A/N: OK, SO I FINALLY GOT INSPIRED AND THE CHAPTER ENDED UP BEING LIKE, 20 PAGES, SO I DECIDED TO DIVIDE IT UP. I'LL POST THE OTHER HALF EITHER TOMORROW OR WENDSDAY. NOW FOR THE STORY... THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO VJGM. SHE INSPIRED THE BEGINNING OF THE CHAPTER :) WELL, ANYWAY, HERE IS TEAM GIBBS IN THEIR FIRST THERAPY SESSION.... PLUS A LITTLE MORE. :) OH, AND PARTS OF THIS CHAPTER ARE A LITTLE OOC... I COULDN'T GET IT QUITE RIGHT, BUT WHATEVER, I STILL THINK IT TURNED OUT OK. R&R. AND ENJOY!
DISCLAIMER: SADLY I STILL DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE AMAZING CHARACTERS OF NCIS. (IF I DID, THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR THIS STORY).
Don't Play With Fire
Anita glanced at them momentarily, but focused her attention on the group as a whole. "Ok, team Gibbs, as you all probably know, we will be having these sessions once a day for the next five days. Plus, if we feel it is needed, which it usually is among groups this large, additional sessions will be scheduled for individuals and/or pairs. I hope you will all find this an enlightening experience..."
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The team continued to sit there silently, watching the shrinks and waiting to see what was going to happen next. An awkward silence began to develop Anita filled it hastely. "Okay! I can see you are a shy group," they all smirked at each other. "So let's take a minute to relax and get comfortable."
"I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty relaxed and comfortable here." Tony grinned and yawned loudly, stretching to rest his arm over Ziva's shoulders. Obviously has problems with other's personal space.
Ziva glared at him pushed his arm away and hissed in his ear. "Well why don't you go make yourself comfortable somewhere else."
Ralph and Anita had sat down and watched their whole bickering match with amused looks on their faces. They had taken out notbooks and stared jotting down any observations they may want to cover more deeply later. At least she will stand up for herself. I hate those girls who will let a guy do anything cuz she is too scared to stand up to him.
Ralph decided it was time to interrupt, so he started talking loudly to get their attention. "Well, let's get this started. We were not briefed on any of you before you came, since that would be considered an invasion of privacy since this is therapy, so we don't know much about you personally, only what you do directly for NCIS. Let's begin. Director Shepard..."
"Please call me Jenny." She smiled, Gibbs scowled. Was that jealousy?
"Okay then, Jenny, it seems you made the official decision to attend therapy, what caused you to make this decision?"
Everyone turned to look at her before she spoke. Considering all the attention was focused on her she was relatively calm. "The situations this team have been put through are... complicated. It seems there has been a lot of unneeded tension among the team and I felt this would be a good way to work it out." Anita and Ralph monitored the teams reactions to her answer; they all seemed satisfied. Hmm... they seem to respect their boss... that's one thing we won't need to cover.
"So, Jenny, you are the Director of NCIS, Gibbs is the boss of the team. Tony and Ziva are partners, McGee is another field agent who occasionally assists Abby, the forensic scientist. Is that correct?" Everyone nodded in approval.
"So... if this is about... tension, where should we begin?" The whole team turned and pointed to Tony who was, in turn, pointing to Ziva. Why doesn't this surprise me...
"What!" Objected Tony, "What is this?! Tension is NOT my fault, how the heck can you say it's all me?!"
"Oh we're not saying it's all you," said Abby, smiling at him, "Just... most of it."
"Yeah, says the girl who fantasies about killing us." Hmm... should I be concerned?
"What! Where'd you get that from!!"
"Hmm... Let me think, oh yeah! 'Don't forget I am one of the few people who can kill you and leave no forensic evidence'." Has she actually said that!?... Can she actually do that!?
McGee jumped to her defense, "Yeah, but she would never actually kill any one, what about Ziva she is a..." Getting defensive there. How cute... Hmm... Where do I recognize him from?
"A psychopathic murderer." Tony finished for him grinning. Wait... is he seriously happy about the fact that this girl kills people! No no, they must be kidding. Plus they are getting a little off topic...
"WHAT!! I am not a murderer. A murderer is one who kills without permission and with negative intensions. I am an assassin. I have permission, well, i get orders, and I only have the best intensions when I kill people." She said quickly, then thought about what she had said, "Wait, that did not come out right." WHAT!!! She kills people for a living! What the heck do they do at NCIS! I thought they solved Navy crimes...
"Hey, let's not get off subject," said McGee interrupted, "Don't forget, who causes the most tension? And also don't forget the answer... Tony." Thank you.
"Okay, that's it! Give one example in which I have caused unneeded tension amongst the team."
"You constantly act like a child..." I can see him doing that.
"You glue my fingers to my keyboard and my face to my desk..." Wow, this guy's creative.
"You throw paper and spit wads..." Umm... that is a little childish.
"You mess with my chair and my computer..." How does he find the time to do all this?!
"You are constantly making sexual jokes and invading into our private lives...." That is getting a little personal...
"Speaking of which you always are making jokes and bugging me about my private life and sex life..." Wow. I need to ask him about that later.
"WAIT!" shouted Tony, "That's not true McGoo. I bug you about your lack of a private life and sex life. There is a huge difference there." So obviously you have a profound private/sex live. "And besides, I'm not the only one who invades privacy, what about McAuthor over here.
"HEY! When have I ever... Oh wait..."
"Yeah, your book. It is telling the whole world about our personal lives!" Ah HA!!! I knew I'd seen him before. He's that author! What's the title.... oh yeah, Deep Six! Wait... that's about the team. Hmm... now I need to read this, see what he thinks of the team. WAIT!! That gives me an idea.
Anita interrupted there debate, "Well... it seems we're learning a lot about each other but we're almost out of time, so I want to wrap this up. After listening to what you are saying, I want to assign a little homework. Before our next session, I want you to write up something on what you think of the other members of your team. It could be anything: What you like about them, or what you don't like about them. Next session we will discuss what you said today, and what you wrote about. I think it is a good idea to talk these feelings over and let each other know how you feel. It will allow you to be closer and trust each other more. Ok, now, before we leave, I want to do a quick little exercise to help you show each other you care. So come on now everyone, group hug!"
"YAY!" Said Abby and jumped up, then looked around dissapointed when no one else gave the same reaction and sat back down.
They all stared at Anita. "What?!" Gibbs asked shortly.
"Come on now. It will make you all feel better. Group hug."
"Yeah everyone," Abby insisted "Group hug."
They all glanced awkwardly at the others. Tony spoke up "Umm, sorry to rain on your parade, but I do NOT think that's going to happen."
Ziva looked over at him, confused, "It is not raining, Tony."
Tony laughed, "It's a figure of speech Ziva." The counselors looked at him for an explanation. "English isn't her first language. She doesn't get all the idioms and stuff."
"Ah. Now... hmm, if you wont hug..."
"Yes we will." Abby insisted. "Now everyone stand up!" Not able to resist Abby's enthusiasm, the team groaned and stood. Anita and Ralph watched in shock as the whole team followed the orders of the goth. Oh my gosh! They are listening to this scary goth better then they are listening to us! I wonder if she ever uses that against them...
The team stood up, got into a group and quickly hugged each other before letting go quickly. Ziva complained "Abby, never do that again!" Wow, we told them to do that, and Abby is being blamed for making them do it. She has too much power over this team.
"Okay, well, I think this was a good first session. As I have already said, we will go into more detail over the next few. It is almost two o'clock..."
"1400." They corrected him automatically.
"Right... 1400... Okay, well as I was saying, it is 1400 now and your daily workout session doesn't begin until four thirty."
"1630."
"OKAY. 1630. After that you can go eat, then you will have the rest of the day to yourselves. We will see you all tomorrow."
They all grumbled a goodbye as the practically ran out of the room. Anita and Ralph glanced at each other as they exited the room, with only one thought in their minds. This is going to be an interesting group.
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There seemed to be a sort of silent agreement amongst the team there would be no further discussion of the therapy session until tomorrow when they were forced to. There was an awkward silence building until Tony decided to break it. "Soooo...." he started, then didn't know what to say. Ziva covered for him.
"What do you want to do for the next few hours?"
"We could... umm... swim?"
"Naw, our stuff is in the cabin, and I don't feel like walking back."
"Hmm..."
Abby finally saved them from the forced conversation. "Let's go horseback riding!" she said, grinning mysteriously over at McGee, who replied by rolling his eyes back at her.
Ziva looked at her suspiciously, but agreed. "They have horseback riding here?"
"Of course. What camp doesn't have horseback riding?!"
"I have never actually been horseback riding..." said Ziva slowly.
"Then let's go." Tony said quickly, a huge smile on his face, and they followed Abby to the horses.
The entered the stables and quickly scrunched their noses in disgust. "Oh my, it does not smell very good in here."
"Wato 'tate tee obious, Sea-va." Tony said, plugging his nose. Ziva's reply was cut off by a tall man in a cowboy's hat walking towards them.
"Howdy! Do y'all wanna go fer a ride?" He said, in an obviously fake southern accent.
"Why, ah reckon we do." Tony countered with a much better impression, causing the cowboy to glare at him.
"Very funny. Now wait here while I go get some horses saddled up."
At that moment McGee cut him off, "Do you know what? I don't really feel like horseback riding... it has never really been my thing. I'm going to go find something else to do."
"I'll go with you." Abby said quickly.
"Umm... okay. Ziva?" He looked at her, worried that now she would change her mind about wanting to go if was only going to be the two of them.
"You know, we could do this some other time when there are more of us..." she started, but then changed her mind from the look in his eyes. What was that? Disappointment? Pain almost? "But then again we might not get another chance, so let us go ride the horses."
Tony immediately brightened up, especially when he saw two saddled horses walking towards them. "Ohhh! I get the black one!"
Ziva rolled her eyes. "You are such a child."
They got onto the horses and rode off along a trial the cowboy had pointed out to them.
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In another part of the camp Abby and McGee were sneaking towards a pair of big wooden doors... "Okay Timmy. Now's our chance to finish this. OGTZ is back in action..."
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Just over two hours later Abby and McGee practically ran into Tony and Ziva, who were turned a corner from the opposite direction, laughing about something. "Gosh McClumbsy, watch where you're going."
"What are you two laughing about," McGee asked curiously.
"None of you McBuisness, McGeek."
McGee sniffed indignantly, "Come on let's go to the gym, we have that workout that starts in a few minutes."
Tony thought about that for a minute, "You know this kinda sucks. I bring clothes for everything but the gym. I didn't think there would be a gym here. Heck I didn't even think there would be air conditioning."
"They are providing gym clothes." McGee said shortly. "We need to change before we get there."
The four of walked quietly over to the gym, the whole time Ziva staring at Abby, trying to figure out what her and McGee were up to.
They arrived at the gym to find Gibbs and Jenny already there talking. The gym was basically empty. It seemed that during free time all the other people at the camp seemed to liked to swim.
"Finally, at first I thought you weren't going to show up." Gibbs scolded. "Here, these are the togs they are making us wear. Put 'em on and get back here a-sap."
"Togs, really boss? I have heard them called that maybe once. I'm surprised I even know what you mean!"
"DiNozzo!"
"I'm going to change into my togs, got it boss." And he ran off to the locker rooms before Gibbs hand could meet the back of his head.
Less than ten minutes later, the six of them were lined up in front of the fitness trainers, ready for whatever they had in store for them.
"Okay team, in case you don't remember us, I am Ginger, and this is Willie. We will be making sure you get a healthy amount of exercise over the next few days to keep you healthy and full of energy!"
Over the next hour they were forced to lift weights, run and stretch, the whole while Tony making snide remarks to McGee, telling him to get in shape, then having either Ziva or Gibbs hit him on the back of the head, telling him to shut up. When the finished, they reluctantly thanked the instructors and went to the cafeteria to eat.
Dinner was eaten over mindless banter, joking, and flirting (mostly between Ziva and Tony) after which they got up and headed back to the cabin. They were almost back to their room when Ziva's eyes suddenly bolted open and she ran around the last corner. The others, worried, ran after her. As they turned the corner, they all stopped dead in their tracks and looked wide eyed and the officers put out the last remnants of the fire.
OK, SO I THINK PARTS OF THIS CHAPTER CAME OUT A LITTLE RUSHED, BUT IT WAS GETTING WAY TOO LONG, AND I HAD TO CUT IT OFF SOMETIME, SO I AM LEAVING IT LIKE THIS FOR NOW. IF THERE IS ANY PART YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO MORE DETAIL ON, REVIEW, AND I WILL TRY TO INCORPORATE IT INTO THE STORY. AND LIKE I SAID, THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE UP WITHIN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. PLEASE REVIEW!!