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It was almost 4.30 when Katy's cries woke him up. Lucky for him, he was doing a nightmare. He looked at the clock, perfectly on time. Ziva didn't even move a little, she must be very tired, he thought to himself. She was always the one to be awake. Two minutes later, Katy was in his arms, smiling to him. He went downstairs, so he could bottle feed her. It didn't take her long to go back to sleep. When he returned in his room, Ziva was still sleeping. He kneeled next to her, and slowly caressed her forehead. It was slightly hot; he knew something was wrong with her. She was a ninja; normally he wouldn't be so close to her in her sleep. She would have jump to his throat with her knife. He laughed at this thought. He was really worried about his wife. He looked at his watch. He had thirty minutes to get ready for work.
He went in the bathroom and looked into the mirror. He was tired of this routine. It got him twenty minutes to get ready. He went back to his room and sat on the chair next to the bed. He just loved seeing her sleeping, she was so peaceful. When they arrived here, she was having terrible nightmares, but now it was getting better especially with Katy. She was the best thing that happened to them, she was conceived here; it was a big decision to take, he was so afraid to screw this up. But the first time he saw her, all the fear was gone. He looked at his watch; and gently caressed Ziva's hair.
"Sweetheart. Honey it's time to wake up."
She moved slowly and finally opened her eyes. She smiled to him.
"How are you this morning? Feeling better?"
"I don't think so…Still having a headache."
"You should stay here today"
"No I can't, I have this stupid meeting with the neighborhood's wives about next week's barbecue. Then I'll go to school, and just let Katy at the kindergarten."
"If you have any kind of problem, just call me."
"Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"I have to worry you are my wife. Katy woke up an hour, she was kinda hungry I gave her her bottle."
"What? She already had woken up? Why didn't I hear her cries?"
"Even the best ninja in the world have to sleep sometimes."
She laughed slightly.
"Okay thank you."
He delicately kissed her on the lips letting a big smile on her face.
"I'll call later."
"Wait…"
"What?"
She catch his hand.
"Please Tony be careful."
"Always sweetcheeks always."
Her smile faded, she didn't like him leaving every morning. When they arrived here, she wasn't sure of what would happen, but she knew it would be fine because they were together. They had been a couple for one year before coming here, and since then it has been a secret. They wanted to prove that their personal relationship didn't interfere with their work. When Tony proposed, she thought that it was the best thing that ever happened to her, but now that Katy was in their lives, she couldn't be happier. When they received the details for this mission, she had a bad feeling, indeed with Katy's birth she didn't had any time to think about it. But one month ago the feeling went back and grew stronger. Like Gibbs would have said, it was a gut feeling. Slowly she woke up and went in Katy's room, she was still sleeping. She went downstairs, had some breakfast. She didn't ate much; she couldn't bare food this morning. She was sitting there in this big kitchen looking at the picture of the team they had on the wall. She was missing them so much, she wanted so bad to call Abby when she learned she got pregnant. Suddenly the phone rang.
"Good morning."
"Good morning Andreya, it's April. How are you?"
"I'm fine and you?"
"I'm fine too. I'm just calling to remind you that the meeting is in one hour in my house."
"Don't worry April I haven't forget."
"Okay then, see you in a few."
"Okay ,bye."
She hung up, she didn't like this woman. April was all she never wanted to be. She was the president of the teachers' association and a highly respected figure of the neighborhood. Really snobbish and always putting the light on herself. The one thing that Ziva hated the most about her, was that she was always sneaking around her, wanting to know everything about their family. She was married to Brett, one of Tony's coworkers, and supposedly involved in this massive evidence traffic. And she was sure that April was trying to gather information about them. She stayed a few more minutes in the kitchen, trying to get rid of her headache, and then she took a shower. When she finished, she went into Katy's room, she was awake, playing with her favorite teddy bear. She gave her a bath and prepared her for the day. She didn't like to be separated from her, but she could see her anytime she wanted because the kindergarten was in the school she was teaching in. One of the best in the country. The Saint Maria school group was practically only for gifted and rich kids so everything was made for their comfort and theirs teachers' comfort. She looked at her watch. Time to go. She took Katy and her purse, got out the house and walked to April's house which was 6 houses down the street. When she arrived, a dozen of wives were already waiting in the garden.
"Good morning Andreya. Hey you."
Katy smiled at the woman.
"Hey Connie."
"Oh my god Andy, are you okay?"
"Why?"
"You look so pale. Is it about Amelia?"
"Oh no Amelia is the sweetest child in the world. I don't sleep well these days, I don't eat much neither, I have got this terrible headache for two days. It's killing me. And you that I'm all but pleased to be here."
The two of them laughed. Connie was Andreya's only friend here; she was a teacher at Saint Maria with her and Josh's wife, one of Tony's closest colleagues who have been killed during an intervention seven months ago. Ziva was convinced that Josh was a good cop and that knew too much, that's the reason why he's been murdered. Of course, the case conclusion was an accident. But it was everything but an accident. Now Connie was living alone with her two children, Mary 14 years and Bradley 8 years old. She was the only one that Andreya liked here; she was coming sometimes with her kids at their home. She's been there for her when her husband died and now they were good friends. But Ziva was convinced that Connie knew something too because she always looked scared when April was around.
"Hello everybody."
April had made a noteworthy entrance as always.
"Girls let's take a seat, it won't be long, we have all work to do."
They all took a seat and listened to her speech. This entire masquerade lasted 30 minutes.
"Thank you girls for your time. See you all on Saturday."
Ziva took her purse and was leaving with Connie when April called her.
"Andreya may I talk to you for a sec?"
"Of course."
She gave Connie a look.
"Connie can you take Kat for a moment please? I'll meet at the car."
Connie took the girl and leaved.
"So what do you need April? Because I'll be late for school."
"Don't worry it'll only take a sec. So I was wondering if we could have lunch together."
"Why? Do you need to talk about something special?"
"Yeah we want to organize a party at your house next week"
"We? I'm sure you mean you. Why do you always want to come into my house, I thought I made myself clear, I don't like to have people in my house."
"But Connie comes into your house often!"
"Connie is my friend, are you keeping me under surveillance?"
"Andreya you are paranoiac! You've been here for two years and you and Ethan don't really mix well with the community. I think it's strange, you don't want to invite people, are you hiding something?"
"I'm sorry April but it's with you we don't mix up! I have to go to school so if you have finished."
"Yeah, for now. But we'll discuss this later."
"No April the conversation is over."
She left, joining Connie next to her car.
"What does she want?"
"She wants to organize a party at my house, she's seriously crazy!"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Nop."
Suddenly her phone began to rang.
"Hey honey!"
"Where are you?"
"On my way to school with Connie. Why?"
"Can you come back home? Please."
"What's going on?"
"We'll talk later."
He hung up. Connie was looking at her friend's face. She was seriously worried about her.
"What's going on Andy?"
"I don't know, Ethan asked me to come back home now. It's probably nothing."
"Andy…you know what I have been through? Be careful with who you get angry."
"What do you mean?"
"I have to go. I'll tell the principal you won't be able to be here this morning. I'll call you later, okay?"
"Okay?"
"Yeah. See ya."
She took Katy in her arms and began to walk back to her house. She was almost 2 houses down, when she stopped on her way. She felt like somebody was watching her, as always but this time she felt like they were closer than usual. She discreetly looked around her. No one. She always had a bad feeling about this. And now she was definitely sure that something was going on.