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Weekend Fun Pass

Chapter 1: Expiration Dates

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A/N: This story happens after the episode "Designated Target". As usual, I started a story which deals with Tony, which these days always seems to inevitably evolve into something which involves Ziva also. But I don't use the four-letter-word for it ;).

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I was pacing in my living room, trying to get a grip on reality. During the last few months I had slowly come to realize two things:

First, I had really fallen for a woman for the first time in my life. And I had fallen hard. Avoiding the subject, I had tried almost anything to convince myself otherwise, I had even tricked myself into thinking that I had actually fallen for somebody else: Jeanne. But now, with the undercover mission over for months, there was no more avoiding the subject, I had to do something about it.

Which brings us to the second realization: I think she feels the same way about me. This afternoon she said something that could only be interpreted as her thinking of us as soulmates. Could that really be true? At the time I had deflected the implication with a stupid comment about some seventies band and I had heard the disappointment in her reply as she walked away.

But the real problem was something else.

After three months I had barely recovered from the loss of Jeanne, a woman who, as I now knew, I had only thought to love. And now I was actually in love with somebody who everyday was at risk of receiving a call from home, telling her to pack up her things and return.

I could never deal with that.

How had I called it this afternoon? "Weekend Fun Pass," I think.

Did she know the expiration date on it?

Was there even an expiration date on it?

Was there any other way to find out, but asking her straight out?

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