Disclaimer: As much as I want to, I do not own NCIS or any of its characters.

Sorry for not updating sooner but I was kind of busy. With it being my birthday last weekend and taking a trip out of town this long weekend I really didn't have time to update with the story. And having a minor writer's block definetely didn't help. But enough with my boring ramble and onto the story...


"Tony would you please stop?" Tim begged, covering his years like everybody else in the room.

Tony stopped his singing for a moment to reply. "What McNosy? You don't Bonds songs? Why of course you won't, it's from a macho guy movie, and everyone knows that you're as far as you can get from macho guy."

Everyone, even Gibbs groaned as Tony started to sing the Goldfinger again. "Seriously Tony! It's annoying" Kate complained.

Abby and Ziva agreed. It was kind of funny when Tony first started to sing the Bond songs as the movie ended in his imitated voices and instrument effects that was way off, but after nearly thirty minutes it was just plain old annoying. But Tony gave no sign that he heard them. In fact it seemed as if he started to sing louder. But then he suddenly stopped and when the girls looked at him, he was already holding the back of his head in protection.

"Gibbs!" Tony squirmed but all he got was a glare, but that was all needed to be said. "Fine, but you got admit that it was a good movie." When nobody answered him he started to ramble on with the movie like he had done many many times before. "Oh come on people! The action, the guns and more actions. It's like the best. And you can't miss the Bond girl right? I mean Die Another Day was the better in that term but still and the actions in this one was-"

"Oh my god, what hell is wrong with you?" Kate started as soon as he mentioned Die Another Day and Bond girls. "I mean it's so obvious she's had like what fifteen plastic surgeries? Ok, maybe not but still. All the ridiculous models these days are like sticks! I mean who's that thin? Granted Halle Berry is an actress and she isn't that bad but still- "

"Chill Kate." Tony held his hands up in surrender.

"I'm sorry guys if I'm turning into Tony rambling on about the movies." She continued ignoring Tony's disapproval of her comparison. "But I just hate Die Another Day no matter what anybody says. Did you know that Kyle picked Die Another Day for our family movie night couple of years back? I mean I should have expected it since he stopped watching with us when he was twelve and all the suddenly when I got his into trouble he was all suddenly interested again and even volunteered to pick out the DVD, but still do you know how awkward it was to sit between my mom and my dad during the sex scenes while my stupid brothers are enjoying it like morons and having my mom try everything to distract me from looking at the screen? I mean I get it I was only eleven and she didn't want me to see it but it was still embarrassing to have her cover my eyes! Kyle tormented me with that for months! Besides I have seen dirtier stuff than that just from being in the same house as him!" Kate complained.

"Really Katie? You sure that that's what's bugging you. You sure it wasn't from more of a recent personal experience... oh I don't know maybe like a dream?" Kate gave Tony a warning glare but it only made him smile wider. "Don't be embarrassed, it's normal for girls to imagine her crush like a superhero. And Bonds does make it to the top list in sexual fantasies. You should really stop pretending that you don't have a crush on him and ask out A-" he was cut off as a book hit the side of his head. "Ow! People really should stop hitting my head, I might get a concussion and do you have any idea how many brain cells I just lost because of this book?" Tony held up the now crumpled book.

"Well maybe you should stop stealing people's diaries and reading them and besides how can you get any brain damage when you don't have one." Kate fired back.

"I'm hurt Kate." Tony mocked, opening his mouth into an exaggeratively big O shape. "Whose book is this? It can't be yours since I don't understand a single bit of this gibberish that just look like gibberish about some boring stuff that some boring guy or girl wrote." He commented as he flipped through the book she threw at his head.

"Mine." Ziva answered dryly as she grabbed the book out his hands.

"Huh" That was all Tony could say in return as he thought of how stupid he was to comment like that when the text clearly looked like Hebrew. Or was it Arabic?, he thought but he waved it off as it wasn't important. What was was that he really didn't need to offend Ziva any more when they're already in... well the state that they were in. But then he asked himself why was he feeling so guilty. I mean it wasn't as if I was really offending her or anything, I just called it gibberish. and it is true that I can't understand it. And the whole reason that it would have been a big deal was because they were in a really tense situation and that was definitely her fault. But then again Jeanne did purposely "accidentally" spilled her drink on her, and she was my girlfriend. Yep I really didn't need to screw things up more when it's already screwed like hell.

On the other side of the room Ziva was having a self-conversation of her own. Ugh! What's wrong with me? It really was not as if we needed more conflict when we have a pile of them that was getting bigger and bigger everyday. It was just a stupid book, why was I so stupid and got so defensive over nothing? And it was not even my book to start with, it was father's. But as she thought about it she shuddered at the thought of what her father would say when he found his now partly crumpled book. She cursed that it just had to be one of the few paperback books that he happened to own for some reason when 99% of his books are hardcover. And he just had to put it on the coffee table today and now that she thought about it there was still the suspension issue, but she pushed the thought away. She could deal with her father later but now she had to fix her relationship with Tony...somehow.

"What's wrong with you two lately?" Abby asked in frustration. Both Tony and Ziva snapped back into reality and was actually taken by surprise with Abby's sudden outburst. In fact everybody was surprised since they've all have been wondering about it for the past month but nobody dared to say anything because they were Tony and Ziva. To people who didn't know the pair, it would have been the stupidest reason ever but for people who did know them, it was more than enough.

"You know Ziva, I'm really sorry that I ruined your book, I'll buy you another one if I could find it but I really didn't mean to do that, it was an accident I swear, I was just mad that's all. Don't take that as an invitation to blame Tony neither because it was my fault, all my fault really..." Kate started to go on before either Tony or Ziva could answer Abby's question, because in that case either Ziva was likely to kill Abby with a paper clip or Tony was about to something... Tony-like.

"Hey Ziva I haven't thanked you for the dinner yet. It was really lovely. And Tony it was really thoughtful of you to bring a DVD. Wait did I say Tony was thoughtful? It doesn't matter it was a nice movie. And I should really thank both of you for yesterday's incident because I..." Tim started about the same time as Kate thinking the exact same thing as his friend. But they stopped when they realized they have been speaking over each other.

Tony and Ziva who now looked just simply amused chuckled lightly. Then Ziva started, "Kate it's fine, I do not care about the book. It was old anyway and the truth is that I hated it so you did me a favor," which was half the truth since the book was old and she did hate it since she usually does when it came to her father's books, but the rest was probably false since no matter how damn unimportant something was her father always made a big deal out of it if it involved Ziva or her siblings screwing up. "And Tim, you did thank me for the dinner, in fact right after it."

"Well I just wanted to make sure that you knew that I thought it was delicious in case you misheard me or something." He defended.

"And yesterday was no big deal, I mean any one of us in this room would have done it. That's what friends are for right? We'll never let anyone get away with calling you McNicknames or tormenting you."

"Tony you do it yourself all the time."

"Exactly. It's my job to torment you Elf Lord, I mean what would I do if everyone started to do that to you too. " Tony answered and added when a question came up in his head. "Although I am curious as to who the girl was."

'Who?" Tim asked in confusion.

"I have been wondering that also Tim. Do you not remember? The girl on the ground with the scraped knee that stayed after everybody left after Vance came and he yelled at her too." Ziva added.

"Oh yeah that girl." Tim said in realization. "But I really don't know her. She just came out of nowhere and started to make fun of Nathan and Greg and defended me for no reason. But why would she do that?"

"Oh have a bit more confidence Timothy. The girl probably thought you were cute." Ducky said and Tim would have felt better if it was not for Tony's loud laughter.

"HA! Right, like anyone would ever think McGeek is cute." He said in between his laughters as he tried to control himself.

"No offense to you personally Tony but I always thought Tim was cuter." Ziva commented.

Tony finally got a hold of himself after Gibbs gave him a second headslap of the night after he started to laugh harder after Ziva's comment. "Uh it doesn't matter. But I'm so mad that our Picky Principal just had to interrupt our fight when I was just about to finish off Nathan."

Now it was Ziva's turn for laughing. "Really Tony?"

"Yeah! You haven't seen his face, if I landed just another one on him, he would have been begging for his mommy."

"You are boasted."

"Loaded" Tony corrected her which actually made her feel better even though she did not do it on purpose this time since he had not done it for well over a month and the truth was that she really missed it. "And for your information I am not."

"What happened to Greg and Nathan?" Jenny asked when she realized that they knew Tony and Ziva each got suspended but nobody knew what happened to Greg and Nathan.

"Oh they got suspended too. But they got it for a week for fighting and bullying, which they totally deserve. They were getting really annoying lately. If they started one more fight I would have punched Nathan in the face no matter who he was picking on." Tony answered but Ziva just rolled her eyes at him.

"It's so not fair that you guys got suspended too for like... wait how many days again?" Abby asked.

"Three." Ziva held up three fingers.

"Three? That's so not fair, you were just defending Tim! They were the attackers, you guys were just defending yourself." Abby complained. "I really don't like Vance."

"Depends on what your definition of self-defense is. 'Cause Ms. Ninja-Chick over here kneed the wrestling champion that towered over her in the groin and was ready to start a wrestling match with him and probably would have if Vance didn't show up."

"Well I at least was not rolling on the ground trying to get the upper hand on a guy that was smaller than me." Ziva shot back.

"Whatever, it doesn't matter. Because of the fight I get to stay home for three days and do whatever I want, and what's not to like about that? You're probably going to do something that I probably don't want to know about though. But you got to admit making you miss school really isn't that bad once you deal with your parents and you won't even feel the damage until college application but then again that's like so many years away. But the thought of Nathan and Greg's screwing each other all week long isn't helping me sleep though.."

"What?" Ziva asked in confusion.

"What? Everybody knows that they're like totally gay. I mean Nathan Nelson, it even sounds gay. Maybe they're going to have threesome with Mr.Slacks too." Tony jocked.

"They are all gay?" Ziva asked.

"I'm just jocking."

"Well you never know. They are awfully close. But you really should not joke like that, you could offend people who are really gay and they are not mean."

"Why you know anyone who's you know...?" Tony asked now curious at Ziva's sudden curiosity on the subject.

"No but just because we do not know about them does not mean that they do not exist. They would never tell you or me or tell it to the whole school but there has to be at least a couple in our school since it is one of the biggest one in the area." She explained.

"So what you are saying is that just because guys doesn't say it doesn't prove that they aren't gay?"

"Yes."

"Oh so everyone's gay in our school?" Tony asked as a great scheme just entered his mind.

"Not everyone-" Ziva started to defend herself but it was already too late.

"But just those who has never kissed a girl." Tony interrupted her.

"No." Ziva denied in panic as she finally realized what Tony was doing.

Tony walked into the kitchen where Abby and Tim went after Tony and Ziva started their own conversation. Ziva hurried after him, knowing what he just tricked her into saying but still not sure what he planned.

"Hey McPie-Face!" Tony called Tim who was currently had a bit of pie on his face left over from the pie that he was just eating. "Are you gay?"

"What no!" Tim answered immediately at Tony's surprising question hoping that it would convince him that it was the truth.

"Really? But Ziva here says that you are." He pointed to Ziva who was just trailing after him.

"What?" Tim asked.

"No! No! I did not-" Then she turned to Tony. "You're-" Then back at Tim. "Tim, I really did not say that! I swear I would never-"

"I'm not gay. That's really mean Ziva." Tim said now catching up with what was going on. He decided that it would be more fun if he played along.

"What wrong Timmy?" Abby asked as she came back from the washroom.

"Ziva called me gay." Tim explained.

Ziva groaned as she realized that Tim was going to play along with Tony. "No I did not Tim."

"Sure you did." Tony said.

"Tony! What are you on? Crack? I swear you are high today!" Ziva exclaimed jokingly but at the same time really annoyed too. "And Tim I did not call you gay."

"Sure."

"Thank you."

"But you still called him gay." Tony ignored her raised eyebrow and continued. "Maybe I should tell Ducky that you called him gay too. Wait, does that mean your brother's gay too since I don't think he had kissed a girl at least in the States yet."

"Tony! What's wrong with you today I swear you're on crack!"

"Did you take coke this morning Tony?" Abby asked now realizing the joke and joined in.

"No. I do not like to take coke, I just like to smell them." Tony answered and caused the four of them to burst out laughing.

When they stopped laughing, the phone started to ring in the family room across the house. They followed Ziva into the room where the older kids and Kate was. When they entered, they heard Ari explaining that he was not interested in a improved cable service. Tony walked up to him and gestured towards the phone. Ari, curious as to what Tony had in mind gave him the phone.

"Hello." Tony said in his deep, deep voice imitating an old man and everybody giggled. "No, I am not interested in a Bell cable service, Mr...Banks. Yes , I am not interested but did you know that Ziva David called you gay? No she is a real person and she told me that you are-"

Ziva shot up from her seat and tried to grab the phone but Tony held it high. She pinched a pressure point on his hand and he screamed like a girl. She slammed the phone shut. "Tony!"

"Aw! That hurt!" Tony now squatting down on the floor complained rubbing his hand. Ari knew the pinch really hurt from personal experience but he could not help himself but to join the rest of the group in laughter at Tony's facial expression. "Hey! It really hurts! I'm gonna get back at you Ziva. I'm gonna get you back."

Ziva had just started to worry that she put too much pressures, but as Tony started to joke about payback she knew he was fine, well except that he had to deal with a numb hand for a while but he would be fine. The the doorbell rang. She started to stand up but Tony shot up first.

"Got it. Perfect chance for revenge, right Ziva? Muahaha."

"Tony! It might be-" Ziva was cut off as she realized that he was already at the door. She rushed after him. But she was too late as she saw Tony already talking to the guy at the door.

"...that really great and you know what else? Ziva just called you gay. You know who she is? No? Yes? I'll tell you anyway. She's-" Tony started to joke but was cut off as Ziva took in a sharp breath.

"Oh god."Ziva barely whispered as she realized who was at the door.


Can you guess who's at the door? Yes? No? Want to know now? Whatever you think you still gotta wait till the next chap to find out.

TBC and please review.