Chapter 6

I did this chapter faster then I thought….Maddie has joined the team! I couldn't kill her off or keep Gibbs mean at her….:S Ah well, hope it turned out okay!

Disclaimer: As usual I DO NOT own NCIS, sadly, and only own Maddie and Louisa Smith!

1 Week Later

"McGee, find out who had access to the building and all visitors in the week prior to the explosion, DiNozzo, take Maddie and go and question Louisa Smith, Ziva, take this over to Abby, now!" Gibbs rattles off orders in the small container that would serve as their office for the next few months. "Well? Are you waiting for an invitation?" He asks, prompting his four agents to briskly move into action. Since everyone had been released from Bethesda, they had been straight onto the case. Gibbs had signed the papers as soon as he returned, allowing Maddie to join his team. He had seen what had happened if he didn't say yes, so he guessed no harm could come from trying.

Mostly everyone had recovered from their injuries. Maddie's hearing was back, although everyone had passed over the fact it was not perfect yet when filling out the forms. The Director was in her new, temporary office, trying to organize funerals and building contractors, all the while under Special Agent Gibbs watchful eye. According to him, she was not to move a muscle for another month. Abby had returned to work and although she got a bit dizzy at times, she was back to her bubbly self. Ziva, on the other hand, was not happy. She was sentenced to desk work until told otherwise, her burns were not healing fast enough and she was still having trouble doing simple things like running and sitting down, without doing it in pain.

"So remind me again why we are going to see this, Louisa Smith?" Madison Todd asks, turning to look at Special Agent DiNozzo who is driving the car. "I thought we had no leads!" She finishes, still waiting for an answer.

" Truly, I do not know…something about her being here just before the explosion, calling someone and then rushing out, all while spending, like, twenty minutes in the elevator." Tony smirks, turning his attention back to the road. "Your first interview as a probationary agent…probette number two!" He adds, chucking as she frowns at him using his pet name for McGee on her.

"Tony!" Maddie tries to get his attention, pointing at a house they just passed.

'What? Cant you let me concentrate on where we are going?" Says Tony, causing Maddie to giggle.

"We just passed where we were going!" She points out, and annoyed, Tony does a quick u turn before pulling into the driveway of a modern, renovated house. Both agents slam their doors, and pulling their caps on walk up to the stained glass door.

"NCIS!" Tony calls, rapping on the door carefully. A moment passes before a young girl of about twenty seven opens the door. She is dressed in pastel colours, with deep brown hair that lies just below her abdomen.

"Yes?" The lady asks, as she opens the door fully.

"Special Agent Tony DiNozzo and Special Agent Madison Todd, from NCIS. Are you Louisa Smith?" He asks, introducing both himself and Maddie formally.

Louisa nods and gestures inside the house, "Come in…" Maddie and Tony follow her through the door into a small entry hall. "How can I help NCIS?" Louisa asks, questions written across her face.

"You were in the NCIS building on Thursday at 0900, yes?" Maddie asks, watching her for reactions. There were no obvious ones.

"Yes," she nods, clearly confused. "Oh, is this about the explosion? I'm really sorry to hear about it…"gesturing to Maddie's fresh scar on her neck she adds, "I see you were caught in it." Trailing off, she looks around her house, unsure of what to do.

"See, you were the last person in the elevator before the explosion happened and we believe-" Tony stops, amazed at the deep red colour Louisa's face is turning.

"Get out of my house! DO NOT come in here, and accuse me of lying, planting a bomb, and blowing up a federal agency! It is not my fault that it happened, and I did not plant it in the elevator, or rigged it to explode when the button is pushed! WHY the hell would I do that?" She yells, ushering both surprised agents out the door, and slamming it in their faces.

"Well that went well," Tony jokes with a lopsided grin. That grin soon turned into a frown. "Boss isn't gonna be happy. We didn't get much…"

"Except for the fact that she knew how the bomb was placed and when it was set to go off…something we didn't mention to her," Maddie concluded.

…..

As Ziva walked through the metal doors and into Abby's temporary lab, loud music could be heard blasting from the stereo next to her desk. It seemed as though the explosion had never happened, with the small room acting as her lab looking almost exactly like the real thing.

"Abby!" Ziva called, trying to get the Goths attention. With no luck, Ziva walks over to the scientist and taps her on the shoulder. Spinning around, Abby grins widely.

'Ziva!" She shrieks, grabbing her friend in a tight hug.

"Cant….breathe…" Ziva managed to choke out before Abby guiltily released her from her bear hug, grinning as Ziva gasped for breath, her hand moving to comfort her burns along her left side.

"Oh my gosh, Ziva, I am so sorry! I completely forgot…." Abby Sciuto trails off, unsure of what to say next. In response she gets a weak smile and a bag of evidence held out to her.

"Gibbs wants you to run this for fingerprints. It is the remains of the bomb." Handing over the evidence she scrutinizes Abby. "How are you doing?" She asks, worried about how her friend is coping.

"Oh, you know me! I am hunky dory!" She smiles, turning around and then turning back, looking sad. "I miss Bert, and Major Mass Spec…it doesn't seem the same with out them." She sighs and turns to her new machines. " I guess these will have to do…Ziva will you tell Gibbs he has to come to Bert and Major Mass Spec's funeral? And you can come too, and Tony and McGee and Ducky and Palmer and…" Ziva places a hand on her over excited friends shoulder.

"Of course I will come, and I will let everyone know." She smiles and makes to leave. "Shalom, Abby! Get those results fast!" Abby smiles and turns to her new machines, already working on lifting fingerprints.

Wow, that seemed like a really long chapter…Poor Bert and Major Mass Spec It is totally an Abby thing to have a funeral for them! I sorta like Maddie as a probationary agent…what does everyone else think?

Please review, I love feedback!

A/N: I had to change my name to MadCharls98 for a short period (3 mins) but it is changed back now…sorry if for some reason it might have caused some confusion or problems, I think everything is okay now!

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