Previously…
McGee: Who's the girl?
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Gibbs bent down to look in the girl's eyes. "Are you hurt?" he asked her. Looking at the silver-haired man, she shook her head. "What's your name?" Gibbs asked her.
"Amy," she said, her voice almost in a whisper. Gibbs reached into the small space and pulled the girl to her feet. Seeing she body she asked, "Samuel's dead, isn't he?"
Gibbs hated this part of the job. Thankfully DiNozzo stepped in and asked her, "Is that his name?" Amy nodded. Tony took a deep breath before saying, "Sorry kid." Amy stood there, blinking back tears and trying not to cry, trying to be tough.
"DiNozzo, McGee," said Gibbs. "Take Amy back to the yard and keep an eye on her."
"You got it Boss," the two agents said. Driving the girl back to NCIS and entering the bullpen, Tony offered the girl his desk while he took a seat at Ziva's. McGee asked Amy, "You want something to eat or…"
Amy just shook her head. "No, I'm okay."
Tony knew if she didn't have something, Gibbs would have his head. "You sure?" he asked her.
Amy nodded. "Could I have some pencil and paper though?"
"Yeah," McGee replied, handing her a pencil and some loose leaf paper. "Here you go." She took them and just started filling up the paper with circles, not complete circles though. More like the letter C in block format. Some were shaded in completely, some only partially. They varied from light shading with the pencil barely visible to dark, where it was so heavy that if you ran your finger over it, you would have a smudge of pencil ink on your fingertip. After almost 2 hours Tony asked her, "Whatcha drawing kid?"
"Imperfection."
"Samuel teach you that?" Gibbs asked her as he got off the elevator and came and looked at what Amy was drawing.
"Yes sir," she replied.
"It's Gibbs."
"Okay Gibbs."
RING! RING! "DiNozzo," Tony said answering the phone. "Uh-huh…yeah…okay. Send her up."
A few moments later a woman came off the elevator. Amy got up from the desk and walking over to her said, "Amanda…I-
CRACK!
The sound of this woman slapping the young girl echoed through the silent bullpen.
"Hey!" Tony yelled coming over to Amy. He looked at her face, seeing if there was any marks before pulling her into his arms, protecting her. Gibbs was also blocking Amy from this woman.
"That was killing my husband you little bitch!"
Gibbs looked at this woman in shock, "What did you say?"
"You heard me."
"This is no way to treat your daughter-
"Foster daughter, and you can just hand her back over to Social Services!" Amanda yelled before storming back to the elevator and leaving the building. Gibbs looked at Amy and asked her, "You're a foster child?"
"Yes sir…I mean Gibbs."
"McGee, call Ducky and have him bring up an ice pack."
"On it Boss."
Tony tried to lead Amy back to his desk, but she just pulled away from him. Gibbs noticed and said to Amy, "Roll up your sleeves."
She looked down at her feet before slowly pulling them up to her elbows. The three men saw the marks on her arm just as Ducky came off the elevator. "Ah Jethro, I've got the ice pack you requested…" Seeing the marks on Amy's arm as well, he asked her, "Good gracious my dear. What happened?"
"Amanda and I didn't always get along." Ducky was at first confused to who Amanda was, but Gibbs quickly filled him in on Amy's situation. It was soon decided that Amy should leave and go home with McGee for tonight, which she did so about half an hour later.
A/N: okay so the deal with Amy drawing incomplete circles is this. She is a foster kid which can sometimes suck. Circles are perfect, but her life isn't. So she draws these to deal with imperfection. This way she can control it. Kind of an anger management/calming/stress relieving technique. Does that make sense to anyone other than myself?