Hello, readers! Here's the first chapter of the sequel to SSAOST3. In this story, it's going to be a load of oneshots about the DiNozzo family as they grow up, and they'll be split into groups for the stories. This first group has oneshots of when the twins are between the ages of 5 and 10.
Anyway, I'll make sure to add the ages of the children at the beginnings of the oneshots as well, just so that you understand exactly where in the story the family is.
So, read on!
Kate and TJ are 4 years old. Maria is 18.
"Okay, girls, get into the car. It's time to go home," Maria called out to the twins as she watched them chatter with their friends amiably.
"Okay, Auntie Maria!" the twins called out before saying goodbye to their friends. They quickly ran over to where their aunt was waiting by her car, gripping the straps of their rucksacks tightly as they did so.
Maria chuckled as she opened the car door for the girls to climb in, their booster seats already set up.
The girls groaned. "Why do we have to sit in the booster seats, Auntie Maria?"
"Because you're not tall enough to sit on your own yet," she explained patiently as she helped the girls into the car and did up their seat belts for them. "If you didn't sit on booster seats, the cops would get us, and that wouldn't be good, would it?"
The girls shook their heads before having another thought.
"Isn't daddy a cop?" TJ asked as Maria started the car.
"No, daddy's a Federal Agent," Maria corrected. "And so is mommy, and Uncle Tim, and Grandpa Gibbs."
"What about Auntie Abby?" Kate asked.
Maria pulled up at a stop light. "She's a Forensic Analyst," she continued to explain.
"And Auntie Andy?"
"She's a children's doctor."
The girls continued to list off all the aunts and uncles they knew, and Maria explained every single one of their jobs to them.
It wasn't long before they reached the Navy Yard, and mere minutes after Maria was parking in the spot that was usually reserved for Ziva. She smirked. They'd traveled to work together, then…
Kate looked outside of the car window, a confused expression on face. "Where's mommy's car?"
"It's at home, honey," Maria said. "Mommy can to work with daddy in his car this morning."
"Oh."
Maria climbed out of the car and took the keys out of the ignition before unbuckling the two girls and lifting them out of the car. "Alright, you two, wait here so that I can get some bags out of the trunk, okay?" she turned to head to the back of the car before she got an answer.
Of course, when she returned to where she had left the girls, she had expected them to still be there.
She growled when she realized the girls had disappeared and began to look around some of the other cars in the parking lot. "Kate! TJ! Quit playing with me now!" She knelt down and looked under the cars. "We're not playing games anymore! We're in a Federal building!" She sighed and stood up. She'd lost the twins.
Her face paled when the realization hit her.
She'd lost the twins.
She groaned.
Ziva was going to kill her.
Tony sighed as he completed another stack of paperwork, pushing the completed pile to the side and pulling the next pile in front of him. Three weeks straight of cases had caused the paperwork for the field agents to pile up quickly, and it was only now that they had the time to complete it.
Ziva groaned as she completed another of her piles. "Three piles down, one left to go," she groaned as she pulled the last pile in front of her and began to work on it.
Tony smirked as he continued to go through his pile. "You're so lucky." He looked over at what he had left. "I have two piles left."
"I have three," McGee muttered as he went through his paperwork pile tiredly.
"Yeah, well you had the most to begin with, didn't you McGoo?"
McGee looked up and frowned at Tony. "You snuck some of your paperwork into my pile again, didn't you?" he asked, feeling very annoyed with him all of a sudden.
"Maybe…"
"Oh, come on, Tony!"
Eglé walked into the bullpen just then, carrying another stack of papers. "Guys, I bring gifts…"
Ziva stared at her. "That's not a gift. That is a curse."
Eglé chuckled. "Yes, well, where shall I put these papers? Or am I meant to complete them?"
"If you could complete them, then that would be very kind of you."
Eglé nodded. "It would… maybe I should just leave these on Tony's desk."
"Hey!" Tony cried out indignantly. "I don't deserve this!"
"You left your paperwork on my desk," McGee muttered.
Just then, the elevator dinged, and Ziva turned to see her younger half-sister, Maria David, walking into the bullpen…
Alone.
She frowned at her. "Maria, where are the twins?"
Maria froze at the entrance to the bullpen, scratching the back of her neck nervously. "Heh, funny story…"
Tony's eyes narrowed. Those words were never good… "Maria, what did you do with our kids?" he asked, his voice dangerously low.
Maria took a deep breath. "I lost the twins."
The whole bullpen was silent for a little while before anyone decided to speak up again.
"What did you say?" Ziva whispered, her eyes wide with fear.
Maria gulped. "I… uh… I lost the twins…"
Tony put his head in his hands. "You lost them?! How the hell could you lose our kids?!" he demanded.
She shrugged. "Never turn your back on them for more than a second?"
"This isn't funny, Maria!" he snapped, slamming his pen down on the table. "My kids could be running anywhere in this building from Autopsy to MTAC!"
"Tony!" Ziva cried out. "Calm down! We will find them, alright?" She looked over at her younger sister. "And this should not happen again. Understood, Maria?"
Maria nodded. "Yes, ma'am."
"Do not call me that."
"Yes, Ziva."
Tony sighed. "Right, so how are we doing this?"
The team had gathered in the bullpen. Abby had been sent a warning, so she was looking out for the twins, whilst the rest of them had decided to search the rest of the building.
"We should split up and search," Gibbs suggested. "Those kids could be anywhere in this building. Each agent to check a separate floor. Got it?"
The four agents nodded. "Yes, boss."
"I'll head to the basement," McGee suggested before heading to the elevator.
"I shall head towards the gym," Ziva said.
"I'll go and check in MTAC," Eglé suggested.
"And I'll head towards finance," Tony agreed. "We'll call each other if anything happens, such as finding them."
"Got it." Ziva pecked her husband on the lips before racing down towards the gym.
Tony nodded and smiled before heading off towards finance.
Gibbs sighed and stood in the middle of the bullpen, trying to think of where the twins would have headed. He took a sip of his coffee before heading to the entrance level on the ground floor.
Hopefully they'd find them.
Kate giggled as she ducked behind a couple of desks, hiding from any suspecting agents. TJ followed her big sister and did the same, giggling quietly. The two were out 'exploring', as they called it, avoiding adults and trying to find as many new hiding places in the NCIS office as they could before getting caught.
"When do you think they'll find us?" TJ whispered.
Kate shrugged. "I don't know…" She ducked when she spotted another agent walking past.
TJ crawled underneath some of the desks and began to pick up random things she found, such as elastic bands and paper clips.
Kate frowned. "TJ! What are you doing?" she hissed.
"These are pretty," TJ defended, crawling towards the elevator.
Kate followed her sister. "Where are we going?"
"Maybe we can head downstairs and see if Grandpa Ducky can give us some hot chocolate…" the younger twin suggested.
Kate grinned. "Good idea!" She crawled over to the elevator and pressed the button to go down before quickly crawling in with her sister. She pressed the button for autopsy, grinning at the fact that she was now tall enough to press the button, and the two watched the doors close before waiting for it to go down.
Just as it reached the floor for Forensics, however, the elevator stopped, and the door slowly slid open. The girls' eyes widened.
Their parents were in there.
And boy, did they look mad.
"Close the doors close the doors close the doors!" Kate hissed.
"I'm closing them, I'm closing them!" TJ replied as she repeatedly pressed the button to close the doors. When the doors eventually closed, they sighed with relief.
"Phew, that was a close one!" TJ said.
Tony sighed as he stood in Abby's lab, leaning on one of her work tables, with his wife standing beside him. "So you haven't seen them? At all?"
Abby shook her head solemnly. "Not at all." She sighed and twisted her fingers in her pigtails nervously. "Tony… what if we don't find them?"
Ziva glared at her. "Abby, please… they are my daughters. We will find them."
"Are you sure of it?"
Ziva's glare faltered.
Tony wrapped his arm around his wife's waist and kissed her temple softly. "We're going to find them. I'm definitely sure of it."
The trio failed to notice when the elevator arrived, used to the usual ding of its bell, so they didn't realize who exactly had been in the elevator and didn't even turn around when it left without anyone leaving it.
That was their big mistake.
Little Kate DiNozzo sighed with relief when they both finally managed to reach the floor for Autopsy. They'd managed to get all the way down to the basement without getting caught…
The doors to the elevator opened, and the twins gasped.
At the end of the corridor stood Leroy Jethro Gibbs, talking to Grandpa Ducky.
The two girls carefully and quietly ducked out of the elevator, using tricks that their own parents had taught them in order to get away from kidnappers, and snuck over to the stairs. The two girls quietly climbed, hoping to avoid any agents coming down.
Gibbs sighed and ran a hand through his hair whilst he held his coffee with the other. "Where would they be?" he asked, not exactly speaking to anyone in particular.
"Well, maybe you should study the girls' behaviours more," Ducky offered as he walked back into Autopsy with Gibbs in tow. "Don't forget, those two are a combination of two absolutely brilliant agents, one of whom is a former Mossad Officer and the other a former Police Officer. They have inherited the guts and the stealth that they need from both sides." He looked over at Jimmy. "Mr Palmer, have you finished that Autopsy yet?"
Jimmy shook his head as he noted something down. "Not yet, Dr Mallard. I'm nearly done though. Just a little more to check."
Ducky nodded. "Well, I hope you finish soon, Mr Palmer."
Gibbs looked over at the body. "This for that other team, Palmer?"
Jimmy nodded. "Yes, Gibbs."
"Good for you. Get it done." He turned and walked straight out.
He had to find those twins.
The twins were giggling as they ran up the stairs. The stairwell, luckily for them, was completely empty. None of the agents or workers at the Navy Yard ever used them, all of them preferring to use the elevators instead.
"We're really good at being sneaky, aren't we?" TJ whispered.
"Uh-huh," Kate replied.
"And we're really good at tricking people."
"Uh-huh."
"And we're really good at—"
"TJ, be quiet please."
TJ pouted. "Why should I be quiet? You talk all the time anyway!"
"I'm not talking now."
"You just did."
"TJ, stop it!"
The twins failed to notice when someone entered the stairwell from the entrance just behind them until he noticed them himself. "Well, what do we have here?"
The girls froze. "Uh oh…"
Eglé sighed. "They are not in MTAC…" she muttered. "So where could they be?" She walked out of the room, feeling worried. Where on earth could those mischeivious little girls be…?
"Agent McCoy!"
Eglé turned to see one of the younger agents running towards her. She put on a smile. "Yes?"
The younger agent panted. "You're a part of Special Agent Gibbs' team, right?"
She nodded.
"The Director wants to see you!"
Eglé frowned, but nodded. "Okay, thank you." She turned and headed for the Director's office, walking straight through to the actual room. She knocked on his door.
"Come in," came the answer from the other side of the door.
Eglé walked into the room and froze.
Director Leon Vance sat at the meeting table, a plate of ham sandwiches with the crusts cut off in front of him. On either side of him sat two girls with dark hair – one's hair far longer than the other's – each of them sipping on juice boxes. They turned when they heard the door open, their bright green eyes shining.
"Ah, Agent McCoy," the Director started. "I seem to have something that belongs to Agent DiNozzo. I was wondering if you could contact him and get him up here?"
Eglé nodded and pulled out her phone. She dialed Tony's number. "Hello? Agent DiNozzo… yes… the Director would like to see you…"
Tony sighed with relief when he opened the door. "Kate! TJ!"
The twins jumped up. "Daddy!" They ran over to him, hugging his legs.
He chuckled. "And where did you two decide to explore this time?" he asked, still a bit annoyed with the girls. He'd let Ziva deal with that, though.
"Well, we explored the NCIS building!" Kate exclaimed.
"Yeah! And we went toy hunting, and I found paperclips and elastic bands, and then we had a ride in the e-le-va-tah," TJ pronounced, "and then we sneaked past Grandpa Gibbs and climbed up the stairs and then Director Vance caught us."
Tony just stared at his daughter before sighing and taking both girls' hands. "Your momma isn't going to be very happy with you, you know."
The girls gulped. "Uh oh…"
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