Chapter 6 Shannon
Ducky handed Abby a scraping to test for DNA and the dirt samples. She gave Gibbs a quick hug and left without a word.
"Gibbs, why didn't you tell me?"
"Duck, I was putting it behind me and I was trying not to think about it, I didn't tell anyone. I have to go chase leads." Gibbs said and left.
"What will I do with them?" Ducky asked no one in particular
Abby was back in her lab, she was running the DNA, soil samples and a couple of the other tests which were almost done. Tony came down to check on them.
"Hey Abs,"
"Tony, what's up?"
"Checking on the tests."
"Oh yeah ummm they'll be done in a sec." Abby said as she checked.
"Abby, do you know anything about this case, like anything to do with Shannon or Kelly Gibbs?"
"Umm yeah. I know quite a bit and would have really hoped that you would have caught on by now."
"Caught on? Wait, you said you were staying at Gibbs' to spend time with your father, you leve 15 minutes away from Gibbs. No… you, you, can't…" Tony stuttered in realization.
"Yeah Tony, I'm Kelly Jennifer Gibbs."
"I think I'm going to faint. Wait, so you are realated to the boss man?" Tony said in his usual boyish tone.
"Yep. Hey can you not tell Kate about this, I haven't gotten a chance to tell her, or McGee. So for now just keep it to yourself."
"Oh yeah sure." Tony said as he began to fit the pieces together in his mind. Gibbs' public displays of affection, of course he didn't know how long either of them had known, and taking the headstone. It was making so much sense. Abby distracted him from his thoughts though.
"Tony… Tony!"
"What?" He answered surprised.
"Here are the test results."
"Okay, thanks Abs." And he walked out. As soon as he was out of ear shot she called Gibbs and told him what Tony knew.
One of her machines beeped. The DNA results were done. She read the results and immediately called Gibbs down.
"What up?" Gibbs asked concerned at the tone of Abby's voice on the phone.
"I know who the woman is." Abby said looking down.
Gibbs walked over to her, cupped her face in his hands, and made her look up. "It's Shannon, isn't it?"
"Yeah." Abby said and started to cry. Gibbs pulled her into a hug. This was getting to much for her. She couldn't handle holding it inside anymore. Gibbs understood.
He pulled away slightly, "How about we go for lunch? I have something for you."
"Okay, let me get cleaned up." Abby sniffled, grabbing a moist face wipe and her coat.
A/N: sorry for all those who thought Tony's reaction would be more dramatic. I have an idea what the next chapters going to be like so I'll get onto it pretty much whenever I'm ready. Sorry for the short wait, I've been a bit busy and haven't had that many reviews to spure me on. So please review. Thanks and hope you enjoyed it. AbbyLover
Lunch
They arrived at the café. It wasn't anything fancy just an ordanary café. The sat and ordered and while they waited Gibbs pulled out a neatly wrapped box. "What is it?" Abby asked knowing that it was a stupid question and that she would have to open it and find out. Without waiting for a reply she started to carefully peel off the paper. The first glimpse of the box in the wrapping caught her eye. It was old and slightly rusted. As she pulled of more paper she started to see the picture that covered the box. It was a vintage Strawberry Shortcake box. (A/N This is what I imagine the lunch box to look like http://www.strawberry-shortcake.net/CollectorsInfo/Other/Lunchboxes.htm) As she pulled the last of the paper off she saw something written neatly in black marker, ‘Kelly Gibbs.' By this time their lunch had already arrived. "Gibbs… how long have you had this?"
"We bought it for you the day before you started kindergarten." Gibbs answered as both he and Abby started eating. "Open it." Gibbs instructed. She took another mouthful of her salad and then pressed the little button the opened it. Inside were pictures, jewlery, perfume, and a small Strawberry Shortcake doll.
"What is all this?" Abby asked although the answer was obvious. She pulled out a picture of herself, Gibbs and her mother.
"These things are my most pricless posessions. That perfume was your mothers favorite, and the pictures are the only ones I have left of you and her and us as a whole family. The doll was given to you when you came home from the hospital, and that locket… that locket…" Gibbs was starting to tear up. Abby had never seen him cry. She stood up and walked over to him and engulped him in a enormous bear hug.
"Come on Dad, let's go for a walk." Abby suggested, he nodded but didn't notice she had just called him dad and they left their half eaten meals and walked out. They walked down to a near by, man-made, lake and sat down on a bench. Abby opened the box again and pulled out the locket. She open it and nearly dropped it. On the left side was a picture of Shannon, Gibbs and herself as a newborn baby, not even a week old. On the right was the same picture except it was of her when she was older.
"We took a picture every year and put it in the right side of that locket," Gibbs said making Abby jump a bit as she had grown used to the silence, "You were 11 in that picture." Abby looked at him and gave him a small smile.
"Would you mind?" Abby asked handing him the locket and turning around.
"Not at all." Gibbs said putting it around her neck. He looked at his watch, "Come on Abs we're gonna be late."
"Okay, but please call me Kelly from now on. I want to be able to remember my past, I want to be your daughter, not some strangers who I grew up with."
"Ab… I mean Kelly, no matter what I call you, you will always be my daughter no matter what." Gibbs said and pulled her into another hug before they started heading back towards his car. He didn't care if they were late, he just wanted her to be happy at that moment and the rest of her life.
A/N: Awwww. Sorry that was so much fun to write. What happened to all my reviewers. Come on people. Thanks to all those who reviewed chapter 6. In this chapter I tried to keep it a bit like the actual eps if you noticed. The strawberry short cake tin. The doll, the pictures. So yeah. Please review it would be much apreciated.
A/N: Chapter 7 must have been better than I thought cause I got more reviews on that chapter than anyother. THANK-YOU!!! Sorry about the underlining thing. I have no idea why that happened. All I know is that I didn't put it in and I don't know how it got there. Anyway please review again (or comment if you are reading on my new livejournal account) but yeah on with the story…
Chapter 8
Tourmenting McGee
"What do we know?" Gibbs asked returning to the bull pen after lunch.
"Ducky has a cause of death," Kate answered looking down at the report, "strangulation."
"Anything else?"
"Yep." Abby said appearing out of the elevator, "When I got back the dirt samples were done. It contained fertilizer, horse manure, and some kind of decomposing, flowering plant."
"Does that get us any closer to solving the case?"
"It does because it means that where she was buried the first time was in a private location. A garden of some kind. You wouldn't find this stuff in the wood."
"Thanks Kel." Gibbs said and kissed her cheek as he left. He wasn't exactly sure why she wanted to be called Kelly but until he had the time to sit down and talk about it he would respect her wishes. As he said this she smiled.
"Kel?" Kate asked, extremely confused.
"Long story. Are you busy?" Abby/Kelly, (A/N: Okay so I just flipped a coin and decided that I will call her Kelly from now on. You'll find out why soon.)
"Well, Gibbs hasn't told me to do anything inparticular."
"You might want to sit down." Kelly told her. As Kate sat down she started to explain. It took about fifteen minutes but it was worth it, to tell your best friend who you really are.
"Why do you want to be called Kelly?" Kate asked.
"Because of some things that happened to me in my childhood, also I heard that these sorts of things can help recover memory. I want to be able to remember mum more. I want to remember what she was like and what we were like as a family." Kate smiled and Kelly smiled back. It was good enough for Kate but she knew it wouldn't be good enough for Gibbs. He would want to know what kinda things happened in her childhood.
Back in the squad room Tony was tourmenting McGee.
"So have you seen Abby lately?" Tony asked.
"No." McGee, looking up from his computer screen, said nervously. He had worked with Tony long enough that the tone of voice he was using usually meant he's up to something. "Why?"
"Oh nothing."
"What is it? What's wrong with her?" McGee asked concerned
"Nothing's wrong with her. I just know something you don't. Suck it in Probie." Tony teased childishly.
"What?"
"Can't tell."
McGee looked at him, stood up and walked over to the elevator. Tony loved it when he got the chance to do this.
A/N: So yeah, Abby's become Kelly, Tony's teasing McGee, and Kate just found out something she didn't know. Next chapter will have Kate's reaction. Also I need you to tell me whether I should put in some Tate. I have this craving to write it but I want to continue this. Do you think I should or shoudn't. Majority will rule this one and I'm leaving it up to you, my readers. Well yeah, It's my birthday next Tuesday so you might get a chapter to celebrate that. Well please as always review to give me more inspiration. Also I wan't joking when I said I flipped a coin. lol
Chapter 9
"Hey Gibbs," Kelly said bouncing around the bullpen. Gibbs was tired and in desperate need of coffee and Kelly's bounciness was making him dizzy.
"Yes Abs." Without enough caffeine in his system Gibbs forgot Kelly request. This earned him a glare from Kelly. "Sorry, Kelly, I mean Kelly. I need coffee."
"You know how I said that there was a decomposing, flowering plant in the soil, well it was frangipani. Actually, it was pink frangipani to be exact. I love frangipanis they're close to being my most favorited flower in the world." Kelly had obviously just had a couple of Caf-Pows!. She was rambling but Gibbs didn't intervene, frangipani was Shannon's favorite flower too. "Gibbs…Gibbs?" Kelly said, he was in deep thought and wasn't listening to her anymore.
"Yeah?" Gibbs said coming out of his trance.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Your mother." Gibbs said and as he said it McGee's head popped up from the paper work he was doing and his jaw dropped. He had started listening to the conversation when Kelly started rambling. He liked to listen to the facts she seemed to come out with every time she started.
"What did you just say, Boss?" Gibbs glared at him. That was all it took to make him shut up. Tony laughed under his breath which earned a hefty whack to the back of the head.
"McGee, come down to the lab, there's something I need to tell you." McGee nodded and followed her over to the elevator.
"I'm in MTAC." Gibbs called back heading towards the stairs.
"So Kate, you know?"
"Yep, kinda weird huh?"
"As Abby would put it, kinda hinky."
"Tony, this sounds kinda weird but Abby doesn't exist anymore."
"What do you mean? I mean I know that her real name is Kelly and that but she's still Abby to us right?"
"No, she wants to be called Kelly. Said something about bad experiences and trying to remember her past."
"Oh, yeah that's really weird."
"So how do you think the directors gonna react when he tells her?"
"You mean if he tells her. I'm not sure he went up there for that but then again Gibbs is impossible to read."
Gibbs opened the door and strolled in. "I need to get a big security guard capable of keeping you out." Jenny sighed as she hung up the phone, "What do you want?"
"We need to have a conversation concerning some personal."
"Don't tell me you have a problem with some of the people I employ."
"Not quite. You see I have a personal relationship with one of them."
"No Jethro, I am not letting you of all people break rule twelve."
"Not that kind of relationship, more biological."
"You have a problem working with someone who is your third cousin or something."
"No, let me finish. It's a closer relation than that. It's Kelly."
"Gibbs, I have not employed anyone by the name Kelly Gibbs. If I ever did I would tell you, I would also be slightly freaked out considering she has been dead for quite some time."
"I know you didn't employ anyone named Kelly Gibbs. She came in before you were director. Director Morrow employed one Abigail Scuito."
"What does Abs have to do with Kelly?"
"When Kelly was 11, Shannon, her mother, died. Someone murdered her and tried to murder Kelly as well. Kelly survived and was put into witness protection under the name Abigail Scuito."
"God, so does that mean Abby is really your daughter. I always thought you two were a bit to close."
"Abby is not my daughter, Kelly is. She also didn't know that she was my daughter till this week."
"Oh, well what's the problem with that?"
"Nothing's wrong with it. If I say there is a problem with something you tend to listen more." With that Gibbs walked out of her office, Jenny shaking her head.
"We got a theory about what happened." Tony said standing next to Kate.
"And what would that be DiNozzo?"
"Shannon wasn't really killed either, but kidnapped. They killed her after a few years when they got tired of her and buried her where her grave was."
"Whose they?"
"We have a suspect." Kate said.
"And when were you going to tell me that."
"Just found out. Anyway, do you remember this guy," Kate started pointing to the screen, "He was a serial rapist and murderer. He died last year and left his son everything. The son from one of his rape victims as he never had a proper relationship. I think it was Shannon's. I think he kidnapped Shannon after faking her murder and kept her. When he died, I think his son found her buried in the back yard. Then he reburied her were she belonged"
A/N: So I didn't get that many reviews on the last chapter. If I don't get to many on this chapter I'll go back and rewrite the last on. Sorry if this is a bit late, I had writers block and was too occupied fiddling with my new laptop. Anyway thanks for reading and please review, also tell me if you want TATE in it.
Chapter 10 Serial rapist and Murderer
"Kelly, we need to talk." Gibbs said walking into the lab as Kelly was finishing with McGee. He walked out.
"What's up Daddy Dearest?" Gibbs rolled his eyes and laughed.
"We have a suspect and possibly a problem."
"What's the problem with having a suspect? Unless you can't find him, maybe I might be able to find him, is he dead, because if he's dead it's okay that's enough closer for me unless it's not for you…" She was rambling again this time though Gibbs wasn't in a very patient mood at least not for this.
"Kel, he is dead but he has a son. His name was Aaron Jacobson. He was a…" Kelly interrupted.
"Yeah I know, he was a serial rapist and murderer." She said in a serious and sad kind of tone.
"Yeah, well, we think that his son was from one of his victims. However, the only one missing long enough was… was…" Gibbs couldn't say it. No matter how tough someone was it would be hard for anyone to admit something like that to their own daughter.
"From mum." Kelly finished for him looking at him with sadness in her eyes. Gibbs went over to hug her. She stepped back, "What's his name, my half brother, I mean."
"His name is.. it's…" Tony and Kate were standing just beyond the door way.
"I've never seen him like this Katie."
Kate elbowed him gently enough so he wouldn't cry in pain and give away their position but enough to warn him.
"What would you be like Tony?"
"I don't know, I've never thought of anything like this."
"His name is Jonathon. He lives in Bethesda, we are trying to contact him now."
Kelly gave in and walk over and hugged him tightly, and he hugged back. "Kel, there's something else. I need to know why you want me to call you Kelly. I know there is more than wanting to remember to it."
Kate looked at Tony, "We should go," she said looking at the time.
"To lunch?" Tony offered. They had been going out to lunch together for a while. Nothing happened they just talked in a way Kate never knew DiNozzo could.
"umm sure." And with that they both left giving Gibbs and Kelly some privacy.
"I was abused and bullied by other children when I was younger. Because of my appearance, because I didn't look like my family my "brother" even abused me." Kelly said starting to cry from the memories. "I don't want that life anymore," She was sobbing slightly, "I want my life, not the one that was made up for me. I want the one that I was meant to have, the one with my real parents." She was once again in Gibbs' capable arms. This wasn't like her, she was usually strong. A tower of strength that never wavered. As he held her he breathed in her scent. She was wearing Shannon's perfume. He smiled and pulled her face up to look face to face. He kissed her forehead and whispered in her ear, "I love you, you will always belong with me and I will never take you for granted."
"Thanks Gibbs, you always know what to say." He wiped away her tears and kissed her nose, "I like your perfume." He said as he walked out. He had done all he could. She smiled and went back to work, turning her music on and singing her heart out.
AN hope you liked it. I don't think its my best but its something tell me what you think. What should I change, Am I doing anything wrong, Could I do something better? I really like your feedback and will more often than not put it into the story. Anyway in the mean time all you need to do is push that little "go" button to give me my much wanted reviews
Author's Chapter Notes:
I cant remember whats where. Just a continuation I suppose. I know that at least Kate and McGee find out i think Tony aswell.
Chapter End Notes:
chapters 6-10 here because once again im to lazy to do it one by one. I always seem to forget to update here when i update fanfiction.net owell sorry so here it is.