It wasn't until I started working on this that I realised that in early Season 14, which is when this takes place, Emily is away at boarding school, which is why Fornell is staying at Gibbs's house instead of at home. For the sake of this fic, that is not the case, although he is still The Thing That Would Not Leave as in NCIS canon.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own 'NCIS', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', or any of the characters therein. Isra and Morgan are my OCs.

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Hiding a head wound and several deep cuts on her hands from her FBI Agent dad was not going to be easy. The first couple of weeks were okay. Emily frequently popped by Uncle Gibbs's place to see Dad, who was still recovering from his gunshot wounds there, and fortunately, only one cut was on her finger, so she usually wore some fingerless gloves and claimed that the one visible cut was from a veggie-slicing accident. Dad had done the same once or twice, so he was actually more horrified at the thought of her cooking anything. His reaction both relieved and mildly offended her.

The head wound was trickier. Emily made excuses to not stop until it healed nearly a week later. Mostly, she communicated with Dad by phone and text. Uncle Gibbs nearly caught her, having dropped by her home to check up on her. A couple days had gone by since then, so she managed to pass it off as a regular headache. Well, she hoped she managed it. Uncle Gibbs was like a human polygraph, so there was always a chance that he noticed something was off with her claim.

She was inordinately happy to have her Dad back at home for Christmas, and to have Uncle Gibbs with them (considering she'd had to infest his house with termites just to get Dad back into his own home, Emily felt she owed Uncle Gibbs much more than a Christmas dinner). However, her hands still had some faint, pink lines on them, not having completely healed over yet. And now that Dad would be home all day, she would have to resort to other measures.

Luckily, Isra had just the thing for such an occasion. She gave Emily the name of her recommended brand of concealer, which she swore would cover everything up. It was a bit pricey, and Emily couldn't borrow some of Isra's, due to their markedly different skin tones, and she wasn't sure she could get away with spending so much on makeup.

Taking refuge in audacity, Emily went and bought the concealer – and a more expensive pair of earrings and an even more expensive jacket. Dad had blown up once he got the credit card bill, but Emily had inherited more than just her red hair from her mother. In the end, she 'agreed' to return the two more expensive items, but convinced him to 'let' her keep the least expensive of the three. Otherwise known as the concealer that she'd really wanted.

Thus, she was pretty sure that her secret was safe. She would carefully apply the makeup after every time she washed her hands, and insisted on spending most of their Father-Daughter Time outside in the wintry cold, giving her an excuse to wear gloves as often as possible in her Dad's presence.

It almost worked. Then, just days into January, her worlds collided.


"NCIS!"

"FBI! FREEZE!"

The shouts rang through the cold alley, aimed at the three people currently engaged in a violent dance of close combat. The tiny blonde girl looked reflexively over her shoulder at them, and her moment of distraction coast her as she got backhanded hard into the side of a dumpster by the tall, skinny, bald man.

The redhead, however, was still on her feet and in the fight, so she couldn't freeze. Fang-Face was still coming at her, because after all, regular bullets weren't much of a problem for vampires, so what did he have to worry about?

She, on the other hand, had a lot to worry about. Aside from Morgan going down and the vampire still doing his damndest to kill her, she was certain that the people interrupting their fight were people who knew her. After all, whenever NCIS and the FBI worked a case together, nine times out of ten it was Uncle Gibbs's team and Dad, who had finally returned to work.

Fang-Face lunged at her, bringing all her attention back onto him where it belonged. However, his lunge was sloppy; she ducked under his swinging arms and brought her stake up in a movement that would have been an uppercut if she'd been punching him. She nailed him right in the heart, causing him to disintegrate into dust.

Unfortunately, he'd been looming over her, so an impromptu dust shower was inevitable. She gagged and sputtered as some of it got into her mouth, and she shook her head, sending more cascading down her shoulders like the worst case of dandruff ever.

"Morgan?" she gasped, hoping her fellow Slayer wasn't too badly hurt. However, she soon realised she had a far more immediate problem to deal with.

"DROP YOUR WEAPON!"

"PUT YOUR HANDS UP!"

This time, Emily did freeze. She knew she should count herself lucky that she hadn't already been shot for apparently stabbing a guy in front of a bunch of federal agents. The stake clattered to the ground as she slowly raised her hands and turned her head to see just who she was dealing with.

It wasn't good. She recognised one woman as FBI Agent Courtney Krieger, who used to work under her Dad, and two of the NCIS agents also had familiar faces: Uncle Gibbs and Ellie Bishop, who both blinked in surprise when they got a good look at her face.

"Emily?" Uncle Gibbs exclaimed.

Crap.


In case any NCIS fans have forgotten, FBI Agent Courtney Krieger was the probie agent in 5x04 'Identity Crisis'. And I can't remember if Emily has met Torres or Quinn at this point in the series, so for the sake of the story, let's say she hasn't.

The next chapter will have to wait for another month; it'll be for Prompt #31: Embrace, and should be out on August 18th at the earliest. It will pick up pretty much right where this one leaves off, and explain why those agents were even there in the first place. However, my other BtVS fic-in-progress, 'Damsel in Distress', will have its final chapter sooner, hopefully on July 29th.

Next up will be a 'Supergirl' fic, called 'Like Father, Like Son', focusing on Prompt #25: Humiliation. It should be out on Monday, July 20th.

In case any NCIS fans have forgotten, FBI Agent Courtney Krieger was the probie agent in 5x04 'Identity Crisis'. And I can't remember if Emily has met Torres or Quinn at this point in the series, so for the sake of the story, let's say she hasn't.

The next chapter will have to wait for another month; it'll be for Prompt #31: Embrace, and should be out on August 18th at the earliest. It will pick up pretty much right where this one leaves off, and explain why those agents were even there in the first place. However, my other BtVS fic-in-progress, 'Damsel in Distress', will have its final chapter sooner, hopefully on July 29th.

Next up will be a 'Supergirl' fic, called 'Like Father, Like Son', focusing on Prompt #25: Humiliation. It should be out on Monday, July 20th. Expect angst, feels, and a couple of Broadway references.

'Til next time,

Spectre