Chapter 1- The Drive
A/N I don't own NCIS or any of its characters *sob* they belong to CBS *sob*. Reviews will stop me from crying over this! (I am English and have never driven from DC to NY so if there are any geographical errors I apologise! I also don't do Geography GCSE!)
A red Mini Cooper pulls up at the second coffee/toilet/catch up/burger stop of the 4 hour drive to the all expenses paid stay at the Four Seasons in New York for a week. Tony DiNozzo climbs out of the driver's seat followed by Ziva David. McGee then unfolds himself from the back seat holding out his hand to help Abby Sciuto out as well.
"I knew I should have driven! We would have got here an hour earlier if I had! You are such a slow bus!" Ziva shouts at Tony whist hitting him softly on the shoulder.
"It's slow COACH Ziva! How long have you lived here anyway?" Tony says jokily and starts to run towards the white BMW that has just pulled up. "Hey boss how's the drive going?"
"Fine" Both Director Sheppard and Gibbs say in perfect unison.
Three people climb out of the back of the car. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard clambers out first.
"Hello Ziva my dear. How has your drive been so far?" Ducky says with his proud Scottish accent.
"Fine thanks Ducky...Tony has been really annoying though!" She says shooting Tony the ancient ninja death stare.
"Woh Zi what's with the glare?" Tony says pretending to be hurt by the look.
Jimmy Palmer climbs out of the middle of the three seats and hands out a hand to help his fiancé Breena out of the car.
"Okay, shall we go and get a burger or something?" Jenny says linking arms with Ziva and Abby.
"Coffee" Gibbs says and walks off followed by the rest of the team.
IN THE BURGER RESTAURANT
The team all ordered their burgers and chips and sat around one of the many large, round tables. Talk soon turned to the 'relationships' in the group.
"Tony are you seriously telling me that there has never been a day when you have been tempted to ask Ziva out on a date?" Abby asks.
Tony looks straight into Ziva's eyes and whispers "every day"
The team all look shocked at Tony's response and they all turn to look at Ziva.
"I'm going to hit they head" Ziva says and walks off. Quickly followed by Abby and Jenny.
IN THE LADIES LOOS
"What am I going to do? How am I going to share a car with him for another hour after this? Huh?" Ziva says while Jenny puts an arm around Ziva's shoulder.
"You CAN'T tell me that you don't feel the same way about him! I've seen how you look at each other!" Abby flings her arms around and nearly knocks another woman out while she is washing her hands. "Sorry minor crisis going on right now" she practically shouts at the, now pretty scared, woman and she leaves without saying a word.
"OK Abby calm down! Recently I have felt something towards Tony...I do not know it is probably nothing"
"YAY, YAY, YAY, WOOOOOOOOOOO!" Abby runs around the toilet. Ziva and Jenny ignore her and start to have a real conversation.
"Look Ziva I know all too well about Gibb's rules but he only puts them there to have some order in his life. Tell me if there were no rules would you have reacted like you did?"
"But they are there Jen"
"Answer the question"
"No" Ziva looks down at the floor. Abby stops running around the room and comes closer to listen to the rest of the answer.
"How then?"
"I would probably have said that I have been waiting-no hoping for him to ask me out since he rescued me from Somalia and said that he could not live without me"
"Awwwwww" Abby says tears welling up in her eyes
"Go tell him Ziva. Make the car journey less awkward for Abby and McGee." Jenny says, pushing Ziva out of the door and giving Abby a massive smile.
Jenny and Abby go and join the rest of the team at the table.
"Where's Ziva" Tony asks
"She's waiting in the car...she wants a word with you"
Tony gets up, nearly knocking Gibbs' coffee over which earned him a head slap. "More haste less speed DiNozzo! She won't mid waiting a few extra seconds."
"Yes boss, sorry boss" Tony says and runs to the car park rubbing his head and opens the door of the red mini.
"I hope they can work it out. They're perfect for each other" Abby says and tucks into her burger.
"Hmmmm" Gibbs makes a weird kind of noise that is a hum crossed with a noise that he makes when he is thinking. It's Gibbs' noise.
10 MINUTES LATER
Tony and Ziva walk back into the burger shop hand in hand. Abby looks up and practically screams.
"YAY, YAY, YAY, WOOOOOOOOOOO!" She says and the rest of the team all smile and/or give them a thumbs up.
"Should we get going if we want to get there before dark?" Tony says and smiles down at Ziva
"Oh yes I'd completely forgotten, Tony. Ziva you're in the back, I'll drive and McGee can go shotgun. You can spend some quality time together in the back!" Abby says shooting a wink at Jenny. The team go and get back into the cars which they arrived in and start to drive towards the Lincoln Tunnel.