Consign to Pandemonium - Act II - Lies

Jul 30, 2009 10:28


Title: Consign to Pandemonium - Act II - Lies
Author: pearly_eyes
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen

Character(s): Ziva David, Tony DiNozzo
Prompts: Challenge #23, lies, from ncisdrabble100

Summary: "Her life was an assemblage of lies and half truths." Spoilers for Legends (i & ii) and Aliyah

Words: 300

It was something that Ziva lived with from the time that she had stopped searching for her father in the audience at her ballet recitals. She did not doubt his concerns for her wellbeing. Yet, part of her would linger to seek and to question, only to arrive at the same conclusion.

“They do as I say.”

“Rivkin?”

“Always.”

Her life was an assemblage of lies and half truths.

“What’s any of it real?”

“Does it matter?”

She stared into his face, familiar yet foreign. Tony was right to suspect who was asking the questions: her father or the Director of Mossad?

“What is it you expect from me?”

“I expect your loyalty. To me and only me!”

He spoke as her director, but what lies beneath that ultimatum was fear and a realization.

“Because Ziva, I don’t know who you answer to anymore: NCIS or Mossad.”

The day she announced her intention to volunteer for the Mossad, her father took her aside and said, “One can never truly know a person or their secrets, remember that Ziva.” She was only a child then.

“Now answer me, was it real?”

“I don’t know ... perhaps.”

As an adult, she knew that it was the only time that he had been truly honest with her.

“You loved him.”

In the aftermath of the Tony/ Jeanne debacle, she chastised her partner about having feelings, feelings that should be let go. His rebuttal was that the heart wants what it wants. Even now, she stood by her previous convictions to safeguard that part of her that would always be searching for her father at dance performances, for a lover who would not betray her at the orders of some intelligence agency. That part of her was true, the rest ...

“I guess I’ll never know.”

ncis, fanfiction: consign to pandemonium, tony dinozzo, ziva david

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