Chapter Thirteen: Team Gibbs Meet Moose

Almost a month had passed since Lilith had joined the NCIS family and none of them could imagine life without her she had so easily slipped herself into their lives. She spent most afternoons either in the bullpen or Abby's lab doing her homework and hanging out with the team that she now saw as her family.

Lilith was still at school; her school was a little different in its makeup and teaching methods. This alternative school was centred on independent student learning with little interference from teachers. It was a small public school that's specialised programme had a lot of special needs students such as Aspergus, deaf and blind kids who were on a mainstream or advanced curriculum but were not given the right teaching methods and learning support in other schools.

This was where Lilith had met Moose, her best friend a deaf foster kid who'd lost his Dad in action before he was even born and his mother in a car accident when he was six. Today Lilith planned on introducing Moose to the team especially Abby she just knew those two would get along great.

Moose was a tall gangly almost fourteen year old with dyed electric blue hair and the most piercing green eyes Lilith had ever seen. He was a punk/gothic type fashion sense that really suited him. His ears were pierced all the way up different earrings such as spiders, webs, sculls, zips and buttons lined his ears.

'You ready to meet my new family?' Lilith signed to Moose who replied 'hell yeah, been waiting for this since you told me about them' Lilith smiled and gestured for Moose to follow her towards the bus stop, their school was a forty-five minuet bus ride to the Navy Yard.

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Abby was working in her lab, music blaring through the speakers when Lilith and Moose arrived, the others must be out on a case because none of them had been in the bullpen. "Hey Abs" Lilith greeted as she entered the room.

"Oh hey Lils, school finished already?" Abby asked turning to look at the girl she thought of as a little sister "yeah half day today" Lilith replied "oh and who's this?" the older girl asked looking at Moose "this is Moose" Lilith said both aloud and in sign, Abby turned to the boy and signed 'Hi I'm Abby it's nice to meet you' Moose smiled and replied 'Hi Abby I'm Moose, It's nice to meet you, Lit talks about all of you guys none stop'.

'Ha ha Moosie, I don't talk about them none stop but yeah I did tell him about you guys Abs' Lilith signed. The trio spent a couple of hours just hanging out in Abby's lab, Abby and Moose getting to know one another the two had hit it off just as Lilith has suspected they would.

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A little while later the rest of the team had returned and Lilith decided to take Moose up to meet them "Hey Kid is that your boyfriend?" Tony asked when the two entered the bullpen with Moose "no Tony, I'm not his type but you might be" Lilith replied Tony looked a little confused for a second before it sunk in "oooh" he said then reached out to shake Moose's hand "Hey I'm Tony I guess you could say I'm Lilith's big brother, and you are?" Tony introduced himself "Moose" the blue haired boy said aloud his voice sounded muffled.

"Moosie doesn't talk much, he's deaf but he does lip read" Lilith filled the others in as the introductions were made once he'd meet almost everyone Gibbs arrived "what's going on here?" he asked, Lilith turned to her father who she had only just gotten comfortable calling Dad "I'm just introducing everyone to my friend Moose, Dad" Lilith spoke indicating her friend.

Gibbs had been told a little about Moose and knew that the boy was deaf so he introduced himself to the boy in sign 'Hi, I'm Gibbs Lilith's Dad' the boy replied with 'I know sir, Lit just called you Dad but she also looks a lot like you, it's nice to finally meet you I'm Moose' the boy introduced himself and then looking at his watch turned to Lilith 'gotta go Babe, Burt'll be home soon' he signed giving Lilith a rather pointed look that wasn't missed by Gibbs, whoever Burt was he wasn't liked by either of the kids.

'Kay Moosie I'll walk you to the bus' she then turned to her Dad and said "I'm just gonna walk Moose to the bus real quick, okay?" Gibbs just nodded signing his goodbye to Moose who returned the gesture as the two teens headed towards the elevator.

A/N: I know it's not the longest but it's just a little bit more Moose for the story I kinda like him and I think he'll need the teams help soon. Review please!