(2 weeks later)

Ziva woke up to find Tony's arms wrapped around her swollen waist. She looked over at the photo on her bedside table. It was a photo from the ultrasound, the latest one. She smiled as she saw the two figures in the photo. 36 weeks? How had the weeks passed so quickly? Today was the day that Gibbs was going to force her to go on maternity leave. 'Hmph,' she thought, 'I don't want to go on maternity leave yet, I'll get bored at home alone!'

She carefully removed Tony's arms from around her and sat up. Boy, was she hungry. She carefully got up from her side of the bed and started waddling slowly to the kitchen before she realized her bladder felt full. She rushed to the bathroom to use the toilet before heading to the kitchen to start on breakfast.

When Tony woke up, he realized there was a faint smell of pancakes coming through his open door. He sat up and rubbed his eyes before getting out of bed to find out what was happening downstairs. As he walked into the living room, he noticed the TV on, but no Maria. He walked through to the kitchen, where he saw the Maria setting the table with plates and cutlery and Ziva making pancakes. He smiled.

"And how are my two favourite girls?" he asked as he waltzed over to Ziva and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Hungry," Maria answered.

"Very hungry," Ziva added. Tony noticed her tone and slowly stepped away from her. He opened the fridge and got out the juice to put on the table. Then he took three glasses out of a cupboard and placed them on the table. Maria smiled at him.

"Thanks."

Ziva smiled as she brought the plate piled with pancakes to the table and placed it in the centre. Tony grabbed the bottle of syrup and put it on the table next to the large plate of pancakes. He pulled back Ziva's chair and she sat down. Maria sat down on her own chair opposite Ziva, and Tony sat on his seat next to Ziva. Tony grabbed three pancakes and placed them on each of their plates. Ziva nodded at him.

"Thank you, Tony."

"It's ok, sweetcheeks, now let's eat!"

Tony pulled up in the Navy Yard parking lot. He turned to Ziva and placed his hand on the lower part of her belly. He smiled at her.

"So what's the date today again?" Tony asked.

"Tony, you know what day it is – it's May 11th, the day that Gibbs has decided to put me on maternity leave."

"Oh yeah. You ready for your last day?" he asked.

Ziva smiled at him and nodded. Tony suddenly gasped as he felt her stomach muscles tighten. Ziva gave him a look of concern.

"What is wrong?" she asked.

"You didn't feel that?" he asked. Ziva shook her head.

"Feel what?"

"That!" He pointed at her belly. "You didn't just feel the muscles tighten?"

"No, but it is nothing to worry about. It has been happening for the past two weeks or so."

"Two weeks?" Tony stared at her in shock. "Two weeks and you didn't tell me?"

"I didn't feel anything painful, so I knew they were just Braxton hicks contractions."

Tony continued to frown at her.

"We will talk later, Tony. Let's just get inside for my last day before I go on the dreaded maternity leave." Ziva opened her car door and stepped out before Tony could say anything else. Tony sighed as he got out of his car and followed her into the building.

When they reached the elevator, he wrapped his arm around her and kissed her lightly on the cheek. She smiled up at him as the elevator reached their floor. As they stepped out of the elevator, they both noticed something was definitely wrong. They looked around and noticed that everything was quiet, and the bull-pen seemed empty. Ziva noticed a note on her desk and immediately recognized Abby's handwriting. She read the note slowly.

"I think I know where they are," she told Tony as she handed him the note. Tony frowned, and then smiled when he had read the note through twice. He took Ziva's hand in his, then led her to the break room, making sure she was able to keep up with him. He opened the door slowly, and smiled as he looked around the room.

There were decorations everywhere – all pink, blue or green. On a table in the middle of the room there was a pile of presents, all wrapped up neatly. There was a banner hanging along the back wall of the room, reading 'CONGRATULATIONS!'

Ziva gasped as she looked around the room. "Wow!" she gasped. Suddenly, everyone jumped out.

"SURPRISE!"

Ziva jumped a little, then smiled when she saw Abby. "Thank you, guys!"

"We just wanted to throw you a good bye party before, you know, before you left and went on maternity leave," Abby explained happily. "It's kinda like a baby shower, so everyone got presents for the babies." She pointed at the table in the middle of the room.

Ziva smiled. The whole team was there, including Gibbs who was actually smiling! Vance stood near the back corner, but still seemed to be enjoying himself. McGee was standing beside Abby, his arm wrapped around her waist. Ducky and Palmer were standing beside Gibbs, and it looked like they were wearing party hats.

'Abby must have done this all,' she thought. She looked back at Abby. "Thank you for this, all of you," she looked at all of her teammates before resting her eyes on Gibbs. "It means a lot to us."

Gibbs smiled at her. "Just enjoy your day, Ziva." He looked at Tony. "And if any of this gets out, DiNozzo, you're dead."

Tony nodded. "Got it, boss." He wrapped his arm around Ziva's waist. "Let's get this party started!"

Ziva turned the key in the front door and opened it, holding it open for Tony and McGee as they carried two boxes full of presents for the babies into the house. Ziva shut the front door behind her and headed upstairs.

"I'm tired," Ziva yawned.

Tony raised his eyebrow. "It's only six o'clock!"

"Either way, I'm going for a nap. Wake me up so that I can start making dinner," she said as she headed slowly upstairs.

"McGee and I will order take-out. Just rest as much as you can," Tony called out as he led McGee into the living room and placed the box down in front of the couch. As McGee did the same he noticed the X-Box in front of the TV.

"You connected online yet?" he asked. Tony shook his head as he looked into the boxes and took out the presents – piles of baby clothes and toys.

"You can do it now for me if you want, because I've got to put all this stuff away." Tony picked up the toys and took them to the playroom. When he got back, McGee was setting up the internet connection. Tony smiled.

"I didn't think you'd actually do it."

McGee looked up at him. "I thought you might as well have it now." He looked at the clothes still on the couch. "Aren't you meant to be putting everything away?"

Ziva closed her eyes and brought the covers up to her neck, covering as much of her body she could whilst stopping herself from getting too warm. As soon as she closed her eyes, she fell asleep and started dreaming.

DREAM

Ziva opened the door to find the man she loved the most standing in front of her. Tony smiled and held out his hand for Ziva to take. She took his hand and noticed her hand was wearing a long green glove. She looked at her other hand. That was also gloved. She noticed that she was wearing a silk green dress that flowed right down to her feet. She smiled and looked up at Tony.

"Shall we go then, my dear?" Tony asked. Ziva nodded and followed him through the door. As soon as they walked through the door, they found themselves in a ballroom, with couples dancing everywhere.

"Where are we?" Ziva asked.

"It doesn't matter, what matters is that we're here together." Tony took Ziva in his arms and started waltzing her, dancing to the beat of the music perfectly. Ziva wrapped her arms around his shoulders leaned forward into his chest. Tony smiled and took one arm from her waist and lifted her chin. Ziva knew where it was heading. Tony leaned his head towards hers and brought his lips closer to hers. Ziva was prepared to feel his soft lips against hers. She closed her eyes as their lips came closer to each other–

END OF DREAM

Ziva's eyes opened as she felt a pain in her lower abdomen. She winced in pain and grabbed the closest thing she could reach. When the pain eased, she turned over so that she could get some sleep. As she closed her eyes, she felt a sudden wetness on the bed. Her eyes opened in shock.

'Oh, no. It can't be time!' she thought as she threw back the covers. She gasped as she saw the puddle on the bed. "Oh no…"