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13) Hello, I'm meant to be dead.

Gibbs ran in. His team followed, guns drawn. They stepped inside. "Clear!" Gibbs called from upstairs. Everyone relaxed.

"What is it Boss? A break-in?" McGee asked. Sobbing could be heard from a room upstairs. Ziva and Tony heard it too. They made their way up the stairs quietly.

"We have to Gibbs." A woman said forcefully.

"They aren't ready. At all. Tony has only been suspicious." Gibbs replied.

The woman snorted. "Yeah, of your love life." She replied. "He always wanted to know what you did after work."

Tony's face lit up and he ran upstairs, realising he knew that that voice, even that snort. He rounded the corner to where Gibbs was. "Who ya talking to Boss?" he asked like a little kid.

Gibbs turned around, concealing the person behind him. "A family friend, DiNozzo." Gibbs said, staring him in the eye. "Why?"

"Oh, your family friend sounds like my dead friend. Your agent. I can't actually remember who it was..." he said acted as if he was trying to remember."Oh! Caitlin Todd. She was dead, last time I remembered." He smiled evilly.

"Give up Gibbs, he'll break back in later." The woman said in a bored tone. Tony heard her weight shift.

Gibbs took a breath in. "Fine. David, McGee! Come up here." He called. The two rattled up the stairs.

"Everything alright Boss?" McGee asked worried.

"She came to me about 5 months ago. I was drunk, in my basement, working on my boat. She took me to my room and she went downstairs. Next morning I woke up and remembered last night. I went downstairs and saw..." Gibbs trailed off.

"Me." Kate shoved him aside. "I am Kate. Not an imposter. I had come down a Flu and couldn't come into work. My twin sister I didn't tell anyone about, mainly because of him." She pointed at DiNozzo, "Had just recently quit FBI. I asked for a favour and she died because of it." Kate looked down at her feet.

Instead of DiNozzo getting mad or running out of the room, he hugged Kate tightly, like a brotherly hug.

"I'm just glad you're ok." He whispered, a tear sliding down his face.

She smiled a little as he let go. McGee stepped towards her. "Kate... I was so... I missed you Kate." He said in a small voice. Kate smiled again and gave him a hug too. He let go and went downstairs for water.

"It... It was all for nothing." Ziva said, running out of the room.

Gibbs looked at Kate's face, which said 'explain-now'. "Ziva killed Ari, Kate. Ziva is Ari's half-sister."

Kate's eyes widened and she ran after the Israeli woman. Ziva was on the curve, crying into her hands. Kate sat down beside her. "Ziva... What you did, so long ago, was the bravest thing I have ever heard of. Killing someone who is your blood relative... would have been hard."

Ziva wiped her tears away, though they kept streaming down her face. "How would you know? He was my brother. He looked out for me, and then I killed him because 'you' died."

"That's the thing. I don't know. What I do know is he was your half-brother. And a monster. You shouldn't regret at all what you did. You saved Gibbs. And for that, I'm thankful." Kate said.

Ziva looked at Kate's fair face and brown eyes. "You are?" she asked. Kate nodded sincerely. "I think... I think we should be... friends. We should learn about each other and invite each other over for coffee parties." She smiled a little.

Kate looked blankly at her for a minute. "Don't you mean 'Tea' parties?" she giggled, making Ziva go red.

"I am not used to the American language yet, Kate." She smiled back, knowing something good would come out of this...

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