I know Cote leaving NCIS was a last minute decision but I’m genuinely so mad they made Ziva leave the way she left.
I KNOW that when she left they were dating. Look, there is this kiss at Gibbs’s cabin first and then in the Bull Pen Ziva comes up with a Zivaisme, and Tony corrects her, McGee tries to stop him and Ziva responds, looking deeply in Tony’s eyes
“ It’s okay McGee, I can handle him myself ” - Ziva
They smirk and look at each other…
Then in 11x01 she invites him to Israel, saying she’s thinking about him and everything and he is about to go but of course he gets shoot at.
And all of this makes her comment in 1x09 so much more powerful “I’m sorry for leaving you”. For leaving her NCIS partner behind, but for leaving her actual partner as well.
Ziva has been through a LOT, BUT you cannot make me believe she was okay with leaving Tony behind after everything that happened between them. They explained this as a self penitence, believing she did not deserve love in her life and therefore did not deserve Tony.
But I refuse to believe she was ready nonetheless to let go of him that easily, thinking she would never see him ever again.
What happened to “couldn’t live without you”?! This man thought she was dead and went into a terrorist camp to get revenge for her death, not minding the least in the world to die there as well. They shared so much emotions during season 10, about their parents and Tali, they really got into a deep emotional level in their relationship. “One day you’ll dance with a man who deserves your love”.
Every last one of her cells has always told her to get closer to him since season 3. She has always sought to protect him and to know what happened to him. Worrying about his health when he was with Jeanne, thinking the plague was hurting him still, looking after him when he was becoming obsessed with this journalist in season 8, trying to contact him when he was abroad, talking about missing him in front of her father and boyfriend. Hell, even when she was in a relationship with CIRay and the man was sitting at her desk in the headquarters, she would get up and go sit behind Tony’s at his desk instead.
And you tell me she’s okay with simply staying in Israel and sending him off to D.C and not knowing what on earth happens to him??
I don’t believe it. And you cannot change my mind.