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I'm so so sorry for the long wait for the update. I was on a vacation for 2 weeks and I left this at the home computer. but when I got back I found out I saved it into a random folder I now can't find so I had to rewrite this again. This won't happen again since school starting and there won't be time for vacation anymore. Anyway sorry for the wait and here's the next chap.


Ziva groaned in annoyance as the doorbell rang again for the third time. "Why does these salesman never give up?" She grumbled as she put down the gun she was cleaning. Seeing that her father was still occupying the phone line in his office, she stood and walked towards the front door.

"Look, I don't know what you're trying to sell but you better get off of this property before I..." Ziva started as she opened the door but trailed off as she looked up and saw a familiar face. A boy slightly taller than her stood in front of the door with one hand behind his back.

Ziva's eye widened in shock as the brown haired boy pulled a rose from his back. "Happy Valentine's Day Ziva!" He exclaimed in excitement.

"Tony! What are you doing here?"

Tony opened his mouth to answer her question but before he could get anything out, a deep voice interrupted him from inside the house. "Ziva who are you talking to at the door?"

Ziva turned around to face her father, standing in front of his office door and opened her mouth immediately trying to find something to say. "Nobody, Papa. Ju...just a friend from school." Damn it, she thought to herself,why was she stuttering? It is not as if she was lying ,Tony was just a friend, was he not? Then why was her heart pounding so hard right now? She continued have a self conversation as her father nodded and walked back into his office. When she finally realized that Tony was standing in front of the door, she stepped out the house and closed the door. "What are you doing here Tony?" She asked again.

"Well, I was wondering if you'd like to hang out with us today, go catch a movie or something. If you don't mind that is."

"Us?"

"Yeah, you know, me, Tim, Abby, Kate, Gibbs, Jenny, and Ducky." Tony gestured towards the two cars across the street that Ziva cursed herself for not noticing before." We probably should have called first, and we did try, but you cell phone was off and your home phone was always busy. You know I get it if you already have plans" Tony started to blabber out quickly and before he could go any further, Ziva raised her hands to stop him.

"I don't and a movie sounds nice. I'll just go and ask my father, so if you don't mind to wait a little." She said to him as she went inside the house. After ten minutes of pacing around Tony finally relaxed as he saw Ziva come out of the front door. Apparently she took the some of the ten minutes changing as now she was wearing tight white shirt under her black coat, and a jeans instead of cargo pants she wore ten minutes earlier.

Ziva cleared her throat as Tony continued to stare at her. "Is something wrong Tony? It is something with my clothes?"

"No, no, you look fine. Actually you look great." Tony answered snapping his head away, suddenly uncomfortable under Ziva's gaze. When he saw that Ziva was still looking at him expecting an answer he continued awkwardly. "Well, it's just that I never actually thought you owned anything other than your cargo pants and shirts."

Ziva laughed at his discomfort. "What you thought I even slept in those?" She commented sarcastically.

"Well, you being the crazy Israeli ninja chick and all I didn't think you'd actually sleep." Ziva rolled her eyes at Tony as he continued to make jokes as they crossed to the street where a yellow car and a blue Ford Fusion. was parked.

When they were half way across the street Tony turned to Ziva and asked, "You dad said yes right?"

Ziva rolled her eyes again and sarcastically remarked. "No, he said no and I just felt like changing and following you across the street."

Tony gave her a mock offended expression before saying, "We'll be riding with Tim in Ducky's car while the others ride with Gibbs." He gestured towards Ducky's blue Fusion.

"Hello Ducky, Tim" Ziva greeted them as they got into the car.

"Good morning Ziva, I'm grad that you could come" Ducky said as he started his car. Before he could step on the accelerator, the yellow car behind them sped away from them making a sharp right turn at end of the street. "My goodness, I wonder how Jethro even got his license so quickly with his driving skills."

"Knowing Gibbs, he probably gave his examiner his stare and scared the crap out of him and forced the poor guy to pass him." Tony snorted.

"Oh my god! What is he going at? He's probably more than 20 miles over the speed limit." Tim commented as they tried to catch up to the yellow car that was now squeaking through the DC traffic, earning another horn as it cut in front of another car way too close.

"I've done better. I could go at least another 10 miles faster." When three sets of shocked eyes turned on her she continued. "What? I thought we were talking about how fast he could drive? Is driving fast not a good thing in America?"

"And it is in Israel?" Tony asked, trying to be sarcastic but clearing failing.

"Well, as my father said, it is a good way to avoid bombs and ambushes." She shrugged.

"Your father taught you drive like that? Wait, your father let you drive?" Tim asked shockingly.

"No, but I taught myself in one of his cars. It's really not that hard, I could handle it in the street by the time I was twelve." Ziva said still confused as to why they were all shocked.

Tim opened and closed his mouth several times like a fish.

"Is there something wrong Tim?" Ziva asked.

"I think McFish over there is trying to ask you what we all want to ask you. What... you know what never mind I probably don't want to know the answer."

"Well, Ziva my dear, unfortunately you'll have to wait another two years to be able to drive here in America. But considering there's already Jethro on the road may be that is a good thing." Ducky told Ziva.

Ziva smiled at Ducky before turning to Tony beside her and asking, "How did you find where my house was Tony? I do not believe I have told you before."

"Well you'll have to thank McGenius over here, 'cause he hacked into the school system and found us an adress."

"Ziva, I swear I didn't mean to invade you privacy-" Tim started to defend himself, but was cut off by Tony.

"Shut up McHacker. Don't pretend to be McInnocent, McGuilty, it was was one of your McIdeas after all"

"I'm sorry Ziva, I-"

"I do not mind Tim"

"We're here" Ducky announced after another 5 minutes as they pulled into the mall parking lot.

When they got out of the car they were met by an impatient Gibbs. "What took you guys so long?"

"Well Jethro, I believe Ducky was actually following streetlights, and not changing lines every 10 seconds." Jenny commented behind him.

"Yeah Gibbs, how did you even get your license?" Kate complained as she walked towards the crowd with Abby, both looking a little bit sick.

"I am never ever going to ride with you again Gibbs. You'd think someone would be careful more with a car that he built himself but, god how did we not get into an accident?" Gibbs smirked at Abby's horrified expression.

"Well since the movie theater won't open for another hour, why don't we shop around first." Kate suggested.

"Yeah sure, any particular place in mind?" Jenny asked as they got inside the mall.

"Starbucks. I could use another cup of coffee." Gibbs suggested which everyone rolled their eyes at.

"Of course you do." Jenny said as Gibbs wrapped his arm around her waist.

After everyone got a cup of coffee they headed towards the movie theater. After another half an hour spent on arguing about which movie to see, Pink Panther 2 won by majority. Abby and Kate wanted to watch it while Tony wanted to see Friday the 13th. And since Gibbs and Ziva both didn't really care what they saw, Ducky being sincere and offering others to make the choice, and Jenny got tired of the argument and decided she didn't care anymore, Abby and Kate won.

After 90 some minuets of movie, the group walked out of theater.

"This is all your fault Kate, if you actually listened to me and watched Friday the 13th, we would never have had to sit there watch the stupid predicable movie for nearly 2 hours." Tony complained as they got out.

Kate rolled her eyes at him. "The horror movie is even more meaningless than the comedy. You only like the horror because you get to hit on some stupid girls when they get scared during the movie."

"You know what I think? I think you're just sour because you have to admit the movie was boring."

"No it wasn't Tony. You were laughing yourself half of the time. You only started to complain when the credits started to roll. It's comedy, it's supposed to be stupid and predictable. Besides we're only 14, we couldn't have gotten into the movie anyway."

"Yeah we could have!' Tony countered. "They don't care that much as long as we pay. Besides Ducky's going to go to college in a few months, and does Gibbs look like a high school kid, and who would ever dare to argue against Ziva. She could have killed those guards with a paper clip if something went wrong."

"You're impossible." Kate huffed and went over to where Abby and Jenny were talking.

"It was still the worst of the 11 Pink Panther movies!" Tony yelled at Kate.

"Why would they call it The Pink Panther 2 if it is the 11th movie?" Ziva asked behind him making him jump a little which in turn made her laugh.

"You need to walk louder. Anyway I don't know, but what I do know is that the first original was definitely a a good comedy. The 1963 original Pink Panther starring David Niven,Peter Sellers, and Robert Wagner."

"Tony..." Ziva started but Tony either too lost in his rambling that he didn't notice or he didn't care.

"David Niven was great but Peter Sellers was genius. Except for the 'Inspector Clouseau' he wasn't in he made the comedy popular. He and his-" Tony stopped talking to rub the back of his head in protection.

"Shut up Tony. Now listen because I'm not going to repeat it again, so Abby and Kate is going with Tim and Ducky to the library so you're stuck with me. Now would you like me to drop you off at your house?"

"No that's okay, I don't wanna go home just yet. Where are you and Jenny going?"

"Jethro and I are going to have dinner at a restaurant later and we're going to be at my house until then. Where are you going if you don't go home?"

"It's early, I'll just call some guys to see if they want to play a game or two. Just drop me off at the park near Ziva's place since you're going to drop her off." Tony responded.

"Hey Ziva, you don't have to go home just yet right?"

"No, Jen. Why?"

"Well since it's close to your home why don't you spend some time with Tony at the park. It's a big park and I bet if he show you around you can find a better route for your morning run than running around the block like you do now." Jenny suggested.

"Um... well I guess I have time. Would you mind if I came along Tony?"

"Why would I ever mind. We could do all sort of stuff, maybe we make a snowman or maybe-" He suddenly stopped himself when he realized that he was think out loud. "Sorry." He blushed at the three others who was all raising an eyebrow at him.

"Guess I'll drop you off at the park then." Gibbs said as he pulled out his keys but it fell to the ground when he tried to dodge a boy running in the parking lot.

Ziva grabbed before it touched to the ground. "Nice car, you really put its engine to its use but I'd say you could go another 10 miles faster if you really want the speed."

"Okay, you don't need to be giving him anymore advice on his driving. I could almost swear you were taught by the same teacher. Of course you shouldn't even be driving yet." Jenny said to Ziva, while she grabbed the keys.

"You've driven with her?" Tony asked in curiosity.

"Ari left the car at the camp when he left early and we had to get it out of there somehow. And since Jen had absolutely no clue as to what to do I took the liberty of driving." Ziva answered.

"And I'm not making that mistake again. Even I would have gotten less honked. You even make Gibbs car ride a heaven." Jenny added.

They got into the car and the car jolted forward much too quickly for Tony's comfort. Even though she was used to it by now Jenny still looked a little worried, while Ziva looked as if it was just another car ride. Tony grabbed the little handle above the door for his life as Gibbs made a wide left turn. Tony though to him self how bad would Ziva's driving have to be if this was considered heaven.


The next chapter will up by probably around Wednesday, but definitely no later than Friday. Unlike this one the next one will actually be important to the plot so...

TBC and please review