"Why didn't you tell us last night?" A worried Ziva DiNozzo exclaimed.
"We didn't want to worry you!" Jacob half exclaimed half yelled.
"That didn't work too well now did it?" Ziva yelled.
"Well sorry! I don't know what us idiots were thinking!" Jake yelled at his mother. Ziva looked like he had struck her before bursting into tears.
"Where is she?" She cried to Tony who sent a glare to his eldest son.
"I don't Zee, but I'm sure will find her." He whispered as he rubbed soothing circles on her back.
"Hopefully not in one of Uncle Jimmy's coolers." Jake said under his breath, not quiet enough for both of his parents to hear.
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Ducky had long since passed, but not before fighting a battle with Alzheimer's. When Jacob was 12 he had to be put in a nursing home. He died 4 years later. Palmer had become the chief medical examiner at NCIS and had taken on Ducky's role of story telling.
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"Jacob!" Daniel hissed.
Ziva turned, her eyes red and wet and stormed out of the room. Tony sent another glare before running after her,
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Unfortunately Jacob had inherited his father's anger. When he was mad he found ways to poke the stick so it hurt just enough to want to strangle him. He kicked the dog when it was down. Lia got her mothers anger of threatening bodily harm and Daniel, well he just didn't get mad.
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"That wasn't necessary!" Daniel scolded. He only received a grunt in reply.
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Nora McGee was awoken from her deep slumber by her cell phone buzzing on her nightstand. She reached for it, picked it up and put it up to her ear upside down.
"Hello?" She mumbled.
"Nora, the phone's upside down."
She turned it around and answered it again, still groggy.
"Is Lia at your house?" She heard Daniel ask.
"Is Lia with me? No Lia's not with me. She's not with you?"
"Well if she was, would I be calling?" Jacob replied sarcastically. He'd obviously taken the phone from his younger brother.
Nora sighed and threw her legs over the side of the bed. "I'll be right over. Chris too."
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"Would you please tell me why in the name of, Chris yawned and continued talking, but no one understood it, "are we here at 10'o'clock, on a Saturday morning, in the middle of summer!?"
Jacob and Daniel looked at each other.
"Lia didn't come home last night." Daniel whispered.
"The last person who saw her was Sam. At 8 last night."
They were quiet for a moment before Nora spoke up. "We're the children of NCIS employers. Lia'll be found. Maybe she and Sam got it on last night and Sam was lying to save his own ass." Daniel and Jacob made faces at the thought of that and Chris laughed.
"There's no way that Sam Gray and Lia DiNozzo hooked up. He's too much of a nerd and she's way out of his league."
"That's true." Nora reluctantly agreed.
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"Can't you get a fix on her cell?" Tony yelled at McGee.
"Tony! Calm down! I'm sure Lia's fine." Abby tried to comfort him, but he shoved her arms away.
"Tony!" Ziva cried.
Tony turned and pulled her into a hug. "We'll find her Ziva. I promise."
"I'm narrowing down the radius." McGee piped up from his place behind a computer in his wife's lab.
Just then Tony's phone rang, he quickly flipped it open.
"DiNozzo. Yes I'm her father. Who is this?" His face fell. "What happened? Yeah, we'll be right down. Thank you."
Abby, McGee, Ziva, Jacob, Holly, Nora, Caitlin, Lucas, Daniel, Chris, Callie and Gibbs were silently awaiting the explanation for Tony's strange phone call. None were expecting what would come out of his mouth.
"Lia's in hospital. She was beatin' up pretty bad. She's in a coma at Bethesda."
There were gasps, pitiful moans and light sobs in the Land of Abby.
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A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, I just needed it to end there. Please keep reviewing! Tell me what happened and who did it! Mwahaha. Little mini mystery for ya. :-)