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Ziva, Tali and Ari had been one of the first people to arrive at the wedding reception which was being held in another large room in the hotel. Tali and Ari sat at one of the tables near to the centre of the seating area, Ziva was standing; she was too nervous to sit down. Ziva's heart wouldn't calm down. She had told Tali and Ari about them being here and that Tony had seen her.
"What am I supposed to do?" Ziva though aloud in a panic.
"Ziva, I am sure it will be okay" Tali tried to make Ziva feel better.
Ari was about to speak to try and help his sisters state of mind when he was interrupted.
"Oh my God! Gina!" a bubbly Goth screamed as she ran over.
Ziva froze.
"Abby, what?" Kate screamed after her but then noticed what was going on at the same time as everyone else, but Tony; he already knew she was here and hadn't had a chance to tell everyone. Breena and Wendy also didn't know what was going on; they were never told about Ziva; it was too painful for the group.
Ari and Tali had look of shock on their face as Abby embraced their unusually nervous sister.
In a matter of seconds everyone was surrounding Ziva. Tony was at the back of the group with Wendy.
"Gina, Gina, Gina, what are you doing here?" Abby screamed as she released Ziva from the ultimate death grip.
"Abby, I am not Gina …" Ziva was going to carry on but was cut off.
"Sorry, yeah, um, Ziva what are you doing here?" Abby carried on.
"I am here for the wedding and to apologise to all of you" at that point she made eye contact with Tony. He looked away.
"It's so good to see you again" Kate broke the silence.
"You too Kate" one by one Ziva hugged Kate, Tim and Jimmy who then introduced his new girlfriend to Ziva.
"Good to see you again. This is Breena" Ziva gave him a look as if to ask what happened to Michelle, he answered with a look as if to say fill you in later.
"Hello, it is nice to meet you" Ziva said shaking her hand.
Ziva felt awkward greeting Tony; luckily Kate saved her by asking who Ziva's friends were.
"Oh, sorry, this is Tali my younger sister and this is Ari my older brother "Tali and Ari were now standing.
Kate whispered to Ziva "I thought you said you didn't have a brother"
"That was Gina" Ziva giggled.
Kate stepped forward and introduced herself to Ari and Tali but more to Ari. "Hi, I'm Catlin Todd, you can call me Kate"
"Very nice to meet you Catlin" he greeted with a flirtatious smile.
"Hey Tali I'm Abby" Abby waved at Tali.
Ziva then took it as her responsibility to introduced everyone else.
"This is Tim, Jimmy, Breena, Tony and sorry I do not know who you are" at this point Tony stepped forward.
"This is Wendy" he looked straight into Ziva's eyes. Ziva stuck out her hand to greet Wendy. At this point Tony noticed the bracelet he had gotten her for her birthday which has inscribed on it 'We may not be together but our love will last forever' Ziva had unconsciously put it on that morning; she always wore it ever since she was taken back to Israel; this made his heart sink, he had moved on, well he thought he had, but meeting her or even just seeing her now has brought back all his feelings. He had hoped Ari was her boyfriend but in the back of his head he knew he wasn't. What was he going to do now?
"It is good to meet you Wendy, I am Ziva; an old friend of Tony's" that hurt Tony she wasn't just his friend. He had lover her.
Wendy just smiled and shook Ziva's hand; she felt betrayed; no one had told her about this woman not even Tony, why? She knew that they must have had a history. Why was she not informed? Breena just took it with a pinch of salt. She was very understanding.
The group went and sat at the next table to Ziva, Tali and Ari. By this time everyone from the service and others had arrived at the wedding reception and were waiting for the new Mr and Mrs Gibbs to come back from their drive around.
The double doors opened that everyone had entered through moments earlier. The DJ announced their arrival. Everyone turned to look at the happy couple, clapped, smiled and cheered. The Gibbs' couldn't stop smiling as they walked into the room holding hands.
The first person they wanted to speak to was Ziva David; even though their encounter could have been seen a brief, the reconstituted family felt like they had been together for a life time. Jenny had missed Ziva and even though Gibbs didn't admit it he had too.
The bride and groom walked up to the Israeli family filled table with smiles on their faces. Ziva stood up. Everyone was still silent and was watching the happy couple.
Jenny couldn't help but hug Ziva. Gibbs stood slightly back, giving their daughter figure and his wife a moment. He loved that she was his wife; he loved her and could see a long lasting future with her.
"Ziva, I am so glad you came, how?" Jenny had tears in her eyes. Jenny released Ziva from their hug.
"I will explain later" her eyes and expression matched Jenny's.
At this point Gibbs stepped forward and gave Ziva a slight hug and a kiss on the cheek. "It is good seeing you again Ziver" he looked towards the two other Israelis that sat at the table. Ziva got the hint.
She looked towards her siblings and they stood up. Everyone was still watching the greetings. "This is Tali David, my sister and this is Ari Haswari, my brother. This is Jennifer Shep… Gibbs and Leroy Jethro Gibbs"
"Jenny" the bride offered her hand to the Israelis, they shook it one after the other.
"Gibbs" the two Israelis did the same again.
"We'll talk to you later Ziva" jenny said as she moved on to talk to the other guests. She smiled at the gang and the returned it, except Tony; he was too distracted by his mind spinning.
The bride and groom had arrived 30 minutes ago. Tony walked up to Ziva as she sat at the table watching her brother and sister dance. "Can we please talk?" Tony sounded terrible.
"I do not think your new girlfriend would like that" she stated with a slight smile; part of her was glad he had found someone new.
"I think she will understand" Tony reassured.
"Where is she?"
"Dancing with McGeek" Tony stated whilst looking towards them dancing.
Ziva nodded
"Can we go somewhere more private?"
Ziva got up and walked over to the edge of the room away from everyone. Tony followed. Tali saw this and nodded to them to her brother. They were worried for her. The heart is hard to heal; they learnt that from when she was heartbroken when she was brought back to Israel; they didn't want her getting hurt even more.
"I would just like to start out by saying, you look beautiful" he wanted to lighten the tense feeling that had suddenly occurred between them.
"Still the same old charmer Tony" Ziva joined in; she didn't want the awkwardness "You look good also; you look very smart"
"I am so sorry Ziva" Tony practically begged.
"No, I am sorry, you didn't do anything wrong" Ziva didn't like that he felt guilty.
"I waited; I waited for you, for you to come back. I didn't think I could live without you. I, I didn't think you were coming back; you had described your father, he wouldn't have let you back. How?" Tony found it hard to form words.
"No, Tony, I was gone, I didn't think I would come back, you moved on it is fine. Now let me move on" she turned and walked away before the tears that were building up in her eyes could escape and show her true feelings.
Tali and Ari who were now sitting at the table saw Ziva walk over on the brink of crying. Ziva sat down, Tali rubbed her back to comfort her, and Ari took her hand.
Tony saw this scene from where he had just talked to Ziva. He felt guilty and terrible. Wendy came over and smiled, he gave a false one back, but she didn't notice. He wanted to jump into a hole and die.
Jenny came over to Ziva. Ziva managed to compose herself enough to talk to Jenny, but jenny knew what had just happened; she had seen what had happened. Ari got up and gave Jenny his seat; she thanked him and sat down.
"Ziva, I'm sorry we didn't tell you that they were going to be here, we didn't know you would come" Ziva just nodded in a way to say don't worry about it.
"Do you mind if we go? It has been a long day" Ziva asked sadly.
Jenny nodded "Oh, before I forget" Jenny handed Ziva a key "here is a key for my, well now Jethro's and mine house; you can grab all of your things at any time when we are on our honeymoon"
Ziva took the key "Thank you. Where are you going for your honeymoon?"
"Paris, where we began" Jenny couldn't stop smiling.
"Thank you Jenny" Ziva hugged her and they both stood. Gibbs came over and said goodbye.
"I am glad you came Ziver; I'm glad you broke free at last, all of you" he turned to them all. How did he know they were free? Was the question in all their heads. The answer didn't matter. Ziva and Jenny shared one last hug. And with that the three Israelis left. The gang watching them.
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