Sometimes the angels guard us and sometimes we guard the angels
Disclaimer- I don't own NCIS and am only responsible for the characters I have/will create(d)
'Thoughts' "Direct Speech" Flashback
Chapter 1-The Meeting
Tony DiNozzo was driving home after a long day of work and he was tired. He was tired of his job, tired of his teammates treating him like dirt, tired of the comments and snide remarks he got while he just sat there smiled and dealt with them, he was just tired. He knew he brought some of the comments on himself, what with the womanising, class clown mask he always wore, but he also knew the persona was necessary if he didn't want to be hurt again.
He missed Kate. Kate who understood and cared. Kate who was the only one to ever bother breaking through all the masks, personas and acts. Kate who knew him like nobody else did. She knew about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father when he was a child, how he felt hopeless and powerless sometimes and like he could do nothing right, how if someone got hurt on his watch it would eat at him for months, Kate even stayed with him through the plague, hell Kate was the only person who knew he was gay (well except his father but that wasn't an experience he wanted to relive).
Despite all of this he knew today had been worse than usual and he didn't know how much longer he could take it. As he turned the key in the lock of his apartment he thought over the day's events.
Flashback
Tony was sitting at his desk when McGee and Ziva came in. Tony looked a bit rougher than usual that day as he hadn't gotten much sleep because he was up nearly the whole night helping one of his neighbours with her newborn son who would stop crying, that and he had gotten there early to finish up the paperwork from their last case.
"Well, Tony you are looking a bit rougher than usual today, yes? Did you pick up some cheap, street corner hooker to have another one night stand with?" Ziva questioned and when he elected to just ignore her McGee, who had finally gained so confidence, added "Are you sure he can afford one? I mean he's so awful at his job that they must have docked his pay for incompetence, they probably only keep him on out of pity, knowing nowhere else wants him" Tony was about to get up and defend himself when Gibbs walked in and he felt pain shoot through the back of his head "No one cares about your personal life DiNozzo, back to work!" Tony flushed with humiliation and the team worked in silence for a while but Tony didn't miss Ziva and McGee trading smug glances.
"I'm taking this down to autopsy" he muttered, waving a file in the air, "Nobody cares DiNozzo" Gibbs called out and Tony, who was already in the elevator just mumbled, "Yeah, you've mentioned." Once down in autopsy, Tony was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Autopsy had sort of become his own little paradise, safe from the snide remarks, head slaps and belittling. He quickly went in and turned the report over to ducky and the autopsy gremlin who he'd become close friends with recently and then rushed back upstairs, back to the job which was slowly destroying him.
Flashback End
As soon as Tony was inside of his apartment he quickly changed into some sweatpants and a loose white top and sank into his sofa to watch the classic: Jaws.
Sometime after the movie had ended and everything was cleaned up and put away Tony was getting ready for bed when he heard a fast yet quiet knock at the door. 'Weird' he thought 'who'd be at the door at this time of night?' With this in mind, Tony carefully approached with his gun aimed at it, waiting for who was on the other side and yanked the door open, stunned by what he saw.
An average height girl with long, wavy, mousy brown hair down to her waist, olive skin, a smattering of freckles across her nose and the most chocolate eyes he'd ever seen was hunched over in Tony's doorway. This would have been strange by itself but this girl who looked to be about 14 was also soaked in blood and had cuts all over her body, a huge gash in her side, along with her clothes being torn in places. "Hey Tony," said the girl, coughing up blood as she did so, "So sorry about this but I had nowhere else to go please don't call anyone, no hospitals, police, teammates, anyone, I'll be fine in a bit just get inside before somebody sees!" She walked forward a bit to get inside, but almost instantly collapsed and Tony could only catch her, lay her down on the couch and wonder what in the world was going on...
Tony sat on the armrest of his couch and just watched the girl. After she had passed out and he'd laid her on the couch he got a soft hand towel and some lukewarm water and proceeded to clean her face, arms and legs of the blood they were coated in and also putting pressure onto the gash in her side. He knew he should call the police or at least an ambulance but this strange girl had asked him not to and he felt oddly compelled to listen.
Deciding to get a glass of water for himself he got up off of the armrest and padded over to the kitchen. When he got back to the main area however, he was amazed to see the girl, who had been unconscious mere seconds ago, standing up and using the towel to get the rest of the blood of her neck. "You...you're awake...and standing...how is that possible?!"
The girl looked over at him and smiled softly "Sorry for just barging in on you like that Tony, it wasn't fair and I'll explain everything now" Tony just stared at her and did as she asked when she suggested he have a seat. "So, first thing first, my name is Adriel and I am your guardian angel."
A/N- Hey, this is a new story that I will be writing and I don't know how often it'll be updated but I really like it so maybe every weekend? Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it. Please review and see you next time. Bye :)
-MercuryStars
