CHAPTER 1 – midnight call

Yes Yes I know I should be either updating Childrens Laugh or Like We Used To. But If my mind is stuck on another story I have to start typing.

Okay first how I thought of this story. I have read quit a few story's about Ziva going to a family reunion with someone from the team but like never someone going with Ziva to her family reunion. BUT REMEMBER, this is an AU family reunion, Ziva's family will be a little bit different. For example some of Eli's siblings will now be Rivka's


Ziva walk woken by the sound of her phone ringing, she looked at the time before she picked up. Ugh, great who would call her at three am., and she had to get ready for work in three hours

"David" She said groggily

"Shalom Zivaleh, that is no way to answer your mother now is it" the voice on the other side of the line said much brighter.

When Ziva registered who it was she sat up in bed

"Ima sorry, it is three am here" why would her mother call her?

"oh, of course how could I forget"

"Why do you call mama?" Ziva asked, happy to hear her mother's voice but eagerly to hang up since she had to go to work in the morning.

"I called you to invite you to the family reunion"

"Mama I…" but she did not even have time to finish

"No Zivaleh, you haven't been to one for almost five years and we haven't seen you since almost a year"

"I spoke to Aunt Nettie last month!"

"You know what I mean, and don't worry you know your father he is not going to be there"

Since six years her mother and father were divorced, Rivka had then moved in with her brother who breads horses in Haifa, they had lived with him before when her mother and Eli had some sort of a break, Ziva had been nine at the time and they had returned to Eli when Ziva had been around eleven. Ziva knew none of the family from her fathers side would come.

"Okay I'll be there, when is it?" Ziva asked, she had agreed for two reasons. One she thought it would please her mother that she would come and secondly she had not spoken to Deena, Jordon, Thomas or Abel in ages.

"Next week"

"IMA! Could you not have called earlier" Damn, hopefully she could get free with that late notice.

"Benjamin should have send you the invitation but apparently he has forgotten" there was some background sound before her mother spoke again "There is an eagerly six year old who wants to talk to you, or do you have to get up tomorrow"

Ziva smiled "No it's okay, now I am awake I do not think I can go to sleep again anyway" that was not true, but it was her little sister after all.

"Zivy, Zivy"

"Shalom Motek" Ziva laughed

"I really miss you"

"I miss you too Rafi"

"Have you gotten my drawings?"

"Ken, I have they are very pretty" Ziva thought of the thousand of drawings she had gotten from her little sister.

This went on for an hour, in which Rafi told Ziva how her school week had been. Until Rivka told Rafi to give the phone back "But Ima, I have not spoken to her so long"

"It is okay Rafi" Ziva said "You will see me in a week, promise"

She heard Rafi give the phone back to her mother before she heard her voice again "Zivaleh one more thing, there are two tickets, so I expect two people, Shalom darling"

And before Ziva got to reply her mother had hung up. Okay great she had to take someone, had her mother lost her mind. This made Ziva remember when she had not wanted to go to her school ball, her mother had pushed her and in the end Ziva had gone, only to ditch the boy after five minutes.


When she arrived in the bullpen an hour and a half later she was exhausted.

"Late night, Zee-vah" Tony teased her

Ziva did not even respond, Mcgee walked also in greeting Ziva happily

"ugh" Ziva replied

"What's wrong with her?" McGee asked thinking he had done something wrong, or that Tony had done something stupid.

"Well, McGeek, our ninja here had a rough night" He said with a laugh, he did not expect Ziva to respond

"You would be too Tony, if your family forgot the time difference, and has kept you awake from 3 am on"

"owwww" Tony and Mcgee both said

They day past slowly to slowly, Ziva wished that she could just go back to sleep in her bed, but since they had to do loads of paperwork that was not something that would happen anytime soon.

While working Ziva thought about who to take.

With Tony things would be fun, and she trusted him with her life, so trusting him with her family was no big deal. However, if her mother told him story's she would never live it down.

Abby was out of question to, they had been getting along better and better, but Ziva did not see her mother inviting Abby with open arms. That and Abby did not really like the sun.

Gibbs and ducky, well she did not even consider.

There was also still McGee, he would let her be alone if she wished, and would certainly be gentleman enough to never speak of the things her aunts would tell him. But she was not sure if she wanted him to see who she really was, how she grew up, became who she was today.

Soo in the end Ziva just took a breath

"Tony?" Ziva asked when McGee had already left.

"Yeah?" he answered when he looked up, and just as Ziva grabbed her back pack to go home.

"I was wondering since we have next week off anyway" thank god Vance had gotten in and told Gibbs to take the next week of with his team because they had been working for over six months without a free weekend. "Do you have something planned?"

"Nah, not really, why?"

"Well, I thought, my mother has given me two plane tickets and insisted I brought someone with me to our family reunion. What I want to ask, do you want to come with me?" When Ziva was done she was unsure what his answer would be, had she made the wrong choice of asking Tony.

Tony's face grew in a grin and while they stepped into the elevator her answered. ""Okay, I'll come, I mean who does not want to see where our mossad ninja grew up" At this Ziva rolled her eyes.


The next day Tony walked to Ziva's desk and asked

"Euh, Ziva what kind of cloths should I pack?"

"The weather will be around 30 degrees"

And like that the week past, Tony tried to get information about what they would be doing but Ziva would not let anything slip. Every time he asked something she just got that teasing smile on her face and returned to the job at hand.

If this like totally sucks tell me and I'll delete the story and never post another chapter of it.