A/N: Okay here goes nothing....
Alex's House:
Within five minutes of hanging up on her dad, Danielle had fallen asleep on Alex.
Alex rubbed circles on her back. He had so much guilt building up inside him. He didn't know what to do.
After a few minutes there was a knock on the door. After that it just burst open and he heard the Agents identify themselves.
"The living room," Alex said hoping they could hear him. He didn't want to wake up Alex.
He looked over to the wall that separated the door and the living room awaiting their arrival. First it was Gibbs, then Ziva and lastly, who he thought was Tony.
"Alex, what happened?" Gibbs said.
"Shh…" Alex said pointing to Danielle.
"Danielle!" Tony said running over to her. She slowly started to stir. She woke up and looked around.
"Did I dream it?" She said to Alex.
Alex shook his head. Danielle closed her eyes tight trying to hold back more tears.
"Who are you?" Tony asked walking over to the couch.
"Alex," Alex said.
"Alex? Wait, you mean, O, umm…. Well…" Tony said.
"You thought I was a girl?" Alex laughed.
"Dad! I thought I told you HE was a GUY!" Danielle said getting up from Alex's grip.
"Guess not." Tony said starring Alex down like he was a criminal. "What happened?"
"Well, can I explain that later?" Danielle said walking closer to Tony.
"No. Now." He demanded.
"Upstairs, there is a man, unconscious, need a hospital." Danielle said. She saw as Gibbs and Ziva turned to go up stairs.
"What happened to the man?" Tony said.
"I hit him." Alex confessed.
"What!" Tony said pulling Danielle away from Alex. "Danielle, why are you near him? He is dangerous. I forbid you from seeing him ever again. I mean that!"
"NO!" Danielle said pulling away from Tony's hands and going toward Alex. "HE SAVED ME!"
"I know. You told me, after Somalia, and I thank him. Now, get over here. I don't trust him!" Tony said grabbing her wrist.
Danielle pulled back. Tony looked at her.
"TONIGHT! HE saved me TONIGHT!" Danielle cried. Tears running down her face. Alex's hand reached up at held her shoulder. "HE SAVED ME!"
"Dani," Tony said coming closer.
"NO! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING." Danielle said turning into Alex's chest hugging him.
Alex gave Tony a sad look. Tony finally got it. He back away and went to go find out about the guy upstairs.
UPSTAIRS:
"Ziva, there is no pulse." Gibbs said pulling his fingers away from the man on the floor.
"What? Alex killed him?" Ziva asked taking picture of the scene.
"I guess, we are going to need their statements. But, I want you to take Tony home. He can be here." Gibbs said.
"Gibbs, you know he is not leave without her." Ziva said.
"O he will," Gibbs said. Then he held up his fingers then counted down…5…4…3…2…1…
"Gibbs! Why didn't you tell me Alex was a guy?" Tony yelled coming into the bedroom.
Ziva smiled at the perfect timing.
"Go home!" Gibbs said.
"NO!" Tony said.
"THAT"S AN ORDER!" Gibbs yelled in his marine voice.
Tony looked him straight in the eyes. He stormed out of the room. Ziva gave Gibbs a nod and slowly walked after him.
"Hey Tony, everything okay?" McGee asked coming up the stairs.
"Peachy!" Tony said going out the door toward the car.
Downstairs:
"Alex, what am I going to do?" Danielle whispered into her hands. "My dad hates you, he is mad at me and I don't know what to do."
"Dani, shh… it going to be okay." Alex whispered into her hair. "You are going to tell Gibbs exactly what happened. Then you are going to go home. You are NOT going to worry about your dad and I right now! That is the last thing on your mind. Next you are going to get through this!"
"I can't. You both mean so much to me. I don't think I can choose." Danielle said lifting her head up to look at Alex.
"That's why I'm making it for you. Dani, listen, once this is over, then we can settle things. For now, you need to be with your dad, I get that." Alex said.
"No, I need you both. Please don't leave me. I don't want to do this alone!" Danielle cried.
"Shh… it's okay. I'm not leaving you. Don't worry, everything will be okay!" Alex said pulling her into his chest.
McGee watched the two teens interact with each other. He had never seen Danielle cry. Never! HE watched as Alex tried to calm her down.
"Excuse me, um… Danielle, I kinda need both of your statements." McGee interrupted.
"Sure." She said breaking away from Alex's grip.
"Um, Alex, if you could pleases…" McGee said pointing toward the kitchen.
"Right, I can't be there, sorry." Alex said.
"Umm McGee, shouldn't we be in the interrogation rooms?" Danielle asked wiping the tears from her face.
"Ya we should, not know, but Gibbs wants to get you statements then take you to interrogation. Assuming you would want to go in the same car and stuff we need a original statement to prove you didn't lie. Or try to cross stories." McGee said.
"O, well," Danielle started. "We came back from headquarters after talking to Gibbs. Nest we came in to the kitchen, got out the pizza. Alex went into the garage to get us sodas. A couple minutes later, I heard a door open, it was Alex's dad. He was swaying and not really making a lot of sense, I could tell he was drunk. Anyway, I went to leave, considering his history, and he stopped me." Danielle took a breath. "Next he dragged me upstairs and tried to well, you know…" she trailed off. The look on McGee face told her that he knew what she was talking about. "Next thing I know Mr. DiNal fell on top of me. I saw him being lifted up and pushed off of me, and then I saw Alex. Next we came downstairs and called my dad."
"Thank you." McGee said. "Could you go wait in the kitchen?"
"Ya." She mumbled.
"Alex, could you please come over here?" McGee asked.
Alex walked past Danielle, their arms brushed up against each other.
"What happened?" McGee asked into the recorder.
"We came in from NCIS. Got pizza, then I went to go get drinks. I went out to the garage and forgot that when you shut the door, it locks from the outside. I was locked in the garage. I grabbed a couple cans of soda then went through the garage door. You know the one that opens up to the outside. Well I came back in and put the cans down on the island. I heard Danielle scream my name, I ran upstairs and found my dad taking off her shirt. I did the only thing I could think of, I grab the first thing I found and wacked him over the head to make him stop. After that I dragged him off of her and we went downstairs then called Danielle's dad." Alex said.
"Thank you." McGee said. "You can go see Danielle."
"Thanks." Alex said turning to walk away.
"Alex," McGee started.
"Huh?"
"Thanks for saving her. I know I shouldn't say it, but thank you. I say that from all of us, even Tony. Don't worry, he will come around." McGee said.
"Don't worry about it." Alex said.
He turned around and walked toward Danielle. When he got to her, she was sitting in a kitchen stool. He put his hands on her should leaning other ear.
"Are you okay?" He asked her.
"I would say fine, but I know you hate that word, so could I just say it one time." Danielle pleaded.
"You could, but I won't believe you!" Alex laughed.
Daniele tried to laugh but it only came out as a cry.
"Danielle!" Gibbs said coming down the steps.
"Gibbs, is that man okay?" Danielle asked.
"Ya, he isn't in any pain." Gibbs said. At that moment Ducky walked in.
Danielle's eyes popped out of her head.
"He's dead?" Danielle asked.
"Dead?" Alex followed.
Gibbs nodded his head and lead Ducky to the steps.
"I killed my dad?" Alex said.
A/N: So... what do you think? Any ideas? Questions? Thoughts? Reviews?
