Alright, so I got this idea after I saw the Lovely Bones last night with my friend Jenn. I came home hugged both of my parents and told them how much I loved them, broke down and started crying. Really, really hard. For those of you who don't know, The Lovely Bones is a novel by Alice Seabold, now a movie, about a fourteen year old girl who was raped and murdered by her neighbor. The book didn't bother me, but the movie did. Instead of imagining the faces and names f the people, I had actual faces and people to connect the anguish to, and I balled my eyes out like a baby at points throughout the movie. But other than the tear jerking parts, it was a good movie.

But the point is, how would Kate react to this movie? Let's find out, shall we?

In this chapter, Kate is 18 and at home for her Christmas/Winter break from her freshman year in college.

DISCLAIMER (cuz i forget to put one in...) I don't own The Lovely Bones (i own a paperback copy of the book though!) NCIS or The Love Bug (I do have SWAK on my iPod, and the four Herbie Sepcial Edition DVD box set. I love Herbie 3). They sre owned by Alice Seabold, CBS and Disney respectively. I own Kate and Jay-Jay. If you should wish to borrow them, just ask me and you can play as long as I get my credit for creating them. That is all.

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January 16, 2010

Kate Gibbs sat in the dark theater with her hands wrapped around her extra-large Coke and her mouth wide open as the tears welled up in her eyes.

Tony, Abby, Tim, and Ziva had talked Kate and Jenny into coming to see The Lovely Bones with them for the Saturday night movie. It had been Ziva's turn to pick the movie, and she had figured it would be a cut little movie about heaven and a girl that looked out after her family from beyond the grave. Uh, no. It was about Susie Salmon, like the fish, a fourteen year old girl who had been murdered by her neighbor.

Kate had read the book for summer reading her sophomore year in high school, liked the book, and was hoping the movie would be spectacularly amazing. The special effects were, the actress that played Susie was great, and so was the rest of the cast. Every time Mr. Salmon went into a frenzy over finding Susie, Kate started to cry again. The dam burst once Susie began naming the other victims, and Tony pulled her into a one arm hug in the darkness. This wasn't his idea of a movie to relax to after a long week of work and a heavy case load, and on top of that was his father's unannounced visit from New York.

Jenny glared at Ziva in the darkness in the theater, and the former Mossad Assassin squirmed under the gaze. She knew that she had chosen the wrong movie after all.

Abby had her eyes squished shut firmly and McGee's hand trapped in her vice like grip. "Is it safe to look, McGee?" she whispered.

"Yeah," Tim said. "The safe's gone."

"That bâtard." Ziva whispered. "I wish to kill him with my bare hands."

"I'm in for chasing him down with your Sig." Kate said as the woman in front of them "Shushed" them.

The six stuck out their tongues and turned back to the movie. Tony passed Kate the big bag of pop corn and she began to mow down as the movie drew closer and closer to the end.

As the group filed out of the theater, Ziva fell back and gave Kate a hug.

"I apologize for choosing a movie that has visibly upset you." Ziva told Kate with a sad smile. "If you wish to publicly humiliate me on facebook, I think I deserve it."

Kate laughed. "It's not me you gotta be afraid of."

Ziva's face fell. "Gibbs. Shit."

"Oh, yeah." Kate said. "Mom looks like she's two seconds away from whipping out her cell phone to call him and tell him."

Ziva groaned.

"Hope you like cold cases." Kate said. "But it's not your fault, Zee."

Ziva looked at Kate. "How so?"

"Misadvertisement to half distracted Israeli Super Secret Ninjas." Kate replied. "Give that to Dad as your defense and see what happens."

Ziva and Kate laughed causing McGee, Abby, Jenny, and Tony to turn around to see what the stragglers were laughing at.

"Care to share?" Jenny asked.

"Super Secret Israeli Ninja's and their Super Secret American Ninja Apprentices aren't allowed to tell you." Kate replied with a smile as she snaked her arm through Ziva's. "If we did…"

"We'd have to kill you with a paperclip." Ziva finished.

Tony shuddered. "They would too."

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Kate woke up and slew into a sitting position in her bed. She looked to the alarm clock on her night stand and saw it was two AM. This was the third night mare she'd woken herself up from that night. This time it was her instead of Susie that had been killed. Kicking the tangled blankets off of herself, Kate climbed out of her double bed, pulled on a sweat shirt and her purple fuzzy monster feet slippers before she ventured down the hall to her parents room.

Kate carefully poked her head into their room and saw that her Mom was fast asleep in bed, sprawled out all over the place, but Jethro was missing. Kate rolled her eyes and went down to the basement where he had set up shop for his wood working stuff.

"What are you doing up at this time of night?" Jethro asked his daughter as she descended the stairs to his sanctuary.

"Nightmares from the movie," Kate replied. "I couldn't get back to sleep after this last one."

"That bad…" Jethro paused. "Damn. I remember what that book was about now."

Kate nodded as she felt the tears welling up in her eyes again. "It made me realize how much I love you guys and how much pain loosing Kelly put you through… and…" Kate was cut off as Jethro crossed the basement and pulled his baby girl into a hug as they sank down on to the stairs.

"Shh." Jethro said. "It's okay, Princess. I've got you. Nothing is going to happen to you tonight, okay?"

Kate nodded as she clung to her father. "I felt so bad for the Dad, and then I remembered Kelly and I just lost it and Tony was holding my hand and Ziva felt awful and McGee gave me some tissues, and Abby bought me a large Coke cuz they didn't have CafPow!, and Mom looked like she wanted to kill people."

Jethro laughed. "Well your mother does generally look like that when she's mad."

Kate smiled as she picked her head up off of her father's shoulder. "But I think this was the first time it was directed at somebody she's never even seen…"

"Who earned the look this time?" Jethro asked.

"Mr. Harvey." Kate replied. "He's the creepy neighbor guy…"

Jethro nodded. "I've got an idea."

"What?" Kate asked.

"You can't sleep, I' m all jittery from the four cups of coffee I had around nine, so why don't we go upstairs and watch a movie."

"Okay." Kate said as she went back the stairs.

"Make it a happy movie, Kate!" Jethro called after her retreating back.

"How about Blazing Saddles?" Kate called back.

Jethro sighed as he thought about the Mel Brooks comedy that Tony had introduced them to years ago. Sure it was mind numbing comedy, but there were a few scenes that had Jethro double guessing why he had let Tony show it to a fourteen year old Kate in the first place.

Jethro sighed as he rolled up his blueprints, turned off the desk lamp, climbed the stairs and shut off the rest of the lights in the basement.

By the time he finished farting around in the kitchen with two bags of popcorn and water bottles, he found Kate hooking the old VCR to the TV and unplugging the DVD player.

"I thought we were watching Blazing Saddles." Jethro said as Kate tested her handy work by switching the TV's input. They had Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One, Space Balls, and Young Frankenstein on DVD.

"I changed my mind." Kate said as she opened a video cassette box. "I decided on the Love Bug instead. It's a Disney movie, so nobody dies, no swearing, and a happy ending I've seen a million and a half times. No nightmares from this movie."

Jethro chuckled as he settled onto the couch and Kate flopped down on the cushion next to him and hit PLAY.

As the movie started Kate looked over at her father as he winced as each car flipped, crashed or got banged around.

"Let me guess," Kate said with a laugh, "the inner car junkie in you is wincing because of the damage these cars are sustaining."

Jethro nodded. "Your Grampy Gibbs was a sight to see the first time he saw the intro to this movie."

Kate sighed. "Men and their cars."

Jethro laughed and they both fell silent other than the munching of popcorn and the occasional comment about Peter Thorndike.

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When Jenny made her way downstairs the next morning to start her morning routine, breakfast and the morning paper, a half hour on the treadmill in the finished portion of the basement, a shower, and then devoting an hour and a half to getting Jay-Jay ready for the day.

Jenny found Jethro and Kate curled up around each other, pop corn all over the floor from the spilled bags, fast asleep in front of the now blue screened TV.

"Mama!" Jay-Jay said as he climbed down the stairs "Why Daddy and Kate down hewe?"

"I think Kate had a night mare or two last night, Jay-Jay." Jenny said as she scooped up her early riser. "Let's leave them alone for now."

"Otay." Jay-Jay replied as he squirmed to look back at his father and sister as he was carried to the kitchen. "Mommy, why's there pop corn in the libing room? We no apposed to have food in dere."

Jenny laughed. Trust her and Jethro's son to find the rule that's been broken and point it out to everyone.

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Reviews Please! As I'm typing this we're at 121 reviews. I need to see more than 150 if you want to see past chapter 28! Which you know will eventually include the big stuff, like Jenny and Gibbs' wedding, Kate's wedding, Kate getting her license, Kate graduating, Kate becoming a Grandma, the list just goes on and on and on. But you get the point. Reviews!