Renovation Time

Chapter 9

~Tony's pov~

It was wednesday. He woke up with a pretty good mood. Yesterday evening had been fun. They exchanged fun memories of their youth, they made jokes, laughed... He loved it when they did that.

Today was parquet day. He sat up in bed and rubbed his face with his hands. Then he looked at the couch, it was already empty. He grinned. Of course she was already up, he bet she was up since 5 am already. He got dressed and walked into the kitchen, attracted by the smell of bacon. Ziva was making them breakfast. 'Boker tov, Tony,' she said smiling.

'You're in a good mood today,' he said, while trying to steal a piece of bacon, but quickly pulling back is hand as she smacked it away.

'I slept well.' That was her only answer. He knew better.

They ate breakfast and walked into his room, tools at hand.

'How are we gonna divide this,' he asked. She stood still, a thoughtful look on her face. 'I think we will have to do this together. We cannot start at each side of the room.' That was fine by him, he sucked at doing the parquet. He wasn't going to admit that, cause he would lose the bet!

This worked for about three hours, until Ziva apparently didn't cut a piece of parquet right. 'Chara!'

He laughed because she was cursing in Hebrew, but his smile faded as soon as she got so mad that she took the piece in bot hands, each at another end, and broke it in two over her knee. God, she was strong! It was kind of intimidating, but it had something... dangerous and exciting.

An hour later, she did the same thing! As soon as she calmed down and crouched across from him again, he pushed her out of balance to tease her. She fell backwards, but he felt her hand grab his shirt and pull at it. He fell over her! He leaned on his elbows, so his weight wasn't completely on her. His face was dangerously close to hers...

He grinned and she pushed him off her, finally laughing again. He sat up, smiling when he looked at her. He prefered her when she was laughing.

At the end of the day, the parquet was almost done and 12 pieces were broken for... obvious reasons.