"What are you doing?" Mark asked Michael who was intent on annoying the Deputy with paper planes. Mark approached the younger man. "These people are already idiots… The last thing we need to do is give them another reason to think we're NCIS characters," Mark whispered.

"Yes Boss," Michael said but he quickly shook his head. "I mean Mark… I don't know… It sounds weird but there are times when I can't help it… It's like that Tony DiNozzo is taking over and it's becoming more frequent," he tried to explain.

"Well stop it," Mark told him.

"Yes Boss," Michael replied. Mark couldn't tell if that was a sarcastic response or something else. "Get back to work," Mark told him then shook his head. "I mean… Ah, I don't know," Mark said.

"Perhaps we should refrain from doing what our characters do," Cote responded.

"Ah-ha! I got it," Michael suddenly stood up. "There was this episode of House right? Can't remember it's title but House had been shot and he's in this coma and starts having this dream. After he realizes that he's dreaming he tries to do things that would shock his brain into waking up," Michael said.

"Damn it DiNozzo!" Mark slapped him at the back of the head. "Stop it with the movie references already," he barked out.

"No wait," Sean said. "Maybe he has a point… But there's one problem though," Sean shook his head and tried to think for a moment. "If this is just a dream… Which one of us is dreaming?"

"Well it has to be me right?" Michael answered. "I was in this town first," he tried to think of the most outrageous thing to do. Then it clicked. Tony unplugged the monitor and ran through the Sheriff's office and asked Greyson if he could open the window for him. Without knowing the reason, Greyson did so and Michael threw the monitor out the window as hard as he could. The monitor broke into a million pieces.

"What the hell are you doing Agent DiNozzo?" Greyson shouted. "I don't know what your budget is like in Washington but down here we have a very limited budget," he shouted angrily.

"I'm still here," Michael said with a shocked expression.

"Of course you are! But after that stunt you're very lucky I don't run you out of town," Greyson told him. "Get back to what you were doing," he ordered.

Michael went back to where the others were. "Did it work?" Sean asked.

"What do you think Probie?" Michael asked in an angry tone. "Don't you think that if it worked… We won't be here," he asked.

"Well it's a simple question Tony," Sean responded.

"Listen to yourself you two," Cote said. "If this is a dream… This would not hurt right?" she asked as she hit Michael in the stomach.

"Damn it Zee-Vah," Michael responded as he struggled to get up.

"Stop it," Mark said. This was getting dangerous. They weren't equipped to deal with solving a case even if they were starting to act like their onscreen characters.

"What if the only way to end this nightmare is to solve this case?" Sean piped up. It sounded like such an implausible idea, but it was beginning to make perfect sense. "But the way that's headed we risk morphing into…" Sean said. It sounded like fun in some spots. "And there's no telling how dangerous that can be," he told them.

"What do you mean?" Cote asked.

"Well take Tony DiNozzo… Do you really think that Michael can survive a certain amount of time as Tony DiNozzo?" Sean smiled at the thought of it.

Michael rolled his eyes. He hated to admit it but Sean had a point. Tony went through a lot on the show. "Hey, I'll just have to remember to be more careful," Michael responded.

Cote laughed. That was sure going to be fun to see.

"Well alright," Mark said clapping his hands together. "Well we try and solve the case and figure out how to fix this problem. But I doubt that we're all dreaming," Mark said to everybody. "McGee… I mean Sean. I want you to find out what you can about the victims," Mark said.

"But," Sean went to say something.

"If doing what characters do causes you to become your character then invoking your character might be the best way," Mark said.

"I bet you can't say that ten times fast," Michael snickered. "You know this would make a great episode for the show," Michael felt the pain of a headslap. "Shutting up Boss," Michael rubbed the back of his head. That hurt worse than he remembered.

Park

There had been reports of a man hanging around with a weapon at the park. It didn't take too long for Greyson to get Team Harmon down to the local park to check it out. Mark found it amusing that instead of thinking about Team Gibbs… It was now Team Harmon and hopefully they were going to luck into a turning point in the case.

"There he is," Michael pointed out exactly what everyone was thinking.

"Michael wait," Mark called out. But it was too late for that. Michael began running after the man who was running out of sight.

"Your boy's very energetic," Greyson said.

Mark grunted in response. "What's wrong?" Cote asked as she was quite confused by the response from Mark.

"Don't you get it? If he suddenly reverts to Tony… Can you imagine what a run's going to do to him?" Mark answered the question.

"What are we hanging around here for?" Sean responded. "We gotta provide backup for Tony," he joined in the chase.

"Wait up McGee… I want to work as well," Cote said as she ran after them.

"I think you mean run Ziva," Sean responded.

"Wait up," Mark growled out. Soon everybody was joining in on the chase.

A/N: I can't remember the name of that House episode where House does something to shock his brain into waking out of the coma. There are two endings in this story and unfortunately I can't figure out which one to use… So I'll be putting them both up when the story reaches it's conclusion. Hope nobody minds.