Tony Dinozzo Gibbs – 10 years old

Tim McGee Gibbs – 8 years old

Abigail (Abby) Scutio Gibbs – 7 years old

Ziva David- 9 years old

ASL: Italics

CHAPTER 7: A Family Outing

The small family made their way to the ice cream stand, Abby was dragging Tim along with her as she skipped over towards the ice cream stand.

"All right guys tell the man what flavor you want" said Gibbs

"I want caf-pow!" said Abby

"Double Chocolate Chunk for me" said Tony

"I'll have mint chocolate chip" said Tim

Ziva just stood there unsure...Gibbs noticing her hesitance looked down at her and said

"What do you want Ziver?"

Vanilla

"Ummm okay a Vanilla for her and that's it thanks." Said Gibbs looking at Ziva worryingly because she reverted back to ASL

The guy nodded and started making the different ice cream cones for the kids.

"Go grab a table guys" said Jenny

"Alright!" Abby yelled as she pulled Tim over to one of the tables that was sitting in the sun. Tony ran after them with Ziva trailing slowly behind them

Ziva felt unsure about the entire situation. Living with the Gibbs' in America, and being away from her friends who she had trained and went to school with made her feel unsure. She knew all of the Gibbs' were nice people, especially Gibbs, and they wanted to make her feel welcome, however she was still hesitant to forge new friendships and relations with these people. As Ziva made her way over to the table where Abby, Tim and Tony were now sitting she thought about Tali and her other friends who died in the suicide bombing last year. It had almost been a year now, she thought, almost a year since her baby sister and her closest friends had been murdered. She had already started training for Mossad. She started the minute she could walk. Her father, Eli David, set her into training immediately, and she was forced to keep it from her mother unless she wanted something bad to happen to Tali. Her training taught her that feelings were bad and she needed to block those feelings out. When Ziva had her first mission when she was 7, her job was to get close to another boy's family who was known for working for Hamas. Then once she was at their house, she was to destroy the entire family, along with stealing information off of their computers. She had several other jobs like that which created a lot of enemies for her, along with her connection to the director; she always had to be aware of her surroundings.

"Come on Ziva" yelled Abby

Ziva followed the three Gibbs' to the table and waited for Jenny and Gibbs to bring their ice cream. Just then Jenny and Gibbs brought over there ice cream.

"Here ya go guys" said Jenny smiling as she passed Tony his ice cream and Tim his. Gibbs passed Abby hers and placed a soft kiss to her temple and did the same to Ziva. While the kids were happily licking their ice cream Jenny's phone rang.

"Director Shepard". a pause.

"Yes…. Yes of course"

"Alright yes I'll try to be in soon"

"Okay"

"Thanks Cynthia"

"Okay Bye"

"Everything alright Jen?" Gibbs asked.

"Yes Jethro, I need to go into work for a little bit though"

"Alright… I need to sign some papers anyway"

"Hey guys do you wanna come to work with us for a little bit today?" Jenny asked the kids

A chorus of "yeahs" and "of course" answered, however Ziva didn't respond.

"Ziva… that alright with you?" Jenny asked.

Ziva just nodded and continued to eat her ice cream in silence. She didn't want to get attached to people cause most of the people she loved had either died, been taken or left her for someone or something else.

"What's on your mind Ziver?" Gibbs asked her. Tony, Tim and Abby all looked up at her too.

Nothing, she signed.

"English Ziver, remember?"

"Nothing" Ziva said.

"It's gotta be something" pressed Gibbs

"Come on Ziva! It's okay to tell us besides we're family now" Said Tony

Abby and Tim nodded agreeing with what Tony had said.

She sighed heavily, knowing that they deserved an explanation after everything they had done for her. She contemplated the pros and cons of telling them, and then after deciding none of it would matter because they were most likely going to leave her anyway she looked up at them and began….

Authors Note:

CLIFF HANGER! Haha sorry I get so annoyed when people do that but I thought it was a good end for the chapter. So I don't think I added anything about their careers. Anyway I decided it would be good to add some of their work in hope that was okay and you guys like it. I'm leaving for a camping trip Sunday I won't be back till after Thursday, So Please review I'd like your input. If you guys have any ideas or… yeah let me know J