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After a minute or so Tony broke the silence.

" Daughters?" Tony said in shock.

"Yes" Ziva said looking at the floor.

"Hmmm. This is so not a conversation I ever imagined having with you" he joked.

"Well you are having this conversation with me so…" she replied seriously.

"Ok sorry I blanked, names?" Tony said. Ziva pointed to her eldest daughter.

"This is Elissa" Ziva replied.

"Ziva, no one calls me that" Ellie said.

"I call you that" Ziva replied.

"When I'm in trouble, yes. Sorry Tony, I'm Ellie and this is Tali." She finished.

"Tali? Is she named after-"Tony asked, then Ziva cut him off.

"Yes" Ziva replied quickly.

"Right. But you've been working with us for a few months now, how come I'm only finding this out now?" Tony asked.

"Well, I'm good at keeping secrets, and I didn't want you to find out" she replied.

"Why?" Tony asked.

"I'm allowed to keep my personal life personal aren't I?" Ziva replied.

"Well yeah, but it's not like we'd disown you if we found out you had kids" he told her.

"That's good to know, because I was so worried about that" she replied sarcastically.

"Who else knows?" Tony asked.

"Jen" Ziva replied.

"Not even Gibbs knows?!" Tony asked.

"No, and he doesn't need to know, so you're not going to tell him." She warned him.

"Ok, ok, I won't tell him, but I think you should" Tony said.

"I will tell him when it becomes absolutely necessary" she replied.

"Why don't you want to tell him?" Tony asked raising his voice a little.

"Ok I'm not getting into this right now, are you staying for dinner or not?" Ziva said.

"I didn't know I was invited" Tony replied.

"Well I'm inviting you now" she said.

"Ok sure, need any help?" he asked.

"No it's fine, go and sit down" she replied.

A few minutes later Ziva had served up curry, Ellie had set the table and put Tali in her highchair and they were sat down.

"So Ellie, how old are you?" Tony asked.

"I'm thirteen" she replied.

"So Ziva, you had her when you were fourteen right?" Tony asked.

"Almost fifteen" she muttered. He realized he had stumbled on a sensitive subject, so he started another conversation.

"Right, and how old is Tali?" He asked.

"Eight months old" Ellie replied.

"Ah, so Ellie, you made friends here yet?" Tony asked.

"I made friends at school" she told him.

"That's good" Tony replied.

"Ellie, I think you should go to bed now" Ziva said.

"But Ziva, it's not even that late!" Ellie protested.

"Please Ellie, you have school tomorrow" Ziva said.

"Ok laila tov" Ellie said.

"Good night" Tony replied. Ellie got up from the table and went down the corridor. Ziva waited a few more seconds to continue the conversation, just to make sure Ellie wasn't listening.

"thank you for not going on about the age I was when Ellie was born, I was stupid when I was fourteen, Ellie's father is not really a topic we discuss" Ziva said.

"That's fine" he replied.

" I guess I owe you some explanations" she mumbled.

"You don't have to. Only if you want to" he said.

" No I want to, ask me any question and I will answer it as best as possible" Ziva replied.

"Ok then, So why does, Ellie call you Ziva? Why not mom, or whatever it is in Hebrew?" he asked.

"Well the word for mom is ima and I was fifteen years old when she started speaking. Do you realize how scary it was being called ima? Do I look like ima to you?" Ziva explained.

" No I can't really see you being called that" he replied.

"Exactly. So I told her to call me Ziva instead" she told him.

"Ok Tali's dad? Is he around?" Tony asked.

"No, he was working on one of my teams on a mission in Brazil. We got a bit drunk one night… any way he died before I even found out about Tali" she answered. "Anything else?" Ziva asked.

"Ziva, why didn't you tell us you had kids? It's not like we'd treat you any differently" he told her.

"That's the thing though, you would have. I made the mistake of telling one of my teams that before, from then on they gave me less 'hands on' assignments, surveillance, driving. If I got to aggressive, in interrogation, I got pulled out. They made me be careful just because I had kids!" Ziva said in a raised voice.

"Well that's because those girls need a mother that is going to be around to help them grow up, I know that having kids when you have an occupation like this must be difficult, but you have a duty to them, as well as the rest of the world." He told her.

"I know that Tony, but I need to be treated the same as you and McGee, and I don't want the safer jobs, I was trained to kill and spy and I'm good at it! I just need to be given a chance to prove that, at least before I tell Gibbs about the girls" she replied.

"Ok Ziva. Just please promise that you won't do anything stupid that would leave these two without a mother" he said.

"I've managed to do that for thirteen years so far successfully, I don't intend to give up now" Ziva replied.

"Alright then" he nodded.

Sorry if that chapter was full of rubbish. The temperature got as high as 41degrees(celcius) and it's currently 34 at 11:45pm, so I'm not a happy chappy!plz tell me what you think, love Sophie xxx:-D