A/N:

So here we are with chapter 2 & I hope that you enjoy it! & in this chapter we have Lizzie & Tony's talk about her first day at school & the new friend that she made & Tony finding out about Tali. G&D.

12 Years

Chapter 2.

It had been Lizzie's first day at her new school and of course that morning it had been quite emotional for both father and daughter, especially as his little girl was growing up rapidly and with everyday was looking more and more like her mom as she did get all the more older, except for the eyes as they were all his with both their shape and colour.

Once he had got to work after seeing her off it was to discover that the team had been out on a case, but between McGee and Callie they had made certain that he hadn't got called about it because of recognising how significant that day was to him. Luckily that case also ended up becoming pretty much cut and shut with it being a murder/suicide when early that afternoon the body of their primary suspect turned up along with a note explaining that it was him who had murdered his wife and why he had done it. They were just plowing through the paperwork when Callie told him to leave his and go home so he was there for when Lizzie got home.

When Lizzie did get home she did seem to be happy, but Tony could immediately see that there was something wrong so as they hugged and as she then sat down with him he said "How was everything today, you seem a bit preoccupied?"

She then smiled and responded "They were really good except for one thing."

"And what was that?"

She sighs and asks "Before I tell you, can I ask you something?"

"And what is that?"

She responds "I know that both you and mom had your own boyfriends and girlfriends before the two of you met, so is there a chance that a girlfriend of yours had a baby and you didn't know or something?"

He replies seriously "How do you mean?"

She chews on her lip and continues "It's just that I had a problem with Simon again."

A little bit of anger builds up as he says "So he's broken his word already?"

"He has, but don't be mad dad as I don't think with what took place he will be bothering me again. This girl saw what was going on and came to my rescue, she's in the year above me and he started to pick on her as well, she got in his face so he tried to hit her and let's just say she kneed him somewhere painful and he was speaking funny for the rest of the afternoon."

They then both laugh as he says "Ouch. Well let's just hope that it works, so I'm presuming that the rest of this has got something to do with this girl then?"

She answers "Yes, her name is Tali." As soon as he hears the name he zones out slightly only half hearing what she says because of the way the alarm bells are going off in his head. "We only got to talk for a few minutes then, but she found me again in the next break, so we got a drink and then headed somewhere for a chat. When we introduced ourselves to one another properly we were both surprised with her also having Elizabeth in her name as well as Kelly and she was surprised that I had Tali in my name too, but to then top things off her surname is also DiNozzo dad or part of it is."

In his own shock he then says "What is the rest of the surname?" Even though he has a sneaky suspicion about what it may be he still takes a big gulp of air when she says "Her full surname is David-DiNozzo dad."

Once he gets over his shock a tiny bit he takes her hand and says "A long while ago I worked with an agent and her name was Ziva David."

"And you were in love with her?"

He nods and then carries on "Thanks to one of Grandpa Gibbs rules that you should never date a co-worker we never acted on our feelings for one another, except for one time when the two of us were sent to Paris to go and pick up a witness for a case as well as be there for protection of her, and we slept together on the night before we had to go and pick her up from the embassy in Paris. There's a bit of a long story to the next bit and I won't bore you with it now, but with the initial events we had all resigned and weren't agents anymore so she went home back to Israel, then a terrorist got all of us in his sight, but Ziva was a bigger target for him because her father Eli had been the director of Mossad and this terrorist thought that after Eli had died she would inherit a lot of his files and things from him being the director of Mossad. Myself and Uncle Tim were eventually reinstated as agents, so was Ziva and I headed to Israel to try and find her because when some bad men working for the terrorist went after her, she got away but did get hurt and after going to the hospital she then disappeared. I did find her eventually and tried to persuade her to come back here to DC with me, but she wouldn't and instead we had a final night together before I came home alone. I plodded on for a while before I took a break from work and went to the UK."

"And that was when you met mom?"He sighs and says "It was. I did tell her all about Ziva and she knew how I felt about her, but ultimately it was your mom that helped me put that past away and I eventually let myself fall in love with her properly. Yes it had been love at first sight for the both of us, but because of what happened with Ziva I just felt that I couldn't actually let myself go even though I did truly love her."

She then asks "So if me and Tali are sisters then why didn't Ziva tell you about her?"

He responds "I really don't know Lizzie, the only way we'd find out is to talk to her and I can only do that if Tali tells her about you and Ziva comes to us."

She then pulls her phone from her pocket and says "Would you like to see her dad?"

"How?"

She says with a grin "Well after talking we sort of said that if it was possible that we were sisters or not then we would be best friends anyhow, so we sort of took a selfie of us. Before I show it you though I did tell Tali about Mom because she also spotted my necklace, so I showed her the inside of my locket, but she was also surprised about me wearing the star and not being Jewish, my necklace belonged to Ziva didn't it?"

He replies "It did, as in the time before I had my break and met your mom I genuinely thought that she would come back to me, so I kept it so that when that day came I could give it back to her once original one was lost when she was a captive of a very bad man years ago and so I gave her the new one to replace it during the Christmas after we got her back to us again, even though she dosn't celebrate Christmas, it somehow felt right at the time. I still kept it as I really couldn't bare to get rid of it and your mom did know about it. Not long after you were born and we were talking about things she made the suggestion that we give it to you, and that it didn't matter what religion or anything else we were, as she even said to me one day that seeing it around your neck made her grateful to Ziva for giving us a chance to be together."

After that she then picks her phone up and fiddles with it before she then hands it over to him for him to look at the picture of the two girls together. As he stares at it and takes a gulp he finds various emotions rushing through him because in the first instant he can see that Tali is both he and Ziva's daughter, because she looks so like Lizzie although her hair is just slightly darker than Lizzie's and with the curls is most assuredly all Ziva, but just like Lizzie she had also inherited his eyes. So he could instantly feel the love growing for a daughter that he had never met and had missed out on so much of her growing up and now she was practically a woman, and because of that he could also feel some anger building up because of the way that Ziva had kept his daughter away from him. Then there was also that bit of pride inside him that the two girls had just randomly come together and had met each other and had already become so close to one another, and he also had a slight chuckle to himself as it entered his head that he could see it in the two of them already that they were going to have double trouble on their hands. The next question of course was where was Ziva living now, as it was clear that with the girls managing to meet at school she must be living back in DC and would she let him see his daughter and have a relationship with her?