A/N: Here's another one! I'm excited to get this show on the road, now that Kaye's all moved in. We'll start skipping chunks of time from this point on. I'll hit on some of the bigger, team-centered, episodes, more than others. Of course the next few episodes after Honor Code are those types (Under Covers, Frame Up, Probie, and Boxed In), so the next few chapters will be following the next couple of weeks in their lives, but after that we'll skip along at a faster pace. Enjoy!

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Two days of sleeping on the couch and being banned from her new room had made Kaye antsy at best. She was bored with the couple of movies that she and Jenny had picked out, and even games that Abby had downloaded onto her laptop for Kaye were getting boring. The only good thing had been that the whole team was constantly around. She had gotten to know most of them a little better. Abby and Tony were pretty easy. They had been closest to her mom, so they seemed the most interested in spending time with her. McGee had been shyer, it seemed. He would come and talk to her only when she was alone or with Abby. Ducky didn't really like to talk with her, he just liked to tell stories, which for the most part, was fine with her. Ziva had been giving Kaye a pretty wide berth, though. She even seemed to avoid eye contact at times. Kaye would catch Ziva looking at her, but the minute she noticed, Ziva would look away.

Tony was simple. Well, on the surface, anyways. On the outside, it was movies, jokes, and girls. On the inside, though, she suspected, there was a lot more.

Abby loved everything. She loved science, of course. She loved her family in New Orleans, and her family at NCIS. She loved animals, church, the nuns, and bowling. She loved to make up stories about Bert and Bertha, and she loved to hang out with Kaye. Kaye appreciated that Abby never talked down to her like she was a child.

McGee liked computers, and he was hopelessly in love with Abby. That was all that Kaye had really figured out about him so far.

Gibbs and Jenny were like an old married couple who kind of hated each other even though they loved each other. They fought like cats and dogs some times, but others, Kaye would catch them so close that if caught, they looked like kids caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Gibbs was the clear father figure to Tony and Abby, especially. Tim kind of looked at him like he was either scared or in awe of his mentor. And Ziva clearly hadn't fully found her place on the team, yet. Gibbs was fiercely protective. Abby had mentioned an ex-boyfriend at one point, and Kaye could see the steam coming out of Gibbs' ears. Plus, before she had been allowed to go to bed on the first night, Gibbs had gone and bought, and installed, a second deadbolt for the front door, along with one for the back door. She understood safety, but two deadbolts and a handle lock on each door was a bit of overkill. Jenny was spunky and fierce. She knew how to get her way, especially with Gibbs, but it never happened without a fight. More often than not, you could hear the two of them bickering about anything and everything. Most of the time, they left the conversation with a smirk on their respective faces, but once in a while, one of them stormed off in one direction, and the other followed suit in the opposite way. Kaye found them completely fascinating and hilarious.

Kaye sat, bored, pondering all of these things that she had learned about the people around her as she sat on the back porch. It was getting dark and chilly out, and she was sure Gibbs would call her in soon. The last thing that Kaye wanted was to go and watch Finding Nemo again. Nemo was cool, and all, but after a while, it became very old.

"Kaye? Time to come inside!" Gibbs hollered from the kitchen.

Right on cue, Kaye thought.

"Coming!" Kaye slowly rose from her position and headed into the kitchen, where she was promptly grabbed from behind and had her eyes covered. She screamed at the shock of it.

"Chill, Bella. We've just got a surprise for you."

Kaye calmed down at the soothing sound of Tony's voice. His was one of the first that she had learned to recognize. She felt herself being led around, until they reached what she suspected were the stairs.

"Okay, Bella, I don't want you to fall, so cover your eyes, and I'll carry you up, okay?"

"To-neeeey," she whined.

"Hey. Surprise. Fun. Remember? Cover your eyes."

"Fine," she grumbled good naturedly.

Tony removed his hands from her eyes, and she promptly covered them, herself, playing along with his game. She squealed as she felt herself being swung off the ground and over his shoulder. She giggled as he reached up and quickly tickled her side.

"Up we go." Tony said, a smile evident in his voice.

Abby had persuaded the team to gather in the hallway outside of Kaye's room. They had all worked really hard, and it was finally finished. Every wall was meticulously painted in the bright turquoise, white, and dark purple hues that Kaye had chosen. Each piece of furniture was assembled, and was in its place. Kaye's double sized canopy bed (A bit of a surprise, for her, as she thought she was getting a normal twin sized bed. Gibbs had thought a little bit farther ahead, though. She would be a teenager in not too many years and would want a larger bed. Plus, if Abby slept over, he wouldn't have to pull out the old mattress in the upstairs hallway closet that she and Tony took turns sleeping on more often than they would like to admit.) was completely assembled, and was very much the focus of one end of her room. Her clothes were folded in drawers or hung in the closet. Books of every shape, size, and length, were arranged on her bookshelf, and toys and stuffed animals were put away on shelves, in corners, and on the bed. It really was a little girl's heaven. Even her "indoor treehouse" had been emptied of many of Kelly's old treasures, cleaned, painted, and filled with pillows and a decorative lamp.

Tony stood Kaye outside of her new room and told her to open her eyes. The door was closed, but as she looked around, the whole team nodded excitedly, telling her to open the door.

Kaye couldn't believe it! They had really finished?! She thought about taking her time and enjoying the buildup, but the real child side of her won out, and she whipped the door open, bolting around the room, taking it all in. She squealed like only an eight year old girl could, as she saw her perfect haven. A massive bed, too many toys to count, clothes in her closet, and Bertha front and center on her bed. She even discovered that there was a computer on her desk! She stopped at the pink laptop and gently ran her fingers over the edge of it. Gibbs came up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"You're smart, Kaye, and you go to s special school. You do more work than most kids, and I thought this might help with that. There are rules, of course. No internet in your room, and you have to put it away when I ask you to, but other than that, it's yours."

Kaye turned and looked up at him in awe. She had read enough books to know that if she was older, she probably would have cried, but she was just shocked. She did the only thing she could think of, and darted toward him, hugging him tightly.

"Thank you so much, Gibbs. Thank you for everything," she whispered so that only he could hear it.

Gibbs just smiled gently down at the little girl who had lost so much. A laptop and a bedroom that she loved were the least that he could do. "You're welcome Kaye. Why don't you look around your room, maybe decide what else you need for the clubhouse? You need to get to bed soon, but I think we can extend tonight's bedtime a bit."

Kaye grinned, letting go of him as she began flitting from one item to the next, checking drawers and decorative storage bins, to see all of the goodies in them. They didn't even get most of this stuff on their shopping trip!

"Thanks, Gibbs!"

The team, who had gathered in her doorway to watch her reaction, filtered out of the room. Gibbs followed close behind, taking one last look at the excited girl as he shut her bedroom door behind him. Most of the team had started downstairs already, but Abby waited for him in the hallway. She fit herself into his side as she so often did, his arm automatically wrapping around her shoulders as her arm wrapped around his waist.

"She's going to be great, here, Gibbs. I love her so much, already!"

Gibbs' eyes crinkled as he looked down at his surrogate daughter, admitting something to her that he wouldn't say to anyone else in the world, yet. "Me too, Abbs. I love her already, too."