Kyle Luca, Age 18

December 13^th, 2036; it was a snowy sort of day on this particular December day. But this day was more than just a snow day for Kyle Luca. As usual he was the last kid out of Generation AO to turn eighteen.  Only in the recent past, Kyle Luca had revealed to his parents and eventually to his extended family that he had been dating/seriously involved with  Rachel’s eighteen year old daughter; Isabella “Bella”  Cranston. Of course that bit of information was the icing on the proverbial cake as far as the extended family went since they had recently learned that Madalyn was engaged to another member of the Cranston clan. Madalyn and Rachel’s eighteen year old son; Cooper “Coop” Cranston were engaged. Of course there was a twelve year age gap between Madalyn and Cooper, but no one said a word when it came to that since everyone knew if they had they would be on the receiving end of a head slap from Jethro; since there also was a twelve year age gap between him and his wife of thirty-seven years. It was odd to think that only two years ago Jenny and Jethro celebrated their thirty-fifth anniversary and that in a mere three years they would be celebrating their fortieth anniversary.  

All that pretty much replayed in anyone’s mind was the one line Tony said after he learned of his daughter’s engagement to Cooper, the one thing he had always said whenever Rachel was around or had just arrived; Doctor Kate’s sister. Of course as soon as Kyle Luca announced that he was dating Bella, Tim knew as well as Abby and the rest of the team that Tony wouldn’t be able to help himself when it came to making a reference to Kristen Stewart’s character from the Twilight Saga. All Kyle Luca wanted to do for his eighteenth birthday since Kate & Kassidy had a barbeque for their eighteenth birthday, Aliyah, Juliet & Zoey had their karaoke night for their eighteenth and of course Tali & Monique were overseas in Israel with their older siblings. In fact the DiNozzo kids were flying back to DC at the moment. They were still six hours away from landing at one of the DC airports.

Kyle Luca knew all of this; he also knew that by the time that Madalyn, Asher, Tali and Monique landed State side that they would want to do nothing but sleep due to the jetlag that would come from the eleven hour flight they were currently on. That was completely understandable so with all of this stored inside of what the others called Kyle Luca’s super genius mind. With everyone all over and doing their own things, Kyle Luca had decided that he wanted to visit the two colleges that he would be spending the next few years of his life at LSU and eventually GSU of course with his parents in tow. Abby was more than thrilled to be walking the grounds of her alma mater once again. Memories were flowing back to her from the minute she set foot on her old college campus. Both Kyle Luca and Tim knew how much this meant to Abby.

Of course with Abby away from the safety of NCIS and Jethro’s protection made Jethro all the more tense about Abby’s safety. Not that he didn’t completely trust Tim when it came to Abby’s safety, since Tim had kept Abby perfectly safe when they were down in Mexico some years ago. Jethro was just being Jethro as his daughters, his wife and his team put it. Jethro knew that Abby was perfectly safe.

So Abby showed her son and husband around to the various locales at LSU.  Tomorrow they would be heading over to Georgia to see the GSU campus. After the day long tour of the LSU campus the trio just wanted to crash in bed for the most part. As Caf-Pow fueled as Abby had been for the entire day, the caffeine high was coming to an end and she was crashing. Kyle Luca was tired but like Tony and pretty much any teenage boy in America; he was super hungry.

“Son, its past midnight and we’ve got another long day ahead of us. You need to rest; your mother will be taking us all over GSU later.” Tim advised his son as he got ready for bed in the hotel room the trio was sharing for their time in Baton Rouge.

“Dad, I’m hungry. We barely ate a thing today.”

“You sound like Tony.” Abby teased.

“Thanks Mom.”

Kyle Luca would be graduating from LSU in May of 2041 and would graduate from GSU in May of 2043. Kyle Luca would be twenty-three when he received his Bachelor’s degree then obviously he would be twenty-five by the time he had his Master’s degree.

“Fine, go grab a burger from the burger place we saw on our way back and come straight back.” Abby instructed her son.

“Okay. Thanks.”

“Son…”

“Relax, Dad; I have my knife and yes Mom before you ask I do have my phone one me too.”

With that Kyle Luca left his parents in the hotel room. Within seconds of leaving the hotel room, Kyle Luca’s cell phone rang.

“Mom, I’m not even out of the hotel yet.”

“Ky-Ky, It’s not your mom; it’s Bella and we need to talk now. It’s important.”

“Okay, fire away; Bells.” Kyle Luca said trying to hide the unsure tone his voice had.

One phone call and a trip to the local burger joint cut short lead Kyle Luca to return the hotel room completely ashen in his face. Abby asked her son what was wrong and of course Kyle Luca told his mom to forget about it. But Kyle Luca couldn’t; Bella and Rachel wouldn’t let him. Of course the minute his mother and Jethro found out what he was keeping to himself at the moment, they wouldn’t let him stand idly by.