Three weeks had passed and it was now the night before the wedding. Ziva rolled over and looked at her alarm clock, 3:00 am, five more hours and they could get ready. She lied on her back and looked up at the ceiling. She thought about everything that had happened in the past. All that came up in her mind was Tony. She had to stop thinking about him. Ever since Abby had done that stupid thing with that machine, Tony hadn't stopped pestering her thoughts. She looked at the clock once more, 3:30. She decided to go back to sleep.
"Stop touching your hair, Jen. You look fine."
"Okay." The Director of NCIS turned and looked at the three girls standing in front of her. "Does everyone remember what to do? Do you Leah?"
"Yes'm I do. I walk in front of you and throw flowers on each side."
"Good." Ziva straightened her friend's veil before she opened the door.
Ziva woke up the next day to her doorbell ringing. She got out of bed, wrapped her robe around her and went to open the door. She opened it and saw Gibbs and Jenny with their kids.
"Shalom."
"Morning Ziva," Gibbs said to her.
"Hello, you two. Are you ready to spend the week with me?" The two shook their heads groggily.
"Come inside, have any of you eaten?"
"We gave something to the kids to tide them over, but no we haven't."
"Okay. Would you like me to fix you something?"
"I got it covered Z." Ziva looked up to see Tony behind the family.
"Who wants pancakes?"
"Me!" The twins said together.
An hour later, everyone was sitting at Ziva's dining room table. Thankfully she had a couple extra chairs. Jenny looked at her watch.
"Oh, Jethro, we gotta go or we'll miss our plane."
"Alright," Ziva said, "Say good- bye to your parents."
"Bye Mommy, bye Daddy."
"Bye." The children kissed their parents good- bye and visa versa. Ziva looked at Tony, Tony looked at Ziva. Tony started clearing the table.
"You don't have to do that, Tony, I will."
"It's fine. You get the kids settled in." She turned to Leah and J.
"Where do you want to sleep? You can sleep with the couch pulled into a bed, or we can make a tent tonight and you can sleep there." The children exchanged glances.
"A tent!"
"Okay. What do you both want to do today?"
"Can we go to the zoo?"
"Sure. Tony?" He turned to look at her.
"Yeah?"
"We're going to go to the zoo. Do you want to come along?"
"Um..."
"Please, Uncle DiNozzo? Please?" He looked at the children who had all but attached on to his legs.
"Okay. Let me go home and change."
"Can we take your car instead of mine? It's too small."
"Sure, hurry up and get ready so I can go home and change."
