Points you may want to know about the story before you read it:
Shannon and Kelly are still alive.
Kelly is now 22 and is marrying Tony's brother Adam.
Shannon and Gibb's had Jeanne when Kelly was 4 and had Ziva when Kelly was 6.
Jeanne is going out with Tony.
Ziva has two best friends: Abby and Kate.
Tony's best friend is McGee.
A/N hope you like it, review it.
Tony's POV
'Do we have to?'
'Yes Tony, I am not studying with that mutt watching me'
'Jeanne, it's not my fault that sparkie decided to come into my room, anyway why do we have to go to your house?'
'Because, it is quieter'
'Grr, fine then but I am going home if your sister kicks me in the balls one more time whilst trying to practise karate'
'Deal, now come on'. She grabs my hand and pulls me along.
"Wait", She puts her hand out in front of me "I will be back in a minute" she tells me before running off to the front of the house.
"Ziva?" I hear hear her shout before the door opens and Ziva walks out in a plain white top, cargo pants and military boots.
"What do you want Jeanne?"
"Where are your knives?" My eyes widened when she said this. 'Did she just say knives?' I think to myself before I turn to listen to the rest of their conversation.
"On the coffee table"
"Why do you have knives on the coffee table?" They both turn their heads to look at me.
"Hey DiNozzo, what are you doing here?"
"Studying, we were going to do it my house, well we were doing it at my house but my dog scared her"
A few laughs escaped her lips but she composed herself before replying. "Awwhh, little Jeanne scared of Sparkie? You have to admit though he is kind of cute"
"How can you say that? The mutt was staring right at me!"
"Must have finally realised how ugly you are then!"
Jeanne gives her a glare and then gave me one too that made us both stop laughing.
"Thanks Zee-vah, anyway why do you have knives on your coffee table?"
"I collect them"
"Awesome, why do you collect them?"
"You ask a lot of questions don't you DiNozzo? And 3 reasons, firstly they are part of my dad's rules, secondly they are for the job I want to do when I leave college and I just really find them interesting, got any more questions?"
"Erm, yeah I have 2"
"Go on then"
"What are your dads rules?"
"Well, Mum and Dad have made a set of let's say, life rules that will help you get through certain points in your life and my dad decided that because his job is quite dangerous then he should make one to do with that so he chose that rule #9 will be Never go anywhere without a knife. I guess it has just stuck with me ever since."
"Oh right and what does knives have to do with modelling?"
"What? You think I want to be a model? Think again Tony, for starters you have to be mega pretty and skinny and plus if you ever find me eating a salad, you must be dreaming"
"Ziva, you are beautiful and if you don't eat salads then what do you eat? I thought you and Jeanne were really close, like that you did everything together, that's why I kind of thought that you wanted to be a model, sorry"
"Hey, rule #6 and find me in McDonalds tomorrow at 5pm and then you know what I eat" she tells me.
"So, rule #9 is don't go anywhere without a knife, what is rule #6?"
"Jeanne will tell you, won't you Jeanne?"
We both turn to see her leaning against the door frame texting someone. She looked up at us with a confused look on her face before putting her phone back into her jean pockets.
"What?" She asked us still with the same look on her face.
"I said that you will tell Tony what rule #6 is, that is if you were paying attention to Dad when he was telling us" Ziva smirked at her sister obviously knowing that Jeanne didn't know the answer at all.
"Erm, its, um" she began to stutter before smiling at Ziva. "It is: never take anything for granted".
Ziva made a loud buzzer sound before starting to laugh uncontrollably. "Wrong, see I knew you are never paying attention."
"What is it then Zee-vah" She was trying to copy what I call her which got me quite mad seen as it is me that gets to say that – only me!
"Hey! Only Tony gets to call me that" She looks over to me and gives me a small smile as I give one to her too. "and if you really want to know, rule #6 is Don't apologise – it's a sign of weakness"
"Any more of these rules I should know about?"
"I will tell you all in good time tony" We hear Jeanne scoff at this comment which made us turn her head just in time to see her going into the house.
"So basically, you collect knives, you eat McDonalds – a lot and you don't want to be a model, is that all I need to know about, oh and you live by some life rules, correct?"
"Pretty much"
"One more question" She nods her head for her approval for me to carry on. "What do you want to do when you leave college, I mean, because you don't want to be a model?"
"Be a special agent, hopefully for NCIS, my Dad works there and he said that after I finish college then he is hoping to get a promotion to run his own team so he said as long as I get my law enforcement degree then I can be a part of it. He needs at least 6 extra people in his team, he already has two, my godfather is the medical examiner for them and he does the autopsies and he has an assistant. Now all my Dad needs is a Forensic Scientist and 3 field agents"
"Oh my god that is amazing. I was going to be a cop but do you think your Dad will let me join the team after college too, I have always wanted to be an agent."
"Yeah I will have to ask him but he likes you anyway so I don't see any problems" She gives me a heart-warming smile before turning and walking inside as well"
"Thanks, did you understand the trigonometry homework?"
"Seriously DiNozzo what is it with you and questions today?" she shakes her head before laughing and sits down on the sofa. "But anyway, yes I did, it was quite easy, I can help you if you want?" "Thanks" I join her just before Jeanne walks in with a glass of coke in her hands.
"Hey babe, do you want a drink?"
"Yes, diet coke please"
"Me too Jeanne"
"Who said I was asking you?"
I notice Ziva roll her eyes before returning back to cleaning her knives "Well you would do anything for Tony wouldn't you?" She looks up to see Jeanne scowling at her.
"Yes I would why?"
Ziva turns to face me with puppy dog eyes. "Tony, tell Jeanne that she has to get me a diet coke, please" she stands up and runs up the stairs, I look at her and as she disappears down the corridor I turn my attention back on to Jeanne.
"Babe, will you please get Ziva a diet coke?"
"Fine I will, but only because you asked, why are you doing homework with Ziva anyway?"
"Because you may have forgotten but I'm in her year and you are in the year above"
"Oh yeh, sorry" she gives me a small smile before returning to the kitchen.
"Wow these are amazing" I mutter to myself as I look at her knife collection. There must have been at least 30, all of them with a different message inscribed at the bottom. I pick one of them up and see the message; Love written on it. I saw many messages that were to do with the Navy that she must have gotten from her Father, some with just simple with messages like: Hope and Remembrance. Heck some even had names of her family and friends, I picked up the one furthest away and was surprised to see the name Anthony DiNozzo was written on it, I picked up the three next to it and saw the names; Abigail Sciuto, Caitlin Todd and Timothy McGee there.
I weren't surprised to see not one single knife had the name Jeanne Gibb's on it, I saw Kelly Gibbs, Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Shannon Gibbs on them but none said Jeanne Gibb's. I guess I was wrong when I thought that they were close.
"WOW!" I was just simply amazed by the fact that she had over 30 knives just casually placed on the table.
"Thanks" I hear a voice say behind me, I turn around to see Ziva stood there with her maths book in her hand.
"I see you have found the knife with your name on then?" She points to my hand looking a little bit embarrassed.
"Yeh, thanks, it's nice"
"Thanks, I just needed something to remind me of all of my bestest friends so I thought I would get something I love and place a bit of each person into them"
"No its nice Why do you no-"I was cut off by one of her fingers pressing against my lips.
"No more questions, you have asked too many already"
A/N: please review and tell me what you think thanks
~ Rachel