Oh how I've missed you, ladies!! 🫂💜 I am alive, too; broken and exhausted, but alive and recovering from a long school year. @samwhity I am wondering what could be "challenging in all the right ways"? 🤔 @mrsmungus a social life?? Outside of the house?? You go girl! ☺️
I am intrigued by both of your sneak peeks! I've never seen a fic with Ziva and Hadar having much of a connection, but it's interesting to imagine! And classic Tiva banter, indeed. I will always believe that Ziva often flubs some idioms on purpose, just so Tony can correct them. 😂
I haven't read Tiva in quite a few months...need to change that! I also haven't written in a gazillion years, but I found a very rough draft to offer:
He was still ignoring her as the plane began its final boarding call – except when he wasn’t ignoring her at all, which was far worse, in her opinion.
“Oh, come on, share,” he whined from the window seat that he always had to have or he would be airsick. “You know how my ears do that snap-crackle-pop thing when the plane takes off.”
“Yes, you have told me. Many times.”
“I see, so you're choosing not to be a good partner. Wow.” His mouth gaped when the accusation elicited no reaction from said partner. “You're really going to let me be in pain when you could, for like 33¢, be my hero?”
As if he wasn't sitting right beside her, Ziva took her time unwrapping an artificially green stick of gum and ribboning it onto her tongue, chewing slowly and stowing the pack in her pocket again.
Tony half-sneered, half-chuckled. “I didn't realize you had such an evil streak, David. Must be something you picked up over the summer.”