This story was all around amazing. Sweet and sentimental with just a hint of something more. I loved how your events played out. Awesome story!

I loves this sentence, "Even now, even wearing little more than her grief, she is stunning to him."

Loved it

Loved it!

This is a review for both chapters.
Ya know, so often when I have reviewed angst-filled stories, I have exaggerated, saying how much the story had made me bawl. Very rarely has that been true. Until now. No, I didn't bawl. I did cry, though. Chapter one, when she told him she was not ready to say the words, I cried. Sweet, delicious heartache. And this second chapter, with its sensuous and sensual images and moments, I swooned, sighed and teared up. This is just a marvelous, glorious piece. Thank you for taking the time and effort to create it. Simply wonderful.

I absolutely loved this. So well written. Brava, brava!

Thank you for this! I suspect the next episode will be much less satisfying than your story has been. This was very believable for both of their characters-and I really enjoyed the glimpse of Ziva's family.

Omg I love this story it was so well written and just perfect! Please don't let it be over!

Beautiful. By far the best fic addressing the events of these episodes I have seen thus far. Your voices are spot on.

(traces of a younger Ziva, the one who used to drive him crazy just to occupy the after lunch lull.)

Hehe. This was yet again, so great and a delicious AU for our minds to go down. Love everthing you've set up here from the stories of the aunts and them going to the pizza place and their awkwardness about going home and what that will mean for their relationship. But you handled it so well and so very Tony and Ziva-like, I like how their words and actions weren't drowned in angst, so we didn't have to read too much to get to the good stuff. Great work, thanks so much for this!

(While Ziva falls apart, he can only continue to stare down the man who was once so tall in his power but, like all others, is so small in death.)

Really powerful line. AU maybe but thats not a problem because all of it was so wonderfully written from Vance's anger at the case not being solved to the NCIS family nominating Tony to be the one to go with her and Gibbs approving it, to The Aunts and Ziva's "Oscar-worthy" performance of the grief-stricken daughter. Which she is, just in her own way. the scene in Eli's office was amazing and as much as you had Tony giving in and giving her just what she wanted, because of course he loves her, I'm glad they did stop. Great work!

AWESOME! Completely captivating. I'm totally invested, Please don't stop!

I believe it is too much to hope that we'd get even 10% of this on the show... we get revenge but not Shiva.

It looks as if we'll also get nothing of the loss of Jackie... that made me so angry.

this was one of the most well written stories I have ever had t the pleasure to read! please keep writing!

Oh wow, yes, this definitely, definitely worked for me! Lovely ending. I LOLed at the broken glass/spilled milk bit so hard and I love the idea of Tony and Ziva in the bathtub together and wandering around the neighbourhood sharing stories and The Aunts were fantastic! I really liked Tony's insight into how much they love Ziva and how hard it must have been for her to leave them and her home. I think that was a perfect direction to take that. Lovely work! :)