I turned my pc off like an hour ago to watch TV. Than just as I was turning my telly off to go to bed I realised I hadn't updated. So here I am, turning my laptop back on and uploading this for you!

Sorry about so very nearly missing! But I didn't in the end, yeah me. (NCIS tomorrow whoot. Heartland was my fave ep so far, Nine Lives shall not compare. I doubt anyway.)

Just for those people who got confused at the end of the last chapter, I obviously didn't make it clear enough I'm not sure. Darren is Ziva's very much so older brother. He moved away from Israel when Alyssa (his daughter) was born to protect her. He was mossad for a while but left. Erm, not sure where cousin came from.
What else? Oh Tony is just trying to find an excuse for being uncharacteristically mean to Ziva before by trying to make himself believe the baby wasn't his and he had no responisibility to him. They did only sleep together once, so to be honest it could be anybodies! Although the paternity will be revealed later on.
Umm, Lissy is short for Alyssa if you didn't realise, Darren is 9 years older than Ziva I think. I did map it out lol, I have a timeline and everything, I get confused otherwise and everything will end up overlapping lol.

Wow, wall of Author Comments. Anyway hope you enjoy. xx

Chapter Eight

After much discussion and persuasion Gibbs finally got Ziva to agree to go to NCIS headquarters tomorrow. She had accidentally let slip that tomorrow she had the day off because she had to take Ben and Lissy to the dentist and her attempts at getting out of it involved the fact she couldn't take the children into a federal building. Gibbs argument had been fairly well made.

"Don't you ever bring them to the Embassy?" Ziva had agreed to meet them there at about 1 o clock after the trip to the dentist. So now, Ziva was strapping Ben into the car seat in the back of the car while Lissy climbed in next to him. Within ten minutes she was pulling up outside of NCIS, she was early so decided to wait in the car, she turned over in her seat to talk to Lissy. The girl picked up what she was trying to tell her pretty quickly.

"So basically, don't tell them anything? Because you didn't specify anything specific when you were talking to the guy yesterday? Dad should be here, he'd love to wind you up over this."

"This is exactly why he is not here. That and because he can not get the time off work." Lissy laughed and unbuckled her seat belt getting out of the car. She leant on the door and peered over the roof at the building.

"Looks a bit drab. The Embassy is a lot posher." Lissy said, her head on an angle as she judged the building in front of her, she stood on the frame of the car where the door sits to get a better look at the building.

"Alyssa, if you fall and hurt yourself I am not driving you to A&E." Alyssa just shrugged and remained in her spot as Ziva detached Ben from his car seat. "Stop Ben, Lissy is busy at being a rubbish spy." Ziva said trying to stop the small boy from reaching out for his cousin as she pulled the last strap off him. She picked him up and the little boy squealed.

"Issy! Issy!"

"Oh I won't take that personally. Here." She muttered handing Ben to Lissy who took him whilst laughing at Ziva. The boy shouted 'Up!' and tried to climb up Lissy obviously trying to get higher like she had done. Lissy laughed before lifting him up onto her shoulders like her father had done two days previously. Ziva locked the car flinging aside bag over her head and shoulder, she led the way for Lissy and Ben into the building.

In the elevator Lissy had to take Ben off her shoulders and the little boy was now toddling around the elevator. The second the doors opened Ben dashed out and Lissy gave chase, catching him in a few seconds. Ziva took hold of the boy's hand and whispered something I his ear, the boy hung his head and tried to hug his mother. Ziva picked him up and he wrapped his arms around her neck. Ziva walked to Gibbs desk and he looked up at her.

"You're late." He said, and indeed she was by about five minutes. Ziva shrugged.

"Gibbs, this is Alyssa or Lissy, and this," she shrugged her shoulder to get Ben to move a bit, "is Benjamin or Ben. Lissy, this is Special Agent Gibbs, McGee, DiNozzo and Lee." She said pointing each person out to Lissy as they rotated on the spot. McGee was talking on his phone within seconds the rather excitable person o the other end came running into the bullpen.

"Aaah, Ziiivaa? Oh My God Ziva!?" Abby screamed when she saw her, Ben hid his face in her neck and Abby slowed down when she saw the little boy in Ziva's arms. "Oooh, who is this? Did I scare him, I'm sorry." Abby mumbled.

"Oh, he is fine. Ben it is OK it is Abby, she just wishes to say hello to you." Ben picked his head up and blinked at Abby. Abby smiled and said hello as sweetly as possible, Ben smiled back.

"Hi Ab-ee." Abby squealed at him as Ziva put him down on the floor, Ben immediately toddled up to Abby who had crouched down and opened her arms out to him. Ziva watched as Abby began to play with the little boy on the floor. She watched as Abby rose her left hand to cover her eyes but found Ziva had taken a hold of it.

"You are wearing an engagement ring!?" She stated shocked and Abby grinned widely.

"Yeah, I'm getting married in three months to Timmy." Ziva blinked before looking at Tim.

"Wow, congratulations you two!" Abby and McGee grinned before resuming Abby's game with Ben.

Ziva turned to face Gibbs who stood up and asked Ziva if he would accompany him somewhere, Ziva reluctantly agreed and followed him up the stairs to the directors office, she looked over the balcony to see McGee, Lissy and Agent Lee playing with Ben on the floor while Abby tried to get Tony to join them.

Gibbs led Ziva into a small room off the floor. He shut the door behind her and walked to the other end of the room; he had brought her into the conference room. He sat on one of the chairs and she followed suit. He was silent for a few minutes before Gibbs spoke up.

"I want you to come back to work for NCIS Ziva. You were a damned good agent, my best in the field. The team isn't the same without you."

"Thanks Gibbs, but I'm not sure, I loved NCIS don't get me wrong. Its just …"

"Ben? Alyssa? I'm guessing Ben is your son, you never said he wasn't and he looks a hell of a lot like you." Ziva nodded to Gibbs' correct assumption.

"Nothing will ever happen to him Ziva, trust me." Ziva nodded again.

"It isn't just that though. It will be too awkward working back here, before I left, DiNozzo and I were not exactly on good terms. I would not know how to talk to him at all."

Gibbs accepted her honesty but instead of offering her words of advice he slapped her on the back of the head. She looked up and smiled at him mouthing three words he never expected to ever be uttered about his head slapping.

"I missed that." The two smiled at each other before walking back into the bullpen.

"Mama! Mama! See see." Ben giggled running towards his mother, he fell forwards as at eighteen months although he was developing fast for his age he could still not walk more than a few feet. He picked himself up and continued on his way to his mother. Ziva bent over to see what he had, it was a picture he had drawn, a small boy in blue with a woman in black and a man in green.

"Ab-ee n Im!" he said proudly indicating to the two people who were no more than scribbles across the page. Abby had written their names across the top of the page to make it more obvious.

"Why don't you let Abby keep that Ben. I'm sure she would love it." Ben nodded and made his way back over to Abby who gladly took it from Ben saying she would put it in the wall in her lab. Ziva leant against the partition near her old desk. Tony stared at her for the first time since she had entered the building. She was watching her son and niece playing on the floor with Abby and Agent Lee.

"He's a cute kid Ziva." Tony said, only loud enough for Ziva to hear. She looked over at him and raised her eyebrows remembering how he had congratulated her when she had told him she was pregnant, she had been so scared and the baby's father had run off.

"I know. He is everything to me." She turned her attention back to her son, "I was so scared when I found out I was pregnant, I did not think I could ever be a mother. I had spent most of my life killing people, to bring a person into the world was something utterly different. I would not change it for the world." She had walked closer to Tony's desk to ensure nobody could hear her discussing her feelings, rare as it was to do even that.

"Thanks you, Tony." She whispered barely loud enough for even him to hear. Before he had chance to process this she walked off towards Lissy, Ben and Abby. She sat next to Abby who immediately spurted out all the things that had happened to her and McGee over the past two years, how they got together, fell in love and got engaged. She even invited Ziva to her wedding, McGee pulling an invite from somewhere. Ziva smiled and agreed she would attend.

Tony was watching as Ziva laughed and spoke with Abby, trying to decipher what she had said to him. He got the first part, she had been just as scared and unsure about having children as he was, perhaps more so. She was a born killer, not just commitment phobic, she was trained to hide her emotions and to mask how she was feeling he had not realised this before she had left. He screwed up pretty bad he figured. It was the last three words that struck him though.

She had thanked him; she had thanked him for giving her a child. Who thanks the person who got them knocked up and then ran away? Tony was to say the least, stunned. He had been beating himself up for the past twenty four hours over the fact Ziva had been a single mother for the past two years while he had continued dating every blonde brunette and red head under the sun. Guilt pulsed through him and he actually wriggled in his chair due to the weight of it.

Ziva stayed at NCIS for over four hours, she had spent a while in Autopsy with Ducky and Palmer, Lissy had been intrigued by the idea of Autopsy and much to Ducky, Palmer and Abby's (who had followed Ziva around for the day) surprise she had not been put off at all by seeing a dead body. Ziva had only wondered how often she had actually seen dead people. Alyssa had grown up in Tel Aviv and during terror attacks dead bodies often littered the streets, Ziva preferred this thought to that she had witnessed a murder or seen her father kill somebody. To protect his daughter, Ziva knew Darren would do anything.

Ziva had spent the rest of the time in Abby's lab, Ben had eventually fallen asleep and Abby had offered to put him up on her couch so her and Ziva could catch up. The three of them swapped stories and Lissy was more than happy to attempt at describing Ziva before she came to NCIS, something Ziva did not want to be broadcast. They spent a while thumbing through wedding brochures looking for a wedding dress for Abby, though not matched her description at all. Dark. Ziva had given up when Lissy had found the perfect dress.

She held up the page in the brochure showing it to Abby and Ziva. It was a deep purple colour; the top was a very tight fitting bodice with small black and glittery purple beads thread up it. The skirt flared out and was made out of a very shiny satin material. It flowed perfectly and Abby instantly fell in love with it. She leapt up and grabbed the magazine out of Lissy's hands and kissed the girl on the head. She picked up the phone and dialled the number for the boutique where the dress was from.

By the end of the day Abby was even happier than she had been when Ziva had visited. She was hugging complete strangers due to the fact she now had a wedding dress. McGee had been hugged and kissed so many times by his future wife he was now sitting in Autopsy with Ducky having his arm looked at where Abby had squeezed him so hard he thought she had dislocated his shoulder. Ducky gave him the all clear but he chose to remain in Autopsy until Abby had calmed down, he hoped she didn't get her hands on a Caf-Pow.

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