What's in a name – the time of reckoning is come. Buchanan doesn't get mad, she gets even with DiNozzo and his name calling. Set anytime after Entertaining and Honor Bound.

Don't get mad

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2, by Shakespeare

"Don't get sick on the crime scene, McBarf Bag."

"McCranky woke up on the wrong side of the bed today."

"McDetail, where is my list?"

"McFreaky, where did you get that tie?"

"McGoogle, nobody likes a know-it-all,"

"Boss, I think McGPS got us lost. Again."

"Probie"

"Probie-san"

"Hey, Probie wan Kenobi"

"Probie."

"Probie."

"Probie."

"Probie."

"Probie."

"Will you please SHUT UP!" shouts Joy at DiNozzo, surprising both McGee and Ziva, who stop to stare at their teammate. During the first months of Joy Buchanan's stay in NCIS, Tony knew not to call McGee anything other than his own name, as the new agent was very sensitive to his joking and always corrected him, but he had forgotten, and returned to his old ingrained habit of razzing his colleague.

Tony looks at her, as if she had grown a second head, "what is the problem, Probette?"

She squints her eyes, and approaches Tony, who finally realizes that he is in very present danger of being hurt badly, menacingly. "My name is Joy Buchanan, not Probette, and if you call me that again, we will have new art on the walls of the squad room, because I will decorate the walls of the bullpen with your guts," she hisses, "and use your scalp as a trophy on my desk," she says, mad with fury.

Tony gulps, but stands his ground, "come on, you don't have to be so sensitive, it is only friendly banter, McGoo knows that it is…"

"McGee." "Yes." I'm not talking to you," she says, looking at her new partner. She looks at Tony, "his name is McGee, Timothy McGee," she shakes her head, "how many times do I have to tell you that so that it can enter your thick skull that his name," she approaches Tony and start pronouncing each word slowly, as if to a child, "is Timothy McGee," she stares Tony in the eyes, and, even though she is quite shorter than the senior agent, he is properly intimidated.

"I know his name is McGee, but…"

"Do you have any idea how demeaning is every single time you create one of your silly nicknames for him? Do you even imagine the type of mental scars they might create?"

That shuts up Tony, who looks chagrined at McGee, who is looking at Buchanan with an astonished expression.

He still tries to salvage the situation, "he's a big boy, if he was uncomfortable with this he would have said something before, you don't have to defend him."

"It doesn't matter," Buchanan shakes her head at Tony, not pissed off at him, just sad, "it still hurts, regardless of what you might think." She studies Tony for a second, "If I hear you saying any other demeaning nickname to him," she points to McGee, and looks cunningly at Tony, "you will be in for the surprise of your lifetime," and she turns, goes to her desk and goes back to work.

Tony looks at McGee, who still has an astonished expression on his face thanks to the fierce protection of his new partner, and then at Ziva, who can barely contain her mirth at the show she just watched.

"At least she didn't threaten you with paperclips," says Ziva, who is playing with her paperclips, looking at him, smiling.

Tony goes back go his desk, sits down, all the time muttering under his breath about crazy hormonal women with murderous tendencies.

He watched out so he would not incite the new teammember's wrath again, but he got lazy and comfortable, and of course, he forgot (or simply didn't want to believe in) the death threats given by Buchanan.

"Oh great McOz, how can't you find a single file I ask you to look for me?

"ARRGGGH!"

They only heard her roar before her attack.

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