"That's what you were trying to tell me DiNozzo?"
"You didn't tell him?" Ziva questions.
"I tried, he didn't want to hear it."
"I want to know why no one told me this. Do you really think that I would have allowed Director Vance to send the two of you on what he considered a suicide mission, if I had known that she was pregnant?"
"Why did you let him send us, in the first place?"
"Why didn't you tell me before you left?" he looks at Ziva.
"I didn't know, when I left."
"You found out, afterwards?"
"Yes," she admits.
"Why didn't you tell me? I would have gotten the two of you out."
"I thought that it was better that you didn't know."
"Better that I didn't know I had a pregnant agent undercover, in harms way? How was that better?"
"That's why he let us go, because she was pregnant."
"DiNozzo, I understand why she didn't say anything, but you should have told me."
"I didn't know. She didn't tell me, until the night that we were hijacked."
"Why not? You didn't think that your partner should know that you were pregnant?"
"Gibbs, it is not that simple."
"Does whats-his-face know?"
"Who?" Ziva raises an eyebrow.
"Ray? I assume that he is the father, isn't he?"
"No," Ziva's tone changes.
"What do you mean no, Agent David?"
"I didn't know before I left, because I wasn't pregnant before I left."
"This happened while the two of you were undercover?"
"Yes."
"So why wouldn't you tell your partner?"
"I didn't want him distracted. I didn't think that he would be able to focus, if he knew. I was... I didn't know what to do. I did not know how he would react."
"Since when have you ever been worried how he would react? He's your partner, it's his job to have your back, no matter what."
"That wasn't what I was worried about. I was afraid that if he knew the truth, that our cover would be blown."
"And why is that?"
"He's overprotective."
"What were the two of you thinking? How did this happen?"
"Like I said, boss, I take full responsibility for this."
Gibbs looks at Tony, and then to Ziva. It finally sinks it.
"Ziva? Who is the father?"
She doesn't answer him.
"The two of you, are having a baby?" he questions.
"It was an accident," DiNozzo defends.
"An accident? Is that the occupational accident you were talking about DiNozzo?"
"Yes."
Gibbs slaps him on the back of the head. Tony looks at him.
"What was that for?"
Gibbs turns around and points at Ziva, "That is more than an occupational accident."
"We screwed up," Ziva admits.
"Damn right!"
"We didn't mean for it to happen. It was..."
"It was not his fault. It was mine. I never should have... it never should have happened. We should have been more careful. We should have been more focused on the case than..."
"You caught him, didn't you?"
"He almost got away. He almost killed us. We screwed up," Tony reveals.
"Yeah, you did. Don't do it again."
"What's that mean boss?"
"DiNozzo, it means, don't screw this up, too. You only get one shot at this. Do it right."
"What are you saying?"
"The two of you should... give me a couple of days to talk to the director. Hopefully he'll give you your badges back."
"You should be angrier. Why aren't you?"
"It wasn't your fault. I mean, you have to be held responsible for your actions, but the two of you did not get into this situation on your own. I told Leon that it was a bad idea. I know how these things work. When you are undercover with someone that long... the lines begin to blur. Feelings... they become harder, and harder to hide, to avoid. When you spend every waking moment with someone, for a period of time that long, things are bound to happen. When your lives are in each other's hands every single day, when that is the only person you can count on... I am not saying that I expected this, but I didn't expect the two of you to return to me, the same people that left."
"Did McGee miss us?"
"It was starting to get to him," Jethro admits.
"And Abby?"
"Will probably hold you hostage for about a month."
"What about you, boss?"
"The two of you do stupid things. You take risks, that other people, in their right minds, would not take. You argue, and fight, but at the end of the day, there's no replacing the two of you. You're a team. You're partners. True partners. A pair of people who would die for each other, kill for each other. No one else seemed to meet those same standards."
"Aw, Ziva he missed us."
"How long were the two of you down there, before this happened?"
"You shouldn't ask questions that you don't want to know the answer to," Tony warns.
"How long?"
"Valentine's day," Tony replies.
"You were there two days? Long enough to realize that you weren't operating under my rules anymore. I thought that you'd at least give it a week."
"We also learned that there are rules for a reason. We didn't necessarily operate under your rules, but we did decided that we needed some rules, to keep us on track."
Gibbs smiles, "I don't think that it worked."
"Maybe not," Tony agrees.
"Are we going to go, now?"
"Did you pee, before you left the house?" Tony inquires.
"Yes," she responds.