See, I have kept my promise. Here is the update!

Oh, and to every one in my timezone (which happens to be Sydney, Australia) HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!!!!!!!! And I can't wait for the fireworks! Sydney has the coolest fireworks EVA!

Anyway, here's the update. Slight spoiler for Season 4 episode Dead Man Walking ( I think it is episode 16...)

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS....

Chapter 8: Gibbs always knows

Ziva could not believe that this was happening to her. Being in love….with a co-worker. She wanted to slap herself for being so idiotic, so stupid, so…..girly. First she fell in love with "The Dead Man Walking" as Tony had so cleverly stated. She fell in love with a walking time bomb. Her first utterly stupid mistake. And now, Tony. The womanizer who literally flirted and slept with so many women that it was impossible to keep count. Being sixteen and in love was fine, but she was in her thirties now. Ziva put her head into her hands, and felt her eyes fill with tears.

Tony walked back to the hotel, dazed and confused. Dazed because his long lost hot girlfriend Antonia still remembered him (and had grown even more hotter) and confused because Ziva was so snappy and he hadn't done anything. Maybe she was jealous of Toni…still, she was the one who said that she wasn't "Allie", and she definitely seemed to want nothing to do with him. Hey, he was a free man! Still, he felt a little guilty, but he pushed it away and walked into the hotel with that classy bright smile of his.

Gibbs and McGee were quite confused. Ziva was wearing sunglasses…indoors! When on the hell did Ziva do that? And that smile…McGee was quite familiar with it, oh, yes he was! That smile was always there just before something (like his fingers getting stuck to the keyboard) happened. Yet she also looked upset and shaken up, when Gibbs asked her a question she had literally jumped three feet into the air. Then she had run away. Ran away! Gibbs immediately knew that DiNozzo and David might have broken Rule 12…no, they definitely did break it. When they were 16, and that was completely unacceptable. Gibbs crossed his arms.

"Where's DiNozzo, McGee?" Gibbs barked.

"I don't know," whimpered McGee like a little dog that had just been beaten.

"Use your little satellite thingy!" Gibbs shouted. McGee scuttled to the computer and began to type rapidly.

"Found it!" He announced triumphantly, "He's in the hotel lobby…." McGee turned around to hear the door slam shut. Then a small, slightly malicious smile came to his face as he picked up his cell phone. He pressed speed dial 1.

"Hello?" A female voice asked.

"Hey Abs, I have some really juicy information that you will really like, to tell you…."

Tony sauntered towards the elevator and pressed the up button. Suddenly, the doors dinged open and he was about to enter when a voice roared "DiNozzo!" Tony scampered back a few steps. Gibbs walked out of the elevator, with many curious eyes on Tony and Gibbs because of Gibbs' roar.

"Tell me where you have been?" Gibbs hissed.

"Uh…you know, I was out, I met…"Tony licked his lips, his boss wasn't going to like it, "you know…um….my….my old girlfriend, Antonia Velloy…" Tony paused and stole a small glance at Gibbs. Gibbs was silent.

"And then I met Ziva and she was wearing sunglasses and she seemed really upset…she pushed my pressure point, boss!" Tony added as to make his excuse more credible.

"You were with your old girlfriend, Antonia?" Gibbs' eyebrows arched.

"Yeah…yeah, boss. I just bumped into her…"

"Did you go to school here or something?" Gibbs decided to start playing the game.

"Yeah, Bournemouth College's the best place you can go. The best teachers, the best classes, the best rooms, the best…"

"Okay, I get it, I get it!" Gibbs interrupted. He then blew the million-dollar question.

"Did you have a girlfriend before this Antonia girl?"

Tony opened his mouth, and then shut it again. Then it all clicked. Ziva was jealous of Toni, and she was also mad at him for being….unfaithful. She did love him, and Tony realised he did love her…but more than Toni? Antonia was stunning, rich and funny. She was literally perfect. Ziva was beautiful as well….

"Tony!" Gibbs broke Tony out of his reverie, "Tony! Answer me!"

"Uh, yeah, I did I have a girlfriend," Tony decided to keep the details minimal, "Her name was Allie Martin." Aka Ziva, but Gibbs didn't need to know that.

Gibbs was slightly confused. Allie Martin, who the heck was she? But of course! Gibbs mentally head-slapped himself for being so stupid. Ziva David would have definitely used an alias.

"Tony, what's her real name?" Gibbs demanded.

"Um…I don't know!" Tony lied quickly.

"Don't lie, DiNozzo…"Gibbs unleashed his glare.

"Fine then, I only found out recently. It's…." Tony was having a mental war with himself. Tell Gibbs or not. One side of him just wanted to confide in Gibbs, a man who he treated like his father. The other side just wanted to run away, no one needed to know that Ziva David was his former sweetheart.

"It's…"DiNozzo spluttered, the name on his tongue. But he couldn't say it. No, he couldn't.

Tony turned around and bolted, leaving a very surprised Gibbs rooted to the spot.

So close.......yet so far away. DiNozzo nearly told Gibbs.....

I will update as soon as I can.

Bye! And Happy New Year's Eve!