Tony gave Ziva a kiss on the cheek and buckled Jacob into his car seat. "You don't have to do this alone, you know."

She nodded. "I know. Thank you." She gave Jacob a kiss on the forehead. "But Daniela and I should get going inside…right?"

The girl nodded slowly. "I GUESS. I will see you tomorrow, Papa?"

"You will." He gave her a soft kiss and got into the car and watched as Ziva pushed their daughter into the hospital.

Ziva pushed Daniela out of the elevator and stopped, seeing the two familiar figures sitting in front of their room.

"Gibbs. Director." Ziva gave them a confused glance.

Gibbs waved the novel he held in his hand. "We still have to finish our book." He smiled at Daniela. "If you want to finish."

The girl nodded and scrambled onto the bed.

"Whoa...go change first." Ziva said, gently leading the girl to the washroom. "Jammies."

"Do not go anywhere." Daniela ordered to Gibbs waving her finger and shut the door.

"Cross my heart." He said with a smile. "Hope it's okay that we're here."

"Yes, fine." She nodded towards the Director. "Director, may I speak with you outside?"

"We'll be fine." Gibbs said as Daniela came out of the washroom, dressed in fuzzy pyjamas and crawled onto the bed. He smiled at the girl. "Now what chapter were we at?"

"Chapter four." She replied with a smile.

"Right, chapter four." He cleared his throat as the two women left the room.

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"She looks like she's doing better." Jenny stated as the door closed.

"She is." Ziva leaned against the wall, bringing her foot up behind her. "They are going to be releasing her tomorrow."

"That's good." The redhead said quietly. "Do you have a question officer David?"

Ziva sighed. "Director, what is going on? With the kids I mean. "

Jenny sighed and avoided Ziva's eyes. "Ziva...I'm not sure. There are a bunch of legal loopholes we have to go through to keep the kids in the country."

"What about us?"

"Us?"

Waving her arms, Ziva motioned to the door that was shut and then back to herself. "Yes director, us. I mean me, Tony and the kids. It is no longer just me or Tony, it is all of us. What is going to happen to us?"

"I don't know. Ziva, you know how it goes, you weren't supposed to get emotionally attached to them..." Jenny reached out to try to calm the younger agent. "You're not even an American citizen Ziva...you're a Mossad assassin for crying out loud!"

"Then I will quit Mossad!" Ziva cried slamming her fist against the wall. "I will take all the tests! I will destroy my Israeli citizenship!"

"It's not that easy Ziva."

The assassin's face went dark. "Nothing is ever easy director. It does not mean that it is impossible." She turned on her heel and stomped back into the room, slamming the door behind her.

Jenny pressed her hands against her eyes and sighed. The silence rang loudly in her ears. She waited outside until she pulled herself back together and pasted a fake smile on herself and walked into the room...

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"Man time." Tony said with a smile. He turned on the TV and popped in the Meet the Robinsons and sat down beside Jacob.

The boy smiled up at him and pressed the button for closed caption button and snuggled up close to Tony. He propped the giant bowl of popcorn on his lap and put his feet up on the table. The screen lit up, and Tony smiled at Jacob who giggled when the cartoon showed up on screen. Even he laughed when Tyrannosaurs Rex got stuck in the corner. He looked over at Jacob, his thumb in his mouth, his eyes struggling to stay open. He was about to reach over and carry him to his room when his phone started ringing.

"'Lo?"

"Tony, it's Ziva."

He sat up quickly. "What's wrong?"

She sighed. "Daniela will not go to bed until she sees you."

"What else?" Tony leaned back against the cushion. He knew from the sound of Ziva's voice that something was wrong.

"Tony, can we discuss it when you get here?"

He looked down at Jacob who was sleeping soundly on the couch. "Jacob's sleeping."

"I spoke with the nurses. They will have another cot set up. You can sleep on the first one. Please come."

"I'll be there in about 15 minutes." He closed the phone and looked at the sleeping boy. Grabbing a change of clothes for himself and Jacob he scooped the boy up and carried him out to the car.

There were few cars on the road, thankfully as Tony drove faster than the speed limit trying to get to the hospital as fast as possible. He grabbed the overnight bag and propped Jacob on his hip. Ziva was sitting outside Daniela's room, her head in her arms.

"Zee?"

She looked up, her eyes rimmed with red. "Hi."

"Hi." He shifted the sleeping boy in his arms.

"She's still awake in the room. We'll put Jacob beside her." Ziva stood up and opened the door and smiled at Daniela who was sitting up listening to her Ipod. The girl's face lit up when she saw Tony and Jacob.

"Papa!"

"Hey baby." He gently put Jacob on her bed and wrapped the girl in a tight hug. "How're you doing?"

"I miss you." Daniela said into his shoulder. "The doctor says that I am doing very good."

"That's great! I'm so proud of you." He said kissing her forehead. "But you should go to sleep, it's late."

The girl yawned. "Okay." She snuggled under the covers and unceremoniously shoved her brother to the far side of the bed. "G'night Papa. I love you."

"Love you too, Daniela."

"G'night Mummy." She called to Ziva who was standing by the door. "I love you."

"Love you too." Ziva watched as Tony tucked the two children into the bed and turned off the light above them. He followed her out of the room, quietly shutting the door behind them. She sat down on the hard plastic chair and waited for Tony to follow suit.

"So..."

"Tony, I spoke with the Director."

"And?" He linked his hands behind his head and stared at her.

"Tony, it will not work. I am not a citizen...we are not married...hell, we are not even officially a couple. The children...they will go into foster care and get adopted and we will never see them again." Her voice cracked and she swallowed hard trying to keep her emotions at bay. "We put them in danger, and now we will lose them."

Tony stared at her, his eyes changing into a dead grey. "Ziva, we'll do everything we can..."

"There is nothing we can do!" She twisted her sleeves and wiped her eyes with them.

"Ziva, I don't know if you noticed, but we're a family." He inched closer to her, and wrapped his arms around her tightly. "Ziva, official or not, we're together. People are going to have to deal with it." He swallowed hard. "Gibbs knows."

Ziva's head jerked up, her eyes questioning. "He knows? And we are still alive?"

He shrugged and pulled Ziva onto his lap, running his hands through her hair. "We'll do everything we can. I mean everything."

They sat like that, in silence, until they heard footsteps behind them. They didn't bother separating, but Tony looked up and gave the nurse a soft smile. The nurse smiled back and walked down the hall.

"Tony, we should go into the room."

"Yeah." He agreed, allowing himself to be pulled into a standing position.

In silence, his arms still encircling her, they walked into the room.

"You take the bed." She said, trying to free herself from his embrace. "You need it more than I do."

"Ziva, you look like you haven't slept for a week."

She shrugged. "I like to make sure she's sleeping alright."

Tony sat on the bed and pulled her down with him. "Just relax." He said as she tried to resist, but he held tight. "Come on Ziva, we're all safe here."

She nodded slowly, leaning back against him. He felt her relax, and finally fall asleep. He held her tight, allowing himself to succumb to sleep as well. A nurse walked into the room to check Daniela's vitals and smiled. Daniela was curled up, her arm protectively over her brother. The mother was snoring softly, tucked in the arms of the father. He was leaning against the wall in a half sitting position, his arms wrapped tightly around the sleeping woman. She smiled to herself and took a blanket from the closet and placed it over the sleeping couple.

#

McGee frowned and read through the file on his desk. It was times like this he wished that he was more experienced in the legal aspects than the technological ones. Words like "wards of the state", "Hauge Conference" and "child laundering" swam in front of him. He ran his hands through his short hair and sighed. It was going to be harder than he thought to even wade through the logistics of international adoptions, let alone the logistics of two single federal agents, whom one of which isn't even an American citizen and a trained killer.

"Timmy..."

He looked up and gave Abby a soft smile. "You should go home." Glancing at the clock on his desk, he solidified his guess. "It's late."

"So should you." She sat down on the corner of his desk and looked at the files. "International adoption?"

"We all know it's going to happen Abs. It's just a matter of when."

"I know." She picked up a piece of the file and stared at it. "Is it even possible?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out." He rubbed his temples furiously. "But I think I've been at it too long. The words are swimming."

Abby smiled sympathetically. "It's time for you to go home."

"I can't."

She pulled at his hand. "Come on Timmy, I'll drive."

"My place is too far to go to back for a few hours of sleep." He reasoned closing his eyes. "I'll read a bit more and crash here."

"You won't." Abby pulled him to a standing position. "You're going to come back with me."

"…Abby…" He whined.

"Tim, we all want to help them as much as possible, but you can't do it if you're exhausted." She grabbed his jacket and tossed it to him. "Come on, I'm driving."

"Thanks Abby." He piled the files and carried them in his arms.

She smiled, her green eyes shining. "Come on Tim."

#

"Jethro…" Her voice trailed off and she put her reading glasses on her desk. "Jethro."

He opened his eyes with a start and glared at her. "Yeah?"

She stood up and walked over to where he was sitting on her couch. "How far would you go to save your child?"

He flinched slightly and looked up at her. "As far I had to Jen."

She didn't say anything about the tense, but gave him a curt nod. "How far do you think Tony and Ziva are going to go?"

Gibbs shrugged. "If I know Tony, he's going to go all the way."

"And Ziva?"

"Further than that." He crossed his hands behind his head. "What do we have to do?"

"Jethro…Ziva isn't a citizen. The kids aren't citizens. They aren't married. I don't know what we CAN do."

"So we bust through the red tape." He said as if it was the most logical thing in the world. "We make Ziva a citizen. We make the kids citizens."

"It's not that easy."

"You're the director of a federal agency. You're the DIRECTOR."

Jenny frowned. "I just can't go breaking the rules."

"You're not JUST breaking the rules Jenny. Think about what those kids have been through the last 6 months. They lost their parents. They lost their brother. They were uprooted from their home. They were moved to a foreign country. They were given new identities, a new family. THEN, on top of it all, we used them as bait and they were abducted. If that wasn't bad enough, they were beaten and Daniela was raped. I'm pretty sure that those are mitigating circumstances." He stood up and shook his head. "You're not just breaking the rules for no reason. You're saving a family."

Tears sprung up in her eyes and spun around heading back to her desk. He stood in the middle of the office for a second before storming out.

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"Every two days."

Tony nodded. "Every two days. We promise Dr. Parker. We'll be there." He held Daniela close to him, the girl wrapping her arms tightly around his midsection.

"I just want to go HOME, Papa." Daniela mumbled.

"I know you do, baby." He smiled at Dr. Parker who gave him a curt nod.

"I'll see you later Daniela." She knelt down to face the girl. "Remember what we talked about."

"That I am safe and no one will get me. My Mummy and Papa love me." She repeated.

"Good girl." Jordan stood up and shook Tony's hand and then Ziva's. "Good luck."

Ziva smiled, adjusting Jacob on her hip. "Thank you doctor. Thank you for everything."

Jordan smiled and watched as the four of them made their way towards the front door. She hoped that maybe they would be the family that made it.

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FINALLY it's done! I deeply apologize for the inconsistency in the updates, but I'm working a full time job and taking classes so my free time is kind of non-existant.