A/N: Welcome to the drabble series companion story to Made to be Broken. If you've not started to read the main piece, this story will move much slower, but it can stand alone…. It'll just take many chapters to get to NCIS, but Abby pops in early. Basically, chapters of this story are earned by reviews to either this story or the main one, at major review thresholds. Five reviews to the main story earned this review. Five reviews to this, or ten reviews to the main, and there will be another.
Cheers!
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Summer in Louisiana was hot, oppressive, but Chloe Lessing packed her gifts in the sweaty heat, carrying the spoils of her tenth birthday inside. Her parents argued. She shouldn't listen.
Chloe was always a curious child.
"She deserves to stay put for more than three years," her father said.
She'd heard this before. Her mother earned another rapid promotion – the whole family moved. This time, 1983, was over being a Commander in the Navy, an honor, Chloe had been told.
"It's back to DC now," her mother said. "We wouldn't move again, from there."
Chloe began mentally packing her bags.
