Tony Gets a Phone Call
Finally, as if it were a miracle, Eli David and his four Mossad Officers left Washington, DC and returned to Tel Aviv, Israel. It was a great relief to the whole team and Gibbs was looking around at all of them.
"Go home early," he said quietly. "It's been a long few days and we all could use the rest."
Tony looked at Ziva, whose face softened and she nodded a little as her eyes lit up. They would finally be spending some time together again and letting out all of the stress that had built up during their time apart.
They spent that night watching movies, cuddling, and making love, nearly forgetting to eat in their joy of being around one another again. They were now laying in bed, holding tightly to each other and talking.
"My apartment feels so lonely now," Ziva said quietly. "It is like something is missing."
"Mine feels abandoned," Tony said. "My sanctuary is incomplete without you, Zi."
She smiled up at him. She couldn't help but smile. They had certainly come a long way together. His sanctuary was her sanctuary and they weren't entirely whole without one another. It was perfect and it made them both extremely happy to have it back.
"My home is wherever you are," she whispered into him, snuggling a little deeper. "Thank you for that, Tony."
"Your welcome, my ninja," Tony said. "My home is always where you are and always will be."
They fell asleep sometime shortly after, without much else said, just enjoying the presence of one another and feeling the comfort of each other's arms as they had made up for lost time much that night.
It was early in the morning when Tony woke to a buzzing sound. He reached over and looked at the phone that was buzzing. He pulled it to him and read that it was McGee. He sighed and picked it up.
"DiNozzo," Tony said groggily, feeling Ziva stir on his chest a little.
He squeezed his arm around her a little tighter, comforting her for the sound he was making without even realizing what he was doing. He was hoping that whatever McGee was calling for it wouldn't require him to wake her up now that they had some time together, but his hopes were not high if McGee was calling at four in the morning about something.
"Hi, Tony. You're not Ziva," McGee said into the phone on his end.
Shit! That's not good! Tony thought. How could he have been so stupid? Why hadn't they taken the time to go get different phone cases yet? They should have made that a priority so that they wouldn't get caught like this again and right after they had been so good with Mossad around watching them carefully.
"You're right, McGenius, I am not Ziva," Tony replied, hoping a joke could throw off the Junior Field Agent a little. "I am still Tony."
"Yea," McGee said awkwardly and cleared his throat into the phone. "Well, we have a case. Boss wants you here in less than a half hour."
"That's not very long," Tony said frowning.
McGee had his suspicions despite his coworkers stellar behavior around the presence of Mossad. He figured either something happened between them that they weren't sharing or they were involved in each other in some personal manner. This only proved his suspicions a little. He was sure that there was something that they weren't sharing with the rest of them. But, McGee no longer dared to ask. He didn't want to know, because he knew the rules too well to not realize that if something was going on then they were breaking the rules. Besides all that, McGee didn't want to have to hide something from Gibbs because hiding information from Gibbs was nearly impossible. And, if he was being honest, it was only small changes that had happened in Tony and Ziva and nothing overly large that was obvious, so maybe they were fooling the boss or maybe they weren't together at all. Perhaps they had just gotten closer as friends through their healing time together after Somalia.
"I'm going to assume that since you answered her phone, Ziva's with you, or was with you. Find a way to wake her up and let her know. You two might want to consider answering your own phones from now on. If this was Gibbs he would have a field day with this," McGee warned Tony cautiously, knowing that this looked like they were breaking the rules even if they weren't.
"A field day with what, McGee?" Tony heard Gibbs ask in the background of the silent room that McGee was currently standing in.
"The case," McGee answered quickly. "Get here," McGee added to Tony.
Tony hung up the phone and shook Ziva gently awake and explained to her what was going on and also that he had answered her phone by mistake. She sighed and shrugged her shoulders and closed her eyes again. Tony shook her again, realizing that she had missed the first part of what he said. He explained one more time to her what was going on and she sighed heavily before getting up and getting ready for their now longer day.
A/N – That's the second time that they answered the wrong phone. Hopefully they get that fixed soon. And, McGee's suspicious, but he realizes that there are many possibilities to explain what's going on between Tony and Ziva. He's open-minded, which is good, I think. Although the fact that his first thought was of simply something happening between Tony and Ziva and not that they are involved with each other is a little amusing. Leave a review and let me know what you think.