat his own sushi. She sat down with him and took a pair of chopsticks but ate hers plain. He didn't even realise she enjoyed sushi before. After eating a few pieces of her own meal she began to use her chopsticks.
"Do you want to hear something odd?" she asked, and he nodded at her. "I did not like sushi much before but today when I called you it was all that I could think about."
"I've heard people say that the cravings can be pretty intense. But we'll make it work, as soon as I find a place that knows how to get our order together quicker."
"I do not even know if I will crave the same thing the next time."
"That's true, I guess we'll deal with it as it comes," he assured her.
"It is all we can do Tony. I got an appointment for an ultra sound in a few weeks."
"I'll see if I can get the day off."
"I want you to be there.
"We can find out if we're really having a girl."
She smiled. "I really think the baby is going to be a girl, maybe I just want a girl."
"Maybe, we should start thinking about names."
"We have time for that," she assured him.
"All right, I guess we should probably wait to see what we're having first."
They finished their sushi, and Tony cleaned up, then they went into the living room. They curled up on the couch together, and Tony put an old movie on. She sighed happily in his arms, getting used to watching his favourite movies with him when he was home. A lot of times she recognised the quotes he had used around her before.
"Did you ever think this would happen for us?" she asked him.
"I thought about it, but honestly no I didn't think it would until you left for Tel Aviv. When you went off the grid I was worried I might never find you to tell you the truth."
"Why did you not say anything sooner?"
He shrugged. "I didn't want to screw things up. I had you in my life. I could flirt with you when I wanted to. I was good, if I didn't act on it I couldn't fuck it up. When you weren't there every day I knew I had to fix it."
She nodded, it hadn't been easy for her to not see him every day either. She had thought at the time that if she didn't seem him she would forget about him, but it hadn't worked that way. When he showed up disheveled and unshaven at the place she had been born something had taken over her. Goose bumps formed on her arms just thinking about it, and she was sure that's when the baby had been conceived. It was one of the only times she had ever lost control of her emotions, and she got scared after knowing the power he had over her. When she'd let him leave she knew she would find her way back to him, but thanked the unborn baby for forcing her hand so quickly.
"I am glad you found me," she assured him. "I was surprised but I knew if anyone would find me it would be you. Those days we spent together in Israel were amazing. Why did you leave?"
"Because I loved you," he told her. "I thought you would be happy there, and that was all I wanted for you. Leaving, getting on the plane to head back to work was by far the hardest thing I ever had to do, but I knew it was what you wanted so I did it."
She kissed him softly. "I am sorry I made you do that."
"Sometimes if you love something you have to let it go. If it comes back to you than it is meant to be, if it doesn't it was never yours to begin with. When I saw you in the elevator it took all my will power not to push you back in there and have my way with you."
She laughed. "Tony you will never change."
"Do you want me to?"
"No, I do not. I love you for who you are."
He then kissed her softly, she moaned softly at the embrace. He then ran his hands up her ribs, and she smiled at him, staring into his eyes. There were still times he was sure he was going to wake up to discover she was just another fantasy. It had taken so long for them to get to that point in their relationship.
"I love you Ziva David," he whispered.
"It is DiNozzo now, Tony," she reminded him. "And I love you Tony."
He shook his head, still not believing it. "Ziva DiNozzo, wow that's going to take me a while to get used to."
She laughed then kissed him again, this time more seductively, and began to unbuckle his belt buckle. DiNozzo moaned, his hands in her hair. He knew that they only had so much time where they could do this, and he was going to take full advantage of it. He turned off the TV not wanting to hear it in the background through this encounter.
Notes: There's a tiny little ouch of Tony in the next part just a heads up. Thank you for the reviews and support, keep 'em coming it makes my day.
