This is my first NCIS fic.

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Alone

Where's Michy?-asked Amanda.

Ziva saw Gibbs gently taking her hand, giving her Agent Lee's badge.

She was sure he could deal with the child and give her comfort. It was as if he'd see his own daughter in all the children he met. She admired him for that. Beneath the cool surface he had a good heart. She knew Gibbs as she knew herself.

Ziva glanced at Tony and it was as if she'd looked into a mirror:she saw the same sad expression on his face as on her own.

The death of Michelle Lee shocked the whole team.

It seems like you can never get used to death.

Not even as a soldier.

Ziva could understand what Michelle was going through(If no-one else but she could),nevertheless she'd done horrible things.'She had no choice'.She might have had a choice,but it's never easy when your family is involved.

She looked at Gibbs and Amanda again and her heart went out for the little girl.

She could almost sense her feelings,the loss of her loved one,being so alone in the world.

Tears came into her eyes.

She hurried out not wanting anyone see her like this.

She cried for the girl and at the same time she cried unshed tears of the past.

She cried for herself.

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