Author's Note: Ok, so sorry it took so long for me to update. I've been playing the Sims 2 non-stop :-). Anyway here goes nothing. Hope you like it and please review.
XII
Monte Carlo.
That's where they were heading now.
Tony sighed silently and looked though the Gulf Stream's window.
It was dark out there and if he looked out and up he could see millions of stars as far as he could see lighting the sky beautifully above them.
He sighed audibly and chanced a glance in Ziva's direction. He had been trying to get her attention for a while now and she was ignoring him.
He saw her look in his direction and quickly diverted his eyes back out the window.
He could feel her eyes on him for several moments and couldn't take it anymore.
Why was it that the first time he really liked someone he was having such a hard time of it?
He shouldn't even want her as much as he did but he couldn't help it. Even though he barely knew her he couldn't keep his heart from wanting what it wants, and his heart definitely wanted Ziva David.
He was had just decided to leave his seat and sit next to her when a figure slipped into the vacant seat beside him and he turned to see Kate smiling at him.
He smiled back barely getting the smile to reach his eyes.
Damn Kate had bad timing.
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Ziva was sitting three seats away from Tony when she heard a soft sigh from him.
She looked over to see him lost in thought and gazing through the window.
She had been so caught up in her own misery that she had been ignoring his flirting and teasing for the pass day and a half.
She was just about to get up and sit in the empty seat beside him when a smiling Caitlin Todd walked from the front of the plane and slipped into the seat beside him.
Ziva sighed as she watched him smile back at her.
Who was she kidding the guy was obviously a serial flirt and if there was something going on between him and his partner then she would just have to get over herself and live with it.
She turned from them and gazed through the window thinking of her father's coldness, Ari's betrayal and Tony's affection which she would never have.
She shouldn't even want anything from Tony, she was Mossad and besides she barely knew him.
She sighed soundlessly and guessed that she couldn't help what the heart wanted even if it should not want it.
Life had definitely dealt her a bad foot…wait…was it a bad hand…who cares it was a body part wasn't it?
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Kate had been on edge for a while now, ever since she had spoken to Abby on the phone the night before.
*Flashback to the night before*
The director had arranged for them to stay at the American Embassy Hotel.
Kate was exhausted when she got there and who could blame her, that day alone she had to deal with the flight, their mission brief and her obsessing over Tony and Ziva. She would have immediately passed out on her bed if it wasn't for the promise she had made Abby to call and tell her how everything was going.
She knew it would be extremely late in D.C. but she also knew that Abby would be up waiting for her call.
The phone was grabbed up by Abby on the very first.
"Kate?" Abby asked.
There was a pause and before Kate could reply she spoke again.
"McGee? Is that you? This better not be a telemarketer or a prank call 'cause I'm one of the few people on this Earth who track you down, kill you and leave absolutely no forensic evidence." She said sounding irritated.
Kate chuckled, "Abs, it's me," she told her friend.
"OH!" Abby exclaimed, "Finally. So give me the dish. How's Tony? Did you meet any cute Israeli guys? Di McGee puke on the plane? Did Gibbs and the Mossad Deputy Director throw-down?" she flooded Kate with questions.
Kate chuckled once more, "Abby one question at a time," she said.
"Kate tell meeeee," Abby whined.
"Ok, ok…jeez," Kate said, "let's see, oh yeah, I did see one cute Israeli guy but he was very silent and serious, McGee didn't puke but he was out of it and he couldn't shut up and Gibbs and Deputy Director David were very civil toward each other."
There was a pause after she stopped talking.
"What about Tony?" Abby asked breaking the silence.
"Oh well, Tony is Tony," Kate said with a sigh.
"What was that?" Abby asked sounding excited.
"What was what?" Kate asked her friend.
"You sighed."
"I did?"
"Yep! Why did you sigh? What did Tony do?"
Kate sighed once more, "Nothing I guess, he was just being his usual self."
"So why did you…wait Kate…are you jealous because Tony was flirting with somebody?"
Kate gulped. How could Abby possibly know that?
"I'll take your silence as a yes!" Abby said after a moment of silence sounding excited.
"I-I…" Kate tried to deny but was cut off by Abby.
"I knew it! You and Tony would be great together!" she declared.
Kate sighed.
"Oh I forgot. Who was he flirting with?"
"Mossad Officer Ziva David," Kate sad a little sadly.
"Is she pretty?"
"I guess she is."
"I don't care!" Abby exclaimed, "You and Tony belong together!"
"Thanks Abby," Kate said with a smile.
"Well you are my friend Kate, that's what friends do…wait did you say Mossad Officer Ziva David? Any relations to the Deputy Director?"
Kate shrugged then realized that she was talking on the phone, "I don't know."
"Well it doesn't matter 'cause no matter who she is she can't have Tony and I don't like her already." Abby said with finality in her voice.
They spoke for several more minutes and then Kate said bye with the excuse that she was sleepy.
She never meant to get into discussing her liking Tony with anyone but Abby was a force to be reckoned with.
*End of Flashback*
Kate smile as she remembered her conversation with Abby and her friend's encouragement.
She turned in her seat to see Tony gazing out the window and decided to go for it. She got up still smiling and quickly made her way to the seat beside him.
She got all warm inside when he turned to look at her and smiled.
This was Tony. She shouldn't be feeling this way. She knew him and he was a player with a frat boy mentality, but she guessed that the heart just wanted what it wants.
Too bad she didn't know that both Tony and Ziva were thinking almost the same thing.