Gibbs took a small step towards McGee, Sophia still in his arms…"What's a campfire?"
"Just something Tony does when you're not around, Boss."
"Why haven't I heard about it then?"
"Cuz it's stupid, Boss."
"Ahh."…Gibbs turned towards Kate, who was seated once again at her desk…"Special Agent Todd."
Kate rose looking at him…"Yes, Gibbs?"
"Missing something?"…He held Sophia out to her.
"Oh."…She moved quickly to him, taking Sophia from him.
"No, I wanna 'tay with Gibby, mommy!"
"I told ya she loved ya, Boss."…Tony said moving to his desk, Ziva was right behind him, handing him his son as soon as he sat down...he looked up at her…"What?"
"I must speak with Abby"…Ziva moves to the elevator hitting the button…"Abby, I need you."
Abby looked at Ziva.
"Now."
Abby crossed her arms and just stood there.
"Please."…Ziva said, cracking a small smile.
"Better."…Abby grinned, moving to the elevator.
Tony shrugged, he slowly rocked his son…he pushed the blanket from his face, showing his tiny smile…"Heh."
Gibbs stood looking at Tony…Ducky moved over to him, patting him on the shoulder…"Good mood, Jethro?"
"Babies smell good, don't they, Duck?"
Ducky looked at him odd, then patted him on the shoulder finally realizing he was remembering his daughter Kelly…"Ah, they do, Gibbs…they do."…Ducky and Palmer moved to the elevator, they leave the squad room, Jenny heads back upstairs.
Gibbs broke from his mini-trance…"DiNozzo, take McGee."
Tony stood…"I'll be right back, Boss."
"No, give me the baby, Tony."
"You sure, Boss?"
"Yeah."…Tony moved from behind his desk, carefully handing little Tony to Gibbs.
"Where we going, Gibbs?"
"Marine collapsed and died at the White House."
"Cool!"…Tony exclaimed, rubbing his hands together eagerly.
Kate looked at Tony…"Cool?!"
"Heh. Never been to the White House before, by the way, shouldn't Kate be going, Boss, with her being an ex-secret service and all?"
"Who's in charge here, DiNozzo?"
"Here or HERE, Boss?"
"DiNozzo."
"Shutting up, Boss."…Tony grabbed his bag and Sig from his desk and headed towards the elevator…" McGear up, Tim!"…McGee quickly follows him into the elevator.
"Why aren't I going, Gibbs?"…Kate wondered.
"You look tired, Kate…relax today."
"Okay, where is Gibbs and what did you do with him?"
"Look, I've never had an agent with small kids before and now I have two."
"Are you growing a heart, Gibbs?"
"Aww, Kate...do whatever the hell you want to do, you're going to do it anyway."
"I was asking about my job, not marrying Tony!"
Gibbs turns to her..."Why in hell would you want to marry, Tony?"
Kate was speechless, Gibbs moved towards the elevator…she sprung up from her chair…"I do like sex, Gibbs…you know, sex?!"
Gibbs didn't even flinch, he continued onward towards the lounge…"I get urges, Gibbs…don't you?! Hello?"
Kate drops to her seat and sighs deeply.
"Sex!"…Sophia giggled.
Kate slowly turned her head, Sophia was sitting next to her, looking up…"Aww, pumpkin…you are your daddy's daughter."
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Tony and McGee drive up to the White House gate, Tony pulls his ID…"DiNozzo, NCIS…hear you have a dead jarhead?"
"Sir."…The man in the shack shined a light on McGee's face…"You're ID, too, Sir."
"He's with me, he's my bitch."
McGee whacks him in the ribs his elbow.
Tony turns to McGee…"But you're a pretty bitch."
McGee sighed as he showed his ID.
"You guys don't look like cops."
"That's because we're not…I'm pinky, he's the brain…and…"…Tony looked towards McGee.
"What?"…McGee raised his hands.
"Say it, McGee."
"Huh?"
Tony sighed, he looked back at the guard…"And we're here to take over the world."
The man chuckles, he got a signal from the man behind the car as he closed the trunk….he opens the gate…"I have kids, too, buddy…move along."
Tony whacks McGee on the back of the head…"You McSuck!"
Tony walked into the side door, McGee was right behind carrying everything…"I can't believe you've never seen Pinky and the Brain, McGee."
"I went to MIT, Tony, I didn't have time to watch cartoons."
"That's no excuse, McGee…I went to The Ohio State, I played two sports, I actually got laid a LOT and still had time to watch cartoons, while eating cereal with beer."
"Why would you do that?!"
"Ran out of milk."
McGee shook his head at the stupidity of Tony's answer as a man in a black suit walks up to them…"You those fuckers from NCIS?!"…He said in an annoyed tone.
"That's what it says on the back of our jackets, doesn't it?"…Tony turns, showing his back.
"Aww, we got ourselves a couple of jackasses, huh?"
"He doesn't speak for all NCIS SA's, Sir."
The man in the suit looked at McGee…"What are you an ass kisser? Follow me."…The man turned and started walking.
Tony slaps McGee on the back of the head…"When Gibbs isn't here, my word is the law…do you get me, Probie?!"…He smacks him again, then follows the man.
"Tony, I didn't…"…McGee sighed.
"It's okay, McGeek, we all know you're a brown noser."
Tony and McGee follow the man into a hallway, Ducky knelt over a man in uniform.
"Ducky, you're early."
Ducky turned to Tony…"You're late."
"I told you we shouldn't have stopped for breakfast burritos, Tony!"…McGee complained.
Tony pats his stomach…"Me, too…but he's dead, he's not going anywhere, right, Ducky?"
Ducky sighed, rising to his feet…"Anthony, as you can see, Gibbs isn't here."
"Yeah, so?"
"This is the White House."
"And your point, Ducky?"
"Do I have to draw you a map, Tony."
"Naw, I got one from the lady at reception."…Tony pulls a sight-seeing map from his pocket…"Cool, I think we're outside the Oval Office…hey, do you think it's true about all those hidden tunnels and stuff?"
"Actually yes, there was one built for Franklin D. Roosevelt just around the corner, which allowed him to escape the White House in his wheel chair unnoticed."
"Really, cool…where?"
"Let me show you."…Ducky takes a few steps, then stops…"Ahh, I'm going to have to get used to you when Gibbs retires."
Tony cocked his head…"Gibbs is retiring?"
"Oh dear, you didn't hear that from me."
Ducky moves back to the marine, kneeling once again.
"So, who's the dead guy, Duck?"
"Mr. Palmer…he's a marine Sergeant, Michael Johnson."
Palmer hands Tony the man's ID…"Here you are, Agent DiNozzo."
Tony squats next to Ducky…"Is that a congressional medal of honor, Ducky?"…Tony said, pointing.
"Indeed."
"He's 34, Tony…two tours in the first gulf war, two in latest, he was sent home after receiving his sixth purple heart."…McGee read off his PDA.
"Sixth?"
McGee nodded.
"Jesus…living through all this, then dies in the freakin' White House?!"
"Tragic really."
"More like the plot to a bad Steven Seagal movie, Ducky."
"There's been a good Steven Seagal movie, Tony?"
"Uh, yeah, Probie…Under Siege."
"Is that the one where he fights the two voodoo twins?"
"No, that was Marked for Death."
"I thought that was Hard to Kill."
"No, that's the one where he's in a coma and very hot-then, Kelly LeBrock co-starring."
"Who?"
"You're making my brain hurt, McGee."…Tony shakes his head…"Weird Science, the woman they create."
"Oh, the one with the big…"
"Heh. Yeah."
"Okay, which one was Under Siege then?"
"The Navy one, he played Casey Rybeck, a former SEAL, who had lost his security clearance, because he struck an officer who had gotten his men killed in a botched commando mission during the invasion of Panama and because of that he could only serve as a yeoman or a cook, so he became a cook to serve with his favorite Captain, who actually pulled some string for him."…Tony stands…"Round up all the cooks, I don't trust cooks."
Everyone looked at Tony oddly…"Excuse me?"…The secret service man responded.
"Gary Busey was fantastic in it!"…Tony turned to the secret-service man…"Was the President in the White House when the man died?"
"Negative, neither was the first lady or any of the cabinet."
"I'm gonna need full access to the White House."
The man laughs…"Why not ask for the security tapes while you're at it."
Tony pats him on the back… "Maybe my Probie was wrong about you, maybe you're not such an asshole. Thanks a million!"
"It would take an act of congress to get you those tapes."
"Well, you better start working on it then, huh?"…Tony looked down, then quickly back at the man…"Murder at 1600, right? Diane Lane, nice. Heh. Good one, chief."
"Special Agent…"
"DiNozzo."…Tony quickly replied.
"Special Agent DiNozzo, that is going to be impossible, but I will allow you access to the Oval Office for a limited period of time."…The man backed up, he watched Ducky as he slid the liver probe into the man.
Tony squatted next to Ducky…"TOD? COD?"
Ducky extracts the probe from the man…"96.2…hmm, approximately two hours, Tony. No clear cause of death, I'll no more when I get him back and perform a full autopsy."
"McGee, when did NCIS get the call?"
"An hour and 23 minutes ago and that was from Metro, they got it 5 minutes before that."
Tony breathed deeply while standing…"You smell that, McGee?"
McGee sniffs…"Uh, no…what?"
"Something stinks."
Tony looked back at McGee…"You can hack the White House, right?"
McGee stared at Tony with a black expression on his face…"Huh?"
"Heh heh. I'm just kiddin' ya, Probie…but for the sake of argument, can you?"
Tony pushes open the door to the Oval Office… Tony walks into the Oval Office, McGee and secret service man right behind him..."The good ole Oral Office."
"Uh, I think you mean Oval Office, Tony."
"Newsflash, McZNN...this is where Bubba ruined the blue dress. Heh. I wish I could've voted for that guy again...imagine that, McGee...being so famous that a person who gives you a hummer is famous, because of it? I wanna be that famous, Probie."
Tony moves behind the desk and starts opening drawers..."What are you doing?"...The man asked.
"What? You've never seen National Treasure 2? The desk is a huge Chinese puzzle box."
"Do you believe everything you see in movies?"
Tony shrugs, opening a drawer…"OH MY GOD!"
"You found something?!"…The man moved towards Tony.
"Stay there, send in my ME and leave the room!"
"Is it bad?!"
"Just do it!"...The man runs out, Ducky runs in, shutting the door behind him.
"What is it, Anthony? Biological?!"
"Quick, sit in the chair...McGee take our pics, before the guy catches on."
Tony quickly sits, putting his feet up on the desk, he takes off his hat, dropping it in his lap, he moves his hands behind his hand, interlocking his finger, he grins...McGee snaps a photo.
Tony rises, moving away from the chair as Ducky runs over, sitting in the chair, he crosses his arms and smiles…McGee snaps another photo.
Tony grabs the camera from McGee…"Quick, sit in the chair."
"Really?"…McGee moved to the chair.
The man pushes through the door just as McGee sits down.
"How many times do I have to tell you, McGee...don't sit in that chair!"
Tony snaps a quick photo of McGee getting up..."Lets go and you're not getting any desserts for week!"
Tony and Ducky walk out side-by-side…"2 for 2, Duck."…They both chuckled, as McGee followed them out.
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Later that night...
Kate walked up to a door holding Sophia, she knocks on it…the door slowly starts to open, music blares out…Abby stood in the door…"Abby, can you watch Sophia for me tonight? It would mean a lot to me."
"Sure, I guess."
"Great!"…Kate hands Sophia to Abby, then a bag…"Dinner, a snack and possibly breakfast, too."
"Do you have a date?"…Abby grinned.
"Uh, no, not at all."
"You're going to Tony's aren't you?"
"Nope, not at all."
"What are you wearing?"
Kate looked down, she was wearing a dark blue raincoat, that hung to her knees, her legs were bare, she was wearing a pair of blue stiletto heels…"Looks like a coat, Abby."
"Yup, you're going to Tony's."
"I'm not going to Tony's!"
"Okay, okay…but I think there's something you should know."
"I have to go, Abby…I have to pick up something before I go over to Tony's."
Abby chuckles, Kate hits herself in the forehead with her palm, then quickly runs back to car and leaves.
"Kate…wait."…Abby holds out her hand…"Oh, never mind."…She starts to close the door…"Just the three of us, huh?"
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Kate moved up to Tony's door, she took a deep breath…"You can do this, Kate."…She knocks on the door. The door starts to open, she smiled…"To-."
"Finally given up on him, yes?"…Ziva grinned, standing in a long black trench coat, which was tied around her waist, her hair down, curly.
Kate's head falls back…"Aww, crap."…She sighed deeply.