It Says Home Is Where Your Heart Is

For lack of a better word and that's my best excuse...

-Jesus of Suburbia, Green Day

I quite enjoyed writing this chapter, so I hope enjoy reading it!

If you're a Green Day fan, you'll notice the title is from the same song as the lyrics at the beginning – but I doubt any of you are.

The sun shone through the window illuminating the room, waking Tony and Ziva up. Tony perched himself up on his elbows and squinted from the sun shining in his eyes.

"That's weird..." He tried to bring himself to open his eyes fully.

"What is?" Ziva questioned whilst rubbing her face.

"I don't remember last night, but I don't have a hangover..." Tony finally managed to open his eyes fully, regretting it as he felt blinded.

"You're right, that is strange. I feel the same actually." Ziva reluctantly peeled back the blankets and swung her legs round to the edge of the bed, placing her feet on the floor.

"Where are you going?" Tony decided to lie back down. Ziva stopped in her tracks and turned round to face him.

"To the bathroom, do I need permission from you?" Ziva retorted.

"Someone's sassy today." He replied as he threw a pillow at her. She laughed, threw it back and continued to the bathroom. A few moments later, she crawled back into bed and lay facing Tony.

"I want to talk about moving in together." She randomly commented as she messed with his hair.

"Sure." He tried to hide his excitement but she could see it in his eyes.

"I will move in with you on one condition..." She trailed off waiting for him to ask what it was.

"And what's that, sweetcheeks?" He grinned at her, which gave her butterfly's like always.

"We move into your apartment." She continued messing with his hair, it was one of her favourite things to do.

"Of course, that's fine with me. How come?" He started stroking her arm lightly.

"Well, my apartment doesn't feel like a home unlike yours, and I don't want to go through the hassle of finding somewhere new – not yet anyway." She leaned closer and gave him a short kiss.

"Fair enough." He kissed her again, continuing what she'd stopped before. He tried not to show how excited he was that she'd spoken about it again and made a decision.

"I should probably get showered so I can go and sort my apartment out." She got out of bed, and headed for the bathroom to get ready. DiNozzo grabbed his phone off the bedside table and texted Abby.

The plan worked, meet me for coffee?

While he waited for a reply, he checked his emails then started to play Tetris. Just as he got to level three, Abby replied.

YES! Totally. The Coffee Pot in an hour?

Tony knew Abby would be thrilled about the whole situation and would want all the details.

Sure, see you there.

Half an hour later, Ziva kissed Tony goodbye and headed to her apartment.

"Let me know if you need any help!" DiNozzo shouted down the hallway.

"Thank you. I will." Ziva yelled back before entering the lift.

DiNozzo got showered and headed to meet Abby.

"Hey Abs!" Abby stood up from her chair and hugged Tony.

"Hey! Give me ALL of the details!" Abby yelled in excitement, DiNozzo simply laughed.

"Let me order first. Drinks are on me, what do you want?"

"Strawberry milkshake, please!" Abby grinned as Tony headed over to the tills. A few moments later, he returned with a cappuccino and Abby's strawberry milkshake.

"Thank you." She grinned as she took a sip, waiting for Tony to tell her everything.

"The lasagna went great." Abby nodded. "Then I told her I wanted to move in together and she tried to walk off." Abby's mouth opened in shock. "But then I told her I couldn't help unless she told me what the problem was." Abby nodded again. "She said she didn't want to move in together because then it would be real. She basically thought it would mess up how things are now. But I managed to persuade her." Abby started clapping her hands in happiness.

"Great job with the lasagna – you're a true chef." She gave him a thumbs up. "I was not expecting her to try and walk away." Tony shook his head in agreement as he took a sip of his drink. "But I'm so glad she finally told you the problem! Has she said anything since?" A huge grin plastered Tony's face and Abby raised her eyebrows to encourage him to tell her.

"This morning, she said she wants to move into my place. She's at her apartment sorting stuff out right now actually." Abby looked like she was about to burst with excitement. "Abby, calm down. I don't need you fainting right now." Abby visibly took a few deep breaths.

"I'm so going over there to help her after we've finished her." DiNozzo shook his head and laughed.

"How are things with you and McLover going?" Tony chuckled, proud of the use of the McNickname.

"It's going great thanks. I'm really happy we got together." Abby drank the last of her milkshake and gave a huge grin.

"As he's technically my little brother, you tell me if he upsets you and I'll kick his ass." Tony winked.

"I'm sure he wont, but thank you." She stood up and hugged Tony.

"I better get back and make room for Ziva's stuff." Tony scratched his head thinking about where everything would go.

"And I better go and help Ziva. It's was good catching up! We really don't do this often. It was nice." She hugged him again, her happiness going out of control.

"Yeah, it was nice. We should do it more." They both headed out off the café together and separated to continue with their plans.

"Abby, what are you doing here?" Ziva wondered as she let Abby in.

"I just met Tony for coffee and he told me you were moving in with him!" She hugged Ziva so hard, she knocked her back slightly. Luckily, Ziva was use to it – everyone was. "So, I thought I'd come and help you pack!"

"News travels fast, yes? Even faster now you know." Abby was known to tell everyone anything she knew. "That's very kind of you though, I'm just packing up my room at the moment."

Abby took her coat off and draped it over the couch. "Let's get to work then!" Abby smiled and they headed into Ziva's room.

"Hi, is this Extra Space Storage?" DiNozzo queried to the man on the phone.

"Yes Sir, this is. How may I help?" The man offered in a friendly tone.

"I was wondering if you have any storage units left?"

"We do, Sir."

"Great. Can I by any chance start moving stuff today?"

"Yes, you can. If you come down within the next hour to sort out payment and contracts, then you can move your things in today."

"That's great, thank you so much. I'll see you shortly."

Ziva and Abby were sat on the couch with a bottle of water each, breathing faster than usual.

"Who would have thought moving would be such hard work?" Ziva questioned as she wiped the sweat off her forehead.

"I know right. I'm not going to be able to move tomorrow." Abby shared the pain Ziva was feeling. "We should probably get this done with before we start to refuse to ever move again." Ziva stood up and held her hand out for Abby to grab.

"I'm so glad you offered to help."

"That's what friends are for." They headed into kitchen next.

"Right Sir, if you'll just sign here please and then you can start moving your things in!" DiNozzo picked up the pen, signed the dotted line and dated it.

"Thank you." The employee walked over to the photocopier and made two separate copies. "Here's your copy of the contract and details. If you have any problems or questions, don't hesitate to come to the front desk and we'll try our best to help." The worker smiled and shook Tony's hand. He headed back to his apartment to pick up the boxes he needed to store. When he returned, he grabbed his phone from his pocket and dialled a number.

"McGee."

"Hey Tim, Ziva and I are moving in together. Will you come and help me take some stuff to the storage unit? There's not enough room for all of it in my car."

"Why am I always the last one to know these things?" McGee complained.

"Well, you know now. So will you help me?" Tony heard McGee sigh.

"Sure. I'll be there in a bit."

"Thanks, McGoo. I'll make it up to you."

DiNozzo and McGee dusted off their hands as they finished putting the boxes into the storage unit. Tony typed in the code for the alarm and locked the padlock.

"Thanks, McGee. I really appreciate it." Tony patted him on the back. They headed out to the front of the building.

"So, she finally agreed?" Abby had filled McGee in on everything that had happened.

"With my magnificent persuasion skills, of course she did." Tony smiled proudly.

"If you say so." McGee rolled his eyes. He looked at his watch and noticed it had just turned 6pm. "Fancy going for a drink?" DiNozzo thought for a few seconds before answering.

"Sure. They're on me." They planned where they were heading then drove there separately. About 10 minutes later, they arrived at their usual bar and headed over to their favourite booth. Tony headed to the bar and returned back to McGee with four beers. McGee picked his up and so did Tony. Tim raised the bottle to make a toast.

"To you and Ziva moving in together!" McGee toasted with a smile.

"And to you and Abby getting together!" Their beer bottles clinked and they spent the next few hours chatting about various things and drinking their favourite beer.

Ziva walked over to Abby with two glasses of wine and slumped onto the couch next to her.

"We definitely deserve this after the day we've had." Abby and Ziva raised their glasses to each other.

"I'll drink to that." Ziva laughed.

I really liked the end of this chapter! I laughed so much writing the next chapter because I can just imagine it happening to them haha! You'll see!

Remember, you're marvelous!