Family: The Teenage Years Chapter 2, a ncis fanfic

"Jake's coming home for a few weeks this summer." Tony announced proudly. Of the three DiNozzo children, Jake was the most like Tony."Are you serious?!" Exclaimed the happy 16 year old girl.

"Very." Ziva replied, laughing slightly as her daughter jumped up and down in delight. Then suddenly her brows furrowed together. "What happened to your face?"

Later that night Ziva went into her daughters room. "Hey."

Lia looked up and put down her book. "Hey."

"What are you reading?" Ziva asked, obviously pretending to be interested in her daughter's book.

"The latest Thom E. Gemcity book. Uncle Tim's put Dan and I in his book. We're Dean and Mia." She laughed.

"Are you serious?" Ziva picked up the book, scanned the page, and burst out laughing. "You're Uncle Tim is a very dead man."They lapsed into a comfortable silence.

"So what is the real reason that you came in here?" Lia was hoping that her mother wouldn't bring up the subject of her ex-boyfriend, but her mother always knew exactly what was wrong with her.

"Is there anything that you would like to tell me?" She eyed Lia.

"Not really." She sighed.

"What happened?" Ziva asked gently.

"I got the results of my math test back today." Lia began. "I failed it. Then I run into Nick in the hallway, and he's playing tonsil hockey with Rachael Cell, and Nick tells me that it's not working and that he'd like to be free to see other woman. Like Rachael Cell is a woman! Then I have to go all day dealing with that and then in seventh period Bridget Hansen hit me in the face with a volleyball. So I had a great day!"

Ziva pulled Lia into a hug. "I am sorry that Nick broke it off with you. Say the word and your father and I can have any number of people after him."

Lia looked up and laughed at the look on her mother's face.

"Nah, that's ok. If people find out it was me who sent the FBI on my ex, no one will ever want to date me.""That sounds good to me." Tony said from the doorway.

"Dad!" Lia exclaimed, rolling her eyes.

Tony walked over and kissed his daughter on the forehead. "Get some sleep Lee, you'll have tomorrow to give him hell."

Ziva leaned in to kiss her daughter's forehead. "I'm sorry Lia. But it's his loss."

"I know. Logically there's no point to teenage love. It hardly ever works out." She rolled over and turned out her light. "Good night. I love you."

"Ditto princess." Tony replied.

"Love you." Ziva said softly as she pulled Lia's door closed.

Tony and Ziva made their way down to Daniel's room. Tony knocked on the closed door and a muffled "Enter!" was heard.

They entered, and were met with the sight of Daniel doing something to a computer that they'd seen Abby do several time before.

"What are you doing?" Tony asked, he was amazed at how much of a McGeek Daniel could be at times.

"Doing something that you wouldn't understand even if I broke it down to single syllable words." Was his reply."Ok Smart Guy, time for bed."

Daniel sighed dramatically, put a tarp over the opened up computer and hopped into his bed.

Daniel's room was a dark blue and had several old computer monitors and hard drives laying about. His bed was up on a loft and there was a desk underneath. There were darker blue curtains covering the windows. Posters of Einstein and other intelligent people were on his walls along with posters of odd equations. There were awards hung on wall space and sitting on tables.

Ziva walked over to Daniel and kissed his forehead. "Good night Dan."

Tony ruffled his son's hair. "Night Smart Guy."

"Night mom, night dad." An already drowsy Daniel DiNozzo mumbled.

"Love you sweetheart." Ziva whispered as she shut the door.

The next morning Lia received a text from Nora saying that Caitlin McGee would be coming home from college for a few weeks that summer as well.

Caitlin was the closest child in age to Jacob. She was born 2 years after Jacob and Ziva returned from Israel. McGee and Abby, mostly Abby, had fallen in love with taking care of Jacob and decided, after Abby begged for weeks, to try for their own. The result ended up being a girl. Caitlin Jennifer McGee. Abby had insisted that they name their child after their fallen friends. McGee had agreed. Caitlin had been accepted into Miami Dade College and was working on getting her Bachelors Degree in Education.

Lia met up with her friend Elizabeth at school. Elizabeth was her other best friend. After Nora of course.

Elizabeth was medium height, with an average sized body, brown eyes, and reddish brown hair. She loved to read and write and was planning on majoring in English when she went to college.

Daniel met up with Chris and friend Cameron. Cameron and Daniel were labeled the 'nerds' of the eighth grade. When Chris hung with them it damaged his image as the 'jock', but since he knew Daniel since they were born, he told people where to shove their opinions of the unlikely friends.

It was the last few weeks of school, so the teachers were pretty lenient towards their students.

As Lia walked down the hallways with Elizabeth that day, she noticed that people were whispering and pointing. She had no doubt as to what they were saying. Variations of the fact that she and Nick broke up.

"Don't mind them Lee." She told her friend as she glared at a whispering senior.

"It's hard not to." She said back as she locked eyes with a sympathetic junior.

"They're all just jealous that they didn't get to date Nick." She tried to comfort Lia.

"Even the guys?" She questioned grinning.

"Yup."

When Lia and Daniel got home later that day they found Emily Fornell-Anders sitting on their couch talking with their mother.

"Emily!" Lia squealed as she ran up to hug the long time family friend.

"Lia! How are you sweetie!" The 29 year old stood and hugged the younger girl.

"I've been better.""I heard." Emily replied sympathetically.

"Yeah." Lia replied somberly. "How are the kids?" She asked, switching moods as fast as a heartbroken teen could.

"They're all great." Emily smiled.

Emily had since grown from the adorable 5 year old girl with blonde pigtails and bright blue eyes. Her hair was still blond, but longer and pulled back into a sloppy bun, and her eyes were a darker brilliant shade of blue. When Emily was 16 her father had been murdered. She had spent time in protective custody after her mother and legal guardians had been suspiciously killed as well. Gibbs had legally adopted the troubled teen and Emily had bonded with her fathers friend fairly fast. A few years later Emily had graduated from Harvard. With honors. Gibbs had proudly placed the picture of Emily in her purple graduation gown on his desk and mantel. Years after Emily had graduated and become a successful lawyer, she met and fell in love with Thomas Anders, another lawyer. They had been married by a fellow friend, also a lawyer, in a private ceremony. The NCIS company had been hurt and disappointed that they weren't invited, but quickly got over it when Thomas and Emily agreed to have another small family wedding. A year later they had their first. A daughter which they proudly named Kelly. They had three more children in 3 consecutive years. Tobias, often called Toby, Shannon and Charles, after her father's middle name. All in honor of lost loved ones.

"I don't mean to be impolite, but what are you doing here?" Daniel asked as he accepted a hug from the young woman.

Emily smiled. "That's what I was talking to your mother about. Thomas and I have decided to move to DC. I will be working in the legal department at NCIS." She beamed.

"You're back?" Lia squealed again.

"Yes."

Lia practically jumped on Emily. The two girls had never been particularly close, but Emily had babysat Lia and Daniel when they were younger and as a result, Lia would talk about the fun she and Emily had for weeks after.

Daniel grinned. "That's great Emily, it'll be great to have you back home. Now if you ladies will excuse me, I have some homework to attend to."