A/N: How was everyone's week eh? Mine was exhausting. Anyways, here is your chapter 11! I hope everyone enjoys this chapter!
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Chapter 11
A movement from across the bed startles him from his wake. When he opens his eyes, a familiar set of brown eyes watching him fills his vision.
"Good morning, Tony," she says as she scoots closer to him.
"Morning, Ziva," his husky voice replies.
"Have you been called into work today?" she asks softly.
Tony flips his body over to reach for his cellphone on the bedside table. There are no missed calls or messages it reads. He places it back onto the table and faces Ziva again. "Nope. Today, I am all yours," he smiles wiggling his eyebrows suggestively at her.
"Great," she rolls her eyes and replies sarcastically.
He then motions her to move closer to him. She obviously does. He slowly brings his hand up to put a loose strand of her hair behind her ear when he carefully says,"I missed you, Ziva. God, I missed you so much."
She looks deeply into his green eyes and is lost in them for a moment but continues,"I know."
He brings her closer to him to the point where her head is resting on top of his chest, quietly memorizing when his chest rises. Tony on the other hand is lazily drawing circles on her forearm. The two stay in that position for what seems like hours, perfectly content with just laying with each other doing absolutely nothing.
After some thought about it, he somehow works up the nerves to say what has been idly on his mind lately. "Ziva.." he trails off.
Her head is still resting on his chest why she says his name. "Yes, Tony?"
He's quiet for a moment but gathers the strength to continue. "This might sound crazy but when you were in Israel I, uh, started having these dreams..about you."
Ziva lifts her head to look at him in a slight shock. She urged for him to continue. "Were they good ones or bad dreams?"
He softens his gaze towards her and inhales sharply. "At first I didn't know, really. But to me, I though they were scary be-"
"because I kept leaving you..," she finishes.
He awkwardly replies,"Yeah. That's usually what happened."
"Well, what happened after?" she asks.
"Do you really want to know?" Tony says giving her a sheepish smile.
"Yes."
"Okay," he says, guiding her head back to rest on his chest. He runs up and down a hand on her arm for reassurance to continue but instead she takes that hand and interlocks their fingers together.
Being Tony, his story turned out to go longer than he expected. For almost and hour, he tells her how originally he was supposed go go to New York but instead ended up going to Los Angeles. Then somehow it led to him going to Paris. Then Berlin and finally he tells her he tried to visit her in Israel.
He couldn't see her reaction because both of their faces were facing the ceiling but he assumed she was shocked due to her noted silence.
"Maybe those dreams came with a purpose," she states quietly.
"They did, I think. Even though they sometimes scared me, they gave me hope, I guess. That one day you'd be back and I'd feel whole again."
"And now that I am back do those dreams still occur?" she asks.
"Oddly enough, they don't."
She pulls back from their little embrace and kisses his cheek."You were on my mind many times since I was in Israel as well. But I am surely more happier here, with you."
He smiles at her. She smiles back, their faces not far apart. In that moment he caresses her face and pulls her face closer to his. Their lips begin to meet as they both feel a familiar spark run through their bodies. The kiss deepens, and the next thing you know; clothes start to come off. They begin to make love.
They lie together closer than ever, their sticky bodies touching. Tony can feel Ziva tenderly kiss his chest repeatedly.
A noise coming from Tony's bedside table causes them to withdrawal from each other, immediately missing each other's warmth.
Tony picks up his cellphone and brings it his ear. "Dinozzo."
"Come to the Marine Federal Credit Union in Quantico. A dead body was found there," Gibbs ordered.
"Right away, Boss," Tony answered then again places his phone onto the table. He turns to Ziva then explains, "They found a dead body in Quantico."
Ziva's mouth opened into an o shape as Tony began to get out of bed. The mattress instantly feeling lighter. Tony adds,"You could stay here if you want or if you'd prefer I could drive you home?"
"I will just stay here," she responded. He nods and kisses her quickly before heading to the bathroom - probably to shower.
When she finally hears the front door shut, she sits up. Feeling rather dirty, she proceeds to the bathroom and turns the water on.
Putting her hand to test the temperature, she steps into the shower and washes herself.
When she steps out of the shower and dries herself properly, Ziva heads towards Tony's bedroom to find some clothes to wear. Finding a red Ohio State shirt that is much to her liking, she slips in on.
Ziva then leads herself to his living room and prepares to herself and possibly Tony's dinner with a smile forming on her lips.
"Ziva?" Tony says immediately after stepping one foot into his apartment by 2100 hours.
"I am here, Tony," she yells from the kitchen.
When he walks into his kitchen he is stopped by this exotic beauty looking so... dominant in his kitchen, wearing his shirt.
He walks up to Ziva and wraps his arms around her waist, kissing the sensitive spot just below her ear.
"Tony," she says sternly.
"What, my ninja?" He says playfully.
"I am cooking. Do not distract me."
"And what happens if I do?" He insists.
"I will stab you with the fork," she says as she continues to cut the vegetables.
"No need for violence now," he replies kissing her neck one last time before proceeding to his bedroom to change.
When he returns, Ziva laid out the plates with pasta and salad onto the dinner table and a radio playing mildly playing in the background. Seeing his return, she smiles brightly at him before sitting down to eat.
"Is this a date, Ms. David?" he asks suggestively.
"Perhaps," she answers.
"Well whatever this is, the food smells perfect for it." She smiles at him until her mouth hurts and takes a bite of her food. After 3 quarters of their food is finished Tony stops eating and stands up. Tony shuffles to the radio and turns the dial to right right, increasing the volume. Then he walks over to Ziva and extends a hand to take. She looks up him, confused. But in the end, she takes his hand. Tony leads them where there is more space and brings her closer to him. "They're playing our song, sweet cheeks," he says smiling brightly at her. Ziva can't help but laugh as she presses her face into his shoulder.
Their food long-since forgotten, Tony begins to lead and Ziva follows, dancing away from their reality. Both ultimately get lost in each others eyes, triggering a span of unresolved feelings.
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