NCIS:
EVERYONE'S THOUGHTS OF KATE AND KATE'S THOUGHTS...
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
This was formally known as:
'I Learned About Your Second Family, Kate'
and was orginally going to be a one shot, but I changed my mind. I decided to continue it.
CHAPTER 1: NOW I KNOW...
Dr. Rachel Cranston sat on her couch thinking of...
Caitlin 'Kate' Todd
Her little sister, she thought of them as they had grown up and had many memories.
Then Rachel thought of how Kate had gone from being a Secret Service Agent to meeting Gibbs and becoming an NCIS Agent.
Now Rachel was once again going over her notes she had taken when she had met the team her sister had so often spoke of.
She had heard so much and wanted to meet them, even before Kate was killed. She had never gotten the chance...
Well, until just a little over a year ago.
She saw what Kate had been telling her about them.
Kate had told her everything she could about the team, how they were like a second family to her.
Kate had talked about...
THE SENIOR FIELD AGENT ANTHONY 'TONY' DINOZZO
She had called him everything from annoying juvenile to obnoxious.
Every time Kate talked about Tony, she would light up and it had been clear to Rachel herself that her sister...was in love with
Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo.
For a long time Kate would deny it, saying there was no way she could love, Tony.
In the end, Kate had admitted that she really did love, Tony.
He was obnoxious, juvenile and nosey, but also funny. That was just who Tony DiNozzo was.
Rachel thought back to something Kate had said:
FLASHBACK
* Tony had opened an envelope a week before and it had Y. Pestis inside. Tony had come back a week sooner then he should have.
The team had been called to a crime scene and Tony noticed a bomb on the car. He had told Kate and Agent McGee to run, he would be right behind them.
The car had blown up and Kate had told Rachel she had been relieved when she saw Tony was alive.
The later in Autopsy at NCIS, Tony was told he needed to rest and Tony argued saying he needed to work.
* END FLASHBACK
Rachel laughed through her tears at what Kate had said to that...even it Kate had not meant it to come out the way she intended.
FLASHBACK *
Damn it, Tony. I should just take you home and get you into bed.
* END FLASHBACK
Rachel now thought of Kate...her baby sister.
In a week and a half, it would be seven years ago that Kate had been murdered.
Kate told Rachel that she was going to tell Tony how she felt about him after the case was over.
The case for Kate had ended with her death and she never gotten to tell, Tony how she felt about him.
Rachel thought of the others on the team...
LEROY JETHRO GIBBS - THE TEAM LEADER:
She could not really put into words what to say about him.
He was a complicated man, who had seen a lot.
When she told him there was one member of the team, she had not yet evaluated. His response had been:
* Not gonna happen. *
He had shown her the very spot where Kate's killer had been killed, by his own half - sister, Ziva David.
He told her about memories and she found a sort of closure, but still had not been fully able to let go of the pain from losing her sister.
Because even after seven years. It still felt like yesterday that Kate had been killed.
Agent Gibbs was a great leader...
At first, Kate had said she didn't know if she could work with him. In time, she had grown used to Gibbs and his ways.
Kate said Gibbs had many rules...for everything.
Rule 12: Never date a co-worker
Had been the one stopping her from telling Tony how she felt.
DR. DONALD 'DUCKY' MALLARD - THE NCIS ME:
Everyone called him, Ducky and he had a story for each occasion.
Kate said he had been there for her when she had walked out of isolation and thought Tony was going to die from the Y. Pestis, and there had been many other times he had been there.
He was a great friend and she had liked to listen to some of his stories. Kate had said he was an interesting man.
Since Rachel had met him...she agreed that Dr. Mallard was indeed an interesting man.
The way he worked with the dead and he was not getting any younger. When she told him about the irony...Dr. Mallard had not been offended.
SPECIAL AGENT TIMOTHY MCGEE...
Kate had told her how he talked to Abby on the phone and then one day he brought his report.
When asked why he didn't send it...
He had said he was meeting the Forensic Technician Abby Sciuto for lunch.
She heard that Tony tried to convince him it wouldn't work and that Abby was not Agent McGee's type.
Agent McGee had finally been transferred to Gibbs team and for a long time stuttered.
Kate had also told her about how at one time she had found Agent McGee under her desk.
Finally, after a while he had grown confident in his work as a Field Agent.
When Rachel had met him, she could tell that he still really cared for Abby.
ABIGIAL 'ABBY' SCIUTO...
Rachel had finally gotten to meet, Abby.
Kate had a lot to say about her and how the two of them were best friends.
How Abby was a Goth, but you wouldn't know it if you met her. She was different and had become Kate's best friend...almost like another sister.
Rachel had talked to Abby and learned...
That Abby volunteered and worked hard, but didn't really take any time for herself.
Rachel had heard rumors around NCIS about Agent McGee and the Forensic Technician Abby Sciuto from the time she walked in the door.
She knew a lot about Abby and Agent McGee already because Kate had told her a little bit about them. Never telling her the secrets that were not meant to be shared about Abby or anyone.
The rumors going around said:
That Agent McGee and Abby were still in love. They never should have broken up and should just get back together.
Some people at NCIS were wondering if the two had really broken up, because of the way Agent McGee and Abby acted...
There was no way they could be just best friends as they claimed.
The two flirted and the jokes that had been heard Abby and Agent McGee say to each other.
After meeting with Abby and Agent McGee, Rachel could tell how deeply the two cared for each other.
She could see where everyone came up with their rumors about the two.
ZIVA DAVID - SPECIAL FIELD AGENT:
Rachel had met with Ziva and it was hard to know what to say about her.
A part of Rachel wanted to thank Agent David for getting revenge on Kate's killer.
The other part felt bad that Agent David had to kill her own brother and lose the only sibling she had left.
Rachel knew that Agent David was tortured night and day, because of pulling the trigger and killing her brother.
It did not matter what he had become. He had still been a part of her family.
Now the two of them had both lost siblings.
Agent Ziva David...had lost her sister and then had to kill her own brother.
Rachel...had lost Kate because of Agent David's half-brother.
After the evaluation, Rachel had come to realize that the team was dysfunctional, but they were a family.
Dysfunctional or not...that's just the way some families worked.
NOW RACHEL HAD SEEN HOW KATE HAD BEEN A PART OF THIS FAMILY AND HOW SHE HAD COME TO LOVE THEM AS A SECOND FAMILY.