Just own the characters that aren't from the TV show.


The silence that followed was broken by Ziva.

"Your uncle is the Deputy Director David of Mossad?" Erika looked up. She had been staring at Gibbs.

"Yes, why?" Ziva laughed.

"That's how you knew my accent. Erika, we're cousins." Erika seemed to see Ziva for the first time.

"Wait, you're that Ziva David?"

"Um...yes?" Erika smiled. Now she knew she could absolutely trust Ziva with whatever she needed to.

"Oh-my-God Fee, your mom would be so excited!" Kylie looked at Nina, expecting Erika to mow her down at any second, but instead Erika smiled slightly.

"Yeah. She would have been like 'now this is a woman you want to be like. Pretty, smart, strong. You know, Fee, you're lucky. Not a lot of people get to meet their namesakes' She would have been..." Erika trailed off. Her eyes were filled with tears. Ari ran over to Erika and hugged her.

"I'm sorry, Erika. I really am."

"Sorry for what?"

"Everything. All you've had to go through." Kylie laughed.

"Uh...Ari? You didn't need to get that sentimental." Everyone laughed. Gibbs then snapped everyone back to attention.

"Now, let's go find Ziva's father and bring him in here." He looked at Erika. She smiled mischievously and looked up at Tony and Ziva.

"I have a plan." Nick looked at Erika.

"You're not thinking what I think you're thinking." Kylie smirked.

"Oh I think that's exactly what she's thinking."

"Well I think she's brilliant," Leif said. Everyone looked up, shocked. Leif didn't complement people, he just didn't. As McGee would say, it wasn't in his "character".

"Thanks Leif!" Erika really meant it. Leif smiled. Ziva smiled as well, but she was still confused about something.

"What is a namesake?"

"It's someone you're named after," Ari answered, "like Erika's named after you."

"Erika...Ziva...don't see how they're the same name," Tony said. Erika laughed.

"Not my first name, my middle name. My full name is Erika Ziva DiLante."

"DiLante...I don't recognize the name..."

"Yeah, my mom changed it when she got married. I don't know if your father paid that much attnetion to his little sister after he became Deputy Director..." Ziva's expression saddened slightly.

"He didn't pay much attention to anything. Wait a minute...Leila? Leila was your mother?" Erika smiled sadly.

"Yes." Her expression hardened.

"And someone wants all record of her existence erased."

"Why?"

"My mother worked in Mossad and NCIS. She was a high value target for any country not friendly with the US and Israel. She also worked a lot of highly sensitive cases." Gibbs walked up behind them. He had been examining the body more closely.

"I don't think that's why, Erika."

"Then why?"

"The letter said something about erasing all records of her having children. I don't think they were after your mother." Erika's eyes widened.

"They're after us...no, not us...me."

"The quesiton is why." McGee was beginning to catch on.

"Well, if Gibbs's gut is correct, which it usually is, then it is my uncle. I think...Ziva makes him feel guilty, and I remind him of Ziva. He can't kill Ziva because she's his only child left, but he can kill someone like her. He wants me to suffer, and then eventually turn myself in."

"Don't," Leif said. Everyone stared at Leif.

"What?"

"You're being awfully emotional for you Leif," Ari answered. Leif rolled his eyes.

"That's dumb, Ah-ree." Leif drew out the syllables in his sister's name the same way Tony often did to Ziva. Gibbs smacked the siblings on the back of the head.

"Go, Hannah, find, now." Everyone on Erika's team except for Erika scampered off. Duckie, who had already shared his preliminary findings with Gibbs, started walking towards the kids.

"I'll drive them back, Jethro."

"Thanks Duck. McGee, go with 'em." McGee followed Duckie to the autopsy vehicle. Erika briefly wondered how they were all going to fit in there, but stopped wondering when Gibbs turned to her.

"You go with Tony and Ziva. Go home, check on the others, and report back to work tomorrow."

"Leo, I'm fine, I can report back today. Really, I'm fine." Gibbs looked at her one last time before getting into his car.

"Tomorrow Erika." He drove off. Tony looked shocked. Both Ziva and Erika turned to look at him.

"What?"

"It's just...you sounded so much like Ziva when you said that..."


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