Chapter 5
"She's my daughter, Abby" Gibbs said softly. A smile stretched over Abby's face and she looked at Gaia again.
"I thought so. You look a lot alike… Sort of."
"No one needs to know, please Abby" Gaia asked.
"Sure. I'll just let them find out on their own." Abby said and got back to work.
Gibbs told Gaia that he had Sam sent to a safe house so she felt a little better. Of course she wanted to know where he was but the arrangement was that she don't know. They headed back to the office and there they met Peter Stine who was apparently in a very bad mood.
"How can we help you?" Gibbs asked.
"You can put a chain on your cat!" he spat in Gaia's direction.
"Excuse me?" Gibbs was confused. At that moment, Kate and DiNozzo arrived with breakfast.
"Who was in charge of looking after Agent Moon last night?" Stine asked them all.
"I was" Kate answered.
"Well you didn't do such a good job! Those were taken this morning" he stated again and pushed a file into her hands. Kate opened it and saw a stack of photographs.
"Agent Moon was on the loose last night. You didn't keep a watch on her! I'd take her away if only I wasn't about to retire but you got the case Agent Gibbs and take better care of her." Stine gave another file to Gibbs and left.
Kate flipped through the photos and gaped.
"What are those?" Gibbs asked. She handed over the pictures and mused.
"It can't be – I stayed up so long and she was asleep when I checked on her. I thought it was okay to go to sleep. That's not possible." Kate said quickly.
DiNozzo took the pictures from Gibbs and Gaia looked at it over his shoulder. She had no reaction, she just took the breakfast she had ordered and sat down to eat.
The photos were taken in the park nearby the Silver mansion. It was in night vision and revealed Gaia on a park bench. She had a box on her lap and she was looking into it. In the next photo someone was standing behind Gaia and she was just looking straight ahead. There was amazingly no fear in her eyes; she was just on high alert. The next was where she pushed the box off of her lap and the nest was where she grabbed the man's arm and threw him over her shoulder. The next one was where she kicked the gun away and the last was where she started running. But there was no fear in her eyes in any of the pictures.
"Take them to Abby to check for authenticity." Gibbs ordered. Gaia sat back and enjoyed her breakfast while DiNozzo ran off to Abby's lab.
"Where does he come off? I mean… that was really unnecessary. The way he attacked me… damn!" Kate mumbled and took her own breakfast.
In a few moments Abby returned with DiNozzo.
"They're real, Gibbs. I checked under the microscope. They are definitely real, I scanned it into the computer, it's going to do a thorough test but I'm definitely sure they are real. They're taken by a Lymax 1.0 (A/N: I had to make something up). That is as far as I know the best camera in the world. I know that the CSI uses it and sometimes the NSA. It was invented by a former NASA engineer, Maxwell something…"
"Gaia?" Gibbs stopped listening to Abby.
"Yes?" she sat up and listened intently.
"Did you go out last night?"
"I did," she said innocently. That irritated Gibbs.
"Damn it Gaia. You risked your life and this investigation… for what? Do you get a kick out of it?"
"I needed doughnuts."
"Needed doughnuts!" he bit his lip. "And you were gonna tell us this, when?"
"I wasn't planning on telling. I just went out for doughnuts – which I had to throw away anyway!" She said. Gibbs was speechless.
"I took care of him" she said and pointed to the guy on the picture. "I handled it!"
"And if he killed you? What then?"
"I HANDLED it!" she snapped.
"Gaia if you ever run again – forgive me but I will have to put you in a jail cell. Because a personal guard won't be enough." He stated.
"Fine! I won't run away again." she folded her arms and fell back into the chair.
"Good!" Gibbs said.
"Good" she repeated.
"If you're ready – we have to go to BACA." Gibbs told everyone.
"I don't want to go Jethro" Gaia complained.
"One hour. That's all it will take. I promise."