December 3rd, 2033; Tony had always been amazed by his girls; the DiNozzo trio as Senior put it. Madalyn, Tali and Monique had their mother’s beauty without a doubt. Albeit all four of the DiNozzo kids had been well versed in Italian and all the languages their mother spoke fluently long before they turned six years old. But the DiNozzo girls were just like their mother. They carried themselves with the same kind of confidence their mother had. And they were just as skilled with a knife and a gun as their mother was.
Ziva’s two weeks of having her two youngest children still at the age of fifteen had passed. Today was the sixteenth birthday of Tali Rachel DiNozzo and her twin sister, Monique Rivka DiNozzo. Once again Monique was unable to come State side despite how much Madison had attempted to get her mother - in – law to lay off for one day. Monique called the twins to wish them a happy birthday. The girls understood why Monique couldn’t be there physically, it was the nature of the beast. But it just sucked in the girls’ honest opinion, of course they had taken a trip down to Colombia recently with their immediate family but it still on some level bugged them both that Monique couldn’t be with them on their birthday because of a problem Doctor Samantha Ryan had with their Aunt. The DiNozzo children had to deal with the fact that with each birthday they had that they had to deal with the fact that neither of their grandfathers would be in attendance. Senior had always been too busy ever since the twins’ seventh birthday to be around for a birthday since he was preoccupied conning someone or chasing after some skirt that was old enough to be his grandkids’ mother. Eli on the other hand, well it’s just easier to say that the DiNozzo kids knew that the one man they could count on in their lives besides their father of course was Jethro. It was the same lesson their parents had learned the hard way. After the twins were off the phone with Monique they had gone into the kitchen, venting along the way.
“I don’t see why Dr. Ryan can’t give her vendetta a rest for a day.” Tali said in a completely flustered Belgian French accent.
Of course their mother, sister and brother understood what was being said. Their father on the other hand was left in the dark.
“She should focus on why her dirt bag ex-husband is still out of jail instead of going after Aunt Monique.” Monique responded in Belgian French.
“What are they saying?” Tony asked as he saw his eldest daughter and his son laugh at their kid sister’s response.
“They’re just frustrated with Dr. Ryan, my love.” Ziva said.
“Dr. Ryan should have let Jethro deal with her ex-husband all those years ago.” Asher said joining in his kid sisters’ discussion in the same language they had been speaking.
“There’s a bit of a problem with that, Ash. One that you’re too young to remember.” Madalyn chimed.
“And what’s that Maddy.”
Madalyn directed her brother and sisters’ attention their mother.
“We as in your father, myself, Gibbs and the rest of the team were contending with Harper Dearing twenty-one years.”
The conversation had reverted back to English at this point.
“I was only two at the time.” Asher stated.
“And Maddy was six, Tali and Monique weren’t even a glint in my eyes at that point.” Ziva said.
“I didn’t even know about you guys yet and none of us knew that Gibbs and the Director were married let alone the fact that they were parents.”
Madalyn knew the story a bit better than her sisters and brother had since she was older at the time that the Dearing fiasco took place. This retelling of that event was a refresher for Asher while the twins were basically hearing it for the first time.
“Dearing planted a bomb in Jenny’s car. Gibbs left Cole to disarm it so that he could get Abby out of the building in time.”
“Cole died in the explosion.” Tony said happily.
Ziva gave her husband a rebuking look to which he countered with a look of his own.
“Gibbs made it to Abby in time and got her out of the way. McGee was knocked out by the explosion in the squad room and impaled some by shards of glass. Jenny took refuge in her office with Cynthia. And I was trapped in an elevator with your father for hours on end after we evacuated the building.”
“Where was Ducky, Palmer and Breena?” the twins and Asher asked together.
All four knew that their parents along with the rest of the team had been invited down to Florida to attend Palmer and Breena’s wedding but were unable to attend due to Harper Dearing and the chaos he chose to inflict on the Navy and NCIS for what had happened to his son on the USS Brandywine. They also knew that Ducky was the only one who had been able to go to the wedding.
“Ducky was walking on the beach when he got a phone call after the bomb went off up here and he had his heart attack.”
“Palmer and Breena?”
“I don’t know where they were?” Tony said.
“I think they were in Breena’s room at the hotel they were staying at before they had found Ducky lying on the beach with the waves coming.”
Tony took Asher outside when Ziva had decided to give the twins’ their gifts from Victoria’s Secret. Madalyn stayed to see her sisters’ open their gifts. And of course like Jethro had protested in the weeks leading up to his twins’ sixteenth birthday about the tradition that Dana Shepard had started with Jenny, due to the fact that Tony also believed that Ziva was basically telling the twins like she had told Madalyn years prior that it was okay to fool around with guys. For Tony of all people to have this problem was hypocritical so Ziva did it anyway.
The DiNozzo family finished the conversation they were having and celebrated the twins’ birthday for the rest of the day.
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