Tony was getting worried because that woman's hands were shaking like he had never seen it...wait she said her name was Kate...could it be...? When she continued his thoughts were confirmed,

"I'm your sister" she said.

Yes...that beautiful woman sitting on a chair in front of him was indeed his sister. He didn't know what to say so he just stood up. Kate thought he was going to walk out of the room when he stood up and she felt tears starting to well up. She stood up too, not really knowing why. But she was surprised when he didn't walk out of the room. Instead he walked towards her and just wrapped his arms around her. She was surprised but hugged him back. They stood there for nearly five minutes just hugging each other when he pulled back both had tears in their eyes.

"Finally!" Tony shouted.

Castle and Kate were a little shocked by the shout and looked at him weirdly. Tony had a big smile on his face. To explain himself he said:

"Remember when I said I had something important to do earlier?, "both nodded, "well it was that I needed to hack into the adoption agency to find out who you were. I've been trying to find you for a whole day and almost the whole night last night. I mean, I'm a federal agent it should be easy."

By now they were both smiling widely and then Tony noticed Castle.

"That your boyfriend?"

"Oh yeah sorry... Tony this is Rick Castle." "The writer?" This made Castle smile when he nodded.

"I love your books" "Thank you"

They were all grinning at each other when Tony remembered something.

"Come on, I want you to meet my girlfriend and soon to be wife and Probie."

Kate didn't have the time to ask why he was calling that nice young man like that because Tony was already out the room. They both followed. When they got back to the bullpen, they saw the woman from earlier telling Tony to come and see what she found.

"Tony...we found her. Her last name is Beckett. We're trying to find out where she works." she said.

Kate found it would be fun so she said with a smile,

"She's a cop."

Ziva was confused but she didn't get the time to ask how that woman would know what Tony's sister did for a living.

Tony chuckled.

"You can stop looking for her Ziva," he said and the woman looked even more confused.

"Why? I thought you wanted to find her. And why are you smiling like that?" She asked now smiling herself.

"Ziva meet Kate Beckett, my sister." Ziva's jaw dropped and she looked at Kate with a smile.

"Wow...it was easier than I thought it would be but it's really nice to meet you" they both said the last part at the same time and laughed about it.

"So is this your girlfriend?" Castle asked.

"Yes. Ziva this is Rick Castle."

"The writer?" She had the same reaction as Tony and she continued,

"I really love your books...wait Kate Beckett...you're the inspiration for Nikki Heat?!" she nodded.

"Nice to meet you" McGee said joining the conversation and shook their hands. Tony turned to him and smiled.

"Oh yeah I'm sorry...Probie, Kate Beckett. Kate this is Probie!" Kate laughed and looked at McGee waiting for his real name.

"Tim McGee. By the way Tony...where's Gibbs?"

Upstairs

Gibbs was in Jenny's office just like always when he had nothing else to do.

"Don't you have a case?" She asked looking up from the file she was reading.

"No" he simply answered. He knew it annoyed her when he was just sitting there, doing nothing. It made him smile.

"Then what's your team doing?" she asked after a moment.

"I don't know...I hope, for their own sake, that they're doin' paperwork. Tony and Ziva were a little distracted yesterday and I don't know why."

Jenny stood up and held out her hand to walk towards the door.

"Come on we're going to see what they're doing." When they walked out of the office they saw Tony, Ziva, McGee and two other people neither of them knew, talking and laughing in the middle of the bullpen.

"Certainly not paperwork" Gibbs said angry and walked down the stairs with a smiling Jenny right behind him. She also really wanted to know who these people were.

"DiNozzo, David, McGee what the hell are you doing?" Gibbs yelled when he reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Looks like we found him," Tony said before turning around, facing Gibbs and the director and smiled,

"Gibbs, Director I want you to meet Kate Beckett, my sister." Gibbs and Jenny were shocked but Gibbs smiled and shook her hand. When the director saw Kate she had that look on her face that said 'I know you from somewhere but I can't put my finger on it'. Kate noticed that and was about to ask when Gibbs turned around and raised his eyebrows at her.

"You gonna say something Jen?" he asked with a light chuckle seeing her face. He knew her too well.

"I'm sorry...I'm Jenny Shepard," Then realization hit her and Kate feared the worst,

"Oh god you're the detective who was shot at Roy Montgomery's funeral?!"

"Uhmm...Yeah" Kate replied silently. She didn't like it when people recognized her as Nikki Heat and even less when they recognized her from the shooting. It was a long time ago, but she still did all she could to not think about it.

They all looked at her in shock before Gibbs said:

"Wait...Jen how do you even know that? It happened in New York."

"Well if YOU of all people know about it you should know how I know. We both worked with Roy on that case in New York fifteen years ago. And for the shooting I actually read you know. It was all over the papers and if you know you must've read it too."

"Okay okay"

Then Tony realized what just happened.

"Wait... Kate you were shot?"

"Yeah. In the chest"

"What?"

"Yeah but I'm fine now it happened years ago and anyway...it wasn't the first time and not the last I almost died," seeing the look on everyone's face except Castles she knew she had to explain herself,

"I almost froze to death, almost got eaten by a tiger, then my car got pushed to the bottom of the Hudson and then I disarmed a bomb in the middle of a street of Manhattan. These were all things that happened with Castle. And then there's when I almost fell off a rooftop!"

Except for the last thing Kate could actually laugh about pretty much all the things that happened to her and Castle so it wasn't too hard to talk about it. And since Castle had made a list of how many times we saved each other, it was hard to forget them.

She saw the stunned look on everyone's face so she quickly added,

"okay enough of it...I'd really like to have dinner with you and your girlfriend sometime."

Ziva recovered from the shock faster than Tony and said:

"Yeah that would be great. What about tonight?"

Castle and Kate agreed to meet the two of them in the lobby of their hotel at 7pm. Kate was happy to realize no one noticed she was pregnant because of the long scarf, the black shirt and the jacket she was wearing. She would tell her brother, but not just yet.

Kate and Rick went to the hotel to get ready and Ziva and Tony were impatient to see them again in the evening. Later that day, when they were back home, Ziva watched Tony and she was surprised with what she saw; sadness

"What is it?" she asked when she sat beside him on the couch.

"It's just that...she's been through so much. I mean who would just shoot someone in the chest at a funeral or throw her off a rooftop?!"

"Hey look at me... Tonight you are going to be able to talk to her and get to know each other. I'm sure she will tell you everything. I mean we are not exactly a boring pair either." That made him chuckle a little. She was right. They had plenty of time to talk about this later that night.