Here's the next installment of A Kiss and a Promise....
Chapter 18 – Playing With Flames
Everyone turned and gaped at Kate. Everyone but Ziva. She slapped Tony hard and stormed from the room.
"Zee, wait Zee!" Tony called Ziva stormed through the kitchen door, "Ziva!" Ziva punched the door and glared at him.
"What! Tony, what do you want?!" He stared at her, "Exactly!" and she stormed back into the kitchen.
"Tony," Whispered Abby, shocked, "what did you do?"
Tony just got up and walked after Ziva, he walked in and immediately a knife came flying toward him and hit the wall behind him, three inches to the left. "Ziva!"
"You lied to me Tony."
"I-" Tried Tony, but Ziva cut him off.
"Tony you-" She couldn't find the words so she walked to him and grabbed him by the ear, shoving him further into the room and backed him into a corner.
"Ziva I lo-"
"Don't Tony. Don't patronise me!" Yelled Ziva,
"Ziva I'm so sorry. It was years ago, before we met, and I'm sorry it happened."
"Tony don't you understand?! I'm not angry that you slept with her! I'm angry you lied to me! You promised me- you swore! You swore on your mother's grave that the two of you were never like that!"
In the next room everyone was staring at the door to the kitchen, listening to the loud yells. Kate felt horrible.
Tony stood staring at Ziva as she looked into his eyes. She could see his shame and longing in his eyes. She could see how much he was sorry and how he needed her forgiveness. He could see her pain and her love. He could see her self doubt and the empty place her self esteem usually sat.
He bent down and kissed her softly. She kissed back.
"I'm sorry Ziva. I am so sorry." And he meant it.
"Me too." And she wrapped her arms around his neck. She went on her tip-toes and mumbled against his lips, "I love you Tony."
"I love you Ziva." He pressed his lips to hers and they kissed lovingly for a minute before Ziva pulled away.
"You taste like beer."
"You like beer." Tony pointed out,
"I know." She kissed him again, before walking to the wall and pulling out the knife she'd thrown.
"Your aim's a little off." Teased Tony,
"I would not say that while I'm holding the knife, or I might just show you how off my aim is." threatened Ziva smiling.
"Crazy, absolutely crazy." Said Tony, taking the knife from her hand and placing it on the bench. Then taking her hand, and walking back into the living room.
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Later that night everyone went to bed. Jenny and Gibbs on the sofa bed, McGee on the other couch, Kate and Abby in the spare room, Tony and Ziva in their room.
Kate couldn't sleep. She was lying in bed, turning a precious ring on her finger. She looked at Abby who slept next to her, her breathing slow and deep. Sighing Kate sat up and swung her legs over the side of the bed. She was only wearing her shirt and underwear, having discarded her bra and jeans before climbing into the bed. Walking slowly and quietly Kate went over what she should do in her head.
She was still drunk, she could tell that much. And she didn't think she'd be able to walk down the stairs without falling over and waking everyone.
When Kate was a little girl, if she woke and couldn't sleep she'd go into the kitchen and get a glass of milk, then tiptoe into the living room where her father generally was at night. But he died when she was seven and after that she'd get her milk, then pull out one of her teddies and sit on the couch. That was until her mother remarried when she was nine. Then she'd sit talking to her step father in front of the fire in her new home drinking hot cocoa and having a warm hug.
When Kate moved out she'd call her old step father, even after he divorced her mother.
When she first joined NCIS she found herself too tired to lie awake at night and on the scarce nights she couldn't sleep she still called her step father.
After she faked her death though she found she barely slept at all, she survived on coffee and afternoon naps, at night she studied, learnt ASL, German and other languages but what she really longed for, was to be with Tony.
So Kate stumbled through the hall and found the door to Tony and Ziva's room. She opened it slowly and both Tony and Ziva looked up, Ziva holding a gun.
"Sorry," Whispered Kate, "I couldn't sleep and didn't trust myself getting down the stairs."
Ziva put the gun down and the two moved over, getting the hint, Kate walked around to the other side of the bed and got in next to Tony.
Ziva cuddled into Tony's side at the exact time Kate did, the looked at each other, staring into the others eyes. They felt the alcohol draw them together like magnets both unable to stop.
Kate felt Ziva's lips meet hers and could taste Tony on them. She kissed back, eager to feel Tony again, even if it was just an echo.
They pulled away, their breathing hard.
"That was the sexiest thing I've ever seen." Said Tony his breath horse,
Ok, sorry but i had to have that in there all will be explained next chap (originally i was gonna have them have a threesome but after the Giva/Zibbs thingo i thought 'noooo')
Here is my favorite review for chapter 17....
you asked what ziva would do when kate told that she have had sex with tony,
and i think that ziva would start singing and dancing and something with 50
elephants. i mean; she knows tony has a past and that he's not exactly virtues
or anything. in my opinion she would accept it, but talk with him about it
later when they're alone...
cya, lots of love and inspiration =)
from LynTheMe
AND
She should look at Tony, ask him/threaten him with a knife. With everyonetrying to restrain her. Then sees that Kate/Tony ain't lying. And eventually
forgive him...i need some more tiva goodness.!
BTW I LOVED THIS CHAPTER! SO FUNNY!
from A Fanfiction Angel