Chapter 6-

Kate walked out of the elevator into Abby's lab. She looked around and saw Abby and McGee tapping on keyboards a few feet away.

Smirking, the young girl grabbed a cork cap near her and threw it at McGee. It hit the back of his head and she swiftly moved away from the door and hid behind the table so he didn't see her.

McGee winced a little and whipped his head around, "Ow, what was that?" He said out loud.

Abby looked at him, "What are you talking about McGee?"

"Something hit the back of my head." He turned his attention back to the computer, not seeing anything that could have thrown it.

Kate smiled and slid over to his side quietly. She looked at the computer; her face twisted into a confused expression. "What are you doing McGee?" She asked suddenly.

McGee jumped at her voice. He looked over at her. "What are you doing down here?" He asked quite loudly, obviously irritated at her sneaking up on him.

Kate took a step back away from him, "Gibbs told me to come down here…probably going to look stuff up about my mother, or doesn't want me looking through stuff." She shrugged and looked back at the computer.

Abby looked over at Kate. "You must be Kate!" She said excitedly. When Kate just nodded, she continued speaking. "I've heard so much about you! McGee says you're a lot like Tony."

Kate glared at McGee. "I am not!"

"Yes you are! You're snoopy and…" McGee searched for a nicer word than annoying.

The brown-blonde girl narrowed her eyes at him, guessing what he wanted to say. She looked at Abby. "Can I punch him?"

"No! McGee just doesn't understand!" Abby said in a high-pitched voice.

McGee rolled his eyes. "Why don't you go sit in there?" He told Kate, motioning to the room beyond the main lab.

Kate shrugged, "Because I don't wanna. But I guess I will, to get out of Abby's way." She skipped into the next room and sat down on an office chair that was at a desk with a few computers on it. She shifted around in the chair, uncomfortable. Something was poking into her so she looked through the chair and pulled out a pen. Laughing, Kate walked back to the main lab.

Abby and McGee looked over at her. "My pen!" McGee shouted and rushed towards Kate. He tried to grab it out of her hand but Kate pulled away.

"You only get it if you apologize." Kate smirked.

"For what?" He groaned.

"For yelling at me about stealing your pen!"

"No! For all I know you placed it there to find it."

Abby huffed from behind him. "McGee! You apologize to her right now!"

"I don't need to apologize to her at all!" He said defensively.

Abby looked at Kate. "You're allowed to punch him now."

Kate grinned widely and punched McGee's hard before he could defend himself.

"Ow! You punch as hard as Ziva." The agent rubbed his arm where she had punched him.

Abby smirked and punched his other arm for the fun of it. "Now apologize."

McGee shouted in pain again and looked at Kate, who was smiling smugly. "Sorry, Kate…"

"For…?" Abby and Kate said in unison.

The computer geek groaned. "For accusing you of stealing my writing pen." He muttered. The young girl smiled and held out his pen,

McGee snagged it from her hand immediately. "Now go back to the seat."

Kate laughed a little and sat down in the chair. She started playing games on the computer.

McGee turned around and came face to face with Abby. He took a step back when he noticed her glare. "What?" He exclaimed.

"Don't be mean to Kate, she's young and innocent."

"Innocent? Yeah right." He scoffed. "You have no idea what she's capable of."

"Oh, and you do?"

"Not me in particular, but she's tormented Tony a lot. At least that's what he tells me."

"Well Tony lies." Abby said simply and walked off to her computer.

McGee sighed and went back to work. Despite Abby siding with Kate, he was happy to have his writing pen back.