A/N: Hey guys, not updated as soon as i would have liked but school sadly comes first -_- hope you enjoy :)
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NCIS, AND I SADLY NEVER EVER WILL.
It was a long car ride home, Gibbs had calmed down his driving to not shake the sleeping girls in the back seat, turning the 5 minute arrival time into a 20 minute return time, and Tony had his mirror down and would glance in it every few moments to check on the girls, Kristiana specifically. Everytime he would do this Gibbs would give him a sideways glance and shake his head, this had gotten way too far; way too fast. The car ride was silent until they pulled up in front of Kelleigh's house
"Girls, wake up. We're at Kelleigh's"
Both girls moved to get out of the car but a hand came back from the front of the car and placed itself on Kristiana's knee, when she looked up she saw it was Tony who was staring at her with soft eyes and an expression that made it known what he was thinking, she looked from him to her awaiting friend and back.
"Kell, i'm actually gonna crash at my place, i'll text you when i wake up okay?"
With a departing hug there was a "be safe" murmered from one girl to the other, just as Gibbs and Tony were going to question what it meant they saw Kelleigh take off across the grass, skillfully avoiding the motion sensor lights and reaching the tree, using her flexibility to hoist herself up into the tree and into her partially open window, at the last moment throwing a smile towards the direction of the awaiting car. Kristiana smiled back at her, knowing she would be explaining this aswell later, while the men in the car rotated between their mouths hanging open and smirking with a shaking to their head. Once they were pulling away from the curb and Kristiana could feel Tony's eyes on her she looked at his reflection in the mirror,
"If it makes you feel any better, we used a ladder to get out...we didn't scale the house like spiderman."
The only response that was given was a silent nod before he closed the mirror, content on knowing the girl was safe in the back seat of the car and she wasn't going anywhere, at least not yet. Approaching the house there was a feeling of dread, what is Ziva was awake? As far as they all knew she had been sleeping when they had left the house but now, it was nearing 5 o'clock in the morning and sometimes she was up by then. They pulled in the driveway and turned the car off, Tony slowly turned around to face Kristiana and let out air from his mouth
"You know if she's awake she's not going to let you go to sleep until you tell her..."
"I know."
They all got out of the car and gathered at the passenger side of the car before heading towards the front door as a group, as they opened the door they came face to face with an angry looking Ziva David, this was not going to be good.
It took all of 5 minutes for Ziva's glare to make Tony and Kristiana retreat to the living room and sitting close on the couch, Gibbs following because he knew there was no way he was getting out of this, even if he tried to 'pull rank'.
"Talk."
Though Tony had stepped up these past few weeks, especially when it came to Kristiana, hell he even admitted that he would love for her to call him Dad. He was still a smart ass.
"About what? The weather? Its pretty nippy out, even for summer. Kinda surprising actually, wish i would have brought more thermals if i'm going to be making this a habit."
Gibbs smirked and Kristiana dropped her head into her hands as her mother got angrier and angrier.
"Alright Mom, before you kill Da- Tony let me explain."
"Oh believe me young lady you will be explaining. Wheither I kill Tony or not."
She bit her lip and continued hesitantly, "Okay, so I was sleeping at Kelleighs..."
"That much I know Kristiana, what I want to know is why you're wearing a leotard and your hair like that, and more importantly why you're being escorted into the house at 05:00 by 2 federal agents. Young lady this is starting to feel like what you were living a couple of months ago." With every word said her voice was raising and by the last word she was full on yelling, the ending factor being that everyone in the house was not in the door way watching the exchange. They watched as Kristiana stood up and projected her anger across the whole room, matching her tone and voice octave for octave and seething word for seething word.
"You know what mother? If you had given me a moment of your precious time I would have explained to you what had happened tonight, it was my full intention from the start. To answer your question I look like this because I was at the dance studio with Kelleigh, running my old numbers that you loved oh so very much. It made me feel more alive than I have ever been. As for your second question, I'm being escorted into my own home by 2 federal agents because on our walk back to Kelleigh's house we were surrounded by Alicia, Briawna and Celeste. But you dont know who they are right? Oh yeah. My former drug dealer and handler and her groupies that are 3 times my size. As for the federal agents? My dad saved me, he and gibbs were there to get me out safely."
Her rage was ended when Gibbs voice rose above both of their and just when Ziva's eyes widened at the mention of "dad", not quite realizing she hadn't meant her actual father...
"HEY. Both of you. Quit it with the yelling. You've woken up the house with the screaming."
He turned to Kristiana directly
"You. Stop screaming at your mother. Do not disrespect her like that. Especially in front of people."
Tony rose to try and defend Kristiana, but before he had a chance to open his mouth he had a teenager hurled at his chest in tears, he forgot about the words he planned to say a second before and worked on comforting the girl that was in every way but biologically his daughter. Just then, Gibbs turned to Ziva as she was taking in the sight of her partner, her ex lover embracing her sobbing daughter.
"And you, stop accusing your daughter of things you have yet to receive an answer too. Past or no past, she's your kid and she already has one parent that made it clear what he wants today. She needs you to be there."
Gibbs walked towards the kitchen mumbling about coffee, and McGee and Abby backed out just the way they came in. Tony kissed the top of Kristiana's head
"Come on kid, lets go upstairs, you need some sleep."
He began to usher her towards the stairs, on his way he met Ziva's eyes; giving her a pleading look he continued up the stairs with Kristiana right in front of him. They arrived at her room and he moved her towards her bed, she made no move to want to put pajamas on. She just pulled back the covers and sunk into the middle of the bed. Tony smiled a bit to himself before pulling the covers up to her chin and tucked her in. He was walking towards the door when he heard it,
"stay"
It was faint, he thought it was his imagination from all the years of babysitting and monster scaring.
"What?"
"Please? Just until i fall asleep?"
"Not a problem" He sat on the chair next to her bed and stroked her hand with his thumb, much like a parent would to sooth a child. It took her a couple times of opening and closing her mouth and Tony looking at her funny before she was finally able to say what she wanted to say
"I don't know what I should call you anymore..."
"What do ya mean?"
"I mean, you've always been Tony. You really always were a father figure, and I know it slipped out a couple times when I was really little..but now it's different. I know my father doesn't want anything to do with me, and what you said to me tonight, that you'd be honored to be my dad. It just made me even more undecided, I ju-" Kristiana was cut off by Tony speaking to her in a hushed tone,
"Hey kid, everything has changed since you were a little kid scared of the dark. What I said tonight, I meant it. I would be honored. You can call me whatever you want to call me, I'm okay with whatever you want that to be"
Their eyes locked and she flashed him a famous smile, a thousand watts that could light up a town, a smile he hasn't seen in a while.
"Goodnight Daddy."
"Goodnight kid."
They both closed their eyes and sleep soon over took them, neither knowing that Ziva had been outside the door listening the whole time, and now that she was on the floor staring straight ahead with a few stray tears rolling down her cheeks, not caring if somebody say her. This is how she wanted it all those years ago, with the 3 of them; a family...and through some messed up times and screwed up reasons she was kind of in a way starting to get that now.
A/N: Thanks for reading guys :) It means a lot! Dont forget to review! :D And feel free to PM me or comment with idea's or points you would loveee to see happen :)