Hey everyone so this is a little something I have been working on. It will only be about 3 or 4 chapters long so It wont take up much time. Also a new update for my Gibbs and Shannon story 'love makes the heart grow fonder' will be posted by Tuesday. Anyway I love to hear what you all think so please drop me a REVIEW I love you all forever :)
20 years ago when I was only 8 years old everything went haywire. Dad shipped off for what I hope was the last time. Then while I was over at my best friend Maddie's, mom witnessed the murder of Maddie's older brother Jake. Mom was able to identify the guy who did it but before anything could be done the NIS officer who was assigned to protect us was shot while driving the van. I remember waking up on the side of the road, mom was laying a little ways away, and there was NIS and FBI agents all around the EMTs that were helping us. The next time I woke up I was in the hospital the white walls all around me, the gross hospital smell. Mom was sitting in a chair next to my bed. After I was released which only took a few days we were immediately sent into hiding. The worst part was that my dad could never know. And we never knew we still don't know whether or not he lived or died. Well that's not entirely true I mean mom has no idea but every year on his birthday I call him. I don't say anything, I let him answer then I wait until he curses and hangs up before I sink down to the ground cradling the phone while I cry for my father. He was not only my dad he was my best friend. I was always told you could have more than one best friend and so I put him in the list too. Life goes on whether you want it to or not. For my last year of college I transferred to Georgetown to complete my Degree in Forensic investigation. They have an amazing internship program with both the FBI and NCIS which was well known as NIS back in the day. My move to DC was as smooth as ever. I left the FBI's protection two years ago. After all the man who shot Jake was dead and long gone. I was advised to keep my name the FBI had given me which I intended to do, I mean it has been too many years to change it right now when everything is all in my new name. Anyways I'm here in DC in my new apartment near the campus ready to start the next chapter of my life, away from my mom and the forever present protection officers. That's why my internship choice is NCIS.
I paced around my new apartment putting away many books and knick knacks. It was beginning to look like home. I have missed DC more than I thought. Today also happened to be my dads birthday and for once I have no one to walk in on me crying. I know that I am no longer under the protection and I can actually speak to him, and maybe I will...Last year however I froze when it came time to say something. After all it has been 20 years, 20 years that he has gone on to believe we are dead.
Ring...Ring...Ring...Is he going to answer...Ring...Click... "You have reached Gibb's phone, he can't answer right now please try again because he won't listen to a message. BEEP"
Like every year before this I sank to the floor and cried, I cried for a few hours until I had no more tears to shed. The next day I made my way to the college campus to begin my first day of classes.
Looking through my papers as I walked out of the room, I ran straight into a blonde woman who was also staring into a stack of papers. "Oh my, I'm sorry, I wasn't looking." I stumbled.
"Neither was I, it's totally ok." She said as she looked up. "I'm Maddie." She told me.
"Kelly, but everyone calls me Elizabeth." I responded.
"That's an unusual jump from Kelly." She said in confusion.
"It's my middle name, it has been used as my primary name for the last 20 years." I said. We started walking towards the exit as we continued our conversation. "So what's your major?" I asked.
"Equestrian Veterinary Masters degree. You?" she responded. If I didn't know any better I would say I knew her.
"Forensic Investigation." I told her. We sat on a bench outside the building. "DC has changed so much. "I said out of the blue.
"You have been here before?"
"Yea I was born here, lived here for a few years before moving to Camp Pendleton in California, then moved back after two years. Marine Brat."
"Me two, my mom and then my older brother joined once he turned 18. It's strange my family was also moved to Pendleton for a couple years while growing up. I moved back here when I was seven and we have been here ever since." She told me.
Just then a guy walked around the corner. "Are you Maddie Tyler?" I silently gasped, as I realized why she looked familiar and why her story matched mine. Maddie Tyler was my best friend growing up, she lived in DC next door then in Pendleton across the street before both of our families got transferred back to DC.
"Yes." Confirmed. "Can I help you?"
"This is for you." He said as he handed her a small envelope. He then walked away.
"Wow, it's... Awe it's from Tony. He's this older guy who saved my life about a year ago. We have been kinda secretly dating ever since."
"Why keep it a secret?" I asked.
"Well he's older then I am, and his boss was always like a father to me." She replied.
"Oh that's actually romantic." I said getting caught up in the story. However I didn't clue into the hint she left as to who the boss was. I looked down at my watch. "Oh my I have to run my internship starts in half an hour and I need to get all the way over to the navy yard."
"Crap I gotta head out to. See you around."
I made it to the Navy Yard in record time. I scooted through security and up to the directors office rather quickly.
"The director will see you now." The woman named Cynthia said. I stood and approached the door. As I walked in I noted the presence of someone in the back corner.
"Director Sheppard, Thank you for seeing me."
"Yes Miss Menroe, Thank you for coming in. We are glad to have you for our internship program. Please take a seat." I did as asked. "Now Miss Menroe, I have been informed by the FBI of a portion of your case and we can deffinatly work around it. Agent Fornell also mentioned that you left the program under your own vice but have chosen not to return to your original life as so much time has passed. He also said that you nor your mother who has not left the program as of yet have been informed whether or not your father is alive. Now he told me that you asked to have your real name with held?"
"Yes director I don't believe my real name is pertinent to anything so I have asked to keep my past behind me until I can figure out the realities of what happened. If you need to be in the know then I would ask for your discretion." I said as I sent a quick glance behind me towards the other person occupying the room. "I may have left the program but allot of the things the FBI taught are still ingrained in my mind."
"Of course." She nodded to what I can now see as a man who then left the room. I saw only the back of his head which looked oddly familiar to me but I was still unable to discern who it was but that didn't matter now.
"Kelly Elizabeth Gibbs is my original name ma'am. But if we could keep this on the down low."
"Gibbs must be a common name."
"Yes ma'am there is about 100 Gibbs family's on the east coast alone. Anyways I am ready to start whenever you need me to."
"Perfect, you start this afternoon." Director Sheppard said in a chipper tone. "Right this way, I will show you to the team you will be working with until you head off to FLETC after graduating from George Town."
We made our way down stairs to meet the team. The agent from the office stood with his back to me looking intently at a television screen. "Damit tell me you have something, anything." His voice sounded extremely familiar to me.
"Working on it boss." A younger man said as he rushed to a desk closest to us. Two other agents flew to their desks as well.
"Agent Gibbs your intern." The director said. He turned around. I nearly fell over as the realization of who it was dawned on me. My father after all these years, after all the silent phone calls, he's here still in DC working for the navy. It's great to see him alive and in person. My legs were trembling under my weight.
"Hello, you can sit there." I just barley heard him say.
"What?"
"Over there, your desk. DiNozzo, show her the ropes."
I smiled inwardly at his cut throat ways. DiNozzo as he was called led me over to a desk just behind the other agent. "Tony DiNozzo, nice to meet you." So this is the older guy Maddie is secretly seeing. He is cute.
"Thank you Agent DiNozzo." I said as he handed me a few things I would need to get started. He also briefed me on the case. I got started right away. Finding information on the dead marine's wife's bank account that could be pertinent to the case.
"What do ya got?" Gibbs shouted as he entered the bullpen again.
Everyone made their way back over to the plasma. "The car PFC Charin was driving was a stolen car off a DC impound lot. Talked to the manager he didn't even notice the car was gone." Tony announced.
"He was last seen driving away from a Wal Mart where he purchased a cell phone and a pack of double A batteries." Ziva David as I learned spoke next.
McGee then added. "His sister said that he had been acting strange ever since he returned home from Afghanistan although she couldn't pin point anything specific."
"The wife's bank account shows unusual activity, she purchased two plane tickets to Russia the morning of her husband's death. They left this morning first class. I also looked into her past purchases, within a three month span she bought small amounts of mercury. She made it appear to be a part of art projects."
"How so Menroe?" Gibbs's asked.
"She also bought large amounts of beads, the things you make earrings with and glue. Lots of glue." Her plane lands in six hours. The other ticket was in the name Leroy Miles. It is an assumed name, his real name is Kostav Drobnjakovic he is wanted by the secret police out of old soviet union for an attempt on Joseph Stailn. He has also been arrested three times in the states for wanted drug connections to the Reynosa drug cartel." I said the name trying to hold back the anger I felt. "No charges ever stuck." I finished.
"Very good Menroe."
"How'd you do that?" DiNozzo asked in a confused voice.
"Simply. You asked me to look up the wife. So I searched her bank records and found out what I needed to then I looked up the man she is traveling with. It's simple computer work DiNozzo." I said in amusement. My father came up behind him and smacked him on the back of the head as he went to his desk and grabbed his gun and badge.
"DiNozzo, David, McGee check out his CO. Menroe your with me." Oh my god, I am going to be alone with my father for the first time in 20 years. Only he has no idea who I am.
We arrived to the car in five minutes. "Where are we going exactly?"
"Talk to the sister." He replied. We sat in utter silence the whole ride there. Once we arrived we made our way up to the front door of PFC Charin's older sister Caralyn.
"Hello?" She answered.
He looked to me and gave a slight nod. "NCIS, this is agent Gibbs, I'm Elizabeth Menroe, can we ask you a few questions?" I asked.
"Yes, of course." She said as she ushered us into the sitting room. "What can I do for you?"
"You mentioned to one of our agents that your brother had been acting strange leading up to his death?" Gibbs began.
"Yes he came home from being gone for six months, he asked to stay here, which I thought to be the beginning of the weirdness. I thought he would go to be with his wife. Is she a suspect?" The sister asked. Gibbs gave a quick nod of his head in my direction.
"Yes, she is. Do you know Leroy Miles or Um, Kostav Drobnjakovic?" I asked her.
"Leroy Miles is Sasha's father. What does he have to do with this?"
"We believe he knows what happened to your brother. He is also wanted in Russia for terrorism dating back to the time of Stalin." Gibbs told her.
"Oh my god that's horrible."
"Did you know they booked a flight to Russia?"
"No I had no idea I never liked Sasha so we never spoke unless we had to. The wedding and my father's funeral are the only times we spoke. She gave her condolences then hung on my brother's arm until they left. He left the funeral early which pissed me and our mother off but we knew it was all because of her."
"Thank you Miss Charin we will be in touch." Gibbs said as we made our way out of her home and into the car. "Well." He said as soon as we pulled away from the curb.
"If that's your way of asking what I think, I believe Sasha killed her husband because he figured out the truth and was possibly going to tell authorities. Him acting weird and wanting to stay with his sister tells me he was going to leave her as soon as he could."
"I think you are right Monroe." Gibbs said as he continued to drive down the busy DC streets back to headquarters.
It took another three days to close the case. Miles was arrested in Russia and sentenced to death while his daughter was deported back to the states to live out a life sentence at Pentenville. I was packing up my bag to head back to class when agent DiNozzo stalked over to my desk with a lopsided grin on his face.
"You remind me of someone?" He said forming it as a question.
"Do I?" I replied with a question.
"Yea, I just can't figure it out."
"Well I have a rule Agent DiNozzo, if you want something to stay hidden tell no one. Therefore whatever your thinking flirting it out of me is not going to work." I told him.
"Rule. Gibbs, that's it Elizabeth you remind me of Gibbs. Your eyes and facial structure are a big clue but the rules. Now the rules are a dead giveaway." I froze shocked in place. How the hell am I supposed to wiggle my way out of this one? "You are the one that calls him on his birthday right?" I realize he is not going to let this go so I grab his arm and drag him to the women's washroom, slamming open all the stall door making sure no one is inside. I lock the main door and swirl around to face him.
"You can't tell anyone." I said matter of factly.
"But your Gibb's kid the one who he thinks is dead, I don't understand why you have been hiding from him. From what I have heard you had the perfect family."
"
No one is perfect Tony. Okay listen I am going to tell you something and you need to keep it to yourself okay it will explain everything." I said looking him directly in the eye. "My mother and I were put in witness protection. I left two years ago to move away for college my mom is still hiding. They said it is best if I stick to the story I was given and until I know it is 100% safe I have to keep mum about it. Oh and congrats on dating my best friend, it's too bad I can't tell her who I am." I told him rambling on and on like I did when I was a kid.
"Do you know what your death did to your dad?"
"No honestly other then me calling him and staying silent I haven't checked up on him."
"Why do you call him?"
"Because it's my way of making sure he is still alive, still keeping on like he should. I know he is married. I heard her answer the phone once."
"Okay Kelly, Gibbs is not married." He stated.
"But I..."
"He was three times all divorced, all red heads."
"Redheads?"
"Yup they all kind of looked like your mom in a way or at least they did in the photos I saw when peaking in his file." We heard a loud knocking on the door so I begged him to keep quiet and we exited the bathroom leaving agents with stunned expressions behind us. I am pretty sure they think we did it in the girls room but I don't care.
Back in the bullpen Gibbs had returned from getting a new cup of coffee. He walked right over to me when he saw me coming around the corner. "Monroe, I don't normally take on interns but I will admit you work a lot faster than my whole team put together. I think though that you would be better suited in the lab. You seemed extremely uncomfortable being in the field this week." I looked down at my shoes unsure of what to say. I can't just tell him it was because I was terrified of him figuring it out.
"I was just nervous since it was my first time out in the field I will be better soon I promise." I told him slinging my bag over my shoulder. I swung my hair up in to a messy bun as I walked past him. The next thing I knew his hand was around my arm forcing me to stop. I turned to face him my blue eyes staring into his. I was at that moment I knew he knew. He turned me slightly and brushed a few stray strands of hair away from my neck reminding me of the little diamond shaped birthmark. Something I remember him commenting on when I was little.
Flashback
"If you ever get lost and we can't tell my looking into your big beautiful blue eyes that you are our amazing daughter we can always tell by this." My dad said placing his finger softly on my neck right over the little birthmark.
"Daddy you are crazy." I giggled moving over to flop down on the sofa."
"My angel. I love you."
End Flashback
"Kelly?"
I just stared at him, tears springing to my eyes even though I was fighting them.
"Is it really you." I couldn't say anything I have gone for so long not talking to him as Kelly as his little girl. I did the only thing I could think of.
I bolted.