POV Ezra

Toby, Caleb, and I were talked into being at the Hastings residence upon the NCIS team's arrival. We are here for moral support for the girls. Melissa and Ian are also in here and it is pretty quiet, and very awkward and we are all ready for them to be here to wash away some of the awkwardness.

They walked in and they all had awkward smiles on their faces, I stood up and walked over to Aria and gave her cheek a kiss. "How everything going so far?" I whispered the question in her ear and giving just under her ear a kiss.

She looked up at me a kissed me back, and on the lips, "I think it's going alright. We still haven't gotten very far though. All we've really done is some introductions. How was sitting with Melissa and Ian?" she asked me looking over at Mellissa's fake smile and overly white teeth.

"Awkward." I informed her and we went to join the party. She nodded her head and had the look on her face saying been-there-done-that-now-you-know-how-I-feel.

"Tim! It's so good to see you. I hope that you have been doing good. This is my husband Ian." Melissa said giving her older brother a hug and introducing him to her husband who shook Tim's hand when his name was said.

He gave her an apprehensive smile. "And I see the two of you are expecting. Congratulations." he said, mainly to be nice it seemed. It was made clear that neither of them really wanted to say too much to each other, or wanted to see each other for that matter.

For the abundance of people and lack of seats I had Aria sit on my lap, and this brought me great pleasure, and I'm sure that she was happy about this. It made us feel just a little more comfortable in a bazaar situation.


POV Gibbs

Now that they've gotten their hellos and introductions said it's time for us to get started. I walked up to McGee. "Your case your lead." I reminded him bringing up Rule number 38.

He looked at me almost confused. "You want me to lead the case?" he questioned me.

"I didn't stutter McGee. Now start asking them questions." I ordered him. We aren't here just to talk to his sister and her friends and watch his other sister be a bitch, we're here to solve a murder and hopefully along the way get his family a little more straitened out.


A/N Sorry it's such a short chapter! More to come really soon! Please review!