Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS...otherwise you wouldn't see me here. I write this purely for my (and hopefully) others enjoyment.
First off, I LOVED the past two weeks of NCIS! Anyone else? But that brings me to my second point: (SPOILER)this entire story is going to be a compiliation of when Abby tells everyone she's adopted and how they react, including Kyle himself. I'm writing this as I go, when I can so don't expect anything regular.
It was a few weeks later when Ducky brought up the subject. He was the first one to do so, after Abby had suddenly reverted back to her happy, peppy, filled-to-the-brim-with- Caf-Pow self after her slight bought of uncertainty and distraction.
The two scientists were seated in her lab over an impromptu lunch between the case they had just finished and the case they knew wasn't too far behind. For the first time in a few hours, her mind drifted to the subject of her brother and parents, and Ducky, being Ducky noticed it immediately.
"My dear, what has you so troubled?" He asked extending a hand to cover hers. She jumped slightly at his touch having been so lost in her reverie. This behavior was so unusual for the young goth, the old M.E. was getting concerned.
She sighed. " I'm sorry Ducky...it's just..."she shook her head, unable to express through words what was going on in her head, in her mind.
"This wouldn't have anything to do with that brother of yours, would it?" Abby's head snapped up to stare at Ducky.
He leaned back in his chair crossing his arms in front of his chest, and spoke softly. "Whatever happened to make you this upset?"
Abby suddenly felt very anxious and unable to keep still. So she paced. She stood up and walked around her lab as she frantically explained everything that happened. Her brother, the adoption, and all the contradictions that were splitting her mind into two. How she wanted to have grown up with her birth parents, and yet how she didn't want to go against the parents that had adopted and raised her. How she wondered how her life would have been different if she had grown up with her birth parents, and knowing that she may not have ended up at NCIS.
And that scared her.
"Ducky I don't know what to do….what to feel! Like, I know I shouldn't feel alone, but I do. Why wouldn't my parents tell me? Did Luca know? Now, I know that my brother Luca isn't my brother. That Kyle, a man I've met only a couple of times in the past few weeks, is. And we look so much alike…what if we're twins? "
Ducky let her rattle off a few more possibilities. When she started crying, however, he choose to intervene, taking a firm, yet kind hold of her shoulders. "Abby…Abby, look at me. Luca will always be your brother, no matter what unfolds. You two have been through far too much to ever just separate. You have gained this…Kyle…as a brother, and his parents. Someday, not necessarily soon, you two will accept each other as family as you have come to accept the NCIS team as family. Everything will be fine."
Abby took a shuddering breath and smiled slowly through the last of her tears. She launched herself at the man she had come to love as a grandfather and relished as he wrapped his warm and surprisingly strong arms around her. She laid her head on his shoulder and he pressed a kiss to her forehead.
"Everything will be fine."
Ducky was the first to know, but only because Ducky was the first one to ask.
Okay, so there's the first chapter. I still plan to do a chapter with Tim, Tony, maybe Ziva and if I think of anything, Jimmy(?) and finally Kyle (cause Gibbs already knows). please pLeAsE PlEaSe PLEASE...okay now that sounds weird...review!
Thanks for reading!
-Arsha
