Tony walked through his apartment door and threw his bag and keys onto the ground.
He walked over to his kitchen and checked a number on his fridge 'Pizza tonight' he thought. He wandered over to his phone to call the pizza place and found 15 messages. He pressed the play button and listened to the first.
"Hi Tony, it's Jeanne, are you okay? Anyway, call me back." Tony pressed play on the second one; "Hey Tony, I'm really worried, are you okay? Call me",
"Hey Tony—", "Tony—", "Anthony—"… He stopped the messages and hit the delete button.
He sighed and picked up the phone, he hit 2 on his speed dial and waited for an answer.
"Hello." Jeanne answered
"Hey Jeanne" he tried to sound happy.
"Tony! Where have you been? I was so worried about you"
"It was just my friend, you remember Ziva – I mean Professor David?" Tony cringed; he hoped she didn't catch that name.
"Oh yeah" Jeanne jotted down her name, "What happened?"
"She was in a bad accident and was taken to hospital, I had to go see her and then I had work."
"Oh my goodness, is she going to be okay?" She pretended to care.
"Yeah, I think she is." Tony smiled; it felt great saying that.
"Oh good." Jeanne lied innocently "Where did they take her?"
"Bethesda, she was lecturing on a naval base when it happened." He was unsure of this lie but didn't assume Jeanne would think anything of it. "Anyway, sorry Jeanne but I'm really tired."
"Okay, bye Tony, I love you."
"Bye."
Jeanne put down the phone; she read back what Tony had said to her: 'Ziva (professor) David, Bethesda Naval hospital.' Something about it didn't add up. She grabbed her keys and left her apartment. This Ziva knew something about Tony.
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She walked up to the front desk of the hospital "Room of Ziva David."
"Umm," The lady scrolled through her computer "Room number 155. Just down the hall to your left."
"Thankyou"
Jeanne entered the room and placed the flowers she bought on the stand next to a big bunch from Tony. Untrusting of him, she planted a 'bug' in the flowers. She purposely placed the flowers down heavily to wake Ziva up,
"Hello professor" Jeanne said icily.
"Ah, hi" croaked Ziva,
"How are you feeling?"
"Yeah, alright" she rearranged herself and sat up.
"That's good, have you seen Tony anywhere?"
"Not since this afternoon." She yawned and stretched her arms.
"What? This afternoon?" He had only told her that he saw Ziva that morning.
"Yeah, he brought me those flowers" Ziva was pleased with Jeanne's panic. "I think he was a bit worried about me," she continued
"Oh well, you were in an accident, I'm sure he was only being nice." Jeanne composed her anger. "Anyway, Goodbye Ziva, I'm going to go home to Tony now." She hinted that they were going to have sex and then left the room.
"Bye." Ziva called back in exactly the same tone Tony used to hang up on her earlier, "When you see Tony, tell him I said hello." She smiled; Ziva David had won this round.
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The next afternoon:
Tony knocked on Ziva's door, she decided to keep Jeanne's visit a secret from him. After all, she didn't want him thinking about Jeanne.
"Good afternoon, Tony" She said, happy to see him
"Good afternoon, Ziva, how are you feeling today?"
"Better, my stomach is still sore, though." She said.
"Oh," He began, "too sore to drink this." He pulled a 'berry mango madness' from behind his back, her favourite drink.
Ziva smiled "Thankyou Tony"
He handed her the drink and walked over to the opposite side of her bed to sit down.
"Any cases at the moment?" She asked
"No, just the usual work, I can bring some to you in case you get really bored. But you'd have to be really, really bored." He joked
"Okay." She smiled with her whole mouth, revealing her perfect teeth, although she wasn't wearing any make-up, her smile seemed to reveal her natural beauty.
Tony got the butterflies again. Something about her eyed and her smile that hit him hard, but it was more than her obvious beauty, it was all the teasing and sexual tension that had always been there but harder. It now seemed more than simply lust, more than just sexual tension.
"Are you okay, Tony?" She interrupted his thoughts "You look like you've seen a ghost."
"Yeah, I'm alright" He lied "Ziva, do you want to go for a walk?"
"What?"
"In a wheelchair, I'll take you for a walk." He clarified.
"Tony, I have bruises on my face, I look like McGee when me and you sticky taped his eyes shut, but I could use the fresh air. Can you get me my jacket?" She made up her mind. She was bored out of her brains so she figured a walk – especially one with Tony – would do her good.
"Okay, good" Tony smiled and left to gather a wheelchair.
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"Where do you want to go?" He asked as he pushed her out of the hospital.
"I'm not sure, the lake?" She suggested.
"The lake it is." He announced "I think it may rain so I got an umbrella in case."
As they arrived at the lake, it began to rain lightly.
"Ah, I knew this would come in handy" Tony smiled and opened the shelter over Ziva, leaving himself to be drenched by the rain.
The lake was completely empty, they wheeled over to the bank and Tony knelt next to Ziva.
"You know." He began, their faces less than a foot from each other "you may not be wearing make up, but if McGee looked half as good as you when we taped his eyes shut then I would suggest he leave them that way."
Before Ziva could respond, Tony moved his face closer to hers until their lips were joined, her dry lips being dampened by his. Tony's butterflies existed now only in his heart, transforming from a feeling of nerves to a feeling of passion.
Hello again! I'm sorry if this is completely medically incorrect, I'm sure Ziva would not be allowed out if a steering wheel really went through her torso but I need to keep the story moving! Thanks for reading! If anyone has any ideas I would be glad to hear them! Anyway some good stuff coming up, I swear. Should be good. Hopefully!
Xox Mel