Chapter 10
Hey guy like I said before this chapter is going to be tony and Zane centric. Oh ya and anything under lined is in Hebrew.
It was a Saturday morning and Ziva and Zane were lying on the couch together, while Tony was sprawled out on the floor. It looked funny from a distance. But then Ziva's mental alarm went off in her head and she woke everyone up. 'Damn it Zee you don't have to go all Mossad ninja on us it's the weekend.' said Tony groaning on the floor. 'Damn' said Zane knowing it was a bad word but repeating it because he heard Tony say it. 'Hey, don't repeat anything you hear from Tony, do you understand.' Zane who wasn't fully awake started mumbling stuff in Hebrew. Ziva told him to go get dressed. Zane ran into her room while Ziva talked to Tony.
'I have to go to a meeting at NCIS, so I really need you to watch him. He will probably be scared of you and just stay in my room but I would like it if you two would just…bond I guess, he cant be scared forever, why don't you just watch movies until I get back.' Tony nodded. 'Hey I brought some extra clothes so I am going to take a shower you can leave whenever.' Ziva told him it was fine and got dressed in jeans and a nice shirt. Tony was still in the shower so it was the best time to tell Zane she had to go for a bit. 'Zane come here' she motioned and he walked over to her 'now I have to go to an important meeting, so I am going to leave you here with Tony, I will be back in an hour and a half ok.' Zane grabbed her arm.
'Please don't go ZeeZee' Ziva knew that this would be hard for both of them but if she stayed any longer she would get sucked up by his pleads and stay. 'I will be back later Motek,' she gently pushed Zane off her arm, but he just grabbed back on 'please ZeeZee you can't leave me, please!' she looked up and saw Tony he was pointing at Zane silently asking her if he should grab him. Ziva nodded. 'C'mon little man,' Tony wrapped his hands around the boys tiny waste and pulled him from Zane's arm. 'No MAMA PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME PLEASE!' Zane started shouting calling his mother to come back, she gave Tony a look, and he nodded towards the door and she nodded back walking out of the door without a glance back. 'NO MOMMMYYY PLEASE COME BACK!' the little boy yelled.
Tony had never heard him call Ziva mom but he just went with it. 'Hey, Hey look at me, your mommy will be back soon ok; she just had to go to a meeting.' He turned the child he was holding to look at him. 'she's going to be ok and she is going to come back and hug you and kiss you and tell you she loves you just like she does every day.' This seemed to be just the thing Zane needed to hear. That in fact Ziva was going to come back.
'So I heard that you once saved Ziva in Somalia. How?' Zane was a little hesitant. They had just been playing chess when all the sudden a random question like that came up. Although Zane was sensitive when talking about Mossad he was not as sensitive as Ziva when it came to a topic such as Somalia. 'They were starving her, and I just climbed through the vents and brought her food, Saleem would threaten to torture her and I would offer myself instead of her. Stuff like that, I don't know why I did it for her, it's like something brought me to her cell inpreticular because out of all of the hundreds of cells I found hers. It was weird but I guess that's fate.' Tony couldn't believe what he was hearing, this boy practically saved Ziva's life.
After a while Zane asked Tony if they could watch a movie. 'I thought you'd never ask' Tony got up and went over to the movie shell which was filled with movies; most of them were one's he had got for Ziva. He finally had chosen Mission Impossible 2 and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but when he turned around he couldn't find Zane. 'Zane…kid? Where are you?' he started looking frantically but found him in Ziva's room lying on her bed looking at photos that he took off the dresser. Tony smiled at him. 'You like those?' he went and sat next to Zane at first Zane scooted over but then he relaxed and said 'Ya.' Most of the ones he was looking at were ones of him and Ziva at a Christmas party a couple of years ago, and some were from Paris, and others were team photos. 'Well, which one is your favorite?' Zane looked over at all of the pictures when he finally pointed to 2 pictures; one of them was the only picture Tony took of Ziva in Paris.
The other was a picture of Tony and Ziva at the Christmas party. Tony's arms were around her waist and she was laughing. 'Do you love ZeeZee?' Zane asked with his head tilted to the side a bit. Tony was kind of shocked but he answered it truthfully 'Of course I love ZeeZee, but not the way you are thinking of.' The boy nodded. 'I have a picture of me and Ziva when we were in Somalia.' Zane took out a picture from under the bed. It was a picture of Zane and Ziva. It was a white background and both Ziva and Zane had white on so it brought out the shininess in their eyes and hair. But-Tony thought- how are they this clean if they were in that dirty cell?-. Both Zane and Ziva were clean, Ziva even had makeup on and their hair was brushed.
Zane was holding up a peace sign and Ziva's chin was on Zane's shoulder. They were both looking directly in the camera smiling. Before Tony could ask Zane answered his question. 'Saleem heard that there was a photographer coming so he got us all dressed up and told them to lie about what we were doing there, so that no one would find us, if we even said a word about any of us he would beat us so bad that we would never walk again.' This made Tony so angry he wished that he could have poured hot wax down Saleem's throat and made him suffer.
Zane put the photo back under the bed. 'Let's go watch those movies' said Tony. Zane followed him out of the room. In the middle of the movie, Tony made sandwiches but Zane barley took a bite. 'C'mon kid Ziva is going to be mad if you don't eat anything.' Zane looked at the sandwich. 'Did they feed you at Mossad?' asked Tony. 'They fed us but they only we learned to stand a tolerance of not eating for a certain amount of time, but by the time that was over we weren't that hungry anymore."
Tony shook his head, the way the kids at the camp were treated was horrible it made him feel grateful for the childhood he had. It took a while but eventually Tony coaxed him to eat half of the sandwich. 'Good enough.' It was around six when Ziva got home. 'How was it?' asked Tony as he opened the door to let her in. 'It was ok, tonight we are invited to a dinner party at 8 and you have to bring something other than pizza. Now where is Zane?' Tony motioned to the other room. 'Did he eat anything?' asked Ziva. 'I got him to eat half a sandwich but other than that no.' Ziva gave him a nod of appreciation. 'Alright well, if you need anything else just call, see you tonight Zee.' With that Tony walked out of the house. 'ZEEZEE!' yelled Zane when he saw her walk into the room he ran into her arms.
'Hello Motek, how was your day?' asked Ziva in Hebrew. 'It was good.' He replied. 'Good, now tonight we are going to a dinner party at NCIS and we have to bake a cake. Will you help me?' Zane got very excited he was never asked to help out so this would make him very happy. 'Ok then can you go bring me the flour?' he nodded and about an hour later they had made a cake. Ziva was cleaning up while Zane licked the bowl, but unfortunately there was quite a lot of batter in there so it spilt all over Zane's head.
'Oops' Ziva laughed, 'Well, lets go get up cleaned up.' Ziva picked Zane up and headed to the bathroom. She placed him into the tub after undressing him and started rinsing all of the batter off of him. 'Close your eyes, and head back.' She told him. Zane didn't like what happened the last time she did that so he said. 'No mama.' Ziva sighed. 'Yes baby, I have to get it out.' Zane shook his head again. 'No it will get into my eyes.' 'Not if you follow my directions, now head back and eyes closed.' Zane gave her one last look before following her directions. After she poured the water over his head she heard her phone ring.
She pulled it out of her pocket and heard Abby's voice. 'So are you coming?' asked an excited Goth. Ziva couldn't bathe Zane and talk to Abby at the same time so she pressed the phone between her ear and shoulder. 'Yea Abby I am coming.' 'Good, are you brining the little guy too?' 'Yes Abby he is coming as well.' 'Good because I have a surprise for him, see you in an hour Ziva, oh ya and don't dress up I don't know why but Gibbs said everyone should look casual. Bye.' The line went flat. Ziva put her phone down and saw that Zane was putting soap in his hair. 'Now I will have to rinse again Motek, stop putting the bubbles in your hair.' Ziva poured another bucket of water on his head finally getting all the soap out. They she got a towel and dried him off. She dressed him in a red T-Shirt and Jeans. Even if Abby said they didn't have to dress nice Ziva put on a nice shirt and some jeans.
'Alright Motek lets go.' She picked him up off of her bed in and drove to NCIS. When they got there Abby ran up and gave Zane a tight hug. 'I got something for you.' Behind her back she pulled out an exact replica of Bert. Zane's face lit up in sight of the farting hippo. 'This is Bert Jr. and he is all yours.' Zane hugged Abby around the neck and thanked her a million times. Then he ran off to go show Gibbs and Ducky. 'You didn't have to do that.' Said Ziva who was watching Zane talk to Gibbs and Ducky about Bert Jr. 'He deserved it after everything he's been through. Oh ya and so at night you can turn off the fart sounds by pressing his ear.' They both laughed. Everyone enjoyed the party Tony arrived with pizza and Bread sticks. Ziva gave him a glare.
But she had told him to bring something else and bread sticks are 'else'. Everything seemed to be going well but Ziva knew all too well that this happy scene was not going to last a very long time. On the drive to Ziva's apartment Zane asked the same question to his mother as he had asked Tony. 'Mummy do you love Tony?' Ziva nearly jumped out of her seat when she heard it. 'Ummm, Mummy loves Tony in a different way than your thinking baby.' 'That's the same thing Tony said.' This made Ziva turn around. 'What did you ask Tony Motek?' Zane yawned. 'I asked him if he loved you.' That was the last thing Zane said before he fell asleep.
Okayyy, this was a long chapter, over 2000 words, well I guess you could consider it 2 chapters in one. Anyway, I hope you guys liked how peacefull it is because its not going to stay that way for long. Please Review. Peace.