A/N. ok this is my first non-twilight fic so play fair. OC, AU. Keanu is pronounced Key-are-nu.

Alayah's POV

"Ali?" Miss Austin called from behind me. "Have you heard from your parents yet?" she asked concerned.

"Not yet. I'm sure there just stuck in traffic." I assured her. My parents were never late picking me up from school. By the time three-thirty rocked around I was sitting on the ground leaning against the wall of my grade seven class room. Miss Austin came out to check on me again, "I'm just gonna go check if they're down at the day-care talking to Mackenzie or Keanu." I said getting up off the ground and heading in the direction of the day-care.

I walked in the door and immediately saw that my parents were not here. Mackenzie came running full speed ahead at me. "Ali, where's mummy and daddy?" she asked, "Why haven't they come yet? I wanted to show them my painting." She held up and picture of what only her family would be able to tell was a baby, a little girl, an other girl, a mummy and a daddy. Someone had written above them 'Nu-nu, Me, Ali, Mummy, Daddy.' And a big heading at the top, 'My family'.

"That's a very pretty painting sweetie," I praised, "I don't know where mummy and daddy are but they'll be ok."

Keanu ran over to us. "Up." He ordered.

I picked him up and we walked over to the front desk. "Hi." I said politely.

"Hello. What can I do for you?" She asked matching my politeness.

"Can I sign these two out?" I asked nodding towards Mackenzie and Keanu.

"Are you over thirteen?" Why is everyone asking questions?

I smiled, "Yes, it's my birthday today."

"Happy birthday." She said handing me the sheet of paper. I signed and left.

"How we gettin' home?" Mackenzie asked. "We can't walk that far."

"We can catch a bus, then when we get home we'll call mummy and see where she is." I told her giving her a one-armed hug.

We only had to wait about three minutes for the bus, "Kenzie don't forget your back pack." I told her. I could see it still on the seat as we walked towards the bus. She picked it up and followed me.

"Where are you guys headed?" the bus driver asked.

"Priority Street." I told him and pulled out my wallet.

"That's five dollars fifty for all of you."

I gave him the remains of my pocket money which only just made enough. "Thanks." I said and walked to and empty row of seats.

When we got to our stop I carried to now sleeping Keanu off the bus and held Kenzie's hand as she trailed behind me. We walked the five minutes to our house and I tried to open the door but it was locked. I walked over to the front window but the curtains were closed so I walked round the house to the side window. It was open so I peered in.

I gasped at what I saw. My mother lying on the floor in a pool of blood, no sound escaping her lips, no rise and fall of her chest, no movement of her frightened looking eyes, no life in her body. I fought back the tears, "Mackenzie stay where you are." I told her. At the moment she was standing on the grass with Keanu sleeping at her feet.

I man walked into the room my mother was in with a gun and pointed it of in the direction of the corner of the room. I couldn't see that corner but I didn't need to to know who was there. "Please." My dad pleaded. The man told him to shut up and took the safety switch off the gun. The things you learn when your dad is a marine.

My dad's voice played in my head. "Take in his appearance so you can describe him to the police." I obeyed my thoughts. The man had dark brown hair, was quite tall, a stubbly beard, thick eyebrows, brown eyes, a black tee-shirt and black jeans. "Any special features?" My dad's voice asked again in my head. Yes, he has a mole above his right eye. I thought.

"Please let me go." Dad pleaded again. The man shouted something I didn't understand but sounded like you'll…sorry. The gun went off and I ducked. Kenzie began to cry and Keanu woke up.

"Run." I ordered, picking up Keanu. We ran as fast as we could to the park down the road. My street only had about three houses on it and they were pretty far apart so I don't know if anyone else heard the shot.

Mackenzie started crying when we sat on a park bench. "It's okay Kenzie." I told her, but it wasn't okay. I pulled out a dollar coin and shoved it in the pay phone. I dialled the number my dad drilled into my head from the time I could talk.

"NCIS how may I help you?" Said the person on the other end.

"There has been a shooting at number two Priority Street. One dead and one injured maybe dead but I'm not sure." I told her too low for Mackenzie and Keanu to hear. If there was anything Dad taught me it was to stay calm.

"Okay we are sending a team over. What is your name?" She asked.

"My name is Alayah Rivers. My sister, brother and I are currently down the street from the house at the park." I told her.

"Where you at the house when the shooting occurred?" she asked.

"Yes I was looking through the window."

"Okay stay on the phone with me until you can see the NCIS cars." She instructed.

Only a moment later I saw the black vehicles pull up down the road and one keep driving up to the park. "Okay I see them." I said and hung up. I ran over to Mackenzie and Keanu. Kenzie was crying so I gave her a hug and sat down with her. I put Keanu on my lap.

An NCIS agent walked over to us, "Alayah Rivers?" he asked.

"Hello." I said with a sad smile.

He held out his hand and I shook it, "Agent Gibbs." He introduced himself.

"I'm Alayah and this is Mackenzie," I motioned to her, "And Keanu." I gestured to the boy on my lap.

"Nice to meet you, I wish it weren't under these circumstances." He said, "Come on let's get you guys back to NCIS." He led us over to the car.

I slid in the back with Kenzie and Keanu. There was a lady in the front seat; she was pretty with dark hair and tan skin. She didn't speak for the whole trip but Gibbs introduced her as liaison officer Ziva David.

About a minute into the drive Keanu started crying, "It's okay Nu-nu." I rocked him. He was sitting on my lap since we didn't have a baby seat.

"Ali, where's mummy and daddy? Where are we going?" Kenzie questioned.

"Mummy and Daddy went to visit Grandma and Grandpa." I told her. I didn't know what to tell her and I figured that was the best thing. My Grandparents had died last year. "We are going to go to NCIS. Remember how Daddy said that NCIS help people? Well there going to help us." I swear I saw a tear in Ziva's eye but it vanished.

We pulled into the car park at NCIS and we all got out of the car. Gibbs and Ziva led us through the building to a group of desks. Two other men were sitting at desks in the bull pen. Gibbs told us there names were Tony and McGee.

"Tony, Ziva you're on witness protection." Gibbs told them. They nodded. I went and sat on the floor off to the side of the desk, not really knowing what to do. I pulled out my note pad and a pen and began to draw. Kenzie did the same. Nu just lay down and went to sleep. Lucky kid is too young to know what's going on.

Before I knew it the sky was black and people were leaving. "DiNozzo, David take the kids back to Tony's house." They both stood up and grabbed their bags. I packed up my stuff and told Kenzie to do the same.

We followed them to the car but this time there was a baby seat for Nu. "What do you want for dinner?" Ziva asked.

"Pizza!" Tony and I replied at the same time. We laughed as Ziva rolled her eyes.

"We need to stop at the shops because we don't have any baby food for Key-a-nu. Is that how you pronounce it?" Tony asked.

"No it's pronounced Key-are-nu." I sounded it out for him. "Or just Nu." I said as we pulled into a parking spot at the shops.

"Okay who wants to come get pizza with me?" Tony asked.

"I'll go." I volunteered.

"Me too." Kenzie grabbed my hand.

"Can I take Keanu?" Ziva asked.

"Yep." I popped the P on the end. Ziva put Keanu in a shopping trolley and walked into the grocery store while Tony, Kenzie and I walked to the Dominos down the walkway.

"You like movies Ali?" Tony questioned me.

"Do I ever?!" I replied enthusiastically.

"How 'bout we have a movie night tonight? What ya say?" Tony suggested.

"Sure." I decided I like Tony and Ziva was pretty cool too. She seemed to like Nu a lot so that was good.

"What kind of pizza?" Tony asked as we walked into the store.

"Pepperoni!" Everyone cheered.

A/N. hoped you like it. Please R&R.