Disclaimer: I don't own Picket Fences or NCIS. (FYI the NCIS characters won't come up till the next chapter or so.
A/N: VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Another FYI the timeline for this I have set the NCIS timeline back two years. As in Jen became Director in '03 and so on and so forth. Semi related to my other stories. Sophia and Jessi are in this as well. Jessi won't appear till later chapters though. I did the set back to flow with Sophia's age. The only timeline that is the same is the Picket Fences timeline. This is in another universe than any of my other stories are in!!! None of my other stories will be refereced. Certain simiar events might be mentioned but I don't know. ALSO I have tweaked the episode of Picket Fences 'Three Weddings and a Meltdown' if you've seen the episode you'll see.
'This used to be a funhouse but now it's full of evil clowns. It's time to start the countdown. I'm gonna burn it down, down, down… I'm gonna burn it down.' Sophia sang along to the song 'Funhouse' by Pink on the radio as she drove along the long ever extending road in the country-side of Wisconsin. She was doing a cross-country road-trip well she was going to meet up with some of her friends in Utah but she decided to called them to tell them that she was going to stay a couple more days for some strange reason she didn't even know. She heard some strange screeching noise but ignored it. A moment following that her steering wheel jammed and the car spun out of control she felt the car tilt upwards as both of her back wheels came off. The next thing she saw was the sky turning upside down. She duck and then everything went black…
"Hey Max, Jimmy just told me there was car crash on County Rd. Z. He's gonna meet us out there. Well, he's already there. Details are that a girl driving a Jeep Wrangler spun off the road back two wheels are gone. She's been put in an ambulance. Max are you okay? You look zoned," Kenny said waving a hand if front of his wife's face.
"What. Kenny? Yeah sorry. I was listening though. Something just feels strangely odd today. I can't put my finger on what though."
"Well why don't you take your mind off it and let's go. It'll come to you. It always does."
"Be quiet Kenny. Let's just go," they got into the car and drove way out on the highway. Kenny and Max stepped out of the car and lifted up the crime scene tape and walked over to Jimmy.
"What's the deal," Kenny asked.
"Well almost two minutes after we got the girl out of the car the car exploded so we can't retrieve any form of I.D. on the girl until a few days. She's got a lot of cuts and bruises. They think she's got a broken leg. Description, black hair, Caucasian, slim, looked around sixteen, seventeen. We won't know anything definite till we run DNA or she wakes up… if she wakes up. She looked really familiar too."
"Jimmy, don't say a thing like that. Why would she look familiar?"
"I don't know. Her general description sounds like Kimberly at that age back in '93. That might be it."
"See I told you Kenny there is something weird going on," Max said.
"But you heard Jimmy, the reason could be that she reminds him of Kimberly."
"When something crazy like this happens here it's never that simple it hasn't been that way for the past fourteen years, remember Kenny."
"Okay well you two go to the hospital and go see what her condition is and I'll get the stuff done here."
"Gotcha," Max replied. Her and Kenny walked back over to the car and drove to the hospital.
When they got there they saw Jill in a surgical uniform, "Jill did you do surgery on that girl that was in the crash?"
"Yes. Minor surgery but yes. Her left lung was punctured but we repaired it. She's also comatose. We don't know when she'll wake up. She's able to breathe on her own since the injuries were minor and despite the punctured lung. She looks really familiar. Did Jimmy tell you that? Well anyway, we took an extra smaller vial of blood when we did vitals so you can run the DNA. I'll go get it," Jill walked off and Max looked at Kenny.
"See I told ya so. Jill even thinks she looks familiar."
"But Jill is Kimberly's step-mom so she might think the same thing."
"But Kenny you're forgetting Jill didn't mention anything about the comatose girl reminding her of Kimberly. So… HA!!!"
"Fine. So you have a point," he said slightly defeated.
"Yeah and if they think she looks familiar we might think that too."
"Yeah she might remind US of Kimberly."
"Kenny what did I just say. Damn it!!!"
"What are you two bantering about now?" Jill asked as she came back.
"Nothing just the girl."
"I don't know why but I couldn't seem to find the vile. I make sure to look before you guys leave. You want to see her let me guess," they both nodded, "come with me."
They followed Jill down some corridors and she opened the door to a hospital room. It revealed Sophia laying in a hospital looking so pale and fragile. Max stood across the room wide-eyed and Kenny gave a heavy sigh.
"You guys were right she does look familiar. But from where?" Max asked breaking the silence and walking over next to the bed to stand next to Jill.
"I don't know. We'll know who she is when you guys process her DNA, Kenny can you help me find the vile?" Jill said.
"Sure. Max, you okay by yourself with her. Maybe if you think long enough you'll recognize her."
"I'm fine. Go," she replied. They left.
"Why do you seem so familiar to all of us," she whispered to Sophia. Max laid a hand on Sophia's arm and Max felt like she had been shot with electricity. Within seconds of that a memory flashed in her head. She saw a small girl with long black girls tied back in a ponytail. Max shook herself and removed her hand.
"Who are you?" she whispered to Sophia. Max stood back up as she heard someone come back. She turned and saw Kenny and Jill.
"We found it. I got it. Come on," Kenny said to her.
"Okay, see you later Jill."
"Bye Max. Bye Kenny. Night."
"Night," Kenny said. They walked out of the hospital and over to the squad car and they got in. Once they were almost a quarter back to the police department Max turned slightly in her seat and looked at her husband.
"Kenny?"
"Hmm?" he said as his reply.
"Did you think that girl looked familiar?"
"A little. And fine you were right she doesn't look familiar because she reminds me of Kimberly quite the opposite actually. I don't know though."
"Told ya so. But anyways do you remember when Ginny used to talk about all of her psychic stuff," he nodded, "well… this is going to sound really strange but I put my hand on the girls' arm and this memory flashed through my mind. It was this little six year old girl, she had her hair tied back in a ponytail just grinning like the Cheshire cat. I don't know but… remember that girl that was kidnapped and then somehow she wandered here and showed up at my doorstep. I think that the comatose girl is the same girl from ten years ago. What was her name. I can't think of it."
"Whoa Max. Are you talking about the little sarcastic six year old that managed to annoy Waubaugh and he actually admitted that he was annoyed by her antics. I mean she was being annoying like he used to be. Even more. But in a good way. The one that came to our wedding and had to borrow some of Kimberly's old clothes that Jill had stored up in her attic. I got bit by a spider because Jill made Jimmy and I get the box down."
"Yeah and she had to hang around the police station and beat you and Jimmy at like four games of cards…"
"Hey the only reason she won was because we let her and YOU helped her."
"I did not!!! I just gave her some pointers on how to whoop your guys' ass at the games."
"That's called helping, Max," he replied rolling his eyes.
"Just be quiet Kenny," Max said letting out a soft laugh. She would've hit him but he was driving.
"Fine."
'This will be interesting,' Max thought to herself as she turned back and looked out the window of the squad car.
A/N2: So there's the first chapter what do you think? Reviews please!!! It makes me update faster!!! I want your opinions!!!
