"I don't wanna spend another lonely night, I don't wanna spend another lonely night, I don't wanna spend another lonely night, ooooo prayin' for daylight." They had found a set of speakers for Skye's iPod, and it was turned up as loud as it would go. And, of course, she was singing along. Just as the song ended, she walked into Ziva's room. Ziva was staring at a picture, sitting on her bed. Next to her was a box, of pictures.
"Who's this?" she asked, sitting down next to Ziva. Ziva held the picture out to Skye and pointed to each of the children in the picture as she spoke.
"This is…our older brother, Ari." She wasn't used to saying that, and had almost said "my". "And my younger sister-she would have been your older sister-Tali."
"Wow, Tali looks almost exactly like me." She paused for a moment, looking at the pictures. "What happened to them? I don't wanna bring up any bad memories, so…" she was cut off by Ziva.
"No, you deserve to know. Tali died in a suicide bombing, when she was sixteen. Ari…" she paused, trying to figure out how to tell Skye, "I was forced to kill him, about 6 years ago. Out of all the things I have done, that is the one I have never been able to put out of my mind."
They sat there for a minute, before Ziva picked up the picture and walked over to one of the boxes of pictures in her guest room, which was to be converted into Skylar's room. She went through the box until finding what she wanted, a picture of Skylar. She walked out of her guest room into her kitchen, and pulled a pair of scissors out of a drawer, and cut out the picture of Skye. Then she grabbed some glue out of another drawer and glued the picture of Skye to the picture of her and Tali and Ari.
After that, Ziva went over and taped the picture to the wall, right where she could see it.
Skye stood there for a few minutes staring at it, when the song playing in the background finally registered in her mind.
"Sometimes, I wonder who you'd be today"
A/n ok, that's the end of the first installment of SkyeHigh. I pinky swear there will be sequels. I know what's gonna happen, but I'm also open to suggestions. The song Skye was listening and singing along to in the beginning of the chapter was "Prayin' For Daylight" by Rascal Flatts (I've made it very clear that I like them a lot) and the song at the end of the chapter and the song that inspired the entire story was "Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney (I love him, too. But not as much as I love Rascal Flatts) wow, the epilogue was a lot shorter than I thought it would be.