Title: Favourite Friend
Author: Trista Groulx aka dustytiger
Rating: T (same as the show, nothing explicitly naughty)
Disclaimer: I am an unmotived beauty consultant and frazzled barista who does not own NCIS, it belong to its creator, network, writers, actors, actresses and other people who bring it to life weekly, I make no money from having fun with these characters, just some much needed sanity. I also do not own the song which helped this fic to grow it belongs to Katie Rox, and likely SOCAN.
Summary: Tony goes to pick up Ziva from the airport after she buries her father, but she doesn't want to go home.
Notes: So what did Abby have planned? Hehe… I don't know why the idea hit me, but it seemed very Abby. Also sorry for tonight's update being so late… had to go all over ruralish Ontario in a snow storm after work. PLEASE send happy warm thoughts.

While the guys were enjoying their evening Abby had shown up at the apartment. When Ziva let her in the Israeli had hair up, and cotton bathrobe wrapped around her. Wanting only to have a quiet evening in, she had had no intention of doing anything she never understood the tradition of a bachelorette party, but was not surprised that Abby would try to plan one.

"Hold up? What do you think you're doing?" Abby asked.

"I was going to have a bubble bath," Ziva explained. "I know you think I am some sort of ninja but I like to have a bath, and I do not often have evenings to myself anymore."

"Tony can't keep his hands off you, huh?"

Ziva shook her head not comfortable sharing this information with anyone. "Abby! Why did you come here?"

"Uh, cause the boys are having their bachelor party, and I am not letting the bride not have a bachelorette party!"

"I told you I did not want one. Every bachelorette party I have been to in this country ends up being a lot of very drunk women, dressed foolishly trying to do ridiculous things. I am not interested in that."

"Do you remember what I did when Jimmy said he didn't want a bachelor party?"

"Palmer does not know how to hurt you without breaking a sweat."

"Whatever. I'm not planning one of those lame girlie nights, now go get dressed."

"Abby," Ziva sighed.

"I promise, promise, promise it's going to be fun. Please? Come on! Just put on something, anything, heck I don't care if it's something you wear to work, and let's go have some fun. The boys are gonna have blast, we should too!"

"What are they doing?"

"From what I could force out of McGee they are going for dinner, and has something fun but not bachelor party exactly planned., but he wouldn't tell me what the something was, so I decidedto make my own fun."

"What will we be doing?"

"Going for sushi."

"That is all?"

"There's a band I know playing if you want go dancing after."

"I will think about that, but I do like sushi."

Ziva went into her room and came out wearing a long dark blue dress since her friend seemed to be a little more dressed up than usual. The two women left the apartment getting a cab so they could both drink if they so desired. They went to the restaurant Abby had chosen. When they got there Ziva was surprised they had reservations, and were brought to a private room. She wondered how much planning she had done, for something she hadn't been sure that would happen.

She looked around and the place was not like any other sushi place she had been to. They ordered some sake to start the evening, then began to look at the menu each picking different items they enjoyed and also pieces they wanted to try. She was just starting to get comfortable when a second tiny Asian woman walked in with their server.

"Who is that?" Ziva asked.

"She's going to be the table," Abby whispered. "Have you ever heard of nyotaimori style sushi?"

Ziva was sure she'd heard her friend wrong. How was a person going to be a table? She began to wonder what exactly she had agreed to. She wanted to experience American things, but this seemed odd to her. As much as she enjoyed Abby's quirky side this started to feel like it was too much. She wished she had agreed to something more traditional like she had seen before even if it wasn't her style, she wasn't sure what to think of this experience, but yet a part of her was also curious. If she was going to do something wild and new doing it before she was married seemed like the right time to do it.

"No I do not think so," Ziva told her friend.

"You eat off a person," Abby explained. "It's super trendy. And since I promised there would be no naked or gyrating boys this is the best I could do for you. I got the tickets ages ago and I was gonna bring McGee cause he would have been so bashful about it, but then when the bachelor party date was picked I thought this would be perfect for you bachelorette party. I know it's not exactly your thing, but that's the whole point of a bachelor party, I think anyway, to do something wild and fun and a little crazy before settling down with your boo."

"Why? You said we were going for sushi, not to eat off of a naked person."

"It is kind of a tradition around here to celebrate your last night of freedom by looking at naked strangers."

"Abby! This is not making me feel better."

"Since Tony and McGee promised me there would be no naked ladies at Tony's bachelor party, it only makes sense that someone see naked bodies. I wanted you have a good bachelor party, and you're right we are not the kind of people who understand crazy dressed up giggling women, so I thought why not do what the boys do? I should have told you from the start but then I would have waste the tickets and that would have sucked."

Ziva sighed. "We are here now. How do you know that they are not doing something sneaky too?"

"'Cause I know McGee, and how smitten Tony is right now, he doesn't want to see naked women he can't touch and aren't you. They never said anything about us seeing naked girls, okay well Tony might have grinned like a school boy and said I should take you to a strip club so he could think about that, and I wanted you to have an even better night when you got in so I thought this would be perfect! She'll be covered with banana leaves! Plus it's something to say we've done and just think of the look on Tony's face when you tell him you ate sushi off of a naked woman. Please, please, please can we do this?"

"I suppose it is something to say that I have done, and it will be fun to tell Tony about it. It would also be nice to be able to say I got an American style bachelor party. This is not what I expected when I agreed to do this, but I will go with it."

"That's all the fun. This is going to great!"

Soon their food arrived and they began to eat, laughing as they did, and enjoying the food. They were able to bond in a way they didn't often have a chance to, and when their meal was done Ziva knew she wanted the night to continue. She was enjoying herself and wanted to experience the other part of a bachelorette party, being a little drunk and having fun with your friends. After they were done at the restaurant the two of them decided to go see the band Abby had suggested. Ziva wasn't sure if she was going to dance but she didn't want to go home to what she assumed would be an empty apartment since she didn't know what the guys were doing.

End Part 22

Notes: So the next part is the reason there's another part, the bachelorette party ran a little long ;) Hope you enjoy…