Cursing slightly to himself Leroy Jethro Gibbs walked down the non-populated d.c. street, his car broke down about a half a mile away from his work and he didn't feel like waiting for a ride so he hoped out of his car and took a back road, knowing it would be the fastest way by foot. Halfway down the street his phone buzzed in his pocket, "Yeah Gibbs."
"Jethro." the redhead on the other line greeted, "Hey Jen."
"Jethro where are you, Tony just came and told me that you have not arrived at work yet
and your about 45 minutes late already, are you alright?"
"Yeah Jen I'm fine, my car just broke down so I had to walk, but I'm almost there, should be there in about ten to fifteen minutes."
"Oh do you need a ride because i could send for Stanley to come and get you..."
"I'm fine Jen really, I'll see you in a bit okay?"
"Okay, bye Jethro."
"Bye Jen." He hung up his phone and continued to walk. After a few minutes he heard footsteps coming towards him, "Sir! a female voice yelled, and he turned around, and a young girl about 17 years old with dark brown hair and green eyes ran up to him, "Excuse me sir you dropped these back on the main road", she held in her hand his car keys, "I saw you drop them and waited around you car because i figured you would notice you lost them but when you didn't come back i came down here to give them back." she said, and handed him his keys,
"Well thank you." He stopped for a moment and looked at her, beside her hair and eyes she was about 5'4, and wearing dark blue skinny jeans, black boots, a purple and black striped shirt and a black jacket over it, "Sir if you don't mind me asking but would you happen to be Jethro Gibbs?"
"Yes, why?" he looked puzzled,
"I don't know if you remember me but you were a friend of my father, petty officer Cody Harper. My name is Raven Harper, i used to go to your house and play with Kelly before..." she trailed off and Gibbs looked somewhat shocked, "I remember, you and Kelly used play while me and your father and my wife would all be downstairs."
"Yes." she smiled,
"Well It's good to see you, what are you doing in d.c, i thought your father was stationed at .Mt. Benovola?"
" He was but i came to live with my friend here."
"Oh okay. Well do you need to be somewhere or..."
"No actually i was just walking around and my friend is going to pick me up after work."
"Oh well I'm headed to my work, you could come with me if you would like and your
friend could pick you up there and we could catch up, i havent seen you in like... gosh it would be 11 years."
" Well okay. I'll just text my friend and let her know." They started walking down the
path and Raven pulled out her phone, texting her friend,
"So how have you been since you guys left?" he asked, "Good, I moved here about a six
months ago and I'm really liking D.C."
"And your father?"
Her face fell for a moment, and then I turned into a weak smile, "Well my father died
about 7 months ago, he had heart cancer and well, they caught it a bit to late before they could do anything."
"Oh I'm sorry."
"It's okay." the rest of the walk was silent ,until they began to approach NCIS and Raven
looked at the building in amazement, "This is where you work?"
"Yep NCIS"
"Wow Gunny, i always knew you would become something great but this is amazing. So like do you have your own team and everything?"
" Yeah, Tony, Ziva and McGee, and Abby but she isn't technically part of my team."
"Thats cool." they walked through the doors and Gibbs greeted the security guard,
"Morning Jack."
"Morning Gibbs, who you got with you there?"
"This is raven. She's a family friend."
The security guard smiled but said nothing else, not getting into his personal buisness. Stepping in the elevator he was surprised to see Jenny in there, "Finally Jethro, we thought you were never going to show up."
"Sorry Jen, i would have been here earlier but i ran into a old friend." he flicked his eyes to Raven, who looked over Jenny and smiled, and she turned back to Gibbs, "It's fine Jethro, just dont let it happen again."
"So what are you doing Jen?"
"Just going for a coffee run."
"Oh..." They all remained silent until Ravens phone went off, she dug in her pocket and pulled her phone out and held it to her ear. When she did both Jenny and Gibbs noticed she had a purple bandana tied around her wrist, "Hello?... wait who's this... Oh hey Drew, where is Kenzi at?... Wait a meeting at the apartment? Kenzi didnt tell me about this are you positive about this... Wait Will is back in town? I thought he went out of it because he was in trouble?... Yes i know were a family but still... Fine at NCIS okay just ask for speacial agent gibbs cause i'll be with him okay?... Fine bye!" she hung up her phone and sighed,
"Everything okay?" asked Gibbs
"Yeah just my friend is back in town and we have to go to his apartment before he leaves again." Gibbs nor Jenny said anything but just silently stepped out of elevator. Jenny made her way up to her office and Gibbs and Raven walked over to the team. Ziva, Tony and McGee all looked at each other curiously as to why a young girl would be with Gibbs, "Uhh boss..?"
"Guys this is Raven Harper, daughter of Petty officer Cody Harper, a good friend of mine. That answer your question?"
"Hello." said Raven, and everyone said hi back, "So how do you know Gibbs?" asked Tony,
"My father and me used to go to his house and i would play with his daughter, that is until we moved. I came back to washington when my father died a few months ago so i live with my friend here in washington."
"Oh..." They all fell into a silence until the elevaot doors opened, and out stepped two people about Ravens age. The one was short with a narrow face and Reddish brown hair and brown eyes. The other was just a bit shorter then Raven and had brown hair with blonde, red, and black highlights with blonde and black racoon stripes in her hair. "Raven
lets go." said the boy,
"Hold on a second Drew." She looked at Gibbs and wroe down her number real quick,
"Umm we should go out to lunch sometime and catch up." she said,
"Raven we gotta go! Zach is outside waiting for us!"
"Drew hold on a sec! Kenzi will you please control him!" She looked back at gibbs and sighed, "I got to go Gibbs, but really call me sometime." She turned around and walked over to the other two, and punched the boy in the arm. As they went in the elevator gibbs saw that the other two had black bandanas on the same wrist Raven did.
"Boss you saw the bandanas right?"
"Yeah."
"Looks kinda fishy to me."
"Yeah Tony. I think finding this girl again has gotten me into real trouble.
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So I just thought of this story out of the blue. So Raven is all mine and I'm going to say what's to come of her isn't going to pretty. So Please Review and Enjoy!
- Lex, Semper Fi