SHIELD and NCIS United chapter 21

Gibbs led the two SHIELD agents into his living room where Sam was instantly engulfed in a hug from her sister before receiving a glare.

"Where have you been? I have been worried sick." Ellie scolded her sister.

"Not now El, we need to talk to agent McGee."

"Why?" Gibbs asked now they had the attention of everyone in the room.

"That is best discussed with him." Bobbie stated and looked over to him as he entered the room but Sam noted how Gibbs stood in front of him as if he was protecting him from them.

"Here." She said handing a file over to Tim who looked confused and on edge, he opened the file a scanned through it once it came clear the others were staying.

"Why is my name on this list?" he asked

"That is what we want to know. Do you know what they all have in common?"

"No should I?"

"Each one of them are unique… gifted some would say. There is a hitman going around taking names off that list in front of you. His victims each had a different power."

"The shooter?"

"Is there something you want to tell us Agent McGee?"

"I don't know why my name is on the list." He stated

"Shouldn't you be going after the hitman? Instead of harassing my agent?" Gibbs stated gruffly.

"You should know, we aren't here as SHIELD agents. Right now we are here to help keep you alive, do you know who this could be?"

"I…"

"SHIELD will send someone to talk to you, we need to give them something else." Sam stated looking from McGee to Gibbs and landing on Ellie. Bobbie remained quiet as she let Sam explain.

"You aren't taking him." Gibbs stated

"I never said we were going to try…You are Ellie's team and there is a killer on the loose with his picture. He will try again now he knows bullets cannot harm you." Sam stated smirking slightly when she saw their responses.

"How?"

"Bobbie suspected, and your home was shot at. A professional assassin missing his mark is unlikely…either your bulletproof or can move really really fast I was leaning into the bulletproof especially since Bobbie saw the bullet hole in your shirt the last time we worked together."

"You're not going to take me away are you?"

"No, like I said we are here to help."

"Why? Isn't this going against your job?" Tony asked

"Right now there is a bigger threat out there." Sam replied

"DO you know who he is?"

"We have been tracking him, it is hard to track someone you don't know what they look like. He is a ghost, we have burned three of his storage facilities."

"I don't understand how are you going to help? If you haven't been able to stop him before what makes you think you can stop him now?" Ziva asked

"We now have something we didn't before." Bobbie replied looking at McGee

"You will not use him as bait." Gibbs interjected

"That is not what she meant."

"Then what?" Ellie asked

"We know what his next move will be and we can counter it." Sam replied

"I take it you have a plan?"

"Yes. Step one, get him back to the Navy Yard it is more secure."

"He is safe here."

"This was the first place we came to after going to his apartment."

"Then wouldn't the Navy Yard be the next place you'd go?"

"True, but this way the security is tighter."

"Fine." Gibbs agreed much to everyone's amazement but he saw the look shared between the two SHIELD agents and knew they had a plan.

They made it back to the Navy Yard with no issues, the NCIS agents were all on edge but noticed the SHIELD agents were both alert but relaxed as they walked through the door and into NCIS headquarters. Gibbs led them to a conference room where Director Vance joined them there they listened to Sam's plan and no one could find a fault. Bobbie watched thme closely as Sam went through her plan and noted the look of disbelief from some of the others but no one interrupted until she had finished.

"This plan is plausible?" Vance asked

"I wouldn't have mentioned it if we could not do that." Sam replied

"Why?"

"Excuse me?"

"Why do it? Why put yourself in danger?"

"It is my job… protect the innocent. You seem like a good guy agent McGee, what I have heard from Ellie…it's personal." Sam said signaling to Bobbie who left the room to make the call.

"How do we know he will attack?" Ellie asked she was not liking this plan but she could see in her sister's eyes that there would be no persuading her to change her mind.

"I know his type. He has an objective one he must complete. He failed the first time so to him its personal now he won't want to fail again."

"You're hoping he will make a mistake. That his ego was bruised when McGee survived…"

"He's a professional I doubt he will make a mistake." Sam retorted.

"Then wouldn't he be more cautious?" Gibbs asked looking at Tony giving him the look that told him to calm down.

"He won't attack from a distance, he won't risk it he will have to come close."

"You're hiding something from us." Gibbs stated glared at Sam noticing her look and how she sighed

"There is another reason as to why he needs to come close…he wants your talent."

"Say what now? Can he do that?" Tim stated at the same time as Tony.

"We can't prove it and technically it is just a theory."

"Then wouldn't he know if it's not me?" McGee asked as Bobbie reentered she gave Sam a small nod to indicate everything was in play and Maria agreed to the plan.

"Have a little faith that we do know what we are doing."

"This is all too weird." Ziva stated

"We deal with the weird daily it is literally in our job description." Bobbie stated.

"I am sure you are capable agents but this is one of my agents we are talking about."

"We understand that Director and we are wanting to protect him and all of you, we don't want you going and doing something reckless." Sam said looking pointedly at Gibbs.

"So you go and do something reckless instead?" Ellie stated she thought she was going to be okay with this but she couldn't not her little sister.

"It is not reckless it is a well thought out plan and we have backups, we have backups for our backups. Trust me El, I know what I am doing."

"Romanoff is here." Bobbie stated after getting a text from her. "She has Simmons and Skye they are coming up now." She said leaving the room to go and meet them at the elevator. Ellie looked at her sister she couldn't help but worry about her but she saw the determination in her eyes and how her jaw was locked in that stubborn manner just like when they were kids and she was determined to stand up to Billy Christin who tormented her in high school. She just hopes it doesn't turn out the same way as that particular incident. The door opened Bobbie led Skye and two other agents into the room one clearly an operative while the other a scientist. "Romanoff, Simmons and you already know Skye." Bobbie said pointing to the two newcomers. Simmons was holding onto a large black suitcase while Romanoff seemed to assess the other agents in the room.

"You almost shot me." Tim stated

"But I didn't." she replied frankly looking at him with unwavering green eyes he was the one to break eye contact cautiously stepping away from her she turned her gaze to Sam noting that agent DiNozzo looked like he wanted to say something. "You sure on this plan?"

"Only way to stop him."

"Very well, Maria says sent a text when ready."

"Well everyone we have work to do, everyone knows what they need to do…Let's get started." She said and watched as they slowly moved out going to their pre-planned locations as Simmons pulled the suit case onto the table as Sam came over to join her.