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A/N: Here's chapter two…enjoy!
The ride to Stillwater was sat mostly in silence aside from Destiny asking the occasional question, but her father wouldn't answer. She eventually gave up and fell asleep. When she woke up they were pulling into Stillwater. Upon pulling up to the curb, a sheriff cruiser pulled up. Destiny had gotten out of the car with the others and stood next to her father. She leaned against him and coughed. Gibbs rubbed her back in small circles and played with her hair as he spoke to the sheriff. She heard from the way they were speaking to each other that they had a past, and that him playing with her hair kept him at ease as he loved her hair because it reminded him of her mother. He told her that all the time. She chuckled at some of the remarks that her dad was making to the sheriff and at the fact that the sheriff's grimace became more distinct as the kept talking. The sheriff didn't seem too happy that her father was there, but she knew that it didn't bother him. She took her father's hand as they walked down the street to a residence. While walking, Destiny watched her father. She stopped on the sidewalk and looked up at him, raising her eyebrows. He kneeled down looking at McGee and Ziva who walked ahead a bit, just out of earshot.
"What?" he asked knowing what was coming.
"Who was that man?" Destiny asked.
"Someone I know from when I was young," Gibbs answered.
"How?" she asked.
"I'll you later. Ziva, McGee, and I have to solve this case. Okay?" Gibbs replied.
Destiny nodded and Gibbs got up and they kept walking. Destiny was dead-set at finding out what her father was hiding in his past. She wanted to know more about where he came from and what he was like when he was younger, but for now, they walked in silence.
At the residence, Ziva stayed back at the end of the driveway to call for an update on Ethan Lacombe, the other victim. Destiny stayed with her. She noticed an older man coming up. He was a little shorter than her dad and looked almost like him. It was uncanny, the resemblance. The man spoke to Ziva about where she was from and other things, and then pointed out that she dropped some money. Ziva bent to pick it up, but the man put his cane on the bill and spoke for a moment before removing the cane and allowing Ziva to retrieve the dropped bill.
As their conversation came to a close, Gibbs and McGee joined them. McGee and Ziva watched Gibbs reaction to the man standing before them. She noticed that her father was sort of annoyed the man was there, but she didn't say anything. She watched the uneasy exchange between them. When her dad introduced the man as his father Destiny let out a gasp. She looked up at her father and then to the older man who she now knew was her grandfather. Her father knelt down before her.
"Destiny, this is your grandfather," he said to her. She just stood in shock.
The closest thing to a grandfather she had ever had was Ducky, NCIS' medical examiner Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard.
"Destiny?" said Gibbs.
Destiny looked at her dad and then at her grandfather, that was strange to think. She looked up at Ziva who was as shocked as her. Destiny took Ziva's hand and Ziva squeezed the girl's reassuringly.
Looking back to the elder man she said, "Hello, Grandpa."
Jackson Gibbs was just as shocked as his granddaughter. He smiled down at the girl as she greeted him, calling him Grandpa.
"Nice to meet you, Destiny, is it?" he asked. She nodded.
Destiny looked at her dad who held out his arms to pick her up. She allowed him to do so. She curled into her father's shoulder, inhaling his scent to calm her. She'd see her mother calm down after her father left a room. She knew that he could calm her mother with just being there and she hoped he would do the same for her. He did, her uneasiness around her grandfather melted away as her nostrils were filled with her father's scent of coffee and sawdust. She felt completely at ease and slowly nodded off to sleep, mostly because of the medicine she was given on the trip.
"I didn't know you had a kid, son," said Jackson.
"I didn't either until a few months ago," Gibbs replied.
"Who's her mother?" Jackson asked. Gibbs looked down and to Ziva who did the same.
"Her mother's name was Jenny Shepard. She was the director at NCIS and my partner from way back," Gibbs replied.
They began to walk back towards the car which just happened to be parked outside the convenience store that Jackson ran.
"Was?" asked Jackson.
"She was murdered in a diner," Gibbs replied. Gibbs handed Destiny to Ziva who stirred and snuggled into her godmother's shoulder.
"I've got stuff I need to handle," he said and walked off, leaving Jackson, Ziva, and McGee staring after him. As they walked back, Ziva and McGee asked questions and Jackson answered them. Destiny slept soundly with Ziva carrying her. McGee offered to take her a few times, but Ziva refused, holding tighter to the child.
McGee noted the unwillingness to have anyone hold Destiny aside from Abby, Gibbs, Ducky, and Ziva herself. He wondered why she was nervous about Tony or him trying to hold her. He just shook it off.
A/N: So? What did you think? Some feedback would be great!
