May 26
A friend is someone who listens to your dreams, challenges your fears, cares for your feelings, and forgives your shortcomings.
Ziva glared at Tony across the squad room. How dare he bring that up! For the third time in five minutes as well!
"You really are a screamer," her soon-to-be deceased partner smirked. "You scared the poor Probie with that scream. Took ten years off his McLife."
"Shut up," she snapped at him. "I saw a butterfly."
"And our great ninja Mossad assassin is terrified of butterflies," he continued. "I thought you were fearless."
"Everyone is afraid of something," she defended. "What do you have a phobia of?"
"This is not about me," he countered. "It's about you."
"Vampires," McGee added. "Tony's scared of vampires."
Ziva grinned at the look that appeared on Tony's face. "I thought vampires were great seducers," she remarked. "I cannot understand how you are afraid of them."
"What's the Probie scared of?" Tony asked, determined to take the spotlight away from him.
"Failure," McGee instantly answered. "I'm scared to fail."
Tony snorted. "How can you be scared of an abstract thing?" he queried.
"I think it is the sign of a good person," Ziva decided. "You are one to talk; you are afraid of a creature that does not exist."
"And you are scared of flying insects," Tony growled. "McScaredypants is the loser here."
"Butterflies aren't –"
"Can it, Probie," Tony ordered.
The whole team glared at each other.
"So good to know I can leave you unsupervised for ten minutes," Gibbs noted sarcastically as he appeared.
Tony rolled his eyes before hissing his question to Ziva. "What's Gibbs afraid of then?"