Oh my God. I'm a bad person. I'm sure you don't want to hear my excuses, so let's just say that life got in the way. A lot. And I apologize for not updating this long. I hope you'll still read this.
And I really like season 9 too. Especially the episode 'Sins Of The Father'...Senior's always trying to get our favourite agents together, isn't he? haha, oh well.
okay so here's the next chapter. It's mostly Ziva/Abby and Gibbs/Ziva, i just felt like writing them. :)
Disclaimer: The more I'm saying it, the more it hurts: NO IT'S NOT MINE.
At five a.m. Gibbs went to get Ziva. Her neighbours had offered to drive her home about an hour earlier, but he had told them to leave. Ducky had left with them. He really seemed to like the elderly couple. That only left McGee, Abby and himself. McGee was sleeping in the waiting room, obviously waiting for Abby, but the Goth showed no signs of leaving. In fact she was bouncing down the hall next to him.
"Stop that bouncing, Abbs." Gibbs said and put a hand on her shoulder to keep her on the ground. She shot him a disappointed glance, but fell to a normal walk. Her hands, however, she couldn't keep from moving. The silver haired man sighed. "How many Caf-Pows did you have over the last four hours?"
"Only three or four. There was that male nurse, Oliver, and he was, like, really cute. He gave 'em to me and I think he liked me. Not 'like' as in a romantic kinda way, but 'like' in a McGee-ish way, you know? Mhhh...I wonder if McGee got jealous. What do you think Gibbs?" No reply. "Gibbs?" the older man just stared at her and so she decided to shut up.
When they found Tony's room, they didn't enter straight away. Gibbs just looked inside through the door's little window. And he did not exactly like what he saw...which didn't mean that he didn't like it at all. He just needed to get used to it. There were his two best agents, lying in an intimate embrace on the hospital bed. And they looked...happy. Both hadn't really been happy in some time, Gibbs knew that, and if they needed to be together to be happy, then he was the last one to stop them. But he also knew that DiNozzo was terrified of breaking his rules. Oh, this was gonna be fun.
"What's that smirk doing on your face, Gibbs?" Abby asked and pushed him aside, so she could have a look through the window herself. When she saw her best friends sleeping side by side she started jumping up and down again. "Awwww! Ohmygosh, they're so cute Gibbs! Please tell me you're banning rule 12! It's stupid!" Gibbs raised his eyebrows in surprise. Usually the Goth was always one to respect him and his rules. Abby gulped when she saw his look. "Ummm...well I mean it's not stupid stupid. Just in this situation. I would never doubt any of your rules, I swear, it's just tha-"
"Rule 12 is banned." Gibbs interrupted. Abby screeched and threw herself at him. He gave her a small kiss on the cheek, before he stepped back. "Just don't tell 'em. They'll have to figure it out themselves. Now get Ziva, so I can drive her home." With that he turned to head back in the direction they'd come from.
"You're mean Gibbs!" Abby called after him, but smiled. She'd always known that Gibbs would never stop his agents from getting together if they really wanted to. They just needed the courage to stand up for their feelings in front of him and keep the relationship out of the office. It had worked fine for herself and McGee for a little while all those years ago. With a smile on her lips she entered the hospital room to wake Ziva.
"Ziva? C'mon wake up!" Abby whispered as low as she could with all that Caf-Pow! in her system and shook her friend slightly. "Ziva!"
Ziva was awake in an instant and looked around the room, obviously startled. "Is Tony okay?" was the first thing she said, while she anxiously checked all the monitors. She sighed with relief when everything seemed okay. Abby suppressed a giggle. She had never seen her friend, the trained assassin, in that much of a nurse mode before.
"He's fine. Now come on...we're leaving. Gibbs will drive you home." She explained and helped her off the bed. Ziva's legs where stiff and she had to stretch before she was able to walk properly. Then she put on her shoes and touched Tony's hand to say goodbye, even though he was still deeply asleep. Abby's smile grew even wider. "Ready to leave?"
Ziva nodded, stole one last look at her partner and followed Abby out of the room. While the two women walked back to the waiting room, Ziva noticed the weird look Abby was giving her. It made her feel self-conscious. "What?" she asked. Abby grinned and raised an eyebrow at her.
"So?"
"Abby what is it?"
"Did you have the talk? Are you together now?" Abby pushed. Ziva rolled her eyes at her friend, but couldn't keep a smile off her face.
"We did not exactly talk about that. But I apologized. For everything. And I might have used a contraction or two and he thought it was hot. Although he was all drugged I wouldn't interpret anything into it."
"Ziva, you're grinning like an idiot. What else did he say?"
"He said he loved me." Ziva whispered and her cheeks went a bright shade of pink. Abby squealed like crazy and hugged her friend harder than she had ever hugged a person in her life.
When the Goth let go of her friend Ziva's cheeks were still slightly more colourful than usual. "Are you blushing?" Abby said, apparently a bit too loud because a grumpy looking doctor told her to be quiet. "Oh my God, you're so blushing." She continued in a lower voice. Ziva shook her head, turned and walked off in the waiting room's direction. "I saw it! Don't you try to deny it!" Abby yelled and ran after her.
"What'd you see Abbs?" Gibbs asked and took a sip from his Starbucks coffee. Abby wondered where he'd gotten that one. She'd only been gone for like five minutes.
"Nothing." Gibbs gave her a weird look, so she yawned a fake-yawn and stretched her arms in exaggeration. "Whoa, I'm getting really tired. McGee, can you drive me home?" she asked to change the subject.
"Sure" McGee yawned as well, only he actually was tired, and got up from his seat. "Boss? When do we need to be at work tomorrow or, better, today?" he asked. Gibbs took a look at his watch. 5:15 am.
"I'll see ya at three. We'll have to wrap up the paperwork on the King Case." Gibbs said and sighed. McGee nodded and handed Abby her jacket before he put on his own.
"Okay boss. See you then. Goodnight."
"G'night Ziva! Night Gibbs!" Abby yelled and waved over her shoulder. Ziva smiled at her before she turned to Gibbs.
"Anything you wanna tell me David?" the older man asked when the two of them headed down the hall to the elevators. Ziva just looked at him. She wasn't entirely sure, but she thought the question might have been Tony-related. In that case it was better to remain silent. She just shook her head. "How is he?" Gibbs asked.
"He was in pain earlier but then the nurse gave him painkillers. He is fine know, I think."
"Good. I take it his other arm must be fine since he had no troubles with holding his partner close." He had to take a sip from his coffee to stop himself from grinning. Ziva was caught off-guard by his statement, because she hadn't known that their boss had seen them.
"Erm...well...yeah. His other arm is definitely fine." Ziva cleared her throat and avoided Gibbs' eyes. "He didn't want me to leave...so I practically begged the nurse to let me stay. I just thought it would be better for him." She tried to explain the situation. Gibbs just nodded. They were standing at his car and there was an awkward silence before Gibbs spoke again.
"It's always good to have a partner who trusts you even in his sleep Ziva. And Tony's a good agent and an even better partner to you."
"I know."
"I'll tell you one thing." Gibbs continued while they got in his car. "Keep rule nr 5 in mind."
"I will." Ziva said but she wasn't exactly sure which rule it was. Always work as a team? No. That was rule 15. "Thank you Gibbs."
"It's okay, kid." He put a hand on hers and looked at her from the corner of his eye. The drive to Ziva's apartment was silent, but it was a comfortable silence. Neither of them talked because everything had been said.
When the car stopped, Ziva woke up. She didn't remember when she had fallen asleep, but she was too tired to care. So she just got out and yawned. "Thanks for driving me home." She mumbled sleepily and turned, but stopped immediately. "Gibbs, that's your house." She stated confused.
"Yep. Your car is still at the Navy Yard and I figured it would be easier for you to stay here. You know where everything is don't ya?"
Ziva sighed and nodded. They both went inside and Gibbs walked straight down the stairs to his basement. "Goodnight kid." He called up.
"Night." Ziva called back and went down the hall into the bathroom. She took a hot shower and brushed her teeth with the toothbrush she always kept at Gibbs' place. Then she dressed in her old sweatpants and Gibbs' NIS sweater before she went to bed in the guest room. On the nightstand was a photo of the team at Ducky's last birthday. It was one of her favourite photos because she and Tony were standing really close and he looked at her instead of the camera with a totally adorable look on his face. Ziva decided that she would ask Gibbs if they could drop by at the hospital before actually driving to NCIS HQ.
Her eyes fell shut and she noticed that she'd felt much more comfortable when she'd slept in Tony's arms. Before she dozed off completely she finally remembered what rule nr 5 was. You don't waste good. Had Gibbs really been suggesting that being with Tony was the right thing to do? No that couldn't be. Gibbs would never allow them to break his precious rule 12. But then...hadn't Tony broken it once already with EJ? And Gibbs hadn't mentioned anything about not liking them lying in an intimate embrace in bed, had he? At that point Ziva was too tired to continue thinking, but she had new hope. Hope that everything would be fine. Soon. Never had anything sounded that good to her in her life. Well except for Tony telling her that he loved her.
As always i'd love to hear your thoughts. So please leave a Review :D
I don't know when I'll be able to update next, firstly because of school and secondly because I've really been into Castle lately and it's mixing up my NCIS-ness a bit.
I really feel like I'm cheating on Team Gibbs, but they'll always be my Nr. 1 :DD
Also I've been thinking about re-writing this whole story to correct mistakes and change little details I've had in my head for a while. But I'm not exactly sure if I'll have the time.
I apologize for my rambling at this point ;)
