Late that night, Tony and Ziva stumbled into the hut in exhaustion after several tedious night drills with the team. Ziva went and collapsed on the bed, pulling off her shoes as she watched Tony walk into the bathroom to change.

When Tony emerged minutes later, he failed to notice that Ziva had fallen asleep on the bed, therefore curled up under the covers, totally oblivious to the woman lying centimetres away from him.

The next morning an alarm woke the pair from across the room, they stirred in the bed until they felt a body pressed up against them. Simultaneously, Tony and Ziva's eyes flew open like rockets as they quickly came to terms as to what was pressed to them.

Tony glanced down to find Ziva curled into him and his arms in a protective embrace over her waist and torso; he blew some strands of her hair that had been tickling his face.

Ziva opened her eyes to find Tony's arms cradled over her, and soon realised that they were spooning. She felt comfortable and warm next to him, yet figured this would be the last time and she should not get used to it. Saddened by her following thoughts, Ziva reluctantly pulled away from Tony and drew back the covers in order to turn off the alarm by the television.

Tony was upset to find Ziva moving away from him and was disheartened by the moment breaking between them. Putting on a cocky face, Tony felt a need to savour his pride.

"Sleep well Ziva? I know I did..."Ziva turned and gave him a look that could kill, immediately silencing him.

The rest of the day was consumed with unresolved sexual tension and extreme awkwardness, it was not until the afternoon that Gibbs began to notice something wrong. So, as the team were on their way to the next activity, Gibbs slowed down and pulled the two agents back from the rest of the group. He dragged their heads closer together to allow him to offer a daring whisper.

"You two better sort your problems out right now or Dinozzo, I will hit your head so hard that your grandchildren will feel it, and David, don't even think about working in the field for the next month!" With that he grumpily paced back to his plan next to the Jenny, leaving Tony and Ziva staring at the ground dumbfounded. After what felt like eons, the duo shuffled to face each other.

"I do not see why this has affected us so much, I mean it happens all the time in stake-outs..." Ziva started.

"I know, and it wasn't even intentional! Can we just forget about, it isn't like it meant anything..." Tony replied with caution. He watched Ziva's face drop slightly yet chose to ignore it as his probably did the same.

For the remainder of the day, the atmosphere was still awkward around Tony and Ziva, however they tried to act as casual as possible, but when they got to the room that night all hell broke loose.

"Why are you still acting strange"? Tony yelled.

"Why are you still acting strange? Takes two to make a relationship awkward!" Ziva screamed back.

"Oh so we have a relationship now?"

"You know damn well what I mean Tony, of course we have a relationship, we are partners, friends, we have each other's back!"

"That really is an exciting title, what do you think... Tony Dinozzo... Partner, friend, man who has your back..."

"Well if you are unhappy with your titles, feel free to change them."

Tony let out a loud, arduous sigh.

"I'm tired of pretending..."

Ziva could only stare blankly in return, as she understood the true meaning of his words. Nothing further was processed in her brain, before Tony launched forward, put his hand on the back of her head and slammed his lips against hers. Ziva impatiently responded by jumping up and wrapping her legs around his waist; Tony then began to carry her over to the bed, where he then lay her down and started to show her how much she meant to him.

AUTHORS NOTE- TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK! Please read and review! Thank you for the ideas also, they were really helpful. Sorry for the slow update, I have been busy this week, therefore I uploaded four chapters the other day to compensate! Comments keep me going!