Title: The DiNozzo Diaries: Soul Meets Body
Author: rekkidbraka
Rating: T
Pairings: Tony D. and Ziva D.
Category: Romance; Angst
Disclaimer: No infringement intended.
Spoilers: None
Summary: Tony's most private thoughts and desires revealed, chapter by chapter

-------------------- The DiNozzo Diaries: Soul Meets Body ---------------------

We landed this morning in Tel Aviv just as the sun rose.

It was beautiful ... Never really paid attention to the sunrise before but it was amazing.

I didn't wake Ziva. She needs all the sleep she can get right now.

And we're gonna see a lot of sunrises together.

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Eli was beside himself when we carried Ziva off the plane. He didn't cry -- nothing like that -- but you could just see the relief on his face. I think he really believed she was gone this time. I know I did. Especially after that blast. Gibbs flinched, too, when it happened. That's one time the Boss looked spooked.

Gibbs huddled with that Callan guy the whole plane ride back. Turns out he's NCIS, too. They look like they go way back, the way Boss was hunkered down with him, getting info. Who sent him here? Gibbs looked confused -- totally un-Bosslike. Mann was conked out. Kort stayed behind to investigate. He's charged with shutting down La Grenouille's arms business, which Jeanne's now taken over. Guess there wasn't as much cash in the sawbones game as she thought. More money in running guns and hobnobbing with the world's terrorist scum instead of hitting the annual AMA convention in St. Paul or wherever. But she'd been helping her old man all along so it isn't like she wasn't ready to roll after he met his maker.

Kort told us he'd let us know if Jeanne died in the explosion or if she somehow escaped. I know how I'd personally like that little scenario to end but if I had to lay money on it, I'd double-down on the ex hopping her broom right before the big bang.

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Eli had Ziva taken to the hospital soon as we touched down. Whole team of doctors waiting. I wanted to go but they tore outta there in that ambulance so fast I didn't even know which end was up.

I said she wasn't getting out of my sight and she's already gone again.

Nice, Anthony. Real nice.

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The Boss is zonked. Not going anywhere near him. Making up a new rule: "Let sleeping Gibbs lie."

Mann's still dead to the world. I think the stress of having Eli and the Boss pulling her this way and that finally just did her in.

And Callan? Nice guy. Just fell right onto the last guest bed in the house -- MY guest bed!

OK, so he says he was sent to find Ziva "by NCIS." First of all, I wanna know who sent him if Gibbs wasn't in on it. Second, finding Ziva was MY plan and I was on it. WITH Gibbs. Sure, I appreciate Callan helping her but it's not like I wasn't getting it done. We were THERE.

Oh... and one more thing: The way he kept looking at Ziva all the way back on the plane? I don't like it. At all.

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No word from Eli from the hospital yet. Ziva's gotta be OK. She was a little banged up, dehydrated, but nothing she couldn't handle. Just slept a lot on the way back. DAMMIT, why doesn't he call? C'mon, Eli...

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Nowhere to sleep around this place. Can't bunk with Gibbs. Mann's in Eli's room. Callan STOLE my bed.

That leaves Ziva's bedroom.

I shouldn't. Eli's gonna bring her home from the hospital and GOD knows I don't want him finding me in her bed but...

... I'm just so ... *yawwwwnnnn* ... sleepy.

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Woke up around... I don't know when ... and she was lying here.

Head on my chest, arm around me, black hair everywhere.

Don't know how long I'd been asleep, but she was awake -- watching me.

I told her. I told her I love her. Whispered it but she heard. Turns out she loves me, too. She told me so.

It's gonna be great whenever we finally make love. I know it is. No games. No tricks. Just us.

But tonight, this is perfect. This is all I want.

This is everything.

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All I'll say is this: I was willing to wait until she was ready, until she was in better shape -- whatever she wanted.

Ziva? She had other ideas.

The slump I was in when I started this journal -- yeah, that's over. For good.

I'm batting a thousand now. Ahhhhh...

God, I hope Eli didn't hear anything. These walls are thinner than McGeek's list of available chicks for a date night.

And I'm, uh... glad I brought those extra condoms, too.