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Chapter Two
Half an hour later and team Gibbs were working the crime scene after hearing the announcement Gibbs realised that the McGee's needed time to talk and respectfully gave them the space to do so, by get his team working on the case in hand, which they had now nearly finished processing thanks to the work McGee had already done.
"Wow" Tony stated as he saddled up besides Gibbs "an Omega. That's, that's rare"
"Very" Gibbs agreed with a nod, "It will be an honoured for our pack to not only have his presence but to protect Tim"
"Yes but what type of Omega is he? A true or a standard?" Kate questioned
"More likely a standard, though either way it will be a risk" Ziva stated watching Tim as he argued openly with both his father and his alpha, seemingly getting more frustrated by the moment
"I'm not so sure and risk is nothing we're not use to Ziva" Kate bristled
"So they never said what the third option is" Tony said questioningly changing the topic quickly
"Too stay, fight and die as a pack" Gibbs replied
NCIS
Michael smirked, from where he was watching, team Gibbs as he split his attention between them and his nephew. Michael knew full well that Gibbs understood the situation and could hear him explaining the last option to the present members of his pack, he could also sense Gibb inner battle with his desire to do more than just protect his nephew, but right now he needed to focus more on his nephew.
It was taking a long time to talk his nephew down from the third option and the other members of the pack weren't helping by protesting wildly, especially as they could tell he had already chosen the first option, even his sons had scream at him when they heard his thoughts, but he over ruled all of them, and reluctantly one by one they had fallen in line as they accepted his possible fate, even if they didn't like. Tim on the other hand was proving more of a challenge.
[I don't need protecting am a federal agent for crying out load!] Tim continued complaining, trying to get the packs discussion turned in to a more private one way from the ears of Gibbs and his team, even though he already knew the argument was lost. He had heard his cousins' thoughts including the ones they had tried to mask, which was the one thing they didn't realise, unlike the rest of the pack, Tim could hear them and it hurt.
Guilt had flooded his emotions, in the moments after his uncle had made his announcement. It only intensified on hearing his cousins and didn't subside during the heated arguments that had taken place since. He seemed to be losing his ability to think straight and a strange sensation started building within him.
"Oh my god Timothy – no son, not now, not here!" Daniel McGee protested as he suddenly became aware of what was about to happen. His concern cut across the open space reaching the ears of the others and the agents turned in time to see Tim shudder uncontrollably as his first shift started to take hold.
Unable to prevent what was happening, Daniel and Michael moved to support their young pack member, as Gibbs and the rest of his team hurried over to offer the little support they could, by forming a human wall to enable some privacy. A wolf's first change was always the hardest and most painful, and Tim was unprepared for its unexpected and captivating hold, not only due to the fact it was happening so suddenly, but because a first change usually only happened around the time of a new moon, which was over a week away.
Tim fell to the ground as his muscle and tendons contorted, before reforming and stretching into a new shape and a new wolf was born. Light golden hair was, at first, all the surrounding group could see, a whimper escaped as Tim finally moved and looked up at the surrounding group completely unfocused.
"Oh son" Daniel stated softly, his voice full of pride and sadness at the same time, as he ruffled his child's hair as large green eyes finally refocused and looked up at him. Gibbs knelt down next to Dan McGee to offer more support.
"Tim" Gibbs said softly to gain his attention, Tim turned and whimpered as the movement felt strange, however the moment Tim's eyes meet his, Gibbs felt Tim's wolf answer the imprint Gibbs wolf had sent the last time the team where in Norfolk, it was instantly overlaid with Tim's own imprint which his Gibbs wolf immediately accepted. Several things then happened simultaneously
"My mate" Gibbs gasped low enough that only the McGee's heard him
"Wow" Kate stated surprised from where she and the others had been subtly watching, still making up a human wall.
"Oh come on Kate you've must have seen a wolf imprint before" Tony said sarcastically not fully understanding what Kate was referring too or what he had just seen himself, after all males only imprint on females and vice a verse, didn't they?
"Of course I have Tony – I've just never witnessed a double imprint before" Kate responded, just before she realised what she had let slip
"Double imprint?" Tony questioned clearly confused
"Tell him, Kate" Gibbs growled "You've been dying too for weeks"
However before Kate could say a word, Dan McGee launched himself at Gibbs "You imprinted on my son!" Snarling and grabbing at him, sending them both flying backwards towards the ground
Both Tony and Michael moved to stop the fight that was about to ensue, but everyone's attention was suddenly back on Tim who had gotten to his feet when the commotion started only to howl in pain and full back heavily to the ground on his right side
"Gibbs, he's hurt more than he informed us" Ziva stated clearly alarmed as she knelt down before running her hand over the area just below the front left leg, only to have Tim howl a seconded time, before he turned his focus directly to her snarling. Ziva immediately realised her mistake and removed her hand
"I'm sorry McGee" Ziva said moving her hand to the front of his face, Tim allowing the comfort offered, whimpering in response as the three older men once again knelt down around Tim
"How bad is it Ziva" Gibbs questioned, not able to keep the concern for his new, but yet to be claimed, mate out of his voice
"I believe he has a several crack and may be a couple of broken ribs"
"He's been in pain the whole time and never said anything!" Tony exasperated
"That's my son for you" Dan McGee replied without even looking up from where he watched a Tim nuzzled his face into Gibbs hand, which had now replaced Ziva's "He always seems to manage to hide things from us"
"Looks like the decisions been made for us" Michael stated plainly referring to the imprinting they had just witnessed
"What?" Daniel startled as he snapped his attention to his Alpha
"Tim goes with his mate, and the rest of us go to Australia"
[Uncle….] Tim tried to protest, only to remember he couldn't be heard. The whole pack knew, and Tim had been informed upon reaching the age, that they lost all of their abilities for a while after the first shift into a wolf took place, in fact it took several shifts before the abilities started to come back and would be even longer until he would be able to communicate outwardly again as wolf and human, though the others member of the pack would still able to talk to him.
"Right now Tim can't argue" Michael stated almost triumph-full before he turned to Gibbs and his team to explain what he meant realising they didn't understand when he saw the shocked and quizzed looks they gave him "We lose are abilities for a while when we first turn, it will be several days, maybe even a couple of weeks before he'll get them back"
Michael then seemed to suddenly sense something and sniffed the air "and I smell company coming"
"Where's Tim's car?" Gibbs questioned as he realised they needed to act fast, lifting Tim as gently as he could, shaking his head at the weightlessness of his mate, in wolf form.
"The brown one over there" Dan responded, as he point out an old brown car, that definitely looked like it had seen better days due to the fact that it was covered in rust, he may not like what had happen between his son and Gibbs, but the need to protect his son overwrote everything else
"Tony, Kate, Ziva finish wrapping this up and get the hell out of here" Gibbs barked
"What about you, boss?" Tony immediately question his Beta position kicking in
"I'm going now, with Tim" Nodding his head towards Tim's car as he started walking
"What about Tim's things?" Ziva questioned
"We can get them packed up and sent to you, if you give us an address" Michael informed her as he open the back door of Tim's car and helped Gibbs lay Tim across the back seat, before covering him with a light blanket that Dan had snatch from the green vehicle and handed to him, only to receive a confused look from Tim
"It will be a couple of hours, at least, before you turn back Timothy, and when you do you'll be as naked as the day you were born, and although I'm sure agent Gibbs won't mind, others might" Michael smirked as he explained, before he moved back out and closed the door, then hand over the keys to Gibbs
"Did you see?" he questioned after making sure he was out of earshot of the younger members of team Gibbs
"Yes" Gibbs replied, his mind awash with the realisation of what he had just seen and what it actually meant
"So he's a true Omega, just as his grandfather thought he would be. I'm relaying on you to take good care of Timothy in both forms, agent Gibbs, don't let him or us down"
Gibbs looked back at his mate, already out for the count on the back seat of the car "I'll keep him, safe I promise you that one alpha to another" Gibbs stated with authority, whilst he grabbed a pair of jeans from Tim's go back, which had been in the trunk of the cars and putting them on the front seat. Climbing into the old vehicle, he gunned it to life and before driving off without so much as a glance backwards.