I'm just re-uploading this chapter because I don't know what happened with FF.
Ch. 2
Tony led Sarah by the shoulders, trying to comfort the girl as much as possible. "Sarah, can you please tell me what Gibbs said to you that made you so upset?"
"Not yet," the seemingly young girl replied to her caretaker. "I'm going to see Abby now, OK?"
"Yes that's fine. I'll take you there. Is that fine?" asked Tony, giving his ward a small smile.
Sarah gave him a small smile back and replied, "I would love it if you show me Abby's lab."
"It's just down the elevator actually. Don't worry; I'll drop you off still."
"Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs!" Abby shouted, running toward the door, but when she looked outside she saw two sad DiNozzos. "What's wrong with you guys?" Abby pulled Tony into a hug, released him, and then pulled the young girl into a tight embrace.
"It's just been a tough day, Abby," Sarah replied, hugging Abby back just as much.
"Abs, you said..." Gibbs cut off his sentence as he walked through the lab's door and saw the two embraced in a hug.
"Oh, yes, Gibbs. I'll be right back, Sarah." Abby grabbed Gibbs by the wrist and pulled him to the computer. "What we are looking at right now is a piece of metal that Ducky pulled from our victim's neck, but it's not just any piece of metal. It's metal from a 2005 M80 pistol. That means our dead guy was hit with it, but was not shot with it since there was entry wound on our guy's body."
"Thank you, Abby, Gibbs said, exiting the lab, leaving with a "Caf-Pow!", Tony, and Sarah.
"Do you want some, Sarah?" Sarah shook her head. "What about you Tony?" Tony shook his head also. "More for me then," Abby stated and drank some "Caf-Pow!".
"Tony, can you leave us alone so we can have some girl talk?"
"Sure thing, Abby. Sarah I'll be in the squad room if you need me," Tony told Sarah, who nodded at him with a small smile.
"Sarah, do you want to tell me what's wrong?"
The young girl nodded her head slightly then said, "It's about one of the questions Gibbs asked me."
"Which question bother-?" Abby was interrupted by her lab's phone ringing. She put it on speaker phone and said, "Hello? This is Abby Sciuto's lab, Abby speaking."
"Hello, Miss Sciuto. This is Director Vance. Can you please send Sarah up to my office please? Thank you very much." Abby hung up the phone when the dial tone sounded, and when she looked back to see Sarah off, the girl was gone.
"I hope she knows her way," Abby said, worried for the scared, frightened girl.
Tony was finished talking to Frank's, the dead guy, wife and arranging a time for her to come in with her children and talk about what will happen now. Tony went back to finish reading about the project Frank was in when Ziva cut through his thoughts.
"Tony, Sarah is heading towards the Directors office by herself. Do you know why?" questioned the Israeli.
Tony looked behind him and indeed saw Sarah climbing the stairs at a fast pace. He jumped out of his seat, forgetting about the project, and ran after Sarah. "Sarah!" The girl turned around, stopping at the top of the stairs. "Where are you going?"
"The Directors office, he called me to see him," the girl replied smoothly, waiting for Tony to reach the finally step of the stairs to keep walking towards her destination.
"Do you know why?"
"No, I do not," she started while opening the Directors door without knocking, "and we'll find out now. Hello to you both." Sarah took a seat on the other side of Director Vance's desk.
"Why, hello Sarah, Tony. I need to ask you something," asked Vance, looking directly into Sarah's eyes.
"Go ahead, Director," replied Sarah, staring back at him.
"Would like a full time pass for NCIS?"
This brought a shock to both Tony and Sarah. They both looked at each other then back at Vance; they saw no signs of him lying to them.
"Y-yes, I would love one! What do I have to do to get one?" asked the girl, now full of life and energy, a smile adorning her face.
"All you have to do is sign here, and then you will come with me we can enter you into the main system so you can have access to places in the building so you don't have to have an agent with you at all times. Does that sound good to you?"
"That sounds brilliant! What do you think Tony?" she asked him with pleading eyes, hoping he would say yes.
"I think that it is a very swell idea. You can take her Vance, since I need to go back to work. See you later Sarah, Director, Boss," Tony agreed with a wave of his hand and left for the three of them to figure out what to do.
"Well, where do I sign?" asked Sarah and Vance handed her a clipboard with a piece of paper and pen attached to it.
Tony looked into his backpack that he had neglected since this morning and remember the manila envelope that the social worker gave him this morning when Sarah was dropped off. Tony recalled what happened that morning that gave a shock to him. He remembers that when he was getting ready in his apartment and just about to go when he heard a knock on the door. When he opened the door, he was confused on why two people were standing there with four suitcases and two back-packs.
"May I help you?" asked a muddled Tony.
"Yes are you," the man looks at his clipboard for a short time and then seemed to find what he was looking for and replied, "Anthony DiNozzo?"
"Yes, that's me, and who are you?"
"I'm Daniel Norton, and this is Sarah, your new ward."
"Wait, my what?" questioned Tony giving the man a weird look.
"This is your new ward, Sarah. It says here in 1996 that you went to our local station and signed up to be a caretaker, is that not correct?" interrogated the social worker, looking at his papers closely.
"Yes, that's right. Sorry I just forgot. Please, come into my apartment. I have to make a phone call really quick I'll be right back. Please, take a seat on the couch." Tony ran into his bedroom and made a call to the NCIS front desk so that they could tell Gibbs why he was late.
"You have a very nice place, Tony," Sarah spoke for the first time. She looked around the room, studying it intently. "May I call you Tony?"
"Thank you, Sarah, and yes you can call me Tony," he responded to the young woman.
"Here is all you need to know about Sarah," Daniel said, handing Tony the manila envelope. "Read this carefully and as soon as possible, please. I'll see myself out. I'll come back in a couple of days, Sarah, to check up on you. See you two later this week."
"What a very interesting day this has turned out to be," Tony thought to himself. "Shit! I forgot to read this." Tony started to read the papers that came in the envelope. A couple of pages in, Tony got to the section labeled ATTENTION!
Tony read carefully and started whispering the sentences he read, "If at all possible, do not let Sarah out of your sight. Do not let Sarah in possession of sharp objects; keep them out of reach if possible. Do not let her exceed fifteen minutes of showering unless she is shaving make sure she does not exceed twenty-five minuets. If at all possible while using public restrooms or when showering, have a female present during these times to make sure she does not harm herself. Check her wrists and thighs daily to make sure there aren't any cuts. If there some, no matter how small or big, how many there are, or how much she convinces you not to do this alert us at once so we will hospitalize her on her doctor's orders.
Her lungs are underdeveloped, so if she starts wheezing have her take one huff of her inhaler, and if she starts to have a seizer, just hold her to the ground and wait until the episode is over it is a side effect. Sarah also has first stage breast cancer. The cancer was caught early on, so if she goes through the proper amount of treatment, she will be fine.
Make sure Sarah all of her medication daily. There should be two pills for depression, one for anxiety, two for growth hormones, one for seizer episodes, four for breast cancer, and one for anxiety.
Also, if you believe Sarah hasn't been eating a lot, place a bowl of macaroni in front of her, stand over her, and tell her to eat it. DO NOT LEAVE UNTIL ALL THE MACARONI IS FINISHED!
Tony placed his head in his hand and sighed deeply. He heard a pair of feet come towards him and looked up to see McGee coming towards Tony with a worried look on his face. Tony shuffled the papers back into their correct order and put them back into the envelope.
"What's the matter Tony?" McGee inquired walking to stand by the side of Tony's desk.
Tony sighed then replied, "Nothing McGee. It's just a tiring work day."
"I can tell from the purses you are getting under your eyes," Ziva commented.
"It's bags, Ziva. You get bags under your eyes," retorted a sarcastic Tony.
Ziva stuck out her tongue at Tony playfully which he returned, feeling better after the bantering with Ziva and McGee for a couple of minutes before Gibbs came back, and they went back to work.
"Boss?" asked Tony, seeking permission to continue. Gibbs looked towards Tony signaling that he could continue. "Where's Sarah?"
"She is in the administration's office getting her official pass printed up," responded Gibbs, going back to his work which he hasn't been able to properly do because of distractions. "DiNozzo, what do you got?"
"The wife is coming in at 1600, she has two children. One at the age of twenty-four and the other at twenty," replied Tony. "He was working on a project near the northern coast on a boat called the 'Jason Dunham'. This specific boat is a destroyer in the process of making. It is almost complete."
"McGee, any progress in finding if any acids were purchased recently?"
"No sir, there was not any, but the destroyer did buy a barrel of pure acid a month ago," replied McGee obediently.
"Ziva, what about you?"
"No, Boss. There have not been any reports to the police recently in any factories or ships on base," responded Ziva.
The four heard the elevator ding then a rush of footsteps heading in Tony's direction. Tony was jumped on by Sarah, who giggled as she held onto Tony until she jumped off of him and hugged him. "Tony! I got my pass! Isn't that great?" Sarah asked Tony with a sparkle in her eye and a big luminous smile.
Tony looked at her, smiled slightly, and said, "That's fantastic, Sarah."
The other people in the squad room looked at Tony with a confused expression. They all thought Tony would be happy at hearing this, but he seemed sad about something that's going through his mind.
"What's wrong Tony? You don't seem happy right now. Did something happen?" Sarah was truly worried about her caretaker. She hasn't seen him like this. She's getting worried about him.
"Nothing's wrong. I really am happy for you! Now you can come to my work when you get out of school, which we need to sign you up for," Tony replied happier this time, smiling brighter now, not trying to think about the papers in the envelope that made him worried to the bone since Sarah was now in his care from today until she turns twenty.
"OK, that's good," she smiled brightly at the man before her, skipped to his desk, and sat down. She spotted an envelope on his desk sort of tossed to the side, but she decided to pay no attention to it.
Gibbs gave Tony a jerk of his head saying that he wants Tony to follow him. Gibbs took Tony to the corner by the steps where Gibbs started talking, "What the hell is the matter with you right now DiNozzo?"
"Nothing Boss, I guess I cannot have any distractions while working on big cases," Tony answered the man's question somewhat truthfully.
"Tony, you know what I mean. Did you find out something about Sarah that you don't like or something similar to that?"
"I know why Sarah's parents abandoned her," Tony said point blank to Gibbs's face.
Gibbs didn't know how to react at what Tony said, but soon he gathered himself and asked him, "Do you want to talk about it, Tony? You know the team is always here for you. Even Vance is here if you want to talk."
"I think I have to let the information sink through before I can do anymore or talk to anyone, Boss. I'll let you know when the time is right, OK."
"That's quite alright, Tony," assured Gibbs, walking towards the elevator, wanting to get some time to talk to Ducky and maybe Abby before he gets pulled away to some other place.
Tony sighed and went back to his desk only to find Sarah in his seat looking at her pass with admiration. "Hey, Sarah," started Tony, "do you want to go get a snack? It's been a couple hours since you last ate. It's just about snack time." Tony pulled out a dollar-fifty and gave it to Sarah's open hands.
"Thanks, Tony! I'll go get something to munch on. Would you like anything?" the girl replied looking at her wonderful caretaker.
"No, I don't want anything right now. Maybe I'll get something later, OK?" Tony sighed after the girl was out of hearing range, and he whispered, "What am I going to do? I hope we'll be able to get through this battle." Tony went to sit back at his desk, and he went to work searching for anything more about the dead Marine.
Ziva and Tim both look at Tony with concerned eyes, worried about their friend who was very happy that morning, now sad and depressed.
Tony suddenly got up, making the two other agents jump. He mumbled something about seeing the wife in one of the conference rooms. "If you see three visitors, can you please bring them to conference room number two?" Tony continued towards the conference rooms with determination in his step.
"Will do, Tony," confirmed Ziva.
Twenty minutes later, the two left in the squad room heard the elevator ding. They both got up to see who it was, and saw three people with visitor passes clipped onto their shirts get off the elevator and they started looking around.
Ziva walked up to the older woman with greying hair and wrinkles forming on her forehead and asked her, "Are you the family of Lieutenant Frank Sanchelski?"
"Yes, we are. I'm Margie, this is Emily and Robert," replied the wife, sticking out her hand for Ziva to shake.
"Hello, if you would please follow me, I'll take you to agent DiNozzo."
When the door was opened the sun from the windows blinded the four. Jumping up from his chair, Tony walked to the Sanchelskis and greeted them with a wide smile. "Hello, my name is Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo and we will be talking about your family members personal affairs."
Twenty minutes later of tears, shouts, yells, grinding of teeth, and soothing led to the end of the fours discussion on the top of Lieutenant Sanchelski. "Thank you, Agent DiNozzo. You were very kind and patient with us when we are in our time of pain and confusion," Margie said, giving Anthony a toothy smile. Her eyes were red from crying for ten minutes straight.
"Yes, thank you very much," Emily added her two cents in the pot. Robert glared slightly at the older male not fazing Tony in the least.
"You all are very welcome. I hope everything will turn out fine." Tony gave them a big smile leading them to the elevator. When the doors shut, Tony sighed for what felt like the fiftieth time that day. He saw Gibbs walking into the squad room and he ran over there with a shout of, "Gibbs!"
"What is it, Tony?" asked the aggravated man.
"I just talked with the family. They all seemed like charming people, except for the son, who yelled at his family, and me and glared at me the whole time we were talking. Should I bring him back in?"
"No, we found a different suspect who was on the ship late last night with the Lieutenant." replied Gibbs.
"Oh, really? Tell me where I should pick him up and I'll go get him for you, Boss."
"Ziva go with Tony. Our guy is Lieutenant Steve Durrell. He's at the ship right now. Go," commanded Gibbs.
The two agents grabbed their gear, and Tony saw Sarah coming back from the break room. He told her, "Sarah, I'll be leaving now. Timmy, watch Sarah for me!"
"She can go with you, DiNozzo," Gibbs said to Tony, which made Sarah get excited a little bit.
"Yay! I'm going to see you in action, Tony!" Sarah shouted skipping after the two agents.
When the three got to the docks, they saw the destroyer that they needed to look for Lieutenant Steve in. They asked around for a couple of minutes, and then finally someone knew were Lieutenant Steve was. "Yeah, I saw him heading to the break room just a few seconds ago. He has a fifteen minuet break so you'll be able to catch up with him. Just head back out the ship, go into the building across the way, and once inside it's the third door on the left."
"Thank you very much, captain," thanked Ziva. The three went into the building and saw Lieutenant Steve getting a snack from a vending machine. "Lieutenant Steve?" asked Ziva, taking a long look at their suspect.
"Maybe, depends on who's asking," stated the man in the room. He had a rounded belly, thinning hair, green eyes, and glasses adorning his face.
"I'm Special Agent DiNozzo and this is Agent David. We're from NCIS," replied Tony pulling out his badge and Ziva did also.
"Alright, who's the girl then?" The man glared at Sarah slightly. Tony stood in front of the girl defensively.
"She's none of your concern right now just answer our question."
The man sighs and says to the group, "Yes, I am Lieutenant Steve. What do you want?"
"Someone's very grouchy today," Sarah mumbled to herself looking at the delectable snacks in the machine.
"What did you say little girl?" asked a raging marine.
"I said "someone's very grouchy today!" Can you not hear out of either ears or something?" Sarah shouted at the man, walking toward the man, getting ready to fight with him.
"Do you want to go little girl?"
"Little girl? I am NOT little old man!" Tony held Sarah by her arms and put her hands in cuffs.
"Old man? Why I ought a-." Ziva cuffed the man's hands behind his back restraining him from charging Sarah.
"Sir, you are under arrest for disturbing the peace and fighting on Base. You have the right to remain silence. Anything you say will be recorded and be used in a court of law viewed by your own peers. Do you accept these terms?" asked Ziva guiding Lieutenant Steve towards NCIS's car and pushing him into the back seat.
"Sarah, you're just going to wear the cuffs until we get back to headquarters, and then we'll take them off then, OK?" Tony told the girl bringing her to the passenger's seat, afraid that the Lieutenant and Sarah would start fighting again.
Sarah sighed and then nodded her head understanding what Tony had said. She got into the car and hears the annoying man say, "Why isn't she going to be arrested, huh? That's not fair! I demand to see my lawyer!"
"Sir, please understand you were trying to pick a fight with a sixteen year old girl?" asked agent David looking at the man skeptically.
"So? She's old enough to control her emotions!" the Lieutenant shouted at the young girls head.
"You're older than me! You should be able to control your emotions better than I can! You're like, forty years older than me!" Sarah shouted back at the man, turning around in her seat, facing the man who's giving her a glare, which she returns ten-fold.
"Both of you, clam down or you'll be held for harassment sir and you, girl, will be arrested for harassment!" Ziva barked at the two fighting people. They stopped, looked at Ziva, and ceased fighting. Sarah stared out the window and the man glared at his legs, trying his best to control his emotions.
Once they returned to NCIS they started arguing again so they were separated. The Lieutenant to one off to the interrogation room to be questioned, Sarah was guided to Tony's chair, and she sat down in it.
"Sarah, what has gotten into you? Why did you pick a fight with a marine who is probably ten times stronger than you are?" asked Tony, looking at the girl with a concerned look.
"Tony, what the hell is going on, and why is Sarah in hand cuffs?" asked Gibbs giving the two a strange look.
"Sarah and the Lieutenant were fighting about something rather stupid. It's kind of ridiculous," replied Tony to his Boss.
"He was giving attitude, Gibbs! He deserved a good punch in the face, but Tony wouldn't allow that!" yelled Sarah, her anger burning back to life.
"Sarah, if I hadn't held you back you would have been arrested for real and I would have had to press charges against my own ward. I don't want you in any more trouble then you already are."
"Wh-what do you mean by I'm in trouble? I didn't think I was in trouble," Sarah said while Tony un-cuffed her wrists.
"You know what, we will discuss this when we get home." Tony grabbed his jacket, keys to his car, and grabbed Sarah's wrist.
"Tony!" Sarah yelled his name, causing him to stop and turn around. "Please, tell me, why am I in trouble." She looked straight into his eyes causing him to look away.
MWAHAHA! Sorry I had to do this. I had to leave a cliff hanger. To all my dearest readers, I will post the next chapter in another couple of days. Thank you for reading! I do not own NCIS. (Forgot this last chapter.)