NCIS: Far from ordinary

Chapter 1

All he could do was start at his sheet of paper that was a blank as his thought process. The eyes of Timothy McGee stared vacantly at the sheet of paper in his typewriter. A feeling he'd been through before but each time found to be incredibly annoying. McGee found his gaze shifting from the typewriter, to a digital clock on a table beside him. It was a slow and almost painful feeling watching minutes slip by and still nothing was done. The clock read 1:34 am, which would normally be bad considering that in about 4 hours he'd have to be awake to head to work at NCIS headquarters.

He normally would've been a sleep hours ago. Unless it was a late night at the office then going to sleep now would've been par for the course. Tonight though he felt less guilty about staying up late as he had tomorrow off work. Still though he probably should've been a sleep a couple of hours ago. As a writer he'd feel bad if he couldn't put out at least a couple of pages whenever he sat down to write.

After taking as much as he could of staring at the clock and the page McGee got up and entered the bedroom door behind him. He turned right and made his way to his almost uncomfortably cramped bathroom. Tim ran his sink and washed his face, he looked up at his mirror. Normally a man his age should be out on the town as they say. Meeting women and having even one night stand would be great at this moment. However his slightly and almost mommas boy face paired with his geeky personality almost made it unlikely in this day and age.

With an almost disappointed look in his eyes Tim looked to his mirror and huffed before saying.

"Come on Tim get it together. You'll break this writer's block soon or later. In the mean time I guess I better get some sleep"

He turned out the lights in his bathroom and crawled into his bed, wrapped himself in his black duvet cover and went to sleep.

3 hours later in a small motel outside city limits…

It wasn't much the brag about, or place to even to write home about. The L shaped 2 storey motel had an old folk's retirement home in Florida feel. The dreary rain and chipping paint though had an almost haunted contemned feeling to the place. On the second floor standing by a vending machine the looked ready for the scrap heap was a tall broad shouldered man in blue jeans, white t-shirt, and a baseball cap stands in front of it. He was trying to make a choice from the machine. Between the flickering lights and the pouring rain it made it a little hard to focus on selecting a meal. A sticker to the side caught the attention of his blue eyes. Stating that the last time the machine was service was April of 04.

'Hope the foods been replaced since then' He thought.

He put in some money and took 3 candy bars from the machine. He ran down the hall the last room and got inside as quickly as he could. The room was not very spacious; it had a twin sized bed with a 3 drawer shelf across from it. An old green couch across from it. Tacky pictures of costal scenes on the walls and a bathroom with a bulb that was close to sounding like a bug zapper. On the bed already was a white woman, she was in track pants and a t-shirt, had fairly nice body with face that most would describe as Hollywood girl next door. She watched the TV showing the evening news with her arm around a little girl no more then 4 years old in pink pajamas holding a stuffed rabbit fast asleep.

"How long ago did she fall asleep?" The man asked as he put the candies and cap on the small side table to his left.

"She was close to a sleep when we got her Daniel" She responded.

"She's your daughter she could sleep on command if she had to" Daniel said trying to make a joke.

She gently moved her arm off her daughter and made sure she was comfortable before she got up. The woman reached into a plastic bag on the couch and pulled out a small plastic cup. She way to the bathroom pouring her some water from the tap it wasn't spring water fresh or refrigerated cold but in this case she couldn't complain. Daniel rested against the door frame.

"Amanda I'm sorry…we had to get away…" He said.

Amanda turned to face him with a look on her face approaching pissed. He could see her anger start to build with each breath he took.

"The only reason we had leave is because you got us mixed in with those people" Amanda said while making sure she kept her voice down.

She almost shoved him aside as she made her way to the bed. Daniel could only look at her from where he was. He knew she was right; the reason his family was where they were now was because he made a mistake. Only thing he could hope for was that this mistake wouldn't cost his family their lives.

Later at 9:30 am…

The alarm clock buzzer went off and despite having a few hours of sleep. McGee found it rather easy to get out of bed. He went to his standing wardrobe to pick out some casual clothes for the day. He thought he'd go out in the morning, run a few errands. Then maybe go pick up a new book or two and settle in for the afternoon. Read a bit and maybe it'll help get the creative juices flowing. That idea was short lived though by the sound of his cell phone ringing on his bed side table.

McGee checked the caller ID before answering; the name Tony D was enough to bring an exasperated sigh out of him.

"Tony what ever date you were on last night you can wait till then next time I'm in the office to give me the "details" of your evening" McGee said rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"Funny probie but the boss says were heading out. Meet us at the Sleep Easy Motel just off freeway 9. Oh seeing as how you'll be last at the scene it'd be cool if you brought the coffee probie see you there" DiNozzo said then hung up quickly.

"I thought we had a new guy in the rotation so we could actually start getting days off…Like mine was supposed to be today" McGee pointed out.

"You would be right probie…if we still had a guy" Tony hesitantly said.

"Boss didn't agree with him?" McGee asked.

"More like the new probie wasn't up to the challenge of day in day out of work with Gibbs" Tony said.

The news was less the surprising to McGee but still disappointing none the less.

"I'll be out there ASAP" McGee said the hung up the phone.

McGee was a people pleaser and knew what it was like when their boss special agent Gibbs didn't get his coffee in the morning. So he made a stop at a Starbucks on his way and grabbed coffee for every one on his crew he assumed would be there. One for the sultry and attractive Mossad officer Ziva David, the skirt chasing homicide detective Anthony (Tony) DiNozzo, The always knowledgeable Dr. Donald (Ducky) Mallard, And their boss former Marine gunnery sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs. On his way out to the parking lot He looked down the alley and what caught his eye was a woman being held against a wall.

A ratty looking man who looked like he hadn't seen a shower in ages was holding a knife to her throat. Instinctively Timothy dropped the tray with the coffees, ran down the ally while keeping a safe distance he drew his gun.

"Freeze NCIS" Tim screamed.

"Piss off this has nothing to do with you" The ratty man replied.

"I won't tell you again…put the knife down" Tim said with authority behind his voice.

The ratty man gulped and dropped the knife and backed off. He went to his knees McGee then proceeded to cuff him. He went over to the woman to check if she was alright. What caught his attention aside from her hour glass figure under her pink tank top and black jeans was her hair and eyes. Her was neatly tied back in a pony tail and was as pink as cotton candy. Her eyes were the same color as her hair, he'd never seen contacts that color before but she was an attractive woman despite the over abundance of the color on her.

"Are you ok?" He asked.

"Thank you…You could've been hurt trying to stop him" The woman said.

"It's no big deal, I'm just doing my job" Tim responded with a smile.

"Well thank you regardless I wasn't sure what would've happened if you hadn't been here" She said.

It was then that Tim noticed a light coming from a bracelet on her left wrist. It was thin looking almost copper with a pink gem in its center piece. Tim looked at it rather intrigued by it.

"Is that some kind of mood gem or something?" He asked curiously as he walked the suspect towards his car.

"Something like that" She said.

He sat the guy in the back, figuring to just hand him over the local PD when he arrived at the scene. He turned around to address her again.

"You need me to call anyone…" Tim asked. When he looked back to where she was though there was no one to be seen.

Tim would've heard her use a door and he never heard her walk…so where the hell did she go. He admitted to being curious about it, but knew he had no time to wonder any more as he was already late getting to the crime scene. He got in his car where the only thing blaringly loud inside was the annoyed complaints by the detained suspect. McGee seemed right about the shower line as his stench was quite noticeable inside. McGee knew that between two factors, Gibbs lecture that was to ensue, and a surely annoying time from Tony's antics that it was going to be a long day.

The fact he dropped his coffee and the others he promised to bring wasn't helping his day either. McGee started his car and was on his way to the scene. Inside the alley though, there was something strange that McGee couldn't see. It was like a veil that seemed to appear from no where. The pink haired woman had just wrapped around her self. She disappeared from plain sight and no reappeared like a magician. As quickly as she appeared she shot straight up into the air like a rocket and about as fast as well.

She soared to heights that were on par with any jet and floated there, she raised her left fore arm like a flex then with his middle and fore fingers. She touched the gem on her bracelet.

She closed her eyes and when she opened them a few moments later they glowed as bright as the gem.

"I couldn't respond any sooner then this" She said.

Inside her mind though a voice was heard, stern and deep it was defiantly male.

"There were no problems I trust?" the voice asked.

"No, a human was attempting what's known on this world as a mugging. I was about to deal with the situation. When another human intervened, from the looks of things he was some kind of Law Enforcement officer on this world"

"Interesting…I didn't think the humans had defenders who responded so promptly"

"Nor did I, he must've been near by. It was not coincidence that I met this man. It was the will of the astrals that he came before me…I think I may have found Andro's "contract" on this world"