"Hey Jeramiah, can somebody else hold Jacob now? Like me?" Tony said and and Jeramiah shook his head yes. So Tony lifted Jacob out of Jeramiah's arms and Ziva put Jeramiah in her lap. Abby was still snapping picture after picture.
"Hey Jacob, I'm your dad." Tony said and looked down at his sleeping son and just held him for awhile. He realized that Abby was growing impatient.
"Would you like to hold Jacob, Abby?" Ziva asked and Abby jumped up and ran over to the bed. Tony handed Jacob to Abby and she went and sat back by McGee.
"I can't wait until we have Olivia, can you?" McGee said and Abby shook her head.
"Hey, Ziva?" Collin said.
"Yes Collin?"
"How much does child birth hurt?"
"Collin, take the pain of, let's say…" Ziva said and Tony gave her an example fit for a boy.
"Being kneed in the groin." Tony said.
"Yes, that works, take that pain and multiply it by about 10 times."
"Ouch." Is all Collin said.
"Yes, and I went through it twice." Ziva said. All the men in the room grimaced and Abby and Jenny had a look of dread on their faces.
"Yeah, dread it." Ziva said to Abby and Jenny.
"Abs, do you mind if I hold him?" Gibbs asked and Abby handed him to Gibbs. Jenny scooted over to where she could see Jacob.
"He's so cute." Jenny said.
"Hey, my son is not cute." Tony said.
"Tony, I don't care what you say, he's cute." Jenny said. Tony paused.
"Yeah, he is kinda cute, isn't he." Tony said and Jenny grinned at him, but the grin turned into a look of pain.
"Jen! What's wrong?" Gibbs said and handed the baby off to Collin, who handed him to Ziva.
"Mom!" Collin yelled, he had started calling Gibbs and Jenny mom and dad a while ago. They heard water hit the floor.
"Jethro, she's a month premature." Jenny said painfully and Ziva pressed the nurse button, but she knew they wouldn't come in right away. So, Ziva resorted to this. She handed Jacob to McGee, since Tony had a sound asleep and obviously dead to the world Jeramiah, she took her heart monitor off her finger and the beeping went out of control. Nurses started rushing in towards Ziva.
"No, not me! Jenny." Ziva said and pointed at Jenny. The nurses saw how much pain she was in and pulled her into a wheelchair. They immediately pushed her out and to intensive care. Dr. Cameron, who was Jen's OB/GYN too, took over.
"I'll let you know when anything comes up, but you can't come with us!" Dr. Cameron yelled at Gibbs and Collin. They fell back and walked back into the room. Gibb slid down the wall and put his head in his hands, Collin just had a black, dead look in his eyes and stood there.
"No, no, no. This can't happen again. Please god, no. Please, I can't lose them too." Gibbs mumbled and Ziva was the only one who saw the tear fall from in between his hands. She stood up and walked over to him. She kneeled in front on him, sore or not she was going to help him.
"Gibbs. Gibbs look at me." Ziva said. Gibbs didn't respond, so Ziva pulled his hands away from his face. Everybody was shocked when they saw Gibbs crying, but nobody made a sound.
"Look Gibbs, listen to me. I am going to tell you exactly what you would tell me. Gibbs, you can not give up on them. They will be fine, nothing is going to happen to them." Ziva whispered so only he could here her. Gibbs looked at her with blank eyes.
"You're right, I can't give up on them." Gibbs mumbled and Ziva nodded her head and tried to stand up, but she ended up falling from her squatting position. Gibbs stood up himself and offered her his hand. She took it and he lifted her up.
"Thank you." Ziva said and walked over and laid with Tony on the bed.
"Let me see him, Tim." Gibbs said and he took Jacob from McGee. He went and sat down with Jacob in a corner away from everybody else. McGee took Jeramiah off Tony's lap and placed him in the extra bed beside Tony and Ziva's then went and sat beside the frozen Abby and pulled her into his arms. Nobody said a word until the doctor walked in.
