A/N: I was thinking about writing it for awhile, so in my sick haze, I am finally doing it.
Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS; I do have rights to, Caleb.
Caleb Ari
"Excuse me Ma'am, but where are you taking us?" Serena asked as politely as she could. She was terrified.
Jeanne had buckled them into her car, a Pontiac. Silver with four doors and slightly tinted windows. They knew not to get into cars of strangers, but she seemed to know Caleb's father. She just kept driving.
"To, to Tony's apartment." Jeanne answered, never letting her eyes drift from the road, just beyond her steering wheel. Caleb openly stared at her, confused clearly.
"Daddy does not have an apartment. He lives in a house with Mommie, the twins and me." The car jerked, Jeanne had whipped her head around to look at Caleb, before, looking back in front of her to right the vehicle.
"T-twins?" She stuttered in a whisper.
"My little sisters." He tilted his head. "Where do I know you from? You sound so familiar." Jeanne's eyes widened slightly, wondering if she's ever met the boy. Had Tony introduced them before? No, he didn't. She would have remembered her boyfriend's kid.
"Um, I don't know."
"How do you know Daddy?" Jeanne gulped.
"We, uh, well, you see, your father and I, we uh-" Caleb's face went from confused and wondrous, to stoic and passive.
"Oh. You're one of them."
"One of whom?"
"One of the ladies who tried to get Daddy to leave Mommie."
"I never, I didn't, I swear-" Caleb interrupted her to give her the directions to his house.
"I live there. Serena will come with me. Mommie is probably worried."
"How long have you been out there?" Jeanne asked trying to get the subject away from her. How could she not see that she was the other woman? Jeanne wanted to meet the woman who dragged Tony DiNa-DiNozzo into marriage, the woman who did what she could not.
"Since yesterday." Serena answered the driver of the car.
"Are you sure they're at the house then? Maybe they're looking for you?"
"Someone will be home. Mommie would not leave the twins home alone and would not take them with her to find me. Someone is there." Caleb told her firmly. The rest of the drive was silent. After about fifteen minutes, Jeanne pulled in front of a large house. Two stories, obviously. Caleb and Serena quickly unbuckled and jumped out of the car, making a mad dash for the house.
Jeanne fiddled with her buckle and then took off after them. They reached the door and before Jeanne could knock or Caleb could open the door, it opened.
A woman that Jeanne thought looked familiar stood behind it. She had deep brown eyes filled with worry and curly, almost unruly dark brown hair that splashed down from her head over her shoulders and cascaded down her back.
"Mommie!" That's right, Jeanne thought Tony's partner at…what was it again? NCIS? Wait a minute, Daddy said she was an assassin…Shit!
"Caleb! Serena!" Ziva dropped to her knees and the two children ran into them, trusting the assassin fully. Do they know what she is? What she's done? Jeanne thought. Ziva held onto the kids tightly, as if she relinquished her grip on them, they would leave again.
Tears stained her face. It looked almost beautiful. A woman hugging her babies who had just come back from being missing. Ziva stroked their heads of hair, then, losing her balance from the combined weight of the kids, she fell back, but never let go of her children. Her hair splashed out on the ground, like it was a windmill. They all stared laughing and a dog came running out to them from within the house.
"Cookie! Oh we missed you girl!" Caleb shouted to his dog as she licked the three's faces. To Jeanne, they looked so perfect. So happy. She knew they weren't, but the love that Jeanne could feel at that moment was so overwhelming that she just froze, watching the joy in their eyes.
"Ziva? What's all the commotion about?" Tony walked in, Abria and Malka in the crook of his arms. He stopped to see Caleb and Serena on the ground with Cookie and Ziva and a smile crossed his face, but it dropped when he saw her at the door.
"Jeanne."
TBC...
A/N: Sorry it took so long. Hope you like it, despite the shortness of it…
