Title: The DiNozzo Diaries 3: The Conversation
Author: rekkidbraka
Rating: T
Pairings: Tony D. and Ziva D.
Category: Romance; humor; angst
Disclaimer: No infringement intended.
Spoilers: From final two eps. of Season 6
Summary: Sequel to "The DiNozzo Diaries 1 & 2." Special Agent Tony DiNozzo's most private thoughts and desires revealed, chapter by chapter. TIVA. Warning: Intense sexual content in some chapters. No slash.

-------------------- The DiNozzo Diaries 3: The Conversation ---------------------

"So... anything good in Ari's notes, Z? Don't feel obligated to fill me in on anything involving him, Jeanne and kitchen whisks, though. That's a scenario I'd rather not... um... envision." Or remember. What WAS it with her and whisks? *shudder*

"Do not worry, Tony. As it turns out, Ari was exceptionally discreet about his affair with Jeanne. He mentioned only the fact that he was forced to become involved with her -- as you were -- romantically in order to gain information on her father and that the only matter about her that truly interested him was how he could eventually get the intel that Jenny wanted. He did seem worried that his relationship with Jeanne was causing a rift between he and Agent Todd, however -- that the trust they had been building was slowly disintegrating. He seemed to not know how to repair the relationship, regain her affections. Ari appeared to believe that... Caitlin?"

"Kate."

"...Kate was falling for Gibbs, of all people. Later, when he came to think he had lost her completely, he wrote that he suspected she was having an affair with Gibbs to show him how much pain his forced affair with Jeanne had caused her."

"The BOSS?!!! No... Seriously. SERIOUSLY?!!! Nahhhh... Kate and the BOSS?!!! She WOULDN'T... HE wouldn't... THEY wouldn't... WOULD they?"

"WE did."

"Well, yeah, but... Hmmm... Yeah... Yeah... We DID."

"You do not believe Agent Todd and Gibbs were ever intimate?"

"GOD, no! I've been more 'intimate' with Probie than Kate and the Boss EVER were! Wait... lemme re-phrase that."

"You and Kate were never together, Tony?"

"No, Ziva. We weren't. You're the only partner of mine who's ever become my partner in every sense of the word. Got that, Sweet Cheeks?"

"I was just asking."

"Kate was like a sister to me. Admittedly, she was like a really HOT sister that I... fantasized about. Sometimes. But we were more like brother and sister than anything else when you got down to it. That's all. Nothing else."

"You FANTASIZED about a woman who was like a sister to you? I do not even want to touch that one with a ten-foot scroll, Tony!"

"Pole. A ten-foot POLE."

"That is sick! I cannot believe you!"

"I'm not proud of it, OK? But that was the OLD me -- the guy who hadn't ever been in love. Kate thought I was a pig, anyway, and she was right. She even told Ari that about me. Said she hoped he'd introduce you to me sometime so you could kick my ass and she'd be there to see it."

"She spoke of me?"

"Oh yeah! Guess Kate and Ari had talked about what a great match we might make if we ever met. She said you'd go ninja on my ass if I tried any of my usual DiNozzo bag of tricks on you -- well, she didn't put it like that but she made her point."

"Hah! I think I would have liked Kate. She sounds like she was quite an intuitive woman."

"Totally. You two'd have gotten along like a couple of peas in a pod. She wanted you to stay with her if you ever came to D.C. Now THAT woulda been something -- little girls' night in... sleepover... pajama party... some alcohol... maybe without the PJs later on... heh heh heh... ahhh yeah..."

"I thought you had said you were going to take this mission seriously, Tony."

"Oh... right. Right! I am. Taking it. Seriously. So... *ahem* ... Kate wrote to Ari that she was afraid of Jeanne -- said she was worried that Jeanne was going to come between them somehow. You think Jeanne had anything to do with Ari getting paranoid about Kate and the Boss? I wouldn't think she'd know either of them. But maybe her old man did. I mean, he knew Jenny. So maybe he knew Gibbs. But it didn't sound like it."

"Perhaps. Then again, there may be something -- more likely, someone -- you have not considered."

"What's that, Sugar Lips?"

"A certain CIA agent who blew up your Horse."

"My 'Stang, you mean. And don't you think that's a little bit of a stretch?"

"Where Trent Kort is concerned, my little Furry Bear, nothing surprises me."

"Y'know, I bet you're right. You think he was in on this way back then, huh?"

"René Benoit went to Jenny for protection from someone who he claimed was trying to kill him, to take over his arms dealing business. Perhaps that person was Kort."

"Or someone YOU haven't considered, Honey Bunch."

"Who?"

"Well, Daddy's Little Angel comes to mind."