Abby left her house with a smile. Her usual pig-tail black hair was down, and she wore a black trench coat over her plant jeans with silver chains and her black skulled t-shirt. She walked towards her amazing car and headed to work. She turned on the radio and sang to her favorite CD all the way there.

Going into the back so she could get to her lab quicker. As she stepped into her lab Gibbs stood there sipping his coffee and looking out of the window. This worried her because he never came down there this early. "Am I late?" She asked jokingly.

He turned his head his eyes searching her face for some clue of why she didn't tell him, "you have a visitor." His voice was shielding his hurt. Abby's eyebrows went together in confusion. He walked to the elevator and with a gesture told her follow. She obliged with a frown. The whole way up Gibbs said nothing, he just sat there with a frown staring at the doors. Abbey was still trying to figure out who could make Gibbs so non-Gibbs.

The elevator dinged and the doors opened. Abby immediately searched the room for her 'visitor' her eyes stopping at the black haired young girl in Gibbs' seat. Her jaw dropped, her eyes bugged, and she couldn't believe any of it. Walking to Gibbs' desk, "Deanne?"

The girl's head shoot up from her lap and her eyes became hesitant. What if this was the wrong thing to do? She wondered silently as she quietly said, "Hey, Ab." She stood up the top of her head to Abby's nose.

"You've grown up a lot." Abby said as she tried to figure out what was going on.

"It has been five years," the young girl said. Abby immediately wrapped her in a hug amazed that her niece was really and truly there.

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The two relatives sat in the forensic lab of NCIS talking. "I'm sorry I if it seemed I abandoned you after what happen. Your father didn't want me to have anything to with you. I sent Christmas cards, birthday cards, letters, heck i even went over to you house a couple of times your dad just wouldn't have it," Abbey said in a small voice.

Deanne not wanting to talk about her father just answered with a little, "I know."

Abbey studied the face of her once favorite niece and notice that the once innocent look that use to glow in the girls eyes was now gone. She looked almost aged by grief and secrecy. This was defiantly not the girl she had hugged and kissed and told her how sorry she was five years ago. "De, you alright?" She asked in a worried voice. The young girl merely nodded. Abbey was about to interrogate her even further when the lab's phone began to ring.

"Abby on," she answered the phone with a depressed non-Abbey tint in her voice.

"Abs you ok?" Gibbs' worried voice sounded on the other side.

"Yeah, I'm good," she put on a fake happy voice. "So what's up?" She asked trying to get back to her conversation with De.

"There's a body dumped we have the case. Can you do this with your... distraction?" Gibbs' asked not wanting to sound too aggressive.

"No, it will be good." Abbey didn't know if De had anywhere she could go.

They said there good byes and De changed the subject towards what Abbey had been doing. Abbey had reluctantly followed the subject change. Things had been going well, Abbey had even gotten De to smile a couple of times, it all changed when McGee sent the pictures of the dead girl.

It popped up on the plasma after Abbey warned De, but nothing could get her ready for what she saw. When the picture popped up De gasped like she was taking one last breath before journeying to the bottom of the ocean. It was so loud Abbey quickly turned thinking someone came down but saw De looking at the picture. "Do you know her?" She asked walking toward her niece.

De nodded tearing up and said, "She was my best friend." Then the sobs took over and her knees buckled and the world went cloudy.

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