Chapter 10: Camp fire
They headed back to their cabins to change and shower. Gibb watched Jenny as she picked out some warm clothes and head to the showers. Ziva and Abby joined her in the bathroom, locking the door. Jenny stripped and got into one of the showers. Abby and Ziva took the other two.
"Jenny? Is there something wrong?" Ziva asked from her cubical. Jenny blushed, trust Ziva to notice.
"You seem sad," Abby added.
"It's nothing," Jenny assured them.
"Doesn't sound like nothing," Abby said, washing her hair. "Did something happen between you and, Gibbs, when he went to help you after the rock wall incident?"
"You seemed very quite during lunch too after, Gibbs had helped you," Ziva added.
Damn, why are these girls so damn observant! Jenny cringed. She knew better than to try hide something from Abby and Ziva.
"Yes and no," Jenny said.
"O' do tell," Abby gushed.
Jenny told them what happed, while washing her self.
"Interesting," Ziva murmured. They shut the water off and began drying themselves.
"My silver fox is sly," Abby giggled. Jenny blushed.
"But nothing happened and he didn't say anything afterwards to me, so maybe he regrets it," Jenny said sadly. She heard the stalls open. She wrapped her towel around her and stepped out of her stall. Abby and Ziva were wrapped in a towel too.
"Gibbs isn't like that," Ziva said. "He does not do things that he doesn't plan to follow through with."
"Ziva's right, beside. We've seen the way that, Williams has been looking at you and how he how he looked when he came out of the paint ball game. Gibbs was getting revenge," Abby laughed. "He's sweet on you".
"He properly thinks he has done something wrong and upset you somehow," Ziva said. Jenny looked to Ziva. Ziva wasn't one to speak about emotions and bother her and Abby were surprised about the advice Ziva was giving.
"What? I know what love is," Ziva said, reading their minds.
"Speaking from experience?" Abby giggled. Ziva sniffed.
"Yeah, I'm sure, Tony, has shown you what it is," Jenny said slyly. Abby giggled.
"I wonder if, McGee, knows that you have a crush on him," Ziva shot back. Abby stopped laughing.
"Touché, Ziva," Abby said. The girls sighed.
"We have fallen with the men in our team," Jenny sighed.
"Is that pathetic?" Abby asked.
"My farther is going to kill me," Ziva muttered. The girls quickly changed and dried their hair. They went back to the bedroom and saw that the guys weren't there. The girls were dressed in warm clothes as it was getting colder. The headed over to the hall and found the guys playing pool. They all looked up as the girls entered.
Tony, McGee and Gibbs watched as the girls sat down on the couches, talking.
"Wonder what they are talking about?" Tony muttered. They looked up as the hall door opened and the FBI came in. Williams, Harper and Phillips grinned as they saw Jenny, Ziva and Abby. McGee, Tony and Gibbs growled under their breaths.
"Do you think, Fornell would mind if I killed one of his agents?" Tony asked. They were now walking towards the air hockey table.
"Make it two," Gibbs growled.
"Would it be team building if we kill three of them together?" McGee asked, his eyes narrowed.
Everyone looked as the girls began to laugh.
It grew darker and Dinner was ready. They all sat together again. The girls sat together, whispering to each other and laughing. The men watched them with slightly goofy expressions. They were cute when they laughed. The girls kept glancing up at the boys and then one should shake their heads and they continued to whisper.
After dinner, Lisa and Brad told them they would be having a camp fire. They followed them out side and headed towards the fire. Gibbs sat down on a log and was surprised when Jenny sat down next to him. She smiled at him brightly and he smiled back. Ziva sat down next to Tony and Abby sat down next to Ziva making her scoot closer to Tony so that McGee could fit. Tony grinned as Ziva was practically sitting in lap. Williams and Phillips scowled at Gibbs and Tony who smiled happily back.
"OK, tonight we are going to share a little about ourselves," Lisa said, smiling. Tony felt Ziva tense up beside him.
"Fornell, why don't you start," Brad suggested. While everyone was saying something about themselves, Ziva's mind was racing. She didn't not share with people. She had many secrets and liked them best kept a secret. She could not tell the team something that they didn't already know.
"Something you don't know about me," McGee said. "is that my first job was working at a factory that makes the chips". There were a few chuckles.
"Something you don't know about me," Gibbs said. "Is that NCIS is like my family".
There was a few claps.
"I feel the same way," Jenny whispered in his ear and Gibbs smiled.
"OK, what you guys don't know about me is that my parents are deaf," Abby said, smiling.
"Something you don't know about me is that, I don't date a lot," Tony joked and Gibbs head slapped him.
"Sorry boss. Seriously, I have a birth mark on my arm," Tony said.
"You lie," Ziva said, stalling.
"Nuh-uh," Tony said and she showed him.
"I take it back," Ziva said, grinning and Tony smirked.
"Ziva, what is something that your team doesn't know about you," Lisa asked. Ziva remained silent.
"Secrets can break a team a part," Lisa said, smiling gently.
"Some secrets a best kept silent," Ziva said, glancing at Gibbs.
"Ziva, did you kill Houdini?" Tony asked.
"It is possible, I do not remember all their names," Ziva said. Tony chuckled.
"Come one, Ziva, everyone else has shared," Brad encouraged her. Ziva sighed.
"Why don't you tell us why you came a day later than everyone else," Lisa said.
Ziva felt Tony, McGee and Abby sit up straighter, eager to hear.
"Fine," Ziva said. "I came a day later because I asked, Jenny, if I could," Ziva said.
"How come?" Lisa asked.
"Because it was the anniversary of my sister, Tali, death. Every year I light a candle for those who I have known have died. I spend the whole day doing what my sister and I loved to do together," Ziva said, looking into the fire.
Everyone was shocked. They had never heard Ziva share something so personal. Tony put an arm around her and pulled her into him. She tried to shrug him off but he would not give in. Eventually she leaned into him.