Hey, It's ShelbykinsBlu, This is a Collab with Rlmpcc110511, She's posting it on her account as well. i'll be writing all the odd chapters and she will be writing the even. Her character is Abigail who is paired up with Gibbs and My character Raina will be paired with Tony. So please enjoy!
Raina Allison stood staring at the casket that contained her best friend, she was in the bargaining stage of grief, silently pleading for God to bring her friend back and take her instead. Her best friend's Coworkers stood waiting for the funeral to start, Raina had never met anyone her friend worked with, she like to keep her personal life separated from her professional life. Raina understood that, she didn't like talking about her work with the Crime lab after hours either.
The pastor began to speak when a blonde in a red dress caught her attention, Scandalized that someone would wear red to a funeral she turned her head to see the woman clearly, her eyes widen she saw Caitlin Todd smiling at her from an oak tree. She glanced around wondering if she was the only one who was seeing her dead best friend.
"Don't look so surprised, this is you grieving you dork." Kate said as she suddenly appeared in front of Raina, her blonde hair staying perfectly still even though there was a slight wind. Kate had always talked about going blonde but she never got around to doing it and Raina thought she looked beautiful blonde or with Dark hair. Kate smiled as if reading her thoughts. "Of course you think I look beautiful, I could be wearing a potato sack and you will still tell me I'm Beautiful."
Raina smiled slightly trying not to cause attention to herself, she didn't want to be carted off to the Looney bin. Kate looked over to her old team and grinned.
"You should apply to NCIS, I hear they have an opening." Kate told her best friend, Tears filled Raina's eyes as she remembered that Kate was dead and the Kate staring at her was just a figment of her imagination to help her deal with the survivors guilt. She quickly rushed away from the funeral and found a Gazebo.
"Come on Rainbow, that was funny and you know it." Kate said with a grin, Raina shook her head.
"It was not funny." she whispered; Kate frowned before sitting down,
"You should still do it Raina, Someone has to keep the team in Check." Kate said before sighing, "I love you, you shouldn't mourn because I'm gone but rejoice at the times we shared."
"I love you Kate, more than I could ever tell you." Raina cried; she wanted to hug Kate but knew it was impossible.
"You alright?" a man voice asked; Raina jumped in fright, finding a man with Salt and pepper hair looking at her concerned.
"No, I'm not. my best friend is being buried today, and I keep wanting God to bring her back and take me." Raina told him, the man nodded.
"You must be Raina." he said; She looked at him shocked before realizing who he was, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Kate's old boss.
"You must be Gibbs." Raina said, Gibbs nodded.
"Kate only ever told me two things about you Raina." He said; Raina looked at him surprised, "She told me that your hair match your personality and if I were to ever meet you, I would know right of the bat if you liked me or not."
Raina smiled and laughed.
"Kate always did say that I let my mouth run away from me." She said; she looked up towards the funeral and realized she needed to get back. "It was nice to meet you Agents Gibbs but we're missing Katie's funeral."
He nodded and told her to go on head that he would catch up. Raina took her spot in line to put her single Sunflower on the casket. Kate and Raina would always run through the Allison's Sunflower field when they were kids and Raina thought it would be fitting; as she laid the Sun flower down, that day in 3rd grade, when she met Kate, came to ming
"What are you drawing?" a small brunette asked Raina as she colored happily, humming a song she had heard on the radio.
"My mommy's garden." Raina replied smiling at the girl, "what about you?"
"I'm drawing you and me, we're going to be best friends." she said, "I'm Kate, what's your name?"
"I'm Raina."
"Oh like Rain?" Kate said; Raina frowned and looked down at her picture, "I love the rain, because rain make Rainbows."
Raina grinned at her new friend, who gasped as if she discovered a new color.
"I'm going to call you Rainbow." Kate exclaimed, Raina nodded and continued to color with her new best friend.
Coming out of the memory, Raina walked over to Kate's parents as the sound of a jazz band filled the area, Raina glanced at the NCIS group and grinned when she saw the goth girl holding something, the music was coming from her. Raina looked back at the casket and decided then, that she would apply to NCIS.
Two days later, Raina found herself at her parent's farm using their computer since hers had decided to take a giant dump and was at the shop.
"Honey the password for the internet is Chicken." Her mother said as she sat down at the family computer, Raina raised her eyebrow at the off the wall password but entered it. She got to work finding where she would have to apply as her mother sat a sandwich and some apple juice next to her.
"Mom for cripes sakes I'm 32, I can get a sandwich if I'm hungry." She muttered before taking a bite of the sandwich. Two extremely long hours later Raina finished the Application, the mouse hovered over the word submit and she took a deep breath.
"Alright Kate, Here goes nothing." She whispered before clicking submit.
"I'm proud of you." her mother said as she sat on the couch watching one of her soaps. "Kate would be proud of you as well."
Raina's eyes veered over to the kitchen table where a vision of her best friend sat looking at her, since the funeral she had continued to see Kate, Not in a going crazy kind of way, in a What would Kate do if she was here, Raina was under no grandeur that it wasn't strange but the visions of Kate never talked to her and when she did, it was Raina's own thoughts. Like her inner narrative has begun to use Kate's imagine and voice to make Raina feel comfortable.
"Thanks mom." she said before standing up and stretching, "what's for dinner?"
"As you told me earlier, you are 32 and if your hungry you can get it yourself." her mother said laughing. Raina smiled for what it seemed like the first time in forever, Kate was dead, yes, but Raina found Kate in everything.
It was about a week later when Raina finally got a call about NCIS. She had been finishing up her paperwork for the week and planned on taking a long soak in the tub when her phone rang.
"Hello?" She answered.
"Yes is this Raina Allison?" a woman asked, Raina pulled the phone from her ear and looked at the Area code, the call was coming from DC. She confirmed her identity and took a deep breath as the woman began speaking again.
"I am Director Sheppard of the NCIS and I was wondering if you were still interested in a job, It wouldn't be for the position you applied, we already filled the Field agent position but I looked over your Application and I see you spent three years while in school as a personal assistant. I'm willing to ay you more than your current job is paying."
Raina frowned, they had already replaced Kate.
"I would have no problem being your assistant ma'am, I really want to work for NCIS, my friend Kate used to work there. She's actually the reason I applied."
"You were the woman with the green and blue hair?" Director Sheppard asked;
"Yes, ma'am, I hope my hair color will not be an issue, I can recolor it if I need to." Raina said hoping that she wouldn't have to.
"our old guidelines stated that you would have to but, I'm sure by the time you arrive it will be changed, there is no reason you should have to change it." The director said; Raina sighed in relief.
"Thank you so much Ma'am, I will start packing as soon as I hang up."
"NCIS will put you up in a hotel until you find a place. But I'm sure you'll find something before then. There are plenty of nice houses that are for sale."
"Thank you again Ma'am." Raina said before saying goodbye. As soon as she hung up she called her mom.
About a month Later, Raina took at deep breath before entering the NCIS building, a smile graced her face as she walked up to the receptionist.
"I'm supposed to meet Director Sheppard I'm her new assistant." She told the woman. The bleach blonde woman looked at Raina, a disgusted look on her face. Raina smirked knowing that she was being judged, but she was use to it. She couldn't have vivid hair color and be sensitive.
"are you sure you are in the right place." the woman sneered, "This isn't Hot Topic."
Raina laughed at the lame insult.
"If I wasn't meant to be here do you think the guard would have even let me on the base with out the correct papers." Raina snapped back, "I'm sure to speak to the director about your concerns."
Just then a red head woman Raina recognized from the funeral walked into the room.
"Ms. Allison, There you are." She said; "Crystal I told you to send her right up."
Raina shot the receptionist a look.
"Thank you for your help." She said sarcastically before following Director Sheppard to an elevator.
"Did you have a problem finding the place?" Director Sheppard asked.
"A little but the man at the booth helped me out a lot, Gregory I think is what his tag said. He was nice. He should get a raise." Raina said with a smile. Director Sheppard smiled at her, she was everything she expected plus more, Gibbs and Abi wouldn't know any better.
"I'll look into it." Sheppard said;
"He showed me a picture of his daughter, she's so cute, I wish I had kids." Raina rambled on, she paused and blushed, "sorry I've been up since 3 am and I had to much coffee."
"It's not problem, I'll make sure your office has it's own coffee maker so you don't have to share." Sheppard told her.
"My office? Ma'am I don't understand." Raina said confused. Jenny just smiled and told her that she will explain when they get to her office.
When they finally made it to the right floor Sheppard lead her through a room with desks in it, she looked at the people as she passed and smiled slightly when she notices Gibbs, she sends him a nod before following the director up some stairs. She froze as she looked at the pictures of fallen agents, Kate's smiling face looked at her, tears started to form in her eyes before her subconscious tried to calm her down.
"I'm right here, beside you. Calm down." she heard Kate's voice, she smiled and touched the picture before turning to the director.
"Sorry, it took me by surprise." She said; Sheppard nodded and she continued up the stairs, Raina glanced at Kate's picture one last time before she jogged up the stairs behind the director.
"How long did you know Agent Todd?" Sheppard asked as they reached an office. Raina smiled.
"She sat next to me in 3rd grade and it was all down hill from there." She replied with a grin, "Katie was more than a best friend to me. She was my soul Mate."
Sheppard raised her eyebrow before walking into what Raina assumed was her office, she lead Raina to a door and frowned.
"I'm afraid I was misleading on your job here, Ms Allison, I have a feeling that some of my agents are having relations and its against the rules, The job I hired you for is to observe and report anything you see on the monitors, there is also a program on every phone that will send us the texts the people send, I will need you to keep an eye out for anything unusual." Sheppard told the girl, Raina looked at her then the door and nodded. "This is your office."
Sheppard opened the door to show Raina a room full of monitors and a computer, Raina walked in and sighed, it wasn't the job she wanted but she could do the job she was hired to do.
"If you would like to get started." Sheppard said; Raina nodded and sat down on the desk chair provided and turned to the monitors. All were showing a member of Gibbs team, she glanced up at The Director in question.
"Is their a problem Ms Allison?" She asked; she couldn't go back to her old job, she had to the job she was hired for.
"No ma'am." she replied, Sheppard nodded and shut the door, Raina looked at the monitors just as Gibbs hit a very handsome man in the back of the head she grinned.
"Why do I feel like that will be seen a lot." She whispered before grabbing a notebook.
I hope you liked it, as you can tell it's taken place a little bit after Kate died, Please Review and go Check out Rlmpcc110511's page, read her other stories and let her know what you think,
Thanks Shelby!