When the Past Comes Knocking
Nerissa Anne Caine is a CSI on Horatio's team at the Miami-Dade Crime Lab and just so happens to be his daughter. To the average person, she seems like every other person, but Nerissa has a secret. She's a retired assassin, she'd been taken from Horatio as an infant and raised to be a weapon by a man known only as Xavier. For almost 18 years she was known to the intelligence community as the Black Hand.
Three years ago she left that all behind after she found Horatio and for a year she lived happily with her boyfriend Tyler, who had also been an assassin trained by Xavier, but one day Xavier kidnapped her. For four excruciatingly long hours, Xavier held her in an abandoned warehouse, torturing her as punishment for leaving. Eventually, Horatio, the team, and Tyler tracked her to the warehouse but Xavier didn't give up easily.
During the ensuing shootout, Nerissa sustained a gunshot to the calf, Xavier killed Tyler, and Horatio killed Xavier with a bullet to the head. A few weeks later, Nerissa found out that she was pregnant with Tyler's child. By some miracle, the baby had survived and Nerissa had something she could smile about again. Nine months later Nerissa and the team welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world, Anastasia Renee Caine. For three years Nerissa lived happily with her family but on the day of Ana's 3rd birthday, her world was turned upside down.
Nerissa had been preparing the house for Ana's party with the team when she heard a knock on the door, upon answering she was shocked to see it was Tobias Fornell, the FBI agent she'd worked with to bring down the assassin ring she had grown up in, "Tobias, what are you doing here?"
A/N: For my new readers, I'd like to say welcome to When the Past Comes Knocking. For returning views I want you to know that if you're re-reading this, there will be some slight differences. I have made revisions to this story and combined some chapters that I feel will make is a bit more enjoyable to read and will fit where I want it to go in the long run with the sequels. Some changes you might not even realize are there. I hope you enjoy and please leave a review! ~E