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Swinging open her car door she walks briskly across the street, going to the far side of the adjacent house, she climbs over the fence quickly running across the neighbors' backyard dodging the patio furniture, she vaults over the fence coming to the backyard of the safe house, taking the knife out of her boot she decides against stealth and uses the back of it to shatters the glass of the window, quickly climbing in she is met with a gun to her face held by Peter Burke, behind him are El and Caffrey. She quickly puts her hand up in the air in surrender, quickly saying, "Put the gun down I'm here to get you guys out of here."
"What do you mean?" Peter asks never lowering the gun.
"Five men are coming towards the house right now carrying guns."
"How can I trust you?" Peter points out.
"I don't expect you too, sir" looking around Peter to Elizabeth she says, "but you trust Spencer right." Neal then looks at El, eyes going wide.
Elizabeth nods her head coming next to Peter, who gave her a look, she puts her hand on his gun pushing it down, "what do we need to do" she asks Tigger.
"Follow me and be quiet," with that she turns around unlocks and opens the sliding door she motions with her hand to go. Peter goes first followed by El and Neal, Tigger then walks through closing the door after her. "We have to jump the fence." Peter then gives a look of 'really,' Tigger just nods her head and pushes her hand out in the motion of 'go.' Peter and Tigger help Elizabeth with climbing over it by allowing her to use their hands as footholds, then Peter, Neal, and Tigger climb over.
Going ahead of them Tigger motions to follow, crossing the yard at a run they all make it to the other side where Tigger opens the gate and edges across wall peering around the corner she sees the men coming into the safe house guns at the ready. Pointing to the car she had used to get there, she whispers "get into that car and stay low on my count" with that she counts to three and motions for them to run. Running across the street she gets into the drivers seat with all three of them getting in the back, starting up the car quickly she puts in gear quickly racking up speed till she hits 100 mph, when they are about a two mile away she slows down the vehicle coming to a stop she cuts the engine in an abandoned parking lot. Turning in her seat she sees three scared faces, a smile forming on her face she asks, "is everyone okay?"
Peter looks at her "yes, who taught you how to drive?" El playfully slaps him on the chest saying, "What he means to say is thank you for saving us." Tigger then looks at Neal who was trying to catch his breath from the adrenaline pumping in his body.
"Call Spencer" Tigger says looking at El and then looking at Peter she says, "and you might want to call your FBI buddies, sir." Each pulling out cell phones they make their calls.
"Spencer its Ellie, um the safe house was attacked, yes were safe know um," looking at Tigger she asks, "What's your name?" figuring out the young girl had never said it.
"Tigger."
"Tigger saved us, yes she did, I'll give you a call back when we figure that out Spence," hanging up she gives Tigger a perplexed look.
During the same time Peter was on the phone with Booth, since he is the lead investigator in the Braxton case. "No where safe now, where do they want us to go, okay we'll head over there, see you there," hanging up he looks at Tigger and says can you drive us to this farmhouse about ten miles east of here handing, her his phone that had the address on it.
"Yes, sir" handing the phone to El she says, "text Spencer this address and have him meets us there." Glancing at all of them all squished together she says, "One of you can move up here." Neal then gets out of the car and moves to the passenger seat, smiling at Tigger. Starting the car, Tigger then heads towards the farmhouse at a normal speed, everyone staying quiet trying to process what just happened.
When they got to the farmhouse, they stayed in the car, they saw a large SUV come down the dirt path five minutes later, hopping out of the SUV were Booth, Gibbs, DiNozzo, Ziva, and McGee. Since night had set in they couldn't see the faces clearly enough to recognize them Gibbs went up to the door followed by his team flipping on the lights to the porch they continued inside to case the house making sure no one was there, while Booth went to the side of the car, knocking on the window Tigger rolled the window down, eyes going wide when she came face to face with Booth. "Come on in to house." Just then Hardison's van, Lucile, stopped in front of the house, Eliot gets out of the drivers seat followed by the rest of the Leverage team, he heads over to the car Peter, Neal, El, and Tigger still occupy. He looks at Booth and nods his head in greeting. Everyone then gets out and they all head into the house.
Walking into the living room everyone looks around at each other, Gibbs breaks the silence, "Gibbs, this is DiNozzo, Ziva, and McGee" motioning to each one as he says it. Booth, Nate, Sophie, Hardison, Parker, Peter, Neal, and Elizabeth introduce themselves.
McGee's eyes go wide looking at Eliot then to Tigger, "your Eliot Spencer and your that girl on the roof" he questions remembering back to the footage of Eliot and the young girl at the sniper perch.
Eliot grunts in response. Those who didn't know Tigger all look down at her, "Yes Tigger, sir" she says directing it at McGee.
"So, what do we do know?" Sophie asks.
"Well we have all apparently been working alone on the same case so why not do it together." Peter states looking at Sophie since the last time he saw her she was 'Lydia Andrews.' A round of Okays were heard. They then all congregated to the couches and chairs, some going into the dining area to grab extra chairs, Eliot, Gibbs, and Tigger decide to stand instead.
McGee and Hardison both take out their laptops putting them on their laps so that they have the information on Braxton's case in front of them. They then all tell each other what they had learned about Braxton and speculating on who it could be, an hour and half later they all came up with the same answer Yakuza.
"So sleeping arrangements," Booth says with a clap of his hands looking at Gibbs to tell them what they are.
"Well there is four bedrooms, three upstairs, one down stairs so why don't Ziva you share with Parker and Tigger. DiNozzo, McGee, Neal, and Hardison share another."
Eliot cuts him off saying, "I'll stand watch I don't need a room." Booth says the same.
"Okay then Peter and Elizabeth get their own room, Nate and Sophie another," with that everyone starts to head to a room that has a room.
Tigger starts to follow Parker and Ziva, but is stopped by Eliot who gently grabs her arm bringing her in font of him. She wave Parker off, when Parker stops and then looks up to Eliot raising her eyebrows in question. Booth and Gibbs the only ones left in the room look at the confrontation between Spencer and Tigger, stepping a bit closer in case they needed to intervene.
"Why were you watching the safe house?" Eliot says accusingly still holding onto Tigger's arm.
"I was making sure they were safe, sir" Tigger says calmly.
"How did you know where the safe house was?"
"I looked at Hardison's laptop, sir," with that Eliot released her arm; both Booth and Gibbs relax a little at that. Peter and El come back into the living since they had claimed the first floor bedroom; El shot a questioning look at Eliot since he was so close Tigger.
Raising his hands up to her he says, "Just asking questions Ellie." Neal, DiNozzo, and Ziva come down the stairs when he says that.
Peter then looks between the two of them and asks the question that has been burning in his mind since Tigger asked El if she trusted Spencer, "How do you two know each other?"
El turns to Eliot giving him a look, glancing at everyone in the room, then back at her husband and says, "I need to tell you something's about my past." Neal walks over to Booth's side, while DiNozzo and Ziva sit down on the couch.
"What do you mean," Peter says, wondering what his wife of ten years hasn't told him.
"You know I have an older brother that works in the FBI," to that he nods his head, walking over to Booth, she puts her hand on his arm, "this my brother."
"Okay, but that doesn't explain how you know Spencer." Peter says pointing at Eliot.
"Well you see I have two other brothers, one older, the other younger."
"What do you mean?" Peter asks trying to clarify what she is saying.
"Spencer is my older brother." To that Peter's eyes go big. Gibbs pats El on the shoulder, encouraging her to continue. Seeing this Ziva and DiNozzo look at each other and move closer to the small group.
"So, who is your younger brother," not liking how his assumption is going.
"Neal."
"So let me get this straight, you have two older brothers one is a FBI agent while the other one is a hired killer, you also have a younger brother who is a con artist, anything else?" Peter says confusion written on his face.
"Well you already know I have a younger sister that is missing," to that Tigger flinches a bit, Neal notices the action filing it away to ask at a better time.
Later that night, Sophie, Nate, Hardison, McGee, and Parker had gone to bed. Ziva and DiNozzo were checking the perimeter. Peter, El, Spencer, Booth, and Gibbs were in the living room talking. Tigger had gone into the kitchen to get a drink of water, Neal following after her wanting to ask her about earlier. Looking at the girl Neal asks, "Why did you flinch when El said our little sister was missing?" deciding to be blunt.
Tigger flinches again her voice wavering keeping her back turned "Don't know what you're talking about, sir."
"Yes you do you flinched when I asked you the question," turning her around to face him, he could see her eyes where clouding over with tears. She quickly got out of his grasp and started running out Neal following behind her, everyone stands up from the living room seeing Tigger running out towards the front door just as Ziva and DiNozzo came in through it, instinctively DiNozzo grabs her holding her as Ziva locks the door. Neal stopping right in front of her putting his hand on her shoulder, he kneels down to look into her tears streaked eyes and asks, "What's wrong." Peter, El, Eliot, Booth, and Gibbs had by that time all surrounded the small group.
Her voice wavering says, "Stop, just leave me alone Jamie." At that moment you could hear a pin drop, Neal's hand goes slack on her shoulder, El brings one hand to her mouth to hold in a gasp, the other grasping Peter's hand, Gibbs looks at the girl finally figuring out why she looked familiar in the picture. Booth stares at the girl eyes wide and everything clicks for Eliot at that second. DiNozzo and Ziva look confused at the expressions of everyone else.
"Kensilyn," Eliot gasps out. Tigger then looks up to everyone that is surrounding her and nods her head.
Gibbs then looks at DiNozzo and says "let her go," DiNozzo immediately lets go, making Kensilyn stumble, almost falling down if it wasn't for Neal who caught her bringing her in for a hug, her arms going around his waist hugging him. She mumbles out "I missed you Jamie," looking up at everyone in her family she says, "I missed all of you." Neal lets his sister go only for Spencer to bring her into a hug, repeating this action with Booth and Elizabeth. Elizabeth turns her around so her back is to El, El's arms falling over her shoulders. El smiling through tear streaks rolling down her face looks at Peter and says "I would like to introduce you to my little sister, Kensilyn."
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