A Tiva Family

The Meeting

Tony's POV

"Alex Haziri?" I asked as I approached a man fitting Haziri's description. He gave me a nod and indicated for me to sit down in front of him. "I hear you're looking to join the crew?" Alex said after a few moments of silence. I was unsure on how to reply so I nodded in response. "I hear you got a lady. Are you not worried about her getting hurt?"

"I'm doing this to protect her. At the moment, I can barely afford to pay rent, no one is hiring me. This is my only choice," I replied, pleading. Hoping that he would believe my story. He outstretched his hand towards me, I took it "welcome to the team," he said shaking my hand

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Ziva's POV

3 days later

"You must be the beautiful lady that Michael doesn't shut up about," Alex said grabbing my hand and kissing it. I couldn't help but blush, Tony was talking about me. I know it was for the operation but it still gave me butterflies in my stomach. "Nice to meet you I'm Seraphine," I said returning his gesture with a smile. "Michael should be back any minute now, he's just making a delivery for me,"

"I really appreciate you giving him a job. We were so close to being broke, this will get us out of all the debt that we're in," I said sitting down on the couch next to Alex and his wife, Lele. "So how did you two love birds meet?" Alex asked

"We met at a café, I accidentally bumped into him and spilt my coffee all over him. I was so embarrassed but he was so nice to me. He said I could repay him for ruining his shirt by going on a date with him. We've been dating ever since,"

"That's so cute," Lele gushed, suddenly tony walked in "hey Romeo, we were just talking about you," Lele exclaimed whilst giving Tony a glass of wine "Any problems with the delivery?" Alex asked

"Perfect delivery, no fuss," he replied sitting down beside me and placing an arm around my shoulder. "Well done. I'm having a party tomorrow evening you two should come,"

"We'll be there," Tony replied.

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Tony's POV

"I rented a movie for us," Ziva said as she sat down beside me on the couch. "For a successful day," she said handing me a glass of wine.

The movie had been playing for about 20 minutes but I wasn't paying attention. All I could think about was the party tomorrow and the gorgeous woman sitting next to me. Tomorrow would be dangerous, if Alex caught us he would no doubt kill us and our team would never find our bodies. I had to protect Ziva, even though she is really kick ass I loved her and I couldn't deny it anymore. I don't know what I would do if anything happened to her. No matter what I had to protect her even if it got me killed.

I had been so caught up in my thoughts that I never realised that Ziva had paused the movie. "Tony? Are you okay?" I couldn't handle the thought of losing her. I tried to compose myself but as soon as I looked at her a tear fell down my cheek "I don't want to lose you Ziva," I admitted

"Hey, I'm not going anywhere," she said placing a warm and caring hand on my shoulder. I couldn't hold back anymore. "There is no guarantee that we'll make it out alive tomorrow,"

"Tony, we're good at what we do. We'll make it, we'll be fine. We have each other, remember?"

"Ziva, I have to tell you something, and if I don't tell you now I might never get the chance to tell you," I said grabbing her small hands and wrapping them in mine. "I love you Ziva and I have done for quite some time. I have tried to deny it, but I can't anymore. I really hope that when this operation is over that you can give me a chance and someday feel about me the same way that I feel about you," Before I had the chance to go on she interrupted me by placing her warm, soft lips on mine. I placed my hands on her cheeks and I made smooth, slow circular motions on her cheekbones with my thumbs. A few moments later we separated.

"I love you too Tony."