NCIS:

A SUPRISE FROM...MEXICO

Disclaimer: NCIS and characters from the show do not belong to me.

Summary: A mysterious girl no older then 12 shows up at NCIS to see, Gibbs. She looks so much like a little girl Gibbs once knew, but that's impossible...right? Who is the mysterious girl?

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I would like to thank CALLEN37 for helping to fix the misteaks in my stories.

CHAPTER 1: Welcome To The United States, Hope

MEXICO...

Twelve year old, Hope Edna had heard stories from her mother (Kelly) all her life:

How she (Kelly) had been born in the United States...
Spent the first eight years of her life there and had at least some happy memories, before being captured...
Then how the grandmother (or Kelly's mom) that Hope had never met had been captured and held in a prison like room...
How when Hope's grandmother had put up a fight to save her mother...she had been shot and killed...

Hope had been born a little less then nine months later. Weeks earlier then she should have and almost didn't survive, but some how Hope had survived.

Now Hope and her mother had finally escaped...it was the first time in all her life that Hope had ever been outside; there was a gunshot and Hope spun around.

"Mama!" Hope yelled. "Go! Find, Leroy Gib..." Her mother gave a gasp and then she went still.

Hope wanted to run back to her mother, but knew it was too late. Her mother was dead and she had to run.

Hope had remembered the stories her mother told her and remembered that her mother's father was a Marine. Hope's mother and grandmother had lived with him in Washington D.C. That's where Hope had to go now. That's where she hoped she would find Leroy Gibbs...her grandfather.

She set off at a dead run and ran as fast as she could. Fear of being captured and what would happen if she were, kept her going.

AT LEAST A DAY LATER...

Hope was exhausted, hungry and very thirsty. She didn't know how long she had been going now, but she finally came to a stop when she felt like she could go on no more.

She saw a car coming down the road and felt fear. The same fear she had felt when she had started to run,

'The people who held her captive! They had found her!'

She hid the best she could, but as the car got closer, she couldn't believe her eyes, because the people in the car looked like...Americans!

She wondered though if she could trust them, she really hoped she could. She explained that she needed to get home to Washington D.C. not telling them the whole story...just enough so that the couple agreed to help her.

The couple introduced themselves as Billie and Ted Cooper. Though it might be hard to get her out of Mexico...they said they would try. Hope climbed into the car and hid beneath blankets and luggage. However, she tried to keep her ears open and stay alert, as she had done for as long as she could remember...

She must have fallen asleep, because she jerked awake to someone gently shaking her. It was only Billie and Billie had a kind smile on her face.

"We're in the United States of America. You fell asleep before I could give you anything." Billie said as Hope looked at what Billie was holding out to her...

A bottle of water, a bag of chips and a sandwich.

"Th-thank you." Hope said taking the food and water...she began to eat.

After a few minutes, Billie spoke up again...

"You said you needed to get to Washington D.C.?" Billie asked and Hope swallowed her mouthful of food.

"Yes, I have to find my Grandfather, Leroy Gibbs." Hope replied.

"We made it across the border a few hours ago. We should be at an airport in a little while and then we'll take a plane to Washington. After we get you there Ted and I will help you find your grandfather, before we head home." Billie told her and Hope a lump in throat at the same time she fought the tears.

She wondered why this couple would help a total stranger and not ask too many questions.

"Wh-why are you helping me?" Hope asked at last as she tried to swallow the lump in her throat.

"Because you need help and it's what we do." Billie told her and before Hope could ask another question, Ted walked up.

"Ready to go? We still have about an hour and a half drive to the airport and we should make it just in time to board the plane." Ted told them.

So with Ted in the driver's seat and Billie in the front passengers seat...Ted started the car and they began the drive to the airport.

Hope was nervous and scared about meeting a man she had heard so much about her whole life. He was the only family she had now...her mother was dead and her grandmother was killed months before she was born.