Battle of the Agencies
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They all knew the next few events were going to be tough. McGee was nervous about the obstacle course. He didn't want to ruin the teams chance of winning. Gibbs noticed that Tim was not eating and pulled him aside. Jenny watched as Gibbs and McGee walked out of the tent. Something was wrong, but what? Jenny was talking with Ziva and Abby when her husband walked back in. She looked at him, Gibbs knew from the way she was looking at him was asking what was up. He shook his head and whispered that McGee was only nervous. She smiled and kissed his cheek. Even though Jenny wanted to win, she first wanted to make sure everyone was ok. McGee walked back in and looked a little more relaxed. He sat back down and ate his lunch. It was almost time for him to shine, and he was going to do his best to win.
McGee quietly sat down an began eating his lunch. This was going to be his race and he was going to shine. He had been practicing day and night getting ready for the games. He was ready, nervous but ready. Gibbs could see that McGee had calmed down significantly and he was more then happy to see his "son" eating and enjoying the company at the table.
"Gibbs, may I have a word with you" Fornell stated as he came walking up to the table.
Gibbs gave one glance to Fornell and took a big bite of his sandwich. Fornell looking a little exasperated at being ignored continue the few more steps until he was standing next to the table.
"Fornell" Jenny said with a smile, "How can we help you?"
"I need to talk to him" Fornell simply stated as he shoved a finger towards Gibbs
Annoyed with the intruder to his lunch and now the finger sticking in his face Gibbs set down his sandwich and stood up. He gave one look towards Fornell and walked away. In that one look Fornell knew to follow. As the two men made there way from the lunch tent into the sun, they both pulled on sunglasses as they made there way to the field.
"How can I help you?" Gibbs questioned
"We need to talk. My team and your team are clearly going to win. Why don't we just end the games early and have the final game after lunch." Fornell suggested.
Gibbs nodded his head to the statement, what he had said was true NCIS and the FBI were the ones who were competing the CIA were just there for fun. Or at least thats what it seemed like. He looked over the field they still had three more games before the finally. Out of those three games there was only one possibility. NCIS would win almost all of them so it did seem like a fair trade.
"I don't know Tobias, you afraid to loose to the CIA?" teased Gibbs
"You know full well that we can handle the CIA I just don't want your people to get hurt before our big game." Fornell stated matter of factly.
"Tobias as much as I want to get these games over with it. I want to watch your team loose every single game not just the big one." Gibbs joked as he left Fornell to his thoughts.
As soon as Gibbs got back to the table to finish his lunch Vance came over the loud speaker stating that it was time for the obstacle course. Gibbs quickly grabbed his sandwich and followed his team out to the field. As they got closer they could now see what all was in the obstacle course. Gibbs, Jenny and the rest of the team around their team bench and sat down as the other teams came down to the field.
"Welcome back to our Games." Vance stated over the loud speaker. "How was lunch?" He joked knowing full well know one was going to answer him. "As you can see this is our obstacle course. In this event one team member will be competing representing their respective agencies. Starting at the beginning you have the army crawl, here you are crawling a 100 yards under barbed wire. After that you are running the tires. You are to put one foot in each running through them, just like football players do. Following the tires you are climbing this 5' wall. Once over the wall you will be rope swinging over the water and racing the last 50 yards. Each person will be running individually and being timed. I will not announce the time until after all three teams have run the course. Any questions" stated Vance as he finished explaining the course.
McGee now seeing what all this course had wasn't as nervous. This reminded him so much of his boycott camp that he was almost giddy. Jenny saw McGee's smile and knew that they were going to be ok. She scanned over to the CIA bench and wandered who would rerunning this event. As her eyes settled over the the FBI bench she saw their tallest agent, Josh warming up. Jenny wasn't nervous about this even until now. Gibbs saw Jenny looking over the other teams and he slipped his hand around her waist. He began whispering to her and she smiled.
"With the standings so far at 100 points you have the FBI, following you have the CIA with 175 points and finally in first place you have NCIS with 250 points. So we will have the FBI running first, followed by the CIA and then NCIS." Vance stated before moving to the starting line.
Josh from the CIA was now standing at the starting line stretching his arms. Vance raised the starting pistol in the air and fired the gun. Josh quickly began the race easily sliding under the barbed wire and across the tires with no problem. He again with ease was able to clear the wall and swung across the pool. With a quick feet he finished his race. As he crossed the finish line a volunteer stopped the time clock. Josh quickly jogged back to his team with cheers and whoops heard all around. Fornell and Gibbs both made eye contact and they had the same expression, where had he come from? McGee though quite impressed with the race that was just run was sure that he could at least tie him.
While the CIA were stilling cheering, FBI had their team member up and ready. Fornell was blocking the view of NCIS so they couldn't see exactly who was running. Gibbs thought this was quite suspicious, so he stood up and began walking over towards Fornell. However right before he got there a bright flash shot across the sky followed by a loud CRACK. Everyone in attendance was quite shaken by this noise. It was cloudy all afternoon but the clouds didn't look like they would produce a thunderstorm.
"Alright everyone inside the building. The lightning was way to close!" Shouted Vance through the speakers.
As soon as everyone started to walk toward the building the sky opened up and a downpour started. Everyone began running to the NCIS headquarters. Vance quickly unlocked the offices and had everyone just kind of crowd into the bull-pen.
"We are going to go ahead and sit and see what the weather does. If it clears up relatively fast we will continue the games, however if it takes to long to clear we will call it." Vance stated as he stood on a chair to get everyones attention.
"Welp now what?" Questioned Tony as he wrapped his arm around ZIva's waist.
"We sit and wait" shrugged Gibbs.
Gibbs looked over to the big windows and saw Jenny standing there shoulders slumped. He quietly excused himself from the team and walked over to her. "Penny for your thoughts" Gibbs said as he wrapped his arms around Jenny's waist.
Jenny leaned into the embrace continuing to stare out the windows as the rain poured down. She turned in his arms so they were facing before resting her head into his shoulder. "I was looking forward to winning" she mumbled into his shirt.
Gibbs simply shook his head and smiled as he ran his hand up and down her back. As they stood there another flash shot across the sky followed quickly by a loud CRACK. It was then when the power went out. This rain storm that came out of nowhere was really ruining a great day. Gibbs turned toward his desk before grabbing as many flashlights as he and his team had. As he was doing that, the team and everyone else began looking through all the desk on the floor looking for any light sources. Tony had found four from a group of desk. Ziva had better luck with finding eight and she combined hers to Tony's.
"Ok everyone please stay close with no power we will have to call it. Looks like the storm is stronger than what we all thought."Vance announced from a desk.
A loud groan was heard through out the teams and spectators.
"Now what?" someone from the crowd yelled
"No fair, we want to compete" another shout was heard.
"Looks like our winners is NCIS" Vance said as he began handing the trophy to the NCIS team.
"Hold up everyone, if you all would like we can post pone the games" Jenny stated before realizing what she had said.
"When?"Fornell questioned as he eyed the trophy
"Next weekend, we will have it in the NCIS open gym. That way no matter the weather we will finish this." Jen answered as she began pulling her team hoodie on.
*What will happen? Who will win?
**Thanks for sticking with this story, sorry it has been quite a long time since an update. Life definitely got in the way along with loosing my muse for this story. I can't promise updates regularly but they will hopefully be more consistent then they were**
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