Bare, raw, evocative. Such longing; such manifold suffering.

I am reading through some of my favorites list and realized that even though I love this story, I've never reviewed it before! (could have sworn I did, mea culpa!)

In any case, it is just a wonderful fic. I love the jarring nature of the contrast between Tony and Ziva...that first one "On July 4th, they put out eighty-three matches on her back" is so painfully beautiful. It's a style of storytelling that could go cliche very quickly, but you do a great job with it and it makes for a wonderful story!

Awww... that was lovely!

Wow. I think this one will stick with me and haunt me a bit. Incredibly powerful writing.

Excellent story, I love it. Tony deals with his grief in a very real way. And the first and last sentences about Ziva in each part are...unnerving, to say the least.

Just stumbled on this via someone else's profile, and I have to say I'm very impressed.

Very interesting structure, and the single sentence at the end of each section referring to Ziva's torture is incredibly effective and evocative.

I'm definitely going to seek out more of your fics!

so good, so clear and emotional and original. Thanks!

Very well written, interestingly dark, and an unusual and engaging take on Tony.

Your not the only one inspired by homework!

It was very very good. Even if the bar scene is overplayed it was well written.

But isn't it cannon that they found her mid septemeber.

Even though i'm allergic to cookies, i'll help anyway. Great story ) Fills in a long gap inbetween season 6 and 7, it was a smart idea

I love it! I don't think the bar scene was that overplayed at all. I should really list the points that were best, but that will be hard. Let's see. The moment I realized what the format meant. (Will you take it as a compliment if I say you write pain well? The brief moments of her torture were like brutal poetry. In a good way.) And oh, the shower with dreams of drowning. It made me uncomfortable in the same way T is. (In a good way) And I really liked the exchange between the two men, and his internal reflections (They aren't like people in the movies. But they are! A!) Would it be weird to say this story is very familiar? As in several times I went 'I've totally thought that,' but you wrote it and made it real. And awesome. And hurty and angsty, and bunches of other lovely adjectives. Can't wait to see what you do next! (no pressure) :D

Excellently well done! The story has a surrealistic quality perfectly suited to Tony's mood. Keep up the good work!

I've only got one criticism for this story, didn't they find her in September. Apart from that I actually had the same idea for a story, except more Ziva finding out they were having a great time while she was being tortured...

On the topic of homework I should probably get back to studying for my biol test tomorrow, or my Indo sheet, or my maths (cosine and anbiguous case of the sine rule).

Great story.

really great story... i always wondered myself what they each did while ziva was in that camp, i always figured gibbs drank more bourbon, mcgee tried to find her with his computers like last time, abby would cry and talk to broom ziva and have a counter on the wall of how many days shes been gone, try to email, write, send post cards, maybe even try to talk to director david about ziva...and tony, i figured he would drink, think, and remember her, tear his apartment up, punch walls, maybe even mcgee or gibbs when they tried to get him to stop drinking or when they would try to take his pictures or memories of ziva away in his best interest, maybe him try to talk to her father or another mossad person he met over there even though he didnt like them and they didnt like tony, but it wasnt about them it was about finding ziva, getting any word, thought maybe hadir would help him, or tell him ziva was on a mission or off on vacation or avoiding her father or something... really great story thank you for the great read

This was a good story.

Thank you.