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"Thank you," Abby said to him.
"Sorry for interrupting but Abby, would you like to explain to me about how Ziva called Tali her daughter and why her and Tony are suddenly fighting over you?" he asked.
For a few moments Gibbs just stared at Abby after she had quickly explained that Ziva was the 'father' of her baby and that she and Ziva were perusing a romantic relationship.
When he went to say something Abby quickly threw up her hand in a gesture for him to stay quiet.
"If your going to say something about rule twelve or something along the lines of that, I don't want to hear it," Abby said through clenched teeth.
"I wasn't going to do either of those things, I was going to say that I hope it works out," he said gruffly before turning back to the glass that allowed them to see Tony, Ziva, and Tali, but didn't allow them to see those who were now quietly observing them.
"Why did you leave?" Tony asked as he folded his hands on the table and leaned forward.
"Why does anyone leave the people they love? Because their scared or they feel it is for the best of that person, they are almost always wrong in that case, but that's not what happened to me," Ziva said with a lost look in her eyes.
"I'll ask again, why did. You. Leave?" he asked with persistence.
Ziva looked away from the paper and looked past Tony with a far away look.
"The look in her eyes, you did not see the way she looked at me, Tony. Like I was the monster from her worst nightmare, it hurt so much to know that it was me, causing her to be that afraid, I had made her become so fearful of me for just a few moments because I was angry and I was not even angry at her, I knew that I never wanted to be the cause of that look on her face again, so I left," Ziva said with tearful eyes.
Ziva's display shocked Tony, she was choosing to be very open and vulnerable in front of her enemy.
Ziva suddenly reached her hand into her pocket and pulled her phone out, she flipped it open and pressed it to her ear.
"David," Ziva said into it.
"What's your angle?" Abby asked her over the phone.
"Abby?" Ziva asked with a confused face.
"Yes, now answer my question," Abby demanded.
"I do not know what your talking about, where are you?" Ziva asked with a confused face.
"Right behind you Ziva," Abby answered.
Ziva looked behind her at the black glass with the phone still pressed to her ear.
Ziva waved at the glass before turning around, placing the phone on the table and putting it on speaker.
"We can all hear you now Abby," she said to the phone.
"What are you two doing?"Abby said with a long sigh.
"We are having a civil conversation while Tali is coloring," Tony said with a smile.
"Yeah, sure, look, I need Tali, she didn't exactly sleep as long as she should have and I am not going to deal with a grumpy baby at work," Abby said as she walked out of the room and waited in the hallway.
"Alright, we will be out with her in a moment," Ziva said before hanging up on her girlfriend and standing up with her daughter in her arms.
Tony followed Ziva and Tali out of the room and watched as Ziva handed her daughter to her mother before kissing her cheek.
"Hi baby," Abby said to her daughter with a smile as she took the child that was being handed to her.
"Mommy," he daughter squealed with excitement as she reached for her mother.
"Did you have fun with you Ema and you uncle Tony?" Abby asked her daughter with an excited voice.
"How did you know the Ema means mother?" Ziva asked with a confused look.
"Please Ziva, I'm not stupid, I had enough sense to know that Tali would need to know what to call you if she ever met you and you knew she was your daughter.
"So you learned how to say mother in Hebrew?" Ziva asked with slight pride in the mother of her child.
"Not just mother, I did learn some Hebrew, I wanted Tali to know some, whether she ever met you or not," Abby said as she started to walk back toward the elevator.
"I see," Ziva said following her.
Tony walked in the opposite direction of them, toward the bullpen to get back to work, he had gotten what he needed to say out into the open.
"So she calls me Ema and she calls you Mommy?" Ziva asked as she hit the button that would bring them down to Abby's lab.
"I guess, or whatever she wants to call us that means mother," Abby said with a shrug.
"Sounds good to me," Ziva said as she hugged Abby with Tali in between the two of them.
Tali giggled and Ziva backed up a bit so that she still had her arms wrapped around her daughter and lover, but she could still look down at their daughter with an adoring look.
"You will know many languages my little one," Ziva said as she looked into her daughter's bright green eyes.
"Mmmm, I don't know about how many, I would at least like to have an idea about what the two of you are complaining about when you do it," Abby teased.
Ziva tenderly kissed Abby for a few moments without pressing against their daughter.
"I will always keep you in the loop," Ziva said with a soft smile as she rested her forehead against Abby's.
Both of them smiled before looking down at their daughter with the same motherly pride in their smiles.
Tali plaid with Ziva's necklace while both of her mothers plaid with her curls with a certain softness and tenderness that only a mother could have for her child.