Disclaimer: I own nothing. I don't own any character except the ones I came up with myself. NCIS and everything else affiliated to the show I don't own or have the right to use. This is all for fun and I don't earn anything from it.

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This is a sequel to Crossing Paths. It's about how the children would be like in 30 years from now. I hope you will enjoy it. I understand if nobody wants to read it since it has really nothing to do with NCIS and criminal work but I thought it would be interesting to write how the children would be like when they became adults. I want to thank Mandi or AliasCSINYFriendsER as you all know her for the encouragement she has given me.

Mandi I may change some things in the story. I added one thing in this chapter anyway.

Chapter 1

The Alexanderson children

Caitlin, 38 years old, married twice, divorced once, has five children and two stepchildren. Her first two children from her first marriage are 14 and 12. Her stepchildren are 13 and 10. Her three children from her second marriage are 7, 5 and 2.

She works as journalist for a newspaper together with her aunt Jacqueline, Diana's sister.

Life has certainly not been easy for her. One day two years ago her two oldest children Melissa who then was 12 and Marcus (Mark) who then was 10 decided to run away from home. Mark was going to spend one week with his dad and Melissa one week with her mom. This was the first time they had done so. Usually the kids are every other week with their mom and every other week with their dad. Melissa and Mark took the divorce and custody battle really hard. Then when both their parents got new families, with their father now having two new children, it became two much for them. Their grandparents Diana and Daniel really stepped up for the kids to make the transitions as easy as possible. On really bad days they let the kids stay over the weekend so their parents could get some relief. Melissa got fed with everything. So when she learned her grandparents were going away for a week she came up with a brilliant plan. Both her and her brother had copies of the keys to their apartment and code to the apartment building. Mark was really eager to participate in the plan when he heard about it. Being without parents and other adults would be so much fun but getting back at them was the best thing about the plan he thought. Melissa couldn't agree more so the day when Mark was going to his dad the plan was in motion. When the whole family was supposed to be asleep Mark run away from home. So did Melissa. They met up at their grandparents' apartment. They were there the whole time they were missing. When their parents saw they weren't home they started to search for them. A few hours later the police was called. Diana and Daniel got notified and decided to cut their trip short. They came home late at night. They found the kids sleeping in the sofa. They called their parents and together with the police they came there. The kids were mortified, unhappy that they were found so fast but still happy it worked. Social services were contacted and some sort of solution had to be made. The solution was very unusual. To get back some normalcy in their lives Melissa and Mark were going to live two weeks in a row with their grandparents, one week with their father and one week with their mother. This solution really worked and Melissa and Mark almost immediately changed for the better. It was really hard for Caitlin to let go of her kids but she knew that if she loved them then this was what had to be done.

Anthony also called Tony and AJ, 36, married, has two boys and his wife is pregnant with twins. This was the first time they wanted to know the gender of their kids. They were having two non-identical twin girls in early November.

He took over his mother's law firm a few years after becoming a lawyer. This way he could spend more time with his family. The family lived one year in London and moved back home when they found out his wife was pregnant.

James, 34, married, has four children. His two oldest are girls and the youngest are boys. 10,8, 5 and 3. Wanted to become an actor, then basketball star, then a journalist but he got tired of those things. So when he started college he had no idea on what he wanted to be. When he was 19 he met Taylor also 19 who wanted to become a doctor. They started to date and he found out that medicine isn't that bad until he started studying it himself. After studying it for a few years he quit. Suddenly Taylor was pregnant, they got married and he had no idea how he should support his family. His parents gave him a job but he wanted a job which he had earned. His marriage started to fall apart and he and his wife separated when the girls were 3 and 1. When he finally managed to fix his life things started to go well for him. James got together again with his wife and started the last year at medical school again. Now he's a doctor.

Christina, 31 years old, got married when she was 22, got divorced three months later, lived with two guys since then and was engaged to one of them. The guy she wasn't engaged with she dumped and the other guy who she was engaged with dumped her after she said settling down is probably not her thing at least not now. After that she's been dating a lot of guys. She really doesn't know what she wants and has been all over the world in search of the answer to why she is on earth. She stopped speaking to her parents after she graduated from college and became teacher. Christina thought that she was done following her parents wishes which frankly only was to graduate college but to her unconsciously there were a lot more. No one in her family was too fond of her lifestyle but they accepted it since she was happy. Christina loves to party, not follow rules and go with the flow. She has only worked as a teacher for a total of a year since she graduated. She sends emails to her siblings to let them know how she is doing. Her parents send her money just to be sure she stays alive. She was a bit wild when she was a teenager but her parents thought she had changed when she started college because she worked, studied and stopped doing drugs after rehab. It came as a big surprise to them when she suddenly decided to stop talking to them and travel alone across the world. After she got sick of travelling she has lived in Orlando, Phoenix and Dallas. Now she has moved again and she is just about to meet her new room mate.

The Dinozzo children

Amanda, 38, married once, has one daughter from a previous relationship and three children with her husband. Has also a stepson who is the same age as her oldest daughter. Both are 13. The other three children are 10, 8 and 4. She started the same college as Caitlin and they are best friends now. Actually Amanda works together with Caitlin. Her oldest daughter lives with her every other week.

Alexander but mostly called Alex, 36, married and has three kids. 7, 4 and 1. He lives in Boston but that is purely co-incidental. He works with the FBI there but he has a safe job. He is specialist with economical crime. His wife is a teacher at a college in Boston.

Emma, 33, married, three kids who are 6, 5 and 1. She did her internship at the Alexanderson company. That landed her a job in Chicago where she now lives. Works at a big financial company. She met her husband when she visited New York. He is one of Taylor's old classmates from medical school. He moved to Chicago for her.

Christian also known as Chris, 31, got married at 25 and got divorced at 27. No kids. Lives alone in Seattle. The only Dinozzo child living on the west coast. He hated school, was bullied, started to hang out with the wrong crowd and his parents did as he wanted which was to live in another city and go to another school. They didn't want him to be without supervision so their good friends Diana and Daniel agreed to let him stay with them so he could go to a school in New York. Christian didn't go to the same school as Christina because Diana and Daniel didn't want him to get in trouble there. Christina wasn't the best influence and he knew it so he barely hung out with her but he loved New York and started NYU after his high school graduation. He works now as doctor in a hospital in Seattle.

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McGee. He met his wife in a coffee shop when he worked at NCIS. He later got a job offering in the Pentagon which he couldn't resist. He took it and moved to Washington. He has two daughters and a son.

Gibbs worked at NCIS until he retired. When he retired Tony took over as chief. Gibbs has a son and a daughter who live in New York and each have two children so he has two grandsons and two granddaughters. Kate worked at NCIS for a long time but she wanted to get a new job so when their youngest son moved to New York she started to work at the FBI. McGee, Tony and Kate are also retired now.

Abby worked at NCIS until she retired. She got married and has two daughters.

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