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"Come on Jethro, are you ready to go yet?"

Fornell was getting impatient with Jethro. They had been standing at the street corner for the last fifteen minutes and people were stating to stare at them.

"I'm getting impatient. What are we waiting for?"

Jethro looked at Fornell and cocked his head.

"Is there something on my face?"

Jethro looked across the street at the restaurant that Fornell had come out of fifteen minutes earlier with McGee.

"Are you wondering what I was doing with McGee? I'm not trying to steal him from you. Just borrowing him for a case. Nothing more than that."

Jethro turned back to Fornell and stared at him again.

"What? You should be used to this by now Jethro. He's the best and the FBI always wants the best working their cases. It'll only be for a week max. Once we get the hacker that's been trying to ruin our network, McGee is all yours again. He doesn't need to do anything else at this moment."

Jethro took one step towards Fornell and Fornell started to feel nervous.

"How is this bothering you Jethro? You know what happens on the job. Hell even you've been borrowed by other departments before. Why are you angry now?"

Fornell looked across the street where McGee was talking with his coworkers. Why isn't he hurrying up? He knows Jethro gets angry when I have to borrow him.

Jethro's eyes seemed to be boring into Fornell's by now and Fornell was starting to get visibly nervous. The intensity of Jethro's gaze was seen by the passersby as well and they in turn looked at Fornell to see if they could figure out why he was getting such a disdainful look. This seemed to make the FBI agent more nervous as his eyes wanted to look at anything else besides Jethro's eyes.

Jethro however didn't seem to be affected by how others were looking at them. He only appeared interested in anything else Fornell had to say about his borrowing McGee.

Fornell gave in at this point and kept talking. "Come on Jethro. You know how this works. McGee isn't transferring agencies. At the end of it all he'll still be coming back to you."

That wasn't good enough for Jethro though and he continued to stare at Fornell until Fornell had to look away again. People were starting to stop and look at them to see what was going on and how things were going to end. It was obvious to all of them that Fornell did not have the upper hand in this conversation, if it could be called that.

"Come on Jethro, throw me a bone here. I know this makes you mad. If it weren't for the higher ups demanding that McGee work from FBI headquarters instead of at NCIS this wouldn't be a problem would it? If this wasn't such an important case, I'd get them to agree to letting McGee do that, but sometimes we don't always get our way. You know that this is important. Besides this should be a compliment to you and NCIS. If we had someone as skilled as McGee at the FBI, we never would have needed him to do this. Of course we might never have gotten into this mess in the first place either."

Jethro just continued to stare at Fornell.

McGee stood at the other corner with Tony and Ziva.

"How do you think Jethro took it, McGee?", Ziva asked.

"Well knowing him, not well. I don't think he likes that I'm going to be away for a week. He knows that I like doing field work and having to go to the FBI and do computer work for them is almost like an insult to him. Even if it is to help them and they're almost begging me for help."

"Yeah, Probie, if taking you out to lunch every day this past week so you'd agree to help them can be called begging." Tony stated.

"I agree. They are more like graveling for your help McGee."

"Groveling, Ziva. And yes, they do seem to be groveling."

"So are you going to be helping them, McGee?"

"Yeah. I just really wanted the opportunity to see Fornell beg for something. I don't think that will happen again anytime soon. Besides if I really am the only person that can help them then I should. If someone really is trying to hack into the FBI database and mess with their files then it's a really serious matter."

Tony shook his head. He enjoyed seeing the FBI have to beg for help and he would have enjoyed it more if it had been Sacks begging instead of Fornell.

"Well if you really are going to help him, you should put him out of his misery soon. There is nothing more pathetic than a begging Fornell even if we have been enjoying it for the last week and a half."

"I will. By the end of the day anyway. I think we have some reports to go over in the office and lunch time is over. I need to get Jethro back to my apartment before he thinks it's time for his run. Or I could get Fornell to take him."

The three of them looked across the street to where Fornell and Jethro the dog were standing. People seemed to be actively avoiding the pair and Tim could see why. Fornell looked like he was starting to cower at the intense stare Jethro was giving him. It was more intense than his namesake's when you were under it long enough.

They started walking towards Fornell and he seemed relieved that Tim was here to claim back Jethro.

"Your dog is more intimidating than your Boss, Mcgee."

Tim smiled and said, "Oh I don't think so. You just need to know how to handle Jethro. The Boss on the other hand is in a world of his own."

"Yeah right, and I work for him."

"If you did, Fornell, you wouldn't be here right now would you?", Gibbs replied behind him.

Jethro gave a bark at his feet as if agreeing with him. Tim, Tony and Ziva all looked at Fornell in amusement.

Fornell on the other hand looked ready to pull what was left of his hair from his head. He was getting The Stare from both Jethros now and didn't like it. "Agent McGee, please let me know if you're going to assist us on this case soon. I'll need to know so we are ready when you are. Good Bye." As he turned away he muttered "I can't take this much longer. Jethro is going to kill me soon if I have to keep coming by."

The team plus Jethro all turned towards the Navy Yard to head back to work. Jethro having the pleasure of joining his owner at work today to hunt down some missing drugs from their current case.