Driving Lessons

Before long Nick and I were in Key West in our hotel room as Tony and Ziva were in theirs in Key Largo. It was 3am in Key West; Nick and I had been asleep for two hours when my cell rang. Half asleep I looked at the caller id on the front screen of my phone and answered it.
“Why the hell are you calling me when its 3am here, Jen?”
“To tell you that Jethro and I made it to our room after the lay-overs and what not.” Jenny said.
“What part of its 3am here don’t you get?”
“Someone is a bit on the bitchy side.”
“You would be too if you only got two hours of sleep when your sister decided to wake you up with a six hour time difference.” I said.
“So you’ve been in Key West for six hours, what have you two been doing for six hours?” Jenny asked.
“You know perfectly well what Nick and I were doing. The exact same thing you and Jethro were doing at 25, 000 feet when you two rejoined the mile high club.”
“I’ll talk to you later, go back to sleep.” Jen said to me as she got tired of my bitchy side.
“Jen, I’m thirty- nine not ten, with a husband and three kids of my own; you don’t have to tell me when to go to bed anymore.”
I hung up with my sister and went back to bed. In a few hours Nick and I would be getting couples’ massages, going for a romantic walk along the beach and what not.
Meanwhile ninety miles northeast of Nick and me; Tony and Ziva were sound asleep. Ziva had sent me a text message before they fell asleep saying that she never wanted to leave Key Largo. Shortly after Ziva had text me, Tony had gotten a text message from Jethro saying that Tony and I were acting bosses once the four of us got back to DC.
A few hours later, around 10am Nick and I were awake, just as Tony and Ziva were in Key Largo. Nick had offered to turn the shower on for me since he knew that I hated going to bed the night before with the just got off the plane feeling.
“How hot do you want the water, hun?” Nick called from the bathroom.
“After fourteen years of marriage, three daughters later and you can’t remember that I like my shower water to be on the verge of scalding hot.” I answered.
“Sorry I forgot that you like your shower just like your sister likes hers.” Nick said.
I walked over to the bathroom and looked Nick in the eyes.
“How the hell do you how my sister likes her shower? I never told you that.” I said suspiciously.
Nick could obviously tell that I was thrown by what he had said.
“Gibbs told me how the Director likes her shower when we were talking about how much the two of you are alike the other day.”
“You know how weird that is; that you know this.” I said.
“Can we get pass this awkwardness, so I can have your absolutely stunning towel clad body with mine.”
“Vying for baby number four, are we?” I asked.
“Doesn’t hurt to try; are you going to come over here or not?” Nick asked.
“I’m going to get into the shower. We had our fun last night.” I answered as I stuck to my position of just having three kids under the age of eighteen while proceeding to the bathroom.
I had left the bathroom door open since it was just Nick and I in the room. Nick laid on the bed and looked over to the bathroom as I let my towel drop to the floor.
“See something you like?” I asked.
“As always, it still blows my mind that perfectly sculpted body of yours once held our girls inside it.”
“Thank-you; hun, but you’re not going to change my mind. I am showering.”
A few minutes later as I got dressed after I got out my shower Nick noticed my third tattoo which was on the back of my neck.
“I still find it sweet that you have the girls initials tattooed on your neck.” Nick said as he traced the heart on my neck that encased JD, JS and JR.
“Well they are my world, just like you are.” I said as Nick and I left our room to go to breakfast and do the other things we planned on doing.
Tony and Ziva were pretty much doing the same things that Nick and I were doing, but instead of walking along the beach they were horse back riding on the beach. As the four of us were enjoying our respective second honeymoons, the girls were waking up for another day of school just as Jen and Jethro were going to bed.
The thought of getting a bit of payback on Jen for waking me up at 3am had crossed my mind at one point. I knew it would be juvenile of me if I went through with calling Jen when it was 3am over there. The last thing I want to do was resort to Tony’s level of juvenile behavior just to get payback on my sister. Nick and I were enjoying our last day in Key West as much as we could since we had to get back to DC due to Jen and Jethro’s vacation, the team needed a leader and the agency needed someone to run it. Both Ziva and I hated the fact that we had to cut tropical escape short, but we had to.
The massages that we all got were absolutely relaxing. All my stress had dissipated by the time Nick and I went on our walk. As we walked on the beach, Tony and Ziva were riding horses much like Jethro did with Shannon and Kelly years ago. At one point Tony had looked over to his wife and saw a smile on her face.
“I love that smile.” Tony said when they had paused to watch the sun paint the sky pink and orange.
“Well you bring it out, Tony.”
“I know; I am just glad that you’re smiling again, I haven’t seen it in a while.”
“Get over here.” Ziva instructed.
“You’re not going to Gibbs’ slap me, are you?”
“No, get over here.”
Tony did as he was told and directed his horse to stand closer to Ziva’s horse. Without saying a word, Ziva leaned over to Tony and pulled his head close to hers to the point where they a few inches apart from each other. Before Tony processed what was going on; Ziva had brought his lips to hers and passionately kissed him in a way that told him that she wasn’t planning on ending the kiss anytime soon.
“Thank-you for all of this, for everything that you have done for me and everything you’ve given me. I love you.” Ziva said.
By 7pm that night all four of us had returned to DC. The kids had returned to their respective homes. JD had begged Nick to take her out driving just has Hannah and Leah begged Tony to take them out driving. So Nick took JD out as I stayed home with Jayden and Jocelyn to help them with their homework. The next day as Jen and Jethro wrapped up their time in Marseilles before heading over to Positano; Tony and I were temporarily taking over for them until they returned at the end of the week.