NCIS
WHERE'S DINOZZO?
DISCLAIMER: NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
Summary: Tony goes missing and no one knows where to start looking for him. Will they find him and will Ziva finally tell him she loves him, or will it be too late?
CHAPTER 14: MOOD SWINGS...
ABBY'S LAB...
Abby heard the elevator and assumed it was just Tony and Tim leaving, until the doors to her lab slid open. She turned around and there stood, Ziva.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Abby asked. "Gibbs, told me to stay behind. I couldn't stay at my desk though." Ziva told her.
"Are you all right?" Abby asked. "I am fine, it's just..." Ziva began, but did not continue.
"It's just what?" Abby asked. "Last night Tony asked me about what happened the night he was kidnapped and I told him everything I knew." Ziva told her.
"Did he say why he wanted to know?" Abby asked. "He said he felt like he was missing something." Ziva replied.
"Missing something, what does that mean?" Abby asked.
"I do not know, but I am just worried about him. He looks over at me while we are supposed to be working and it is driving me up the hall. He hasn't picked on McGee in a couple..." Ziva began.
"Of weeks, Tim told me, but when he came down to get Tim... He called him, Probie. I think he is slowly coming back. Like when Gibbs came out of the coma...I was talking to McGee last night." Abby told her changing the subject.
"What about," Ziva asked happy to change the subject. "I know it's a little soon, but I told him an idea for of a name if the baby is a girl." Abby told Ziva.
"What's the name?" Ziva asked intrigued. "Caitlin, but Kate for short," Abby told Ziva. "Caitlin? After the same Caitlin that Ari killed?" Ziva asked.
"Yes, she was part of the NCIS family and I thought it would be a good way to never forget her." Abby told Ziva. "Tony and I haven't talked about baby names, but we have talked about the baby a little. Tony asked if I was happy about him and the baby." Ziva told Abby.
"Are you?" Abby asked. "Yes, but I am scared one day Tony will go out in the field and not come back." Ziva told her.
"I know I have the same feeling about, Tim." Abby told her. "So when is your first doctor's appointment for the baby?" Ziva asked.
"Tomorrow at three thirty. What about you?" Abby asked. "The day after, Thursday at one in the afternoon," Ziva told her.
They heard the elevator and then the doors to Abby's lab opened.
"Hey, the boss is looking for you." Tony told Ziva. "I better get back up there then, we will talk more later," Ziva promised, getting up off Tim's stool and Tony followed.
"I was told to stay down here and help you sort through the evidence." Tim told her. "Really," Abby asked with a smile as she walked to him and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Abs, you know the boss is watching from upstairs on that video camera to make sure we're working. So if you're thinking about, what I think your thinking about then it has to wait until tonight." Tim said and tried to turn his attention back to the evidence, but she had not let him go.
"What am I thinking, Timmy?" Abby asked with a smile. "Well...uh...a-about you know." Tim replied as his face turned a little red and Abby laughed.
"Okay, I guess we can keep your promise for tonight." Abby told him. "What were you and Ziva talking about?" Tim asked. "Just catching up," Abby replied and for the next few hours, they worked in silence.
Then Tim noticed that Abby looked to be a little shaky and a little pale.
"Abby, are you all right?" McGee asked as he set her down on her stool and she glared at him.
"I'm fine." She said in an irritated voice. "You don't look fine…did you ever eat your lunch?" McGee asked.
"Not yet..." Abby began. "What do you mean not yet?" McGee asked going to grab her lunch and handing it to her. "I could have done that myself, McGee." Abby snapped at him.
"I know, Abs. Why don't you eat and I'll work on the evidence?" McGee suggested.
Over the last few months with the pregnancy and Abby not having her Caf-Pow she was getting harder to be around at times.
McGee wondered how he would survive and what would happen after the baby was born. He had put off asking her to marry him, but knew he would not put it off much longer.
THE SQUAD ROOM...
Tony looked up from what he was working on, when he heard the elevator. It was Ziva; she walked to her desk and sat down.
"What are you staring at? I am tired of you always staring at me when you think no one is looking." Ziva snapped at him.
"I just looked up when I heard the elevator and happened to notice it was you." Tony told her.
"Well you can stop staring and get back to what you are supposed to be doing." Ziva told him.
'These next few months are going to be long ones. How will I ever survive?' Tony thought as he turned his paperwork.
"Hey, Zi, Do you want to go grab lunch or do you want me to bring something back for you?" Tony asked. "I can get my own lunch when I ready." Ziva told him.
"I know, but I was thinking of you and the..." Tony began. "You are thinking of the baby more than me. I know how to take care of myself and will eat when I'm hungry." Ziva told him and turned back to her paperwork.
"Ziva, that's not true. I am thinking of both of you." Tony replied. "Get back to work you two." Gibbs said looking up from his desk.
After another hour of working, Tony told Gibbs that he was going out to grab something to eat and Gibbs started to say something, but only nodded his head.
He then told Tony to get back as soon as he could so they could get some work done.
'There is no way I can enforce rule 12 now, it's way past that.' Gibbs thought as Tony grabbed his coat and left the squad room.
Ziva relaxed a little and got more paperwork done, than when Tony was there constantly staring at her. She only looked up a little while later when a container of food was put on her desk. It was Tony and he had brought her some lunch.
"Thank you, but I could have gone out to get my own lunch." Ziva said through gritted teeth.
"I know, but I didn't think you would want to leave your desk since you are so hard at work." Tony replied with a strained smile. "Work is what you should be doing." Ziva suggested and Tony went to sit at his desk opening his own lunch.
After Tony had finished eating and started back to work, he glanced up a couple of times. One time when he glanced up, Ziva was not at her desk. He then felt someone breathing on his neck and knew that she was behind him.
"If you do not quit looking up and staring at me every five minutes, I will take this paper clip and kill you." She warned in a whisper. "You wouldn't do that, because then you would have to raise the baby yourself." Tony said looking at her, trying not to show fear.
Ziva slapped him and the back of the head and went back to her own desk.
From that point on Tony got to work and had to stop himself a couple of times from looking over at Ziva's desk.
THAT EVENING...
TIM AND ABBY...
Abby was sitting on the couch and watching the movie of Where the Red Fern Grows; it was near then end when she started to cry. She felt Tim put his arm around her and was trying to decide if she wanted to push him away or snuggle against him.
In the end she leaned, her head against his shoulder and cried.
'I hate these hormones.' Abby thought.
TONY AND ZIVA...
Ziva was making dinner when Tony came up behind her.
"Tony?" Ziva asked. "Yes?" Tony replied. "I am sorry about the way I treated you earlier today." Ziva told him.
"You don't need to apologize it's a sign of weakness." Tony told her. "I never know what I'm feeling anymore." Ziva told him and he turned her so she was facing him.
"It's the hormones." He told her.