"You should have come got me, Abby" Tony scowled at the road as they drove through DC
"You should have told Kate and then come got me"
"Tony" Kate sighed "She gets it"
Abby sat in the back seat clenching Ziva's hand as she continued to cough and pant even though it had been at least half an hour since she'd run anywhere but nobody voice their concern, no point in scaring her
"You...ok...Zi...va?" Abby got out
"Yeah, I fine" Ziva sniffled
"Try not to talk much, Abbs" Tony said softly as they pulled into a parking space
Kate walked around to Abby's door and helped her slide on to Kate's back while Tony kept a tight grip on Ziva's hand.
They wasted no time at security as both guards knew the four very well.
And soon enough they were all in the squad room
"Tony. Kate" Gibbs stood up looking concerned "What the hell?"
Ziva tugged her hand out of Tony's and ran into her Dad's arms, sobbing her little heart out
"Come on, we'll take you lot up to the Director" Gibbs said loudly but then whispered to Ziva "C'mon, we'll take you to Momma" He wrapped his arm tightly around her shoulder and both her arms went around his waist and they all walked up to Jenny's office
"What's going on?" Jenny asked from her seat behind her desk
"Some woman was harassing Ziva at the school gates"
"It was...Ari's Mother" Ziva whispered in a shaky voice
" Oh My God" Jenny gasped and hugged her little girl pulling her into her lap
"Abby ran all the way to our school to get Kate" Ziva told her Mum in a quiet yet proud voice. Jenny and Gibbs noticed Abby on Kate's back for the first time
"That's cause she loves you, very much and she wanted to protect you" Jenny smiled lovingly at both girls.
"What did that woman say to you?" Jenny asked
"She said I planned to hurt Abby with Ari and that I was planning on getting him to murder the whole family just like I did with my first family and that I wasn't welcome here" Ziva broke down in sobs again and Jenny did her best to comfort her
"We know none of that's true" Jenny started "We know you thought Ari died that night with everyone else you loved. And you do belong here, you're a Gibbs' girl and your Daddy is not gonna let you date till you 50 and even then he's gonna hate it and Tony and Abby are gonna annoy you until you wanna bang their head together because that what sibling do and in a few years, you and Abbs are gonna be fighting about make-up, hair straighteners and boyfriends because your sisters and Daddy's get mad because you both are doing his head in with it. We love you sweetheart, all of us; Me, Daddy, Tony, Ziva, Kate, Tim, Jimmy, Uncle Ducky, every single one of us LOVE you, so so so much, no matter what"
"It's true, Ladybug" Gibbs bent down next to his daughter and wife "We do love you"
"Are you gonna send me away?" Ziva asked tearfully
"No! Not ever!" Gibbs gripped Ziva's hand firmly and didn't let go of it
"Promise?"
"We promise" Gibbs kissed her forehead
Jenny and Gibbs hugged their daughter for a long time before Ziva smiled up at them
"I love you too" She grinned snuggling into her parents more
Tony smiled at Kate but Kate was looking down at the ground
"Uncle Gibbs" She bit her lip
"Yeah, Kate?" Gibbs looked at her concerned
"Sorry to interrupt but can I talk to you outside a minute?"
"Yeah" Gibbs kissed Jenny and Ziva on their cheeks and followed Kate outside, Abby still on her back but she wasn't holding on as tightly by the looks of things if Kate let go of the small girl's legs, she more than likely fall off
"What's wrong? Did something else happen?"
"No but Abby's been coughing and panting since she ran to get me...Uncle Gibbs she just coughed blood down my shoulder
Gibbs glanced at Kate's shoulder and sure enough their was a thin trail of bloody on her shirt, Gibbs turned his gaze to Abby who was almost asleep on Kate's back but looked as pale as she had after the accident
"I was thinking of getting Dad to check her out"
"No I will" Gibbs gently preyed Abby from Kate's back and cuddled her in his arms as she wrapped her arms around his neck and linked her ankled behind his back
"Tell Jen I've gone down to see Ducky just don't tell her why, if she notices Abby's disappearance which she might not tell her Abby begged me to take her to see Ducky"
"Ok" Kate mumbled
"Good Girl" Gibbs kissed Kate's forehead and took off on his route to autopsy
"You really are something, Abby Gibbs. Third day out of hospital, one week off that horrible breathing thing and you run a marathon" Gibbs tried to cheer her up
"Daddy" Abby said so softly he almost didn't hear her
"Yeah, Abbs"
"Had to keep running, had to get Kate, had to help Ziva, couldn't stop running, wasn't aloud to stop" Abby chanted what she must have been while getting Kate and he hugged her closer to him
"Baby, you didn't have it in you, you're still sick"
"But...I helped Ziva, didn't I?" Abby muttered
"Yeah, princess, you did" Gibbs reassured her quickly thinking he was telling her she hadn't help
"You were so so brave, baby girl and Daddy is so proud of you" He kissed the side of her head as he stroked the back of it, pulling her hair away from her face
"Kate did most of the helping" Abby buried her face in the croak of Gibbs' neck
"She wouldn't have known if you hadn't have ran to her"
"I didn't think about the pain, Daddy" Abby said proudly but then she couched again and Gibbs could feel the warm fluid on his neck, he could feel it running down under his shirt collar, she was panting again and wheezing in his ear so he picked up his speed and then he was in autopsy and he was laying her down on one of the tables
"Duck!" Gibbs called as his daughter struggled to stay awake.
Ducky worked his magic and it turned out she still had blood in her lungs from the attack which had settled and the running had began to empty it out, she was tired and sore which explained the panting and breathlessness and Gibbs was so grateful that it she didn't have to return to hospital although he'd been warned that she wasn't to go back to school and that she'd keep coughing up blood until it was all gone from her lungs.
Gibbs pulled Abby back into his arms and carried her back to Jenny's office, deciding he'd tell her the real reason later on and not in front of Ziva or Tony.
"This little angel has fallen asleep on us" He said as he lay his sleeping child on the couch in Jenny's office, he glanced at Kate and she nodded
"No wonder"
"Jethro, there's blood on your neck" Jenny noticed
"Oh, don't worry about that. Gerard had a nose bleed, bumped in to me on his way to the toilet"
"Is he ok?" Tony asked
"Oh yeah, he's good" Gibbs kissed Abby's forehead and strolled back over to Jenny and tickled behind Ziva's knee and she giggled loudly.