Here is chapter 5, Bullpen

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So far the team found nothing that they could connect to Alex Rider. They were using just about every source they could scrounge up. Tony called in a favor from the Baltimore police, McGee tried hacking with no avail, Ziva was fighting with herself over emailing her father. She thought since he knew Israeli customs, Alex may have been to Israel, so her father could look him up. Finally she decided to type the email.

Dear Abba,

I am fine here with NCIS, everything is great. At the moment, we hit a snag, you could say. We have a boy with us that arises many questions that are missing answers. I was hoping you could be able to help us find some answers. I am asking you for help since this child was able to greet me with Israeli formalities and was also able to confer that I was from Mossad. He is avoiding answering any of our questions by replying with, "That's classified." So any help would be appreciated. His name is Alex Rider. If you know anything about him please tell me as soon as you are able.

With Love,

Ziva

She stared at the message for some time, re-reading it to make sure it was what she wanted her father to read. Yet she hesitated as she scrolled the cursor over the send button. In the end she put the email in her drafts folder. When she did that, Tony banged on his desk in annoyance.

"Okay, this is like a wild goose chase! None of us can find anything on this kid!" Tony ranted, as McGee nodded in support. "All we really know is that we are in custody of a freaky teenage british ninja that is extremely confidential and he works for government agencies." He looked between Timmy and Ziva, and continued his rant. "Seriously, that kid is freaky beyond heck, he's scarier than Gibbs and Ziva combined and both pissed off. The way he beat you and out-geeked the McGeek he... what?" He stopped because Ziva went stiff and was watching someone who stood behind him, he assumed that it was Gibbs. "Hi boss, still got nothing on the kid."

"Well no one has ever called me boss before, and I'll take being a 'freaky teenage british ninja' as a complement, Tony." He jumped when he heard the British accent and as he turned he saw Alex leaning against the divider that was parallel to the stairs.

"Holy Jeebus, don't do that to me, you almost gave me a heart attack. You seriously are worse than Gibbs and Ziva when it comes to creepiness. What are you doing up here anyway, shouldn't you be with Abby?" Tony asked as he tried to slow his heart-rate down.

"Well, Gibbs is talking to the Director about letting me in MTAC to get your team clearance," Alex switched back to an American accen and kept that. "even though I told him I could. Yes, I should be with Abby, but she let me up here so I could give Gibbs his knife back." Alex said as he walked into the bullpen to place the knife on Gibbs' desk. "I don't need it since Abby gave me back my weapons."

"why would she give them back?" McGee asked.

"Well, one, she was done with them; two, I bribed her with 3 Cafe Pow!s, so she was too happy to say no."

"You realize that that's dangerous to give her that much caffeine, she'll be bouncing off the walls." McGee said.

"I've been in crazier situations, I can handle a Bouncing Abby."

"It's your death wish." Tony mumbled. "So why else are you up here?" Tony asked Alex.

"Well I never got to formally meet the team, so I wanted to introduce myself. Hello, I'm Alex Rider." He said while standing in he middle of the bullpen.

Tony was the first to stand up and shake Alex's hand, "Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, senior field agent of the team. You can call me Tony."

"Will do," Alex responded. "And you should know that your title doesn't impress me one bit." Both Ziva and McGee tried so hard to contain their laughter, then both got up to introduce themselves.

Alex turned to see Ziva with her hand out, "Hi, I'm Special Agent Ziva David."

Again, he did a half bow to her and said, "Shalom, Ms. David." the team shared a look.

"Why do you do that?" Tony asked.

"In my travels, I learned customs and since I could tell that she is Israeli, I found it proper to treat her with such formalities."

"Well you should know I am an American citizen." Ziva pointed out.

"Congratulations. Anyway I also made note that from the way she fought, she was trained by Mossad, and quite well since she is the daughter of the director of Mossad."

"How did you know that?" Ziva asked.

"I have my ways, and those ways are classified until further notice." Alex turned to McGee. "And you are?"

"Special Agent Timothy McGee, most people call me McGee." He said while shaking Alex's hand.

"I've seen you before somewhere." Alex said.

"You have?"

"Yeah, I never forget a face." Alex thought for a second as he stared at McGee, meanwhile McGee was silently pleading for help from the others. "Does the name Thom E. Gemcity ring any bells?" McGee didn't respond and Tony was biting one of his fingers to restrain himself from laughing. "I'll take that as a yes. Your alter ego must be Mr. Gemcity, since you simply rearranged the letters of your name, way too obvious in my opinion. But I liked your Deep Six series, though I haven't read them all yet."

"It wasn't that obvious, only the team knew, since they thought the characters were based off them, and we had a case that involved my book."

"What, was someone killed with a copy of the book or was it a copy killer?" Alex joked.

"More copycat, killing off people that resembled the characters. Why haven't you read the rest of them?"

"I've been too busy to stop and pick up a book."

"How do you know about copy killers?" Tony asked.

"That's classified, but is it that surprising, since I have killed men before, that I know some tricks of the trade?"

"Well, while you're here I can loan you a copy so you can read it." McGee offered.

"Thank you, that would be nice."

While they were talking, Gibbs walked down the stairs to the bullpen. "What do we have?" He asked the team before he realized Alex was there with them. "What are you doing here? You should be with Abby." He said to Alex.

"Oh I was just returning your knife and thought I should introduce myself to the team." Alex said as he gestured to the knife and then the team as he spoke. "I was also going to ask if I could go to my hotel room and pick up my belongings, since I may be in your custody for some time. There I have my stuff and the long-range rifle used to kill Callaway. So I would believe you would want that." Alex was almost challenging Gibbs with his stare.

"DiNozzo, David, go with him." Gibbs said as he sat at his desk. Meanwhile Tony and Ziva were grabbing their bags as they followed Alex to the elevator.

As the doors closed Alex made a comment to Ziva, "Don't bother sending that email to your father about me, all will be revealed in time." She stared at the teen in complete awe as she thought, He's more observant than Gibbs, so who is he?, with that they went down to the garage to drive off to the Alex's hotel room.

Thank you all so much! I planned on having introductions being shorter and adding the hotel room to this but I found it better to do a little filler before the fun at the hotel. SPOILER ALERT: Two people will be dead and one injured in the next installment. Hope I have you at the edge of your seats. Muahahahahahahahahaha; I am evil! JK I'm just silly like that. Can't wait to hear what you think.