A/N: Yes I'm back from the dead whoo hoo! I'm not even going to lie, I've just had some really intense writers block. I thought I would be able to finally update during my month long break from school for the holidays, but my mind was just completely blank. Now, after rereading the whole story about 5 times in the last few days, I have finally been able to come up with a new chapter yay! I think I'm going to keep things interesting for a while. ;)

Disclaimer: They were on my Christmas list but Santa gave me a big fat "no" on this one *sighs*.

She heard her screams and her cries. She could hear the sickening thuds of the baseball bat hitting her flesh. Her vision was quite blurred and all she could make out was a dark silhouette of a man. Though she could not see him, she could definitely hear him. His voice was surprisingly calm, low, and quite raspy. She would never forget his awful voice…

Bella jolted up from her sleep. Over the last few days, she could not get more than a few hours of sleep at a time. She was so afraid to close her eyes. She had to be with one or both her parents at all times and would get really anxious when the other was away. She was excused from school for as long as she needed and was going to make up her work at home.

When she awoke from her sleep behind her mother's desk, Bella immediately noticed that neither of her parents were there. Gibbs and Tony were out in the field and McGee was down in the lab with Abby and Karine. Little did she know that Ziva had only tiptoed away for a second for a quick restroom break. She looked around for a few seconds and started to cry. Some of the other agents from the other teams looked around, not sure of what to do. Luckily, Ziva came back from the restroom just in time and ran to her daughter when she heard her soft cries.

"Ssh, ssh, there, there my love. It is ok, I am here now." Ziva said picking up Bella.

"Why did you leave me?" Bella asked in between cries.

"I had to go to the restroom for a few minutes. I was not far away my love. I am sorry, I will not leave you alone again ok?" Ziva said reassuringly. She dried Isabella's tears and placed a kiss to her forehead. Bella relaxed a little more and continued to wrap her arms around Ziva's neck. Ziva sat back down at her desk and proceeded to do her desk work. Actually, Ziva would rather take any break she could get. For the last few days, she had been working on funeral arrangements for Rosie and trying to take off as many responsibilities on her grief stricken aunt as possible. It seemed as if all of D.C was mourning the loss of Rosie. The press had gotten ahold of the story, and wanted to know every single detail. Thankfully, they only knew she had died in a tragic car accident and not the fact that she was murdered. Even the university where she attended was hit pretty hard when they found out. Apparently, Rosie was very well known. She was in a sorority, she was a part of the dance team, and she was an all-around great and lovely person who was a friend to everyone. Her friends from the dance team made a memorial for her at the crash site as well.

"Mama when's Daddy coming back?" Bella asked.

"I am not sure. Maybe in a little bit." Ziva answered. "Hey why don't you go downstairs with Aunt Abby for a little bit?" She had been trying to convince Bella to go down to the lab all day so she could actually stay focused on what she needed to do, no matter how much she hated it.

"Uh-uh." Bella said into Ziva's shoulder.

Ziva sighed. "How about if we just go and visit with her for a while?" She was hoping Bella would get distracted but she knew if she tried to leave, Bella would throw a fit and cling on to her for dear life. It didn't hurt to try though.

"I guess so." Bella answered. Ziva let out a huge sigh of relief.

As they went down to Abby's lab, they were greeted with laughter and giggles mainly coming from Karine and Abby. Karine was sitting on Abby's lap in the chair in her office while McGee stood behind them.

"Do you see this girl McGee? She has the highest score of all time on this game!" Abby said giving Karine a high five. Karine smiled a smile almost identical to Tony and Bella's. "Oh hey Bella! How are you? Wanna come play with me and Karine? It's a movie game."

Bella just stared at Karine. Karine smiled at Bella, but her smile slowly faded when she was gave her the evil eye in return. Who was this girl and why was she sitting on her Aunt Abby's lap? Ziva noticed the look of jealousy on her daughters face; they ALL noticed the look of jealousy on Bella's face.

"Yes, I wanna play." Bella said sternly. Abby's eyes widened a bit and she could feel Karine tense up a bit. Bella definitely inherited Ziva's intimidation tactics.

"Want me to get you a chair Bella?" McGee asked carefully.

"No, I'm going to sit on Aunt Abby's lap." Bella said not taking her eyes off Karine. "Scooch over," she said making room for herself on Abby's lap and not giving Karine a chance to move over.

"Whoa there Bella Boo, there's enough room to fit two munchkins on here ok?" Abby said trying to ease the tension that had suddenly filled the room.

"Isabella," Ziva said giving Bella a 'behave-yourself-or-else' look. Bella calmed down a bit, but she was still giving the Karine the 'stink eye'. "Well I guess I will go now and finish up on everything and leave Isabella here with you, if you don't mind Abby." Ziva said giving Abby a pleading look.

"Sure I don't mind the least bit." Abby said. She thought it would be rather interesting to see how the little DiNozzo's interacted with one another. Sooner or later, they were going to find out they were family. "Me and Timmy got it covered," she said quickly so McGee couldn't follow Ziva back up to the bullpen.

"Um, right, yeah we'll all be just fine. No tension whatsoever." McGee was suddenly nervous. He wasn't sure how the two little DiNozzo's were going to handle one another and he really didn't want to find out. But once again, he could not say no to Abby. Ziva said thank you one last time and headed back up to the squad room.

"Ok so who wants to play more of this movie trivia game?" Abby said excitedly trying to change to the subject.

"I do!" Bella said excitedly.

"Eh, I'm kinda bored of this game now Abby. Can we play something different? Maybe something that's actually challenging?" Karine said cockily.

"Scared I'll beat your score?" Bella said calmly turning her head slowly to look at Karine.

McGee and Abby's eyes widened. "Why don't we play a nice calm game of," McGee started but was cut off by Karine.

"Not a chance." She said haughtily.

"Is that a challenge?" Bella asked slowly narrowing her eyes at Karine.

"As a matter of fact it is! Bring it on Squirt!" Karine said.

"Oh don't you worry I'll bring it!"

McGee turned pale and Abby looked like she wanted to rip out her ponytails. This could definitely get ugly.

*NCIS*

"Damnit! That's the 10th time I've tried today!" Tony was literally on the verge of throwing his cell phone out the passenger car window. Once he had cleared the air with Ziva, he had been trying nonstop to try and get ahold of DiNozzo Sr. with absolutely no luck.

"Still no luck there DiNozzo?" Gibbs asked calmly.

"No! That's just so like him. He shows up when you least expect it, but when you really need him, he drops off the face of the earth."

"We'll find him Tony." Gibbs said.

Tony sighed. "In the meantime, what the hell am I going to do about Karine? I mean she obviously knows there's something not quite right about this entire situation, she's not stupid she's a smart kid."

"Yeah she is. She's a lot like you." Gibbs said taking a sip of his coffee.

"I don't know what to do here Boss." Tony said rubbing his forehead in frustration.

"Tell her the truth DiNozzo. She needs her big brother right now."

"I don't know what's scarier, being a father or a big brother."

"Both." Gibbs said. "But you'll figure it out, you always do."

*NCIS*

"Abigail, are you sure leaving Karine and Isabella alone in your lab was the brightest idea?" Ducky asked. Abby had gone down to autopsy to get more samples from Rosie's body from Ducky and couldn't take the two little ones with her. McGee couldn't stay with them either since Ziva needed help working the case, and he was getting really behind on his paperwork.

"Oh Ducky they'll be fine. I mean what could happen in 5 minutes?" Abby said trying to be optimistic.

"Well actually with the gene pool on those two, anything could happen really." Palmer said. Once again, he said the wrong the thing at the wrong time.

"Not helping Mr. Palmer." Ducky said sternly.

"Ohmygosh you're right! I better get up there now!" Abby said grabbing the sample cup from Ducky, running as fast as her platforms let her.

When she arrived back in her lab her worst fears were confirmed.

"OW OW OW OK I TAKE IT BACK!"

Isabella had Karine pinned to the floor and was sitting on her back with one hand holding Karine's arms behind her while the other was keeping her head down sideways on the ground. Just their luck, Ziva had walked right in the lab a few seconds after Abby and witnessed the entire scenario play out as well.

"ISABELLA NOEL DINOZZO! Get off of her now!" Ziva exclaimed.

"Oh yay Ziva! Get this crazy child off me! She's insane! She's like one of those robot kids from Spy Kids! You think they're normal, but they're really not and they can kill you!" Karine tended to quote and play out movie scenarios in times of great stress.

"AM NOT!" Bella shouted.

"ARE TOO!" Karine shouted back.

After about 5 minutes, Ziva and Abby managed to pull and keep the two little girls away from one another and calm them down.

"Isabella, apologize to her now." Ziva said sternly.

"But Mama she started it! She called me a Weenie Head just cos I beat her in the movie game!"

"Yeah cos you cheated!" Karine said sticking her tongue out at Bella.

"Did not!"

"Did too!" Bella said lunging at Karine, but Ziva caught her just in time.

Karine hid behind Abby, covering herself with her lab coat.

"I think it is best that Isabella and I leave now. She will have time to think about her behavior while she sits at her father's desk in time-out." Ziva said to Abby.

"Aw come on that's not fair!" Bella said stamping her foot.

"We are leaving, NOW!" Ziva said pointing towards the door.

Bella pouted, crossed her arms, and marched back up the bullpen with her mother.

"Is that Isabella kid some kind of ninja or something? She got a pretty good grip on me." Karine said.

Abby chuckled. "Something like that. Are you ok there Sweetie?"

"Yeah I'm fine. " Karine said smoothly.

"Once she cools off, you're both going to have to apologize to each other. I know Bella can get pretty feisty at times, but she doesn't just pin people to the ground out of nowhere." Abby said sternly.

"Ugh. Do I have to?"

"Yes, you're family after all." Abby blurted out. Once she realized what she said, she cupped her hands over mouth and mentally kicked herself. 'You and your awful mouth Abigail! Why why WHY?'

Karine's blue eyes turned to saucers. Little did she know, that was only the beginning of what was to come.

A/N: I thought it was only fair that I made this chapter longer than normal (I think) since I left y'all hanging for such a long time. I thought I would make this chapter more humorous and light since the last few have been kind of sad and gloomy. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up by next week! Thanks again for keeping with the story for the millionth time! Y'all are great :D