Jilson's Announcement

By the following Monday things began to look better for all of us. Ziva had convinced Tony to apologize to me for envying me, Kate had abandoned her childish behavior when it came to the desk arrangement in the squad room, Jen and I answered or attempted to answer Jocelyn’s inquiries about our mother. Now the only things that were left to be resolved were Tony and Ziva dealing with Eli being around for a few days, we also knew that with Eli around it meant that Gibbs would be extremely pissed off and Jen would attempt to be somewhat cordial when Eli was around.
Jen could barely stand Eli. She loathed him just as much as Jethro did; possibly even more so. Every time Jen was in the same room as Eli David she had the overwhelming urge to smack him just for what did to Ziva. Jen knew without a doubt that she probably wasn’t high up on Eli’s favorites list either due to the fact that she was the one that brought Ziva to NCIS, introduced her to Jethro and basically planted the NCIS seed into Ziva’s head. As far as Jen was concerned Eli David was a bastard, one the world definitely wouldn’t miss if something should happen to him.
The only other thing that wasn’t work related that needed to be resolved was Jethro telling Jackson why Kelly was back. With that AJ and Palmer saw that it was clear enough to share their news with the rest of us. So when AJ and Palmer came to the squad room to tell us the news they wanted to share with us, it was a nice change to the six of us contending with endless paperwork from past cases.
“Is there something you two need to say?” Jethro asked AJ and Palmer as we were joined by Ducky, Jen and Abby.
“Ah yes, there is; Agent Gibbs.” Palmer said nervously.
Before AJ said anything, she embraced her inner Alice Cullen and comforted Palmer just as Alice comforted Jasper in the scene of Bella celebrating her 18th birthday with the Cullens in the New Moon movie within the Twilight saga. And of course Tony being a Twilight fan as well as a movie buff, he picked up on what AJ was doing. Now Ziva knew where Tony’s mind had gone to and she wasted no time in elbowing him in the stomach.
“I’m pregnant; we’re expecting our first in a few months.”
Kate, Ziva, Abby and I looked at each other, us being the four women that knew what was in store for AJ with her pregnancy. Shortly after the announcement Ducky congratulated his assistant and his assistant’s wife before offering to provide AJ any prenatal assistance that she may need over the next few months. Within the next few minutes while Palmer and AJ were being congratulated there was a moment where Jethro and Tony noticed something. Jen had been standing in front of Tony’s desk while we learned about AJ’s pregnancy, Jethro had come around to the space between his desk and Jen’s old desk. As AJ announced that she was pregnant Jethro noticed a wistful yet hopeful glint that was battling a bout of reality in those emerald green eyes of hers that he loved just as much as he loved her. Even Jethro had to admit that on a subconscious level he was partial to Jenny and the inner workings of her mind due to what was underneath the pant suit she was wearing today.
As for what Tony picked up on, he saw Ziva briefly wishing for a third child. He knew that with Hannah and Leah graduating with JD in a few months from high school and the fact that they would be going off to college soon. He saw that his lovely wife was starting to have the classic empty nest syndrome. Tony knew it would be best not to press the subject.
Over the next few hours AJ was asking Abby, Kate, Ziva and I about our pregnancies so she could get an idea of what to expect. At one point I had to step away to see my husband. With all this baby talk, I felt like embracing my inner twenty-five year old again. I was desperately seeking the one thing Nick was able to give me and had given me so many times before; after all he was and is the only one who I would go to for this.
While Nick and I had our little office romp, which in my mind was completely justified since we were just doing what my sister and Jethro had a tendency to do at times; AJ had given Abby the go ahead to plan her baby shower. When I learned that Abby was in charge of the impending baby shower, I had an Eclipse moment. With AJ letting Abby plan the baby shower I was reminded of Bella letting Alice plan hers and Edward’s wedding. By this point I still couldn’t believe that I was one of the few people that Tony had roped into reading the entire Twilight series.
Within minutes of my arrival, I had noticed things weren’t like they were before. Things were quite tense. Once again Eli had caused trouble. This time Eli had called Ziva to tell her that he would be in DC that evening for a conference and expected to see her and the girls. Now half of the team was pissed by this news. As expected Jethro, Tony and I were quite vocal about Eli’s impending visit while Jen and Ziva kept quiet. Jen and Jethro were in her office by this point.
“What part of Ziva is off limits is hard him to understand?” Jethro asked.
“Take it easy, Jethro.” Jen said.
“To hell I will.”
“Well if you don’t then, you are pretty much useless to me and that wouldn’t be a good thing.” Jen said as she kissed Jethro.
“I see, we’re picking up where we left off Friday morning.”
“Do you have a problem with that, Jethro?”
“Not at all.”
“Well that’s good, cause you’re in for a wild ride today.”
Apparently this particular Monday was Office Romance Monday for the retiring Director and the Director-to-be. And believe me, neither of us were complaining about that.