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Deciding that she couldn't be bothered to move Tony, she claimed the humungous bed for herself, and was relieved to fall into a dreamless sleep.
Lucy's internal body clock woke her at 5am. She woke up quickly and pulled out her gun when she realised that she was not in a familiar place. Memories from the night before came back to her; she left the room to find that Tony had fallen onto the floor in his drunken stupor.
"Tony," Lucy yelled right next to his ear.
"What?" Tony mumbled and hid his aching head in his arms.
"Where do you keep the spoons?" Lucy asked calmly.
"You woke me up to ask me where I keep the spoons?" Tony complained as he lifted his head to see Lucy's uncompromising face. "Third draw down on the left."
"Thank you Tony." Lucy grinned at him.
"What time is it?" Tony muttered, his voice muffled.
"5am," Lucy informed him brightly.
"You woke me up at 5am?" Tony asked incredulously. Lucy didn't even bother with a reply. Tony opened his mouth to let loose a complaint to Lucy when his mobile began to ring.
Lucy beat him to it. "Hello Tony's phone, he's currently in a drunken stupor and unable to take this call. How can I help you?"
"Lucy?" Gibbs's voice came over the phone.
"Gibbs." Lucy said in a way of reply.
"Dead marine." Gibbs grunted.
"Okay, if you send over the details of where to go, I'll get Tony there in more or less one piece." Lucy joked, poking her tongue out at Tony who'd taken on the look of a stunned deer.
"Why aren't you at my place with your daughter?" Gibbs asked in an accusing tone.
"That was the plan, but I bumped into Tony at the office and did my community service of taking him home." The joking had left Lucy's voice, despite her light words.
Lucy heard Gibbs grunt over the phone as he hung up. She threw the phone at Tony, "Come on, I told the Boss that I would get you there."
"Lucy," Tony groaned, he looked slightly better now, after three cups of coffee and Lucy pushing him into a cold shower. Despite that he looked rather green after being driven to the murder.
"We had to make up lost time after you took so long to get ready," Lucy told him briskly as she got out of the car.
"Great, you two made it," McGee greeted them from where he was going to interview the neighbours.
"What's the story?" Tony asked as he came to stand besides Lucy.
"Marine dead, his name's Jonathan Reece." McGee briefed them quickly, "body's in the lounge room along with Gibbs." He finished.
"Come on Tony; let's go see how far that natural charm of yours takes us." Lucy couldn't help but smile.
"What?" Tony asked, confused.
"What sort of mood do you think Gibbs is going to be in?" Lucy asked amused at how slow he was being, she decided to blame it on the amount of alcohol he'd had the night before.
"Oh," muttered Tony as understanding dawned on him.
"Gibbs," Lucy brought attention to their presence.
"Tony, take pictures, Lucy bag and tag." Gibbs said in a way of greeting.
"Yes Boss, on it Boss," Tony said with new life restored within him.
Lucy searched the house carefully, it was a nice house, small, but homely. She made it to the bedroom when she saw some blood on the floor. Talking out her gun, for she was not one to take chances, she began to search the room. When she came to the bed, Lucy carefully got onto her knees and searched under the bed, she was surprised to find someone hiding under it. Lucy jumped back.
"Come out with your hands on your head," Lucy ordered. A woman came out from under the bed, when Lucy got a full view of her for the first time; she was overcome with surprise that was mirrored on the other woman's face. It was the other woman who broke the silence.
"Lucy?" She asked in a softly spoken voice.
"Mum?" Lucy's voice quavered slightly. It was then that Lucy saw the large amount of blood coming out of her Mother's stomach. "
"Mum!" She said horrified and ran towards her to catch her as her Mother's knees gave out.
"Lucy," the other woman tried again, "Is my husband dead?"
"Jonathan?" Lucy asked her heart sinking.
"Yes," Lucy's Mother replied with a short nod.
"Yes, I'm so sorry, I didn't realise that you got remarried." Twenty years too late, Lucy added silently.
"Lucy," the woman had closed her eyes with pain at the conformation of her husband's death. "There's something I have to tell you before I die."
"Don't say that Mummy," Lucy's voice cracked, "You aren't going to die." Her Mother offered her a weak smile for comfort.
"Lucy, we both know better than that. Lucy Anne Walters, I'm not your birth Mother." Lucy looked as bad as her now adoptive Mother at the news.
"No you're wrong," Lucy protested.
"I'm sorry Lucy, a school friend said that she was pregnant and that she didn't want the baby, I didn't ask why." The woman stopped to cough weakly.
"No, you'll always be my Mummy." Lucy whispered.
"I love you, never forget that." Lucy's adoptive Mother's eyes closed in exhaustion.
"No, hold in there Mummy, you're going to be alright! You're a grandmother, did you know that Mummy! She's beautiful, for one of her middle names I gave her your name. Her first name is Nissi." Lucy was pressing down hard on the gunshot wound in her stomach and talking as fast as she could to keep the woman conscious. A crowd had formed, unnoticed by Lucy.
"What was my birth Mother's name Mummy?" Lucy asked to fill in the looming silence, just wanting to hear her Mother's reassuring voice one more time.
"Shannon Wells," and those were her last words.
Thank you to QueenKaitlyn for reviewing, please review people, I love to know that you are enjoying the story.
Umm, to clear some things up, sorry I was in a rush last time and forgot. This story is set just before season 7 and will continue into it, except with Lucy being there. Lucy is 25 years old and Nissi is four years old, so Ari died before she was born. Thank you to sunshine three for pointing out some of the holes in the story, sorry, I didn't know how smart a four year old would be, but she is very smart and wise for her age and I figured that Gibbs would have left over stuff in his house from when Kelly was younger.
Please review and I hope that you enjoyed reading it!