Title: Hard to Find
Rating: T (same as the show to be safe)
Disclaimer: I am poor barista who has been on a leave of absence for months. I am not making money off this just curing boredom. NCIS still belongs to its network, creator, writers, actors, actresses and countless other not me people who bring it to life weekly.
Summary: It took too long for Ziva and Tony to show they had feelings for each other. Who said a kiss is all they shared in Israel. Starts with the birth of their son, and goes back to show how they got there.
Notes: "Hard to Find" is a song title from a Canadian artist called Katie Rox and the song made me think of them, so it stuck. I hate thinking of titles so I use song names. A little plot bunny about Ziva/Tony and baby hit me after Ziva's farewell, it pushed aside another fic I'd been working on. Then the idea of starting at the end and working back came to mind and this fic was born.

It's going to be twenty parts total (including this prologue and an epilogue). I promise this part will make more sense as times goes on. If you don't know me you need to know that I can be evil in the places I stop, but my fic is more or less done when I start to post it so it doesn't get abandoned and I updat daily!

"Daddy when do I getta see my baby brother?" Michaela DiNozzo asked her father.

"We're going now," Anthony DiNozzo assured his now three year old daughter. "When we get to the hospital you need to be gentle if you want to hug Mommy, and you need to listen to us when you get to hold the baby."

"Okay Daddy."

Michaela Jane DiNozzo looked just like her mother. She had long brown hair, which Tony had managed to get into braids, her favourite way to have her hair done lately. She was wearing a red dress with pink tights, and was already pulling her running shoes on, then she put a cowboy hat on her head. DiNozzo smiled at his daughter, he loved that she always dressed the way she liked and hoped she would always be so unique. He took her hand and went to the extended cab truck he drove. Michaela climbed in and sat down on her booster seat. He handed her the seat belt and listened for it to click before going over to the driver's side and started the car.

They drove to the hospital and he went right up to Ziva David's room. He smiled at her the moment he saw her. Even after hours of labour she was beautiful to him. She looked up and smiled back at him as she nursed their newborn son. Glad to see her daughter was also there, liking that for the moment she had her family close. She knew she would need to treasure this moment because their family would start showing up any moment.

"Momma, what're you doing?" asked Michaela.

"This is how babies eat," Ziva told her daughter. "That's how you ate when you were a baby. When he's full and he burps, Daddy will help you so you can hold him."

"Okay Mommy. He's really little!"

Ziva laughed. "You were even smaller when you were born."

"Really wow. I don't 'member being that little. Did 'ya find his name?"

"We did, sweetheart, we decided to name him Elijah James Anthony DiNozzo."

"Eh- li… A-li… El- i… Momma could I call him EJ?"

The little girl's parents looked at each other and nodded. The shortened name definitely had a bit of history, but they were willing to overlook it. They both knew that nickname would be easier for them to hear on a daily basis then "Eli" which was one of the main reasons they had had so much trouble picking a name. They wanted their son's name to mean something like their daughter's but they had agreed a long time ago they would not bring Anthony DiNozzo the third into the world.

Ziva nodded. "I think that's a very good nickname for him, don't you, Tony?"

DiNozzo nodded. "I think so too, I hope you like it too, son cause I have a feeling it's going to stick."

Ziva moved to burp the baby. Michaela heard him burp. "Excuse EJ," she whispered making her parents laugh.

"All right Michaela why don't you sit down and Daddy will help you hold Elijah."

"Yea!" she exclaimed.

Michaela sat down on the chair and Tony took the newborn, and put him carefully in his daughter's arms. Ziva had DiNozzo's phone and snapped a few pictures not wanting to ever forget this moment. There was a time where she wasn't sure she would ever be able to have this. Now her family was perfect and she couldn't be happier. She was determined not to let her hormones get the better of her as she watched her family interact.

"You need to be careful with his head, Princess," he warned her.

"Okay Daddy."

There was a soft knock at the door and a moment later Abby Scuito was standing there. She had a huge smile on her face and a gift bag in her hands. She gave Ziva a picture frame with the word "family" printed on it, but no picture in it yet. She also had a kid's microscope set for Michaela and a stuffed frog toy the new baby.

"Auntie Abby!" Michaela exclaimed. "Look-it my baby brother, EJ!"

Abby smiled. "He looks just like his dad. There's stuff in the bag for both of you when you have your hands free kiddo. EJ?"

"Elijah-James," Ziva told her.

"Sweet McGee owes me a cleaning of my lab. He was sure that while Tony would convince you the world needed another Anthony DiNozzo while you were drugged up."

Ziva laughed. "We agreed when we chose Michaela's name that we would not do that, although I was not sure that it would even happen."

Abby laughed. "I always thought you'd have a mini Ziva and a mini Tony. Huh, and it looks like that's how it's gonna be this little guy looks just like his daddy." She then hugged her friend. "Of course I kinda thought you'd still work with us when it happened."

Ziva shrugged. "I like this life."

"Momma! EJ's getting too heavy," Michaela whined.

"I will gladly take him off your hands," Abby assured her gently picking up the baby.

No sooner did Abby take the baby, then the door opened again, revealing Leroy Jethro Gibbs standing there. He had a stuffed toy, a book and a bouquet of flowers. He gave the flowers to Ziva who nodded to silently thank him. He then put the small blue stuffed bear in EJ's bassinette, and finally gave the book, which was about being a big sister to Michaela.

"Thank you Grampa Gibbs!" she exclaimed, jumping up and hugging him. "EJ says thank you too! I bet his bear'll be like mine!"

Gibbs just smiled and hugged the little girl. He'd tried to get her to call him Uncle like she did with everyone else but she insisted that he was Grampa Gibbs and he stopped trying to fight it after a while. He did love her like a grandparent and he assumed she had picked up on that, although he had a feeling Abby might have egged it on, but he couldn't be mad at her.

"I'd like that Michaela," Gibbs told her, kissing her forehead.

"Can you please read me my new book?" she asked.

She knew he couldn't say no to her. He picked her up then put her on his lap after he sat on the chair she'd been on, and softly began to read to her. Part way through the book he noticed she'd fallen asleep. He smiled and closed the book, keeping an arm around the little girl just in case she moved in her sleep.

"I guess I'll have to wait to hold, did she call him EJ?" Gibbs said.

"Yes, she did," Ziva replied. "Short for Elijah James."

"Good, I was hoping there wouldn't be a third Anthony DiNozzo."

Tony laughed. "No way Boss, there's enough with two of us."

Gibbs smiled. "You're right DiNozzo."

The door opened again. "It's nice of you to join us McTardy."

"It's a good thing Michaela is sleeping," Timothy McGee told DiNozzo when he noticed her asleep in Gibbs' lap. "You know how she gets when you do that. It took me longer than I thought to find something for them both."

He then showed them what he'd bought. For Michaela he had a fairly simple puzzle, and for EJ he'd bought a shirt which read "future NCIS agent" as well as a tiny NCIS cap, which made everyone chuckle.

"I think we know what Elijah is going to be wearing when we bring him home, thank you McGee," Ziva told him with a smile. "Where did you find those?"

"I had them made, it's amazing what you can find online. Finding a puzzle for Michaela was another story."

Ziva couldn't help but laugh, and was glad that everyone had brought something for Michaela as well. Anthony DiNozzo Senior had been texting his son assuring him that he was on his way, but his flight had been delayed. Since their first child had been born they two DiNozzos had had a much better relationship. There was something comforting to Ziva about having just the parts of her work family she had seen the most. She knew that Donald "Ducky" Mallard and Jimmy Palmer would also show up meet the baby, but for the moment she was happy.

Ziva David had her boy and girl like she had wished for all those years ago in Israel; which she hadn't even known she still wanted until the day she had taken a home pregnancy test that resulted in her discovering not only that she was pregnant, but just how deeply she cared for Tony DiNozzo and accepted the fact that all of her soul searching in her native land would lead her back to America where she could be happy to become a wife and mother.

End Prologue

Notes: Well that was that! I hope you liked it. This just felt like a good place to start it, and I hope you can agree. Let me know what you think! It's been way too long since I posted anything.