A/N: Hi again. Thanks Guests for your suggestions I've added the songs in to my list. This one's a little shorter so apologies. So ... because you all need to know about my life I'm going on a school science trip tomorrow so yay! I also failed my Italian speaking exam today :(, I just had a complete mind blank and started hyperventilating and having a panic attack. But anyway hands up anyone who jumps out of bed each morning just to open their advent calender. Go on. Hands up!
It was one of those rare days when Gibbs had allowed his team the day off. Begrudgingly Tony had decided that he needed to clear out his apartment for the first time in years. He started in the living room but in a moment of boredom he had switched on the TV and flicked through the channels until he found something he recognized, a film he had watched so many times with his partner – The Sound of Music. It was halfway through but that did not matter. Ziva had made him watch it so many times so he now knew it off by heart. He was rooting through a draw when he came across a long blue scarf, it had yellow and navy swirly circles on it.
"Strange" he said aloud "Wonder how old it is" he was just about to throw it out when he caught a familiar smell. It was inviting, like an old friend's fire heated house on a freezing winters night, it smelt like peaches and all other kinds of beautiful fruits "Ziva"
And I left my scarf there at your sister's house,
And you've still got it in your drawer even now.
FLASHBACK
"Tony!" Ziva laughed as she wandered around touching things that caught her eye "Have you got the Sound of Music?"
"Yeah … somewhere" he could not help but watch the woman as she removed the scarf from around her neck. Gingerly, almost lovingly she placed her scarf down on the table "Do not let me forget that" she warned sternly but with a smile in her dazzling eyes.
"Don't worry I won't Ziva" he flashed his adorably charming and charismatic grin.
END FLASHBACK
He had forgotten to remind her and she had walked away from his apartment without it and had never picked it up again. He wished he had reminded her but then again, he missed her a lot and it was nice to have a little piece of her. That was a feeling he knew all too well.
And I know it's long gone
And there was nothing else I could do
And I forget about you long enough
To forget why I needed to...
Sighing to himself he rubbed his hand over his face as the end credits of the film rolled. His 'spring' (really it was winter) cleaning had been abandoned and he had spent well over an hour slumped on his couch gazing at but not really seeing the TV, floaty azure material in hand. He was abruptly brought out of his stupor by a gentle yet dominating knock at the door. He dropped the scarf onto the couch and shuffled to the door, forlornly he swung it open. He did not like his remembering being interrupted. But his feelings vanished the split second he saw who was standing there.
"I came for my scarf" she said simply, a hint of annoyance in her voice.
His face fell "Oh … right" he walked away from the door and she did not follow "Are you not coming in?"
"No" she answered simply.
Once she was gone once more he laid down on his bed again gazing but not exactly seeing. This was why he needed the reminders, to get him through the days he felt like dying. Now he had nothing, yet still he remembered.
'Cause there we are again, when I loved you so
Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known
It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well