Thanks for the reviews. I decided this chapter will be Ziva's meeting with her father, and the next one will be Tony's meeting with his father.
Ziva stood outside Director Vance's door. She knew on the other side was her father and after their last meeting, she was not sure she wanted to see him again. Sighing, she pushed the door open.
"Agent David!" Vance said once he saw her.
"Hello Director." Ziva told him, her voice holding an air of annoyance, noticing her father was not in the room. "Where is my father?" She forced out.
"He should be here soon." Vance said. "Sit down." He told her as he offered her a chair. She sat down, but as soon as she did, she stood back up again.
"Zivalah." A man with a heavy Isreali accent said. Inwardly the woman was screaming at herself to tell him to leave. To her dismay, all she could say in return was, "Shalom Abba."
"How are you?" Eli asked.
"Fine." Ziva responded wishing Vance would leave so he would not witness the catasrophic family reunion that would soon unfold.
"You are married to Agent DiNozzo?" Eli asked her.
"Yes. We married a few days ago." Ziva replied as she shifted a little uncomfortably feeling as if she were being interrogated.
"You did not invite me." He said. Ziva suspected he sounded a little hurt, but decided to brush the feeling off. She decided it was her imagination running away with her.
"It was very sudden." Ziva said, smirking a little to herself as she said, "We had to marry." Eli stared at his daughter in disbelief wondering what was going on.
"You had to marry?" Eli asked angrily, his temper rising. Ziva glared at him as she tried to stand her ground.
"I will go see about Agent DiNozzo." Vance said as he made his way out of his office. Both Davids were happy to see the man leave, knowing they could speak easier with him gone.
"We decided it was the best thing to do." Ziva told him. Her father stared at her skeptically.
"We had no choice!" Ziva replied.
"What do you mean no choice?" He roared. "You have always had a choice!"
"No Abba, I have never had a choice! You were the one who showed me that!" Ziva yelled. Anger was rising inside her now. Her father had hit a nerve with her and she was going to defend it. Eli, however, was stunned. His daughter had never yelled at him like that. The two stayed silent for a while, each glaring at the other. Ziva sighed before speaking again.
"It was either we get married or-" Ziva stopped. Finding the words to tell her father about what had happened between her and her partner had proved harder than she thought.
"Or?" Eli responded.
"Or we would not get to keep Hanah." She responded.
"Hanah?" Eli asked. Ziva was about to respond when her father spoke again. "You are telling me you and your work partner-"
"Husband." Ziva cut in. He gave her a glare before going on.
"Have a child and did not tell me!" Eli yelled. Ziva stared at him wondering how he came to that conclusion.
"Zia!" A small voice said as the owner of it ran into the room.
"Hello tateleh!" Ziva said giving the Hanah a hug.
"Who that?" The child asked nodding toward Eli. The Mossad Director stood shocked. He took notice of the child's features. She looked a lot like Ziva did when she was younger, but there were things he could not place about the girl's features. He assumed they were Tony's.
"I have a grandchild?" He asked in disbelief. Before Ziva could answer, Aunt Nettie came in.
"I must tell you Ziva, your husband's father is a flirt-" She stopped when she saw her brother.
"Shalom Ah." Aunt Nettie said.
"Ahat." Eli told her curtly. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to help Tony and Ziva with Hanah while her mother was in the hospital."Aunt Nettie responded in the same tone as her brother. She looked from her brother to her niece and wondered what was going on.
"Her mother?" Eli questioned staring at Ziva.
"Yes." Aunt Nettie responded. "You remember Hanah, Jessica and Amir's daughter?" Eli stood there feeling as if he had been tricked. He felt a foolishness in him he had not felt since he were a young boy.
"This is not your daughter?" Eli asked his daughter.
"No. Her mother decided she would be better off here in America than in Israel. Jessica wanted us to care for her, and in order to do that, we had to marry." Ziva told him. "That is why we had no choice."
"So you are not having a child." Eli stated.
"No Abba, we are not." Ziva replied as she put Hanah back on the floor. Eli stepped over and kissed his daughter on the cheek before walking toward the door. He stopped at the entrance and said, "If you do have a child, you will tell me?" He asked.
"Ken Abba." Ziva replied. He walked out of the room leaving Ziva to contemplate what her father had just told her and what she had just agreed to do.
Abba- father
Ah- brother
Ahat- sister
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