OK, these notes are going to be longer than the actual thing.
I just watched Dagger, and though the whole spy-revelation-thing was awesome, there wasn't much tiva-ness to work with. The one scene that WAS there, though, is incredibly hard to describe and an insight into Ziva I have longed for since day 1. So. I kind of felt like violating something, writing this, and I have no idea why Ziva teared up. I don't even know what I am describing here. Let's just say, I look forward to next week more than ever.
Oh, and everyone, thank you for the reviews. It was really amazing to see so many alerts, faves and reviews for just two small things. I hope I'm not disappointing you with this.
She watched as the old man and the little girl interacted. She didn't even know that the woman who had been taking care of her so long was gone… Vanished, off the face of the world. Gone for the rest of her life time, leaving nothing but memories behind…
She vaguely registered Tony looking at her, but it didn't matter. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the scene in front of her. Like a daughter to a father, young to old – experience to purity.
It was not fair, the way it had ended for this little girl. Too small to understand, everyone around her acting as though nothing happened – it would never be the same again, not for the little girl and not for her.
She had been speaking the truth when she talked to Agent Lee. She understood why she had done it. She had not elaborated, afraid to say more; afraid to say anything beyond what was necessary to give Agent Lee some consolation.
And now she saw the result of Agent Lee's sacrifice… She knew what had happened, even though Gibbs had been strangely quiet about it. Gibbs had to tell this little girl her surrogate mother was dead, that she was to stay with an aunt whom she had probably never met…
It was all too familiar. She knew tears were threatening to fall; she could feel them form in her eyes. For once, she did not care. This wasn't just another case and they all knew it.
When she realized she was actually crying, though, her usual instincts took over. Taking one look at Tony, she came back to reality and walked away.