Chapter 23

He turned and walked closer to Jeanne "I should never have brought you into this. Papa was right to not have included you in the family business."

"I helped you, I bought you that blood and the hair, and the glasses."

"You bought me the things that belong to a federal Agent. How did you think this was going to go down Jeanne?"

"She destroyed my life!"

In a mist their argument they hadn't noticed Ziva was clutching her pregnant bludge. "Arh." She cried. Jeanne looked at her. Her water had broken as she tried to slide her body across the floor away from Jeanne and Jullien. She had wanted to remain quiet, the longer they attacked each other the more chance she had to work out what she was going to do.

"Come on Jeanne we need to get out of here." Jullien said attempting to pull her out of the room.

"Jullien, she's in labour. I have to help."

"The feds will be here soon, we don't have time."

"We have to help her."

"Don't be stupid Jeanne." Jeanne broke free from his grip and ran to her.

"Jullien, I need some cloths, We're going to have to keep the babies warm when they come." She turned to look at him but he was gone. Outside the room they could hear the plane engines ready themselves and then move away from the hanger.

Ziva writhed in pain with every contraction. The stress from her abduction had taken it's toll on her body and the babies weren't waiting any longer. Ziva was wishing she was in a hospital with drugs and C-sections at this point, as the pain grew and grew. Nothing she'd ever experienced, not even the worst torture she'd ever endured or probably even dealt out compared to this. She heard several sets of car wheels squealing to a holt outside their little side room. Four men, with guns drawn followed the sound of her torment to where she lay. Tony, offcourse, was the first into the room.

"Get away from her." He yelled running closer, his gun pointed at Jeanne who was crouched in front of his screaming wife.

"Tony!" Ziva wailed.

"She's in labour Tony, the babies are coming." Jeanne yelled to him, not averting her eyes from Ziva. Tony holstered his gun and run to her side.

"Ziva, you okay?" He said, taking her hand.

"No you jerk, I'm having your children!"

"I guess we'll work on that plurals thing later. Gibbs, Call 911."

"It's too late. She's having these babies now."

"What's with the contagious plural syndrome? I mean…."

"ARH." Ziva interrupted him with another scream of pain. "Shut up Tony."

"You need to start pushing Ziva, have you been practicing your breathing?"

"We didn't do the classes, she was meant to have a C-section. I don't know what to do." Tony said concerned.

"I remember." Gibbs volunteered. Tony looked at his boss. He must have remembered lamaze from when Shannon was pregnant with Kelly. Gibbs made a gesture to make sure Tony would be alright if he contributed. Tony nodded and Gibbs sat behind Ziva, supporting her back and showing her how to breath. Tony copied, as did Ziva.

"Ok, well you're going to need to help her Tony, keep her focus, she's going to need you now more then ever."

Tony looked at Jeanne the way he had many times before. Disbelief and bewilderment, more then anything his eyes were grateful. He wondered how through all of this, through all her apparent hatred she'd still managed to be a humanitarian and help Ziva in her time of need. He looked at her. "thank you Jeanne."

"Don't thank me yet. It's not over. Come on Ziva, push. Okay and I can a head. That's a good thing."

"Come on Ziva, you're so strong and amazing. You can do this."

"Tony, take your jacket off."

"What?"

"Your jacket. The baby's nearly here and we're going to want to keep it warm." Tony just about torn his jacket off, he would have done anything in that moment to help. He felt so useless, and helpless.

"Come on Nougat. You're dad wants to meet you, and it's kinda fitting that the first thing you wear is my beautiful designer jacket." He winced at the thought of how much it cost, but only for a second till he was interrupted by the pain his wife was in.

"One more big push should do it."

Tony's heart shattered into a million pieces as he heard Ziva's pain. He'd like to think he'd trade places in a second if it meant he could take away that pain, but knew that he'd never be able to deal with child birth as well as his exotic Israeli goddess.

Suddenly, out of the screams of his wife, he started to hear the cries of a new born baby. He looked down and there was Nougat. A beautiful baby boy. Well maybe not beautiful to anyone else, covered in slime and everything, but to the child's father, he was amazing.

"I Need something to cut the cord." Jeanne stated.

"Rule number 9. Always carry a knife."

"Quick, in my car there is a small medical kit, I have scissors in there and medical wipes to sterilise them. It will make a cleaner cut. Gibbs raced out to the car and fetched the equipment he'd been sent for and hurried back.

"Thank you." Jeanne said taking it and preparing the scissors before cutting it. She patted the baby on it's back, then wrapped him in Tony's jacket handing Nougat to his father.

"Look what you did. Ziva. You made this beautiful baby boy. I'm so proud of you." Ziva looked at the baby, she ran her finger down his face.

"He is so… precious."

"Good work Ziva." Gibbs congratulated her.

"Thank you… ARH."

The men were taken by surprise with her cry. "What's going on? Why is she still in pain?"

"Okay Ziva," Jeanne focused on her. "You can do this, you're a strong woman. Are you ready to go again?"

Ziva knodded. "Yes, I am ready."

"What's going on?" Tony asked confused.

"Do you remember how you wouldn't find anything out about the baby Tony?" Ziva tried to joke as the perspiration ran down her face.

"Yeah."

"Well, you should have thought about that."

"Twins?" he said, almost fainting.

"Yes Tony, I found out yesterday. A shock isn't it."

"and you were going to tell me when?"

Ok guys. So there's one chapter left. For a story i was going to make pretty short to finish off this series (I was thinking about 6 chapters- 9 at the MOST) I'm STUNNED I got 24 chapters out of this!!!! Who knows what I"ll do after this. I'll be lost without my make believe world!!!