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The rest of the day Kate tried to avoid Ziva. Not only because she acted this non-herself but because she did not know why she'd done it. She desperately tried not to think about Ari and then she is forced to work toghether with his sister.

The woman who has the same eyes as him.

She didn't want to admit it but they were hypnotizing her in exactly the same way as his. But she'd just looked once into Ziva's eyes. She couldn't help but let her thoughts wander to Ziva everytime she could sit back and think without risking her job or her live. She found it strange how a completely different person to Ari could make her feel everything she felt when she had looked at him. Everything they had in common were their eyes. But it was enough for Kate to forget about the hate and tried to hold on to something - someone – that reminds her of Ari everyday.

But this Kate couldn't see. Slowly forgetting everything bad she thought about her colleague, not getting her out of her mind, and kissing her earlier – for Kate it was like moving on. Like she already was about to get over him – the man she loved so much she risked everything just to be with him. She thought how she felt Ziva was very attractive – her long dark hair, her lips, her tall figure and her eyes. Kate thought she was slowly falling in love with Ziva.

After just one week from losing her boyfriend to be falling in love with his killer was strange and impossible - but in her situation Kate wasn´t able to see that.

If she had talked to any person in the whole world they could've told her that she was imaging her own new reality. A reality in which she tried to forget her lover ever died and that the woman she might love was his murderer. In this reality there wasn't the fact that Ziva has the same eyes as Ari because Kate was suppressing the thought of him. She would not get him out of her head – or her heart – for a long time. She would have memories and images inside her but as long as she would have Ziva – the one Kate imagined being in love with – it couldn't break her because she will have someone to hold on to.

Everyone could tell her that feeling in love with Ziva was a wrong thouhgt – but Kate herself never would come to that.

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*

The fact that Ziva was working with her wasn't really helping the whole ´trying-to-avoid-her´ thing. And soon she found herself seated in Gibb's car next to her. Kate tried to hide her embarrassment and kept her gaze out of the window. Ziva not hid anything. She locked her eyes on Kate scanning her whole body. She fought back the urge to stroke Kate's hair behind her ear so that it wasn't hiding Kate's pretty face from her. God, why was she feeling so strange since that kiss whenever she was near Kate?

Stop thinking of her! , Ziva told herself. You're straight! And besides she's supposed to hate you! Telling herself that over and over again didn't change anything. Her thoughts were still clued onto Kate's soft skin and how she wouldn't mind to feel her lips on her own again some time soon.

With Gibbs driving the ride wasn't as comfortable as it could've been and when he was tired of some bad traffic he went left, away from the official road. The quick move caused everyone to lose their hold and they reached for something for support. Kate and Ziva both longed for the handle above Kates' door and the two women helped each other not to lose their grip. But sitting between Kate and McGee in a car made for only two people sitting on the backseat Ziva had no Seatbelt. She fell over to Kate's side, landing with her head just millimetres above her lap before touching it. The hand she wasn't holding Kate's with rested on her shoulder grabbing the young woman's shirt. For a second the two locked eyes but then they were disturbed by Tony who was looking at them.

"Ladies! Not in the car. Here are people that haven't even seen a woman in a bikini. Am I right, Bambino?" He shared a short look with Tim before smiling his typical Dinozzo-smile and turning back to the women who were sitting straight up again. "But if you really want to have an audience I may be willing to come to your apartment later."

Kate just glared at him, not in the mood of joking with him right now but Ziva seemed to be just in the right mood.

"We appreciate your offer but – well- how to say this nicely? You're the last person me and my beloved girlfriend –", she wanted to say secret lover but she recognized just in time that this would hit a broken part in Kate, "- would ever want to have in our bedroom!"

Ziva smiled at him triumphantly and looked over if Kate was mad at her because of that comment. But she didn't seem to be.

"No problem! We could always take mine", he raised an eyebrow suggestivly and earned an eyeroll from Ziva and McGee.

"Look, Tony. What my sweetheart over there –", she smiled at Ziva and squeezed her hand lightly, "- wants to tell you is, that there is no chance for you ever to watch us doing anything, anywhere. Besides I'm not sure if you could handle it." Kate smiled at him inocently. Then she realized what she had just said and stared out of the window again, embarrassed. The others were now quiet, too.

Gibbs just shook his head and grinned lightly. He felt like managing a kindergarden. When it was just Tony and Kate it was annoying sometimes. After he got McGee to join the team his two older agents stuck together in many situations just to make fun of Timothy. With that and their ´fighting´ it was getting more annoying. He could just imagine how worse it could get with Ziva joining them after he found out the she was willing to help Kate pissing Tony off.

They pulled into the driveway of their crime scene, getting out of the car. Tony was sent to take photos and make sketches, McGee went with Gibbs, Ducky and Jimmy over to the dead body, Kate and Ziva went to check the rest of the house. They were hold back by Gibbs who told them to interview the man who found the body, first.

"Both of us? Don't you think one of us could do this alone? The other could look through the house meanwhile." Kate insisted. She desperately needed some space between her and Ziva.

"Didn't you learn anything the last two years?" Gibbs turned and went back to Ducky, leaving them two stand in the doorway.

"What did he mean?" Ziva asked a bit confused but followed Kate to the police officer to ask for the man they were looking for.

"Never question one of Gibbs' orders!" Kate replied simply and headed into the direction the officer showed her. Ziva followed her on her heels to show that she was as good as an agent as Kate was.

They approached the tall man, wearing an expensive suit and tie, at the same time. It didn't take them long to know why Gibbs sent not only one of his female workers, but both of them. It seemed Gibbs thought he knew more about the whole situation than he told the police he does. And so he tried to let Kate and Ziva be lucky. Let's say it wasn't hard for them to get the information they needed but very hard to get rid off him later because he almost wasn't able to keep his eyes locked on the women's faces. This guy happened to be the dead patty officer's best friend and much to Kate and Ziva's dislike manager of his own stripclub. Kate promised herself to talk Ziva into getting their revenge on Gibbs as soon as they got away from this obtrusive guy.

And as if they hadn't got anything better to do the two women were asked to come by his club some day. "You know, when you get tired of this job here, I am sure I have room for two hot women in my show somewhere"

That was enough. If this guy wasn't planning on doing an amok run or taking someone hostage then Ziva had to find a very good excuse to take her out of prison because she didn't know how long she could hold back the need to shot him down. At least she was sure Kate had her back in this situation, no matter how bad she hated her.

"We'll make sure agent DiNozzo will call you if we got any further with this case" Without even saying goodbye the two turned at the same time and walked to the house.

Seriously, they must've done something to really piss some higher power off. Since they got into this elevator this morning their whole live was crazy. First there was this totally unexpected kiss which led them both to thoughts of why this has happened. Then they not got the other out of their own minds during the day. Thinking of how it felt really strange but good to kiss the lips of a certain co-worker. They went on by Ziva almost touching Kate's breast and landing her head in Kates lap – and Kate wouldn't have been mad when it'd happened. But how stupid were they to play along with Tony's little game of ´I-know-you-had-a-thing´. Damn, Tony never would get the image he'd had of them two making out outta his head. And they never would get out of hearing about it.

At the end there then was this annoying idiot, who tried to talk them into working in his club, they were sent to by Gibbs. The worst of all was that the day wasn't over yet!

"Oh! Gibbs will soo gonna have to pay for that!" Ziva mumbled to Kate as they walked into the house to share their information.

"Count me in, please!" Kate replied a bit too loud, letting Tony's mind wander to some even more dirtier images of his two female co-workers, as he saw Kate smile at Ziva.

*falling in love with a vampire* *falling in love with a vampire*