I'm really surprised that I updated twice in the last week. The only reason I did is cuz Charlie threatened to not write the alternate ending if I didn't update soon. So I updated. I might update again tomorrow, but I doubt it. By the way, Charlie has finished writing the story, but I just need to actually type it. I'm also gonna post the last chapter and the alternate ending at the same time. I'll give you more info on the alternate ending in a couple chapters.

I don't own NCIS. Which reminds me that I still need to watch this week's NCIS...

Spencer drummed his fingers lightly on the floor, waiting for the last of the prisoners to fall asleep. Reese had told him They were coming for him. Yes, the name was Reese, not Cheese. The words didn't form right in his mouth, so it came out as Cheese.

Gibbs sat by a wall and waited for Ethan to fall asleep. The poor kid had gotten very sick and all he cared about was Gibbs's raging infection that was quickly claiming him. Ethan was terrified to go to sleep for fear he would find Gibbs dead when he woke up. Gibbs had told Ethan he was the one to worry about.

As soon as Gibbs and Ethan were asleep, Spencer moved to the door and waited. He was ready for them. He was ready to die.

Xhail coughed violently into her hand and apologized to Reese, who was braiding her hair. Reese was in her early twenties. She was small and had short blue hair that was rapidly turning blonde due to not re-dying it.

Tony watched as the two interacted and could not help but feeling that Reese resembled a gummy bear. Xhail had become violently ill over the last couple weeks. Tony was very worried about her. Xhail climbed onto Tony's lap and fell asleep. Reese sat next to them and stared off into space. Tony knew she was thinking about her lost friend.

"What was he like?" Reese asked suddenly.

Tony knew she was talking about Gibbs. Only Reese and Xhail were bold enough to bring the question out into the open. Tony didn't know how exactly to explain Gibbs.

"Ever seen Batman Begins?" he asked.

Reese nodded. "I love those movies."

"Well, picture him as Bruce Wayne. A man who has everything ripped away from him in the blink of an eye, and instead of giving up, he goes and makes his way to the top. That's Gibbs."

Reese furrowed her brow. "Isn't Batman, like hardcore mean, and hates the world?"

"Not after he adopts Dick Grayson."

"He doesn't adopt Richard in that movie."

"That's not the point," Tony replied.

Two and two clicked in Reese's mind. Gibbs had been stone cold since whatever happened to him, but when a person or people came into his life, he involuntary changed for the better. Reese understood, she had seen that change in herself.

"So who plays the part of Richard Grayson?"

"Me and a few of my friends."

"Their names?"

"Tim McGee, Ziva David, Abby Sciuto, Donald Mallard, who we all call Ducky. And then there's Kate Todd and Jenny Shepard, who and both dead. Leon Vance, who is not well liked, and Jimmy Palmer, who has his moments," Tony said in one breath.

Reese nodded to herself.

"What about you?"

Reese was surprised. No one had ever asked her about herself. At that moment, she realized how much she had to tell.

"How can I start? My life was going nowhere fast, I was seventeen and constantly fighting with my parents. One day after my dad saw I got a tattoo, I decided to run away. I boarded a bus to New York, and was on my way on the bus when I met him."

"Your lost one," Tony said.

Reese nodded. "His name was Spencer. We changed each others lives. He gave me the strength to go home and I was able to prove that he could function normally. You see, he was a schizophrenic. But there was a down side to us meeting. When we were separated, he would have delusions of me holding conversation with him." Reese giggled. "And he calls me Cheese."

Tony and Reese were both in tears by the end of the conversation. But they were both glad they had talked, because they needed it. Tony carefully laid down next to Xhail and fell asleep. Reese found she could not sleep, so she waited in the dark, listening to the sound of other prisoners breathing.

Rough hands yanked Reese to her feet and forced and cloth in her mouth. She desperately tried to scream, but it came out as a muffled sob. She really hoped someone would hear her. When Chad pulled her out of the room, all her hopes of escaping were gone. Chad dragged her into a room with nothing in it but a person she never though she'd see again.

"Cheese?"

Chad ripped the gag out of her mouth and hurried out of the room. Spencer got up off the floor and gently touched Reese's cheek as if to assure himself that she was really there. Reese pulled him into a tight hug and she had no intentions of letting him go.

Landon watched through the two-way mirror as the friends were reunited. He loved that part of the process. Reunite them, then kill them together. Landon presses a button on the control panel in front of him, and laughed to himself as invisible odorless gas filled the room.

"So who's next?" Devllynn asked casually.

"Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Anthony DiNozzo," Landon replied.

Devllynn's face fell. She didn't want him to kill Tony. She needed to buy him some time. Landon was not going to agree and she knew it. But it was worth a try.

"Not yet," she said.

Landon turned his attention away from the dying people to glare at Devllynn. He was not happy she had questioned his judgment. Landon back handed her. Surprised, Devllynn stumbled back a few steps. Chad wrapped his arms protectively around her.

"Leroy won't last much longer with that infection," Landon said calmly." We need to do it soon."

The three watched as Reese and Spencer died in each other's arms. Landon chuckled softly to himself. Chad was indifferent; he had seen it a thousand times. But Devllynn, for the first time, saw how inhuman it was. She was repulsed she had once taken joy in watching people die.

Landon turned to a lab table and filled two syringes with clear liquid. An exhilarating shock ran down his spine. It was a feeling he got when he knew he held their lives in the palm of his hand.

He was ready to take down Anthony DiNozzo and Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Okay, so that chapter depressed me. I finally get to create a character in a story, and Charlie kills him. Oh, and someone said in a review that they think Brown's death is connected to Tony and Gibbs. I forget who reviewed that and I apologize, but I thank whoever that was for reviewing on most of the chapters. Brown's death is not connnected to Tony and Gibbs. He's just a jerkface that Charlie wanted to kill off. Sorry if that disappoints you.

And none of you entered charlie's challenge! Meanies. I know some of you have written stories, so if you just enter one of them, that would be awesome. And if you do enter, you might be allowed to create a character in Charlie's stories. No promises though, cuz its pretty much all up to Charlie. Even if you don't enter, you're still awesome for reading this story. But you should still enter.