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A/N: Sorry guys! its been over 2 months :( but i have an explanation...my computer crashed and the chapter was on there...so heres the rewrite.
Chapter 5
Ziva P.O.V
The realization hit my ears like a ton of bricks; she snuck out again. She escaped a house of Federal Agents without being noticed, given we werent expecting it but still the girl was good. She was my daughter.
"Uh Ziva are you there?"
"Yes Tony?" Guess I zoned out for a bit.
"I said do you know where she would have went?"
I was about to answer him but McGee cut us off.
"Found Her!"
McGee must have seen the confusion written on my face because he explain in terms even Gibbs could understand...
"I inserted a standard tracking device on her phone while we were back at NCIS"
I should have known he would do that, in the next moment all you hear is Gibbs; "Waiting for an invitation McGee? Spit it out, Where is she?"
"245 Ryder Street, Layla's Cafe"
"Good job McGee Lets Go"
############LAYLAS CAFE####################
3rd P.O.V
The team minus Abby walked into the small almost unrecognizeable cafe only to find it crowded with a bunch of people as a voice clouded over the sound system.
Thinking like an investigator Ziva pulls out a picture of Kristiana and starts asking if anybody has seen this girl. A few dozen no's later the owner approaches the team.
"Can I help you? Im Layla Matthews; owner"
"Uhm Yes actually have you seen this girl?"
"Why are you looking for Krista?"
"Shes my daughter; are you saying shes here?"
"She was one of my regulars; she missed a few weeks though shes up on stage"
With that Layla Matthews walks away with Ziva shouting after her "What do you mean on stage." Layla points to the back corner of the cafe where most of the people are crowded around and no stage can be seen but it is clearly where the voice is radiating from.
At this point Gibbs and McGee had been unaware of the tip to where Kristiana was since Gibbs had gone to get coffee and McGee had showing another picture to a different part of the crowd. Ziva had pushed through the crowd with Tony trailing behind her, she was pushing closer to the stage and the voice became louder; she remembered the voice but she couldnt place it...
The 4 agents reached the stage at the same time; in different locations and stared in disbelief at what they saw, Kristiana in the middle of the stage; singing her heart out like she owned it. It wasn't Kristiana but it wasnt Krista either, kind of like a happy medium; she wore light blue skinny jeans, a white tank top, a brown leather studded bomber jacket and gladiator sandals; with her tair falling in curled cascades down her back.
Apparently it was Karaoke night and Kristiana just finshed her song; the attracted crowd sounded their approval and chanted 'encore' as Kristiana looked at Layla and Layla nodded, it looked like it had been done 100 times before. Kristiana got ready to start another song and glanced down at her Ziva and Tony before she started to speak; it was her sign that she knew they were there. What happened next would only be believed if it was witnessed, pretty much describing the whole night.
" Alright guys, settle down. Please quiet down..."
After a few seconds the crowd quieted and she began speaking again.
"Im glad you liked my cover of Teenage Dream by Katy Perry but this next song is one of my own and I just wrote it a little while ago about something that happened in my life recently so; I really hope you like it"
(A/N: I don't own the rights to the song)
"I know we don't belong
Everyone says it's wrong
We come from different ways
So I tried to erase everything that I felt
That I felt..
But then you kissed me and suddenly I don't care any more
Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for
But then you kissed me and suddenly I don't care any more
Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for
From the KISS
From the KISS
My heart is getting loud
I'm trying to keep it down
I wish the world could hear
But I can't help but fear that they'll take you away
You away
But then you kissed me and suddenly I don't care any more
Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for
But then you kissed me and suddenly I don't care any more
Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for
From the KISS
From the KISS
Palm to palm
Let lips do what hands do
They pray
Is it a sin
To do what we want to?
Don't care where we've been
Give me my sin again
But then you kissed me and suddenly I don't care any more
Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for
But then you kissed me and suddenly I don't care any more
Something in me tells me you're the one I'm looking for
From the KISS
From the KISS "
She finshed with her smile wide and her eyes staring into a world all her own, she let herself be lost in the cheers and claps of the crowd, even though she knows she has alot of explaining to do when she steps off of the stage.
"Well as some of you know I'm Krista Lynn and I really hope to be here next week!"
With her final words shes gone, she steps off the stage and the crowd disperses to different locations throught the cafe and watched with little interest as a middle aged woman came on with her rendition of Mine by Taylor Swift.
The team met up at the end of Kristiana's second set and waited at a table while Kristiana got a cup of coffee and praise from Layla. They sat in a comfortable silence until McGee broke it.
"So that was uhm interesting?"
Gibbs just continued to sit there and make disgusted faces at his coffee, Tony decided to weigh in with his usual comments,
"So what happened to Krista? I mean first it was Kristiana, then she came back as Krista and now its Krista Lynn, Ziva are you sure shes not crazy?"
Ziva looked a million different things right now, She watched as tony earner himself a head slap from Gibbs.
"Shes not crazy Tony, when she was little; right after we moved she was obsessed with being a singer, she came up with a stage name and little songs even, Krista Lynn was the name she used when she entered these competitions but that stopped a while ago"
"So you knew she could sing?"
"Not like this, and not write like this, its only another secret she has Tony"
They were interupted by Kristiana walking slowely over to the table; she knew she couldnt escape them, it was her chance to explain, But she let it be known that she wasnt happy they were here.
"How did you find me?"
"Kristiana you cant just sneak out I need to know where you are going" Ziva definately wasnt happy...
"Mom calm yourself; I just want to know how you found me, wait you bugged me didnt you? You tracked me? You know thats illegal!"
"How long have you been singing here?"
"None of your buisness, im going home"
"If you dont answer my questions there is no way you are coming back here next week; much less anywhere else"
"Ill just sneak out again, you seemed to notice so well all the other times"
"Try it when i turn on the security procedures they use for Langley"
"Fine"
"Fine what Kristiana dont give me short answers"
"Fine ill answer your questions"
###############HOME####################################
Kristiana and the team arrived home from the cafe in silence after a failed conversation that ended in tony getting Gibbs slapped.
They reached the kitchen and McGee soon ran off to explain to Abby everything that happened; Gibbs left seconds later to get 'decent coffee' as he described it and Tony stood awkwardly while Kristiana jumped up onto the counter and demanded "You wanted to talk? Lets talk"
Tony looked from Kristiana to Ziva and saw hesitation in both of their eyes; this wasnt going to be easy for either of them.
"Z, do you want me to stay..?"
"No Tony I am fine"
Time it took for Ziva's walls to go back up? 0.7 seconds.
"Are you sure? I mean I can stay its not a big deal"
"Tony I have to do this, she is my daughter."
"Okay Z, I am upstairs if you need anything"
Tony started to walk away but then the sound of Ziva's voice caught his ear and he turned back around in time to say
"Tony, thank you"
He went to his room with a smile on his face and did not emerge for the remander of the night.
###############KITCHEN###########################
Ziva and Kristiana sat in the kitchen just staring until Kristiana opened her mouth in true teenage girl form;
"You wanted to talk? Spill it"
"Kristiana, i dont get it tonight was so different then the rest of the day, up on the stage you shined like the little girl i knew last year; you had fun, you had emotions. You lived off the crowd like you did when you were little, You were nothing like that Krista that you claim to be"
"Mom enough, Im not a little girl anymore, im allowed to be who i want, you just dont understand!"
"I dont understand being a teenage girl? Tateleh I was one, i did not just poof in from the sky!"
"Not that, you dont understand why im doing this"
"Then let me! Explain it to me Neshomeleh let me understand!"
"I cant."
"Why?"
"I just, I just cant" With the final words the teenager ran upstairs to her room and as she passed her mother; ziva swore she saw tears in the girls eyes...but in the end that was enough for one night and Ziva sat in the kitchen until the early hours of the morning wondering what exactly Kristiana meant by what she was saying.
(A/N: I know its a filler but it provided some purpose; Now Ziva has an idea something definately happened to her daughter thats serious enough to cause secrets)
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Translations:
Tateleh: Little Darling
Neshomeleh: Sweet Soul; Sweetheart; Darling
-Cia