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Loose Lips Sink Ships

McGee couldn't believe that the witness had just pointed to Emma and said she left the crime scene crying. Sure Tim hadn't seen her since she was a baby but he knew that she couldn't have possibly murdered her step-father.

"Anything from the witness?" Gibbs asked, coming up behind Tim.

"Uh, yeah, he said that he saw Mr. Locke's step-daughter walking down the sidewalk crying." Tim told the older agent.

"Put a BOLO out on her." Gibbs demanded.

"Boss, there's no need. She'd here in the crowd." Tim pointed to Emma.

"Isn't that your God-daughter?"

"Yes, sir, it is." Tim whispered. Gibbs shook his head and walked over to Emma.

"Hey, you're one of the agents that work with Tim." Emma recognized him. Gibbs pulled out his cuffs and put them on Emma's wrists.

"Boss, what are you doing?" DiNozzo wondered, walking up.

"You're going to have to come with us." Gibbs told Emma.

"For what?" Emma cried.

"One of my witnesses claims to have seen you walking down the sidewalk, crying, right after Mr. Locke was murdered." Gibbs explained.

"What? It's not what you think! I can explain!" Emma insisted.

"Tony, escort Ms. Peretti back to NCIS and leave in the interrogation room." Gibbs ordered Tony.

"It is not what you think!" Emma repeated. DiNozzo reluctantly took Emma back to the truck.

"Gibbs, she's only 17, I don't think she could have done this." McGee said.

"I'd listen to you but you sound biased." Gibbs muttered, much to Tim's dismay.

/NCIS is awesome!/

Emma sat in the interrogation room, waiting for one of the agents to come talk to her. She knew that she probably looked guilty. After all, she did come and visit Tim the day after her step-father mysteriously died.

Gibbs and DiNozzo entered the interrogation room, looking Emma up and down.

"It's about time." Emma muttered.

"Excuse me?" Gibbs growled.

"It's just that I haven't gotten to explain what happened and the longer I had to wait the more nervous I was that you guys would accuse me." Emma explained.

"Why would you be nervous if you didn't do anything?" Tony wondered.

"I've always been nervous when people question me." Emma said smugly.

"You said that you didn't get to explain what happened last night, what are you waiting for?" Gibbs inquired.

"Christmas," Emma said sarcastically. "I went to confront Isaac about the money my mom left me and I couldn't get up the courage to talk to him about it so I broke down."

"And killed him." Tony added.

"No, I walked to my friend's house." Emma replied.

"Your mom left you money? For what?" Gibbs questioned.

"She died, and she had set up a fund for me if anything ever happened to her."

Tim and Ziva, meanwhile, were watching the interrogation on the other side of the glass.

"Did you know Emma's mother died?" Ziva asked Tim after Emma broke the news.

"No, I didn't even know that Michelle got married." Tim responded

"It sounds like you and Emma's mother were pretty close." Ziva noted. Before Tim could respond, Gibbs came walking in.

"McGee, go down to the lab and do a background check on Emma." Gibbs ordered

"For what reason?" Ziva wondered.

"To see if her mother really did die, or if she's making this whole mess up." Gibbs informed them.

Tim stalked down to Abby's lab, upset that his daughter was being accused of murder.

"Hiya Timmy! What do you need?" Abby asked, cheerfully.

"I need you to run a background check on Emma Peretti." McGee muttered.

"Coming right up." Abby answered. "Well it says here that her mother, Michelle Locke, died a few months ago. Other then that, nothing hinky really happened. She graduated high school last year and she's working part time while taking college classes." Tim felt a surge of pride from the list of Emma's accomplishments.

"What about her parents?" Tony asked, appearing in the doorway.

"Well her mom, Michelle, gave birth to her when she was seventeen and her father isn't listed on the birth certificate." Abby answered. "Also, I looked up her blog and she and her step dad had a hostile relationship. Emma resented Isaac, and Isaac constantly mocked her."

"That gives her motive." Tony whispered before heading up to the interrogation room once again.

Emma sat in the empty interrogation room, waiting for the agents to come back. She knew this wasn't over.

"Turns out that you and your step father didn't have too good of a relationship." Tony reminded her, coming in.

"No, we didn't. He constantly mocked me." Emma said.

"And that's why you killed him, isn't it? Your mother died and you had nobody to stop him from making fun of you, and all the rage just built up until you exploded." Tony shouted.

"What is wrong with you?" Emma was on her feet in an instant. "It wasn't like that at all! I was terrified of him!"

"Terrified of what exactly? That he wouldn't give you any money and you would have to keep your waitressing job? You killed him so he would quit mocking you and you would get your money!"

Emma started pulling up the back part of shirt for proof.

"Whoa, what are you doing?" Tony wondered.

"I'm not stripping down for you, if that's what you think." Emma hissed. She turned around and showed Tony the burn marks.

"I was terrified of him because he abused me. I couldn't have killed him because I was scared to go back to that house."

A/N: So I'm not exactly sure that made the most sense. But give me a break, I've been awake since 1 A.M.