So Thankyou to all that took the time to REVIEW for the last chapter. = D We're actually getting somewhere in this chapter.
Nickell I loved your review for chaper 8. Defiently was one of the one's to put a smile on my face. = )
Oh and I know NOTHING about soccer. So I had to google some things (Which didnt help) So I dont spend to much time on the subject.
Oh and to those of you having problems picturing Noah, just imagine a miniture Ziva in the form of a four year old boy. With curly brown hair, and big brown eyes. I have a picture on my page that is similar to how I picture Noah.
Okay enough with my rant go ahead and read, and tell me what you think = )
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"Mommy when is Tony going to come" Noah asked kicking the soccer ball in the air.
"I don't know Noah" Ziva said looking around the park herself for Tony. For the past week or so, Tony had been helping Noah learn how to get gain better control over the ball. Not that Tony knew much himself.
But Ziva could see the improvement in Noah's skills and she saw his confidence level go up. Noah had his first game tomorrow and him and Tony wanted to get an extra practice in before the big day.
"Maybe you should call him." Noah suggested to his mother.
"Yeah maybe" Ziva said slowly considering taking her phone out and making the call.
"WAIT No Mom he's here he's here!" Noah said pointing behind Ziva.
Sure enough when Ziva turned around she saw Tony standing on the other side of the park trying to remove a box from his trunk.
"What is Tony up to now" Ziva thought as she watched Noah dash from behind her and run towards Tony and his car. She meet them just as Tony set the box on the ground in front of Noah.
"Tony what is this?" Ziva asked suspicious
"Yeah what is it?" Noah asked curiously looking at the box. Trying to figure out what was inside.
"Patient is the key, you'll find out sooner than later." Tony said with a smile. Picking up the box. He closed his trunk and walked back in the direction where Noah and Ziva was originally standing.
Ziva and Noah followed behind him, both curious as to what he was up too.
Tony set the box down in the middle of the park and opened it. Pulling out the instructions he took one look at it and set it down. He than pulled out a net and quite a few poles after that.
"A soccer net Tony?" Ziva asked putting two and two together.
"Not just any soccer net." Tony grunted trying to push pole A into B. "But Noah's very own personal Soccer goal."
"Really? Its mine?" Noah asked. A little shock, surprised and excited all in one.
"Yup after were done today you can take it home and put it in your back yard, and practice whenever you want."
"Tony I don't have a backyard." Ziva spoke
"You don't?" Tony looked up and asked. "Well we can put it in my backyard."
"Tony YOU don't have a backyard." Ziva said again
"You know what your right I don't, well then we can just leave this at my house and I can take you to the park whenever you want to practice or just play." Tony said and then went back to putting the net together.
"Cool thanks Tony" Noah smiled.
Once Tony was done he took the ball from Noah to try it out. Ziva stepped back and watched the two of them take turns trying to get the ball pass each other.
She smiled to her self as she watched them, she loved how happy not only Noah looked but Tony too. Their faces always light up when they saw each other, and Noah only usually wore that kind of smile for one person and that was his dad.
But even then the smile was different. Tony and Noah really enjoyed each others company any fool could see that. She was thankful Tony still agreed to come around after there "talk".
The two weeks that they didn't talk were hell on both her and Noah. She actually missed Tony more than she would ever admit.
Ziva found a near by tree and sat underneath its blanket of shade and watched Noah and Tony play. She could sit there all day and watch the two of them. It was so peaceful seeing them laugh and play.
After about a hour went by Noah and Tony were finally ready to go.
"Eww Noah you need a really good bath." Ziva said once the outside smell on Noah hit her. She had just placed Noah in his booster seat and shut the door.
"What do you want him to smell like flowers? He smells like a boy Ziva leave him alone." Tony intervened walking up with the soccer net in his hands.
"Of course I don't want him to smell like flowers Tony, but I also don't want him to smell in general."
"He smells like a boy who had fun." Tony laughed popping his trunk. Ziva walked from around her car to Tony's trunk.
"Need some help?" She asked as Tony was having some difficulty fitting the whole thing in his trunk. With out waiting for an answer she helped him push it even further in and get the trunk close.
"Thanks" Tony said turning around now being mere inches away from Ziva. He held his breath and tried to take a step back but only hit car. Instead of making it obvious of how nervous he suddenly was he stood there and prayed that Ziva wouldn't hear his heartbeat.
"Your welcome Tony." Ziva said quietly. Starting to feel weird and nervous. Her and Tony were standing pretty close. Ziva made the mistake of looking up just in time to see Tony staring at her and suddenly there eyes met. Neither of them could look away.
Ziva felt a spark of electricity run through her. The butterflies began to flutter through her stomach and her heart started running a marathon.
Looking into Tony's eyes she suddenly felt vulnerable as if she was being exposed to the world.
"Umm…I should get going." Ziva stuttered out still not looking away.
"Yeah me too." Tony whispered not looking away his self until Ziva finally tore her eyes away from her. The red in her cheeks were easily noticeable. She wouldn't look back at Tony as she turned to go towards her car.
Tony instead walked to the other side of her car to say bye to Noah only to be greeted by loud snores from the back seat.
"Well I guess he's out." Tony laughed. Ziva barely gave him an audible answer still looking forward. Refusing to look back at Tony.
Tony stared at the back of her head for a minute. Taking one last look at Noah he walked off into the opposite direction getting into his car and driving off.
Ziva sat there for a minute before she leaned her head forward against the steering wheel and sighed. The loud beep that came from her pushing her head against the horn scared her and she jumped up. Looking into the back seat she saw that Noah was still sound asleep.
Slowly she pulled off. Still wondering if she had done the right thing.
"Abby I think I messed up." Ziva said into the phone once in the privacy home.
"Messed up how?"
"With Tony." Ziva said trying to balance the phone and do the dished at the same time. Her and Noah had just got done with dinner and he was already in bed sleep.
"Ziva I'm confused, messed up what with Tony."
"Messed up everything with Tony, are chance." Ziva said feeling sad
"Didn't you tell him ya'll chance already had passed?" Abby said leaning back in her chair.
"Yeah but what if it didn't, what if we still had a chance?" Ziva asked she stepped back away from the sink after she almost dropped the phone in the sink. Leaning against the counter she dried her hands off. "What if I made us miss are chance?"
"And why do you suddenly feel this way?"
"I don't know, today he was with Noah and I was just watching the two of them and I want that, I want that family structure for Noah. He's perfect for us. I just there's so much going on and what if I made the wrong choice because im…." Ziva trailed off looking for the right word.
"Scared?" Abby asked
"I wasn't going to say scared"
"Well I'm going to say scared, because it's the truth, you let your fear take over your heart."
"I did not."
"You did too, because if you didn't we wouldn't be having this conversation right now would we?"
"Whatever Abby, I hate it when you right."
"Thank you" Abby smiled. "Talk to Tony, tell Tony this."
"Tony is not going to want me after what I did to him, I wouldn't want me."
"Then you don't know Tony as well as you think you do." Abby claimed with a smile on her face.
Ziva sat down in a near by chair and thought about what Abby said. Maybe she's not giving Tony enough credit.
"Get off the phone with me and call Tony tonight."
"No not tonight, I need to sleep on this and think about it, maybe tomorrow."
"Whatever Ziva, just do it soon." Abby stated
"Wait Abby are you still coming to Noah's game?"
"Of course I'm coming everyone is going to be there." Abby said
"Ok thanks" Ziva said before hanging up.
McGee returned to the bleachers with three bottles of water. Handing one to Abby and another to Ziva he sat next to Abby.
"Thanks McGee" Abby and Ziva chimed together. The sun was beaming straight down on them and they were both grateful McGee thought of them at the concession stand
The bleachers across from them roared again as the opposing team scored again.
Ziva looked down and saw Tony groan. Noah and his team weren't exactly doing their best and Tony had yet to sit down since arriving.
"Someone needs to score, the game is almost over." McGee said stating the obvious. Ziva was happy to see everyone from the team including Ducky and Palmer show up for Noah's first game.
"I know" She murmured sitting on the edge of her seat.
"Tony is more nervous than the kids" Abby commented as Tony started pacing. Ziva Gibbs and McGee just laughed.
"OH Look Noah got the ball, Noah has the ball." Abby suddenly yelled pointing towards Noah's little figure moving down the field with the ball.
Everyone rose up out of there seats as Noah moved closer and closer to the net.
"Come on come on remember what." I told you Tony whispered studying Noah and the ball.
Once close enough Noah kicked the ball and through the net it went . The whole bleachers jumped up and cheered.
"GOOOOOAAAAALLLLL" Tony yelled from down below. Which was just in time seeing how the game was now over
"Noah, Noah, Noah" Everyone yelled on the way back to the car as Noah sat propped up on Tony's shoulders with a huge smile on his face.
"Did you see me? I scored a goal and we won" Noah laughed from up top.
"Yeah of course we saw you, who could miss you?" McGee asked.
"And everybody came." Noah said looking around at all the familiar faces. Tony set him down in front of Ziva's car and slapped him up.
"Yeah we all came Noah Love, We wouldn't miss this for the world." Abby smiled and placed a kiss on Noah's forehead. McGee patted his back and shook his hand. "Congratulations Noah, I'm really proud of you, but I have to go."
"You're leaving already McGoo? I was going to see of you all wanted to go get ice cream or something in celebration.
"Nah not tonight I have to go."
"Me to Tony." Ducky and Gibbs said at the same time. They both said there goodbyes to Noah and walked off towards their cars.
"Well me and Palmer can go." Abby said she leaned down to pick up Noah and realized he wasn't as light as she thought he was. "Oh my gosh Noah your heavy."
"No he's not. He's average for his height and weight." Ziva stated. Leaning against her car she looked down at Noah. "Maybe I should take him home first, and get him clean up before we go out to ice cream."
"No let him show it off. Were celebrating let him be a boy for tonight." Tony said to Ziva.
"Tony its dirt. Who shows off dirt?" Ziva asked.
After everyone agreed with Tony, Ziva reluctantly gave up and got in her car with Tony and Noah. The whole ride there Tony and Noah laughed and talked about the game.
Upon arriving at the ice cream pallor Ziva realized that neither Abby or Palmer was there yet.
"We're here first want to grab a table?" Ziva asked Tony.
"Yeah , well here comes Abby." Tony pointed to Abby's car as she pulled into the parking lot with Palmer's car behind her.
"Good we can all walk in together." Ziva said as they waited for them to meet them at the door.
Once inside everyone took there seats and ordered their ice cream. They saw a couple other families from Noah's team there enjoying their ice cream to. Everyone gave their props to Noah and kept buying him candy to eat.
After a while Tony stood up to make a speech. Taking his spoon to his glass he cleared his throat and Noah laughed.
"I just wanted to say how proud I am of you Noah, you worked very hard to get here and I saw you display that on the field. If you put your mind to it there is so much you can do. Never get discouraged and always remember that everyone sitting here is rooting for you. We all love you." Tony rose his glass in the air "So here's to my most favorite four year old ever, to Noah."
The table clapped for Tony's speech and rose there glasses to. "To Noah" Everyone around the table and a few people at nearby tables said taking a sip of there water or juice.
Tony sat back down and rubbed Noah's head. He looked over to Ziva and she smiled at him.
Underneath the table Abby kicked Ziva's foot to get her attention. "Do it now." She mouthed not trying to make it obvious, not that anyone caught on. They were to busy talking to Noah.
"Abby I don't think now Is such a good idea."
"Now is perfect, go outside and talk to him." Abby kicked Ziva again before she went back to eating one of the many candy bars that were sent over to the table for Noah to eat.
Ziva sat there for a while and looked over to Tony who was still engaged in a conversation with Noah and Palmer.
When Abby kicked her again she tapped Tony's shoulder.
"Tony can I talk to you outside?" She asked quietly.
"Suurre." He answered not sure what she could want.
As the two of them began to get up from the table Abby gave Ziva two thumbs up and a smile, which Ziva returned.
"Hey where are you going Mommy?" Noah asked getting up from the table too.
"Just outside for a quick second to talk to Tony. We'll be right back." Ziva said walking over to where Noah stood, she lifted him up placing kisses all over his face and set him back in his seat.
"Okay Mommy." Noah said in between giggles.
Once outside Ziva lead them to the other side of he ice cream pallor to a random bench where they sat.
"What's up Zee?" Tony asked, you could hear the nervousness in his voice and Ziva couldn't blame him, she was nervous her self.
"I just wanted to talk that's all." Zia tried to say nonchalant, but Tony could hear the anxiety in her voice too. Ziva took a big gasp of air, and then sighed. She had no clue what to say or how to say it.
Tony stared at her and was wondering what the hell was going through her head. He hoped and prayed that it wasn't nothing bad. He couldn't take not being able to see her and Noah again.
"Tony can you stop staring at me just for a moment, I cant think with you looking at me." Ziva asked softly. She could feel Tony's eyes burning a hole in the side of her face, and him trying to figure out what she wanted to say to him was making her head hurt.
"Okay." Tony said confused. "But Ziva whatever it is just say it please, your making me nervous." Tony told her, hoping to break her.
"I know just give me a minute." Ziva told him as she continued to get her words together.
Tony turned his head and looked towards the sky. The sun was still out bright and loud. It wasn't as hot as it was earlier but it was still very warm outside. Tony looked at his watch and saw it was nearing five O'clock.
"Ziva, can you please say something, I'm dying over here." Tony begged.
Ziva sighed again and looked down at her fingers before speaking again in a soft low tone. "I think I made a mistake."
"A mistake how?" Tony asked not sure what she met and was really starting to get scared.
Ziva tilted her head back some, and looked at the sky. Sighing again she looked back down at her fingers.
"Come on Zee, its nothing we cant fix." Tony told her. Couching her on, trying to get her to see his point. "What is it?"
"With you." Ziva said even lower then before, right now she was scared shit-less and was actually waiting for Tony to catch on and reject her.
"With me? Ziva what the hell are you talking about?" Tony asked confused. His mind was else where and he really wasn't picking on.
"Tony." Ziva groaned in annoyance. Why was he acting so slow?
"Ziva I really don't know what your talking about, your not saying anything that's making any sense."
"I don't know what the hell your posse to say when you reject a person and then start to regret it." Ziva finally said her patients were actually wearing and she needed Tony to understand what she was trying to say.
"Oh." was all Tony said at first. Was she really trying to tell him what he thought she was? They already had been down that road and was she trying to go down it again.
"I know you probably don't want me now, seeing how I caused you so much pain and all, but at the time I thought I was doing what was best for me and Noah, but I was wrong. I just had to tell you that you were right, maybe we could make this work." Ziva stated. She couldn't even look at Tony who had yet to speak again.
He sat there in awe for a minute and tried to process what Ziva had said. "Ziva I don't know what be going through your brain half the time, but I don't know why you would think I could even consider not wanting you." Tony said turning his head towards her.
That got her attention and she looked up from her hands and into his eyes. The look in his eyes took her breath away. She saw nothing but love.
"I have told you more than once, I cant imagine my life with out you in it." Tony smiled leaning closer and closer to Ziva's face with each word.
"And Noah?" Ziva asked with a smile growing on her face as she moved closer to fill in the gaps between her and Tony.
"Defiantly Noah, I mean what would we do without Noah?" Tony smiled and leaned in finally close enough to kiss her. Ziva automatically placed her hand around Tony's neck and pulled him in closer while Tony ran his hands through her soft curls.
"I think we should go back in." Ziva said against Tony's lips.
"Yeah I'm surprised Abby hasn't come looking for us.
"She knows were okay." Ziva informed
Tony smiled and leaned in again. Kissing Ziva softly. Closing his eyes he took in her scent, and realized he cold stay like that forever.
"Toonnyyy" Ziva moaned when he went to kiss her again. This time on her neck.
"I know I'm sorry I just cant help it. Do you know how long I've waited to be able to do that." Tony informed her against her neck. "Don't worry I wont leave a mark"
"Tony, no for real we have to go back in before Abby really gets worried."
"Okay fine but only if you agree to let me take you out tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Ziva asked looking at his face to see if he was serious or not
"Yes tomorrow night. We can talk and figure this thing out."
"That's all you want to do is talk?" Ziva asked curious to what his answer might be
"We can do whatever you want to do" Tony informed her. But first lets get back in their before Abby comes out thinking something is wrong.
So yeah there you have it! Chapter 10 is finish I just need to figure out a way to upload it. Having major computer problems again. So when I figure it out the next chapter will be up! =)
But anyways lets see if we can make it to 70 Reviews. So many of you get story Alerts (Around 80) but only around 8 of you review -_- I really would love to hear your opinion on each chapter. It really helps and inspire me to write faster and try to make each chapter better than the last.
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