Author's Note: It's been awhile since I updated so sorry about that. I hope this new chapter makes up for it. Please read, enjoy and review .

Disclaimer: You already know, I don't own nothing especially not NCIS.

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After she watched Ari die things were a blur for Ziva. She briefly remembered telling the Mossad officers where Asad Haswari was, she vaguely remembered instructing them to take him alive and she also kind of remembered the feel of Tony's eyes on her as she separated herself from their little reunion, but apart from that she wasn't very clear on what took place.

She missed the worried looks Tony sent her way, the guilty expression that crossed Kate's and McGee's face every time they looked her way and she was so out of it that she barely realized when the three Mossad officers dragged a bleeding Asad Haswari pass them.

The first thing that Ziva really noticed after killing Ari was that she was standing outside of the hotel they were all staying in after they had dropped McGee and Kate off at the hospital. One of the Mossad guys told her that they would be flying out in the morning and that Deputy Director David would be expecting a full debriefing as soon as they landed and she excused herself to her room.

Ziva was drowning her sorrows in room service when there was a knock on her room door. She quickly grabbed her gun from where she had discarded it earlier on the bedside table and walked up to the door. She looked through the peek hole and was surprised to see Tony standing there with a big grin and a bottle in his hand.

She lowered her gun and opened the door for him.

"I was in the neighbourhood and thought you could use a drink," he told her, "I didn't know what your poison was so I took a chance with a bottle of red wine."

Ziva eyed the bottle of wine suspiciously, "Poison?" she questioned.

Tony chuckled at her expression, "Not real poison Zee," he said giving her his irresistible smile, "it's just a saying."

She gave him a small smile and let him walk pass her into the room.

He saw the food lying out, "I was just going to suggest that we order up some food," he told her.

"There is more than enough food here for both of us," she told him as she found two coffee mugs and passed them to him.

He uncorked the wine and poured it into the mugs, "Great!" he told her, "I'm starved."

Ziva felt herself cheering up just by having him in her room. She took a seat beside him on her bed and took a mug of wine from him.

"Sooo," Tony said giving her one of his signature smiles, "can I expect a kiss later on?" he asked.

Ziva looked at him confused, "Why?" she asked somewhat nervously.

"Well," Tony said edging closer to her, "it is our second date after all."

Ziva chuckled, "Second date?" she questioned.

Tony grinned, "Yep, we did go get pizza together back in Tel Aviv." he told her.

Ziva smiled at this, "I don't remember that being our first date," she told him.

Tony smirked, "You're right," he said thoughtfully, "when we meet at the airport was totally our first date. Which means this is our third date so we can totally skip the meaningful conversation and jump right to the sex," he said puckering up and leaning in close.

Ziva couldn't help herself, she giggled and pushed him playfully away. She loved being like this with Tony. He was charming, funny, sweet and he made her almost forget about killing Ari.

They fell into a comfortable silence, Tony turned on the tv and they watched in silence as they ate her room service food and drunk their wine.

They had almost finished the bottle of wine, discarded the excess food and were currently watching a rerun of an old show with a talking car, Tony called the show Night riding or something like that, when Tony finally decided to break the silence and completely ruin the moment.

"Did you know Ari?" he asked her.

Ziva clenched, "So much for forgetting about Ari for tonight," she thought.

"Why do you ask?" she asked him.

He felt he clench and tension filled the room, "You seemed to know him back at his hide-out," he told her.

She remained silent as if she was thinking about it. Tony watched her curiously, he was about to change the subject when she responded.

"I thought I did," she told him, "but the man I knew would never have betrayed his country or his family the way he did, so obviously I was mistaken.

Tony smiled sadly at her, "People are rarely what you see them as," he told her brushing a lock of hair out of her face.

She returned his sad smile, he didn't know how true his words were. He leaned in close and this time she could tell he wasn't just joking around, and this time she didn't need or want to push him away.

Their lips connected and every neurone in her body came alive and sent a deviously delicious pulse throughout her entire body. She shivered and she knew that Tony felt the same pulse because she felt his almost identical shiver.

The kiss lasted a minute or two but it felt a lot shorter, Ziva felt disappointed when Tony broke the kiss and pulled away from her. She had expected him to deepen the kiss, push her down on the bed and nail her senseless (or was that screw?), either way she had expected to have mind blowing sex not for him to pull away.

She looked at him confused, she thought he wanted her as much as she wanted him.

He saw the hurt in her eyes and knew he had to act quickly, "I do want you," she told her answering her unspoken question, "but I don't want you like this."

He saw the confusion in her eyes, "You're hurt," he quickly explained, "You just killed someone you thought you knew. I don't want to be a quick fix."

She smiled at him turning a bit red in the face from embarrassment. Tony was unlike any guy she had known before, any other guy would have been quick to accept what she was offering regardless of why she was offering it.

He saw her slight blush and kissed her to reassure her, their second kiss was even better than the first.

"When we do it we'll do it for the right reasons," he told her, "and then it would be perfect."

She smiled at him and for the first time she felt same and comforted in the presence of a man.

They laid back on the bed and snuggled together as they finished watching his tv show. Before long she was fast asleep softly snoring and tucked under Tony's arm.

The show finished and Tony turned the tv off, he wanted to return to his own room but he looked down at Ziva and she looked so innocent and peaceful he didn't want to wake her up, so instead he kicked off shoes and snuggled closer to her. Soon he too was fast asleep.

Sometime in the before dawn Ziva woke and felt Tony draped around her, she looked at his peacefully sleeping form and smiled contently. She snuggled closer to him and even though he was practically snoring in her ear so was soon back in dreamland.

Author's Note: Well…What do you think? Please review and let me know.