FAMILY AND LOSS
DISCLAIMER: NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY: Ziva and Tony have been dating in secret for a few months. No seems to know. Something happens and secrets are exposed.
CHAPTER 36: IT'S TO EARLY...
JULY 12th...
Ziva was now 31 weeks pregnant and had called Tony at work a couple of hours before, because she had been feeling a little weird.
She had been experiencing some signs and she had a feeling she knew what it was, but it was too early.
A pain in her back that would not stop no matter what position she changed to...
The babies were not kicking as much as they usually did...
Abdominal cramps...
Tony had come home at once and now they were at the hospital. The doctors had done what they could, but she was in labor and the babies were going to be born today.
It scared her, because she knew it was too early. She cried as Tony stood by her side and then after being in labor for almost the whole day their first baby was born.
It was a boy and they named him: Thomas James DiNozzo...They would call him, T.J.
He was rushed off and after fifteen minutes, the other twin was born.
This time it was a girl: Jennifer Gabriella DiNozzo...Jenny was the girl's name they had chosen.
She too was rushed off to the NICU to join her brother.
Ziva wanted to go see them right away; she wanted to know they were both all right.
Ziva tried to get out of the bed so she could see if they were all right, but Tony stopped her.
"Let me go, Tony. I have to go see them." She told him desperate to see the twins.
"I'll go check to see if they're all right, but you have to let the doctors do their work." He told her.
Tony left to go see what was going on, but when he came back to tell her about the twins.
Exhaustion had taken over and Ziva was asleep, so he closed the door and walked down the hall to the waiting room.
Gibbs was the first to see him.
Then Ducky, Abby, McGee and Gibbs surrounded him. (Todd and Sean were being watched by their Aunt Sarah.)
"How is..." Abby started to ask.
"T.J. and Jenny are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, because they are premature. T.J. weighed 4 1/2 pounds and Jenny weighed about a little over four pounds. I haven't been in the NICU yet, because I'm waiting until Ziva can go in there with me. I just looked on Ziva and she's asleep." Tony told them.
"When can we see them?" Abby asked.
"Probably not for a while. The doctor already said they're going to be here at least another five weeks or so. They're not sure; it depends on a lot of things." Tony replied.
Everyone was still kind of getting used to the new, more grown up Tony. He had changed a lot, after Tali had been born.
Now he seemed different from the Tony they had once known.
Sure he still played pranks on Tim, called him Mc names and Probie.
"What dose T.J. stand for?" Tim asked.
"Thomas James, though we're going to call him T.J. and Jenny's full name is, Jennifer Gabriella." Tony told them.
"We're so happy for you Tony." Abby said as she stepped forward to give him a hug.
"You better be prepared now, because they're here." Gibbs told him.
"I am most happy for you and Ziva, Anthony." Ducky said.
"Congratulations, Tony." Tim told him.
"I better get back to Ziva before she wakes up. Then we're going to go see our kids." Tony said with a smile and turned to walk back down the hall.
Then one by one everyone in the waiting room went home.
TIM AND ABBY'S APARTMENT...
It was late in the evening when they got home and Sarah was sitting on the couch with Todd.
Once Tim and Abby walked in the door, he ran over to them and Tim picked him up.
"Where's Sean?" Abby asked and Sarah pointed to the playpen, Abby looked in the playpen at her now seven month old son.
"Hey, Sean." She said and when he looked up at her, she picked him up.
"So how are Tony and Ziva?" Sarah asked.
"When we left the doctors had taken the twins off to the NICU, Tony came to talk to us for a minute and said they were all fine. Ziva was asleep." Abby told her.
The day that Tony had left Ziva began to hang out with Sarah and Abby a lot more. There had been times when Tim would leave so he could have some time with Todd while his sister hung out with Abby and Ziva.
Over the past months, Sarah had hung out with Ziva, even when Abby couldn't.
Abby, Ziva and Sarah had become as close as sisters.
"I have to go so I can get to work. I'll see you later." Sarah said then after hugging her brother, Abby and Todd she left.
"Hey, I just realized something Mr. Thom E. Gemcity...Tony named his son, Tommy. Wonder where he got that idea?" Abby said with a smile.
"We better not remind him of the name in the book if he hasn't realized it." Tim told her as he smiled back at her.