When Tony and his team got back to NCIS, McGee and Ziva were once again getting back, both teams got out of the car at the same time.
"You clean up nice, McGee." Tony joked, noticing Ziva and McGee must have gone home and changed.
"Thanks, Tony" McGee grumbled.
"Anytime" Tony told him,before turning around to his team saying "You guys go inside, do what you usually do, bank statements, phone records, suspects, you know." His team nodded and went into their building. Tony went over to McGee and walked towards the other NCIS building, and started up a conversation with him, ignoring Ziva once again.
"So I talked to Abby earlier." Tony told McGee, raising his eyebrow.
"About what?"McGee said sounding nervous.
"A little of this, a little of that. But mostly about how you guys enjoyed a night in the coffin last night." Tony said, laughing
"Tony, shut up. A pipe burst in my apartment,I had no where else to stay, we didn't do anything."McGee tried to explain.
"Right, of course not." Tony said sarcastically.
They all got into the elevator, Tony standing right next to Ziva, but still ignoring her.
"Oh crap I left my phone in the car." McGee said before he ran off the elevator. Neither Tony or Ziva had time to get off the elevator before the doors shut. They were alone in the elevator, extremely quiet.
Ziva flipped the emergency switch and Tony groaned. Covering his face with his hand.
"Tony, look at me please, I would like to speak with you." Ziva said, quite rudely. Tony split his fingers apart so he could look at her with both eyes.
"Yes?" he said
"I can not go on like this, we can not." she said,sounding desperate.
"Like what?" he spat
"Tony, I do not want to lose our friendship."she told him
"You have a really funny way of showing it."
"Tony, please just listen to me." she said,and all he did was stare at her so she went on. "I am sorry, I do not know how many times I have to say it before you believe me, this past week I have cried more than in my entire life. Nothing is the same without you. I really miss you, I miss having you as my best friend. I really need you, I am a wreck. The truth is Tony, I love you.I hate that it took a giant fight, well two actually, for me to realize it, but I did. I love you, Tony." she looked at him with hopeful eye, not exactly sure what she was hoping for. He just stared at her, letting his hand fall from his face. After about two minutes, Ziva couldn't take the silence anymore.
"Please say something , Tony." she begged
"I have nothing to say." he said, flipping the emergency switch.
"I tell you I love you and you have nothing to say?' Ziva said, exasperated
"Yeah, don't you hate when that happens?" he said, being his usual smart-ass self. The elevator doors opened, and he headed for the other elevator, going down to Abby's lab. Ziva chased after him, she wasn't finished.
Gibbs watched his ex-Senior field agent walk by his bullpen and his current Junior Agent running behind him.
"Hey Gibbs." Tony called as he passed
"Hello, DiNozzo." Gibbs answered, as Ziva and Tony disappeared around the corner.
"Don't you dare get into this elevator with me!" Gibbs heard Tony shout
"Fine" he heard Ziva shout back.
Ziva being Ziva took the stairs and made in down well before the elevator arrived.
"Seriously?" Tony said when he saw her waiting outside the elevator.
"We are not finished talking" she said
"I think we are." he said before walking into Abby's lab.
"Tony wait!" she said going off after him
"Toooony!" Abby said as she ran to give him one of her killer hugs.
"Hey Abs" he said
"Agent David" Abby said, pronouncing it wrong, when she realized Ziva followed Tony into the lab
"Abigail." Ziva answered, knowing only Ducky got away with calling her that. Abby narrowed her eyes at Ziva, but didn't say anything about what she had called her.
"You can leave, I have nothing for you" Abby told Ziva
"That is alright, I am simply waiting for Tony. We were in the middle of a discussion." she said, not taking her eyes off of Tony, who was doing his best to pretend she wasn't there.
Ignoring her was hard for him. The woman he loved just told him she loved him, which had made his heart beat about ten times too fast. On top of that she looked incredibly sexy, The grey shit she wore clung to her, showing off every curve and the cargo pants she was wearing were very tight around her butt.
"I actually have to test gun right now, so how about you finish talking while I do that." Abby said, trying to sound more pleased than she was,but failing.
"Abby, no do-" Tony said, but she was already gone, leaving him and Ziva alone again.
"Tony,I love you." Ziva repeated
"And what do you want me to do about that?" he asked "Just drop everything and be with you, because now you're ready? I'm supposed to just dump Jeanne,and hurt her again, when all she has been is perfect this entire week? And what would you tell Ray? Or would you even tell him? Would you just string me along until he got back from where ever he is? Ziva I love you too, but I don't think I could possibly ever be with you."
"Oh come on Tony, I would break up with Ray, and Jeanne would be fine." she told him, she went over and wrapped her arms around him and kissed him. He kissed her back instantly, pulling her closer, before he came to his senses and pushed her away.
"Ziva, I can't do this. I'm with Jeanne, you're with Ray, things are best that way, I'm sorry, but you can't just decide to love me when it's convenient for you. I deserve someone who will love me always, not because they are jealous I'm with someone else." he said
"Fine " she said "But someday it will just be too much, the hurt. You will realize I am the only one you will ever actually love, it took me a week to realize that, for you it may take longer, I do not know,but I am not giving up, you should know I never do. I will never give up, I love you. I will just wait until you realize that you love me too. By then it might be too late though, I could die any day, but I promise I will wait." her voice cracked as a tear rolled down her cheek, Tony wiped it away before he left the lab.
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