HEY GUYS I HOPE ALL OF YOU HAD A FESTIVE CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. I DON'T KNOW WHEN I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO POST AGAIN BUT PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK
I was reading a novel that had been sitting in my father's book shelf behind his desk when the team returned, Tony taking the suspect into interrogation and my father and Tim entering the squad room. I looked up and smiled at them as they made their way to their desks, Tim smiled back and looked at me with a raised eyebrow
"What book are you reading Rikki?" Tim asked and I held up the book Deep Six and heard Tim sigh and looked at my father to see the look on his face, he had a smirk and I looked between the two confused
"Is there something you want to tell me?" I questioned
"That novel was written by our very own Timothy McGee" Gibbs said and I felt my jaw drop
"Really?" I asked and I saw the slight head nod that came from Tim and then I smiled
"These characters are based on you guys, aren't they?" I asked and Tim was about to shake his head when my father sent a glare his way and he nodded
"Yeah" he answered, I chuckled
"It's good, you have a talent Tim" I said and he smiled
"Thank you Rikki" he said and I nodded getting up out of the seat that so that my father could sit at his desk.
"So how did it go?" I asked and Gibbs smiled
"We got him thanks to you Rikki, Tony is interrogating him now and hopefully we'll get him to confess to the murder of our victim" he said and I nodded before I asked
"Can I watch?" I asked and both of them raised their heads to look at me and I smiled
"I haven't really seen a real interrogation, the ones that I saw were mainly staged by members of my class but we saw a couple. I just want to see if I can read him" I explained both men shared a look before Gibbs rose from his seat and showed me to the observation room. I watched intently as Tony interrogated the suspect and smiled when they got a confession.
It was about two hours later when both Tony and Tim had handed in their paperwork, when Gibbs looked up and remembered that I was still here.
"Oh man I forgot you were here" he said jumping to his feet and grabbing his jacket
"That's alright" I said and he shook his head
"No its not, come on I'll take you back to my place unless you have somewhere to stay?" he suggested and I shook my head. We made our way down into the parking garage and I made my way over to my car. He looked at me and smiled,
"Follow me" he said and I nodded getting in my car and following him out of the parking garage and toward my father's house. I had never been to Washington but for a while as I drove around town I admired the scenery. Finally however Gibbs had pulled into his driveway and I parked out on the street, I smiled and looked out at his house, it was quite large and by the looks of things he didn't have any children or a wife. I grabbed my suitcase and made my way up the path toward the door, when I reached it Gibbs took it off me and carried it inside
"Are these your only possessions?" he asked and I nodded
"The valuable ones and my clothes, yeah" I said and he frowned
"I don't mind, I found it really easy to budget whilst at University I mean many people struggle with budgeting but I didn't really have a choice" I said and he nodded in understanding.
"I'll show you to your room" he said and we made our way past three doors before he opened a door and let me in. Entering the room, it was quite spacious, there was a double bed in one corner of the room, a desk on the other wall and then a closet.
"I don't mind what you do to the room, I mean it's yours now" he said and I nodded thanking him before he left me alone to sort out my room.
I walked downstairs and couldn't find Gibbs in any of the rooms in the house until I saw the door from the kitchen that lead down into the basement where Gibbs was working on the shell of a boat
"Hey" I said announcing myself and he looked up a smiled on his face
"Hey Rikki, you all set?" he asked and I nodded
"Yeah all my things are put away" I said making my way over to the boat and running my hands over the smooth surface and he watched me
"So what are your hobbies?" he asked and I smiled
"I like to read and sing other than that I don't have very many hobbies that I would be willing to discuss" I said and he nodded.
"Do you want to help?" he asked and I started to shake my head but from the look on his face I could tell he was just itching for me to experience this.
"I um I don't know how" I admitted looking anywhere but at him and he smiled walking over to me and grabbing my hands in his
"Everything is going to be alright Rikki. I won't let anything happen to you I promise, besides you won't screw this up, I'll show you how" he said. I felt like this was his promise to me, not just him reassuring me that I wouldn't mess up what I was supposed to do on the boat but that he was actually promising me that no matter what happened he would always be there.
For the next two hours we worked on the boat, he had taught me how to use the hand tools and even how to find and work with the grain of the wood. When we pulled back Gibbs smiled at me happily from where he stood on the other side of the boat
"I think next time you do this you won't even need my help" he said and I felt myself blushing
"You think?" I asked and he nodded. It had gotten quite late whilst we had been working down in the basement and Gibbs had dragged me up the stairs and into the kitchen where he grabbed a couple of menus that did take out. I smiled looking at the one for pizza and he smirked, saying just loud enough for me to hear
"Your taste in take out reminds me of Tony" he said and I felt myself blush a little so I excused myself and walked into the lounge, looking at the photos that he kept out. Looking at one photo I saw Gibbs at a young age, probably a couple years before he and my mother started their relationship and a younger version of the man I had talked too, to find my father. I smiled before my eye caught another picture that sat on the mantle above the fire, Gibbs didn't look that different to what he was now, maybe a little less grey and his eyes were a lot kinder, but what really surprised me was who was in the picture with him. He had his arms wrapped around a tall slender red head and in front of them was a little girl with brown hair and blues eyes just like me but she looked more like her mother, they looked so happy.
I heard a sob, before turning round and seeing Gibbs standing behind me obviously knowing which photo had caught my attention.
"Who are they?" I asked gently trying not to get angry or too upset with what I was seeing. He ushered for me to sit on the couch and he sat opposite me so I could see him.
"I have to tell you the whole story Rikki, and it's not a pleasant one" he told me and I nodded waiting for him to start.
"I left Stillwater because of a fight that my father and I had, I was so angry that I didn't care about anything else. Julia was the best thing that ever happened to me in that place, but I couldn't stay with her or stay in town, she would've been willing to come with me but I couldn't do that to her family. I meet this lady whilst waiting for the train, I was going to join the Marines, do my country proud since I could never do my father proud. I sent your mother a letter and explained to her that I couldn't stay with her anymore because I had given myself to someone else. Training finished and I meet up with the girl from the platform, I got to know her, fall in love with her in a way I didn't even know was possible. We weren't together long before I proposed and she found out she was pregnant, we had a little girl Kelly and then a couple months later we married. Everything was fine until I was asked to ship out to war, Shannon witnessed a murder and both my girls were put in witness protection before the court case. One evening they were heading home and their car was hit, they both died at the scene and the driver of the car died later in hospital. She was 8 at the time" he said tears rolling down his face and I felt bad for making him remember, but as we sat there I thought about the maths, I would've had a little sister, a sibling that would've been a lot better than growing up alone.
"When did this happen?" I asked and he smiled sadly
"They both passed away 11 years ago" he said and I nodded.
After that conversation the pizza arrived and we ate at the table were Gibbs talked about his job and what he did for NCIS. It all sounded amazing and I listened with so much interest
"Gibbs what would you say if I was to join NCIS and want to join your team?" I asked and he looked at me a little stunned
"I would say you would need to go to FLETC and do the appropriate training before you become a proper agent. Work at Quantico for a while, learn the ropes before you even have the chance of joining my team" he told me and I nodded
"So you're not going to try and stop me then?" I asked and he shook his head
"I don't see why not, I mean if you enrolled and I persuaded our new director to push forward your paperwork then you could be attending in a couple of weeks" he told me and I smiled
"Can you really do that?" I asked and he smiled
"She owes me a couple favours" he told me and I smiled. This was getting good.
"However I won't be able to do that until Friday. I asked for the day off tomorrow" he told me and I gave him a questioning look
"Well since you don't have very much in the way of clothes I have the obligation as your father to take you shopping and get you some clothes" he told me and I shook my head
"I can't have you do that Gibbs, besides I can pay for my own stuff" I tried to reason with him and he gave me a raised eyebrow as if to say I don't think so. Sighing I nodded
"Alright fine but nothing to expensive" I told him and he nodded.