Title: McGee Tube

Summary: Takes place after episode 5x05 "Leap of Faith". Tony decides to post an embarrassing video of McGee on YouTube. Trouble ensues, Gibbs sorts it out. WARNING: story contains non-sexual discipline of adults, if that's not your cup of tea, don't read!

Disclaimer: I own nothing. The following story is for fan entertainment only.

Chapter Four: Amends

The next day, Tony sat uncomfortably at his desk, trying to correctly phrase his apology to McGee. When he had finished writing what he thought was a decent attempt, he got up and placed it on his desk. Before McGee could pick it up, Gibbs made a request.

"Let me see that first, DiNozzo" Tony took the letter back and reluctantly handed it his boss.

McGeek,

Sorry for capturing your panic attack and entertaining Internet users world wide. It was a bad idea and I should have known you'd overreact. I won't do it again because if I do, Gibbs will kill me.

Your superior agent,

Tony

Gibbs finished reading and raised his eyebrows at Tony.

"Try again, DiNozzo. And if it's still not what I told you to do, you'll be spending the whole weekend writing" Tony took the letter back and returned back to his desk. He knew from past experience that writing lines for Gibbs was the last thing he wanted to spend his weekend doing.

Ziva shot Gibbs a questioning look, wondering what exactly Tony would be writing.

"You need something, Officer David?" Gibbs asked sweetly.

"Ahm, no" Ziva answered wisely, planning to ask Tony what he was doing later.

A few minutes later, Tony finished his second letter and handed it to Gibbs.

Dear Special Agent Timothy McGee,

I apologize for recording you on the roof yesterday. It was inappropriate and unprofessional. It was a poor choice I made to deal with my own problems and I am sorry that I embarrassed you. If I ever act in such a manner again, Agent Gibbs will punish me as he sees fit.

Sincerely,

Agent Anthony DiNozzo

"Now, was that so hard, Tony?" Tony shrugged and took the letter back from Gibbs. He handed it over to McGee, who accepted it wordlessly. He read it over as Tony stood in front of his desk.

"Well?" Tony asked.

"Well what, Tony?" McGee said, sounding disappointed. Tony returned to his desk and went to his mundane paper work, wondering when McGee would forgive him and things would get back to normal. It wasn't like the whole thing was Tony's fault. Only most of it.

Tony jumped up when McGee left his desk about an hour later. He looked at Gibbs who nodded in McGee's direction.

"What is going on with those two?" Ziva demanded.

"Don't know what you're talking about there, Ziva" Gibbs replied. The Mossad officer huffed and watched Tony and McGee disappear down the hall.

She was about to get up and follow the pair into the bathroom, it wasn't like she hadn't been in there before, but was stopped by Gibbs.

"Stay" he said casually. Ziva rolled her eyes and tried to push her curiosity aside.

Tony hesitated a few moments before entering the bathroom. McGee was washing his hands and didn't look up when Tony came into the room.

"Probie" Tony tried, "Listen, about the whole YouTube thing, I'm sorry, really"

McGee turned to him. "Yeah, I read your letter"

"Then what's the problem?"

"You remember what you said last week, at the parking garage?" Tony thought back to when he was dangling several stories up off a concrete ledge. He didn't really remember what he said when McGee had hauled him back to safety, he was just glad he wasn't splattered all over the concrete.

"Um, thanks?" Tony guessed.

"You said you promised you'd never give me a hard time again" Oh, that. Tony remembered. Surely McGee knew he wouldn't actually keep that promise? "I knew you weren't serious, but I didn't think you'd—" McGee paused and bit his lip, studying the older agent. "I didn't think you'd be so cruel, Tony" McGee finished.

Tony felt a knot in his stomach. Shit. He hadn't realized McGee had been so upset about the whole thing. He had expected him to be angry and embarrassed, but he hadn't actually wanted to hurt the other man.

"I...I didn't mean to—"

"What exactly did you mean to do Tony? Completely humiliate me? Show everyone that you're tougher than me? Completely disrespect our friendship?" Tony was taken aback by McGee's shouting.

"No, I just…thought it would be funny" Tony replied, suddenly feeling very small.

"Of course you did" McGee stated as he moved to the door, obviously wanting to end the conversation.

"McGee, wait" Tony said as he stepped in front of the younger man. McGee ignored him.

"Tim, please, listen" Tony grabbed his shoulder. McGee turned around.

"I do respect you, really, I do. I didn't mean…to, you know, hurt you. I wasn't thinking about how it would affect you. It was just supposed to be a joke, you know?" Tony said hoping that his sincerity would get through to McGee. He really wanted to be done with the whole situation. He didn't like touchy feely atmosphere this conversation was creating, even if it was the truth.

McGee stared at Tony a few long seconds. "You honestly didn't think I'd be hut by that video?"

"I swear I didn't"

McGee smiled slightly, convinced that Tony wasn't as big of an ass he thought a few moments earlier. "I should have known. There aren't any movies about embarrassing YouTube videos, and I'm sorry too. For hitting you" Tony relaxed at the change in the tone of the younger agent's voice.

"Ah, I barely felt it" Tony joked. "You know, this actually reminds me of a classic 1970's film—"

Before he could finish, McGee was out the door and hurrying back to his desk, desperate to escape another episode of movie trivia with Anthony DiNozzo . Tony smiled to himself, glad things were back to normal. When he returned to his desk, Gibbs was gone and Ziva was grinning at him from behind her desk and waving a piece of paper at him.

"Dear Special Agent Timothy McGee," Ziva read. Tony's face flushed and he looked frantically over at McGee, who looked just as surprised. As Ziva continued to read, Tony scrambled out of his chair and over to the dark haired woman's desk, reaching for the letter.

"If I ever act in such a manner again, Agent Gibbs will punish me as he sees fit."She finished and handed the letter back to Tony, who hastily stuffed it into his pocket.

"Don't worry boys," Ziva grinned, a knowing look on her face, "I think a little corporate punishment is sexy"

"It's corporal, Ziva" Tony said condescendingly, "And you don't know what you're talking about"

"Oh, she does, DiNozzo" Gibbs said from behind him. "Don't you have some work to do?" Gibbs asked his agents. Tony returned to his desk and tried to get Ziva's attention, but the officer was looking embarrassed and doing her best to avoid looking at a now smirking Tony.

So it's not just head slaps for her either, then.