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Love Like Crazy
Digidestend Angel
Chapter 5 – It Will Only Take A Minute.
After Gibbs and Jenny left the school…
Ziva Gibbs was sitting at her desk, trying to pay attention to her Biology teacher's lecture, but it was hard. She wanted to know what was up with her parents all of the sudden. For the past couple of days, both her mother and father wanted to be home more with them, wanted to know where they would be at all times, and a lot more. Suddenly, her dad's agents were coming over every day, mostly Aiden for Tony's tutoring, which he didn't need. She was the one who was tutoring him, or more like doing his homework. And her morning runs, her dad came with her now! What was going on?
"Oh, nice of you to join us again, Mr. Gibbs." Ziva heard her teacher say.
Ziva didn't pay any heed when her twin sat back down in the seat next to her.
Tony looked concerned. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just pay attention, alright?" Ziva told him and then ignored him for the rest of the day.
"I hate you, Tony."
Tony ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "I'm sorry for getting a D on my Geometry quiz, alright? Jeez, my teacher wanted to discuss it with me. I got out of freaking detention, so be happy!"
McGee raised an eyebrow. "How'd you manage that?"
Tony got red faced and looked out the window on the other side of the public bus. "Told him I have a tutor."
McGee smirked. "So you're going to keep seeing Aiden?"
"Unfortunately." Tony growled, then looked to his sister next to him, who stared aimlessly out the window. "So why are you ignoring us, Zee-Vah?"
Ziva didn't move. "Don't worry about it."
"Did it occur to you that Ziva's mad about you causing us to miss the school bus, making us have to ride the sticky public bus?" McGee shrugged. "Just saying."
"Well, personally, I think you're the one whose really pissed about this situation." Tony told him.
"Did you hear that?" Ziva's eyes narrowed at a man a few rows away from them. Tony was able to see him, but McGee had to turn around since he was the opposite of them. The man had a tiny digital camera taking a picture, hence the shutter sound the kids heard, but when he saw the kids looking straight at him and the camera, he quickly hid the camera. "He just took a picture of us."
"Who is he?"
"Memorize his face and maybe Abby can use her digital artistic talents to ID him." McGee ordered as he sat back in his seat.
"Good idea, McGeek." Tony said.
Ziva nodded. "Until we get off, watch him."
Loud rock music came from below the house next door to the Gibb's house, which is where the three teenagers went instead of going home first. They saw their mother was home, but they snuck to their friend's home and to the side of her house. They walked down a few steps and McGee was the first person at the wooden door. "Abby!" He yelled, banging his fist on the door over and over, but the over loud music was too much. "Abby!"
Ziva rolled her eyes. "Move, McGee." She told him as she pushed him out of the way. "Hi-Yah!" She yelled as she kicked the wooden door open. Luckily it didn't break off the hinges, but it did cause the lock to break off.
A girl with black hair in tight braided pigtails and pale skin stood, with her eyes wide, in the middle of her so-called lab. "Ziva! Come on, I just replaced that lock last month!" The fourteen year old yelled.
Ziva sighed as she, McGee, and Tony walked in. "Yes, Abby, and I'll pay for it again, but we need your help with something!" She shouted over the music.
McGee and Tony had their hands over their ears. "Abby! Turn off the music!" They yelled in unison.
Abby Sciuto didn't seem to understand. "What?" She shouted back.
The three siblings inhaled. "TURN OFF THE MUSIC!" They screamed.
Abby smiled and made an 'o' with her mouth. She took her remote and suddenly the music was off. "Sorry."
"What the hell was that?" McGee asked, trying to regain his hearing again.
Abby frowned. "Brain Matter."
"Doesn't ring a bell." Tony said.
"The band you said you would go with me to one of their concerts, but then you ditched me."
"We didn't ditch you; our parents didn't let us go." Ziva explained. "Abby, we need your help with something important."
Abby smiled again. "Whatcha got for me, Ziva?"
"You still use that Facial Recognition program?" McGee asked.
"I still have it in my laptop and computer if that's what you're asking, yes."
"A man took a picture of the three of us on the public bus today and I remember he got on the same time we did, but he was behind us and then sat behind us." Ziva explained. "If we explained his features to you, do you think you use the program Kim gave to you to identify him?" Yes, Kimberly Izumi was her Abby's older sister, only different last name because Kim was now married. Small world, yes?
Abby nodded. "Yes, I sure can! Let's get to work!"
At the same time at a motel room…
"Paul Waters is his name, Gibbs." Marc sighed as he took a picture of the ID in Kate's hands. "68 years old, ex-husband of Fiona Waters and father of Donna and Susan Waters."
"I remember trying to get a hold of him a few days ago, but wasn't able to get a hold of him, nor find his whereabouts in the system." Kate commented.
Gibbs sighed. "Duck, how long has Paul been dead?"
"A few days, Jethro." Ducky answered, looking at the stab wounds in Paul Water's back. "Dried blood. Maybe 1-2 days. Stab wounds, but there's something strange here…Aiden, give me a cotton swab and a plastic bag." Aiden did as he was told and Ducky swabbed something off of the man's lips.
"What is that?" Jimmy asked, curiously.
"Lipstick. This man was kissing a woman when before he died, but look at his lips."
"Their chapped and bloody."
"Yes, like they were burnt and split open naturally, but in a way, unnaturally." Ducky said. "The lipstick looked to have a poison on it and his tongue is burned and torn when he must've licked his lips." Ducky looked up to Jethro. "You're looking for a woman with only minor burnt lips. Any person using this lipstick should know that you put it on, kiss the person to make sure the poison was on, and then immediately wash it off. It's still enough to burn her lips. Unfortunately, DNA will not recover whose lips because the burns took all her DNA off. It's a smart way to murder a guy, but why stab him 18 times?"
"That's what we're going to find out, Duck." Jethro sighed as he pulled out his phone that was currently ringing. "Kim?"
"Gibbs! The DNA was tough to recover from the gun, but I finally got it! It's Eli's fingerprints! He didn't even use gloves to hide it!" Kimberly said over the phone. "Gibbs, he wants you to find him!"
"Yes, apparently, so." Jethro licked his lips. "Have you found his whereabouts yet?"
"Sadly, no. His cell is off, no credit cards or ID checkpoints alerts." Kim frowned. "Gibbs, I'm trying, I promise. I want to help keep Ziva safe too."
"You're doing a good job, Kimberly." Gibbs reassured her. "Thanks." Then he hung up. "Let's wrap it up, guys. Four people are dead, all related. This has got to be stopped."
Gibbs walked through the door that night around eleven pm and knew his family would be asleep, so he kept quiet, until someone knocked down something in the kitchen and suddenly a flashlight was seen. Gibbs quickly held his gun, ready to shoot the intruder and he turned the light on and saw all three of his kids trying to hold flashlights steady to look at a picture, but one flashlight was on the ground, hence the noise. Gibbs was furious. "What are you three doing up?"
Instead of answering, the three of them looked to each other, wondering what to say to their angry father. Ziva nodded, indicating she'll explain. "Papa, something happened today and I guess we should probably tell you." She said, hoping he wouldn't be too angry with her.
Gibbs immediately calmed down. "What happened?"
After explaining everything and more than they did with Abby, Gibbs looked a bit nervous, but tried to keep his panic inside. He took a good look at the man the kids identified and it terrified him of who it was.
"Abby couldn't find out who exactly he was unfortunately." McGee told his father. "Sorry, dad."
Jethro shook himself out of his trance and looked to McGee. "No, son, it's fine. You guys did well."
"Dad, are we in danger?" Tony bluntly, but seriously asked. No one was allowed to threaten his sister and brother.
Jethro sighed. "Yes, but I cannot explain right now. I need to tell your mother about this and then we'll try and discuss this as a family." He leaned against the counter. "Just watch your back, guys."
Oh, dear Abby is a must in ever NCIS story, no matter the plot! :)
For more, review, please! The plot thickens next chapter…you'll finally understand the ZivaXDamon pairing. I think I'll update every 5 or more reviews. I just like to know the people who put this on story alert, what they think about it.
-Digidestend Angel-
"Sounds like life to me, it ain't no fantasy. It's just a common case of everyday reality…" – Darryl Worley
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Ziva gave a respectable nod. "Yes, Mr. Alexander."
"Oh, please, call me Abel." Eli told her. "I hope to see you again, Ziva. You seem like a lovely girl."
"As do I, sir."
Eli and Damon walked a few feet away from Ziva. "Don't fall in love with her, Damon. I see that look in your eyes." Eli threatened. "I'm warning you, Damon. If you mess up my chance to snatch my daughter back from Jethro Gibbs, I'll have you beheaded and never found again."