Gibbs/Ziva fic: Four Seasons

Humour/ Romance

T rating

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Ok this is my second attempt at a Gibbs/Ziva fic; let's hope all goes well, LOL. I was waiting for my history lesson to start in college and I was sitting outside and it just came to me, just as the conker came to Ziva, hope you enjoy it. I'm putting it at T for now but it's not permanent.

Summary: Ziva hates American weather and Gibbs tries to show his dear Israeli what good can come out of the four seasons. They grow closer and Ziva realises maybe the American weather isn't that bad, as long as you have an attractive, blue-eyed Marine Sniper by your side.

Chapter One: Autumn

Ziva stormed over to her desk and threw her gear into her corner. McGee, Tony, Abby and Ducky, who were talking ceased to do so and watched Ziva with great interest. Ziva was muttering away in Spanish while peeling soggy golden leaves off of her boots.

'' What's wrong Zee-vah?'' asked Tony, with the charm he usually reserved for the females. Ziva looked up, annoyance flashing in her eyes.

'' Your American weather is what's wrong! Stupid weather!'' ranted Ziva. Three of the four spectators grinned at their Israeli friend.

'' Ziva, my dear, surely such a change is welcome, from the Israeli sun?'' said Ducky, with his usual soothing tone.

'' For a change to be welcome, it must be good, this certainly is not!'' retorted Ziva, before growling at another leaf she found. Ducky shook his head while the other three laughed. Ziva's eyes flashed with anger at her friends but before she could say anything Gibbs walked into the bullpen with a cup of his favourite coffee in hand.

'' Morning Ziva.'' said Gibbs. Tony, Abby, McGee and Ducky's faces all showed confused expressions at Ziva's sudden change in behaviour. As soon as Gibbs finished what his greeting, Ziva's anger seemed to disappear.

'' Good morning Gibbs.'' said Ziva, also confused by her sudden mood change. Gibbs grinned to himself and sat at his desk, ready to work. Ziva did the same, while Ducky and Abby went back to their designated working areas, leaving Tony and McGee standing in the middle of the bullpen looking like a pair of melons.

'' Sit....'' said Gibbs, slowly to McGee and Tony, they scooted back to their desks and began typing on their computers. Ziva grinned to herself, maybe today wouldn't be so bad after all, despite the weather.

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Of course, whenever you say that, whether it's in your head or aloud, the day always ends up worse, and that's exactly what happened to Ziva.

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''Arriving at a crime scene in Quantico, should be plain and simple, right? Oh, no, not for me.'' thought Ziva, frowning while she sat on the cold, hard, concrete floor. There had been leaves on the path up to the crime scene. Tony stumbled, McGee slipped but caught himself, but Ziva, highly trained assassin Ziva, graceful Ziva, slipped and landed flat on her butt. McGee and Tony laughed, but a death glare sent their way soon shut them up. Gibbs lent Ziva a hand but, with what little pride she thought she had left, declined the offer and picked herself up and carried on. Gibbs shook his head in amusement at the Israeli and followed suit.

After collecting evidence, photos and statements, the team made their way back to the trucks, the conkers off of the Horse chestnut tree fell, smacking Ziva square in the eye, after she looked up, as she heard a rustle. She yelped and Gibbs was immediately by her side. Tony and McGee were trying their hardest not to laugh and quickly rushed to the truck before their amusement could betray them. Gibbs looked at Ziva and shook his head.

'' Will you accept my help now?'' said Gibbs, a small smile on his face. Ziva looked at Gibbs with one eye and nodded in defeat. Gibbs grinned and led her over to the truck where McGee and Tony were giggling.

'' Something funny, DiNozzo?'' said Gibbs, causing Tony and McGee to silence themselves.

'' No Boss, nothing's funny.'' said Tony, taking a step out of head slapping range, McGee did the same. Gibbs took Ziva's gear and threw it into the truck. He then led her to his Sedan and sat her in the passenger seat. Before he slid into his own seat he turned to look at McGee and Tony, who were laughing again.

'' Pack everything up and get your asses back to the Navy Yard.'' yelled Gibbs.

'' But Boss!'' protested Tony, another death glare silenced his protests and before McGee could join the protest Gibbs had sped off.

'' Come on Tony, better get this done.'' said McGee, picking up cases of equipment, but Tony didn't move.

'' Hey! Tony!'' yelled McGee. A grin broke out on Tony's face.

'' Ha ha! They think we're blind Probie.'' said Tony, with a massive grin on his face.

'' Who?'' asked McGee.

'' Boss and Zee-vah.'' said Tony, matter-of-factly.

'' How'd you figure that?'' asked McGee, really not getting where this was going. Tony head slapped him.

'' Boss and Ziva were acting pretty friendly towards each other don't you think?'' said Tony, raising his eyebrows. McGee shook his head.

'' Really, Tony? Boss was just helping Ziva. Just like you should be helping me pack this stuff up.'' argued McGee.

'' No Probie, it makes sense. Ziva was really pissed earlier, Boss walked in and BOOM, the anger is gone. I can't believe I didn't see it before.'' said Tony, smacking himself on the head. McGee shook his head.

'' Bet Abby agrees with me.'' said McGee, loading up the last of the cases. Tony looked at McGee.

'' 20 bucks says she'll agree with me, Probie.'' said Tony. McGee nodded and closed the doors to the back of the trunk.

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'' Oh my God! It makes perfect sense, I can't believe I didn't see it earlier!'' said Abby, jumping up and down. McGee groaned and handed Tony 20 dollars.

'' Thanks Abby.'' said Tony, pocketing his winnings.

'' I mean, she so has the hots for him and I've seen him check her out loads of times. Oh, I wonder what their kids would look like…'' said Abby, before typing on her computer and bringing up the programme they had obtained several cases ago, anyway the result was that the child looked exactly like Ziva except she had Gibbs' eyes.

'' Wow! She's hot.'' said Tony. Abby grinned and got rid of the image.

'' I wonder if Ducky's noticed anything?'' said McGee, thinking aloud.

'' I wonder if Ducky's noticed what, Timothy?'' said a Scottish accent, entering the lab. They all turned to look at Ducky and Abby couldn't contain herself anymore.

'' Gibbs and Ziva.'' she said simply. A smile broke on Ducky's face.

'' Yes I have noticed an attraction between the two, I cannot believe they haven't seen it themselves.'' said Ducky, with his ever welcome opinion.

'' They need to get together.'' said Abby, jumping up and down, showing her enthusiasm for the idea.

'' They'd be like Mr and Mrs Smith.'' said Tony. The four laughed and dispersed to get back to their work. The cogs in their heads turning at the information and gossip they had shared.

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The sky outside was almost black when Ziva logged off of her computer, the three male agents were all writing up their reports, well Tony was on Facebook poking some blonde. She turned off her lamp and looked at them all.

'' Goodnight.'' said Ziva, addressing them all, they all looked up.

'' Night Ziva.'' said Gibbs. McGee was too absorbed in his work and Tony simply said-

'' Watch out for raining conkers Ziva.'' in reference to her black eye, of course. Ziva glared at him. She turned on her heel and walked to the elevator and stepped into it when it arrived.

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The next morning Ziva walked into work, 5 minutes late, she had slipped on the leaves and cut her knee. She walked over to her desk to only see Gibbs sitting at his desk.

'' Am I late?'' asked Ziva, the confusion so evident in her voice. Gibbs smiled.

'' No.'' he said simply.

'' Well, where is everyone?'' Gibbs stood up and walked over to her, he put his hand in her pocket and pulled out her phone, on the screen it said '' 1 missed call- Gibbs''. He then flipped it open and pressed the button which played messages and held it to her ear.

'' Hi, Ziva, It's Gibbs, just wanted to tell you that you had the day off tomorrow, I would have told you earlier but you left before it crossed my mind. See you on Thursday, bye.''

'' Oh.'' said Ziva quietly. Gibbs grinned at her. He pressed her phone in her hand and walked back over to his desk and put on his coat and picked up his coffee, Ziva realised what he was doing and walked over to the elevator and waited for him to come over, the elevator arrived and they both stepped in. The doors closed and they began their descent.

'' Ow!'' said Ziva, as Gibbs' bag brushed against her knee.

'' It couldn't have hurt that much Ziva.'' said Gibbs.

''It would if you slipped on the leaves and cut your knee.'' said Ziva, rubbing her knee. Gibbs shook his head.

''I hate this weather.'' huffed Ziva. Gibbs chuckled.

'' You'd better get used to it, it'll be around for about three months and if you think that's bad, wait until winter gets here.'' said Gibbs, chuckling afterwards. Ziva pouted and Gibbs heart rate increased.

He had overheard the conversation that took place in Abby's lab, between Ducky, Tony, and McGee and of course, Abby. He didn't think it to be true. Ok, fair enough he had checked Ziva out a few times and he did have a small soft spot for the Israeli. There was some chemistry between them, and he must admit, he did like the reference to 'Mr and Mrs Smith', but honestly, SHE had the hots for HIM. He could understand if it was about DiNozzo, maybe even McGee but HIM? He shook himself and then thought again, she did seem to smile at him more than the other two and he had caught her staring at him three or four times… maybe they were right. And then an idea sprung into his head.

'' Ziva, you busy today?''

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Luckily the day was a warm enough to wear jumpers and not coats, there was a small light breeze, which was in Gibbs' opinion, very refreshing. Gibbs had decided to show Ziva some good things about Autumn, which she just raised an eyebrow at, but she didn't have any plans so she agreed. And now Gibbs was pulling Ziva around by her hand through the branches, her eyes closed. He pulled her around for what seemed like hours until they stopped. Gibbs stood behind her.

'' This is one of my favourite spots to come to; I only come to it in the Autumn. Open your eyes.'' said Gibbs quietly. Ziva opened her eyes and gasped at what she saw.

They were standing on a bank where a lake steadily flowed, and on the other side, there were trees, with leaves of rich reds, fiery oranges, golden browns and the few green leaves that were, were a deep shade of emerald. The trees and leaves reflected in the lake below.

'' Wow.'' said Ziva, quietly. Gibbs was still standing behind her and his hands were resting on her hips. Ziva blushed a little at the action Gibbs had done, but she didn't mind, she kinda liked it.

'' Well?'' asked Gibbs.

'' It's beautiful.'' said Ziva. Gibbs grinned.

'' So, you like it then?''

'' It's amazing. I love it. How did you find this?'' said Ziva, spinning in Gibbs arms to look at him, his hands still resting on her hips.

'' I went for a walk, on night and I just found it. It's only like this at Autumn though, it doesn't look right in the other seasons.'' said Gibbs. Ziva smiled, and then she looked up at Gibbs.

'' Thank you for sharing this with me.'' said Ziva softly, before placing a kiss on his cheek. Gibbs looked at Ziva and then lowered his head, Ziva met him and they kissed.

They pulled away and smiled at each other. Ziva's smile turned into a grin.

'' I think Autumn is acceptable now.'' she said, Gibbs laughed.

'' Wait until I show you the others.'' he chuckled. Ziva laughed and intertwined her hand with his. They looked at the beautiful sight once more and walked back to the car. Still hand in hand. The perfect beginning to a perfect relationship.