here's the next chap, set during the first half of 6x08 'Cloak'
Chapter 31 – Don't Pass a Punch?
Everyone gaped at her.
"You-" Murmured Tony, "You were pregnant?"
Kate nodded as tears filled her eyes, "Eight weeks."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
Kate looked up, "I wanted to Tony, but I couldn't. I had to die and work for the Secret Service, and if I told you then either when Ducky preformed Bethany's autopsy it would show she wasn't pregnant and you'd think I lied, or Bethany would have to get pregnant but she wouldn't want to do that with anyone but Ari."
"Ari?" Asked Ziva,
"Yea," Mumbled Kate, "He and Bethany had a thing, I tell you, there is nothing weirder then walking in on yourself making out with your enemy."
"Kate." Whispered Tony, "I'm so sorry."
Kate sniffed and nodded as she wiped her eyes, "That's why I stayed with you while you were infected, I couldn't bare to loose someone else."
* * *
A week later Tony, Ziva, Kate and McGee sat hard in thought.
Tony sat at his desk, Ziva in his lap, his head in the crook of her neck as he muttered to himself.
Kate sat on the filing cabinet behind them, her head back staring sightlessly at the ceiling.
Ziva had her hand pinching the bridge of her nose, her eyes closed as she thought.
McGee sat in his chair next to Tony's desk. He looked around the room and spoke, breaking the silence. "I say we go with the fire drill."
"Please stop pitching the fire drill." Said Ziva turning in Tony's arms,
They were trying to plan a way to steal Domino, the US plans on how to act in the case of another terrorist attack. It appeared that Agent Langer wasn't the only one involved; if he was involved at all. Jenny had told Gibbs and his team was to test the new security levels. No one but them knew.
"Oo! I think I got it!" Said Tony suddenly, snapping his head up, and making the whole chair move, surprising Ziva.
"We are not digging a tunnel." Said Kate,
"Or building a catapult." Added Ziva,
"Or setting up a series of noematic tubes, though I am partial to the concept." Said McGee,
"No, I haven't figured out a way in, I figured out; we're thinking wrong." He tapped Ziva's thighs and she stood, Tony opened a drawer and took out a pile of old case reports. "We need to think less like us, and more like them." He sat down and so did Ziva.
"And who are 'them'?"
"The guys we catch. The break in specialists, the burglars, the robbers. Remember that stake out? The guy fooled you with the uh, mirror on the video surveillance?"
"We put the cameras on a loop, we can use that." Spoke McGee
"We can use that." Repeated Tony, "Ok; getting into an accessible building, how many bad guys have broken in here?" He asked,
"The Trojan Horsemen hid inside a hollowed out seat of a taxi cab, to access the evidence garage." Said Ziva,
"Nah, taxi can't get into the front gate of a high security facility."
"Any other bad guys get in?" Asked Ziva,
Kate opened her mouth but closed it when she noticed Michelle Lee standing in front of the desk her hand going to the pizza box. Tony's hand hit the lid.
"Agent Lee."
"Is this up for grabs?"
"If you can answer the question." He said, tightening his grip around Ziva's waist.
"Well, it was before my time but, I'm guessing Ziva's brother." McGee, and Tony turned to Ziva, shock in their faces.
"Half- brother… Ari."
"Read my mind Agent Lee," Said Kate, "Infiltrated NCIS in a body bag, then shot Gerald, the bastard. No offence."
"None taken."
"So hide a body in there? Gets the guards of guard, but does it get us in the door?" Asked Tony, changing the subject.
Michelle went to take a piece of pizza, "Hey!" Called Tony, "Follow up question. Hypothetical. For the cheese." Michelle smiled, stifling a laugh. "Say that a dead body was discovered at a top secret facility…"
* * *
They were explaining their war game plan to Gibbs.
"How?" Asked Gibbs,
"Sub Turanian." Said Ziva,
"Plumbing system." Explained McGee, "One way valve joins up at the main trunk under the street outside. Now they can't get in that way, but they can get out."
"Thanks for volunteering us." Said Kate,
"Wait, wait," Said Tony, "Ziva's not doing this."
"I can look after myself Tony."
Tony opened his mouth but Gibbs interrupted, "Ducky?"
"Yea, we need to ask him if we can borrow a body."
"Don't." Said Gibbs,
"It is the only way," Stated Ziva,
"Don't ask, just take it… He'll say no."
"Putting the plan in action?" Asked Kate,
"Yes, get a body, put it in motion. Oh. Last thing; other side's using live fire, do not engage, do not resist if caught, get in, get the Intel, get out. Nobody gets hurt. Especially you Ziva."
* * *
McGee, Kate, and Gibbs sat in the back of the black windowless van. They put their headphones/mics on and McGee started to type.
"Ok I'm in their video feed, recording live signal for the feedback loop." He said,
Kate took out the camera and pulled the memory card out, McGee took it from her and inserted it into the computer, and five photos came up on the screen. They showed the security code.
"And now we wait." Said Kate,
That night Tony and Ziva walked slowly and quietly to the base.
"Read me Snowman?" Asked Tony into his mic,
"Sit tight Bandit." Came Gibbs' voice through their ear pieces
"Ok, electronic pass code, 7-5-3-0-9."
"Copy," Said Ziva, "7-5-3-0-9."
"Starting the loop now, now in the cameras, guards will be watching the re-feed. Guards have entered secondary hallway, interior hallway clear."
"Green light." Said Gibbs,
Ziva and Tony quietly entered the base then ran up a small ramp to the security pass code station.
7-5-3-0-9 typed Ziva. The door buzzed and opened.
They walked in and quietly walked down the hall. Ziva punched the code in another station and they walked through the corresponding door.
"All right, there's a patrol coming through, take the first door on your right, fifteen second window go." Came McGee's voice. Tony turned and motion Ziva to a cupboard, they squeezed in and closed the door, Tony's breathing heavy.
"Stop breathing." Hissed Ziva, She looked up at Tony's face, he had excitement and fear in his eyes. She wanted to kiss him, her hormones taking over, but before she could act Gibbs' voice came through the earpieces.
"You are clear."
They quickly got out of the cupboard and continued. They ran to the next door and Ziva typed in the code, it opened, they walked on. But as the door closed and alarm sounded, a red light was flashing.
"Uh-oh." Said Kate,
"Is that a fire alarm?" Asked McGee,
"What did you do?" Asked Tony,
"What do you mean me? You!" Ziva snapped back,
"Run! Run!"
"Security alarm." Said McGee,
Ziva and Tony ran to a door but saw a figure coming, they turned and ran but there was no point. They stopped turned again and went off in a side door.
"They've spotted us!" Called Tony,
"Something's wrong." Said McGee,
"Well, yeah, I can hear that McGee." Snapped Gibbs,
"Fire alarm and Security alarm, both going off. They should not be going off!" Said Kate,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." The screens turned to snow. "Our feed's been killed, we're blind.
"Game over."
Tony and Ziva rushed into another room, "Get on the ground!" Yelled a guard holding a rifle at Ziva,
"No! No, no, no!" Said Tony, but Ziva acted instinctively.
She could feel something. She had a gut feeling.
This man would hurt her, Tony, and their unborn child. Ziva hit the gun out of his grip, quickly spun then slapped him across the face. She could hear Tony yelling but she couldn't stop. She threw the man over a table. Another armed guard came forwards and Tony wrestled with the gun, there was a gunshot, and Ziva could hear Gibbs yelling in the ear piece.
The guard smashed Tony into a wall and raised the gun ready to hit.
"TONY!" Called Ziva,
The guard hit Tony and turned. Ziva wouldn't look at Tony. She could feel her heart breaking. Had he been shot? Or just knocked out? She didn't want to find out. She punched and kicked the man until he fell face first to the ground. Another guard came in straight after. Ziva knocked his gun away and flipped him.
One stood back up, Ziva punched them in the face they stumbled but remained standing. The guard she'd flipped stood as well and the two grabbed her arms.
"Hold her!" Yelled a woman, walking into the room. Ziva took advantage of the two supports and jumped up giving the woman a sharp kick in the chest.
She gasped, stumbling backwards, before raising her rifle and pointing it in Ziva's face; she lowered it then pulled back her fist and punched Ziva hard in the face.
Ziva fell to the ground, unconscious.
* * *
Ziva stirred. She was tied up against something. A pole, or support beam. She could hear clicking. What was that? She opened her eyes.
She was in a dimly lit room. An important looking man sat in front of her, clicking something in his hands.
"Young lady. Can you speak?" Ziva looked around. Where was Tony? Was he hurt?
"Tony."
"Apologies for the shackles. We were concerned about your state of mind."
"You are right to be." Said Ziva; glareing at the man,
She could feel dry sweat on her face, dry blood under her nose. "Where is Tony?"
The man fished for something in his pocket. "Remain calm. I promise you and Agent DiNozzo will soon be reunited." He had a Cubin in his hand, he clipped the end and smelt it, "Cubin. Prohibited in the states, I trust you won't tell anyone."
The door banged open and a man walked into the doorway. "Director Shepard has arrived sir."
The man with the Cubin got off the chair he was sitting on, "She's awake." He walked out. Ziva looked up as she heard a third pair of footsteps walk in.
"Tony." She said, "What's going on?"
Tony bent down to undo the cuffs, "I am not entirely sure. Ow." He undid the shackles and helped her up, "Deckers bullets may not have been real but his gun butt sure was."
"If the bullets were not real then…?" She noticed dried blood on Tony's face, a trickle down the corner of his mouth, she raised a hand to wipe it away but didn't.
"They knew we were coming."
"They were in on it too?"
"Oh, yeah, they were in on it, I don't know about 'too'. Apparently," He sat in the empty chair, "We didn't get the full picture."
"Who was that man?" Asked Ziva,
"You don't recognise him?"
"No."
"Well, there's this little drinking game the sailors taught me during my time as an agent afloat. Someone calls for a coin." He pulled out a coin and held it in his hand, "You pull out one of these. Who ever has the highest officer's coin; who ever's rubbed elbows with the biggest brass, everyone else has to buy him drinks. That's who that man was. The down side here is; someone's lying to us." He looked up, "The upside is," He flipped the coin to Ziva, who caught it; "We never have to pay for a drink again." Ziva looked down at the coin.
Secretary of the Navy.
After a moment of silence Tony stood, "Come on; let's get you to the hospital."
"Hospital?" Asked Ziva, "I am fine."
"And I don't doubt that, I just feel you should probably get checked out, being two months pregnant and all."
Ziva gasped and wrapped a hand protectively around her stomach.
The two walked out of the building, where a cab was waiting, they got in and Tony gave the driver directions. Ziva was quiet.
She raised a hand and licked her finger then tried to wipe away the blood above her lip. When it was gone she licked her finger again and turned to Tony, extended her arm and wiped the blood from his face too.
He looked her in the eyes. "I love you, no matter what, okay?"
"I love you too, Tony." They lent forward and kissed softly.
Half and hour later they shared a similar moment, except Ziva was sitting in a bed with her shirt held up, a doctor running an ultra sound wand along her gelled stomach, as he smiled at the cute couple, having just told them they were expecting a baby girl.
YAY TIVA BABY!
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HERE'S A PREIVEW OF NEXT CHAP (set during the second half of 6x08 'Cloak')
"I am tired of pretending I'm some super hero robot with no emotion. This baby terrifies me, and I almost lost her yesterday. I don't know what I'm doing. My father was right. I am not the motherly type; I am not ready for this. I never was and I never will be."