Disclaimer: I do own a stuffed animal! and and an ice cream bar i ate 2 hours ago but i most certainly do NOT own NCIS. but i do own the character Kristiana.
A/N: This is my first story in i would say 4 years. I used to writer 24/7 but i do not anymore, just letting you know i rarely use contractions. My teacher hates them. But anyway
just so you are not lost, when Ziva started working at NCIS in 2005, she had a 7 year old daughter named Kristiana, meaning she was 19 when Kristiana was born. Ziva left Washington D.C
when Kristiana was 10.
~Ziva's P.O.V~
A Letter To Tony.
Dear Tony,
If you ever read this, do you remember the first day i walked into NCIS with Kristiana? I do, i brought her in because i had to talk to Gibbs.
I was not thinking when i brought her with me, forgetting you and mcgee would be there. Well i remember walking in and seeing your face,
you were thinking 'who is that?' and so was mcgee and gibbs, but Gibbs was the only one with enough guts to ask who the 7 year old girl on my hip was.
When I said she was my daughter i practically saw you trying to do calculations in your head of how old i was when she was born. Before you could finish
i went over and whispered '19' you did not know how to react, but i was used to people acting like that. Well anyway i have not talked to you since i left
4 years ago when Kristiana was 10. I never really explained why i left, Kristiana's father was looking for her. Said he would try and get full custody saying
i was an unfit parent, truth is he is right. Do you remember Kristiana when she was around 8? would not wear anything but a dress and sandals. She was
the total opposite of me at that age. She still is, last year she started being completely distant, i know everyone says teenagers are distant, but not Kristiana.
Kristiana was just 13 when she came down stairs one morning before school with what used to be her beautiful waist long dark brown hair cut to her shoulders
and her lip, nose and eyebrow pierced (they are not fake, although i hoped they were) and she was dressed in all black. That is just the begining, within the next
month she was brought into the NYPD for posession of marajuana and underage drinking at a party, and then 2 months after that i was forced to send her to a
help group for belemia, she is 14 now. I have no idea what set this off Tony but i figured if anybody at NCIS was willing to talk to and help me, it would be you.
I am sorry that i left when i did, but my baby girl needs help, i do not understand how i could let this happen. Well if you decided to open this letter than i will
let you know I am coming back to D.C, i have bought a house. if you are reading this letter after i have returned, you were probably surprised to see me,
but atleast you read the letter, even if i made you. i do not blame you if you are mad, but please help Kristiana.
-Ziva
~Tony's P.O.V~
I see the envelope marked Very Special Agent DiNozzo and i become curious, and then i recognize the writing, Ziva, i quickly scan the envelope for a return address.
Surprisingly there is one, New York? So that is where she was hiding?
~3rd Person~
By the time Tony is done frantically scaning the envelope he has been griping for 5 minutes, he notices he has grabbed McGee's attention.
"uhm, tony. what is it about that envelope that is making you crazy?" is all McGee could say before tony answered
"Ziva. Its from Ziva McNosy. now do you not have some internet wedding to watch?" Tony never let him live down the time he watched his friends wedding via internet.
"NO! but its just, uhm, well, are you going to open it?"
"Should i McGee? is there something you know that i am not aware of?"
"No Tony that is not what i meant. What i meant was it has been 4 years, since we heard from her or Kristiana. What if something is wrong?"
Tony did not have time to answer, Gibbs came into the bullpen, coffee in hand shouting about a dead marine.
It had been a week and Ziva had moved back to Washington D.C with a less than excited Kristiana, and Tony still had not read, much less opened the letter.
~McGee's P.O.V~
It has been a week since tony received that letter from Ziva and he still had not opened it. Why am i even worried about this? she did not write me a letter.
I open up my document that i have the latest chapter of my book saved on, and start to write. That is until Abby instant messages me.
FormerlyHappyGoth: Hey Timmy. is it true Ziva wrote Tony a letter?
McGee_Is_Gemcity: Yes Abby. Tony refuses to open it though...
FormerlyHappyGoth: WHAT? WHY! is he crazy?
FormerlyHappyGoth: MCGEE why are you not answering me? what are you doing?
McGee_Is_Gemcity: Sorry Abs, i am working on the begining of my new book.
McGee_Is_Gemcity: I very recently got inspired...
FormerlyHappyGoth: DO NOT make your new book about them. Tony WILL kill you
McGee_Is_Gemcity: I will not. Thom E. Gemcity might :)
FormerlyHappyGoth: MCGEE! they will hurt you. please do not do it timmy.
(your message could not be sent, McGee_Is_Gemcity is now offline.)
~Ziva's P.O.V~
As I stand in the long line for the metal detectors at NCIS wishing I still had a badge to flash to get around this mob of visitors, even though I guess technically I am one of those visitors now.
I think about how I arrived in D.C a few days ago. The house is just like it looked in the ad. Kristiana seems to like it even if she will not admit it. I finished unpacking yesterday! Kristiana refuses
to unpack. Finally as i am nearing the front of the line it finally registers in my brain, I am going to NCIS with her today. within 20 minutes of reaching the front of the line we passed security with ease.
As we rode up the elevator I was getting nervous, and it didnt help that every 2 seconds i heard The Kiss by Karmina coming from Kristiana's phone, signaling she got a text message from her
bestfriend Cia. I have asked her to turn it on silent or vibrate, she did not answer my request.
This is it, the elevator doors begin to open and i take a deep breath and i walk out of the elevator with Krisitana at my heels, texting on her phone, but navagating perfectly around the other agents
who seem to all be double taking when they saw me. As the bullpen gets into view i can see that Tony, McGee and Gibbs were all seated at their desks doing paperwork. God i do not miss paperwork!
We reach the entrance to the bull pen and the song i have been annoyed by all day blares through the speakers on Kristiana's cellphone, alerting the 3 men in the bullpen somebody had arrived. They all
looked up, their expressions all the identical, recignition and pure shock. I am thinking to myself this is extremely awkward. So I ignore the stares from Tony and McGee and walk directly to Gibbs
just like i had 7 years ago, except this time there was not a 7 year old latching onto my hip, instead there was a 14 year old freely walking behind her with a blackberry practically glued to her palms.
I could read his eyes even though i was getting a little rusty, his eyes were flooded with relief that Kristiana and I were alive after dropping off the face of the earth for 4 years. His eyes were also
filled with confusion, of why i was back after leaving at the drop of a hat, with no explanation and no warning.
I look at Gibbs and he seemed to get it. Well at least i think he did considering the fact he got up and started walking toward the elevator while making a hand gesture signaling me to follow.
With Kristiana still avidly texting i turned around, and used my "ninja skills" as tony called them to temporarily release the blackberry from her hand and told her to stay in the bullpen.
~ 3rd person~
The second the elevator doors shut and the transformation into Gibbs' "conference room" was complete Gibbs gave Ziva a hug and she returned it.
In the squadroom Kristiana had sat down behind Gibbs' desk with her feet on her desk tweeting on twitter and texting Cia. Although she was oblivious to the 6 people watching her, they were all very aware of her. after gibbs and ziva left mcgee had called abby and she had called ducky and palmer and jenny had been on her way to mtac when she saw ziva and kristiana walking towards the bullpen. finally kristiana realized the people she barely recognized staring at her and decided to speak up.
"uhm can i help you?" she asked the crowd of 6 that jumped when she spoke
"Kristiana is that you?" came jenny's voice
"no. its the easter bunny. and its Krista now."
next came tony's voice "what happened to you? you have changed so much"
"you do not know the half of it."
At this moment Ziva and Gibbs walked back into the squad room and Gibbs went to Kristiana tapped her on the shoulder and motioned for her to come with him. when she did not follow he said in a loud voice " HEY I SAID COME WITH ME"
meanwhile ziva walked over to tony and she didnt give him a chance to talk before she said "read the letter tony, read all of it."
with tony just standing there in a blank, it was Abby who spoke up first, well if you can call it speaking. It was really just a rumbled mush of omg. your back and somehting about chicken? probably not, but after abby's ramble and death squeeze, tim spoke up and unlike abby you could actually decifer his words. it was basically "its nice to see you again ziva." and then he went back to his computer. ziva stared at him for a moment thinking, "i swear to god if he is including this in another one of his books so help me i will dangle him over a pool of parahna's" And then there was Jenny who much like Gibbs motion beckoned her to follow her, except this time it wasnt to the elevator. it was up the steps and accross the catwalk, she could practicly feel all of the agents eyes burning holes in her back.
"Im still a bit shocked" Jenny began "I knew you had written Special Agent DiNozzo a letter, the whole building knew. I knew he didnt open it. I knew you would probably show up here eventually, but Ziva what i did not know when i first saw it was who that girl was down there." Of course she was speaking of Kristiana or Krista (which was now what she was going by)
with an exasperated sigh ziva replied to jenny's comment about her daughter. "yeah thats how i felt when she came down stairs one morning before school with what used to be her beautiful waist long dark brown hair cut to her shoulders and her lip, nose and eyebrow pierced,they are not fake,although i hoped they were and she was dressed in all black. when all she used to wear were those sundresses and capris' oh and cant forget about when i got a call at 2 in the morning saying my daughters bail was being posted at $100,000 for possesion of narcotics." by now ziva was in a panic rant and all jenny did was stare in disbelief
after about 2 minutes of uncomfiturable silence jenny said the only thing that she could make sound remotely sensable. "do you know what brought this on?" and ziva's answer? the pure truth "if i did would i be here?" with that ziva opened the door leading out of the directors office stepped out and let it close with a bang, giving a small yet fake smile to jenny's assistant cynthia ziva was on her way back accross the cat walk and down the steps she had walked oh so many times before she resigned from her position at NCIS.
####.IN THE ELEVATOR.####
Gibbs was pissed. Even that was an understatement. He looked at the teenager in front if his and shook his head. How could this happen in 4 years? well i guess when you miss something, you miss everything.
"Kristiana?" Gibbs finally siad, but her name coming out more like a question then a statment.
The 14 year old didnt even bother to look up, just a robotic response of "Krista" was muttered.
That was it. Gibbs had it. He raised his voice just like he would do when she was 8 years old and was giving Ziva a hard time.
"HEY," That got her attention, "you look at me when i am talking to you. you wanna tell me who you are? cause i sure as hell dont know you."
She answered, but it was the answer of a smartass teenager "the name on the birth certificate is Kristiana. So i guess thats legally my name bu,,,"
She was cut off. Gibbs was fuming or atleast he looked it, " I know what your name is. alright? point is last time i saw you, your hair was long and the only piercing you had was your ears. not those idiotic facial ones"
She came back with the answer of " last time you saw me i was 10. and who cares what you say. your not my mother."
"NO im not your mother, and im not your father, becausae well your mother is out those worried sick and trying to explain why shes back after dropping off the earth for 4 years, and well your fathers a dick head."
