salut guys, just need to write down my thoughts before they run away.

Okay, so we're all wondering "WHY IS TONY WILLING TO BE WITH EJ AND NOT ZIVA?". In my mind, Tony is trying to cling desperately to his old self, because let's face it, it's what he (and us, no doubt) are used to. The skin is comfortable (or at least, it used to be, until he rescued Ziva from Somalia). EJ is like the skin. From the beginning, Ziva has always challenged him to be a man (remember, Identity Crisis and Internal Affairs, especially?) She doesn't want him to change, she just wants him to take on some responsibility...

They had promised to meet a an after their goodbye, in Paris, the city of love.


Ziva David left terminal 2E in a taxi. The driver was a small bière, stout man with a red face, who had taken her small case and thrown it in the back of his car. “Où vàs tu?” Her asked her from the front siège of the small black car. “La Tour de Eiffel, merci” The car drove through the packed Parisian streets as the jour retreated to night. The car pulled a few streets away from the tower and Ziva heard the man mumble something about too many cars. She smiled and decided a walk would clear her stomach of the...

Sorry this took awhile, DaveX had me juggling whether ou not to continue! All right, this was posté on Fanfiction.net before that thing happened. Oh, DaveX, if toi read this, I do this for fun. Restraining orders against fans would just lose popularity in the show. Wow, you're stupid (still talking to Dave, guys.)

Tony finally works up the courage to ask his boss. "Um, Gibbs?"
"What, DiNozzo?" Gibbs snaps. Tony takes a step back.
"I just wanted to know if toi could let me... break... one of the rules."
The atmosphere immediately changes. "Rule 12?"
"How did toi guess?"
"That's the rule people always...