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Chapter 5

Tony woke up with a start, he sighed when he realized he was no longer dreaming. He tried to move his arm to look at his watch and was confused when he realized something was on top of it. Tony was now fully awake and was shocked to find his partner asleep next to him on the couch using his arm as a pillow. Tony looked around but found that he and Ziva were the only ones left in the lounge. He tried to wiggle his arm free but froze when Ziva shifted and mumbled something inaudible, he relaxed when she fell back asleep. Oh my God, Gibbs will kill me if he sees us...Wait will he, nothing happened...I think.Tony sighed and absentmindedly started to play with a strand of her hair. The sun was starting to filter in through the windows in the lab, it looked like it would be the perfect day to spend outside. Its too bad we can't go outside, Tony thought to himself as he continued to play with Ziva's hair.

Brennan breathed deeply, inhaling the scent of Booth who had his arms wrapped around her. She moved slightly so she could see her clock; 7:00 am. She expected to hear sounds in the lab but then remember no one else was allowed in. Booth felt her shift next to him and immediately hugged her closer, eliminating any chance at her getting up. "Booth I have to get up," Booth smirked and hugged her closer.

"No you don't,"

"The haz-mat team brought pancakes," Brennan watched Booth's facial features as he pondered her statement.

"Well, I suppose we can get up. We wouldn't want to be rude." Brennan gasped as Booth picked her up with ease.

"Booth put me down, someone will see us!" Booth smiled and brought his face down to hers.

"Who? Everyone is still sleeping," Booth smirked and leaned down. Suddenly the two heard voices filtering into Brennan's office. "Well now people are up, I'm hungry are you?" Booth placed Brennan gently back down and walked to the door. "After you madam." Booth gestured towards the door and bowed. Brennan smiled and made her way out of her office.

Tony woke up for the second time that morning feeling like someone was watching him. He shifted his gaze down the ramp to realize that the twins were walking towards the lounge. They were talking quietly and hadn't noticed him and Ziva yet. Tony struggled to get his arm out from under the woman whom he had a very complicated relationship with.

"Tony?" Tony stopped struggling to come face to face with two blonde haired twins.

"Can I help you?"

"Pancakes are ready," Tony in a last attempted to pull his arm free flipped over Ziva and landed at the feet of the twins.

"Neither of you can breath a word of this understand?" The twins smirked and nodded. Tony's eyebrows came together in confusion as the kids suddenly took off at a run away from Tony.

"What can't they say anything about Tony?" Tony's eye brows shot up.

"That, I uhm...You...There's pancakes?" Tony scrambled to get off the floor when he heard the loud bellow of none other than Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Three agents and a forensic specialist came bounding from their sleeping places to hear their boss. A large table had been set up in the middle of the lab and was covered in a large variety of breakfast foods. Booth and Brennan were already seated and were sitting closer than usual, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by Angela. Every one still appeared to be tired, no one had slept well especially since they didn't know what the potential threat was. Tony, Ziva, McGee, Abby, Zane, and val joined the rest who were already seated at the large table. Booth noticed that the children were getting nervous again because they had started to speak to each other in a language he didn't understand.

"Hello everyone, good morning. Yesterday was scary and a long day, we don't really know what happened but we do know that we're going to be stuck here for a little while." Angela raised her voice and everyone immediatly quieted down. "I was talking to Ziva and Abby and we thought it might be fun if we started some sort of game. Possibly made teams, divided ourselves up. Maybe make some sort of tournament, does that sound like fun to anyone?" Booth nodded as did Tony, Gibbs glanced at the kids and noticed that they seemed to get a mischievous gleam in their eyes.

"I think that sounds like a good idea Angela, how about we make teams after breakfast?" Director Shepard smiled at the rest of the group as they continued their meal.

Sure enough after the group had finished eating and cleaned up after themselves they all met, like they had the day before, in the center of the lab. Angela, Abby, Ziva were standing next to each other, obviously excited, and Tony was trying to figure out why.

Gibbs walked over to where the women were standing and Abby whispered something in his ear. Tony raised an eyebrow as he saw Gibbs smirk. This can't be good if *Gibbs* agrees.

"We've come up with fair teams!" Hodgins let out a whoop but was shushed by Angela.

"Boys against girls!" The director chuckled as the three women high fived Val. Booth took the opportunity to form his team. He waved for Gibbs to come over but the marine declined. Abby saw this and immediately spoke her mind.

"Gibbs you have to play!" Gibbs rolled his eyes at her, at the same time Abby saw that the director wasn't going to play either. "Fine you and the Director are the referees." Gibbs sighed he new Abby wasn't going to give in so he agreed. Abby skipped away happily to find the group in a tight huddle. The boys did the same, Zane suddenly felt like part of him was missing now that he and his sister were separated. He felt some of his loneliness disappear as none other than Anthony DiNozzo wrapped an arm around his thin shoulders and gave him a big smile. Booth decided that he would play leader and for once Tony didn't argue.

"Wait whats the game?" McGee suddenly spoke up and the other men realized that they didn't know what the game was either. Booth started to play leader again. "Ange what's the game?" Angela pointed to Gibbs who was holding the paper at arms length trying to read it with out his glasses. Abbey signaled for Valeria to go help him. She read it and whispered the name of the game in his ear before running back to the girls group.

"Capture the balloons?" Abby nodded as the director proceeded in pulling out her glasses and reading the directions.

"Each team is given 10 balloons and four cardboard boxes and other supplies we may decide to throw in. You want to use the boxes to make a fort for the balloons so that its harder for the other team to get them, each team is given a half hour to set up." Jenny looked up to see that Abby and Ziva were handing out the items. "Next...Uh each team will try to get as many balloons as possible in ten minutes. Several obstacles will be set up by..." She looked over at Gibbs who nodded. "Special Agent Gibbs," DiNozzo and McGee groaned and Booth suddenly felt nervous. "All play should take place on ground level,"

"Get to work!" The teams scattered as they heard Gibbs' voice echo around the lab.

Angela ushered the women into a secluded corner of the lab that would be harder for the boys to find the balloons. Ziva started to go through the bag that had also been included in their supplies, she found three bottles of shaving cream a length of rope and a gallon of blue paint. Ziva and Val immediatly gasped as they each thought of pranks to pull with the items. Brennan who had been unusually quiet all morning had made friends with Abby and the two had started to create a masterpiece with the cardboard boxes. "Ziva, I know it said we could only play on the ground floor but could we set something up on the ramp but control it from down here?" Ziva thought for a moment before nodding.

"I think that's still fair, why what is your evil little mind thinking?" Ziva watched as the girl tied the rope to the bucket and sprinted up the stairs, her feet making no sound as she ran across the ramp. She looped the rope securely across the metal bars before tossing the rest of the rope down towards a baffled NCIS probationary agent. Val then tipped the bucket so that just a few drops fell out showing where the paint would land. Ziva hadn't even thought of that, if she thought of that I wonder what her brother can think of... Ziva was still staring at the contraption when the girl appeared to her right.

"Well what do ya think?"

"Wow, I'm very impressed...What do you think we can do with the shaving cream?" The girl appeared thoughtful for a moment before she raised her eyebrows with a grin.

"Well, we could put it on the balloons to make them slippery but we could also put it near the fort to make that slippery?" Ziva nodded before responding.

"I think we can do both!" The girls rejoined the group to show them what they had accomplished and to inform them of the second part of their plan.

The boys followed Hodgins to a corner opposite the girls where they immediatly started to set up camp.

"Hey Zane, what's in the bag?" Zane walked over to the bag to discover two down pillows, a gallon of yellow paint and a bag of rubber bands. Hodgins and DiNozzo glanced at each other with evil grins. Booth and McGee started to work more on the fort while Hodgins, Zane and Tony started to plot what they would do with their new found presents. Booth and McGee worked on the fort, complete opposites. McGee a genius, graduated from MIT, who was always on the loosing side of Tony's pranks. A boy scout and proud to be one, no matter what Tony said. Booth, the heart, the muscle, the one who could have any woman he wanted. Endured the war, trained soldiers and a father who was looking for someone to love for thirty, forty or fifty years. They worked side by each coming up with ideas that together would make their fort nearly impossible to invade. McGee and Booth stepped back and admired their work. The fort was low and long, and thanks to Hodgins, Tony and Zane. Completely loaded with pranks. Booth was doubtful at first but Zane quickly explained it.

"Okay when they first walk in theres a tripwire, which is one of the rubber bands, that will dump paint. Then theres two strings that support the pillows that have been cut so that the feathers can fall out."

"So they'll be covered in paint *and* feathers," Hodgins stated, barely containing his excitement.

"Yeah, I got that jack," McGee finished explaining where Zane left off.

"Then the balloons will be all the way in the back of the fort!" The boys all high fived just as they heard Gibbs call them to the middle of the lab.

The teams faced off. Zanebono to Valeria. Anthony to Ziva. Timothy to Abigail. Seely to Temperance. Jack to Angela.

"Let the games begin!"

Ok was it THAT bad? I'm not really sold on it but who asked me. Again I'm sorry it took me THAT long to update and I hope it wont be that long again but I really shouldn't make promises. For those of you who read my other stories...I'm doing my best so please don't hurt me! Please read and review!