Ok, my faithful readers, here it is. I am rewriting this whole story(as I said in the author's note) because I feel I can write it better. So, here you go.
Chapter 1: Meeting Sierra
Caitlyn Todd had never imagined becoming part of NCIS. Let alone, Gibbs' team. When she saw Tony on Air Force One, her heart stopped and her breath caught in her lungs. She hadn't seen him in a while.
How was she going to tell him?
She couldn't. She had kept it a secret for this long, she could keep it still.
She and Tony worked together, and Tony reminded Kate of Sierra so much… The labor was horrific. She was in labor for twenty-six hours, and Kate was beginning to forget what it was for. After Kate heard a cry, this time not from her sister, Joni, she relaxed.
"It's a girl," She heard the doctor say, and Joni squealed,
"I've always wanted a niece!"
Kate sat up, "Can I see her?"
A nurse brought the baby over, "Of course, Ms. Todd."
The baby, her baby, had her auburn hair, and Tony's green eyes. Her eyes were big, and it amazed Kate that her fingers and nose could be so tiny. The baby yawned, and nuzzled its head onto Kate's body, and started sucking it's thumb.
"Katie, she's beautiful. She needs a name to match," Joni said, fingering a tiny strand of hair on her niece's head.
During her pregnancy, Kate had considered about a trillion names. Lily, Penny, Jennifer, Amber. She was going to name her daughter Kaylie Lauren DiNozzo.
Now, that name didn't seem right for a baby so… much like her father. Tony was unique, and Kate could tell this baby was too. There probably wasn't another like her… ever. A mix of a Todd and a DiNozzo was obviously rare.
"Sierra. Sierra Caitlyn DiNozzo." Kate said, suddenly.
"What? I thought-" Joni started, and then Sierra started to cry.
"Oh, she's hungry," the nurse said, and Joni left Kate to her privacy.
Joni walked and sat down by her mother, who was waiting in the corridor outside Kate's room.
"It's a girl. Sierra Caitlyn DiNozzo." Joni said, sitting down by her mother.
"Beautiful name. Is Katie alright?" Susan asked.
"Yeah. She's feeding Sierra now."
"Good. You should come with me and we can get everything ready for when she comes home. You go tell her." Susan said, and she grabbed her purse and stood up… Her mother was so loving. Sierra was too young to understand that she couldn't see her mother during the weekdays, only on weekends and those special days when she had a day off. Then they would go shopping or go to the beach or to an amusement park. It didn't matter how Kate was feeling, if Sierra was happy, so was Kate.
Sierra was a cutie. She had big, green eyes that told her every emotion, and her wavy, auburn hair could never be tamed. But, somehow, Susan always could.
When Sierra was seven, Susan found out she had pancreatic cancer. Sierra knew that her aunt and grandmother were sad, but she didn't know why. A year later, Susan died.
Three years after that, Joni got a letter that Kate had died during work. A terrorist had shot her. Joni had depression after that, and sometimes ignored the now ten year old Sierra. Sierra would stay up late, fail her classes, and cry herself to sleep when Joni said she didn't care.
The funeral was sad, as most funerals are. But this funeral was for Joni, Sierra, and a few close friends of Kate only.
Other than that, Sierra had lived normally.
It was about to change.
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Sierra is now thirteen. She has lived with her aunt for a majority of her life, and has no clue who her father is.
Her aunt, Joni, has just come out of a deep depression. They don't really have any money, so it was weird when, on a Saturday, Joni packed up the car with a suitcase, some food, and they left.
"Where are we going, Aunt Joni?" Sierra asked when they had left their home state of New York.
"To meet your father." Joni said, not looking at Sierra, but focusing on the road.
"What? I don't wanna meet him! I want to live with you! I don't even know him!" Sierra yelled.
"I really don't care, Si," Joni said, using her nickname for Sierra, "It's obvious that when you live with me, you don't do your homework. You're failing English, math, and history!"
"So? If I promise to do my work, can we turn around?" Sierra asked.
"No."
"What? But, I promised!"
"So? I want you to meet your father."
Sierra caved in, and took her drawing notebook out. She started a new picture, one of what she thinks her father looks like.
"What does he look like, Aunt Joni?" Sierra asked.
"The last time I saw him, he had brown kinda spike-ish hair, your eyes, and was wearing a suit."
By the time that they stopped for lunch, Sierra was done with her picture. As they were walking into McDonald's, Sierra showed Joni her picture.
"Is that him?" she asked.
"Oh my God. You got it. That is totally him." Joni said, amazed, as they were sitting down, waiting for their number to be called.
"Sweet. I'll know who to expect now." Sierra said.
After lunch, they headed out again. They played the radio, and sang along loudly, with Joni off tune, and Sierra perfect. They sang to The Beatles, Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez, and others.
About two hours of driving later, they made it. They pulled into the parking lot of an office building.
"Where are we? I thought we were meeting my dad." Sierra said.
"We are. This is where he works." Joni said, and Sierra shrugged.
The building was normal on the outside, but on the inside they went through metal detectors, and other safety protocols you only see people go through on TV. When they were finally let through, an office lady showed them to a place with orange walls, and people working on computers. The lady walked them to a group of four people who were talking.
"What are you doing tonight, Zee-Vah?" A man asked. The man was standing, by a TV, looking at some random picture.
"Nothing, Tony. You?" The woman across from him answered, in an accent. I think that's Israeli, Sierra thought.
"Nothing. It's movie night, Ziva! I always have movie night on the first Tuesday of every week!" 'Tony' answered back to… Was her name Ziva?
"Tony, you'd better not jinx it. Gibbs might hear you and keep you late." Another man said, who was sitting down and looking at a computer. The man was too skinny for her taste.
"True, Gibbs probably has a button that says, 'Jinx FILL IN NAME HERE's day'." Joni and Sierra walked up behind him, signaling Ziva and the other guy to be quiet. "Oh, crap. He's behind me, huh?"
"No, but I am." Joni said, and Tony turned around.
"Joni! What are you doing here?" Tony asked after hugging Joni's neck.
"Nothing. I want you to meet someone. I think you'll like her." Joni said, taking Sierra's hand. "Tony, this Sierra.
Sierra nodded towards him, and Tony stuck out his hand.
"Hey, Sierra. Nice to meet you." He said, and Sierra meekly shook his hand.
"So you're my father, huh?"
Honestly, I like it better than the first one. It's longer, more detailed, and I can see where I'm going with this. Please review, and maybe you could give ideas on how Tony and Ziva end up, and maybe McGee and Abby? And what you want to stay from the original story. I don't know what to keep. XD
~ RachelHouse22