Inter-agency cooperation had been the reason cited to her by the director when she had been called into his office and handed the small card folder that contained her ticket and a prepaid card - "You will find it is more than enough to cover your expenses, Agent McGee. Change would be nice but not necessary" – for her expenses.

She had been given two hours to head back home pack an appropriate bag – "I apologise for the short notice, Agent McGee, but you are the best we have," – for where she was heading and was in a taxi heading to the airport.

She went through things in her mind. Everything had been such a rush.

She had arrived at work and was booting up her computer just as the others walked in when Gibbs had settled into his chair and told her to go and see the director. She had frozen for a moment and just stared at her boss. She had tried to think if there was anything she had done that would have her receiving such a summons alone. After all when there was any kind of call from Vance it was usually the whole team that was about to get an earful.

She hadn't hacked anything recently. Well, nothing that she hadn't been sure to cover her tracks with. Thoroughly.

Had she slipped up somewhere?

"Am I in trouble, boss?" she asked in some confusion before she could stop herself.

Ziva and Tony who had been arguing as usual had stopped mid-flow and she had felt their eyes on her.

"Go up and find out," had been Gibbs' only reply and from habit she obeyed, heading up the stairs with a sick feeling in her stomach.

Sometimes she really hated Gibbs and although most people thought he didn't possess anything like a sense of humour she knew he did. And it was wicked. He had sent her up knowing that she was dreading the worse and yet knowing that she wasn't in trouble.

Pushing those thoughts to the side she went back to her check list.

She had closed and locked all of her windows, her door was locked and she had left no taps running. Jethro had been dropped off at the kennels. She had spent weeks finding one when she had first settled to the idea of having him in her life full time and she had made sure to take enough food along to last him a week.

And then there was her bag.

She had thrown together the things that she had needed in record time, knowing that most of her two hour allowance was going to be spent getting her dog sorted out.

Tim knew for sure that she had at least remembered her bag of toiletries, underwear and pyjamas in her rush.

That was all the important things.

Tim sat back in the seat and looked at the ticket.

Hawaii here I come.

"We really appreciate you doing this, Agent McGee,"

Tim walked through the door the man - who had introduced himself as Chin – held open for her.

He had picked her up from the airport the evening before – the almost ten hour long journey turning her mind to mush – and had dropped her off at the hotel with a promise to see her in the morning.

"But not too early," he had smiled as he left her at the hotel desk.

He had kept his promise, coming to fetch her just after ten – not that she would have minded being picked up earlier, years of being on Gibbs' team had conditioned her to rise early and get as much sleep as she could, when she could – and had taken her to the 5-0 headquarters.

Her eyes had nearly popped out of her head at the sight of the building and then the inside.

She turned around in a circle, checking out the room – if it could be called that - she had just been shown into.

"Please it's a pleasure, and call me Tim," she smiled at her companion once she had taken in the room.

"Tim then," he smiled back at her, "You're over here,"

He led her towards an open space where boxes littered the floor, some already open and some not.

She still couldn't stop looking around.

"Nice set-up you have here," she put her bag down and began to look closer at the various boxes, her mouth nearly started to water at some of the tech.

"Yeah, it's not quite home yet, but we're getting there,"

She nodded her head in understanding and began to turn over some of the smaller boxes, studying the labels and checking off their contents in her mind.

Someone had wanted to make sure she didn't run out of wire that was for sure.

All of a sudden realising what she was doing she put the box she was studying back down and took a step away from it.

"I'm sorry, that was very rude,"

Chin only smiled at her.

He had a lovely smile. The kind that shot straight from his lips to his eyes.

"Don't worry about it. Have fun. That's what you are here for after all,"

He explained to her that the 'others' were on a case and wouldn't be back until later on as they were working from HPD until things were up and running in the palace.

Palace. They were going to be working from a freaking historical monument.

"You pulled the short straw, huh?" she asked him as she went back to the boxes now that she had been given permission to do so.

She was here on orders from the director and as such she had to make a good impression.

No more slip ups Tim.

"Not at all. Believe it or not I am the friendliest of us all,"

"I don't find that hard to believe at all," and she didn't. He had filled the drive from the hotel with lively chatter and had pointed out things that he thought she would find interesting. There had been no awkward silences at all.

"And I will also be the one keeping this thing up and running,"

"Ah," Tim chuckled, "An ulterior motive,"

"Exactly," Chin rubbed his hands together like a comic book villain and she shook her head laughing.

Tim was going to like it here.

"Can I get you anything before you start? Tea? Coffee?" Chin asked, all seriousness now.

"Coffee would be wonderful thank you,"

As Chin went off Tim studied the boxes and grinned.

She was about to build what would basically be a miniature MTAC, Tim was in heaven.

"Come to mama," she crooned.

Tada. So, the idea of a Hawaii 50 story wasn't actually this, but when I got thinking about the idea I loved the thought of Tim being involved in getting them set up with their system. :)

Another one coming tomorrow. I had so much fun writing the Tim/Tony scenes for the next two…

Please let me know that you think.

Take care

:)