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.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I may get this chapter a little wrong, but I have been trying to do some research to get as much of it right as I could.
SIX WEEKS A LATER...
AUGUST 15...
TJ and Jenny had spent the last six weeks in NICU, finally they were on their way home. Once they got home Ziva carried Jenny's carseat and Tony had TJ's, they took them up the stairs. Tony set down TJ's carseat and unlocked the door.
Over the last few weeks they had spent as much time in the NICU as they were aloud. Tony would go to work and come after the day.
Gibbs, Tim and Abby had planned on coming over that night, but Ziva and Tony had convinced them to wait until the next day.
"We're finally home." Ziva said as she sat down on the couch and Tony sat down beside her after putting in a movie. "All of us." Tony told her. "Almost all of us." Ziva said sadly and Tony knew she was thinking about Tali. "I miss Tali to, Ziva." Tony told her. "I never thought this day would come, Tony. I thought it was going to happen again. When TJ and Jenny were born early, I thought we were going to lose them. Just like we lost, Tali. I was afraid I would lose you again." Ziva told him, her head his shoulder and she started to cry. "I know, Zee. I told you before though...I would never leave you again and that's a promise I plan to keep. No matter what happens." Tony told her. "Yo...you cannot promise that, Tony." She said into his shoulder and he turned her face so she was looking him in the eye. "I can promise that, Ziva. Becuase I mean it." Tony told her. "What if one day you're out in the field and get killed? Then I wou..." Ziva asked. "Then I would..." Tony began, but was intrupted when Jenny started to cry and then she was joined by her brother.
They looked at each other and smiled, then he took TJ as she picked up Jenny. They took care of them, then leaned back in the couch. Tony turned on a movie and Ziva laughed when he started to explain the movie to the kids.
'It's going to be his fault if they start to quote to movies as soon they can talk. I guess that wouldn't be so bad, since that's one of the things I love about him.' Ziva thought.
"What are you thinking about?" Tony asked her, because he had seen her looking over at him. "How it's going to be your fault if they start to quote movies as soon as they can talk." Ziva told him and he smiled. "Would be that would be such a bad thing?" Tony asked her. "No, that's one things I love you." Ziva told him.
GIBBS BASEMENT...
Gibbs looked down the newly finished Plaques. He had changed his mind and added pictures just above the name. One was of five year old Tali, one of TJ and one of Jenny. Tomorrow he would take these over to them. The plaques he had TJ and Jenny's said:
ALWAYS REMEMBER
He then picked up a plaque he had finished years ago, almost a year after it had happened. This one read:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
SHANNON AND KELLY GIBBS
After he had finished that plaque dedicated to Shannon and Kelly, he began to spend his years making boats.
Gibbs thought back to when he married Shannon, the day Kelly had been born and the day they were killed. He had wanted it to be a nightmare and had wanted to wake up, after a while he had finally accepted the fact they were dead.
Then seven years before Ziva and Tony had they had told him they had been dating in secret for four months. Then announced she was pregnant, though he had known about it thanks to Shannon. As he had told Tony that day, he had watched Shannon go through the same thing.
He knew rule 12 would be broken and there would be nothing he could do about. He had watched over the years...
First when Tim had met Abby in person, he had watched them flirt with each other and knew they had been together for a short time.
Then Ziva had joined the team, he watched as Tony had changed. Though Tony tried not to show it.
For a long time Gibbs had watched as the four flirted, always wondering who would break the rule first. It was hard to tell, but now that he thought about...
Tim and Abby had broken the rule first. They had gone out and flirted with each other, long before Ziva ever became part of the team.
Not knowing how long he had sat there, he got up and headed up stairs after covering the two new plagues.
TIM AND ABBY...
Tim and Abby were on their way to bed, but stopped as they did every night to check on Todd and Sean.
Todd was very bright for his age. Of course it was bound to happen with his parents being Abby Sciuto-McGee and his father being Timothy was the miniture image of his father.
Sean now a little over eight months old, looked a lot more like his mother.
Abby and Tim would often tease each. Abby would tell Tim that Todd was going to be just like him and Todd was already proving that to be true. Tim in return would tell her that Sean would be the next Forensic Specialist at NCIS, though it would still be a while. Since Sean was only eight months old.
Todd had been to NCIS a lot through out the last five and a half, almost six years of his life and seemed to love it. He had told them that he hoped one day he would work there, but when they asked him what he wanted to do there. He had said he wasn't sure yet.
"Hey, Tim?" Abby asked as they laid down facing each other. "Yeah, Abbs?" Tim replied looking at her. "I never...even after I met you wanted to get married or have kids. So what happened to me and that idea?" Abby asked. "I don't know, Abbs. Are you happy?" Tim asked. "How could you even ask me that, Timmy? I now have you, Todd and Sean. I wouldn't trade any of it for the world and just wish I would have realized it, when you first asked me." Abby told him. "When I first asked you about where you thought our relationship was going?" Tim asked. "Yes, I knew even then that I loved you more then anything. I just didn't want anything to change between us." She said, he slipped his hand out of hers and wiped the tears away. "That dosen't matter, we're together now. You know, Abbs?" Tim asked. "What?" Abby asked. "I love you and have from the first time I heard your voice. It may have taken us a few years, plus Tony and Ziva breaking rule 12. I'm just glad that you decided to give us a chance." Tim said as he leaned over and kissed her.
She kissed him back and pulled him as close as she could. He tried to break the kiss, but she refused to let him go. Things heated up and they didn't fall asleep until about two o'clock that morning.
When they got up and walked toward Sean's room they head Todd talking to someone. The door was opened just a little and when they looked in they saw that Sean was in his crib looking at Todd. They didn't seem to notice their parents and Todd seemed to be telling Sean something.
Abby got the camera and took a picture.
NCIS SQAUDROOM...
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER...
Gibbs had gone for coffee and when Tim looked up from his computer, he noticed that both Tony and Ziva were asleep at their desk. Tim remembered when Todd had been that age and also rememered Sean at eight weeks old, but it had to be a lot worse for Tony and Ziva having twins. Tim remembered how he and Abby had been kept on their feet. He knew exactly what the two were going through. Tony and Ziva had started to take TJ and Jenny to daycare the week before. Though Ziva had a little bit of a hard time, but she had to get back to work and the babies were now eight weeks old.
Tim's phone rang and he picked it up. It was Abby asking him to come down to her lab and help her with something, but she wouldn't say what. So Tim got up and headed down to Abby's lab.