Okay, this is "Found". Obviously I don't own the characters or any of NCIS apart from Lily she's mine from my very own imagination, everything else belongs to DP Belissario.
Gibbs stood alone in the cosy space of his living room. One worn picture in his hand, a young girl stood grinning clutching at her mother's hand.
"Happy Birthday Sweetheart" He whispered placing a kiss from his fingertips to the small child.
In the squad room Ziva stood leant over a depressed Tony DiNozzo's desk.
"Tony, you're not fine. Look at yourself, you look like you've seen a toast" she tried to coax some kind of emotion or banter or anything out of her solemn partner.
"Seen a ghost Ziva, seen a ghost." Tony looked up from the screen that he had previously been staring intently at to meet Ziva's eyes. His words were trying to convince her he was fine but his hazel orbs betrayed him.
"Why won't you talk to me Tony? I thought we were partners" She placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"We are. I don't know... It's just" The senior field agent was stopped mid-sentence by the sound of the swooshing elevator doors. He and Ziva turned around to see Timothy McGee walking through those moment ruining doors backpack slouched over one shoulder.
As Ziva walked back to her desk she muttered something under breath like "Perfect timing McGee"
But the probie agent didn't seem to notice as he walked into the office with a slight bounce in his step. "Morning guys"
"You seem perky today probalicious, is there some new elflord game we need to know about?" Tony asked trying to be his former self for his and the rest of the teams benefit.
"No there is not Tony, we have a case we're going to Georgetown, a shooting was called at 0800 this morning" Gibbs called almost jogging down the stairs from the directors office
As the team pulled up outside the house they were told contained the dead body of a young woman they saw a girl, who looked around 15 years old with long wavy brown hair and saddened brown eyes.
"D'you think that's her boss?" Tony questioned Gibbs
"You think Tony? There isn't anyone else here" Gibbs shot an order at Tony's question, but Tony took it courteously.
"On my way boss" He strolled up to the youth, with the rest of the team behind him as he got closer he saw there were lines of salty deposits streaked across her face, she'd been crying. "Hi" he waved cautiously in her direction, she looked up her brown eyes analysing his actions "I'm agent Anthony DiNozzo; I'm here with NCIS that stands for..."
"Naval Criminal Investigative Service, I know I called you guys." She said obviously displeased with his slightly patronising attempt at telling who he was, Gibbs slapped him on the back of the head.
"So that means you must be ..." Gibbs paused trying to decipher whoever's handwriting had scribbled the note before him "Lily?"
"That's me"
"How old are you Lily?" Tony asked worried about the age of the girl sat before him, she shouldn't have had to witness a murder he thought.
"15. Now shouldn't you guys be worrying about the shooting I heard and the dead body in that building" She pointed towards a house on the other side of the road "... and on the fact you've got an eye witness who can identify your body and give you a pretty darn good picture of the shooter, rather than 20 questions?"
"Shouldn't you be in school?" Tony asked ignoring Lily's glaring eyes
"DiNozzo shut up for a moment would you?" Gibbs said slapping the back of the agents head.
"Shutting up boss" Lily let out a light chuckle through the tears that were now freely flowing down her face.
Gibbs voice softened as he questioned the girl "Who's the victim?"
Lily's voice took on a tone of clinical detachment as she spoke about the woman who lay dead in the house mere yards away "Jane Stroud, she's a 34 year old Caucasian female, lives here in DC works for the FBI as a receptionist."
Gibbs noted the name and details down then continued with his orders "David bag and tag, McGee phone ducky find out where the hell they are then photograph, Tony seen as thought you've built up such a rapport, why don't you question Lily."
"Yes Boss!" They all answered simultaneously. Ziva, Gibbs and McGee walked off towards the house that Lily had pointed at, leaving Tony and Lily alone once more.
"To answer your question. I don't need to be in school right now they think I'm on holiday, I didn't want them to worry." Lily said quiet and remorseful.
"Why would they worry?"
"I'm not usually the kind of kid that bunks off if you catch my drift" It appeared she found this whole part of the conversation important at all.
"'kay then Lily can you tell me what you saw?"
"I didn't really see anything; it was more what I heard first."
Okay so that was just the beginning, so please review if you want me to post some more.
IMPORTANT: I have no knowledge of Washington DC and if my spelling seems off it's probably because I'm English as I have spell checked 3 times