Nostrum Monumentum - Actions Speak Louder than Words
Title: Actions Speak Louder than Words
Author: pearly_eyes
Rating: G
Word Count: 227
Prompt: challenge #155, fight, from ncisdrabble100
Character(s): Ziva David, Tony DiNozzo
Summary: "Ziva, can you fight?" SPOILERS for 7.01 Truths and Consequences. Gap filler fic.
AN: For this prompt, I chose to interpret 'fight' as an action and a quote from the episode.
If one was to define their partnership using a single English idiom, it would be 'Actions speak louder than words.' Given Ziva's tendency for mixing her vernaculars and Tony's constant movie references, verbal communication between them was rather irrelevant, as it would only lead to further confusion and sarcasm. Not to mention, direct conversation wasn't really their style. They danced and skirted around what's important, layering upon double entendres against veiled subtleties.
On a fundamental level, there wouldn't be any doubt that she would watch his six and he would cover her back.
She once referred to it as a 'reflex.'
And, that single word alone was sacrosanct, it spoke of all the possibilities, and propensities of their relationship. They were two people who ignore physical boundaries and went in for the kill. They hurt deeply, and felt riotously and they were efficient with hiding penetrating wounds behind false pretences.
Yet, despite all the dissonance and circumstances, there was always an unwavering will to survive - to kill or be killed. Such energy was palpable, even as they laid eyes on each other for the first time after four agonizing months within the confines of a Somalian cell.
"Ziva, can you fight?" he had asked, but he should know after three years that words were a poor substitute for physical actions.
“I am ready to die...”
For you.
Author: pearly_eyes
Rating: G
Word Count: 227
Prompt: challenge #155, fight, from ncisdrabble100
Character(s): Ziva David, Tony DiNozzo
Summary: "Ziva, can you fight?" SPOILERS for 7.01 Truths and Consequences. Gap filler fic.
AN: For this prompt, I chose to interpret 'fight' as an action and a quote from the episode.
If one was to define their partnership using a single English idiom, it would be 'Actions speak louder than words.' Given Ziva's tendency for mixing her vernaculars and Tony's constant movie references, verbal communication between them was rather irrelevant, as it would only lead to further confusion and sarcasm. Not to mention, direct conversation wasn't really their style. They danced and skirted around what's important, layering upon double entendres against veiled subtleties.
On a fundamental level, there wouldn't be any doubt that she would watch his six and he would cover her back.
She once referred to it as a 'reflex.'
And, that single word alone was sacrosanct, it spoke of all the possibilities, and propensities of their relationship. They were two people who ignore physical boundaries and went in for the kill. They hurt deeply, and felt riotously and they were efficient with hiding penetrating wounds behind false pretences.
Yet, despite all the dissonance and circumstances, there was always an unwavering will to survive - to kill or be killed. Such energy was palpable, even as they laid eyes on each other for the first time after four agonizing months within the confines of a Somalian cell.
"Ziva, can you fight?" he had asked, but he should know after three years that words were a poor substitute for physical actions.
“I am ready to die...”
For you.