Baby Blues

The next day Ziva and Abby decided to visit Tony. Abby brought fresh flowers and balloons and Ziva brought her newly purchased Iron Man DVD to put on in the background. She and tony had gone to see it when it had come out in theaters and they both had liked it immensely.

After Abby had replaced Tony's flowers and balloon and Ziva taped the ultrasound pictures to Tony's headboard, where they should have been placed all along, they settled down and to watch Iron Man. Abby was sitting on one side of the bed and Ziva was on the other side and she placed Tony's lifeless hand on the stomach where the baby was kicking ferociously.

About halfway through the movie, Ziva felt a twitch on her stomach that was definitely not her baby kicking.

"Abby, I think Tony's hand twitched," Ziva said excitedly as she got up and pressed the nurse call button. A few seconds later Raquel ran into the room.

"What's wrong?" Raquel asked, sounding a bit breathless.

"Tony's hand twitched," Ziva said. Abby came around the bed with a skeptical look on her face and placed her hand on Ziva's shoulder.

"Ziva, are you sure that it was Tony? I mean, you did have his hand on your stomach and Baby DiNozzo has been really active lately," Abby said, who had recently taken every available moment to feel Ziva's stomach and talk to "Baby DiNozzo" as she called the baby. Ziva's eyes flashed with defiance.

"I am sure that it was not the baby," Ziva said. Raquel walked over to the machine that was recording Tony's brainwaves and looked at the paper for a few minutes.

"Well, he did have a brain spike, but nothing else after that," Raquel said. Tears pooled at the corners of Ziva's eyes and she sunk back down into her chair with her hands cradling her stomach.

"I just wish he would wake up," Ziva said, blinking and allowing the tears to fall down her cheeks. Abby leaned over from behind her and wrapped Ziva up in a hug. Ziva placed her hand on Abby's forearm and squeezed. Raquel smiled sadly.

"I'll get his doctor," Raquel said and left the room. Abby squeezed Ziva tightly and then let go.

"Do you want me to stay with you tonight?" Abby asked and Ziva nodded as she wiped the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand.

"Can we go now?" Ziva asked.

"Sure," Abby said as she picked up her coat and coffin shaped bag from the table where she had laid them when they came it. Ziva stood up from her chair slowly and leaned over Tony and kissed him softly on the lips.

"I love you," Ziva said quietly and then she stood up. She collected her coat and bag and took Abby's proffered arm and walked out of the hospital room.

Later that night Ziva and Abby sat on the couch in Tony's apartment in their pajamas. Abby was drinking a bottle of Corona and Ziva had a champagne flute filled with sparkling cider leftover from Christmas. The TV show Bones was on on the TV and the pair were half paying attention to it. Whenever they showed a forensic scene Abby would comment on their technique but other than that they watched in silence. Finally Ziva spoke up.

"How much longer do you think that Gibbs will let this go on?" Ziva asked.

"I don't know, Gibbs cares a lot about Tony. He thinks of him as the son he never had," Abby said.

"How do you know?" Ziva asked.

"There were at least ten other applicants that had much better backgrounds and had stayed with their previous jobs but Gibbs chose Tony. Who knows what he say in him, but he saw something. Maybe he saw a younger version of himself, but whatever the reason, Tony was the one that Gibbs chose to protect his six," Abby said.

"He refuses to give up on him," Ziva murmured, taking a sip from her glass.

The next day Ziva was arriving at the bullpen as Gibbs, McGee, and Lee were leaving. Ziva turned around to follow them but was stopped when she almost ran into Gibbs.

"David, I want you to stay here. The crime scene is at Rock Creek Park and it's cold outside, I don't want you to get sick. Pull the victim's service and medical records," Gibbs said as he handed Ziva a piece of paper.

"Gibbs," Ziva began, surprising Gibbs with how childish she sounded.

"That's an order, Officer David," Gibbs said with warning in his voice. Ziva glared at Gibbs but went to her desk and sat down. Gibbs just smiled and returned to the elevator.

Twenty minutes after the rest of the team had left Ziva had gotten all of the information she could on the deceased Lieutenant Lisa Keller. Ziva looked at her watch and sighed. She picked her cell phone up off of her desk and opened a game of Tetris, a bad habit she had picked up from Tony.

Ziva continued her game for a half an hour before she was interrupted by a phone call from Gibbs.

"Officer David," Ziva said, answering her phone when it rang.

"Ziva, I want you to look up everything you can on Robert Black. He was Lt. Keller's boyfriend," Gibbs said.

"Anything else?" Ziva asked.

"That's it," Gibbs said and then he hung up. Ziva rolled her eyes but turned towards her computer.

An hour later the team returned. McGee took the evidence straight down to Abby and Gibbs sent Lee to get coffee. Ziva told Gibbs everything she had found out about Lt. Keller and her boyfriend and then Gibbs looked up at her.

"Ducky left an hour before us. Go down and see if he has anything for me yet," Gibbs said.

Ziva arrived in Autopsy just as Ducky was getting ready to open Lt. Keller. As the doors to Autopsy opened, Ziva could hear Ducky talking to Lt. Keller's body, telling her a story about the Amazon people. When he heard the pneumatic hiss of the doors, Ducky looked up.

"Ziva, my dear, what brings you down here?" Ducky asked, setting the scalpel down on the tray next to the table.

"Gibbs," Ziva said, offering the single word as an explanation.

"Ahh, yes, well, Jethro was never a patient man. I'm afraid that I cannot offer you much information to take back to him, but, I did find some things on the preliminary examination," Ducky said as he walked around the table and motioned for Ziva to come closer.

"What did you find?" Ziva asked.

"There was bruising on her arms, suggesting that someone was kicking her and she used her arms to protect herself. Also, there was some bruising on the stomach, congruent with the bruising on the arms, but there is less of it," Ducky explained. Awful recognition dawned on Ziva.

"Ducky, would those injuries result from her holding her stomach like this?" Ziva asked, cradling her stomach as an example.

"Why yes, why do you ask?" Ducky asked, surveying Ziva.

"Because that's the way a pregnant mother protects her baby," Ziva whispered before she blacked out.

When Ziva woke up she was lying on the couch in Jenny's office. She looked around and saw Jenny and Gibbs having a whispered argument by the door. Jenny looked over and saw that Ziva was awake and rushed over to her.

"Ziva, are you okay?" Jenny asked, placing her hand on Ziva's forehead.

"What happened?" Ziva asked. "And how did I get here?"

"You passed out in Autopsy and McGee carried you up here," Jenny said. "You had just told Ducky that you thought Lt. Keller was pregnant, giving our killer a motive."

"Ziva," Gibbs said from the doorway. "McGee's going to take you home. Jenny and I have decided that it's time for you to start your maternity leave." Ziva turned to Jenny, ready to open her mouth in protest, but immediately saw that it would be a lost cause.

"Ziva," Jenny said quietly, "you want to keep your baby safe, don't you?" Ziva sighed and resigned to the fact that she would not win the argument and nodded. As soon as Ziva nodded, Ducky walked into Jenny's office with a blood pressure cuff and stethoscope. Jenny moved and sat down at her desk while Gibbs left the office.

"I'm terribly sorry about that, Ziva, my dear," Ducky said as he sat down on the edge of the couch. Ziva rolled up her sleeve and offered her arm to the elderly doctor. Ducky wrapped the cuff around her upper arm and started pumping air into the cuff. When he was finished her removed the cuff from Ziva'a arm and rolled it up.

"Abigail was quiet distressed when she discovered that you had a fainting spell. Jethro had a hard time assuring her that you were alright," Ducky said.

"Does she know I'm okay?" Ziva asked.

"Yes," Abby squealed as she ran though Jenny's door, followed by Gibbs.

"Don't you people ever knock?" Jenny asked from her desk in a voice of exasperation.

"Sorry, Director Shepard," Abby said apologetically and then turned back her attention back to Ziva. "Are you and the baby okay?"

"Yes," Ducky answered for Ziva. "She and the baby appear to be quite well, besides a slightly high blood pressure, which is normal after the excitement that Ziva just had. But, I must say, Jenny and Jethro are quiet right to make you start your maternity leave. You need to rest."

"Can she leave now?" Gibbs asked from the doorway.

"Yes," Ducky replied as he stood up from the couch, "although I would suggest that someone go home with her and stay the night."

"Abs," Gibbs said.

"Yes, Bossman," Abby said as she ran out of Jenny's office to get her stuff.

"I'll tell McGee that you're ready to go home," Gibbs said.

"What about my car?" Ziva asked.

"I'll drop it off later," Gibbs said as he helped her to her feet. Although she would never admit it out loud, she was glad that Gibbs had helped her up because she still felt a bit dizzy.

Later that night Abby found Ziva curled up in her bed in one of Tony's dress shirts with tears running down her face.

"Abby, I don't know if I can do this," Ziva said.

"Do what?" Abby asked, sitting down on the side of Ziva's bed.

"Be a mother," Ziva said, "not work, do everything I'm supposed to do." Abby gathered Ziva up in her arms and squeezed her gently.

"Ziva, you'll be a wonderful mother. I've seen the way you look at your ultrasound pictures and your eyes all but light up when you hear your baby's heartbeat," Abby said.

"What am I going to do all day if I can't work?" Ziva asked, sounding forlorn.

"Buy baby supplies, clean, visit Tony, sleep," Abby said, naming off a few things.

"I just wish he would wake up. I don't want to do this on my own," Ziva said. "And it's selfish for him not to have woken up yet. Doesn't he know that there are people here who need him?" Ziva said angrily. Abby patted Ziva's back gently.

"Ziva, how many times do we have to tell you? You're not alone," Abby chided. "You have a whole family behind you. Gibbs is like you father, overly protective and caring, Jenny is like your mother who only has your best interests in heart and who you can tell things that you wouldn't dare tell your father. McGee's like your brother, always around to help you out when you need it. Ducky's you're grandfather, always around to tell you pointless stories that you listen to anyway, and they all care about you."

"What about you?" Ziva asked with a small smile.

"Well, I'm your sister, and if I do say so myself, I'm the best damn sister a girl could ever have," Abby said. Ziva's smiled widened.

"Yes, you are," Ziva agreed.

"Alright, now that you're out of your funks, let's order us some takeout," Abby proclaimed.

So, there is your chapter 6. Please review and while you do review, I want you to tell me which you think is best: Ava, Amira, David, or Aaron….. Those are potential baby names and I want your guys input. Keep in mind that the baby will have Tony's last name (for those thinking of David Da-veed) PLEASE REVIEW! I barely received any reviews for the last chapter (and thanks to those who did review, it means a lot) Expect the next chapter sometime tomorrow or Thursday at the latest.

Much Love, Vamp