VerityFrancesB wants to be known as the ever lovely, ever intelligent, ever talented...so here you go, V. Smut not this chapter but next.

Here for the Party

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Ziva beat him by just a couple of minutes. McGee got there ten minutes after Tony. Three hours later they were all ready to call it a night. Ducky and Palmer had removed the body of Seaman Third Class Ronald Jacobs. The team had bagged and tagged everything they could possibly take back to the lab and taken photos of every square inch of the crime scene as well as several of each other.

They were ready to call it a night but not Gibbs.

"David, DiNozzo, check out his apartment. McGee, you're with me."

Ziva jerked her head in anger. She'd been expecting it but still. She felt like she was about to jump out of her skin. Tony had been touching her all night. She did not know if it was deliberate or not but it was making her crazy. He kept reaching out and putting his hand on her shoulder or her arm. He pushed a piece of hair back that had worked its way out of her ponytail. They had body slammed as they both rounded a corner at the same time and he had grabbed her around the waist to steady her, pulling her close for just a moment, crushing her breasts to his chest and he'd smiled the smile that said I can make you so happy, little lady. His smell, his own particular male essence of sweat, a slightly spicy aftershave and just plain Tony had inundated her then, making her want to shove him against the wall and do what, she wondered? She had managed to push him safely away. He would not do this to her again. All of this "touching" meant nothing to him while it drove her crazy. It had to end.

"Gibbs, I had made other plans for this evening . They are very important. I …"

He turned his head to look at her. His blue eyes unblinking. She had known it was futile. Knew when Gibbs was on a case nothing else mattered, not even the sanity of one of his agents. She sighed, a deep intake of breath threatening to unlock her tear ducts.

Nodding she headed toward her car, opened the door and then Tony was behind her. He whispered in her ear. "Boss said to ride together, Ziva. Let's take your car back to your apartment and then we can go in mine? Okay?"

His warm breath in her ear made her shiver. She closed her eyes. Damn the man.

She turned to face him, taking a step back as she did.

"Fine. While I am home I am going to change. Do not come up. I will join you in your car. My night is ruined anyway so I might as well get comfortable."

With those words she got into her car, slammed the door and drove away tires squealing in protest. What else could she do? She would probably either kill him or rape him and neither were acceptable options and it was Gibbs' fault. She would be sure and tell the judge it was all Gibbs' unreasoning obsession with a case that made her do it. She could not lay the blame on Tony really. Not his fault she felt this way about him and he didn't return those feelings. He was Tony after all, a true force of nature.

No party tonight, Ziva, she thought. No party and no sex. No man to satisfy the needs of her body and then hold her close afterwards. She balled up her fist and hit the dashboard of her car repeatedly then regained control. It was a conspiracy she thought. Gibbs conspiring to keep her chaste and Tony conspiring to drive her insane and together, well, together they might succeed.

Tony winced at the sound of her tires. What the hell? She'd been on edge all night; jerking away when he touched her accidentally, or maybe not so accidentally. He admitted it, he liked touching her. And when their bodies had collided rounding the corner he had automatically grabbed her to keep her from winding up on her butt. Then she'd felt so good he'd pulled her in tighter to him for just a moment or two and felt her hard nipples through his jacket and hers. Those were some hard little nipples. He'd almost joked about it but something in her eyes stopped him. A look of fear, maybe, or sorrow, he wasn't sure. She'd pushed away from him and not looked his way again until Gibbs started issuing his orders. He figured he could try to find out what was going on when they were riding together to Jacobs' place and hope he didn't piss her off too much.