Chapter 2 Walking

G impatiently hit the button in the elevator again. How did Gibbs stand this thing? It moved like an old lady! Then again, Gibbs treated it so poorly it wasn't a surprise. He had just got back from a two week under cover op in and had left Jaimie with Gibbs, who had become one of his few friends, along with the ME Ducky, and another agent, Stan Burley who schleped for Gibbs.

The elevator went off with a ding! G walked out the doors, eager to see his eight month old daughter again...

" Gibbs, I think something's wrong with the kid." Stan announced, peering at the baby who was sitting on the ground, staring back at him with crystal blue eyes.

" No Burley, there's something wrong with you." Gibbs growled while finishing a report.

" I'm serious! Look at her, she hasn't blinked in two minutes! There is something wrong Gibbs, I'm telling you!" Burley argued, Gibbs rolled his eyes and looked up from his report to the baby sitting up on the floor next the spare desk next next to his and across from the pain in the ass named Stan Burley.

Jaimie was glaring at the Senior Field Agent like she thought he was about to do something stupid. Gibbs personally agreed. Her blue eyes didn't move from his, even when they were talking which would usually caught an infant's attention like Caf Pow and Abby. Gibbs vaguely wondered if Burley was right, but brushed the idea away.

" She's telling you to get back to work. Now." Gibbs retorted, Stan shrugged and continued writing, stealing secretive glances at the child to see if she was still glaring at him. She was. Gibbs watched her, wondering what on Earth could be making her act so oddly. Usually she would have crawled from here to Abby's lab and back in the last two minutes. She had escaped once when Gibbs was in the head, making the mistake of leaving Jaimie under Stan's watch. Stan hadn't realized that babies actually could move pretty fast and they spent an interesting half hour looking for the missing Callen, head slapping Burley, and getting calls from Abby every few minutes demanding if they had found her yet and suggesting a full building lock down. Eventually they did discover her hiding place, banging on the vending machine, earning a Snickers bar for her efforts.

Gibbs glanced back down at his report, wondering if he had been this annoying with Franks. He vaguely heard a familiar ding of the elevator and registered it as Ducky who said he would be coming by with food around now.

" Hey Boss?" Burley called, Gibbs sighed, deciding maybe working down at the coffee shop would be a better waste of his time. Without looking up, Gibbs growled.

" What?"

" We got a problem."

" Yeah we do."

" The kid can walk." Gibbs' head snapped up and he glared at Burley for a moment before glancing at where Jaimie had been sitting only moments ago. She wasn't there. Oh crap. Callen better get back soon, because a crawling baby was bad enough, but one that could walk would be like having another Burley on the team!

" Hey Gibbs, when did Jaimie learn how to walk?" Callen demanded, grinning as he stood up from behind the orange Bull Pen wall, holding his kid, as she smiled at the room, obviously proud of herself and her first wobbly steps. Gibbs spotted the smallest flicker of disappointment in the older set of blue eyes, knowing G had wished to be there when his daughter took her first steps.

" About two seconds ago when you walked in." he replied, and was happy to see Callen look even more delighted.

" But she learned how to head slap people about a week ago." Stan added, rubbing the back of his head absent mindedly.