I'm really sorry I didn't get this up sooner. I've had this typed since Friday too: ( It's cold and we have like 13 inches of snow on the ground where I live: ( I all ready have the next chapter written I just have to type it: ) my new year resolotion is to finish this story: )


"Lia! We're going to be sisters!"

"Crap!" Ziva and Tony shouted in unison.

"Um, Maggie? Lia? We need to talk." Tony said taking the lead in the conversation he knew Ziva and him had to have with Maggie and Lia. "Just because Ziva and I kissed doesn't mean we're going to get married."

"Well of course it doesn't!" Maggie exclaimed. "You guys have to have sex first!"

Tony was awestruck by what Maggie had said. "She is just like you!" Ziva managed to get out while she was practically choking because she was laughing so much. Ziva took a drink of water to clear her throat.

"Zivy? What's sex?" Lia questioned. This question being asked by the quiet four year old Ziva knew made her spit out the water she had been drinking.

"What!?" Ziva croaked.

"I know! I know!" Maggie cheered. "It's when a-" She was cut off when her dad put his hand over her mouth.

"She'll find out when she's older. Right Maggie?" Tony's gaze threatening Maggie to do anything else but agree with him.

"Aaahhhh…Yeah… What he said." Maggie said to Lia while gesturing to her dad.

"Okay," Ziva said getting the girls attention. "Time for you guys to get to bed."

"But there's only like ten minutes left of the movie! Can we please stay up to see the end? We'll go to bed right when it's done." Maggie negotiated for herself and Lia while Lia nodded her head vigorously.

Ziva and Tony shared a look. "Fine." They answered in unison. What happened next surprised both Tony and Ziva: Lia curled up on Tony's lap and Maggie sat next to Ziva with her head resting on the adult's shoulder. Tony looked at Ziva as she looked at him. Ziva raised a questioning eyebrow at him and he just shrugged.

They watched the rest of the movie and when the credits started to roll Tony was about to tell the girls to go to bed when he noticed that they were both asleep. Tony stood up holding Lia and walking to the bedroom. He set her down on the bed and was going to go back to the living room to take Maggie off Ziva's lap only to almost run into Ziva who was carrying Maggie in her arms. She laid her on the bed and both her and Tony walked out of the room into the living room.

"You didn't have to carry her; I know she is kind of heavy. I was coming back to get her." Tony said talking about how Ziva had carried Maggie into the bedroom for some reason thinking it was a big deal.

"I am not helpless Tony. Besides, she's not that heavy." Ziva said shrugging it off.

"More reason you're my ninja." Tony said leaning over to kiss Ziva who was sitting next to him on the couch. But before Tony's lips found hers, she got off the couch and started heading towards the bedroom. "Ziva, what's wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong, Tony. I want to kiss you, but after what happened last time we kissed, I'm not going to kiss you when Lia and Maggie are anywhere within a hundred feet." Ziva said before quietly slipping into the bedroom that the girls were sleeping in to get pajamas. She can out a few seconds later with a pair of cotton shorts and a tank-top. Tony went in right after she got out of the bedroom to get his sleepwear as well.

Ziva went into the bathroom to change but Tony had the same idea not knowing she was already in there. He opened the door right as she was taking her top off. Ziva saw him and immediately pulled her top back over her head cursing in Hebrew, luckily her body was turned away from the door so he didn't see anything. "Tony! What are you doing in here!?" she yelled at him as loud as she could without walking the two sleeping girls that were in the room across the hall.

"Ohmygod! I'm so sorry! I didn't see anything, I swear!" Tony said as fast as he could trying to convince her like a little kid would.

"Did you not get the hint that someone was in here by the closed door? Why are you still in here!?" Ziva said walking to him and pushing him out the door.

"Sorry, usually I'm the only person here so I kinda forgot. I'm so sorry!" Tony said from the outside of the bathroom door as Ziva finished changing. Ziva smirked. She really hadn't minded because she knew that he hadn't seen anything, if he had would have been a different matter though.

Ziva opened the door and walked out to stand next to Tony. "I know. I'm going to bed." she said giving him a kiss and walking into the bedroom.

Tony changed in the bathroom and also decided that it was time to go to bed. He walked into the bedroom and saw one of the most beautiful sights he had ever seen. Ziva was laying in the middle of the large king sized bed with Lia on her right side, her head laying on Ziva's arm snuggling close, and Maggie on her other side in the same position Lia was in. Ziva looked like she was asleep with a peaceful smile on her face.

Tony ran out into the living room and grabbed his cell phone off of the coffee table and went back into the bedroom and took a picture of his three girls. Yeah, his girls, he liked the sound of that. He sat his cell phone down on the night stand and crawled in the bed next to Lia like she had crawled into his lap only a little earlier in the evening. He soon fell into a deep, peaceful sleep.


Ziva awoke to a strange noise coming from the bathroom across the hall. She sat up in bed noticing that Lia was now turned away from her and was snuggling against Tony's side, both were sound asleep. She then looked to the other side of the bed and noticed that Maggie wasn't there.

She got out of bed as quietly as she could without moving the bed too much making sure Tony and Lia stayed asleep. She made her way out of the room and to the bathroom only to find Maggie violently throwing up into the toilet. "Maggie, are you alright?" Okay, stupid question. She's throwing up, why would she be alright? Ziva thought to herself as she moved to Maggie's side. "Do you want me to wake up your dad?"

Maggie looked up from the toilet and shook her head. Ziva could tell she wanted to say something so she got up off the ground and got a glass of water so Maggie could rinse her mouth out to talk. Maggie gratefully accepted the glass from Ziva and rinsed and spit a few times trying to get the taste out of her mouth before she talked. "No, don't wake him. I'm alright." she said right before she started puking again. Obviously she wasn't alright.

Ziva pulled Maggie's hair out of the way putting it in a pony tail so it wouldn't get dirty. Maggie's round of puking stopped so she looked up at Ziva and gave her a look the said thank you. "You're welcome." she said understanding what the look meant. They both sat on the floor of the bathroom for another fifteen minutes before Maggie decided that she was well enough to go back to bed.

"Do you want me to rinse your hair out in the sink?" Ziva ask Maggie noticing small specks of puking hanging from her hair.

"Yes, please." Maggie leaned over the sink while Ziva used shampoo to rinse out Maggie's hair well enough to last until morning when she could have a proper shower. After Ziva finished, they both quietly went back into the bed room and crawled back into bed, this time Lia and Maggie in the middle between Tony and Ziva.

Maggie and fallen back to sleep but Ziva was still awake, and apparently Tony was as well. "Is she okay?" Tony asked Ziva laying his head higher on his pillow so he could see Ziva above Lia's and Maggie's heads.

"You're awake? Sorry if we woke you. Maggie was throwing up so I helped her out." Ziva said tiredly.

"Why didn't you come get me? I could have taken care of her so you could have slept."

"She asked me not to."

"Yeah, but now neither of us has had much sleep and we have to be at work in two hours." Tony said looking at the clock on the bed side table. He waited for Ziva's replied but was answered with Ziva's snoring.

An hour later, Tony got up before the alarm went off and turned it off. He would go to work and tell Gibbs that Ziva had had a long night and needed sleep. He would be mad at anyone else for missing their first day of work, but he would definitely give an exception to his only daughter who had been helping one of his grand-daughters. Sure, she would be mad at him when she woke up but she really could use the sleep.


Ziva woke up noticing that Tony was no longer in the bed. Maggie was asleep next to her, facing away from her, with her head resting on Ziva's arm. Maggie was snuggling with Lia who was on her other side. Ziva craned her neck trying to turn her body around to see the clock that was behind her on the night stand.

"Shit." she said quietly as she quickly got out of bed. She quickly got dressed as Maggie and Lia both tiredly sat up in the bed.

"Where are you going?" Lia asked in Hebrew, too tired to both trying to figure out how to say it in English.

"Work, what am I supposed to do with you two?" Ziva said as she made her way out to the kitchen, Maggie and Lia following her.

Ziva found a note on the table that said:

Ziva,

You had a rough night so sleep in. I'll tell Dad that you are sleeping in and to not expect you to come to work today, he'll understand.

Tony

Ps, you can bring Lia and Maggie along

Ziva read the note and was instantly mad at Tony for not getting her up for her first day at NCIS. "Okay, I do not have to go to work today. Do you guys want me to make anything for breakfast?" Ziva asked Lia and Maggie. "Hey, Maggs, you feeling better?"

"Pancakes!" Maggie said. "Yeah. I feel fine now."

"With chocolate chips!" Lia added.

"Fine. You two go get dressed while I make them." Ziva said starting to pull stuff out of the cabinets. The two girls ran off to their room to get dressed. They came back a short while later wanting to help make the pancakes.

"Okay, Maggie here is your egg and Lia this is your's." Ziva said handing both of the girls an egg. "Crack it on the side of the bowl and pour it in, but don't let any of the shell get into it or we will have crunchy pancakes." Ziva said showing them over to the counter where she had a mixing bowl full of flour.

Maggie was tall enough to reach the bowl but Ziva had to pull over one of the chairs from the dinning room table for her to stand on. Maggie had successfully gotten her egg into the bowl with no shells but Lia wasn't as lucky. She had gotten the egg in the bowl but she had dropped the empty shell in as well. Ziva had to fish out the shell so they could continue.

"Now you girls can take turns mixing the bowl." Ziva said hang a mixing spoon to Maggie, that was a huge mistake. Between the two girls, when they supposedly had finished stirring, half of the contents of the bowl was sitting on the counter around it. They ended up having to use the pre-made pancake mix where you just have to add water and shake because Tony didn't have any more eggs in his fridge.

They had just finished eating breakfast and Lia and Maggie were trying to wash the dishes but ended up splashing each other, when Ziva's cell phone rang. "David." she answered it.

"Ziver, have you seen Tony?" Gibbs asked her.

"No, not since last night. Why is everything okay?"

"I'm not sure, but my gut is saying something is wrong. He left for coffee a hour and a half ago and he still isn't back yet. He isn't answering his phone either."

"Ohmygod! Can you come and pick me and the girls up? I need to help find him."

"Sure, I'll be there in ten minutes." Gibbs said hanging up.

Maggie and Lia looked and Ziva with concern. "Is something wrong with Daddy?" Maggie asked Ziva.

"Yes. We have to go to NICS."


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