Disclaimer I don't own NCIS or CSI

A/N- this is a very slight crossover with CSI, only because Eliza lives with Catherine and Lindsey, I haven't put it under that section though as it will be near enough all NCIS so I didn't see the point. If you've never seen CSI and are slightly confused at all PM me with a question and I'll do my best to answer. I know Jenny is made out to be the bad guy but that is the way I want it for the moment.

P.S. it won't all be in this tense, just for this chapter which is an introduction.

Enjoy…

Complicated. One word to describe my life: complicated. I suppose messed-up is another. Then again when you mother is the hard assed and infamous Director of NCIS, what else can you expect?

My name is Eliza Catherine Jones, father: Lt. Cornel Malcolm Jones – deceased. Mother: Director Jennifer Eliza Shepard- whom could not give a damn about me.

So yeah, complicated kinda describes my life…

Daddy died on duty; well that's the official version anyway. See, in reality he was killed in '91 by one of La Grenouille's men. Shot through the head whilst away on tour, he was only three days away from coming home. Nothing was ever proved though; it was just put down to another casualty. There's one problem with that conclusion though, the bullet wasn't from a military weapon as you would think, it was from a shot gun. They just said ballistics must have been wrong. The ballistics was wrong my….

After that it was just me and mum. She went from being happy and laughing to working quite a lot of hours. It was a big change for me. That was because she had joined DC police department. I suppose looking back she tried her hardest, got all the time off she could and did her best. Then in '94 came her joining up to NCIS and little 'liza being shoved to the bottom of the pile. She later claimed she did it so she could get revenge, fair enough. But why should I have to suffer? So at the age of 8 I began to be pushed around form DC to Vegas. Vegas was because my mum's friend Catherine worked there. I moved in with her on permanent basis at 10. She was more of a mother to me that my biological one ever was. At first I went over in the holidays, I was fine with it all, then came the 'important cases', the undercover op's and once more I went back to the bottom of the pile.

Catherine though, she's been more than I ever deserved. Even when she had a new born baby she never forgot about me. I was at high school then and she could have dumped me back off in DC when mood swings arrived, but she didn't. Lindsey became part of her family and I began to feel loved. The only time she ever pushed me away was during her divorce, that and the domestic abuse. So I went to Cairo to live my mum and a woman named Ziva. The reason was because she didn't want me to be around, Lindsey was too young to realise it all but I wasn't and I was intelligent so I knew about the whole thing and she didn't want that. Let me just make this clear, Cath didn't want me being around through it…not mummy dearest.

Anyway, the fact I hardly know my mother doesn't really get me down any more, after all I'm 22 now. I learn to deal with that a long time ago. Now, now I have my own life, I'm an FBI agent. Yeah, I didn't want to work for NCIS after all, being constantly compared to the woman in the big chair would be a pain, o yeah, I wouldn't be. Reason: no one knows who I am!

I still live with Cath and 8 year old Lindsey, but she's relaxed about rules. Lin classes me as a sister now which always makes me smile. Oh, and I've not spoken to my mother in 3 years, not since she became director. I doubt she even realises I'm an FBI agent at all.

And I think that brings me to now. Currently I'm on a flight to dreaded Washington DC for a ball. Plus a month long stay with FBI: DC to 'work on 'communication issues'', more likely covering their back sides.

Anyway, Washington DC means Mother. Yeah, so as you can guess happiness is radiating off me at the moment… not!

Right, I hope you enjoyed.

Note : Jenny didn't change her name when she married, though I'd mention that. Oh, and Eliza took her dad's name.

Any Q's review or PM and I'll do my best to answer.

Thanks for reading, please let me know what you thought.

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