Tony got out of the car and walked over to the other side of the car, opening the door for Jeanne, on the other side of that same parking lot, Ray was doing the same for Ziva. Tony wrapped his arm around Jeanne's waist and Ray intertwined his fingers with Ziva's. The couples reached the entrance to the restaurant at the same time. All they did was stare at each other until Tony broke the silence.
"Agent David, Cruz" he said as politely as he could
"Tony, how are you?" Ray said happily, all Tony wanted to do was punch the smirk off his face. Jeanne felt Tony's body tense against her's.
"I'm fine, thank you." he answered.
"Who is your friend?" Ray asked, looking Jeanne up and down. Tony's arm tightened around her small frame.
"This is my, uhm , girlfriend, Jeanne" he said, Jeanne's smile widened when Tony had said 'girlfriend' and Ziva had to look away and bite her lip to stop herself from laughing. "Jeanne, this is Ray Cruz, CIA. Agent David's boyfriend." he explained.
Ray extended his hand,and Jeanne shook it.
"Well we better get going, would not want to be late for our reservation." Ziva said, basically dragging Ray inside.
"Why don't you like them?" Jeanne asked, she noticed that the second Ziva and Ray had went into the restaurant his body relaxed.
"Ray, well I've always hated Ray." he told her
"And Agent David? I had gotten the impression you two were quite close when I visited NCIS."she pushed
"We recently had a pretty big falling out, nothing to worry about." he said as he moved his head down to kiss her cheek, before walking her inside.
They went into the restaurant and Tony told the man they had a reservation and a hostess led them to their table, which happened to be right next to Ray and Ziva's. Tony groaned once he saw this, and Jeanne squeezed him reassuringly and whispered in his ear.
"I promise to make sure you forget they are even here." she whispered
"Great" he said winking at her. Ziva noticed and it made her hate Jeanne even more.
Tony managed to talk to Jeanne throughout their entire date, so there were no awkward silences that might have made him look at Ray and Ziva. The case wasnot the same for Ziva.
Her and Ray barely had anything to talk about, they really didn't have that much I common. This allowed her to glance over at Tony and Jeanne every five minutes or so. Everytime she looked over they were both smiling or laughing, clearly having a better time then Ziva was.
"Ziva, are you okay?" Ray asked her, about the tenth time she had looked over at Tony.
"Yes, I am fine" she lied
"You haven't touched your food." He noticed
''I am not really that hungry, I had a late lunch." she answered, and all he did was nod, he knew better than to push her.
Tony and Jeanne left before Ray and Ziva, and Ziva watched them walk all the way to the door, knowing she had probably lost her best friend forever.
Tony walked Jeanne up to her apartment.
"Do you want to come in?" she asked, shyly.
"I would love to, but tomorrows my first day as the 'team leader' and it's already kind of late, I want to be well rested." he explained, she nodded, understanding.
Tony wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close, kissing her. Jeanne's body molded against his as the kiss grew stronger.
"Are you sure you don't want to come in?" she whispered seductively into his ear as he placed kisses along her neck.
"I guess I can be a little tired tomorrow" he said before he started to kiss her again.
It had been a week since Tony started his new job. A week since Tony and Ziva had last talked. A week since Jeanne and Tony started to date again. A week since Abby had started calling her Agent David, pronouncing it wrong like when Ziva had first came to NCIS with the liaison position. A week since Ziva's whole life had changed.
They had not yet replaced Tony, Ziva knew Gibbs was putting it off in hopes he was going to change his mind and come back. Ziva knew he wouldn't come back, and she knew exactly why.
"Grab your gear" Tony said as he walked into the bullpen, coffee in hand.
His new team was all women, which he didn't mind at all, considering they were all attractive. The senior field agent, Agent Cynthia Jones, was closer to Gibbs age, she had red hair that was cut into a bob and bright green eyes, she looked like she could have been one of Gibbs ex-wives. The Junior Agent, Agent Julia Patel, was Asian with dark brown hair that ended at her shoulders, dark brown eyes, and legs that seemed to go on forever. The teams Probie was easily the best looking on the team, Agent Kristen 'Kristy' Rizzo, she was Italian like Tony, so she had beautifully tan skin with blond hair that almost reached her waist, and pretty pale blue eyes.
Definitely the hottest team in all of NCIS Tony had thought when he first met them. Team Gibbs had been pretty attractive, but they weren't three hot women.
"Where are we going, Boss?" Rizzo asked as they all filed into the elevator
"Quantico." he answered as he pressed the button for the ground floor. As they made their way towards their car ,McGee and Ziva were pulling in. When they got out of the car Tony could see they were both covered in mud.
"Looking good, McSexy" Tony called over a few cars to McGee, ignoring Ziva all together, which obviously bothered her. When she realized he wasn't going to say anything to her she stormed off into NCIS, he hadn't seen her in a week and didn't even bother to say hello.
"Shut up, Tony, or I'll make you pay for all our lunches today." he threatened. Since Tony left, Abby, Jimmy, Tony, and McGee had lunch everyday, as long as neither team was working an important case, which neither of them had in the past week.
"Oh ok, sorry, McGrouchy." Tony said back, getting into the car.
"You and David would make a cute couple."Patel said as she sat in the passenger seat next to Tony.
"Well I'm perfectly happy with my girlfriend" he told her.
"You have a girlfriend? " Rizzo asked from the back seat, sounding sad.
"Rule #12, Kristy." he said
"What's rule #12?" Jones asked
"Never ever date a co-worker" he answered.
"That's stupid'' Patel said, she was engaged to a man that worked in MTAC
"You and your fiance are barely co-workers" he said and she shrugged.
"So what are the other 11 rules?" Rizzo asked.
"There are 51 rules?" he answered
"And who's rules are these?" Jones asked
"Gibbs' " he answered.
"And you know all of them?' Patel asked.
"Yep, ask me any number, and I'll know it."
"51?" rizzo asked
"Sometimes you're wrong"
"11?"
"When the job's done, walk away"
"4?"
"The best way to keep a secret? Keep it to best? Tell one other person - if you is no third best. "
"5?"
"You don't waste good"
"15?"
"Always work as a team."
"40?"
" If it seems someone is out to get you, they are."
"35?"
"Always watch the watchers"
"1?"
"There's two rule ones; never let suspects stay together, and.." he swallowed "never screw over your partner, thats 's enough for today" he said, doing a fake laugh. His thoughts rushed to Ziva.
Yep, she definitely broke that one. he thought to himself.
Things are going to turn around for Ziva in a few chapters, just saying (:
Jeanne and Ray will be gone soon enough.
I'll put chapter 7 up once the story gets 35 reviews!
-xoxo 4gentDiNozzo.
