...3 weeks later...
Ziva knew her family loved her but she felt awful and responsible, it was her brother the one she cried for and wanted back that hurt Abby so badly, therefore she was responsible if she hadn't come to Washington then the Gibbs family would have been safe. It should be her scared and alone in hospital suffering in pain not little Abby. She loved her family with all her heart and much, much more.
"Jenny, Jethro I have some good news for you little Abby is allowed to come home with the two of you, however she is to be on complete bed rest."
"My Baby, she can come home?"Jen sobbed in Jethro's arms
"Yes Mrs Gibbs she can."
Later on in the day Abby was so excited to go home and have all her favourite possessions around her once again, as well as be with her family, she couldn't wait to snuggle with Tony and Kate when she knew they wanted to be alone but she still had to annoy them to no end but that was her job as a little sister.
"Hey Princess, you ready to go home?" Gibbs smiled at his baby girl
"Yeah, I can't wait" Abby bounced up and down
"Neither can we baby, neither can we" Jenny smiled as she hugged her youngest child her baby.
"Let's go we'll pick up Pizza on the way home for everyone" Abby squealed with excitement she was looking forward to eating something other than hospital food and oh man the food was really stinking.
Tony sat in the living-room Ziva was quietly playing outside in the garden, he didn't know his little sister would be coming home, the last month or so had been hectic, his family were distant from each other. Gibbs had been practically silent most of the time, Jenny had cried all the time, Ziva had been so wrapped up with worry that the line between nightmares and reality had began to blur. Things were bad, real bad and to Tony everything felt surreal and with it being Saturday it was getting close to going back to school for the last week then it'd be summer, the last few weeks before Kate and Tony went off to college which was only in the city centre but they'd brought their own places and would move in when school started again. Kate had to be kept back a year due to her results but Tony suspected she'd purposely failed so they could go to college together. Ziva wasn't doing so well in school because she couldn't concentrate as much and half the time she begged to stay off and visit Abby in hospital and Tony didn't blame her for being withdrawn and upset, she'd been through a lot which the family never forgot that and treated her with as much care and sympathy as they did Abby.
"Tony! Ziva!" Jenny's voice rang through the house and his ears and he reluctantly pulled himself from the couch, just as Ziva shuffled in from outside.
"Hey, Mum" Tony nodded while giving Jenny a quick hug
"Could you take the pizza through to the kitchen then come back here please?"
"Sure thing" Tony took the pizza from Jenny and did as she asked
"Hi, Momma" Ziva hugged her mother tightly and didn't let go for a short while.
"Well, your father and I have a surprise for you both" Jenny announced as Tony wrapped his arm around Ziva's shoulder
Just as Jenny finished her sentence Gibbs came in the front door with Abby on his back
"Abby!" Tony and Ziva yelled happily as Gibbs let Abby down and her two siblings engulfed her in a bear hug. Tony was the first to pull away but Ziva held on with all her mite.
"I missed you, Abbs" Ziva whispered
"I missed you, Zee. A lot!" the sisters pulled away from each other and Tony couldn't resist hugging Abby again. He scooped her up in his arms and repeatedly kissed her cheek.
"Don't you ever do that to us again!" Tony warned before setting her on her feet
"Come on, you lot. Let's eat!" Gibbs grinned at his family as he grabbed his wife in his a side hug.
It had been so long since they'd all sat around the table eating their dinner with smiles on their faces and having an easy light hearted conversation with one another.
Monday came to quickly, far to quickly. All three of them headed to school even though Jenny had offered to stay home in case Abby wasn't up to it but she'd refused wanted badly to see Tim. The two had been inseparable since the accident and Tim had missed Abby terribly because he hadn't been aloud to visit because Gibbs had said that it wasn't something that he wanted Tim or Jimmy to see.
Gibbs and Jenny drove the girls to school and Tony went in his own car picking Kate and her brothers up on the way.
"So girls I was thinking that we could have a girl's day on Saturday since your dad and brother are going fishing" Jenny smiled turning back slightly to look at them
"Yeah" both girls said at exactly the same time making them both fall back in their seats giggling uncontrollably
Gibbs and Jenny smiled each other
"Now that is a sound I will NEVER take for granted ever again" Gibbs said quietly to his wife
while glancing at his daughter's through the front mirror.
"See you tonight, girls" Gibbs grinned winking at them both and watched them walk along the road to school. Ziva calmly walked next to her sister as Abby skipped along next to her, black ponytails swinging.
"Jethro, we'll be late" Jenny laughed
"I know but...look at 'em, Jen" Gibbs smiled softly at his wife
"I know, Jethro" Jenny smiled back while kissing her husband gently
"Abby, there's Ray, I'll see you at lunch" Ziva waved at her best friend before hugging her sister and rushing off
"Abby!" Abby didn't even have time to turn her head before she was tugged in to another bear hug
"Timmy!" Abby reply with just as much excitement
"I can't believe it's you!" Tim laughed still not letting her go.
Tim and Abby happily walked off towards their class and Tim promised himself, he'd never let Abby get hurt ever again.
"Hey, Zee" Ray greeted with a cocky grin
"Hey, Ray" Ziva smiled hugging him for a second before pulling away, both of them blushing
"See your sister's back" He smiled to which Ziva nodded with a blank expression suddenly seeming in-bothered by Abby sudden discharge from hospital but Ray knew that with Ziva it went much deeper than that.
"Miss Gibbs?" Ziva turned to see an unfamiliar women calling for her from the school gate
"I'll see you in class, yeah?"
"Yeah, sure" Ray looked uncertain but made his way to class alone without protest
"Hello" The women forced a smile
"Hello" Ziva replied slowly and reluctantly
"You not welcome" The woman stated bluntly in a thick accent
"Excuse me!" Ziva back off slightly
"Well you did almost kill their only daughter, didn't you? I mean if a little bitch like you tried to kill my Ari, I'd kill you or at least seriously injure you"
"Ari? Your his mother, aren't you?" Ziva took another step back ignoring the school bell
"I'm surprised at Agent Gibbs for not throwing you out or at least his wife the Director sending you on a first class flight back to where ever you came from"
"You don't know what you're talking about!" Ziva spat at the woman
"Oh I do. You all ready murdered on family now you out to do the same to the Gibbs' family"
"I would never hurt my family! Non of them! Not Daddy or Momma or Tony or...Abby!"
"Didn't work did it, your little plan with Ari because Abigail is still alive"
"Don't you dare speak her name! Don't you dare even think her name!" Ziva yelled angrily
"They don't want you, you know!" The women's voice just as loud
"You tried to kill her! Your own sister! Just like Tali! You got Ari to kill your real family! Then you got him to hurt you new one in an even more twisted way!"
Ziva seen someone sprint someone past them but she didn't see who it was but didn't have time to think about it as the woman grabbed her chin forcing her to look up
"You are evil, pure evil" The woman breath felt horrid on Ziva's face.
Abby heard it all and she couldn't just stand there and do nothing so she sprinted past them and a long the room not stopped until she got to the high school two miles away
They hadn't gone in yet, most of the seniors were still outside lounging around in the sun.
Abby couldn't see Tony but she spotted Kate
"Katie! Katie!" Abby landed in a heap next to where Kate was sitting on the grass surrounded by three girls who looked at her in disgust. Abby knew she'd been pushing her recovery just coming to school knowing she was supposed to be on bed rest for one or two days still and running as far as she had caused her so much pain
"Abby!" Kate pulled Abby closer as Abby coughed and panted on the grass
"What the hell is that?" a blonde cheerleader asked glaring at Abby
"Tanya!" Kate snapped "Abbs, what is it?"
"You...You have...to come...quick!" Abby clumsily dragged herself off the ground and Kate leant over and quickly tied her little sister's sneakers
"What's wrong? Baby bear?" Kate asked calling Abby for the first time since she was two years old
"Ziva! Come on! You gotta help, Katie! You just gotta!" Abby grabbed Kate's hand trying to pull her up
"Ok" Kate climbed to her feet and Abby took off as fast as her legs would carry her and Kate followed catching up in no time. The two girls ran as fast as they could only for Abby to fall down half way
"Abby!"
"No, Katie! Keep running! Bad lady with Ziva! Yelling!" Abby tried to explain through pants of pain
"Ok, stay here! Don't move!" Kate took off again, Abby was her father's daughter; who wouldn't give up if one of their own in any kind of danger.
Kate hated leaving her there but Ziva needed help and Kate knew that was just as important right now
Kate reached the school yard to find a woman yelling at Ziva
"Hey!"
The woman turned around and Kate slapped her in the face. Hard
"Leave MY family alone! Got that! So take your sorry ass back to where you came from and leave Ziva the HELL alone!" The woman glared at Kate; Kate glared back before the woman stormed away
"Kate!" Ziva hugged her tightly around her waist and buried her face in her shirt, tears streaming down her cheeks
"Shh, you're ok, your safe now" Ziva took the comfort Kate offered
"C'mon Zee, we'll walk to my school and get Tony to drive us to NCIS and I'll get your dad" Ziva nodded and Kate untangled herself from the 12 year old but kept her arm around her shoulder
"Thanks, Kate"
"Any time" Kate grinned squeezing her gently
They turned around to find Abby leant against the fence patting badly and an expression of pain as she clenched her middle
"Abby, you got Kate?" Ziva asked and all Abby could do was nod as Ziva pulled into a bone crushing hug as she sobbed on her little sister's shoulder.