To those of you have read 'Of Friends and Lover,', yes this is the same story that was in it, I am simply doing a fic that is based on that story.

Please read and review.

She's bent over slightly, resting on the side of the white crib decorated with flowers. Inside the crib is a small child. She has dark black curls and creamy skin, a mixture of both her parents. Abby sighs contently as she watches her daughter sleep.

In a way, Abby is happy that she doesn't have to share her little girl. She's happy that no one will ever know who her little girls other parent is, although, its apparent in her curls, but no one would ever guess where they came from.

Abby leans over a bit more and brushes her daughters dark curls out of her face. She doesn't regret the decision of having her daughter be conceived and she will forever be grateful to science that it aloud her to have a child with the one person she loved.

It does bother Abby that Tali will never know her other parent. Sometimes she wonders if Tali will hate her for never telling her other mother about her, but then Abby remembers that she is only keeping her daughter safe, if Eli David ever found out about his granddaughter, he would take Tali away from her mother and he would never let her know of her birth mother, or he would have Tali believe that Abby had willingly gave her up.

Abby couldn't tell Ziva. Ziva had become something she was not a few months before she had left to rejoin her father at Mossad. That Ziva, the one that left, was just a shell of the woman that Abby loved so dearly.

It was a long shot when she went searching to see if Ziva was an egg donor and she couldn't believe her luck when she found out that Ziva was.

It took a bit for scientist to splice the DNA from both Ziva's egg and her own egg and for them to make it mix together. Then it was all easy sailing all they had to do was fertilize the egg with a blank sperm and put it back inside of Abby. It was a long shot, but Abby was overjoyed when she found out she was pregnant.

Nine months later, Tali Caitlin Sciuto, was born a healthy baby girl.

Abby had loved her from the moment she laid eyes on her on the screen at her first appointment.

Abby loves her little girl more than life itself. She loves that Tali has Ziva's laugh and her wild curls. She loves that Tali has her green eyes and dark black hair. She loves that Tali is the perfect mixture of Ziva and herself.

At the end of her list of pros and cons of no one knowing who Tali's other biological parent is, the cons way out the pros in number, but Abby made her decision the first time she felt Tali kick inside of her. She made the decision that Ziva David would never know about their beautiful little girl.

Abby leans away from the white crib and softly walks out of the dark room that is illuminated by the light shining in from the hallway. She turns toward the small table and turns on one part of the baby monitor before taking the other one with her.

Finally she walks to the door and stands in the doorway for just a moment, long enough to turn and look back at her daughter.

"You'll never know," she sighs softly even though she knows there is no way in the world that Ziva can hear her.

Then she grabs the door handle, cracks the door, and heads off to her own bedroom to get as much sleep as she can before Tali wakes once more.