Evelynn was spending her morning with her grandfather on base what she loved about her grandfather's office was that fact that she could see the disposal yard from his office window. Only thing was the window was to high up for to stand and watch so she look around the room for something to stand on, when she spotting wheeled office chair she punched it against the wall. It was little tricky to stand up on it by herself which has it keep spinning around on her but she was detriment to it all on her own without any help from her grandfather in the end she manage to stand up give her grandfather a smile before she peeked through the window she heard a boom. She saw big pile of dirt fly up high in the air, she smiled she wished she could hear the dirt fall and hit the ground again, she loved the sound of dirt hitting the ground it sound little like rain hit the window. To Evelynn is was normal part of her everyday life grown up on military base. She could just make out the men reloading in between the gaps of the tree line and she watch them fire but this time there was no loud boom.
After few seconds she said "No boom"
Joseph replayed "must have been a dud"
Evelynn asked "what a dud grandpa?" She turn to face her grandfather which coursed the chair to spin which almost coursed her to fall of the chair.
He watched her steady herself before Joseph told her "it when ammo don't do what it should in the first place when fired&
Evelynn asked her grandfather &why did one work and other didn't when they are both from the same pile of ammo?"
Joseph said "it could be many reason one could be the gun power or explosives in side could be wet so it will not blow up or it could temperature some places in the world is really cold and that could freeze small part of the boom there for it didn't work most like would that something that went wrong when they first put it together. The dud will be taken to lab and some test will be run so they could make them better next time aroun"
Evelynn said "okay so ammo should be stored in clean dry dark cool place but not freezing temperature because if it heat up to high enough temperature and blow up if it kept in hot place or if the gun power is wet it will not blow up"
Joseph nodded his head as he signed some paperwork for one thing or other. When Evelynn asked "what taken them so long"
Joseph replayed "they have to clear the yard of dud so that it is safe to use again if they leave the dud and fire other shell and the second one hit the first one then it will make a great big mess as it low up and someone could get hurt that something we don't went to happen on base"
Evelynn McGarrett was her father daughter like her father the little girl love a big explosion Joe had told Joseph more then one story about young Steve love for explosives. One story that stand out is the time when he had blow up his sister Babier doll after find out that Marry had taken his G.I Joe off his mission protecting his toy ammunition.
Steve explanations was that G.I Joe was kidnapped and had to fight his way out of the bad guy's base. As a result Barbie Doll had die in the line of duty. Joseph could not hold of his laughter when he was told how Steve was the same age as Evelynn is now six years old. The boy was born to be in the military. What go to Joseph about the story was the funeral he had for LT Barbie the next day on beach at the back of the house.
When the last of the papers were sign Joseph asked his granddaughter if she like go see what taken the guy so long to clear the yard. Seen her little face light up as she yelp yes please while jump of the chair at the same time coursing the chair to spin she took her grandfather hand the two talked out of is office.
When the two arrived at the yard to see a man dressed in boom proactive uniform and other man working a what look like a robot Admiral Rollins asked"&gentlemen my grandchild would like to know why it taken so long to set the next one off"
Lt Steven said "the PO can't seem to find the dud" something on the screen caught the Lt eyes he asked PO to take robot back for other look at the area he just passed they didn't find dud but they did find body.
It turn out to be a body of intelligence officer by the look of his uniform. Evelynn seen a lot but she had never seen a bead body before. The was missing half of his face, the body was missing an arm but what caught her of guard was the fact she realised that she knew the victim. She had see him that morning swimming at beach she had shot him in the chest four times and twice in backside with her paint-ball gun.
She knew that she would have to tell the NCIS agent what happen this morning at the beach once they find traces of paint on the Lieutenant. When uncle Sam come up to them she knew why he was there she kept her eyes fix on her feet which tells Sam she had known the victim.
Sam greeted her "hey there kido" uncle voice soft he was worried about her, this was her first time seen a dead body.
She look up to say hi to her uncle the first time there was not smile and her voice was soft, Sam asked "do you know why I am here"
She nodded her little head and look down at her feet again when Sam tells them "the ME said that Lt had every dark bruising on chest when the ME ran test there was no DNA however she found traces of paint" this bring uncle Sam to her because she had a reputation around base for shooting swimmer with paint-ball gun when they came out of the water after their swim.
She nodded her head again she remember the talk her uncle Sam had with her only week ago about shoot people with paintball gun out of angrier. However Lieutenant was shot not out of angrier he had asked for it when he cheated in race a month ago.
She was not worried about been trouble for shooting the Lt this morning because she was keeping a promise she made to Lt a month ago. Her uncle Sam asked her what happened, she looked up at him again this time she noticed that there was other name standing along side her uncle. She asked if he was SEAL like her uncle was before he join NCIS when the man said yes she turn to Sam and told them "last month he and PO Lopez were racing each other on the obsecile course and the Lt cheated he ran around the wall not over it and when I call him out on it he said I was lying then I promised him that I would get him when forget all about the encounter because I don't ever forget. He said I was just little girl and that should act like one so I did, I turn around stomped on his foot as I turn and walked off. Anyway for the pass three weeks I study he every move and I got him this morning when he come out of the water after his morning swim because uncle Mike was there and I want to beach this morning with hope of shooting uncle Mike, I was all set up to shoot uncle Mike when came out of the water but then I stopped Lieutenant in the water I shot him 4 times, and twice in backside when ran of the beach. He left the base yesterday for little over half hour. Which he make every week like clock work, every Wednesday he leave the base for 45 minutes. He take a white envelope with him and when he come back he dose have anything with him"
Uncle Sam asked for the number planet of the car Lieutenant when in and so Evelynn give a description of Jeep that victim had taken out of base so Eric could track it down.
When the grandfather had asked why Evelynn was going to shoot her uncle she had told him "because grandpa that what I do, whenever Dad and his team is here every morning they would go swimming and every morning I would set up in one of the trees and shot at them as they try to get to the safety of tree line without been shoot. It part of they training, dad and uncle Mike are the only one that had never been shoot so far and uncle Sam but he left the SEAL before I I got the paint-ball gun" she smile up at her uncle.
After uncle Sam left one of Seal had voice that they would like to hear more about these story they told the Admiral Rollins that they would drop Evelynn off at his office after lunch.
She told them what happen that morning and how uncle Mike could stop laughing when she shoot the Lieutenant in backside and so she shoot him again the Lieutenant had yelp as he ran for his life. She giggle, it was funny to watch the Lieutenant run towards the safety.
When SEAL when back to blowing thing up they had let Evelynn pick the target. One of the SEAL asked Evelynn to say Fire in hole as loud as she can, so she yelled "FIRE IN HOLE" at the top of her lungs.
she watched the the SEAL reload take cords of the cereal number of each shell they blow up and record any misfire. The next one did fire, and Evelynn yelled "you stupid shell don't know your meant to blow up when fired" second later there was a big boom.
The SEAL was just has shocked at Evelynn who said "that shouldn't have worked" Lieutenant told Evelynn that it most like be delayed reaction.
Evelynn asked "dose that happen on the field?"
Lieutenant replied "more time that we would like but that doesn't interfere with the mission because of what they would call chain reaction. When we are in the field we set more then one explosives so when one goes of the other follow suit"
Evelynn said "like domino's" she looked to the Lieutenant for answer.
The Lieutenant replied "yes just domino's"
Before they return her to the Admiral officer they headed to mess hall for lunch. She could wait to tell her grandpa all about what she had seen she had so much fun with the SEALs. The SEAL were spericed just how much the little girl could eat.
When one of the said "if they let ladies be SEAL she would make great SEAL"
Evelynn said "paper pushing democrats would not let that happen" just then a man in suit walked by and Evelynn gave the man her best McGarrett. Once he had left Evelynn laughed when asked what was funny.
Evelynn said "two years ago uncle Freddie and I repainted the man car bright pink because he was given my friend dad a hard time for tricking him to jump out of a Airbus"
The SEAL laughed they had more fun with Evelynn then they had in long time. After lunch she found out the Lt was selling us intelligence information to bad guys She didn't voice it but she secretly wished she had shot him a few more times that morning.
As for the bead body Evelynn didn't really know what or how she left about it, after known that the dead man is bad it didn't really make it okay that he dead. But at the same time she didn't feel bad, she didn't feel much of anything and she didn't know if that was a good thing or not all she knew was that she didn't care one way or theo about the man. If she really thought about it she would have to say that was a little worried about the fact that she had no feel about the dead man. She have to talk with her father later tonight about it or her uncle Sam.
For now she would asked her grandpa if she could go watch the SEALs with Commander Anderson, the man was SEAL even before uncle Sam time the guy was one of first SEALs that serviced in Vietnam. She loved hearing story about his time over there and the people he meet while he was there. Joseph had told the man would pick her up after his last meeting then they could head home.
Commander Anderson was great story teller even better then her father and Steve had great stories to tell over years mostly about how he own her mother more favours then anyone could ever repay in their life time for each time she had pull him and his team out of hot water. These were funny because she knew her father like to down play how badly he gotten hurt.
At the end of the on the way home she tells her grandfather all the things she seen and done with the SEAL. She tell him that she heard a story about a young Bud/s trainee who end up on air mattress floating in the ocean way back in 1986. How the guy was a a totally scared of the water so the instructors got together and put his air mattress in the middle of the ocean with him in it in attempt to cure him of his fear of the water.
Joseph and Evelynn enjoy they time together and when they got home the all got dress to go for dinner with Hanna family. It was game night been Friday the kids were up and with Eden home for holiday Joseph knew that they be luck to see they granddaughter during the night.