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This is the second part of Valentine's Day since I separated this and the last chapter. And now I'm separating this chapter into 2 chaps because this one got too long, well in my standard anyway because I like to keep one chapter between 1500-2500 words. So this is the part 1 of the part 2.


"I cannot believe I actually agreed to do this." Ziva said as she fell back to the ground exhausted.

"Well you did and look at where it lead us." Tony responded as he lied beside her.

"Me completely out of breath?" Ziva said as she gave Tony a look.

"Oh cheer up Ziva! Look at that cute little snowman, doesn't he look happy?" Ziva rolled her eyes at him as he piratically pouted.

"The thing will melt in less than few hours. But building it completely tired me off."

"Out, Ziva. Tired me out." Tony corrected her immediately. "Besides it's not my fault you insisted to do all the work. All I said was that I had experience building this before and I'd do the work you could decorate but you had to prove that you were capable of lifting and stacking the big snowballs by yourself. It's not as if I don't know how strong you are."

"Hey I just offered to do it because you still looked sick from last week Tony." Ziva defended herself, which was not one hundred percent lie because he did get sick last week and she was uncharacteristically really worried for him.

"Whatever you say." Tony said in defeat as he stood up, but mumbled to himself . "Crazy Israeli ninja chick."

"Heard that Tony." Ziva said now standing directly in front of him instead of on the spot that she was laying on just a second ago.

"Wha-ho-wh-I-you-theri-uh-never mind." Tony managed to stutter out.

"I think you promised to show me some running routes, yes?" Ziva asked after smirking at Tony's surprise.

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"Ziva would you please slow down." Tony panted as he tried to catch up to Ziva.

"How would I know if this is a good running route if I do not actually try it and I am running slowly." Ziva answered now stopping and turning around. Of course she was neither that naive nor stupid, so she knew that finding running routes was not the intention of this trip set up by Jenny. The truth was that Ziva actually wanted test how fast Tony could run and surprisingly for her, unlike most other Americans he was very fit. Maybe even...

"By whose scale?" Ziva snapped back into reality when she realized Tony has caught up to her.

"Mine" Tony was ready to reply but he was way too tired so he decided instead that he'd sit down first. He sank into the bench under the tree as he walked up to it. He took a minute to catch up with his breaths, at least it was in the winter so he won't feel like he's going to boil up any second, he thought to himself.

"Do you run like that every morning?" Tony asked as he looked up to her who was standing in front of him with her arms crossed.

"It depends on who I'm running with. Ari and my father ran way faster than that most of the time."

"Damn crazy ninja chick bearing fathers." Tony said under his breath

"What?" Ziva said in confusion as somehow not very unlike Gibbs heard what wasn't meant for her to.

"Nothing I mean you're just the first girl I've met who's faster and stronger that me." When Ziva frowned he immediately realized what he have said and started to defend himself before Ziva could open her mouth or grab the paper clip in her pocket. "Not as in I think women are weak, but it's just, you know I just think it's cool." He decided he'll have to settle with that before he could say anymore stupid things, like the phrase 'it's cool'. But he couldn't get over the temptation to talk as Ziva simply shook her head and rolled her eyes at him for the God knows how many times this afternoon. "It's just no girl has ran faster than me before 'cause I'm sort of fast right, so Kate probably ran as fast as me but not faster, and I think you're amazing thaa..."

Tony's voice phased out of Ziva's mind as her heartbeat started to become faster instead of slowing down after she stopped running. Ziva ordered her heart to stop pounding so hard but it did not listen to her. She tried to breath in and out slowly to calm herself but all it did was make her aware of parts of Tony's dialog, a particular part that was not helping her to convince herself that she did not like Tony. It was still ridiculous to her how she could care so much about a boy she has met for only two weeks but she could not help herself. And at the moment she heard Tony say the word 'I love' she needed to stop it immediately before she started spilling her what was it again, git, gat, whatever it was out. She, no longer caring what Tony said with the two words, she left it up with her instincts, trusting it. But instead of stopping Tony from talking, well it did sort of stop Tony from talking but definitely not the way she wanted this to go down:she leaned down and kissed him.

Tony stopped his blabbering as someones lips pressed lightly against his. His eyes widened as he realized who the lip belonged to. Is Ziva kissing me? Is she kissing me? But before he could clear his mind enough to break it apart he was completely drawn into the kiss. He pressed his lips slightly harder but still gentle against hers as he stood and pinned her against the closest tree available. After what seemed like a life time they broke apart.

"I'm sorry Tony. I did not-" Ziva started apologizing but Tony cut her off.

"Well I'm not. Not because apologizing is a sign of weakness like according to Gibbs, but I... I like you Ziva, I really do. I know it sounds crazy to say this to someone who I've met only two weeks ago but I really do." Tony stared into Ziva's eyes, at that moment nothing in the world Ziva David wanted more than to rewind the last five minutes and start over to make sure it was... it didn't matter what it was, she thought to herself, as long as it wasn't this. But when she looked into Tony's eyes she saw that she was not kidding and he really meant it. The determination in his eyes completely melted her away and four words slipped out of her mouth before she could stop it."I like you too."

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As Ziva and Tony stopped kissing to catch up with their breaths, Ziva for the first time in hours examined her surroundings. It was unusually dark for an afternoon. It's probably getting cloudy ,she told herself until she turned around to see that the sun was setting. She shot up from the bench which almost made Tony crash against the bench as they were leaning on each other before. "Ziva what-"

"1806h!" Ziva screeched in shock as she opened her phone to read that it was already past 6 o'clock and there was 10 missed calls, 3 from home, and 7 from Ari's cellphone. "Damn it." She yelled very loudly causing people nearby to look at her but she did not care.

"What is it Ziva?" Tony asked now alarmed.

Ziva shut her eyes tightly as she cursed herself again. "It is Saturday, my father brings me and Ari to a nearby shooting range in the evening for practice. I was supposed to be home by four. I checked right before we..." Her face was now in the hands as she prayed that her father called to tell her that he couldn't make to the shooting range today because of business, but Ziva knew that was not going to happen because if that was the case he would not have called. She listened to all of Ari's message which all involved asking her where she was and telling to to get home, go to the shooting range fast, and the latest one telling her to avoid going home. She didn't even bother to listen to her father's message, because just the thought of what it could have been made her shiver. her sighed heavily as she announced to Tony. "I should get home now." Even though Ari told her to wait, she knew that he knew her father will not calm down until she got home and would take out his anger on other people and things, probably Ari. She did not want Ari to bear with her angry father alone, especially when she was the one who was responsible for her father's faulty mood. And she did not want the one phone call he actually make once a month to her mother in Tel Aviv to consist of yelling and accusations.

As they walked towards to park exit, Tony wondered to himself what kind of relationship Ziva has with her father. Clearly the girl who was afraid of nothing and nonchalantly showing off with her skills reminding people constantly she can kill them with paper clips 18 different ways on some level feared her father. He didn't know how much but she was afraid of him alright, more than in a normal father-daughter relationship way though. What ever it was he was going to stand by her.


TBC and please review (tell me if you think they are out of character though) Then next one will be later today or tommorow