Chapter 2 of 2

Simple and Clean

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Author's Note: Thanks for reading, here's the last chapter.

"Hold me

Whatever lies beyond this morning

Is a little later on

Regardless or warning

The future doesn't scare me at all

Nothing's like before"

- Utada Hikaru: Simple and Clean

Tony woke up the next morning and wasn't surprised to find the bed empty. The sun was shining in through the window and he could hear the shower running and Ziva humming quietly over the water.

He stretched out in the bed, feeling better than he had in a long time.

He stood up and walked across the floor and out onto a small balcony. His toes squished in the wet doormat and he scrunched his nose and jumped off the rug, leaning against the rail. Ziva walked up behind him and put her arms around his waist, he turned to look at Ziva, "You feeling better this morning?"

She smiled up at him, "You didn't have to do that."

He chuckled a little, "But I did."

She put her head up against his chest and he gave her a strange look, "What's your deal?"

"Just nice to know that someone cares about me."

"Lots of people care about you, Ziva. Everybody that you work with, we all care about you."

"It's different."

"What's different?"

"I don't know...don't you think something feels different?" she looked up at him, studying his face.

"...Something... feels different?...I guess so...I mean, I don't care about you like I care about Probie, or Ducky, or the Boss...but...Yeah...something's different, I guess..." he thought out loud.

"Yeah, something's different," she smiled.

They looked at each other for a moment before she leaned up on her toes and gave him a light kiss on the lips.

"That was different," he smiled.

"I thought so," she smiled.

They kept looking at each other for a moment before Tony picked Ziva up and swung her around to his other side. When she looked at him strangely he replied, "That rug felt gross."

She smiled up at him then turned to look over the rail.

He kept an arm around her waist as she scanned the sky and surrounding landscape.

"I love the color of the sky the morning after a storm. It's so perfect. You could never replicate that color," he said, nuzzling into her hair.

She took a deep breath, "I enjoy the smell after a storm. It smells clean."

"So do you," he laughed into her hair.

She laughed, "We just can't have a serious conversation, can we?"

Tony's cell phone rang inside the apartment and they reluctantly parted.

She stood out on the balcony, leaning against the rail, watching Tony on the phone inside the room.

He came back out and she asked, "Gibbs?"

"Yeah, they're sending a car to come get us. He still wouldn't tell me why they kept us here last night."

"I'm glad they did," she replied.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. If we hadn't had to stay here, I would have been at home alone during the storm. I'm really glad that we stayed," she smiled at him.

"You know why I'm glad we stayed?" he asked.

"What's that?"

"Because if we hadn't stayed together last night, you would have killed me for doing this," he smiled before he leaned down and kissed her.

This kiss was quite a bit more passionate than their first one had been. They broke apart, smiling.

"You doing anything tonight?" he asked.

"No, do you want to?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to come over and maybe watch some movies at my place?"

"As in a date?" she asked with a teasing smile.

"Well...yeah."

"Are you asking me to date you? Are you asking me to be your girlfriend?" she kept smiling.

"Geez, David, what is this? Twenty Questions?" he rolled his eyes.

"You are avoiding the question."

"What do you want me to say?"

"The truth. Are you wanting romantic commitment or close friendship or what?"

"Can I have more than one?" he asked, looking pained.

"What?"

"Yeah, I want you to keep being my best friend, but...I...guess I'd really like for you to be my girlfriend, too..." he mumbled, not breaking eye contact.

She smiled and leaned in for a quick kiss before saying, "So, I am your girlfriend and we are dating, yes?"

"If that's what you want, absolutely," he grinned back.

She gave him a quick kiss, grabbed his shoulder spun him around and said, "Go shower before Gibbs arrives," and playfully slapped his butt.

When he got to the door, he turned around and looked at her with a smile on his face.

"What?" she asked, looking confused.

"Just thinking about how beautiful you are," he said with a big grin.

She rolled her eyes and pointed at the door, "Go!" she demanded, laughing.

He obliged with a big mock-pout.

Ziva looked out over the city and smiled.

She knew that she would probably never get over her fear of storms, but she couldn't deny that this one was one of the best moments in her life.

A.N.: Yeah, that is the song from the video game Kingdom Hearts...

I put a quote up there hoping that it would get me back in the mood to write Roles Reversed.

I don't think the ending quite came out the way I wanted it to and a lot of it was just spacefiller, but you know...I tend to be overly critical of my own writing.

Kinda cheesy, but its a fluff so I can get away with that, right?

*Yeah, I read this thing through and was angry about the typos...so...yeah...*

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