So this is a VERY short chapter. And introduction into another story I have in the works introducing the Washington team. I haven't seen anything of DiNozzo's last season with them, so this takes place before he leaves. I know it might be a little out of sync with the air dates, but I make no mention of anything that points to an episode.


"Well done, Agent Callen." Director Vance said two days later as he finished hearing the lead agent give him a verbal summery of what was in the reports that would be coming in over the next few days. "You'll be pleased to know that none of the operations or contracts McAllen was privy to military wise have been affected. Those that have, are adjusting their timetables or operations. And as for Tash's investigation, not a single person on his list escaped, and every one of them were on watch lists. Some of them are talking, some aren't, but we're getting enough information to find more people and eliminate more threats that the SSgt's unit hadn't found yet."

"Thank you, director." Callen said. "If it hadn't been for Miss Brooks, we might not have been able to do any of this."

Vance noticed something cross Callen's face at the mention of the woman, but it was gone so fast, it might not have been there at all. "Any word on how she's doing?"

"The hospital released her yesterday morning. She's going to be fine. She sent a copy of her report to Hetty, so you'll be getting one alone with the rest of ours."

Again, Vance saw a flash of something. Wondering what it was, yet knowing that Callen wouldn't tell him anyway, he nodded and said his goodbyes before cutting the connection.

He looked up from the computer at the woman in front of him. She sat with her three (almost four)-year-old son, playing on the couch, colouring in a book. Gizelle Brooks looked up as he finished and headed over to him. "He's trying not to show it, but I think he's still trying to wrap his head around it. He know about Michael?" He said to the young woman.

"It's a lot to take in, believe me I know, and no, he doesn't. One thing at a time." She said as she sat, taking a drink of the now semi-warm coffee, shaking her head as though she herself couldn't wrap her head around it any more than Callen. "To find out that the man you've been compared to your entire career is your father. It would be a lot for anybody."