Apr 29
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility-one of the crushing problems of our time.
Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
"Are you sterile?"
Ziva David watched as her partner's head shot up from whatever he was doing, which was most likely playing a silly computer game. He glanced around the squad room to see whether anyone had overheard them.
She doubted it. She had deliberately timed her question for when Gibbs had gone on a coffee run and while McGee was down in Cyber.
"I am not sterile," he hissed at her, satisfied they were alone. "And keep it down. What the hell is in your head?"
"You have been with so many women," she pointed out. "And yet you do not have children. I was wondering if it was because you were sterile."
"I haven't have kids yet because I haven't met the woman I want to have my kids," he replied. "I am not sterile."
"You are getting older," she noted. "Perhaps you will be sterile soon."
"Are you sure I don't have kids?" Tony demanded. "Maybe I'm keeping it a secret."
Ziva snorted. "You cannot keep secret what you had for breakfast this morning."
"I can!"
"Actually, you do have a point," Ziva conceded.
"I do?" Tony questioned. "I do!"
"Perhaps you do have a child out there, and the mother never informed you."
He gaped at her. "That's low."
She screwed her face up in confusion. "How? You are immature and irresponsible. If we had a short-lived relationship and I never planned to see you again, and if you had made me pregnant, I am not sure I would bother to tell you."
"You cannot be serious."
"It is simply a matter of DNA," she argued. "Does it matter that much if you do not know the child exists in the first place?" She glared at him, daring him to challenge her.
"Fine." He rose from his chair and moved towards her. "We're going to Abby's lab and she is going to change your mind."
