Danny

Chapter # 2

NCIS

Here goes the second part, hope you like it.

Gibbs walked into the hospital room and saw Danielle laying in bed, Tony was still sitting in the chair beside the bed.

"Danielle." He greeted with a smile.

"Hey Agent Gibbs."

"It's just Gibbs."

He walked over to where Tony sit and looked at him.

"Just keeping it warm for you, Boss." The younger man said, quickly standing up and moving across the room to sit in the window sill. Gibbs sat in the chair.

"I see you have him trained well." The young girl said.

"Working on it."

"About hitting you…" she started, but Gibbs held his hand up to stop her.

"Don't worry about it. You were just woken up and still disoriented, besides, it didn't hurt that much."

He saw anger flash in her brown eyes. "If I wasn't still sore from the latest beating and at my full strength then you'd have landed on your six."

Gibbs laughed and said, "You are absolutely Colonel Harris's granddaughter."

"He said I could trust you."

"He was right."

"Do you trust Agent DiNozzo?" She asked.

"With my life."

"Okay, how about my life?"

"Yes." Gibbs leaned closer to the young girl and said. "You can talk in front of him, he's a good man."

"Where do I start?"

"The beginning is usually a good place to start."

"Well, the beginning depends on which philosopher you believe, or rather which religious conviction you believe in. One theory is that we all started from this big sea of ooze….."

"Danielle." Gibbs couldn't help be smile. "You can skip a few thousand years."

"It's Danny."

"Okay, Danny."

"After Grandpa passed away, Uncle Brain came by the group home I was staying at, said he wanted me to live with him. But I knew he was into highly illegal and ethically questionable activities. So I called the police. I hated calling the law on my own kin, but…." She didn't finish the sentence, just looked down at the blanket.

"I know." Gibbs said softly. "You did the right thing, even if it hurts."

"I guess you know what happened when the police found them."

"Yes."

"I didn't hear anything else from him until a little over three months ago. I was walking down the sidewalk and this van pulled up beside me, two men jumped out and grabbed me. Uncle Brian was in the van. He told me he wanted us to be a family, that he wanted to take care of me."

She looked up at Gibbs and he could see the sadness in her eyes.

"I wanted to believe him, but I couldn't. I was right not to, he only wanted me to help with his computers."

"Computers for the Children Of A New Order?"

"Yes Sir. They seem truly convinced that the American Government in evil and that they could run things much better. It's the exact opposite of what Grandpa taught me."

"Your Grandpa believed in the government." Gibbs agreed. "He knew that there were some corrupt politicians and lawmakers, but he still believed that our government was better then any other."

"He past that believe on to me. But not to Uncle Brian."

"What did he want you to do to the computer?" Gibbs asked.

"Set up the web page, keep track of members and activities."

"The group has a web page?"

"Yes Sir, it describes some of the more legal activities. Protests, bans, stuff like that. It also recruits new members and sells the merchandise."

"Merchandise?"

"For ten dollars you can buy a tee shirt, for another five you can get a matching hat. It's legal, all covered by the right of free speech act. But he also wanted me to keep record of the illegal activities also. They've got a large warehouse filled with weapons and explosives. I have no idea where it is, I've never been to it. I had to log all of them into the computer so he could sell them online."

"How? You can't sell guns on EBay?" Gibbs asked.

"If you're smart enough, you can sell anything on the internet." Danny said. "And I'm smart enough. I use a coded system to send and receive orders and information. The creeps who do business with Uncle Brian uses the same code I devised."

"You created the code thing?" Gibbs asked, impressed with her computer skills.

"Yes Sir." She looked down at the blanket again and asked in a small voice, "Am I in a lot of trouble? I know what I did was wrong, but I didn't want to be hit worse."

"Look at me, Danny." He said gently. When she looked up, he continued. "Nothing that happened is your fault. Your Uncle made you break the law, you are not in trouble. But I do need to know everything that happened, everything that you did."

"They watched me pretty closely when I was on the computer, but most of them don't know squat about them. So I was able to download a lot of information on three UBS hookups. Tony said you found the one about the assignation attempt on the Governor. I hid all three UBS hookups in separate locations. That way if one was found, the other two would still be safe."

"Smart idea." Gibbs said.

One of them is in a tree in Hover Park. The tree right behind the fifth bench from the east entrance. It's in the next to the top branch, in a small woodpecker hole. The other one is at the library on Jackson street. In the Criminal Law section hidden behind third bookshelf, close to the bottom."

"Good place for that one." Gibbs said. "What's on them?"

"One has the inventory of the warehouse, names and other information about the buyers and sellers that Uncle Brain done business with, and land deeds associated with all of the members of the group and family members. I also added rental contracts for them. I figure the warehouse maybe owned by one of them or at least rented in one of their names. The second is all the information I have on the members. Names, addresses, criminal history, known associates, family members, social security numbers, and more."

"Very smart." Gibbs smiled. "You are very intelligent."

"Yeah, but that's why I spent the last three months being used as a stress release for Uncle Brian. And he has been under a lot of stress."

"He will never hurt you again." Gibbs assured her. "I promise you that."

"I remembered what Grandpa said about a Gunny who could be trusted when the chips were down." She said. "I was a little surprised to find that you retired form the Marines when I started looking for you, then I found that you were with the NCIS. Figured that just added to the list of reasons to contact you, some of the members are Marines."

"No they're not." Gibbs said. "They may wear the uniform, but they are not Marines."

"You sound like Grandpa. He told me to give you a message if I ever met him."

"What's the message?"

""Come closer." She whispered.

Gibbs leaned closer to the young girl, figuring she just didn't want Tony to hear. The slap to the back of the head surprised him.

"He said that he figured you'd need that, seeing as how he's not around to keep you on track."

Tony almost choked, trying not to laugh. Gibbs just laughed. "Should have seen that one coming." He said.

"Sure should have." Danny agreed.

Gibbs looked at Tony, and the younger man immediately wiped the smile from his face.

"Go get the UBS hookups and get them to Abby and McGee."

"On it Boss."

"Then get some sleep."

"Where's my bracelet?" Danny asked.

"Right here." Tony picked up a silver chain bracelet with a small heart and handed it to her.

"You'll need this." She said, removing the heart and handing it back to him. "There's a chip inside that contains the code needed to read the UBS hookups. Without it, it's just appear as gibberish."

TBC

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