Thanks to Dylanne (x Lost Hero x) for beta-ing :)
Disclaimer: If I owned NCIS, there would be no need to disclaim that it wasn't mine...
Tony had so many questions. Most of which he would never ask, and only one that he wanted an answer to. An answer he would never get.
She had earned her place on the team and in his heart.
She had earned her citizenship.
She deserved to be so much more than she was.
She deserved a future.
She deserved to live a happy life.
But it didn't happen like that.
She had risked her life for them, for him, and what did she get in return?
As he laid the flowers on Ziva's coffin, he couldn't help wishing that she was inside, that she hadn't been blown to pieces by a bomb, and that she could rest forever peacefully as the beautiful angel that she was. Of course he didn't want her to be dead, but she deserved that much.
But it didn't happen like that.