Thoughts

Kate POV

The past week has been crazy. All three homes of Aunt Nettie, Aaron and his family, and Ziva are in the process of being packed. Gibbs has reassured the Paris NCIS office that Ari and I are cleared to work although not much has been done because our terrorist refuses to speak. Speaking of Gibbs he and Ari have reached an unspoken agreement, they will not kill or injure each other and all three of us are raising Kait together. Neither of us has told Gibbs that we're going to D.C. today. Ari is also handing jurisdiction over to the new Paris Mossad Officer Michael Rivken.

"Kaitlyn, are you ready to leave?" Ari asked me wrapping his arms around me from behind.

"Yeah just let me put this in my carryon." I answered closing my diary and putting it in my bag.

"Are you sure about me living with you and Kait?" I asked Ari leaning against him.

"There is nothing I would like more." He answered kissing my neck softly.

"It's time to leave, love." He said as softly as he had kissed me a second ago.

"I don't want to move." I told him just as softly.

"Mom, Dad, Papa's leaving." Kait said poking her head through the door.

"We'll be right down." Ari replied stepping away from me grabbing onto my hand. Yet more that changed though for the better. Ari and I finally admitted our feelings to each other and Kait began to call Gibbs Papa.

"I expect to see you at work first thing Monday morning in two weeks." Gibbs said shaking my hand then Ari's.

"Good bye, Gibbs." Ari said

"Good bye, Haswari." Gibbs replied. I guess he said bye to everyone else. I thought.

Gibbs POV

"Good morning, Mrs. Wince." I called to my next door neighbor sitting on her porch.

"Good morning, young Leroy." She called back and by her tone I knew there was some juicy piece of neighborhood gossip she wanted to tell me. Aside from being the resident 'Grandma' to everyone on our street Mrs. Wince was also the main person to get any gossip from.

"Well aren't you going to ask me what's happened while you were away?" Mrs. Wince asked rocking her chair just a little harder.

"What happened while I was gone?" I asked hoping to get this over with quickly so I could go down to my basement and have some good old bourbon.

"Three houses sold on our street and all to the same family." She said a smug look on her face.

"Well that should be interesting." I said hoping this wouldn't add any more gossip to the older woman's rumor mill. It wasn't that I didn't like her it was just difficult being the only one near enough for her to tell everyone else's gossip to.

"They bought the house next to you, across from you, and next to me." Mrs. Wince said. There was only one family I knew that would want to be that close to each other and they were in Paris not here. I really need that bourbon now.

"Excuse me, Mrs. Wince, I have a lot of unpacking and cleaning up to do." I said hoping to make a break for it.

"Of course, young man you must be exhausted from wherever you went this time." Mrs. Wince said fishing for information.

Ari POV

We were nearly done moving in the only thing remaining was my girlfriend and daughter fighting over what decorations went where. It was the first true fighting between the two. They were both used to doing the finishing touches themselves and I was doing my best to stay out of it.

"My phone's ringing." I lied to leave those two glaring at each other but as I reached the master bedroom where my cell was it really did start ringing.

"Haswari." I answered.

"Haswari, it's Rivken. The terrorist escaped. He was being transported when the vehicle containing him was attacked. All the guards were killed and the only thing left in his place was a picture of you, and your two girls." Rivken reported. I dropped the phone.

Gibbs POV

If was my first time home since the first night back from Paris. We got a double homicide, a Marine and his girlfriend, it ended up being a man who was mentally unstable stalked a woman and was upset she was with someone else so he killed them both.

As I walked up my front stairs I had the urge to turn around since I always follow my gut I turned around looking at the house across the street.

"Papa!" I heard from the house to my right.

"Kait?" I identified where she was in time to catch her as she threw her arms around me in a hug.

The last chapter of Kait Haswari. The next story (when I get to it) will be about how Kait and her cousins chase down the terrorist while the adults are 'occupied.' It will also contain a few new members to the family as well as the team's reaction to our new favorite family.