"DiNozzo" Tony answered
"Hey, It's Jeanne, I just got off work. You still want to do dinner right?" Ziva saw Tony's face light up from across the bullpen.
"Yeah , of course. I'll call you in a little. I just have pack some things up and move them to my new desk, then I could come pick you up?"
"Sounds great"She said before hanging up.
"Was that Jeanne? " Ziva asked, she didn't look up from the book she was reading.
"Uhm, yeah." He said, he got up and picked up one the box full of his things and walked over to the elevator. He got in and the doors were about to close when a hand stopped them from closing, Ziva stepped into the elevator and she flipped the emergency switch.
"Tony, I am sorry." She said and he stayed silent. "I was out of line to call you names, it was immature. I didn't realize you would actually take them to heart."
"What exactly did you think I wouldn't take to heart?" he asked clearly angry again"How I was immature? or a womanizer? or how I couldn't act my age if I tried? or how I was unfit to ever be in a stable relationship? How I was jealous of my father because he can manage to get married and I can't even manage to keep a girlfriend? Did you really think I wouldn't care when you said I wasn't good enough for you? Or maybe you just thought I would forget all that when you said you couldn't love me? I didn't do anything but be a good partner to you Ziva, I've always had your back, I've always been there for you. It was just a stupid kiss, we of all people should be able to get through this. I mean, I've always been called those things, but when they come from your mouth it's just too much." he spat, reaching for the emergency switch. She grabbed his wrist so he couldn't flip it.
"I am sorry! I did not mean what I said, I was angry, I had no control over my words." she said, her voice cracked, was she really going to break down for what felt like the hundredth time today?
"Oh god Ziva, you meant it, can you please just shut up?" he asked " And if I remember correctly,you weren't yet mad when you started throwing names around" he added.
"Please do not leave the team. They are all going to hate me if you do,actually they already hate me." she begged
"THERE YOU GO BEING ALL SELFISH AGAIN. IT'S GETTING REALLY OLD ZIVA, MAYBE THEY SHOULD BE MAD AT YOU FOR MAKING ME LEAVE. YOU DON'T EVEN CARE THAT I HAVE TO LEAVE A TEAM THAT CONSISTS OF ALL MY CLOSEST FRIENDS,YOU'RE JUST AFRAID THAT THEY WONT SEE YOU AS PERFECT LITTLE AGENT DAVID! YOU'RE DAMAGED GOODS ZIVA, AND NOW WITHOUT ME HERE, EVERYONE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HOW DAMAGED." He yelled, louder than she had ever heard him yell before. Her blood was boiling and she was going to lose it.
"I AM BEING SELFISH? YOU ARE LEAVING BECAUSE I COULD NOT FREAKING GO TO DINNER WITH YOU. I DO NOT GET THE PLEASURE OF SEEING RAY ALL THE TIME AND YOU KNOW THAT,YOU SHOULD BE FINE WITH THE FACT THAT I ACTUALLY WANTED TO SPEND TIME WITH MY BOYFRIEND INSTEAD OF SOMEONE WHO I SPEND WAY TOO MUCH TIME WITH ALREADY. WILL YOU JUST ADMIT YOU ARE JEALOUS?" She yelled back, just as loud as he had yelled.
"I am jealous, because I know I love you more than he ever could, and I'm not leaving because you blew me off, I'm leaving because I can't sit at that desk , across from you, and watch you fall more in love with him everyday. It hurts too much to see you slipping away from me. I told you I can't live without you, I was wrong." he said shaking his head " I can live without you,I just really don't want to, but I have to, for me. It's going to kill me everyday knowing I wont see you, but it's what's best for me. Maybe I'm the one being selfish, but I just can't stay around and act as though nothing has changed. The only way I'm gonna be okay, is if you're not a part of my life." he flipped the emergency switch and the elevator turned back on, the doors opened and no one moved. "Agent David, can you please exit the elevator?"
She looked at him briefly before leaving the elevator, she had tears in her eyes but she wasn't going to let them fall in front of Tony.
Gibbs saw Ziva run from the elevator and into the ladies room. That had to be her tenth time in there at least. Gibbs got up from his desk and walked into the woman's bathroom,locking the door behind him.
He went over to the only occupied stall and knocked gently.
"Ziver, open up."
"Gibbs,what are you doing in here? This is the woman's bathroom." she said sniffling from behind the stall door.
"Ziver, open up now." he said, she opened the door slowly and looked at the ground, in hopes he wouldn't be able to see her crying. "What's wrong?" he asked
"Tony..he's such a jerk."
"Abby told me what you said to him." he said, Ziva groaned. So Abby had made sure everyone would hate Ziva.
"I do not even know why I said the things I did, all he did was ask why I blew him off. " she said, starting to ramble "I just lost it when he asked, saying all these cruel things I do not think I even meant. I mean I love him, but that is not always enough, and you know that Gibbs, we would not have been good for each other. It would have been hard, and I did not want that, so I just got mean in hopes of scaring him way, I did not want him to get hurt like this though. " She managed to get out before she started to cry, slamming the stall door shut again so Gibbs wouldn't see her being so weak.
"Ziver. Open. The. Door." He said sternly, and when she finally did, he pulled her into a hug "It's gonna be okay."
When she had finally composed herself she told him thank you and left work for the day.
When she was in the elevator, Zivas phone rang
"Daivd" she said as she answered her phone.
"Hey, honey" said the familiar voice
"Ray, hello" she said, she was glad he called, she really needed to talk about something other than the office drama.
"I hope you don't have plans tonight, I thought maybe we could get dinner, I have a flight to LA in the morning."
"That sounds great" she said, hoping her voice sounded more cheerful then she actually felt.
"Wonderful, I will pick you up at about eight" he said before hanging up.
How kind of him to say goodbye she thought to herself sarcastically.
I know everyone thinks everyone is being mean to Ziva, but she's supposed to have just been really mean to Tony for no reason. There's a point to everyone being mean to Ziva, I promise.
I'll post chapter six when this story has 25 reviews (;
-xoxo 4gentDiNozzo.