A/N thanks for the reviews. Any mistakes by me today are I will admit a result of my rush to post this before Mark Harmon gets his star on the Hollywood walk of Fame in about five minutes. (Squeals like a fangirl and jumps up and down like a lunatic!)

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Chapter 12

Dr. Sutton and a team of nurses came in with a defibrillator cart.

A nurse pulled a curtain between Tim and his mother and Gibbs.

"Ok Tim, time to come back now." Sutton said "Clear."

Gibbs saw Dr. Suttons shadow with the paddles and watched as the shadow of Tims' body arched up and fell back onto the bed.

"That's it….good boy." Sutton said with satisfaction in his voice.

"Doc…." Gibbs heart leapt as he heard Tim's voice albeit incredibly weak from behind the curtain.

"Just rest Tim, You'll be fine now."

He opened the curtain as Abby ran in the room. "Did it work?" She asked breathlessly.

Dr. Sutton nodded, "The reboot was complete but a bit earlier than scheduled."

"What happened?" Gibbs asked holding a shaking Shelia McGee

Dr Sutton motioned for them all to leave the room so they followed.

"It's the next stage in Tim's recovery. His brain is rebooting." Abby said.

"You could have warned us Abbs." Gibbs said

"I was going to…but we didn't think he would be at this stage for another 24 hours." Abby told them both.

"Essentially what has happened is the drug both Abby and I came up with has remapped his brain back to its original settings. We knew his basic brain functions would flat-line as they reset themselves. His heart at no time stopped." Dr. Sutton reassured them, "The defibrillator shot was to restart the electrical impulses in his brain."

"And…?" Gibbs prompted.

"It looks very promising. Tim should be awake in the next few hours, we will let him wake up naturally and then see who or what we are dealing with." Dr. Sutton left knowing he would be back in a few hours.


Sarah, Tony and Ziva turned up the next morning.

"Why are you here?" Gibbs asked his two agents.

"Director Vance took us off rotation for the next week," Tony explained, "Sarah turned up at the office looking for her mother. Apparently no one told her that the Admiral had been arrested or that her mother was here with Tim….so we brought her along."

"Sarah!" Shelia said coming out of Tim's room and hugging her daughter.

"How is he mom?" She asked.

"Not awake yet." Her mother answered. She looked up as Gibbs held out a coffee for her, "Thank you Jethro." She said and took the drink gratefully.

Tony and Ziva exchanged glances and Gibbs cuffed Tony. "Sit down DiNozzo, this may take a while."

"Yes Boss." DiNozzo grinned.


Dr. Sutton walked past them into Tim's room.

Tim woke up his head hurt and he was not quite sure where he was.

He saw his mom and Dr. Sutton enter the room with Gibbs close on his heels.

"Mom?" He asked confused as to why she was there. Had he been shot? He looked down at himself to check for injuries.

"Tim?" She asked not sure which personality had emerged on top.

"Boss was I shot?" Tim asked.

"Nope. How'd ya feel McGee?" Gibbs asked.

"Head hurts Boss. I feel a bit fuzzy and short tempered." He admitted honestly.

"Tim I need to do some tests on you." Dr. Sutton said.

Tim nodded.

Dr. Sutton said "Kaka Quokka!"

Tim just looked at him as if he was crazy.

"What?" Tim asked although there had been a small flinch.

"It is just part of your test." Dr. Sutton said smiling

He picked up and apple and tossed it unexpectedly towards Tim who caught it easily.

"Doc. What the hell? I thought you were testing me." Tim snapped.

Gibbs gave the doctor a sideways look, snappy non-polite Tim was not the norm.

"You need a field test and an IQ test as well." Dr. Sutton said.

"OK when?" Tim asked impatiently.

"I can get you a laptop and you can do the IQ test now and the field test in the morning,"

"What does the field test entail?" Gibbs asked.

"Fitness, hand to hand combat and shooting." Dr. Sutton said.

"Why do I have to do those?" Tim asked.

"You just need to do them McGee. Ya better get that IQ test out of the way so we can tease DiNozzo." Gibbs said and Tim smiled.

"On it Boss." Tim said and opened the laptop.

Twenty minutes later Tim finished "Done!" He announced.

Dr. Sutton looked through the results. He raised his eyes in surprise.

"Tim, what was your IQ before your accident?" Dr. Sutton asked.

Tim looked worried, "172….Is there a problem….do I have brain damage?" He asked the fear evident in his voice.

Dr. Sutton laughed, "If you do….then I want it…you're results put your IQ at 196."

"I….I….WOW!" Tim said leaning back against his pillows in shock.

"What does that mean?" Gibbs asked confused

"It means Tim has incorporated some of the IQ of his other personalities, Some of Timothy's brains and some of McGee's attitude, what we are seeing is not one dominant personality trait but I think it is the Tim McGee we would have had before this experiment fractured his personality"

"An experiment did what!" Tim said

"Tim…It was a long time ago, your father and a friend of his put you forward for an experiment and it went a bit wrong." Shelia did her best trying to explain it to him.

Tim had swung his legs over the bed and sat uncharacteristically for him with one leg bent while the other swung listlessly as he listened to both his mother and Gibbs and Dr. Sutton filling him in on the blanks he had.


"So….My nightmares were real." He asked quietly

"I'm afraid so….but it is over now." Dr. Sutton assured him.

"But….Boss, my job? Can I still do my job if I'm not the Tim McGee that went through FLETC?"

"I know you can Tim, just pass these few tests the Doc has for you, you'll have to do a physiological evaluation but you should pass fine." Gibbs said encouragingly.

Tim sat back and closed his eyes as memories of the last few days washed over him.

"OH MY GOD, TONY, ZIVA, ABBY!" He yelled sitting bolt upright, "Boss I killed them….."