I know I haven't updated in a few days and this chapter is a really short one. It's been a long week. I may update the next one sooner, but that depends on how good I think it is.
By now, Kate is six months pregnant and Ziva four. Hope you enjoy it...
(A couple of weeks later)
It had been a long week for both Castle and Beckett. Castle had meetings with Gina and/or Paula for hours almost every day, which was, to quote him, hell on earth. Kate's week wasn't better. She was on desk duty since her fifth month of pregnancy. They hadn't had any case and Castle wasn't there to be bored with her. It was just paperwork.
On Friday they came home at the same time and just dropped on the couch. After a few minutes Rick put a hand on her stomach and asked:
"What do you say if we start thinking about a name for our little girl?!"
"Well I kinda already thought of a few names." "Me too actually." They both laughed.
"Okay you go first" Rick said.
"Well for the middle name I thought of Johanna. I mean…if it's okay with you. I just wanted to…" "It's perfect and I had the same idea." He cut her off and kissed her.
"Okay. So, what else do we have?" Kate asked hopeful. Because, to be honest, she had only thought about the middle name and it was clear for her what it would be since the beginning.
"I thought of a few. Okay I have: Alexandra, Emily, Emma, Olivia and Amelia." to Kate they were all beautiful but none of them was the name she wanted for her daughter. Castle wasn't looking her in the eyes and she could tell he was hiding something.
"You have one more don't you?" "Yeah...I don't know if you're gonna like but..."
"Castle just spit it out!" "Hope"
He looked up at her and saw she had tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Kate it's okay we can come up with something else if you don't like this one. I just...it was my favorite on the list and..." she shushed him with her finger on his lips and kissed him. "It's perfect!" "Really?"
"Yes. Hope Johanna. It's perfect."
In another city, at the same time, in the same position, talking about the exact same thing, were Ziva and Tony. They didn't know what they were having, so they had to pick two names and two middle names, two for a girl, two for a boy. They decided they wanted Hebrew names and American middle names.
"Okay I'm going to tell you my favorites okay" he nodded smiling. He couldn't wait to know what she liked. It was in moments like these that you got to see the soft side of Ziva.
"I have; Amalya, Amira and Leah." Tony liked the names, but knew the right one wasn't one of them.
They went through every single book on names they had and still couldn't find one they both liked.
About a hundred names later it hit Tony like a ton of bricks. Why didn't I think of that sooner?, he thought.
"What about Talia?" He asked with a smile.
Ziva looked up and at the name. "Do you mean it?"
"Yes of course. I've always loved it...and I think you thought of it too you just didn't say it. Ziva I love you and I Love the name. So what do you say?"
"It's absolutely perfect." He then kissed the tears from her face.
Tony suggested Haley as a middle name and Ziva loved it.
"What about boys names?" Ziva asked later when they were in bed. Tony looked up from the book he was reading. "I don't know, but we still have four months left. How about we look at boys names another day?!" he said.
"I was hoping you would say that." She smiled.
I know I know...names of dead characters. It just seemed appropriate. Review if you liked it...or didn't like it.