A/N: I know that I have not been updating this story for more than a year, and I am extremely sorry to have left all of you hanging. I completely lost my muse as the show according to me doesn't have 'the thing' in it anymore, I am completely unmotivated to watch any of the episodes and haven't been watching it since January. I tried to remain unbiased to the characters and show and watched it till January like it was a routine, but I miss my Ziva too much and for me the show has lost its appeal . The way the Ziva departure was handled post 11x 2 was so bad that every time I watch an episode it makes me want to cry. But, to this day I love writing and especially Tiva stories so. and that is the only reason I'll continue to post my updates on the story. There has been a steady decline in Tiva stories in the past year and fans resigning from the show and fandom but this is to cheer up all those Tiva fans and fanfic writers out there and to remind them "TIVA WILL REMAIN IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER." no story arc or plotline will diminish our love for the two greatest characters ever created.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own NCIS or any of the characters, Adena is a piece of my imagination. The rest belong to CBS and I do not make any profit with this story.

CHAPTER 7

FRIDAY NIGHT

Ziva was standing near her daughters' crib admiring the beauty of the infant within. Tony was leaning against the doorframe watching the two of them, with a smile on his face.

He slowly moved across the room and wrapped his arms around Ziva's waist, placing his chin on her shoulder and looked at his daughter. Ziva leaned back into Tony's' chest and sighed contently.

"Zi?" Tony whispered.

"Hmmm." Ziva replied turning around in his arms and looked into his green eyes.

"How long has it been since we last went out on a date? Us alone, enjoying an evening?" Tony asked with a smile etched on his face.

"Well I believe it has been a long time, hasn't it Mr. DiNozzo." Ziva said in a seductive whisper.

"Well then there must be something we could do about it, Miss David." Tony replied pulling her closer and kissing her passionately. Tony moved them out to the corridor so that they didn't disturb the sleeping baby. He pinned her to the wall beside Ana's room and continued the fierce kissing.

Ziva's hands instantly came up to his face to caress the sides of it as she deepened their kiss. "What did you have in mind?" Ziva asked breaking the kiss and looking up at him with eager eyes. As much as she loved her baby more than her life, she also missed being able to spend time alone with Tony, the way they did before Adena was born.

Tony had his infamous devilish grin on his face as he leaned down to kiss along her jaw and down her neck "That sweet cheeks, is for me to know and you to find out tomorrow." he said as he continued with his kissing on her neck.

Ziva was getting aroused with everything Tony was doing to her, especially as he ran his soft lips behind her ears. She shifted her hands so that it was under his shirt and stroked his soft skin and strong muscles. She moaned at the sensations he was invoking in her.

She cursed the moment that she had declared that they would wait to make love until after they get married. She knew her intention was to make their first time special, and all these teasing over the year was bound to make it even more passionate, the first time they are together.

But it took her all of her restraint not to jump him and have him right there.

"Tony!" she moaned and tried to push him back as he had started to kiss her collarbone and downwards.

Tony sighed as he rested his forehead on her shoulder and tried to catch his breath and control his need for her.

He looked up to see her leaning her head against the wall with her eyes closed and a soft smile on her face. Tony leaned forward and gave a small peck on her lips.

"What about Ana? Who will be with her?" she asked opening her eyes.

"Well I don't think Gibbs will mind being with his granddaughter for one night." Tony said with a smile.

"Okay, but you are the one who is going to tell him that." she said with a cheeky smile as she quickly ducked down and escaped from the confines of his arms, leaving no room for discussion.

SATURDAY EVENING

Ana was playing on her play mat and Tony was waiting on the couch for Ziva as she was getting ready upstairs. Just then the door bell rang and Ana was up at the door before Tony could even get up from the couch.

Ana was trying to reach the knob that was well out of her reach, "Ana, no, step away from the door sweetie." Tony said as he reached the excited child.

Every time the bell rang Ana was enthusiastic about unlocking the door before anyone else would.

Tony picked her up and looked through the peephole to see the face of his boss. He opened the door with a huge smile and seeing Gibbs, he cooed at his daughter, "Ah ha see who is here?"

Ana squealed with excitement and instantly jumped into her grandpa Gibbs arms. She screamed, her voice muffled by Gibbs shirt as she hugged him tightly.

"Hey princess Ready for tonight?" he asked and got a smile in return.

Just then Ziva came down the stairs wearing a navy blue dress that was tight enough to show her beautiful body and came up to right above her knee. Her hair was in a loose ponytail and few strands framing her face.

Tony was astounded at her beauty, and remained standing there speechless. She approached the two men standing on the doorway.

"You look beautiful Ziver." Gibbs said kissing the side of her head. Ziva smiled back, "Thank you Gibbs for looking after her." she said as she took Ana to kiss her before going.

"Bye tataleh, you'll be with Grandpa Gibbs for the night and then Ima and Abba will come get you tomorrow morning. Okay!" she said and kissed her daughters cheeks.

"mamma." the little girl whimpered, tears starting to well up in her eyes.

"Hey princess, it's just one night. And you are going to have so much fun with Grandpa Gibbs and his boat." Tony said as he swiped at the tears on the little girls face.

Ana looked at her parents solemnly and went back into Gibbs arms.

"Go, you two have some fun. I'll lock up and take her back to my place." Gibbs said.

Ziva looped her arm through Tony's and they made their way to the car.

"You look stunning, Zi!" Tony said as he reached the car door and opened it for her.

"Thank you Tony, you don't look so bad yourself." she said blushing at the compliment and getting into the car.

Tony drove them over to the restaurant that he had made reservations in.

They were seated beside the huge windows that had the view of the river nearby and a gentle breeze was blowing, filling Ziva's heart with happiness.

This was perfect, both the view and the night. Here she was, sitting in front of a scenic beauty and that too with the man she loved.

Ziva looked out the window at the still water that reflected the nearby city lights, and the sparkle to it mesmerised Ziva.

"Hey sweet cheeks!" called Tony trying to get her attention as he placed his hand upon hers.

Ziva turned her head and smiled at him. "This is really good Tony"

"Yeah I know Ziva we have been holed up in our house for a year; we desperately needed some fresh air. Perhaps we should try going out more often...ummm, you know... I mean... not just us but with... Ana and ...and" Tony started rambling as soon as he thought Ziva would take what he was saying in a wrong way, thinking he wanted to keep Ana away from her ,which he honestly did not want to do. He just wanted Ziva to have a good time.

Ziva understood the reason behind his rambling and cut him off by holding his hand with both of hers and smiling gently at him, "Tony I understand. I love Ana and I know you do too, and even I feel guilty even thinking about this, but I can't help but say that it feels good to ,...to be just..." she sighed deeply as she was filled with content and happiness unable to complete the sentence .

"Be just you?" Tony completed for her.

Ziva nodded her head smiling, "Mhmm hmm, yeah... be just me. I am a person of my own other than being a mother and it is good to remind myself of that, maybe not all the time, but, once in awhile can't hurt. And more than that, apart from being a mother I am your wife to be , and it is good to spend some time alone with just each other."

"It's ...umm... what's the word" she scrunched her nose thinking for the proper word, "refreshing! It's really refreshing." she said with a big smile.

Just then the a man came to take their orders for the dinner, once that was settled they sat there looking at each other and talking about every small things. Past incidents that they faced as partners, the times they had fun playing pranks on McGee. The breeze was blowing making the loose strands of Ziva's hair to fall on her face. Tony reached forward and tucked the strands behind her ears and cupped the side of her face still looking at her with love sparkling in his eyes.

"You are so beautiful Zi." he said in a whisper." I still don't get how I deserve to be with such an amazing person like you." he said.

Ziva's cheeks had a rosy tint to it as she blushed at Tony's words. She opened her mouth to protest but Tony placed his pointer finger on her lips to cut her off. He smiled softly as his thumb proceeded to trace her lips and then her chin. "No, I don't want to hear you talking lowly about yourself, you are more than what I deserve and I mean it."

Ziva had tears in her eyes and she took Tony's hand, the one that was on the side of her face, in hers and placed a light kiss on his palm before covering her face with it as a tear fell down from her eyes to her cheek.

Tony and Ziva had their dinner, making pointless conversation about all that came to their mind. And as soon as the bill was paid Tony led Ziva to their car, but before she could open the passenger side door Tony stopped her and turned her around to face him.

"We won't need the car for a while, sweet cheeks!" he said with a sly grin.

Ziva giggled very unlike herself, as she heard her old nickname. "Why not, Mon petit pois?" she said with a smile, that overwhelmed Tony's heart with reminiscence of days gone by that seemed a lifetime ago.

"Well we have someplace to be, Zi" he said as he leaned down and kissed the rosy cheeks of the woman trapped between him and the car. He opened the backseat of his car and took out a brown paper carry bag. Ziva peered in and saw a bottle of champagne and two glasses.

Ziva looked up at Tony with a mock frown on her face, " Are we going to get drunk, Tony?"

"Well I certainly hope not, because one of us have to drive us back home, you know." he said with a laugh, before taking Ziva's hands and leading her away from the car and into the magical starry night.

They walked hand in hand for ten minutes, and Ziva started getting tired she leaned her head on Tony's shoulders, clutching his hand with more grip. "Almost there sweet cheeks." he said as he looked down at her tired face.

They turned a corner and saw that they reached a park, Ziva looked up at Tony, "How come this park is open at this impossible time?" she asked

"Let's just say, there are people who owe me favours." he said with a handsome grin as they walked into the park.

Ziva looked around the park and all of a sudden all her tiredness vanished as she took in the beauty of the surroundings. There were trees of all kinds and the vast clearing gave a picture perfect view of the starry sky above.

She took her hand out of Tony's grip and walked ahead of him, she walked up a little grassy hill that was at the centre of the park and looked above to see the full moon shining back at her.

She closed her eyes and breathed in the fresh air of the night, and then she twirled around at the spot and then opened her eyes to see Tony smiling at her.

Tony approached her and engulfed her in his warm embrace, his twinkling green eyes met her rich brown ones and he leaned down to press a kiss to her forehead. He pulled back to look at the radiant smile on her face and the glow created by the moon shining on her.

"I believe , I haven't seen a sight so beautiful in my entire life." he said with a warm smile.

Ziva smiled and leaned her head into Tony's chest, after a moment she turned in his arms and looked at the view in front of her with Tony arms wrapped around her waist and his lips pressed onto her soft hair. "This is so beautiful, Tony! I don't want to move away from here ever." she said as they swayed at the spot to an invisible tune.

Tony leaned forward and whispered right into her ear; "look to your right Zi." he said and kissed her ear.

Ziva looked to her right and saw a small lake with a wooden bridge across it, the water shone brightly with the moonlight reflecting off of it, she gasped in surprise, all this reminded her of scenes from her favourite fairy tales that she adored when she was a child , complete with the prince charming standing right behind her.

Tony smiled down at her and led her to the bank of the lake, she dipped her toe in the clear cool water and a shiver ran down her spine at the perfection of everything around her, she bend down and splashed the water at a completely oblivious Tony.

She started giggling when Tony gasped at the shock created by the cool water , "Oh you should not have done that, David!" he said as he too splashed water at her. Ziva started walking back as her laughter resounded around the empty space.

Tony ran after her trying to catch her, as he kept splashing water at her, by now Ziva was mostly wet. She turned around to splash more water at her fiancée, when she was caught by surprise and the next moment she was clutched in Tony's grip and he had an evil smirk on his face.

"Tony" she warned and the next moment she was falling back into the water, Tony ran back onto the bank of the lake before she can pull any stint on him, as she was resurfacing she saw him doubled over laughing.

Ziva got out of the water, her dress clinging to her body and started hitting Tony , mockingly. Tony grabbed her in his arms and kissed her wet hair as he continued laughing. "You'll pay for that." she mumbled from where her head was buried in his suit.

They both walked a little further and sat down on the grass; Tony took out the champagne and poured two glasses of it. Ziva took it from him and started sipping as she lost herself in her thoughts as she gazed across the lake.

As the water started drying she felt herself shiver from the cool breeze, Goosebumps rose across her arms. Tony saw this and wrapped his coat around her to warm her up.

"It's cold." she said as she wrapped the coat tighter around her, Tony wrapped his arms around her and breathed on her neck, the warm breath tickled her further.

"Tony! you are not helping." she moaned as she tilted her neck further to feel his amazingly soft lips on her. He proceeded further to skim his lips on her collarbone, when she turned her head and caught his lips with her own.

The kiss turned passionate as Tony laid her down on the grass and continued kissing her.

Half an hour later Tony and Ziva reached their home and were changing their dresses. Ziva lay down on her side and looked at the framed photo of her, Tony and Ana. A small sleepy smile pasted on her face.

Tony lay behind her wrapping her in his arms; he laid a gentle kiss on her shoulder. Ziva put out the bedside lamp and turned over in her lovers arms.

She smiled at him and kissed the tip of his nose, "I love you Tony" she said looking into his mesmerising eyes.

"I love you too Zi" he said kissing her lightly.

"I had the most amazing time tonight." she said as she buried her head in the crook of his neck.

Tony pressed his nose into her wild curly hair and hummed in answer, "we should do this again soon." he said.

Ziva was silent for a while and then she raised her head to look at him, "I would love that, but for now I really miss my baby." she said biting her lip.

Tony held her head to his chest and breathed out heavily, "Me too sweetheart."

A/N: So how was it? Please, please leave a review before you leave and I'll be happy