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NCIS

Gibbs smiled at the girl sitting at his desk, "We've got a case Lexi. You alright here?"

"I'll be fine. See you when you get back."

"Be good kid!"

Lexi just smiled before taking the steps down to see her aunt Abby downstairs. "Hey dad, Gibbs has a case. He's probably about to ca…"

As she spoke, DiNozzo got the call, "On my way Boss."

Tony turned to her, "I love you, stay with Abs, ok? Jimmy will take you take you home after a while. I'll be home around 9 k?"

Lexi smiled, "Of course. Love you dad."

With that DiNozzo left Abby's lab to work on his next case. Lexi turned and Abby smiled, before cranking up the music. Lexi danced around to the music, not caring how bad she was at it.

NCIS

McGee looked at Tony, "How's it going with Lexi?"

"I don't know, Probie. Sometimes I wonder if she even likes it and other times she seem so happy."

"She's a teenager Tony. As much I love my sister, Sarah was a terror from 14 to 16." McGee offered a little encouragement.

"She lost her mom, McGoo. How am I supposed to take her place?"

"No one's expecting you to take her place. You're her dad."

"Who was never there for her. I always said I would never do what my father did to me to my kid."

"Far from the same thing Tony."

Gibbs finally joined the conversation from his place at the wheel, "DiNozzo, you are doing as well as you can, now get to work, both of you."

NCIS

Jimmy Palmer on the couch, Tony was running late. It was 9:30, and he was supposed to pick up a date at 9:45.

"You do know I'm 14, almost 15, right? I can wait for my dad by myself. I don't need a babysitter, and you've got a date. I'll lock the doors; make sure no one gets in. Uncle Tim and Gibbs should be home by now, and their phone numbers are programmed into my phone." Lexi told him.

Lexi had tried for almost ten minutes to get Palmer to just leave her alone, and she had finally thought of a new angle. It was sneaky and devious, a plan her step-father would completely despise.

"Lexi, Tony'd kill me."

"You want to go on your date right?"

Jimmy was getting annoyed they had been going in circles for so long that he didn't even try to hide the annoyance in his voice. She was DiNozzo's daughter for certain. No one else could be quite that annoying. "Yes, but I…"

"So how about I call Uncle Probie. If he says he's coming over, somebody will be here and you can go. He only lives about five minutes away from here."

Jimmy smiled, "Okay."

Lexi picked up my phone and dialed his number, but instead of pressing send I pressed end. "Uncle Tim…yea….ok…well dad's not home and Jimmy's got a date, could you come watch me so Mr. Uptight here can quit freaking…you will….thank you Uncle Timmy…yeah yeah I've been spending too much time with Abby…see you in a minute…"

"He's coming."

"Yeah, he is. Go get your date."

"See you later."

"Bye Jimmy."

Lexi burst out laughing at Jimmy's naivety. If it had been any of the others, they would've waited on McGee.

Forty five minutes later, Lexi heard the engine turn off. She looked outside, expecting to see her dad and his car. She hadn't expected to see a small car that wasn't her father's and a blond haired woman picking the locks to the house.

Lexi immediately pressed the speed dial for her dad's number, only to jump at the sound of the cell phone ringing in the hallway where he wasn't.

Just an absolutely lovely day for him to forget his phone.

She turned to the person next closest to the house, before dialing McGee's number. The blonde was having a little bit of trouble getting the lock picked over her slightly pregnant stomach….

"Pick up! Pick up!" She whispered into the phone. She was so glad when she finally heard her uncle's voice.

Hey Lexi! Is everything ok?

"Dad's not home, and he left his cell, and someone's trying to get in the house. She's picking the lock. What do I do?"

Lexi grab something around you can use as a weapon and tell me when you have it.

Lexi could hear him grabbing keys as she shuffled around and finally found a piece of furniture she could swing, as she heard the door creak open.

"I got it."

Now calm down, I am coming to get you and calling Gibbs on the way for back. I need you to do something for me. Hide in the closet Lexi. Don't come out until you hear or see me or Gibbs.

"Ok. Hurry." She spoke shakily, knowing she could hear the woman somewhere in the house. She quickly jumped into the closet, grasping onto her make-shift weapon like she did her teddy bear when she was six and swore there were monsters under the bed that wanted to swallow her whole.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the house, the woman walked into the kitchen to grab whatever leftovers she could find.

The house was different than she remembered it. It had more stuff, less room. She had been surprised to find that it was more picked up and organized than usual as well.

It had only been six months, but Ziva still felt safer here than anywhere. Tony's car hadn't been in the driveway, and she knew it would be okay once he saw it was her inside.

Ziva took off the blonde wig, and heard a door closing in the back of the house. Is another person in his house?

Ziva slowly made her way through the hall corridor, wig firmly back in place, noticing new trinkets on the way. She checked Tony's bedroom first, and was tempted to yell, "CLEAR." She had really missed both her job and NCIS.

Next she headed toward the guest room. Then she would check the bathroom. Before she got there, though, a loud voice cut through and stopped in her tracks.

"Federal Agent. Hold it right there." She knew that voice, the voice of a boy that's innocence reminded her so much of Tali.

"McGee, it's just me. Someone else is in the house though," she told him, once again pulling off the wig.

"Ziva?" He breathed. "You're back." He nearly yelled before enveloping her in a hug. "We've missed you, but what are you doing breaking into Tony's house?"

"I had to go somewhere to be safe, Tim, and this is where I feel safe. They would have checked at Gibbs' house first, but I thought that Tony would not be their first choice, yes?"

"What kind of trouble are you in Ziva? My father knows the father of this baby is American, even if he does not know whose child it is. He sent men to come find me, and terminate the baby. He insisted I would thank him one week."

"Day Ziva, Thank him one day."

"Whatever. We need to find out who's in Tony's house while he is not here."

McGee holstered his gun, while Gibbs, who had walked in sometime while Ziva was explaining, grabbed her gun away from her.

McGee opened the door to Lexi's bedroom, before going to her closet. "Hey Lexi."

"Can I come out now? I don't like small spaces." Gibbs was the one to open the door and help her out.

"Where is Tony?"

"I don't know he was supposed to be back at 9, but by 9:30 I convinced Jimmy I'd be fine until he got back. He should've been home a couple hours ago."

Gibbs looked a little bit pissed, so nobody even questioned it when he flipped open the phone, and the next room over Tony's cell rang.

McGee stood up and grabbed Lexi, "I'll take her with me to NCIS Boss. You take Ziva. Lexi, call Abs."

Ziva looked slightly confused, since when did McGee ever take charge of the situation?

Gibbs just nodded and led Ziva out to the car, while Ziva finally had enough of all the frustration, "What is going on here Gibbs? Tony is probably on a date. Why are we going to NCIS? Who was that girl? And since when did McGee start ordering people around?"

Gibbs stopped her before he got to the car, "A lot of things have changed since you went off on that Mossad mission Ziva."

"Mission? Gibbs, my father had me locked in my room with armed guards two weeks after I arrived to Israel, from the second he knew I was pregnant." Gibbs eyes narrowed angrily, sometimes he really wondered how parents could not love and adore their kids. There was little to nothing he wouldn't give up to have her alive and well.

"Car, Ziva." He ordered.

NCIS

Lexi sat at Tony's desk, waiting on Gibbs and Ziva to come through the door. McGee and Abby were sitting at the other desks waiting on the same thing.

"Where is dad anyway? He should've been home hours ago." Lexi asked McGee, only to be answered by a voice behind him.

"What are you doing here, Lexi? You're supposed to be at home with Jimmy." Tony questioned.

He didn't notice Abby until he felt the punch to his shoulder. "You were supposed to be home an hour and a half ago."

He didn't notice the ding of the elevator or Gibbs and Ziva stepping out of the elevator.

"No, I have the alarm set on my phone, so I won't lose track of time."

"You mean this phone dad?" Lexi's sarcasm sent Tony reeling as he noticed that it was 11.

Gibbs hand hit the back of his head almost as Lexi said it, "Never be unreachable, DiNozzo."

"Never again Boss! Why is everyone here? It's late."

McGee just pointed to Ziva, "Lexi got scared and called me when she Ziva, with a blonde wig, breaking into your apartment."

"That's not funny Probie." He answered, not yet having seen Ziva.

Ziva stood directly behind him, "Hello Tony." Tony immediately jumped, and reflexively said, "How many times do I have…Ziva?"

Lexi smiled at the way Tony hugged Ziva. The woman looked surprised at first, but soon relaxed a bit into it.