an exercise in breathing. (ncis)
ziva; (ari); silence
for three weeks no word
written for ncisdrabble100, challenge 6 (chocolate). no copyright infringement intended.
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silence
for three weeks no word no contact and no no no she thinks no not anything (she can feel her father's disapproval even before she admits that ari is gone from her grip)
no phone calls nor dead drops nor messages tucked into the sleeves of books that he has read and she has never heard of nor fingerprints on glass or footprints in sand and she thinks for this you would break my fingers were the roles reversed
—then a bar of chocolate and still no words but three carefully placed crosses on the underside of the foil
tbc.