HEY GUYS! WELL A MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. I DECIDED TO FINALLY POST THIS STORY AS ITS BEEN ONE THAT I'VE HAD IN THE WORKS NOW FOR OVER A YEAR AND I BET EVERYONE WILL LIKE IT. THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT TO WHAT I USUALLY WRITE AND I'M A LITTLE UNSURE OF IT BUT HEY IT SHOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE RESPONSE. THIS IS ALSO A PRESENT TO MY BESTIE! HOPE YOU LIKE IT GIRL! YOU ARE AFTER ALL THE ONE WHO GAVE ME ALL THE BEAUTIFUL IDEAS TO WRITE ABOUT!
GIBB'S HAS A DAUGHTER HE NEVER KNEW ABOUT UNTIL ONE DAY SHE SHOWS UP AT NCIS. THIS IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND THE EVER BLOSSOMING ONE BETWEEN HIS DAUGHTER AND TONY. TOLD FROM RIKKI'S POINT OF VIEW (for now at least).
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May 2005
I needed to get through this traffic, head toward the building at which the man I had never known in person but always been connected to through blood was, where he worked and where I would hopefully find peace and love, especially now. My mother had passed away four and a half months ago of cancer but it had taken me forever to get any detail on my father, to find anyone who was in contact or who had previously been in contact with my father known only to me as LJ, well up until I read my mothers will and found my birth certificate, the letters she'd written and had saved until the day she passed and the pictures she kept of the teenage romance that had kept her going all these years. Now I knew where my brown hair came from and the blue eyes, the stubbornness and the passion that I applied to every task. I had always been intelligent, had the brains and smarts, I know I got that from my mum, but the drive wasn't there. Being home schooled also helped, but I was taught by my mothers friend, Janice, a tutor who made me study, wanted me to succeed and didn't give up on me. When I completed my senior year at the age of sixteen my mother and Janice encouraged me to go to university, I agreed and decided on my major Criminal Anthropology and criminal profiling, I wanted to do good in this world and to do that and make my mark I had to find a way to get justice, without becoming a lawyer, I don't know why I've just always had a thing for hating lawyers. As of December last year I had passed my degree and am now waiting for graduation.
I was waiting in the cue to enter the Navy Yard, the nerves I had been feeling all day were now almost in a choking position, I drove forward and rolled down my window, a young man getting down from his post to come and speak to me. I smiled nervously as he leaned against my window.
"How can I help you ma'am?" he asked and I took a deep breath
"I'm here to see my father at NCIS" I said and he nodded
"Who is that? I can make sure someone is waiting for you in the lobby" he said and I nodded
"Leroy Jethro Gibbs" I answered and the guard stared at me dumb founded, but left to press the button and I'm guessing the call through button. I drove through the gate and followed the signs that had directions on how to get to the NCIS building. When I got up and headed towards the entrance hall, I felt like running from the building, but knew that that was not an option. I walked up to the receptionists desk and waited patiently for her to turn my way.
"Hello Miss how may I help you?" she finally asked
"I'm here to see Leroy Jethro Gibbs" I said and she nodded
"Oh your the one who the guards called through about, right I'll just give you this badge and then Greg can take you up to his office. Him and his team are the ones by the staircase" she said handing me the visitors badge that I had to wear. I thanked her before following Greg to the elevator.
"Now Ma'am I have to get off at floor two but Gibbs is on the third floor" Greg said and I nodded my thanks.
When the elevator reached my stop I took a deep breath, and plastered a fake smile on my face. I walked out and found two agents at the group of desks closest to the staircase, they were joking around when the one furtherest away from me looked up and saw me
"Tony stop" he said and I stopped, looking between the two before Tony actually turned in his seat and looked at me, that charming smile, broad shoulders and messy hair made me even more nervous, he was hot!
"Can I help you?" Tony asked and I nodded
"Yeah I'm looking for Leroy Jethro Gibbs. It's kind of urgent" I said and he nodded
"Are you here about our latest case?" he asked and I shook my head
"No, it's just I need to talk to him" I said feeling the tears getting close to falling, which was ridiculous but it seemed to work, cause Tony jumped to his feet and ushered me down the hall and turned saying
"I'll take her to the conference room". When we entered the conference room, Tony grabbed me a glass of water and placed it in front of me
"Sit tight in here Miss?" he asked and I smiled before remembering I actually hadn't introduced myself
"Sorry, I'm Rikki. Rikki Rodgers-Gibbs" I said holding out my hand, he shook it but had the same shocked look on his face that the guard had.
"Ok Rikki I'll see if I can find him for you" he said leaving the room.
I sat waiting my hands sitting in my lap, I could feel them shaking as I did so. I sighed this was ridiculous I couldn't do this, I got up and made my way over to the door and was reaching out to grab the door handle when the door opened and I was faced with an older looking version of the man from the pictures. He looked at me and I watched as his jaw fell to the floor, it took a minute or two for him to regain his composure and he ushered me over to the seat that I had been sitting in.
"Who are you?" he asked
"My name is Rikki Rodgers-Gibbs" I whispered but he heard, he seemed to be lost in thoughts as he thought through something.
"Your mother?" he asked and I smiled sadly
"She uh passed away four and a half months ago, I only found out who you were after that and then I had to find someone who actually knew who you were or where you were" I said and he looked at me shocked again
"Whys that?" he asked and I frowned
"My mother had never told me about you, she did however leave you these letters" I paused handing him the letters that my mother had written for him "When I found my birth certificate I actually saw your name and I started questioning everything, when I finally found someone who had been in contact with you I spent a really long time having an internal debate about wither or not I should come" I said talking way too much to a virtual stranger.
"How old are you?" he asked and I smiled a little
"21" I answered and he nodded slightly like I'd just taken him back to some memory, perhaps he remembered the night when he'd left or my mother I hadn't actually shown him my birth certificate or told him my mothers name so maybe he was just remembering.
"Your mother is Julia Rodgers?" he asked and I nodded
"I heard that she had passed away, my father had attended her funeral and then rang me to give me the news. She was my high school sweet heart that is until my father and I had a falling out and I left" he said and I nodded
"Do you have very much stuff with you?" he asked and I shook my head
"I never had very much stuff, I just have my possessions and my car. Money was always tight, and my mother had me tutored by a friend of hers, when I'd finished high school at the age of sixteen I enrolled in university and they accepted me. I finished in December and am just waiting for graduation, which is in a couple of weeks" I said feeling proud, this seemed to get his attention and he looked at me
"What did you study?" he asked and I smiled
"I did my major in Criminal Anthropology and criminal profiling" I answered proudly, the look of shock on his face was truly classic and I burst out laughing
"Why did you choose those as your majors?" he asked
"I've always wanted to fight for justice, solve crimes and try and understand why people do the things they do. Mum wasn't too pleased with my choice but she supported me, I've always found crime fascinating" I answered and he looked at me proudly like he couldn't of given a better answer himself.
After half an hour alone with my father in the conference room he took me back out to his "office" and got me to sit at his desk, it seemed that his team had left, looking at my watch on my left wrist I saw why, it was 1230 which meant lunch time.
"How good are you at computers?" he asked and I smiled
"What do you want me to do?" I asked and he smirked, pointing at the file he had
"Find me where this man's file is and profile" he said leaving me alone, I looked up and saw him head up the stairs. I wondered what was up there and why he went up there at all, shrugging I got back to the task I had been set. I must of gotten really entrenched in the file and profiling him because when I looked up again the two men from before where back. I sat back in the chair and looked at both of them, the one I knew as Tony seemed to be quite full of himself, like he knew he was as good as everyone thought, he was athletic and wanted to stick his nose into everyone's business which fit everything else he portrayed himself as, womaniser but deep down he was just afraid and needed constant reassurance that he was doing a good job. The other one, I didn't know what his name was but he seemed to be more of the geek type, fit it perfectly, computer nerd but he was good. Less confident but more assured that he was good, shy and easily picked on.
"Uh Rikki, wasn't it?" Tony asked holding his hand out and I nodded smiling
"Yeah and you are?" I asked shaking his hand
"Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo Junior, otherwise known as Tony" he said a huge grin spreading across his face, and I felt myself blush. Quickly I turned to the other man and smiled
"You are?" I asked and he smiled, not as charmingly as Tony but it was still a good smile
"Special Agent Timothy McGee" he said and I smiled
"Pleasure meeting you both" I said sitting back in my fathers seat.
"So what are you doing in the boss mans seat?" Tony asked and I smiled
"Profiling" I said and he looked at me shocked
"Seriously?" he asked and I nodded
"But your like not even twenty are you?" he asked and I smiled
"Twenty one, and I'm about to graduate thank you very much" I said sounding slightly offended that he'd said that to me.
"Really what did you study?" Tim asked and I smiled
"Criminal Anthropology and criminal profiling. And for your information when I graduate I will have my diploma" I said turning back to the computer and going back to the file I was studying. McGee made his way closer to me and whispered
"I'm sorry about Tony, he's a bit of a womaniser and he doesn't really like it when they seem to be smarter than him" I looked over the top of the computer screen and looked at Tony, who looked a little put out but didn't seem too offended by how I had re-acted. I frowned I didn't want my first interaction with these guys, no matter who they were to be a bad one, so I stood up and made my way over to Tony's desk
"I'm sorry Tony, I didn't mean to offend you but you shouldn't judge a book by its cover" I said and he smiled slightly
"Guess not" he answered sitting up and was about to say something more when my father returned.
"Why were you apologising to DiNozzo? What did he do?" he asked and I shrugged
"Nothing that I can't handle" I said and he looked between the two of us and then nodded before making his way back to his desk
"What did you find out?" he asked and I smiled
"Oh well, this man he has had a lot of priors, never anything more than burglary but I'm sure if it came down to it he would go to murder if they invaded what he saw as his territory. He only focuses on one area and goes back to the same stores, because he knows he can get away with it. He fell off the radar about a year ago but came back six months ago, his childhood and the way he does his burglaries means he plots and thinks it through, for him the risk freaks him out but he doesn't fear cops. He fears the gangs" I said and everyone looked at me shocked
"How did you? How did you find that out?" Tony asked and I smiled
"I went through his record, read it through and saw how many times he's been arrested, somebody who's been arrested that many times isn't afraid of cops, he doesn't care about them. He does however care about the local gang which after a little digging through what you have on them brought some new things to light. Like the fact that the gang has their own thief Braiden O'Leary" I said and they looked at me like I'd just answered the million dollar lottery
"That's it" McGee said
"That's how we can get them" Tony said and I looked at them all waiting for an answer, when I didn't get one I made my way over to the other desk and sat down.
"Thank you Rikki" Gibbs said and I smiled before he called out to his team
"Grab your gear" and they rushed out after him. I was left sitting at the desk, after a while I got bored so I pulled out my cell phone and played a mind game.