Ziva ended up meeting Lenore, Christine, and baby Claire for coffee. While Charlotte attended her dance class. It felt wonderful to catch up with her friend. Between mourning for AJ, a challenging pregnancy, Tony's issues, and the children. Ziva had lost contact with most of her friends. Now that she was about to give birth to two more children and Tony was finally on the road to recovery. She wanted to start getting out again.
"So do you have any names picked out?" Lenore asked.
"We have a few ideas but haven't decided on anything officially." Ziva explained.
"Don't stress on it. Most people end up changing their minds at the last minute. Jeez we did with all three of our girls. You know that Claire was supposed to be Chyanne. Well that lasted until the delivery room. The nurse was filling out the birth certificate and it came out that both Jack and I loved the name Claire and were sad we'd never use it. Christine was supposed to Denise but there's that awful old joke about Denise in Denephew. So we changed our mind fairly quickly. Charlotte was the biggest change. We had three ultrasounds where they said we were having a boy. So Charlotte was this close to being named Jackson Maxwell Junior." Lenore explained.
"AJ was supposed to be Josiah but Adam threatened to cut me off his insurance." Ziva replied.
"Jerk" Lenore scoffed.
"He's gone now. Tony is the man in my life now." Ziva replied.
"I am glad you are so positive. I never could be." Lenore replied.
"You got through Christine being sick." Ziva commented.
"Ziva for the first week I couldn't get out of bed and I still cry everyday." Lenore admitted.
"Me too. This pregnancy has been especially hard. AJ would have been so happy to have baby brothers. It kills me that he's gone." Ziva explained.
"He still is going to have those brothers and he will always be right there." Lenore replied.
"I just wish I could hold him. Even one more time. It should have never happened. He never should have died." Ziva sobbed.
"Oh Ziva" Lenore whispered.
"I just want my family to be OK." Ziva sobbed.
Tony found himself working in the nursery. The little room was coming together perfectly. The rocking chair sat in the center of the room. A long, short dresser was placed against the back wall and a changing table was on the other side. A toy chest and book shelf was on the other side. Two mahogany cribs were against the two side walls. The walls were a soft blue and pale white. Gibbs had done an amazing job with the cribs and toy chest but everything else was donated by Shirley. She was moving to a smaller place and no longer needed most of her furniture. The nursery was ready and the babies would be born any day now. He was worried for Ziva about how anxious she was to deliver the babies. Even though he knew how much pain she was in. Becca was in a lot of pain when she was at this stage of pregnancy. Of course she'd had cancer. Though the end of pregnancy was pretty miserable for any woman. Even a strong and powerful one like Ziva.
"I saw Lenore." Ziva announced as she stepped through the door.
"How is she?" Tony asked.
"She had the cutest little girl, Claire." Ziva replied.
"Healthy?" Tony asked.
"Perfect" Ziva assured.
"How is everybody else?" Tony asked.
"They hit a few rough patches but everything settled down." Ziva explained.
"That's a relief." Tony replied.
"Lenore and I were talking about names." Ziva commented.
"Oh?" Tony asked.
"I really want to use Josiah." Ziva admitted.
"I loved Josiah!" Tony cried.
"You're not just saying that?" Ziva asked.
"I was actually thinking Anthony Josiah. That way our new son would carry his brother's initials with him." Tony explained.
"That sounds amazing." Ziva replied.
"We have one named." Tony added.
"Any ideas for Baby B?" Ziva asked.
"I was thinking we could let the kids name him." Tony replied.
"I like that idea. We could tell them at dinner and they could announce with us at the baby-shower. Unless they can't figure it out in four days." Ziva cried.
"That sounds perfect." Tony agreed.
Just like that one of the babies had his name and the other was to be named by the DiNozzo children. It would be a little tricky because the children did not know the genders yet. They would make the announce the genders and Anthony Josiah's name. Then the children would reveal the name they had selected.
"So we were thinking that you kids could pick one of the babies names. We have a name picked out already but are stuck on the second baby." Tony explained.
"So you are telling us the genders?" Marley asked.
"No we want everybody to find out together. You can pick a boy name and a girl name. Then make your announcement with us after the gender reveal." Ziva explained.
"What if we can't agree on a name?" Marley asked.
"You can each pick a name. We know plenty of people with three names." Tony assured.
"What if they don't go together?" Marley asked.
"We will work it out." Tony assured.
That night Tony and Ziva were lying in bed. Tony had his hand on Ziva's stomach. The babies were kicking up a storm and Ziva was groaning in pain. Tony desperately wished that he could do something for her.
"Ow! God I don't remember AJ hurting this bad." Ziva sobbed.
"These babies are DiNozzo's. They are make themselves known." Tony explained.
"They better be as cute as you." Ziva hissed.
"Nah I'm ugly. They should look like you." Tony replied.
A/N: What do you think of Anthony Josiah? New chapter will be up soon. Please review and thanks for reading.