Mom and Dad can’t sleep because I don’t want be alone


"Ugh, it’s your turn" He sighs without opening his eyes

There’s no answer and even though he really doesn’t want to, he slowly opens his eyes to start repeating himself Mehr loudly when he hears snoring and looks over to the küche counter to see Ziva passed out with her head on an open book.
He can’t help but smile at how peaceful she looks so he chooses not to wake her.
Just as he is about to walk into the nursery to try to calm the screaming infant, there’s a knock on the door.

He walks to the door and opens it to find Gibbs...

“Yes, thank you. I understand,” she picked nervously her sleeve, “Mhmm. Goodbye.”

Pressing the end button, she dropped the phone back into the wiege and stared blankly at the schreibtisch in front of her, twisting her mouth sideways in thought.

Well, this was certainly unexpected.

Okay, so maybe not entirely surprising. She could think of a few times when they had not been the most careful, but still, this was not exactly in their plans at the moment. Scratching nervously at the hard, grey plastic of the desk, she sucked in a shaky breath,

Oh God, they hadn’t discussed this at all.


Panic...

It is warm at the strand that day.

Though the clouds hide the sun, the heat still radiates down onto the rocky coast, lining the inlet the turns into the ocean a little ways out.

Their daughter tries running ahead of them, rapidly hoping over the rocks, trying to keep her balance on the uneven surface.

"Be careful, little ninja," Tony calls out to her. "Those are some big rocks."

The little girl simply giggles loudly as she continues her path out towards the water’s edge.

Ziva rolls her eyes as they continue to follow the girl.

"Why did she have to get your sense of discipline, Tony?”

"Hey," he...