Always On Your Side – An NCIS Fan fiction
By Mackenise Jackson
Summary: The NCIS team is forced to attend a week long team building camp.
Sure they can work as a team but will they survive each other company for a whole week... TIVA and some McAbby and if you are real lucky maybe a bit of Jibbs.
Disclaimer: I don't own them. Which of course everyone already knew.
AN: Sorry for the long delay RL got in the way. I have two more chapters written and will upload them in the next two days. This chapter is just a bit of a filler but the action will start real soon i promise and there will be Jibbs. Thank you for all the lovely reviews. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter.
Previously:
And with that she rang a bell and a young man appeared, introducing himself as Billy and before the team had time to gather their wits, they were ushered out of the building.
Only just hearing Irene mumble.
"I wonder what NCIS stands for?"
Chapter Four
Within moments the team was back at the car and unloading their luggage to take with them to their cabin. It was then that McGee noticed for the first time all the bags belonging to the Goth.
"Abs what's with all the bags" he asked.
"We're camping McGee you never know what we may need", Abby replied tossing a backpack on to her shoulder.
"Abby we are only here a week and we are staying in cabins, what could we possibility need that would fill three suitcases and a backpack?" asked a confused Tim.
"Just wait and see Timmy, by the end of the week you'll thank me" and with that Abby picked up a one of her suitcases and Bert and headed over to where Billy was waiting, throwing over her shoulder.
"I'll be back for the other two in a little bit"
"It's alright Abs I have it". Gibbs replied joining her seconds later, somehow managing to carry Abby's two suitcases plus his own small duffel bag.
Soon the other three agents had gathered their belongings and they too were standing with Abby and Gibbs, ready for Billy to take them to their cabin.
Billy led them along a path that wound through the trees, giving the team a great view of their beautiful surroundings. The camp was situated in a wooded area just outside a small town. This gave the camp lots of free space for team exercises, lots of quiet for teams to focus on each other as well as the ability for their guests to have nature on their doorstep. Paths headed every which way through the woods, with signs posted at each intersection to point guests in the right direction. As they walked Billy explained that the camp was broken up into six groups labeled A through to F.
Here Tony gave a quiet whisper "Oh that's original" he mocked and earned a glare from Ziva the only one to have heard him.
Billy continued on explained that each group had four cabins to it and they were number 1 to 4. He then explained that the dining hall and indoor rooms run down the middle of the camp with three groups (12 cabins) on either side and after the cabins were the fields where they played the various games and exercises. By the time he had finished speaking they were at their cabin.
Opening the door Billy led them into their home for the next seven days, once the team was inside he gestured towards the three doors that ran off the main room.
"Ok first room has a double bed and its own ensuite, usually the team leader takes that, while the other two each have two double beds and share an ensuite, all meals are down in the dining hall; breakfast is at seven, lunch at midday and dinner is served at six. Activities start at eight but that is already on the schedule you were given at reception so you know that and umm that's about it", Billy finally wrapped up, but before anyone could say anything Billy spoke again when he remembered he had more to say.
"Oh, if you have any problems please feel free to call reception, we will be more then happy to fix them for you." This time when he finished Billy headed for the door tossing goodbyes over his shoulder and then with a quick reminder to be back at reception by ten, he was gone.
There was a moment of silence as Abby and DiNozzo stared at each other and then quite suddenly they were off racing each other towards the doors Billy had pointed to, in a race to see who would get the better room, the men or the ladies.
After a quick assessment of both rooms a short discussion ensued before Abby declared herself the winner, claiming the better of the two rooms for herself and Ziva. With a giant grin Abby happily grabbed her bags and headed for the room she had claimed. Pouting Tony headed into the second room without a word.
The three agents left in the main room shared a silent look before each heading towards their rooms to unpack.
An hour and a half later, the team had finished unpacking and was back down at reception, standing amid other federal agents, military personnel and by the looks of it even some civilians. Everyone was listening as the camp's owner, a middle aged man named John, gave a run down of the general camp rules, the basic setup of the week and how things were going to run, some of this information the team had already heard from Billy.
John then proceeded to introduce the six group coordinators. Group A had a lovely middle aged woman named Cindy, and soon after John had finished addressing the camp, the four teams making up group A found themselves sitting in a small room with her.
"Hey isn't that…" Tony whispered to Gibbs pointing towards one of the other teams, but before he could even finish his sentence Gibbs head slapped him and Tony turned back to Cindy and fell silent.
Cindy gave a quick introduction of herself, turn out she was the owner's wife, and then went on to explain how things were going to work for the next few days.
"In a minute we are going to do some ice breakers, so you teams can get to know each other a little better but first I want to explain how this is going to work, on your team schedule, you will see you are down for either team activities, group activities or free time at any given time", here she paused for a moment before continuing.
"Look around you people, this is your group, these are the people you will be spending your time with when you are doing group activities, this is to help build good inter-agency relations. I suggest you try and work well together as we will be having a little competition on the Saturday, group against group." This time when she paused, she noticed none looked at all impressed with the group games on Saturday
"Bosses and Directors tend to inquiry about the results of these games" she added with a smirk and watched as nineteen grown adults paled. Suddenly a lot more interest was showed towards what she was saying.
She then went on to explain about team exercises and free time periods before asking all partners in the four teams to stand up.
Slowly eight slightly confused campers stood up, all being male/female combinations except one pair, a fact Cindy noted with interest.
"Alright you eight, you guys also get partner exercise tasks that you have to complete during the day. You are to be at reception half and hour before breakfast where you will receive a new task everyday, this starts tomorrow"
Gesturing for them to all sit back down Cindy turned towards the blackboard, not noticing the glances each partnership threw each other or the elbow to the ribs Tony gave McGee, when he caught him smirking at Ziva's and Tony's bad luck.
AN: Please R&R and let me know what you think
