NEW YEAR'S FIREWORKS 1

By peppe1951

Summary: The team is bored and the dare game begins with fireworks of its own.

Warning: Disciplining of an adult. Don't like? Don't read! Disclaimer: NCIS belongs to CBS and Paramount; I only write about them.

Chapter 1

"I dare you!"

The argument had started after the team had returned from the Christmas/Hanukkah holiday. McGee had been filled in to his new stasis as an honorary Gibbs and how the little family had been born.

Abby had also made sure that McGee knew about Gibbs' gift from Santa and to be on his guard from any of Tony's schemes, when the dare game started.

At first the dares were small and harmless like taking one's stapler off their desk without being caught but soon they started getting a little more risky, like sneaking up on Gibbs and "borrowing" something from his desk and then returning it later after their boss had searched for it. Tony had dared Ziva to do it and she had accepted without hesitation.

The item she had borrowed was his reading glasses right after he had absently put them back on his desk as he got up to visit Abby's lab. His team watched in gleeful silence as he searched his desk for those glasses before getting up in disgust and going out for some coffee.

Tony was quick to call Abby and keep her in the loop on the ongoing prank and to invite her up to see its outcome.

It was all Ziva and Tony could do not to laugh out loud at Gibbs' expression when he returned with coffee in hand to find his glasses right where he had left them to begin with.

Abby had returned to the squad room only moments before Gibb's arrival so she could share in the prank by watching Gibbs' expression as he noticed his glasses. "Hey, Bossman, what's up…you look surprised?" she boldly asked.

Gibbs narrowed his eyes as he glazed around the squad room trying to decide if he had been set up or not but finding no evidence of it answered Abby with a smile, "Yep, it must be time for my annual eye exam; I would have sworn that those glasses weren't there before…oh, well. What's up with you Abby?"

"Oh, I was just getting bored in the lab with no ongoing cases," she replied vaguely, "and thought I would come up for a visit just for a change of scenery."

Gibbs nodded and returned to his work and Abby wandered over to Tony and whispered, "Boy that was good. Ziva's going to have to come up with something wild to top it."

Tony nodded reluctantly, he was scared that Ziva's dare would be so wild that they were all suffer for it. He should have thought of something that didn't include the boss.

"Well, I guess I've seen enough scenery; I'm going back to my lab," Abby said out loud, before whispering to Tony, "where it is safe."

Tony glanced at Ziva and saw that she had her focus on the cold case she was studying and gave a sigh of relief. It looked like he was safe for the time being. What Tony didn't realize was that Ziva was using the cold case as a shield for what she was researching…the perfect dare.

"Come on Ziva," pleaded Tony, "the suspense is killing me…haven't you come up with a dare yet?"

"Oh, yes, and one for the season, too," replied Ziva as she looked him in the eyes. "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and we will be working, for my dare I want you to plant a small firework near Gibbs' desk and set it off," she said before adding, "Oh, and Gibbs has got to be sitting at his desk at the time."

Tony's eyes grew at the pronouncement of the dare and he turned a sicky shade of green with the last part. "What are you trying to do to me, Ziva?" he hissed in horror. "Gibbs will kill me!"

"Only if he catches you, Tony. You didn't seem to care when you dared me to snatch something off his desk and then return it."

"Yeah, but he wasn't sitting there at the time of the snatch, ZeeVah!"

"Does this mean that you refuse?" taunted Ziva.

Tony ran his trembling hand over his face before he replied, "No…I'll do it, but beware your next dare is going to be impossible to perform," he promised.

"That is if you are successful with this one," replied Ziva with a smirk as she picked up the phone to call and tell Abby of the dare.