A/n: Yeah!!! A fast update!!! Thank SOOOO much to jen-ncis-lover for all the info! (I'll need your help with the next chapter as well: the two water parks) I really like the end of this chapter but tell me what you think, in other words REVIEW!! Just so you know, there are only going to be 2 more chapters!
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Ziva woke up the next morning in the arms of a snoring Tony. She felt cool medal on her neck and saw that she was wearing a necklace that she couldn't remember putting on before she went to bed, or ever even buying, for that matter. She held it up to get a better look at and noticed that it was a Mickey Mouse head made out of diamonds.
Tony had started stirring next to her so she leaned over his face and kissed him. "Thank you for the necklace."
"You said that last night." Tony said as he looked at the clock that read six thirty. They had decided that they were going to meet everybody on the team at seven thirty.
"How did I say that last night? I was sleeping!" she said slightly confused.
"That's what I though, too. Then you whispered thank you. Or maybe you where dreaming about me!" Tony said enthusiastically.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Ziva said smirking. "Now shut up and go take your shower!" she said as she pushed him off the bed.
"That blush in your cheeks is telling me that I am right!" Tony said ducking into the bathroom as he barely missed the pillow Ziva had thrown at him.
"I'm going for a run. Be out of the shower when I get back." Ziva said as she grabbed clothes out of her suitcase.
Forty five minutes later found the two of them pounding on Abby and McGee's door. Tony had just figured out that they were going to Disney's Hollywood Studios. It is a whole theme park based off of movies. Tony was trying to hurry up everybody so they could get there as soon as it opened.
"McGee! Hurry up! What are you and Abby doing in there! Second thought, I don't want to know." Ziva was shaking her head behind him at his childish manner.
Abby opened the door right as Tony was about to knock again. "For your information, I am making McGee change. He was planning on wearing pants today! Can't you please tell him that it is supposed to be, like, ninety degrees out today."
"Relax," said McGee as he came out wearing khaki cargo shorts, "is this good enough for you?"
"I gotta go change now!" Tony said. Ziva gave him a puzzled look, then noticed that they were both now wearing the same shorts.
"Tony, you look fine. You said it yourself that we weren't going to be with them too much today anyhow." Ziva said.
"Says the lady wearing khaki shorts and a green tank top compared to Abby's very black skirt and shirt." Tony said as he walked back down the hallway towards their room.
Five minutes later, Gibbs, Ziva, Abby, and McGee were all waiting for Tony to come back from changing. When he finally came back, Gibbs headslapped him. "You're late, DiNozzo!"
"I am never going to be early for anything again." Tony said as they started walking towards their car.
Twenty minutes later, the team was waiting outside of the gates for the park to open. They agreed that Tony and Ziva would go whatever they wanted after they all went on the Tower of Terror and Rock 'n' Rollercoaster.
The gates opened, and Tony lead the group to the tall, scary looking building. They walked inside and went down to the basement. They had about twenty people in line in front of them.
"Um… what kind of ride is this?" Ziva asked as she skeptically looked around.
"Have you ever seen the movie Tower of Terror? Of course you haven't. Well, this family gets stuck in this hotel during a really bad storm in the elevator. That's all I'm going to tell you because I want you to be surprised." Tony said as they got into their elevator car. Tony made everybody get seats in the front row.
Once the car filled up, the car started moving up and then exited on a very high level. They saw "ghost" of people that had been there and you could here the noises of screams and a storm. They got to the front most part of the building and we just sitting there for a few seconds before they started to drop.
Ziva and Abby and practically everybody else in the car started screaming. Ziva hadn't put her hair up that morning so a good chuck of her hair ended up in Tony's mouth. When they stopped falling, they could feel the car was slowly making it's way up again. Ziva pulled her hair out of her face, and Tony's mouth, and quickly pulled it up before they fell again.
This time when they fell, doors opened in front of them so they could see the rest of the park for a few seconds before they were too low to see out of it. This time, though, they didn't go up anymore and where only stable for a few seconds before they started falling again. A few minutes later, they were be escorted out of the car.
They were all walking over to where the Rock 'n' Rollercoaster line was. McGee wasn't looking that great but he said that he was fine. They were probably about fifteen minutes from riding. They could hear loud music coming from speakers throughout the building.
"What kind of music is this?" Abby asked acting offended by the music.
"Did you read the full name of this ride?" McGee asked. Abby shook her head. "It's Aerosmith."
"Eh… it's not that bad." Gibbs said. Everybody starred at him gawking.
"Gibbs, are you okay? You've been pretty quite this whole vacation." Abby said.
"Yeah, this place brings back memories."
"You brought Kelly here, didn't you?" Abby asked. Gibbs silently nodded. Abby enveloped him in one of her signature hugs. After a few seconds, the released each other. "If any of you mention a word of this to anyone, you my want to start handing out résumés now." They all nodded there heads in understanding.
When they finally got to the front of the line, Tony and Ziva ended up getting the absolute front car with Abby and McGee behind them and Gibbs in the back of the group. It started off with a jolt and a very sudden acceleration. Unknown to them, it went zero to sixty miles per hour in 2.8 seconds.
The music was blaring and if it had been more heavy metal-ish, could have passed for Abby's lab. It was made to look like Los Angeles. They were going so fast, that when Tony looked at Ziva, it looked like she was crying because of the wind in her eyes.
Tony heard Abby scream and then Ziva. He wasn't sure what they were screaming about until he noticed that they were upside-down. Tony's head was bouncing around in the safety bar giving him a headache. He looked at Ziva again and found that she had her eyes closed tightly, and if Tony didn't know any better, it could have been in fear. He struggled to move his and against the forces pushing against them to grab Ziva's hand. They finished riding the ride holding each other's hand.
They got out of the car and found themselves exiting through a gift shop. They all stopped to look at the photo that had been taken sometime during the ride. And, surprise, surprise, it right when Tony and grabbed Ziva's hand and they were staring into each other's eyes. Tony opted to get one for himself and Ziva.
After there pictures were printed, they looked around the gift shop. Tony held up a pair of bright red drum sticks. "What do you think about me getting these?" he asked Ziva.
"What are you going to do with drum sticks? I don't think you have a drum set." Ziva said.
"Well…what is Abby going to with that Aerosmith t-shirt? Huh? Huh?" Tony said acting like a child. They both looked over to see the Goth at the check out with the t-shirt.
"Um… wear it?" Ziva said like it was a trick question.
"Bad example. Never mind." Tony said putting the drum sticks back. They walked out of the store and found Gibbs waiting out side for them.
"You guys can go do whatever you want. I'll wait her for Abby and McGee. We'll call you when later to decided when we are going to leave." Gibbs said; probably the most words he has said at one time this whole vacation.
Tony and Ziva took off with an argument on the matter. "Tony, where are we going?"
"I have are whole day planned out. First, we are going on The Great Movie ride." Tony said leading them through the large amount of vacationers.
"What's it called?" Ziva asked on confused. She didn't understand that that was the name of the ride and not a description.
"That's what it's called. It's like a tour through a bunch of different movies." Tony said as they got in a rather short line.
When they finally got to ride, they were seated in a car with a bunch of other tourists and a tour guide. They went through scenes from several different movies including Casablanca, Marry Poppins, Raiders of the Lost Arc, and The Wizard of Oz.
When they got to the scene from The Public Enemy, they were 'kidnapped' by a 'bad guy'. There was shooting going on and Tony saw Ziva jump when the shots went off. Okay, so maybe this ride wasn't Tony's smartest choices ever; that was exactly the kind of thing they took a vacation from.
When the ride was over, Ziva was walking slowly and Tony started yelling at her saying, "Hurry up! We've got a lot of ground to cover!"
They arrived a few seconds later at a very long line. "Tony, what is this?" Ziva asked.
"This, my dear Ziva, is the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show. It's a film set of a stunt show with car chases and fire and cool special affects. Of course, you've probably been in a few of these kinds of situations yourself." Tony said.
Forty minutes later, they walked out of show area totally amazed. "That was exactly like the car chases in The Bourne movies!" Tony exclaimed.
"Did you see that guy on fire? I didn't even think that was possible!" Ziva said.
Tony said they where on there way to see the Indian Jones show but about half way there, Tony's cell phone rang. He answered it and had few short conversation with a person that Ziva assumed was Gibbs.
After Tony hung up, he said, "We're taking a detour. Apparently Abby, McGee, and Gibbs got chosen to star in the Studio Backlot Tour. They need four people though and Gibbs said he wouldn't mind not doing it if you and I wanted to do it. I told him we'd be there in five minutes. You don't mind, do you?"
"No that's fine. We are we supposed to do though?" Ziva asked.
"No idea. I'm assuming they will tell us that when we get there."
As it turned out, they were going to be used in the demonstration on how water tanks are used in movies. It ended up that Tony and Ziva were the only ones that got soaked while Abby and McGee only got a little wet.
Afterwards, they all filed into a tram that moved through rows of old movie props. Every time they turned a corner, Tony was already recognizing props and naming what movie they came from even before the tour guide said what and where they were from. Then, they stopped at a canyon looking area where an 'earthquake' was taking place, then the same area had a flash flood, and then an explosion.
"That was SO cool!" Abby said as they exited the ride.
"Yeah, for you. They said we MAY get wet. We, on the other hand, got soaked. Somebody obviously doesn't under stand the difference between may get wet and soaked!" Ziva said obviously irritated.
"How about since we're all together we go get lunch now." McGee said. Tony took out his phone to check the time. It was indeed 11:45; lunch time. Where had the day gone?
"We are going to the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater!" Tony said before he gave anyone else a chance to speak, or even take a breathe for the matter. "Ziva and I already have reservation."
"We do?" Ziva asked.
"Yep. Did it last night at the concierge desk."
They all followed Tony to the restaurant because he knew where it was. The restaurant had a fifties or sixties theme to it. To eat, you sat in booths shaped as 50's convertibles while watching Sci-Fi and monster movies for the 50's and 60's. The ceiling was a dark color and had lights on it that looked like stars going for an outdoor drive-in movie theater feel.
When there drinks came, they had glow in the dark ice cubes in them. "Is it ever good when your food is glowing?" Ziva asked and everybody started laughing.
"I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't give you toxic ice cubes at the happiest place on earth." Tony said in a very preppy fake voice. Again, they all started laughing.
Forty five minutes later, Tony and Ziva were trying to decided what they were going to do the rest of the afternoon. They had agreed to meet the others for the Fantasmic! laser light show at seven thirty.
"Well, I want to do the American Idol Experience thing and see the Indian Jones show. Then there is the Star Tours ride, and I don't know if you want to go on the Toy Story ride or not. I hear there is a long line for that. Abby said they waited in line for forty five minutes to go on, but she said it was really fun." Tony said laying out there options.
"How about we do the American Idol thing then see the Indian Jones show at two o'clock then go on the Star Wars ride and if we have time go on the Toy Story Mania ride." Ziva suggested.
"That works." Tony said leading the way towards the American Idol Experience line.
It turns out, that you have three options for this attraction. You can just watch the people 'auditioning' or you can vote for your favorite contestant or, if your brave, you can audition. If you are voted the best singer of the day, you get a chance to audition for the real American Idol.
Tony forced Ziva to audition which is singing in front of a live audience. But, in return, Tony had to audition as well. Ziva ended up being one of the best people there. She was voted the bets person there, but in order to try out for the real American Idol, you have to be an American citizen for at least a year. Stupid technicalities. Tony, on the other hand, was um…significantly worse than Ziva and we'll just leave it at that.
"That was humiliating!" Tony said as they walked towards the Indian Jones show.
"What did you expect?" Ziva asked as they took seats for the show. They had about fifteen minutes until the show was supposed to start.
"I didn't think that you actually sang in front of a live audience! I thought it was more like karaoke. And you! You rocked!"
"Thanks. Do you mind if I go get frozen lemonade? I saw a stand that sold it across the street." Ziva said getting up.
"Yeah. We probably wont have time for dinner anyhow."
Ziva came back five minutes later with a frozen lemonade and a giant soft pretzel that she had gotten for Tony just as the show was starting.
The show included scenes from the Indian Jones movie with lots of explosions and fire. At one point the was being chased by a giant bolder, the Indian Jones classic stunt. The show lasted about a half hour, maybe a little longer. As a surprise, a few audience members got to be extras in some of the scenes, but Tony and Ziva didn't get picked.
As they were walking out of the outdoor theater, Abby, McGee, and Gibbs were walking in for the next show. "Did you guys just see it?" Abby asked.
"Yeah, it's pretty cool. Except this guy was punch in the face, but his head went the opposite way it was supposed to so you could tell it was fake. But other than that, it was cool. Figuratively speaking; you could fell the heat of the explosions from your seat if you sit in the front." Tony explained.
They parted ways to find seats or to go to the next ride. Tony and Ziva found their way to the line for the ride Start Tours, a ride based off the movie Star Wars.
Before they got to there Starspeeder, Tony and Ziva walked through a museum of sorts full of Star Wars props and memorabilia. When they finally go to their Starspeeder, their driver, a droid, took a wrong turn in space so they went through a bunch of space obstacles. Their space ship tilted and moved with the oncoming objects. In the end, they both decided that it was an okay ride.
They both exited the ride area and agreed that they would have time to ride Toy Story Mania as it was only five thirty. When they got to the building where the ride was, there was a sign that said the wait was about ninety minutes. They got in the incredibly long line and settled in for the wait. They talked about many things ranging from recent cases to how most of the their time at Disney has consisted of waiting in lines to their opinions about their coworkers.
When they finally go to the front of the line, only sixty minutes later, they were each handed a pair of funny looking 3D glasses. They got into one side of a car that had cannon-ish looking guns on them with a string out of them. Tony explained to Ziva that you aimed your gun at a target and pulled the string that acted as a trigger. They went through a bunch of carnival style target games, and, in the end, Ziva had a much higher score that Tony.
"You cheated!" Tony said.
"Prove it!" Ziva said teasing him. She wasn't even sure it was possible to cheat on that kind of game.
"Than how did you get such a high score?" Tony asked confused as to how she accomplished such a high score.
"You know if you hit the green targets you get double points." she said.
"What! Now you tell me?"
"I though you read the sign." Ziva said as she pointed to a sign above the entrance for the ride.
"What ever." Tony rumbled slightly annoyed at his own incompetence.
"We have to go meet the others at the Fantasmic stage area." Ziva said as they walked towards the front of the park to where the stage is.
The seating area wasn't opened yet but there was a huge line out side for the seating area. They found Gibbs, Abby, and McGee waiting for them towards the back of the line. When the seating area was opened, the mob slowly made forward progress until they could move around and find seats. It was an outdoor stage, much like the one for the Indian Jones show stage.
About ten minutes until the show was going to start, there was a hush of the crowd and then a murmur of people. "What's going on?" Tony asked a man sitting behind them because he seemed to know.
The man replied, "NASA has just launched a space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center. When it getshigh enough, we should be able to see it from here." And sure enough, thirty seconds later, you could see a spec in the sky exiting the atmosphere. The crowd was oohing and aahing at the sight. Nobody but Gibbs had ever seen a shuttle launch, even at this far away.
The show started five minutes later. Through out the show, walls of water shot out of a pool of water and parts of the movie Fantasmic were projected on to the water. There was fireworks going off at some of the more intense scene and they had a person in a Mickey Mouse costume acting out other parts of the movie. There was a cool looking fire breathing dragon with actual fire. At the end of it, all the major characters came out on a ferry boat.
After the show was over, everyone that had been seated started for the exit. The team trailed at the back of the pack because they didn't really need to be anywhere versus the parents with little kids in strollers. After ten minutes, they finally made it out of the park and to their car, getting out of the parking is a different matter.
A half hour later they finally made it back to their hotel. There wasn't many people outside so it was rather quiet. Tony and Ziva decided that they were going to take a quick dip in the pool to wash off some of the sweat they had built up over the coarse of the hot day. Abby, McGee, and Gibbs all retired to their rooms.
"I am sure going to miss these night time swims of ours." Tony said as he jumped into the pool getting Ziva wet who previously wasn't. Deciding that she was already wet, she jumped in right on top off his landing on him.
"Me too. I can't believe we are really leaving in two days." Ziva said as she floated on her back next to Tony.
"I know of a few things we could do at night when we are back in DC." Tony said suggestively.
"I'm sure you do." Ziva said smirking.
After about ten minutes in the pool, they went over to the hot tub to relax. They sat in silence for a few minutes both staring up at the night sky much like they did the day before. After a few minutes, Tony looked over at Ziva and noticed that she had fallen asleep. He didn't blame her, it had been a fun filled and tiring week. He stood up and gently picked her up bridal style and carried her out of the hot tub. He momentarily set her down in one of the pool lounge chairs so he could grab their things. He pulled a shirt on and threw Ziva's clothes that she wore over her swimsuit over his shoulder and picked her up again.
As he walked back to their room, Ziva woke up of a brief minute and stared at Tony in wonder. He was wearing a face of concentration as to not wake her up. He looked down and saw her sleepy eyes looking up at him. He gave her a soft warm smile and she closed her eyes and snuggled into his chest.
They passed by an elderly couple that was walking by. Tony over heard the women whisper to the person he assumed to be her husband, "Look at those young folks. Don't they just remind you of us at their age?"
Tony walked out of ear shot to hear what his reply was. They made it back to their room and Tony set Ziva down on the bed and went to the bathroom to get a towel to dry her off with before the bed got wet from her swimsuit. He gently sat her up and wrapped the towel around her used a second towel to put on her pillow so that wouldn't get so wet as well. Then he quickly changed out of his swim trunks and put on a pair of shorts and an old t-shirt and crawled into bed next to Ziva and fell asleep.
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