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Ellie talked to Nick on the phone as she walked towards Vance's office.

'That's great Nick. Yeah… yeah, I'm going to tell her now. See you soon.' The door to Vance's office burst open and Kayla nearly knocked Ellie over.

'Tell me what?' Ellie smiled.

'We found him, Kayla, alive and well.' Kayla's face burst into the biggest smile Ellie had ever seen and launched herself forward again hugging Ellie tightly.

'Does my brother know?' asked Kayla.

'Not yet. I thought you'd like to tell hm.' Kayla beamed again. She went over to the phone on her father's desk and dialed her aunt's number. Ellie left her in peace and pulled out her own phone. She dialled Tony's number.

'Loooooooo'

'Tony?'

'Weee. No, no. Wad dis dat? Mmmmm.'

'Hello?' asked Ellie. She pulled it from her ear, making sure she had actually dialed the right number. It was the correct number. Ellie put the phone to her ear.

'Give Dada his phone, Tilly?' Some muffled noises then… 'What's up probie?'

'Tony?'

'Yeah, it's me. Sorry, Tilly had my phone and decided to answer it when you rang.' Ellie laughed.

'That explains the noises I heard.' Tony laughed.

'Yeah, Tilly keeps taking mine and Ziva's phones. We keeping having to make sure they're high up so she can't reach them. Anyway, what can I do you for?'

Ellie chuckled.

'We found Vance.'

'Really?'

'Yeah.'

'How is he?'

'Um, I don't know but Nick's seen him and says he's shaken up a bit with a few injuries but he'll be fine.'

'Oh, Ellie that's great news. Thanks for telling us.'

Tony hung up with Ellie and went to find Ziva. She was upstairs, folding laundry.

'Hey Zi, that was Ellie.'

'What did she want?' asked Ziva, absentmindedly.

'They found Vance.' Ziva put down the laundry she was folding.

'Really?' Tony nodded and went over to his wife. 'I am so glad. Kayla and Jared must be so happy and relieved.'

Tony nodded in agreement, smiling. He bent his head and kissed Ziva passionately. They rested their foreheads against each other.

'I love you Ziva.'

'I love you too, Tony.'

The doorbell rang. Vance hobbled over to the front door, leaning on the cane the doctor had given him. His hip hurt a bit but the doctor had told it would and with physiotherapy, medication and very slow, gentle exercise, such as walking around the house, it would be back to new in no time.

The doorbell rang again.

'Alright, alright, I'm coming. Ziva?' Vance opened the door to find Ziva DiNozzo on the other side. She smiled.

'Hi Leon.' The two old friends hugged. 'It is so good to see you.'

'You too, Ziva.' They laughed.

'I have something for you' said Ziva, picking up a cooler bag.

'Do I get a Ziva DiNozzo care package?' asked Vance, taking the bag off Ziva and letting her into the house.

'Are they that famous?'

'From the way my daughter talks about the one you gave her, yes they are.' Ziva laughed, closing the front door. Vance became serious for a moment. 'Thank you for looking after Kayla, Ziva.' Ziva smiled and they hugged again. 'Would you like some coffee?' asked Vance.

'I would love a cup' replied Ziva, and they went into the kitchen.

As it had done for the for past few years, the end of June meant Tali's birthday. Tony and Ziva were up at midnight toasting to their little girl. This was the fourth time they had done it.

'Can you believe she's four?' asked Tony.

'That is the fourth time you have asked that' replied Ziva, putting the wine glasses in the dishwasher.

'Yeah, I know, but Tali's four. She's no longer a toddler, no longer our baby.' Ziva laughed.

'Come on, let's go to bed. This weekend is going to be busy and we'll need all the sleep we can get.'

This year, Tali's birthday was on a Friday, and her birthday party on the Saturday. Senior came over for birthday tea which included all of Tal's favourite things to eat (pizza and babka) and then watching her (current) favourite movie, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Ziva had decided to go with a dinosaur theme for Tali's party. Tali was still obsessed with dinosaurs and it was easy to produce, especially with all of Tali's toys and books about Dinosaurs.

Tali and her friends ran around the backyard, searching for the dinosaurs Tony and Tim had hidden for them to find. A dinosaur hunt themed party. Again, it was simple and kept the kids happily entertained for hours. It took Tony several times to tell everyone that the food was ready.

'You know,' began Ted, a dad of one Tali's friends from playgroup. 'I always look forward to coming to these things.'

'Why?' asked Tony.

'The incredibly delicious food' answered Ted. Tony laughed. Ziva had once again, outdone herself with food, especially Tali's birthday cake. It was in the shape of a T-rex, decorated and everything.

'How on earth did you manage that?' asked Delilah when she saw it.

'With a lot of research, practice and a family who like to eat cake' replied Ziva.

'I can testify to that' said Senior. In the run up to Tali's birthday, Ziva had indeed practiced and practiced making a dinosaur-shaped cake. Every time she saw Senior, he always ended up with some cake in his hand for later. Senior joked that he was having to go back to the gym because of Ziva's good cooking.

'You could always stop with the second helpings' suggested Tony.

'And waste such good food? Are you mad?' replied Senior. Ziva just smiled, blushing slightly.

Tali loved her party; looking for the dinosaurs and playing with her friends.

'Gib!' She had spotted her favourite person. Tali ran over to him and jumped up. 'Did you find any dinosaurs?'

'No, I haven't' replied Gibbs. 'Thought I'd leave them for you and your friends.' Tali laughed and went back to playing. Gibbs had made Tali a set of jigsaw blocks. Each side had a different pattern that Tali needed to solve.

Tony walked over to Gibbs with a drink and some food.

'You OK, Boss?'

'Not your boss anymore, DiNozzo.'

'Sorry, a force of habit.' Gibbs chuckled.

'Yeah, I'm good. You?'

'We're good too. We're busy this summer with lots of weddings and parties in general.'

Things had been good in general for Team Gibbs, especially now that Vance had been rescued. Nick was now fully settled into life as a field agent, instead of deep undercover. Kasie was getting into her groove as the forensic tech at the Navy Yard. Jimmy took on more and more responsibility with Ducky taking a break to go on his book tour. Jack now had closure and peace since the arrest of Nigel Hakim. Everyone and everything was good.

A new drinking game: everytime you read the word dinosaur, take a sip :)

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