Author's Note: This is the sequel for Violation Wow, and yes, this is really OOC/AU, but I think it works. It'll be a multi. Enjoy!
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Kate appeared downstairs and she looked to Abby gently before she sighed, furrowing her brows as she moved into the lab, slinking closer to Abby and Dana until she saw McGee was entertaining the baby with some gloves and medical tweezers. Seeing Dana smiling and chortling made Kate instantly feel right at home, and she forgot about things that had gone on between she and Ziva on her first day back at NCIS.
"I see you met Agent David, Kate." sighed Abby but with her usual gothic smile across her darkened lips, black with lipstick.
"Met her? Abby, Agent David hates me already, and I know she knows about me and A-" Kate swiftly cut herself off and she moved swiftly over to Dana, picking her up and huddling her close to her body, "I have to go..." she glanced to Abby, ignoring McGee and leaving the lab.
Abby instantly turned to McGee and raised her brows, he did exactly the same and asked, "What was that all about?" Abby just shrugged in return and McGee continued, "About Kate and A...? A baby?"
"A...a...McGee!" repeating it, to try and figure out what Kate had meant before she'd stopped speaking.
"A McGee?" McGee questioned.
Abby moved over to him and she shook her head, placing both her hands either side of his face and looking deeply into his eyes, "You're a genius. I'll be back soon, keep working on this for me for Gibbs." she quickly kissed his forehead and scuttled out of the lab to go down into the lab to talk with Ducky.
"Hey Ducky." Abby smiled to the shorter Medical Examiner as she towered over him in her beetle-crushers.
"Hello Abigail. To what do I owe this pleasure this afternoon?" he smiled back to her in a knowing gaze, he had saw the familiar twinkle in her eyes, indicating she was troubled about something and required his advice with it.
She frowned and sighed a little, "It's Kate and Ziva."
"Ahh." was all Ducky responded with. He had guessed that when Caitlin Todd returned back to work after the birth of she and Tony's child, there would be some kind of conflict between her and the newest member of the team, who had recently arrived from Israel; the homeland of the terrorist who had held three of them hostage in that very autopsy lab.
"Kate was really weird...she was about to tell me something earlier and then she just took Dana...and left."
"Abigail, you do realise that Caitlin met the woman who has replaced her on the team?"
"But Gibbs said he wasn't replacing Kate!" Abby frowned and looked to Ducky.
"Right." Ducky sighed.
"She was acting really weird, Ducky." Abby nodded, "REALLY weird."
"Did Caitlin say where she was going?"
"No." Abby swallowed, "But she was talking and just cut off...mid sentence. She was about to say something beginning with A..."
Ducky sighed and shook his head, "I'm sorry Abby...I can't help you now. But, if I do think of something, I'll let you know right away. Talk to Gibbs, he'll figure it out." he told her and nodded sympathetically and turned back to the body on the autopsy table, a burn victim. As Abby began to leave the autopsy lab, Ducky turned back around to speak with her, "Abby...?" he questioned, seeing she wasn't there and the elevator doors had closed, taking the Forensic Scientist back upstairs, "Ari."
"That bastard!" Ducky hissed into the cold of the autopsy room, recalling that day when the terrorist had held him hostage along with Kate and Gerald, seeing the action of that day playing out in front of him in the eerie gloom of the dimly lit lab.
At home, Kate just looked to her daughter and began frowning. Dana. It was such a Hebrew name. Tony had no idea where the name had come from, but he thought it was the perfect American name for their daughter since Kate hadn't wanted to name her Angelina, after the famous Jolie that Tony had crushed on for a while. She resented the name now; Dana, that is. It reminded her of what she had done behind Tony's back, and now she thought that Ziva knew about it too.
Kate panicked when she had found out about Ziva, Ari hadn't mentioned her much, but she knew the instant Ziva had introduced herself in her overly confident manner that she was in fact Ari's half sister. She had had to get away from the suffocating feeling that the Bullpen was providing for her. Kate had to run, and run, she did.