Here's the 24th story in my series. If you haven't read the other stories, then I advise you to not proceed until you do. This is a series. It runs in sequence. To understand certain things (especially where Jamie came from), it's best to just start at the beginning. This series is kind of like my very own NCIS season 4. As of this point, the series consists of: story 1 = A Link to the Past (comes in 3 parts)… story 2 = Wrong Place, Wrong Time… story 3 = Second Job… story 4 = Daughters… story 5 = A Personal Vendetta… story 6 = Bless the Children… story 7 = Eyes of the Condemned… story 8 = Disturbing Affection… story 9 = No Man Left Behind (story that introduces Chioke; aka Kid)… story 10 = Finger Swap… story 11 = Imperfect Heist… story 12 = The Color of Skin… story 13 = Death to the Jedi… story 14 = Brotherly Love… story 15 = For the Love of a Child… story 16 = Devil's Playground… story 17 = Forced Alliance… story 18 = Firing up the Screws… story 19 = Close to Home (story that introduces Julianna)… story 20 = Last Place on Earth… story 21 = The Two of Me… story 22 = Saw… story 23 = Rise of Apocalypse… story 24 = Injected (current story). Hope you enjoy it.

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Author's Note: Just so you know, the disease in this story is purely fictional.

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*Thursday*

*Chapter 1*

In the wee hours of the morning, Gibbs walks down the stairs into his basement. There is too much running through his mind to actually get sleep. So quietly working on the boat seems to be the best alternative for the time being.

As Gibbs works on the boat and drinks his bourbon, he suddenly becomes lightheaded and his eyes blur. A weakness sweeps over him. In his mind, he knows he's going to faint. Gibbs crouches in order to lie on the floor but it's too late. He falls. And as he falls, his head knocks against the boat frame.

Seconds later, a person walks down the stairs and approaches the now unconscious Jethro Gibbs who is lying helplessly on the floor.

"Nighty night, brother." Jared Lucas Gibbs said as he kneels down near Jethro. He takes out a syringe and a vial. "Unfortunately for you, I need a guinea pig. I know we've had our differences with me blaming you for ruining my life and you blaming me for the death of our sister. But what's blame without a little bit of fun." He sticks the syringe into the vial. With pulling the plunger, the contents enter into the containment of the syringe. "This is just the next step in my agenda. And the excitement of what happens to you because of it is a bonus." Jared smiles sinisterly as he sticks the syringe into his brother's belly button and empties the contents. "Enjoy the gift I bestowed upon you." He chuckles evilly.

Gibbs awakes hours later.

He doesn't recall what happened. All he feels is grogginess as he stands up.

Gibbs quickly shakes it off and walks upstairs, thinking nothing of it. He walks into the foyer to where the stairs are. It's time to wake Julianna up and get her ready for school.

Julianna wakes up as Gibbs enters into the room. He approaches the bed of the eight-year-old girl.

"It's time to get up." Gibbs said. "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Umm…" Julianna takes a couple seconds to think. "Pancakes." She answered with a smile.

"Pancakes it is." Gibbs chuckled. Then he leans forward and kisses her on the forehead. Afterward, he leaves the room.

The first thing Julianna does is look at the picture frame on the night stand next to the bed. A smile cracks across her face as she remembers her mother. She takes hold of the picture.

"Love you, Mom." Julianna said. She kisses the picture then sets it down. After taking a deep breath, she hops out of bed.

Julianna finally makes her way downstairs to find her breakfast sitting on the kitchen table ready to be eaten. She sits down, begins to eat and Gibbs gets her a cup of milk.

"Thank you." Julianna thanked her temporary guardian.

"You're welcome." Gibbs leans down and kisses her on the forehead.

At the start of the work hour, Tony steps off the elevator onto the third floor of NCIS Headquarters. The team looks in the direction as Tony is singing a Frank Sinatra song.

"Hopefully you'll spare us what you did last night because I already have a headache." Ziva commented as Tony enters into the bullpen.

"Well…" Tony said with a thought in mind. "If I told you what happened, that would be inappropriate and insensitive to my colleagues. Especially to the Probie."

"Oh please." Ziva laughed. "Like you care about the new guy's feelings."

"It's not new guy or Probie. It's McPherson." McPherson said.

"It's Mc… Whatever I want to call you. Get used to it." Tony stated. "I know over the years I shared a bit much…"

"A bit much?!" Ziva said in shock. "I heard you tortured Kate with your excessive chatter about every single woman you slept with. You tortured McGee and still torture me." She added. "At least with being married you toned it down a notch."

"Okay, so last night Jamie was in an unusually frisky mood…" Tony begins to say.

Ziva's head falls onto her desk with a sigh as this isn't helping her headache. The thought of grabbing her gun and shooting Tony crosses her mind.

"I don't think this is appropriate workplace conversation." McPherson stated.

"We're all adults here." Tony said. "Except for you, McDancesWithWolves. You still struggling for the elders to allow you to cross into manhood? Fight the power!" He referred to the probationary status of the new agent.

"What the hell are you talking about?" McPherson wondered as he's utterly confused.

"I have no idea. I'm just in a weird mood today." Tony grins. He notices Jamie steps off the elevator. "Okay, so there we were lying on the bed. I was watching Magnum. It was my favorite episode. I'll tell you about it later. So I'm trying to watch the episode and Jamie kept…"

"I kept what?" Jamie wondered as she approaches.

"Kept quiet until the episode was over." Tony smiles innocently.

"Sometimes I wonder why I bother with you." Jamie said.

"Cause you think my boyish charm is unbelievably adorable."

"That, among other things." Jamie winks at him.

"I think I am going to be sick." Ziva commented.

Gibbs finally arrives at work. After entering into the building, he steps off the elevator and walks in the direction of the bullpen.

"Good morning, Daddy." Jamie said happily. She receives a kiss on the forehead.

"Good morning." Gibbs said back. "Is DiNozzo behaving himself, McPherson?" He asked as he walks to his desk.

A crumbled up piece of paper flies across the room and hits McPherson in the head. He takes the hint.

"Yes… He's behaving." McPherson said. He shakes his head and sighs because it's been three weeks of constant torture from DiNozzo.

Gibbs stops in his place with feeling a sharp abdominal pain before it quickly goes back to normal. The sudden pain and quickness of it subsiding seems to be odd to him. Then his vision blurs slightly before going back to normal seconds later. With hearing laughter of two people messing around, he realizes something. Gibbs turns around to see Tony playfully messing around with Jamie. An immediate, overwhelming anger sweeps over him.

"I warned you to keep your hands off my daughter!" Gibbs yelled. Everyone freezes in their places. He charges in Tony's direction.

Gibbs hops over Tony's desk; knocking all items out of the way. He tackles Tony to the floor and starts whaling on him.

"Daddy, stop it!" Jamie exclaimed as she tries to restrain her father from beating her husband.

Ziva and McPherson stand in shock as Tony tries hard to protect his face from the pounding of Gibbs' fists. Ziva quickly runs to aid in trying to detain Gibbs from the violent attack.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Jamie shouted. She and Ziva try hard to stop the attack, but they're proving to be unsuccessful. "Stop!" She yelled before deciding to do the only thing she can do; Jamie punches her father in the face.

Gibbs' face whips to the side. He becomes lightheaded, passes out and falls to the floor.

"He broke my nose." Tony cried in pain. "What the fuck?!"

"Call 9-1-1!" Jamie yelled at McPherson. She looks to her father in concern and shakes him slightly. "Daddy…"

With the situation, a grave concern sweeps over Jamie. The look on her father's face when he charged seconds ago was that of finding out about her and Tony for the first time. The unexplainable memory loss has Jamie extremely worried for her father.