A/N: Okay, first of all there are going to be a few changes to this story from now on. The first thing is that I will be writing the chapters a lot shorter than they have been in the past chapters. This is because aiming to write 8,000 ish words each chapter is actually quite exhausting and its part of the reason why these chapters have been coming out late.

So they will be around 3,000 words per chapter from now on, depending on how much I want to write in that particular chapter. This will also mean that the chapters should be coming out more quickly and you guys won't have to wait as long.

Thanks guys for all of your understanding and your support! Keep leaving those reviews and I hope you enjoy meeting this baby!

Ziva sat on one of those sofas every hospital had that were designed to be 'comfy', but all she felt were the sharp pieces of wood trying to dig into her back through the material. Her foot tapped lightly on the floor as she watched Jenny like a hawk-who was lying in the hospital bed finally asleep.

Her hair was bundled all over the pillow and her hands were clasping the white sheets fervently. It had been a few hours since they had arrived at the hospital, and according to Tony and Mike at the diner, the mystery stalker woman who Jenny was certain was going to show up and blow her brains out still hadn't made an appearance.

Ziva's thoughts were drowned out by the slow beeping from the machines attached to the redhead… Letting out a large sigh, she rubbed her forehead. Had it not been for her gut instincts Jenny could have potentially died… Even though she had Mike Franks there with her, it didn't mean that she had been completely safe from harm. Anything could have happened… And it sent a large swash of guilt parading through Ziva.

All that mattered now was that Jenny and her baby were safe… In a hospital… With Gibbs on the way… And no stalker woman trying to kill them. As soon as the redhead had been taken onto the ambulance, she had begged for an epidural once she arrived at the hospital. It seemed to have done the trick to help cope with the pain.

A nurse quietly knocked on the door and entered- removing the stethoscope from her neck. Ziva watched as the nurse- Stacy her name was- adjusted the IV fluids and checked on the medication being given to Jenny. After being assured by the nurse that Jenny was doing fine, Ziva visibly relaxed and twirled her phone in her hand- not knowing what else she could do with herself.

Part of her wanted to get a packet of crisps from the vending machine down the hall, but she didn't want to leave Jenny's room even for a moment. Whoever this stalker woman was hadn't completely disappeared and she could have been anywhere- including the hospital. Ziva had a rough idea of who the woman was thanks to her mini interrogation in the ambulance, she knew that she was a blonde Russian named Svetlana, but that was it.

The phone in her hand started vibrating and Ziva immediately answered seeing that it was Abby. All of a sudden Ziva was being bombarded with questions. "IS SHE OKAY? IS THE BABY HERE YET? OH… DID SHE BRING THOSE CUTE LITTLE PANTS THAT I GOT FOR THE BABY?" She had to remove the phone a few centimetres away from her ear, just so that her eardrums could interpret what she was saying without being deafened to death.

"ABBY!" Ziva whispered sharply- trying not to wake up the patient sleeping a few metres away. "Everything is fine." She answered in a calmer tone.

In the back of her mind she knew that things were far from fine, but she figured that Abby didn't need to be any more stressed out than she already was.

"OH… OH… That's good." Abby stuttered as she paced around in her lab. "I've been worried sick Ziva! When McGee came down to the lab a few hours earlier I knew that something was wrong. He wouldn't just come down all panicked without something concerning the rest of the team." She rambled on.

Ziva rolled her eyes. Of course, McGee would have come down to Abby after they asked him to track where the director was. "SO, how is she?" Abby asked nervously.

"Sleeping." Ziva answered.

"NO BABY?" Abby asked panicked. "Oh… that's a relief. I'm so glad that Gibbs isn't there yet. I'd feel so bad if he arrived and the baby was already born. OH… Ziva. I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous…"

"Your nervous?" Ziva asked in disbelief. "You're not the one about to get into deep soup with Director Vance."

"What if something bad happens? Like Gibbs plane crashes or… Oh Abby… Stop it!" The goth reprimanded herself.

She walked over to her desk and glanced over at the screen to see if the little plane on the screen had moved any closer to the Los Angeles airport. Gibbs' plane was still another 3 hours away, the baby could have been born within the next three hours!

"Okay… You seriously need to calm down." Ziva stated.

"Calm down! How the hell am I supposed to calm down when Baby Gibbs is on the way Ziva! It's like virtually impossible. I have never been more excited for a moment in my life ever! Had it been my way I would have jumped on that plane with Gibbs had I the chance… Ziva, you are so lucky you get to be in the room with her!" Abby exclaimed.

Ziva furrowed her brow and rubbed her eyes whilst Abby rambled on. She would never understand how the young scientist had so much words and sentiment to give in only a matter of 20 seconds. She didn't know what would be worse, sitting in this hospital room watching Jenny sleep or listening to Abby on the phone for the next three to four hours until Gibbs arrived.

"Rather you than me…" Ziva droned as she glanced over at the redhead who was still sleeping. She just hoped Gibbs arrived soon.

The ambulance trip to the hospital was hell for Ziva, she had played rock paper scissors with DiNozzo as to ascertain who would be travelling with Jenny. Unfortunately, Ziva had lost, although the thought of DiNozzo in the ambulance with the Director amused her.

Her hand was squeezed so tight she thought that some of the blood vessels had erupted. If that's what labour was like, then she was never birthing any kids. "Ziva… What should I do? What should I do?"

Forgetting that she was still on the phone with Abby, Ziva shook out of her thoughts. "Abby… Just relax. Seriously. I'll call you if something happens." Ziva said rubbing her forehead.

"You promise?" Abby asked uncertain. Ziva replied yes and hung up the phone before Abby could say anything else. At that moment, Jenny rolled over in the bed and groggily opened her eyes.

"Oh… I'm sorry Jenny did I wake you?" Ziva asked mortified as she stood up and walked over to the bed. Jenny shook her head and squinted her eyes together trying to wake up properly.

"A contraction did… How long was I out for?" Ziva glanced at her watch and then back at the redhead.

"40 minutes… Give or take." Sighing, she looked up towards the ceiling. 40 minutes wasn't bad, but she would have accepted longer. That fact of the matter was that she didn't really know what to do while she waited for Gibbs to arrive- apart from endure the luxuries of labour and shake out of nervousness.

"Any word from the diner?"

"Nothing." Ziva replied back.

"When is Jethro arriving?"

"A few hours." Jenny's eyes squinted together tightly as she tried to roll over in the midst of a contraction, she reached out for Ziva's hand and tried not to squeeze it to tightly. She muttered incomprehensible words under her breathe and started to pant, even with the epidural in place, she could still feel a great deal of pain, but at least it wasn't as bad as it was before.

"Could you tell the pilot to hurry up?" Jenny spat as the contraction ended. "The nurses said that I'm really close to pushing… And I really need Jethro to be here…"

Ziva bit down on the insides of her cheeks and glanced down at her watch. She wished there was at least a television in the room or some sort of book that she could read. It was so boring just having to wait around and not be distracted by something. "Ziva?" The redhead's voice knocked her out of her thoughts. "Are you listening to me?"

"Of course."

"Can you call Gibbs for me?" She shook her head.

"He'll be here in time Jenny… Trust me…" Ziva said crouching down so that she was eye level with Jenny.

"I can't even trust myself at the moment…"

Gibbs stepped off the plane in a flash and raced down to the exit of the airport, pushing past tourists in his midst. Upon reaching the exit, he saw DiNozzo waiting in some sort of flashy car. "Get out… Let me drive." Gibbs spat- practically pushing DiNozzo into the other seat.

"Are you sure… I mean you just arrived and- "

"Get out DiNozzo before I head slap you!" DiNozzo opened his mouth amazed and then quickly shut it again, before quickly shuffling into the passenger seat of the car. He handed Gibbs the key who slipped it into the ignition and practically accelerated at ten-thousand kilometres out of the pick-up area. DiNozzo had to hold his hands against the dashboard as he didn't even have his seatbelt clicked in yet.

"Gibbs I- "

"Don't start." He snapped back. The last thing he felt like doing right now was to reprimand Tony, all that mattered to him was getting to the hospital.

"Well… I was gonna say to take the next left, but- "

"DiNozzo… What the hell were you thinking! Letting her out of your sight… She's pregnant! Isn't that the reason I sent you and Ziva to go with her?" Gibbs barked. Tony looked straight ahead and bit so tightly on his lips that he drew blood. There it was… There was the Gibbs with ire in his eyes that the team hardly knew.

He chose not to say anything back- knowing full well that he was in the wrong. "She could have died Tony!" The senior field agent looked over and could have sworn that he saw a tear in the corner of Jethro's eye. It was in that moment that he realised how deep Jethro's love for her was. Tony was always joking about it and making bets about them flirting, but they truly had a connection that he had only just seemed to have realised.

"You get an update from Ziva?" He asked after a few moments of silence. Tony rubbed his phone gently in his hands and sighed.

"No baby yet… She just wants you." Gibbs released a breath he didn't know was holding. No words could or would describe the feeling he felt when Tony said those words, if Jenny could keep the baby in for at least another 10 minutes then everything would be okay.

As soon as Jethro pulled up outside the emergency department, he basically fell out of the door- leaving it wide open- and ran over to the elevators, frantically pressing the button. Tony- still in the car- sat there in the passenger seat dumbfounded by what had just happened. And forced a smile back at the weird looks people were giving him from outside the entrance. "Wow…" He whispered to himself before climbing into the driver's seat.

Jenny was feeling the urge to push, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Not without Jethro by her side. At that moment he raced in and planted his lips to hers- savouring her taste and being grateful that she was still alive. Jenny didn't resist and leant into his lips but pushed him away when she felt a large and painful contraction grip her entire lower body.

Ziva immediately removed herself from the room as soon as Jethro arrived and couldn't help but muster a small smile. He had made it.

Jethro grabbed Jenny's hand as she screamed in pain and watched as the redhead began to push their baby out. His other hand sneakily travelled behind her back and caressed circles into her spine whilst she leant forward. "Come on Jen…" Jethro whispered to her as she finished pushing for that contraction.

She glanced up at her partner and gazed into his blue eyes- looking nowhere else. "I'm so glad that you're here…" Almost crying, Jenny reached out with her other hand to pull Jethro in for an awkward hug on the bed. He buried his face into the messy wisps of red hair and smelt what he assumed to be cigarette smoke. Since when did Jenny smoke?

It was a question to ask later though… He felt the redhead shiver underneath him and he rubbed his hands over the tops of her arms- feeling the small Goosebumps popped up all over them. He pulled away from Jenny as another contraction seized her and watched her intensely, using his hand as a stress ball. He didn't care that she was squeezing the heck out of it, all that mattered to him was making sure that the majority of her pain was taken out elsewhere.

After hearing encouraging remarks from the doctor and the nurses, Jenny used every ounce of her energy left to give one last final push. She visibly winced in pain as her baby slid out, then felt an overwhelming sense of relief once she heard crying. "Jethro! Jethro! Is it okay?" She asked frantically.

Jethro glanced down at her with the biggest smile Jenny had ever seen on him and leant down to her ear.

"It's a boy…"

Jenny started to cry, then laugh, then uncontrollably shake as the screeching sounds of a new-born baby bounced around the room. She could hear the doctor suctioning fluid out of his nose and watched lovingly as her baby boy was handed to her.

He was wrinkly and grey; his eyes were closed tightly, and he was all slimy. But that didn't stop her from tracing her hand over his tiny button nose that she was quite sure he had inherited from her. The nurses standing around her continued to suction his mouth and nose and dry him off with a towel whilst he continued to cry woe. The tears trapped behind her dam were finally released as she smiled down at her baby.

"Jethro…" Jenny said speechless. There were no words to describe how she felt… All she knew is that she could have died today, she could have lost this little guy in her arms, Jethro would have lost them both… And that was such a hard pill to swallow.

"He's tiny!" Was all that she managed to say.

"He's so beautiful…" Jethro stuttered. Once he was dried off and sent off with the nurses to be weighed and measured and checked over once more, he was handed back to Jenny- both still crying. He was wrapped in a woolly blanket and had a small, yellow hat plopped on his head.

She pulled her baby close to her chest and instinctively started to talk to him- not really knowing what she was saying. Jethro sat on the bed next to her and leaned in so that his head was matched up against the side of hers. As Jenny started to talk and rant on about this and that, the baby began to quiet down and eventually was fast asleep…

Jethro glanced over at Jenny who was sitting there stunned. All of it seemed to have happened so quickly. "I'm a mom?" Jenny asked him uncertain.

"What do you think?"

She looked down at her baby now sleeping peacefully and pursed her lips together. As she reflected on the day and her pregnancy, she felt so stupid. "I can't believe I wanted to miscarry…" She stated very honestly and then burst into tears. Jethro pulled her in for a hug with the baby still in her arms and rubbed her back as she uncontrollably sobbed.

"I was so selfish Jethro! I wasn't thinking about him, I was only thinking about me!" Surprisingly the baby didn't wake up to the sound of her sobbing, so Jenny continued to rant about this and that into Jethro's shoulder. Eventually she pulled away from him and handed him their precious baby boy.

Jethro took him gently and was forced into a flashback of the time that he first met his daughter. He remembered her being just as light as this little boy was if not lighter, but then again, he was born a few weeks earlier. "You just wanted to arrive today for some reason didn't you… Putting your mom and I in a bit of a pickle."

Jenny watched on at the two boys with love in her eyes. "I should never have taken this trip Jethro…" He held up a finger, placed it on her lips and shushed her.

"It doesn't matter Jen… He's here, your safe… What is there to worry about?" Jenny was surprised at how calm and composed Jethro was… If anything, she was expecting him to show up scowling and not wanting to talk to her at all. She seriously thought that today would be the end of their relationship.

"It matters to me…" Jenny lingered, not bothering to continue. She laid her head back on the pillow and closed her eyes- feeling uneasy, but yet at peace at the same time.

A/N: He doesn't have a name yet, but I have a few ideas up my sleeve, I am open to suggestions if you guys him to have a certain name. Anyway, Thanks again guys! With this new change, I shall be having the next chapter up in no time...