Chapter 15

"I have, and I would very much like to find out what I'm having."

"fantastic," Jeanne said, trying to hide her excitement about screwing Tony over, even if it was only a small thing.

"I would like too, but I do not think I should."

"But he'd never need to know!"

"But I would know and Tony might not be perfect but I do believe I would be very upset if he did this to me."

"But he is, he's stopping you for doing what you want."

"I do not think it would make much difference at this stage for me to know or not. I will be finding out in 3 weeks anyway. It is not like I can go shopping for pink or blue little outfits while I'm on bed rest anyway."

"I suppose." Jeanne bit back her disappointment. "Ok, well lets check that everything is going well here then." Jeanne squeezed some cold gel onto Ziva's stomach and then began the ultrasound. "Oh, well that explains it, you didn't tell me you were having twins." Jeanne announced.

"TWINS?" Ziva yelled out.

"you didn't know?"

"No, Tony didn't want to know anything except if it… they were healthy or if there was a problem."

"Oh wow, I'm so…"

"twins… what am I going to do, I can't have twins."

"I'm sorry Ziva, but you are."

"I'm going to kill Tony, I am sure that twins do not run in my family, he must have done this."

"And he didn't want you to find out. Imagine that shock. You know, when they were born."

"That is true. He should have at least found that out."

"Are you okay Ziva? you need to calm down, the baby's heart rates are going up."

"But what am I going to do? I don't know I can look after one baby let alone two."

"Please, you need to calm down."

"I can't I just can't." Ziva frantically thought out loud, not even listening to Jeanne. "You have to do something, you have to get them out, I can't do this." The heart rates were fast, Jeanne's face turned to panic. She knew if she didn't do something soon there was a chance of serious complications.

"Of course you can. And you'll have Tony to help"

"Tony, do you think he would ever be able to look after two babies?" It was a question Jeanne didn't want to search for an answer for. She found herself considering what she would say. She had to calm Ziva down, and as much as she wanted to hurt Tony she couldn't hurt these innocent lives. She found that the only answer she could give was the truth, but perhaps the most painful for her.

"I do Ziva, I often pictured him with children. Playing ball with them, taking them to the park and running them down the slide, how wonderful he'd be when they were teenagers, he'd be one of those fathers that would still be able to relate to the kids without coming off like he's trying too hard. They'd want to come to him and talk about troubling issues like drugs and dating and puberty. He's going to be a perfect dad." Jeanne had lost herself, she was to busy revisiting her old hopes, dreams and thoughts, thoughts she'd believed she'd moved on from years ago. She didn't notice that the rate of Ziva, and her babies hearts were calming. Jeanne knew what she wanted and now new that she wasn't going to stop at anything to get it. She started to hate Ziva, resent her, maybe if she wasn't in Tony's life, he would have come looking for her. She could feel her blood pressure start to rise, she was jolted out of her bitter thoughts by Ziva.

"You are right, we can handle this."

"Arh... yes I'm sure you can."

"You know what, I think it's probably best that we take some blood, you know, just to do a routine scan make sure you're still getting enough iron and everything."

"fine." Jeanne took the ultrasound off her belly and moved to a cupboard, and pulled out the equipment she'd need to take blood. Ziva rolled up her sleave and allowed Jeanne access to her arm. After taking the sample, she took Ziva's blood pressure.

"Your blood pressure is still a little high, you didn't drive here did you?"

"No, I could not reach the pedals and the steering wheel."

"Just as well. Is there someone I could ring to come and pick you up?"

"I'm sure I will be fine. Ziva finished wiping her belly clean with some paper towel then lowered her top back over her belly and arm and went to stand up. Jeanne quickly grabbed her as she started to fall backwards.

"I really think we should ring someone. I could ring Tony if you would like." Jeanne hoped desperately that Ziva would agree and she might get a chance to see him again, and take in his magnificence.

"No, he is on a case."

"Well I can not let you leave in your current condition without someone, it's regulation."

"I have someone I can call."

"Fine, just give their name and number to the nurse at the desk and she will ring them." Jeanne ushered her out of the room, a passing nurse went to go into the examination room. "Arh where are you going?" Jeanne asked trying to block her path.

"To clean up, we've got plenty of patients waiting."

"That's fine, can you please take Ziva out the front? She's feeling a little weak. You'll need to get the phone number of her friend to call them. I'll clean up in there."

The nurse took Ziva's arm and helped her back to the waiting room, sat her down and got a pen and paper to write down the phone number.

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"Ziva!" the yell echoed through the clinical hospital hall moving towards the waiting room where Ziva sat. "Ziva." Abby walked into the room and frantically looked around trying to spy her friend. "Ziva, are you alright?"

"I am fine Abby."

"But they told me you were weak and I had to come down straight away to help you home. Are you alright? Is it the baby?"

"Everyone is fine. I just need to go home."

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Abby overbearingly accompanied Ziva up to the apartment, holding everything, and shuffling in her platform Mary Janes towards the door. Ziva pulled her keys out of her pocket, but Abby grabbed them quickly and raced to the door so that it could be unlocked when she got there. She moved everything out of her way and lead her to the couch.

"Thank you Abby. I am sure you have a lot of work to do, you should get back before Gibbs discovers you missing."
"No way. They are all out on assignment, I'm going to ring him and tell him I'm with you. He'll be fine. Oh and I should tell Tony that you're okay."

"NO! no, you can not do that Abby."

"Well why not? He'll be worried about you otherwise."

"He doesn't need to know."

"Ziva, what's wrong? It's the baby isn't it, there's something wrong with the baby isn't there."

"They are fine Abby."

"They? You mean you and the baby? Jeeze Ziva I thought your English had gotten better then that, you mean we are fine."

"Well, we are all fine, all of us."

"what are you talking about? You mean the both of you."

"No Abby the three of us. I'm having twins!"

Hey guys. I'm headed away for a few days so won't be able to post for a little while. will start writing the minute I get back.

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