<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Ziva chuckled and rolled her eyes when Tony asked her to tie him to the bed. "Do not make me shoot you, Tony.." She told him, though her eyes twinkled with laughter. She waited and watched as he interacted with Gibbs and Kate, and then shot him a confused look, where she scrunched up her nose, at his words to her. "I do not understand, but<br/>
let's go. I will shove some food into you, too. And do not bother protesting. I will drop you at your apartment so you can rest while I go to the store and get what I need for <br/>
your homemade soup."<br/>
<br/>
"I doubt you will have healthy food in your cabinets. And even if you do, you will not have everything I need. Like parsnip, black peppercorns, kosher salt, whole cloves and many other things." She glanced back over at Dr. Pitt and smiled at him. "Thank you for coming to check on Tony. I was briefed by our Director about his time with the plague, so I know to keep an eye on him." After nodding to Kate and Gibbs, she led Tony out of the room and they headed for the pharmacy to get his meds filled. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Half an hour later, <br/>
she pulled up at his place and helped him inside and into bed. <br/>
<br/>
"I will be back in 20 minutes. Once I return, I will load you up with your meds and then get started on some homemade soup. You will nap for 2 hours while I make it, and if <br/>
you wake up and are hungry before then.. I will give you crackers. Do not protest or argue, it is useless." </span></span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">After Ziva spoke and literally tucked him into bed, she placed his medication in the kitchen and out of his reach just to be safe. "Call my phone if you need something while I am at the store." Another 20 minutes later, she had shopped and gotten everything she needed to make the soup.<br/>
<br/>
And after checking on Tony again and giving him his meds, she shot him a look that told him not to argue. "Sleep. It will help you feel a little better. I will wake you when I <br/>
am done with the soup." Without waiting for him to reply, she exited his bedroom and walked into the kitchen and began to unpack and prepare the food. She</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)"> checked on him<br/>
a few different times as the food cooked, and smiled when she saw that he had fallen asleep. And when two hours passed, she poured some of the </span></span></span><a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatscookingamerica.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2FJewish-Chicken-Soup_main-photo-ps-4x5.jpg&amp;hash=ddc1d82886277c1e333dcaccc4ab046d" href="https://whatscookingamerica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jewish-Chicken-Soup_main-photo-ps-4x5.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">soup</span></span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)"> into a bowl and made <br/>
him a glass of orange juice.<br/>
<br/>
And placed both and a spoon on a lap tray she had picked up at the store, and carried it into his bedroom. She set the tray down on his bedside table, and reached out with one hand to gently caress his cheek. When Tony's eyes opened, she smiled at him. "Wake up, sleepy. I made some soup for you." She said and moved to pick up the tray and place<br/>
it on his lap. "It is made from a whole chicken, cold water, carrots, celery, onion, parsnip, black peppercorns, kosher salt, whole cloves, bay leaves, parsley, dill, and dried egg noodles."<br/>
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"It is good. It is what my Ima -- mother, used to make for me when I was unwell as a child.." She said the last part softly, and gave him a shy smile. It was rare when she talked about her family with any of them, not sure how they would react... because of Ari.</span><br/>
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Kate smiled as she read Tony's note, and then Gibbs's. Once Tony and Ziva and Dr. Pitt had left, she and Gibbs left, too, and headed to her house. She smirked when he signed to her and then rubbed his forehead. She turned in her notepad to a fresh sheet of paper. <i>Relax, Jet. I am going to start calling around and sign up for some ASL classes soon. I want to make sure that I don't take on too much at once. I want to be able to be free if Tim and Sarah, or Tony need me. And yeah, let's go back to my place. I need to teach you a few things.</i><br/>
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<i>Like how to use the new lights that are wired to the doorbell, that</i></span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99"><span style="font-size: 15px"><i> I installed a few days ago. And I definitely can't wait to have your arms around me. Thankfully I'm outta here and we won't have to worry about the damned heart monitor or the nosy nurses..</i> After she finished writing out her thoughts, she got up carefully and grabbed her cane,</span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)"><span style="font-size: 15px"> and the two of them headed f</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 255, 153)">or his car. A little while later when they were seated in his car together, she reached out and took his free hand in hers as he drove them over to her place.</span></span></span>