Thank you Spacekitten2700 :) Chapter 10
"You are both safe now" Patric whispered as he had his arms around his wife and child. Promising to never let them go ever again. He had mixed emotions, he had never thought he'd find them again, being told they were dead, but in his heart he knew the truth... and finally the truth was out, Sandra and Ricky were finally safe.
Twisted Truth
"Gibbs, Jethro" Alicia said quietly as she looked up at him "I been thinking" she bit her lip.
"Yes?" He asked just as quietly.
"I don't like all the shooting, running, going... I'm more a computer, find evidence person. I belong in a lab or in front of a desk, not out on the field" She looked down. "You saw my papers on the computer."
"You want me to transfer you to a lab or a desk?" Gibbs asked.
"I don't want to leave you... Didn't you see the work I did in Abby's lab?" Alicia asked.
Gibbs smiled knowingly, now he knew what she was thinking of. "I did" he confirmed, knowing she didn't look at him.
"All I do is getting hurt or causing others to get hurt." She bit her lower lip.
"With your approval I want you to work with Abby in the lab, keeping your weapon incase we need you out on the field but from now your place is in the lab along with Abby" Gibbs said, realising yet again how much like her father she really were. No Tony wasnt one to be kept at one place, but if he got his mind set on something, supporting him was the best thing to do...
"Thank you" Alicia said and hugged Gibbs just to groan in pain. "I hate my ribs" she muttered.
"Easy, you start to sound like your father" he chuckled.
"Don't make me laugh" she bit her lip from laughing.
"What's bad by being like your father" Tony smiled softly.
"You'll be ok Tony" Gibbs said softly, touching his unharmed shoulder before patting Alicia's shoulder and leaving the hospital room. He turned back and saw Alicia leaning down on Tony's shoulder, the unharmed one before he smiled and closed the door after himself.
"I'm proud to be my daddy's daughter" Alicia whispered as she cuddled as close to her father as she dared.
Twisted Truth
Ziva came in an hour later, it had taken her time to get her courage up to go see Tony. She had seen him being carried out of that room, the stench still in her vision, and to have seen the always so joking and cheerful Tony so beaten, unconscious... it was like watching Gibbs in a coma back when... Her thoughts got interrupted.
"You gonna stay there or come forward?" Tony's voice was heard before he coughed and tears pressed through his tightly shut eyelids as he bit his teeth together in pain.
"Easy daddy" Alicia dried the tiredness out of her eyes. "Let yourself heal, Ziva, step out of the shadows"
"Sorry, Tony, you need to listen to your daughter. Get well and I see you on work." Ziva said.
"I wouldn't mind seeing you here" Tony said truthfully. "You need to take my daughter back to work though, I'll sleep for a while, the doctor's coming to give me something to sleep on." Tony said "It's hard to sleep without it." He finished.
Twisted Truth
Ziva and Alicia turned up back at work, talking in the elevator till the doors opened and Gibbs came in. "Ziva, McGee got things to go over with you." Gibbs said.
Ziva nodded, squeezed Alicia's shoulder lightly before she walked out of the elevator ans the doors closed in front of Alicia and Gibbs.
"How's Tony doing?" Gibbs asked.
"If there's a slight change in the room he wakes up. Nightmares tearing out my heart. The doctors gave him something to sleep on." Alicia said, she turned and leant into Gibbs arms, her left arm in a sling still.
"He'll be ok, I'll have you, Anthony and Tony living with me when he's discharged from the hospital" Gibbs said.
"Thanks" Alicia said "Donno how to convince dad of that though." She added with a slight smile.
"I'll take care of that, dont you worry. We're at Abby's lab, let's go introduce you for your new coworker." Gibbs smiled and exited the elevator, Alicia followed slightly behind.
Twisted Truth
Abby was working on something at the computer when Gibbs came in.
"Abz, come meet our newest recuit" Gibbs said Abby began to complain but her words ran dry as Alicia stepped forward, Abby gave a death splitting scream, but to their surprise it was Alicia who ran straight into Abby arms, laughing.
Alicia laughed while clutching her stomach and arm. "I like it better in a lab. I can go out too but... computer's more my thing" she said as the laughter ceased. "Don't make me laugh, my ribs are sore and so is my arm."
A few hours later
"Decodes, damn programming, damn hell, damn arm." Alicia muttered while trying to to hack into a file to get answers Gibbs had asked for.
"Maybe you need four hands, how long do you have decoding it?" Abby asked as she put her Caf Pow! on the desk beside herself, she held out another Caf Pow! to Alicia. "Try it, I love it" Abby said.
Alicia hesitatingly lifted the cup and sipped through the strawn, she grimaced slightly. "I like Cappuccino better, but this is an ok substitute" she smiled at Abby who jumped up and down a few seconds.
"More for me then, I'll tell them upstairs to send you some cappuccino, how's your arm feeling?" Abby asked.
"Better, but not so good when I'm using it, can't help that right now though" Alicia sighed and looked up in surprise as a cup of cappuccino was put in front of her, Abby hadn't even called anyone yet.
"Rest your arm. Here" Gibbs voice was soft as he pushed the cappuccino towards her. She picked it up with her unharmed arm and drank half of it in the matter of seconds.
"Ok I'm good to go" she smile as she looked up at Gibbs.
"Just be careful, ok? Don't over do it, not cause of me" Gibbs said, leaving Abby so very shocked as he left the two girls alone.
"Close your mouth Abby girl. I got shot protecting him, with his 'don't over do it' he means I should be careful and not do anything that hurts." Alicia said.
"I know, that's why I'm so surprised." Abby looked at Alicia.
"Never mind, lets get to work, lets try again." Alicia said and started the hacking again. "Damn its not working" Alicia swore. "Can you turn on something by Avantasia?" she then asked.
Abby walked over to her stereo. "Um there's 6 albums with them here, yours?" she asked.
"Yeah, but wait" Alicia reached under herself and got up her laptop, turned it on, logged on and went online. "This song is just so wow... I love it" she turned it on when she found it on youtube.
"Oh ok, scoot" Abby said and sat down beside Alicia and together they attacked the keyboard and hacked through the pages and servers. While listning to the song both the girls worked hard finding what information Gibbs wanted.
"I'll call Gibbs" Abby said and got up. The song wasn't over when Gibbs came up.
"What's this?" He asked.
"The story ain't over by Avantasia. Bob Caltey and Avantasia did it live once. My taste." Alicia smiled as she lifted her cappuccino with wrong arm, she swore as the cup turned over and fell to the floor, tears threatening to fall, obscenities close to her tongue.
"Hey now" Gibbs said as he brought Alicia to her feet. "You going to do good here on your own Abs? I'll send McGee down to pick up everything you both found." Gibbs said.
Abby nodded and watched Gibbs take off with Alicia. When the elevator doors closed she walked over to the laptop, searched the songs and clicked on a song when it started she backed a few steps before she smiled in approval and went back to work.
Twisted Truth
Stepping out of the elevator Gibbs and Alicia hadn't said a word and Gibbs hadn't let go of Alicia either. "McGee" Gibbs said "Go down to Abby and gather whatever she found and get it back up here. Ziva, you take care of things here till I'm back" Gibbs finished before grabbing his gun, checking it through and putting it in place, he wrapped an arm around Alicia's shoulders again. "I got your back if anything happens" he said.
"If anything happens I need my gun, um dad's gun" she looked away, a tears traced down her face. Gibbs went and got the gun, loaded it and secured it before he gave it to Alicia.
"Let's go" Gibbs said and first in the car Alicia looked up at him, biting her lower lip.
"Where we going?" she asked while trying to keep the tears at bay.
"The hospital, to Tony." Gibbs said and touched Alicia's shoulder as she broke down in tears.
"He could have died, just cause I had to know who my dad were, first Anthony was taken now dad's hurt, cause of me" she cried. Gibbs just held her, knowing that no words could change what she was feeling in that moment.