Ok this may start off a little slow, but hang in there. I know where it is going I just have to get it there. This is mostly Tiva so if it is not your thing you may not enjoy. May contain spanking (We'll see if Abby can keep her attitude in check)-if you are offended by spanking then don't read.

Everyone seemed to recover from the events of the fall. McGee got his cast off right before Thanksgiving. Abby was germ free and back to herself. And Tony and Ziva were still going strong.

Christmas came and went and unfortunately it was not a white Christmas. There had not been a single snowflake the entire month of December. Ziva had been looking forward to experiencing her first snow.

It was about 9pm on a Tuesday night. Gibbs and Jenny were curled up on the couch watching tv. Abby was finishing up her homework while texting Timmy. Tony was doing research on a paper for school.

Tony happened to look up from his computer to notice that it was snowing. The snow was coming down fast and furious. There was already an inch on the ground and more was still falling.

Tony quickly threw on his coat, and headed down the stairs.

Gibbs and Jenny looked up from the TV when they heard Tony come down the stairs.

Jenny called out to her son "Tony, why do you have your coat on? It is 9pm on a school night, you are not going out now."

Tony appeared in the doorway of the family. "Come on this is the first snow. I have to go to Ziva's and take her outside for her first snow. She has never seen snow before."

Gibbs couldn't help but hold in a smile. He really liked Ziva and knew how much his son cared for her. Ziva had been a positive influence on Tony. She helped keep him out of trouble. "Come on Jen, let him go for just a little while. After all she has lived all of her life in a desert. Not much snow there."

Tony and Gibbs both turned to Jen and gave her their best puppy dog faces.

Jen gave Gibbs a playful swat on his arm. "You are worse then the kids Jethro. Fine I am outnumbered. First call Ziva, her parents may not even let her go out of the house at this time of night. If it is okay with her parents, you may go for a while but I want you home by 10, no later. Clear?"

Tony leaned down and gave him mom a kiss. "Thanks mom"

Tony texted Ziva : Zi snowing, come 4 a walk with me?

Ziva: Tony, papa will be gone until late. Mama will say okay. Come over

Tony left the house and went off to Ziva's house.

In the meantime Abby looked out the window and saw the first signs of snow. She began bouncing down the stairs.

As Abby entered the family room she launched herself at her parents and landed with a thud between them.

"It's snowing! Can you believe it? Please can I go outside to play in the snow?"

Gibbs knew how much Abby loved the first snowfall but it was late and dark and chances were the snow would still be there tomorrow morning.

Gibbs playfully pulled on one of her pigtails. "Sorry kiddo. It is late and dark. The snow will be there tomorrow. Plus your bedtime is in 10 minutes."

Abby began to melt down. "Come on that is not fair. How come you let Tony go out?"

Jen realized Abby was going to go into full tantrum mode which in turn would cause her husband to go into angry father mode and it would just end badly. Jen put her arm around Abby and pulled her close "Abbs, the snow will be there tomorrow and even if it melts it will snow again."

Abby was not appeased. "Why did Tony get to go out!"

Gibbs was starting to lose patience. "First of all Tony's whereabouts has nothing to do with you. We said No and it means No."

Abby stood up with black pigtails flying and began stomping as loudly as she could out of the room.

Actually it was kind of a funny sight to see. Abby clad in her pink jammies with black skulls trying to stomp her petit 5ft body out of the room, in bare feet, black pigtails swaying back and forth.

She stomped all the way up to her room and slammed the door. Slamming doors in the Gibbs house was usually not tolerated. Abby half expected to hear her father come up the stairs to reprimand her for her attitude, but he never came.

Instead Jen began kissing her husband to try to distract him from killing Abby. When she heard the door slam Jen looked up at the ceiling. "Well that went well…"

When Gibbs began grumbling about Abby and her attitude Jen started kissing him and he forgot about little Miss Abbytude.

Meanwhile Tony arrived at Ziva's house.

Ziva came outside wrapped in several layers.

Ziva was so excited about seeing her first snow that she was acting like Abby. She was bouncing up and down.

"Tony look at this. This is amazing. When I was growing up in Israel I used to see pictures of snow, but I never imagined I would get to experience it."

Tony could help but relish in Ziva's excitement. Tony had 16 years of snow in his experience so for him it was not as exciting. But to see how excited Ziva was, made it worth it.

"Ok Ziva, first you have to try to catch a snowflake on your tongue." Tony opened his mouth and showed her how to do it. Soon Ziva and Tony were walking around with their mouths hanging opening trying to catch snowflakes.

Once Tony was sure Ziva had caught a snowflake. He bent down and showed her how to make a snowball and Ziva experienced her first snowball fight.

Next they moved onto making snow angles. Tony laid down in the snow and waved his arms and legs back and forth and then got up revealing a snow angle. Ziva was next to try it.

"Tony it is getting cold and I am getting wet. I think I had better go in the house."

Tony looked at Ziva's beautiful face in the glow of the moon with her hair all wet and glistening from the snowflakes that had landed on her. "There is one more snow tradition you have to experience." Tony grabbed Ziva and pulled her close. He leaned in and began kissing her.

To Tony time was standing still. At that moment everything was perfect.

Little did Tony and Ziva know that their perfect world was about to shatter.

TBC