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Chapter 50 – Plush (50 chapters.. OMG)
Tony and Ziva were waiting for McGee to arrive so they could go to the crime scene of a dead NCIS Agent Jack Patterson.
"I have a message." Tony said and he lifted the receiver and played the recording.
"Good afternoon, I'm calling from Hubbard & Hubbard, solicitor's office…"
McGee stepped out of the elevator, "Sorry. There was an accident on Macarthur."
Tony hung up the phone and he and Kate grabbed their gear.
"Let's go." Said Kate,
"That was strange." said Tony; "A law firm in London wants me to call. Says it's important."
"What could they want?" Asked Ziva,
"I don't know. Maybe it's about my Uncle Clive. Remember that funeral I went to last month?"
"Your uncle really died?" asked Ziva, "I thought you were making that up to get some time off."
Tony looked at her incredulously,
"Who do you think I am?" He asked before rushing off to jump in the elevator with Kate and McGee,
* * *
"Agent Jack Patterson." Abby and Gibbs were in the lab looking at a photo of Patterson on the plasma,
"It's not what I thought he'd look like." Said Abby her voice free from its usual bubblyness,
"Said you knew him."
"We had a very special phone relationship." She explained, "He would mail me forensic evidence, I'd e-mail him back results. He'd call me, I'd call him. He never forgot my birthday... like you did. Last year." She sighed, "I don't know. It's his voice. He sounded... shorter, blonder, with a moustache."
"You got all that from his voice, Abs?"
"You sounded different when you had a moustache."
* * *
"Okay," Tony said into the phone, "cheerio." He added in an English accent before hanging up.
"I suppose that was for my benefit." Said McGee, "Okay, I'll bite. Are you in the will?"
"McProbie," Said Tony, walking over to McGee's desk, "we can only assume, right? That was his secretary. Mr. Hubbard, my great-uncle's solicitor wasn't available, but... she did confirm that... he represents Uncle Clive's estate."
"Clive DiNozzo."
"Clive Paddington." Tony corrected, "It's my mother's side."
"We talking big money?"
"Huge money!" Grinned Tony, "I mean Jed Clampett money. I'm talking Texas gold. It's actually North Sea oil money."
"I take it you were close to the old gent." Said McGee,
"I spent my 17th summer in Blighty. Uncle Clive was my mentor; kind of like Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell in Scent of a Woman."
"Guessing the opposite sex was involved."
"He could sniff out a gorgeous woman and close the deal faster than anyone I ever met." Tony said in awe,
"I'm more concerned about closing that case." Gibbs walked in,
"I'm working on it, boss."
* * *
"Gibbs," Ziva said, "Dina Risi, the artist, she's starting to be recognized outside Arizona. Had a showing in San Francisco in December. She specializes in landscape." Ziva showed Gibbs some of the art on the plasma in the bullpen,
"She grew up in Italy," Said Kate, sitting at her computer, "studied art in Milan, moved to Arizona about ten years ago. She's always been very outspoken on ecological issues." A picture of Risi at a protest appeared on the screen.
"I did talk to the local sheriff, guy by the name of Clay Boyd." Tony said, walking over, "And he said that he was looking for her, but she, well, she just disappeared." His voice accented, imitating Sheriff Boyd,
"Disappeared?"
"Disappeared. Like she just fell off the face of the earth. He talks just like that. That's how he talks. I won't though." His voice went back to normal, "Says that she has a remote, mountain retreat where likes to go and paint, but he doesn't know where it is."
"Find it, McGee."
"Think I did, boss. I only used Risi paintings that have distinctive geographical landmarks. Compared them to Google Earth satellite images. These locations correspond to backgrounds in her paintings. They're all within a four-mile radius of Mount Pinos. Searched the area, only found one structure. This was taken six months ago."
"Good. See if she's there." Gibbs told him,
"Piece of cake, Probie." Tony patted McGee's shoulder and walked back to his desk.
"Ooo." Exclaimed Ziva as she saw a magazine ad on Tony's desk, she snatched it, "A Ferrari. 599 GTB." She looked up at Tony, "You are counting your eggs before they are laid." She put the ad back on Tony's desk,
"Operative word is 'laid'." Grinned Tony, he sat down then frowned.
It had been a while since he and Ziva had… Three weeks. That was the longest they'd gone without having sex, excluding their four months on opposite sides of the world. He forced him self to shrug it off, Ziva was pregnant after all.
* * *
Ziva had her head rested on hand as she looked at Tony. Tony looked up;
"I'm e-mailing the lawyer in London. All right? The suspense is killing me." He told her,
"I did not ask." Ziva replied, before Gibbs walked in.
She reported an update to him before McGee beckoned Gibbs over to tell him what he found.
"Heat signature from the fireplace. Somebody's there." said Gibbs, "Ziva, you, Kate, and McGee work the case from here. DiNozzo, go home, pack."
"Where am I going?"
"We're going to Arizona." Gibbs said as he grabbed his gear and left.
"Okay." Tony told him before cursing under his breath, "Arizona and I don't get along." He told Ziva, who smiled and gave him a little wave.
Tony grabbed his stuff then walked to Ziva, "I'll see you later Sweet Cheeks." He told her,
They kissed deeply, arms wrapping around the other.
"Love you."
"I love you too Tony, I will see you when you get back."
* * *
"That was security." Kate told McGee and Ziva as she hung up, "Bart Lemming is on his way up."
"Maybe he's got something for us." McGee said just as Tony's phone started to ring. "That could be London."
"Then answer it." Said Kate,
"What, and have Tony harass me some more about my message-taking skills? No, thank you."
"I'll get it." Ziva said, standing and walking over to the phone,
"Why? You're gonna tell them he's not here, they're not gonna tell you anything." McGee said,
"McGee you're forgetting Tony and Ziva are married."
Just as Ziva's hand was about to pick up the phone it stoped ringing, Ziva sighed, "I think you are jealous Tony's going to inherit money."
"No, I just think that it could change him."
"Which in Tony's case would be a good thing." Said Kate,
"Unless, he becomes more-"
"Tony-ish." finished Ziva, "I see your concern. But you did not change when your books made you plush."
"Flush." corrected McGee, "Thanks, Ziva, but it really wasn't that much. I bought my car, bought some clothes. What was left over, I put in a hedge fund which just crashed."
"Sorry. That is why you've been so distracted lately."
"It shows, huh?"
Ziva nodded.
"What about your third book, 'Ocean Far', you told me about while I was in Israel."
"Yea I guess, I have been writing it a little bit. Introduced a new character."
"Oh?"
"Yea, Special Agent Krystal."
Ziva nodded, "Just as long as you don't write Trina into it."
McGee avoided her gaze.
* * *
"Did, uh, Uncle Clive leave a big estate?" Ziva asked,
Tony was laughing so hard there was no sound coming from his mouth, "Huge!" He held up his arms to demonstrate, "Twenty-four million pounds!"
"That's over Thirty-five million dollars." Gaped Kate,
"Yes! Yes, it is! Yes, it is. And he left it all to my snivelling cousin Crispian." His laughter stopped and his face became disappointed, "I mean, I'll give you, granted he did take care of Uncle Clive when he was ill, and he gave a very moving eulogy."
"Hey." Said Gibbs, "Why is the lawyer calling you?"
"Oh." Tony looked at Ziva for a second then back to Gibbs, "Yeah. When I was in college, I borrowed $10,000 from Uncle Clive, and, I guess I signed an IOU. I don't really remember, but Crispian says that he found this document. Said 'IOU', and that I owe him that $10,000 plus compounded interest over the last 20 years. Do you know how much that is, by the way?"
McGee walked over, "I am sorry for your loss."
Ziva however glared.
"Ten thousand dollars plus compound interest!" She glared, "Oh if we were not in a federal building Tony, I would kill you and use your life insurance to pay back your cousin Crispian!"
"Can we talk about this at home?" Tony asked calmly,
Ziva glared and stood up, grabbing her belongs and storming from the bullpen.
* * *
Ziva was at home with Trina tucking her in.
"So can I go to Emily's party?"
"We will have to meet her parents first, what is her last name?"
"I don't know."
Ziva shook her head, "We will see." She kissed her daughter's forehead. "Goodnight darling."
"Night Mum."
Ziva got up and left the room just as Tony walked in the front door. He went straight to his and Ziva's bedroom and found her standing in the middle of the room her arms crossed and glare on her face.
"We need to talk Tony."
Tony sighed, "I know."
"I am not going to give you any of that money Tony, it is your mistake."
"Ziva…"
"No Tony do you not understand, I have money, I do, but I am saving that for Trina, for our baby." She started pacing, "How could you forget about that kind of debt Tony? Twenty years of compound interest on ten thousand dollars, you do realise how much that is? Tony how are you going to afford it, and yes my father can pay for but there is no way I will ask him!" He voice was getting steadily louder, and she swore in Hebrew, then in her anger forgot to change her languages back and started ranting and yelling to Tony in Hebrew.
"Ima? Are you and Aba going to get divorced?"
Catryn was standing in the doorway, tears falling down her face,
"What?" Asked Ziva,
"You are yelling. Fighting. Samara and Peter fought a lot. They got divorced."
"Catryn darling, do not worry, go back to bed."
Catryn nodded, "Night Ima, night Aba." Catryn left, wiping her tears,
Ziva turned to Tony, "I am sorry."
Tony stood and sat Ziva down, "I know." He sighed, "I'm gonna tell you something I haven't told anyone."
Ziva frowned.
Tony looked at her and begun his story.
"When I was with Kate, just after I got the plague, I got a call from my mother. She had heard on the news an NCIS agent had plague and was checking up on me, we spoke for a while and eventually I told her all about Kate and my hopes for our future. My mother then told me of an agreement she had with my father, she put him on and I told him everything I told her."
Ziva frowned but continued to listen,
"My father said he was giving me back my trust fund, that he was always going to give it back when I proved to be responsible and showed I planned on settling down." Tony sighed, "It all came through and I got the money and I was wondering how to tell Kate, but then, well she faked her death. My parents read all about it in the news and called me, it was the only time they ever really were good parents. My father told me the least he could do was handle the money for me, and because of his great business skills, it grew, just as he planned."
"Tony..."
"Let me finish Ziva." Tony told her, "When I first lost my trust fund, when I told my father I was becoming a cop, I realised I should start to save up, so I saved everything I could, and well now Ziva, I have a small fortune."
"Why did you not make me sign a Pre-Nap?"
"Pre-Nup." Tony corrected, "I dunno, you have a lot of money, why didn't you make me sign one."
"Because Tony, we will never divorce."
Tony grinned, "Exactly Sweet Cheeks, exactly."
"How much money?" Ziva asked,
Tony chuckled, "Not as much as dear Crispian, but more then enough to pay him back and live my life exactly the same."
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