Tony Dinozzo Gibbs – 10 years old

Tim McGee Gibbs – 8 years old

Abigail (Abby) Scutio Gibbs – 7 years old

Ziva David- 9 years old

AN: Okay this is 4 days after the last chapter (Chapter 11)

CHAPTER 12: Ziva's Protective Side

Gibbs was down in his basement working on his boat and thinking about all that had happened in the past 5 days, first finding out that a man named Amid Hadar was following. However one of the good things was that Ziva's mood had changed considerably after her phone call with Rivka. She slowly started learning how to be a kid. She ran up and down the house with her new siblings laughing. Gibbs could tell she was still hesitant to do stuff, and kept her tactics that she had learned from Mossad at the ready, but he was happy that she finally fit in with their family. Not just his family, but their extended family which included his team, and Ducky and her nephew Jimmy. Gibbs thought about the first time he really noticed Ziva's protective side.

~~~Flashback to two days ago (Monday) ~~~

Ducky and Jimmy had come over and Tony was picking on Jimmy. Ziva rushed in to defend his honor, as well as boosting Jimmy's confidence minutes later.

"You know it is very interesting Jethro" said Ducky "She has such a protective attitude towards all of them it makes me wonder what she was like in her own family"

"I was thinking the same thing" said Gibbs. Jenny was gone for the day because she had to go meet SECNAV.

"You know Jethro, Abigail and Jimmy's birthdays are coming up and considering they are in the same month I was thinking we could plan a birthday party together, Jimmy doesn't have a lot of friends so I was thinking possibly a family barbeque or something and invite your team as well? We could all come to my house."

"That sounds great Duck. I'll ask Abbs about it later and Jenny when she gets back from her meetings.

"Have you heard anything else about Hadar?" Ducky asked, Gibbs had told him about it earlier.

"Not a word since we found out who he was four days ago. I have a bad feeling about all of this. Why hasn't he tried to find Ziva again or followed us?"

"Maybe he has and you haven't noticed?" Ducky suggested.

"No that's not it, we've been extra careful. It's like he wants to keep us on our toes"

"Or maybe, he just wanted to scare you guys and now its over"

"Yeah maybe," Gibbs said half-heartedly.

~~~End of Flashback~~~

"Gibbs?" a little voice asked

Gibbs looked up to find Ziva standing at the bottom of the stairs looking at him.

"What's up Ziver?" Gibbs noticed that Ziva was shaking slightly. "Heyyy" Gibbs said walking over to her. "What's wrong?"

"Am I a bad daughter?" Ziva asked

"No of course not. Why would you say that?"

"Abba says that when I disobey him, I am being bad and that I need to learn to behave and act like a good daughter"

"Ziva, look at me" Gibbs said putting his finger under her chin to force her to look him in the eye. When she did he continued… "You are not a bad daughter. Okay? Your father doesn't understand how lucky he is and that is why you are here with us now."

"I thought it was because Ima did not want me around him" Ziva said confused

"That's also true"

"Why? He is my Abba" Ziva said

"Ziva, your dad, he's not a good guy sometimes"

"He taught me to defend myself isn't that being good?"

"Yes, but not the way he taught you" Gibbs said, Then startled when he saw her look down in her lap shamefully

"Ziva can I ask you something?". Ziva nodded

"Why do you want to go back to your father?"

"Because he is my dad" Ziva answered quickly.

"No come on there has to be another reason"

"He said he would hurt Ima if I told anyone"

"He doesn't have to find out" Gibbs said

"Well he says that if I don't continue my training with him then he will hurt her, so I never told her about it. I do want to become Mossad, but I didn't think people were trained that early on"

"Ziva…your dad won't hurt your mom I promise" Gibbs said, and inwardly cursed her over-powering need to protect her loved ones. He knew it was a good thing, but she was so protective over everyone, he was worried about the lengths s he would go to protect someone.

"You can't promise that you are not with her so you don't know if he will hurt her"

"That's true but I know your mom isn't in Israel anymore"

"Really?"

"Yup, she's in Europe right now"

"You lie! She said she couldn't leave Israel"

"I'm not lying we got her out"

"Why didn't she come here to see me?"

"She can't Ziver, it's not safe with Hadar snooping around places."

"Oh"

"So is that why you wanted to go back? So you could protect your mom?" Ziva nodded.

"You don't ever have to go back I promise" Gibbs said and then pulled her into a hug.

Authors Note:

Okay, so it's kind of weird this one I hope you like it. I wanted a really cute Gibbs/Ziva scene because I love their relationship. Anyways for those who may be confused. Basically Ziva is really protective and Gibbs knew there were other motives for wanting to go back then just to be with her father and go back to her homeland. And now Ziva's happy because her mom isn't in Israel and she doesn't have to worry about her dad hurting her mom. YAYYY! Anyways I hope you liked it and please review I'd like your input, or if you have questions or ideas or… yeah let me know J