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They are ever-evolving: strangers, partners, friends, lovers, parents, but always on a continuum of intriguing attraction, someday promises, and love persisting - from the beginning to forever.
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Like a phoenix, Ziva David was reborn amongst the living, and Tony was glad to have her home with him and their daughter. The only problem? He can't stop being angry at her, too.
Or: the missing scenes from Ziva's reunion with her family in Paris and the realistic aftermath.
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“What is clear to me, Tony, is all I have to answer for.”
Because choosing to come back with him is just the beginning of finding her way home. There are still demons to slay, a battle against her own insecurities to win. Thankfully, she has him fighting for her - and alongside her - every step of the way.
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She was there and he was here, but maybe…
Maybe leaving her on that tarmac, releasing her to a quest for solace and breaking his own heart in the process, had been for something.
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She didn’t have his luxury of pretending nothing had happened since their last shared bed. A new start meant her, it meant them. Everything.
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A series of dialogue-only, photo-inspired drabbles for Tiva. The pieces are not necessarily connected, though they sometimes feel part of the same world.
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Coming back to Paris had been exhilarating, unexpected and frankly terrifying. [...] “Are you happy?”, Ziva had pushed herself up once again, looking at him with uncertainty. The man looked at her, a patient kind smile on his twitching lips. “We get to do this again”, he answered, before caressing her jawline with the pad of his finger, “We get to do this together. I am a lucky man, sweetcheeks. A very lucky man”.
Or: coming back to Paris after a summer on the run sounds a lot like the beginning of a new adventure
This story takes place after the spin off but has been written before it aired. There will be a few references but please be mindful that some of its content might not align with whatever we'll see on screen. "
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27 Oct 2025
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What if Tony and Ziva got married... and it all went wrong?
Five years after a bitter divorce and complete silence, Tony returns to DC only to come face to face with the one ghost from his past he never wanted to summon. Ziva doesn't seem much happier to see him. But old habits die hard, including how well they work together. From there, it gets a whole lot more complicated as they try to understand what really happened to them.
The "what if" no one asked, but I answered anyway.
Draft is complete, chapters released on staggered upload, Tuesdays and Friday mornings (EST)
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24 Oct 2025
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“Well, what am I supposed to call you? You get annoyed when I always introduce you as ‘Tali’s Mom’. ‘Girlfriend’ isn’t permanent enough, not to mention the fact we’re not fourteen…”
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Tony and Ziva try to work out what they are to each other and it leads to some changes in their relationship
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12 Jul 2025
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A cheesy holiday all about red, pink and candy hearts, things that were so typically not Ziva David. That is, so typically not her, unless Anthony DiNozzo is involved.
(A sequel to Wrapped in Red: https://archiveofourown.info/works/61646104/chapters/157590187)
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- Part 2 of Wrapped In... Series
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15 Feb 2025
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"Listen, you should know I've taken some kind of truth serum, so if there's any questions that you don't want to know the answer to..."
For a long moment, Ziva simply looks at him. Reads over the slowly relaxing lines of his face. How that sentence was much easier to say than the former. Her eyes bore into his and he finds it incredibly difficult to look away.
"Does that mean you would be comfortable answering them?"
It's a question with an entirely terrifying answer. Because without even thinking over the multitude of choices and the ramifications of his responses - with McGee four feet away, no less - the swift and immediate answer is yes. Dinozzo chokes on it, keeling over to take a moment to be more reasonable. Carve the answer out of granite, not loose stone.
"If it would help...with closure or...trust or...whatever."
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25 Oct 2024