(A few days after Gibbs finds out)
After being called out to a crime scene, Tony notices that Tim's hand is back in its usual place on the small of Bella's back. Hearing Gibbs bark for equipment, he turns to the rig. Helping Ziva, Tony saw a look shared by McGee and Woods, "Looks like McGee has stopped giving woods the cold shoulder."
Grabbing the camera from the rig, "The what? What does a shoulder have to do with anything?"
Tony grins over at the confused Israeli, "It's an expression. It means he was mad at her."
Ziva looks back at the two agents, "Oh, McGee finally realized being mad at who her family is was ridiculous."
"Who her family is?" Tony asks confused cocking his head to the side at his partner.
"Yes. She is Gibbs' niece," Ziva tells him.
Tony practically doubles over from laughter, "Very funny Ziva."
"I am not trying to be funny Tony. She is his niece."
He glances at the two once more, and sees Tim laughing as Bella rolls her eyes with a smile on her face. "Is he crazy? Gibbs is right behind us!"
Rolling her eyes, she smiles, "What would he do? He already knows."
Confused once again, Tony looks back at the Israeli, "Knows what?"
Getting fed up with Tony for not catching on; Ziva scoffs at him "Are you blind Tony? Just watch them. They are together."
Tony stops moving and shouts rather loudly, "What?!"
This causes his team to turn and look at him oddly.
"You alright Tony?" Bella shouts from where she is.
"Yeah, Bella," he calls back and suddenly he felt a smack to the back of his head.
"Good, get with the program DiNozzo," Gibbs says, turning back to the crime scene.
After much convincing on Tony's part, the girls headed back to NCIS with Gibbs. Smiling in victory, Tony walks with McGee to the truck, "So Tim what's she like?"
"What is who like Tony?" McGee asks, turning onto the road following as close behind Gibbs as he could with out breaking any major road laws.
"Bella! Is she crazy in bed? She seems like she would be," getting silence in return, Tony gives Tim a look, "not so good huh?"
Discomfort rolling off Tim at the invasive question, "If you must know, which apparently you do, I don't know."
"Whoa, you mean you haven't-"
"No Tony."
Tony scoffs, not believing what he's hearing, "Well why not?"
"It just hasn't happened. I like her for who she is, not how she is in the bedroom. If you don't mind I'm sure she as well as Gibbs would kill you for asking that."
He slowly nods taking in the other mans warning. "Right; so how is it you survived Gibbs when he found out about you guys. With rule 12 and all?"
McGee shrugs, "I'll admit, I was a little worried, with how close she and Gibbs are, but everything worked out in the end. Bella and I get to be together, and Gibbs gave us his blessing, pretty much." Smiling wider, Tim turns his head to Tony; "You know he just might bend the rules for you too."
"McGee, I had no idea you were into sharing your girlfriend," Tony jokes, making McGee blush.
"No, Tony," Tim says, "It's not Bella I'm talking about."
"Well who are you talking about, McGoo?"
McGee lets the name insult slide as he usually does and answers, "Ziva."
Now it is Tony's turn for silence, as he stares at the car in front of him, staring at one head in particular. He'd be a fool if he didn't notice Ziva's beauty, he's a man, of course he's noticed. Sure, they flirt; they have a good time in each other's company. But is there really something more? Thinking back to the night in the bar when she was up on stage singing, and pulled him up, it was like she was singing to him and only him. The lyrics to the song obviously meant something to her, and he was a fool to not see it then. He remembers the remainder of the night, random guys would come up and ask her to dance, and he'd feel jealous, but she wouldn't go with them. She was waiting. She was waiting for him to ask her.
"Tony. Tony! Where'd you go?" McGee asks, snapping the senior field agent from his memories.
"Uh, no where, McGee, what were you saying?" Tony asks, not taking his eyes off the back of Ziva's head.
"I said that Gibbs would probably bend the rules for you and Ziva as well."
Tony nods, "Yeah, I don't know about that one, Timmy. Do you really think she would want to be with someone who killed her boyfriend at point blank range?"
"Tony, you were protecting her from Michael, she understands that now. Do you not see the way she looks at you? She has the same look in her eyes that Bella has when she looks at me. There are feelings there, Tony, and you should act on them before another 'Michael' is in the picture, or you'll never know."
Tony looks Tim up and down and raises his eyebrow, "Where'd you come up with that? The fall issue of Cosmo?"
"No Tony, something better," Tim says.
"Where?"
Tim smiles, "Bella."
Tony nods once and turns back to the sedan in front of them, he watches Ziva turn around in her seat and they catch each other's eyes. He smiles at her, and she smiles back before pulling a goofy face like a five year old would, and it causes Tony and Tim to laugh out loud. She winks at Tony, and turns back around in her seat as they pull in to the Navy Yard.
Back to reality, Tony thinks, she's going to be the death of me, one way or another.
~*~
Sorry, this chapter was kind of short. I just wanted to show Tony finding out. I have the next chapters done already. Sorry for the delay, I'll try to have another chapter up tonight!
