I'm a DiNozzo

See No Evil (15)

"Tell me where she is." Watson hissed to the camera.

"Lorton Amtrak station." the computer replied, and I took off up the ramp out of MTAC.

"Tony what are you doing?!" Kate called quietly after me.

"You got your good faith gesture, now get back to work."

"Getting the kid." I replied shortly.

"My people are on their way Captain, tell her to stay where she is." Gibbs said, telling Kate to go with me.

"When I'm a mother, I'm never letting my kids out of my sight." Kate decided out loud as we reached the station.

"Yeah? How do you plan on doing that?" I asked, my head on a constant swivel, looking for the little girl.

"GPS locator strapped to the ankle, audio and video surveillance built into their clothes."

"No, I mean the part about becoming a mother."

Kate laughed wryly. "Funny. Area looks clear to me."

"Me too, let's go get that kid."

She was scrunched up next to the telephone box she'd used to call her dad, sobbing. "Sandy?" I asked calmly, kneeling down in front of her. "My names Tony,"

"And I'm Kate. We're NCIS agents, that stands for-"

"I know what it stands for," Sandy insisted. "They spoke at my school." I sat down next to her, gently lowering my arm around her shoulders. She didn't recoil but shrugged off her backpack, leaning into me a little. I drew small shapes on the shoulder farthest from me: it was something I'd do when Ellie was littler and scared.

"Well then you know that we're here to help you." Kate continued.

"Your daddy sent us, we know what happened to you and your mum, but you're safe now. Okay? I'll keep you safe."

Sandy sniffed. "I heard him."

"Heard who, honey?" Kate inquired, bending down to put a hand on Sandys rope bruised wrists.

"He didn't know it but I heard him." another sniff "He told my mom, he. . . he. . . he's gonna to make my dad suffer." Kate and I made eye contact at that.

...

"Well she's 8 and blind Ducky, I mean it's not a great help in a situation like-" Ducky held up a finger to cut Kate off there.

"Sandy, are you thirsty?" Ducky whispered.

"A little bit," She replied in the next cubical. "More just hot."

"I got this," I assured them, taking a rubber band off of my desk. "Oh wait, no, we don't like rubber bands." I grabbed the hair tie off of Kates desk. Reaching Sandy again, I took out her hair clips and left them on the desk. I pulled her hair off of her neck, and carefully braided it. I twisted it into a bun, and secured it with the hair tie.

I blew gently on the back of her neck, the ac being very broken, and her being very scared, the cool air would help. At least it helps Ellie when I do it.

"DiNozzo, since when do you know how to braid hair?" Kate asked.

"There's a lot you don't know about me Kate."

"But you only have one sister who's younger than you, and I doubt you could keep a girlfriend long enough for one of them to teach you."

"Shut it you two," Gibbs said "Sandy, can you tell us anything about the car you were driven in?"

"Well, it was a van, and there were no windows in back." She replied.

"How could you tell?" Kate prompted.