Hey all.

You can thank Ziny-DiNozzo once again for pestering me into writing and updateing. lol

Here you go:

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Tony walked through the baby store an hour later, trying to cool off. He had already scared three of the workers at the store by snapping at them. He sighed and looked at a rack of baby oneses. He saw one that was black and said 'Ninja' on it. He looked at it for a moment before grabbing it off the shelf and walking towards the front counter.

Where he promptly ran into Dane.

They glared at each other for a long time, Dane's eyes flicking down to see the baby clothes in Tony's hand. He laughed.

"You still think the baby's yours don't you" Dane said. Tony jaw clenched and he breathed through his nose, a glare on his face.

"Even if it's not, I'm still going to be there for Ziva. Everyday" Tony smirked. This time, Dane glared at him.

"No you won't"

"Well, you don't get to have a say" Tony said walking past him and quickly paying before heading out the front doors.

He got to the car park when Dane came up behind him, Tony went to turn and tell him to leave when he felt an overwhelming pain in his stomach. He looked down and noticed blood. Alot of blood.

The bag from the store still clenched in his hand, Tony looked up and saw Dane with a gun in his hand and a smile on his face.

"Looks like I do have a say"


Ziva hated hospital waiting room chairs. She hated hospitals in general.

It had been 3 agonizing hours since they all had been told Tony had been shot. McGee was comforting Abby a few seats away and Jenny was sitting next to Gibbs, talking quietly to him.

She placed her hand on her stomach and sighed. Because of what had happened to Tony, she had called her father soon after she had found out and cancelled her trip to Israel. She hadn't called Dane yet, as he was still at work so she felt like she was alone.

A doctor walked into the waiting room wearing scrubs and taking off his surgical cap "Family for Anthony DiNozzo?" He said.

Ziva, along with the others, stood and went over to the man.

"The bullet didn't hit anything major, so Mr. DiNozzo is expected to make a full recovery" The doctor smiled.

"May we see him?" Jenny asked.

"Are you his immediate family?" He asked.

Everyone looked at each other, then Gibbs looked at Ziva and gave her a look.

"I am his girlfriend" She said. The doctor nodded as he looked at her slightly pregnant stomach and lead her down the hall to what she guessed was Tony's room.

She went to his bed as soon as the doctor showed her the door. Tony was sitting up in the bed watching the small TV in the room. He turned it off and turned to her.

"Dane shot me" He stated angrily.

Ziva was silent for a moment "Why would you think that?" She asked.

Tony shifted in the bed, cringing when his stomach wound protested "Because I watched him shoot me Ziva" He said.

A nurse walked in and began checking Tony's vitals he turned his head to her "Do you have the bullet they took out of me?" He asked. The nurse smiled.

"I already gave it to your Forensic Scientist" She said. Tony nodded then remembered.

"Did they give the hospital the bag I had with me?"

"I'll go get it for you" She smiled before leaving the room.

"What bag Tony?" Ziva asked. He didn't answer and waiting for the nurse to return with the bag. When she did, she handed it to him and quickly left the room.

Tony put the bag in front of Ziva's hands, which were resting on the bed next to his hand. She looked at the bag for a moment, then up at him before taking it in her hands and opening it.

She gave him a soft smile as she held the small clothing in her hands "Thank you Tony" She said quietly. They were looking at each other for a long moment when a voice ruined the moment.

"Tony?" Jeanne said rushing in the room "I just got the call. Are you alright?"

Ziva stood up, the bag in her hand "I will go" She said quickly "Goodbye Tony. Jeanne" She nodded.

Jeanne didn't even look up at her when she left. Tony sighed as Jeanne fussed over him. He prayed that Ziva and the baby would be safe until he got out.


"Gibbs!" Abby said urgently when he walked into her lab later that night. McGee was sitting in the wheelie chair next to her. "I matched the bullet they took out of Tony to McGee's old gun that was stolen!"

"Did you get any fingerprints or DNA off it?" Gibbs asked. Abby shook her head.

"Nope" She sighed "Only Tony's"


Ziva walked into Dane's apartment half an hour after she left the hospital, finding him sitting on the couch watching the news.

"Hello Dane" She said putting her backpack down behind the couch and sitting down next to him.

"Where've you been today?" He asked her.

"Tony was shot" She said judging his reaction, he seemed genuinely shocked "I have been at the hospital. He is fine. Jeanne is with him"

Dane leaned forward and began kissing her neck "And now you're here with me" He murmured lifting her up in his arms.


Ziva woke up later that night and sat up in Dane's bed. He was sound asleep next to her, so she quietly got out of the bed and picked up a silk dressing gown and put it around her. She then walked out into the living room and looked around for a moment. She went over to the couch and lifted up one of the seats.

She sighed when she saw the gun that was certainly not hers sitting there.

She went back into the bedroom and quickly and quietly got changed into maternity cargo pants and a Dark Blue shirt before going back out, putting the gun in her backpack and made her way to NCIS.


It had taken an hour for Abby to match Dane's prints to the gun and prove it was McGee's stolen 9mm, Gibbs and McGee to go and arrest Dane and for him to be in interrogation.

Ziva stood in the doorway of Tony's hospital room watching as he slept. He started to stir and turned his head to look at her.

"Where is Jeanne?" She asked, stepping into the room and taking a seat next to him.

"She went back to her apartment for some sleep" He said "It's three in the morning, what are you doing here?"

"You were right" She stated "Dane was the one who shot you" She sighed "He is being interrogated by Gibbs"

"I'm sorry" He mumbled "I know you love him" He said, and she heard the edge in his voice "So, I guess you're going to Israel by yourself then"

She shook her head "I cancelled my ticket when I heard you were shot" She said.

"You shouldn't have done that" He said sitting up slightly "I have Jeanne to look after me when I'm out of here"

Ziva looked away "Yes. You do" She said standing up "I will see you when you return to work. Goodbye Tony" She said.

Tony punched the mattress with his fist when she walked out of the room. He rested his head back on the lumpy hospital pillow and closed his eyes.

That night he dreamt of her.


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