AUTHOR'S NOTES: SOME OF THE CHARACTERS ARE PROBABLY OUT OF CHARACTER AND AFTER READING SOME OF YOU WILL LIKELY WANT REVENGE ON GIBBS AND SAMANTHA BUT IT'LL ALL WORK OUT. FEEDBACK IS WELCOMED.

Friday November 14th 2008

NCIS BULL PEN

9: AM

Samantha was checking her email when she was done she looked over and saw her dad watching the phone. She got up and walked over to his desk. "You know the old saying. 'A watched pot never boil'?" Samantha asked.

"Yeah. What about it?" Tony grumbled.

"Think of the phone as a pot and don't watch it and then it'll ring." Samantha said smirking at him.

Tony went to slap her on the arm and she laughed. When the phone rang Tony yanked it up. "Special Agent Dinozzo." He said excitedly.

"It's me McGee. Just fooling around with ya." McGee said coming around from the other side of the cubicle. Samantha and Kate snorted.

Gibbs come in with his coffee. "Tony Kate you guys go stock the truck. McGee go tell Ducky we have a body." Gibbs said.

Tony looked at his lover oddly and then his daughter. "I think I'll stay." Tony said.

"No go do as Gibbs says. I can handle myself." Samantha said.

"Come on Tony." Kate said..

Once they were out of the bull pen Gibbs motioned her with his head to his desk. "What is it Gibbs?" Samantha asked.

"You were right. I think Agent Lee is the traitor. Vance does too." Gibbs said sighing.

"I was with you in the end when I thought it was Langer who was the traitor." Samantha said.

"Come with me." Gibbs said going to the elevator.

Once inside he stopped it. "Ok. We're meeting in the basement. Vance has decided to go with the domino plan." Gibbs said.

"Alright. So that means we're gonna make Lee think that Abby has the domino trace on her..." Samantha said noticing Gibbs look.

"I have a feeling I'm gonna be doing cold case reports." Samantha said.

"Very good. But it's just so Lee don't suspect the whole team. I want you there when we present the plan." Gibbs said.

"Ok. Let's go." Samantha said.

BASEMENT

Abby Tim Kate and Tony were all around a table in front of a white board. "Does anyone know why Sammie was taken off the case?" Abby asked.

"Wait Gibbs pulled Sam from this. Why in God's name would he do that?" Tony asked as

Samantha and Gibbs came into the secluded area. "Sit down Dinozzo and all will be explained." Gibbs said. Samantha handed out 4 case files. Then Gibbs writes DOMINO on the white board.

"Hey I heard about this. It's when an agency tests another agency's . And uh." Tim stops talking cause he can't remember the rest.

"Good job Probie you got the basic idea." Tony said smirking.

"Study up on the term McGee." Gibbs said then turning facing the team.

"Sec nav wants us to break into this highly guarded building." Gibs said throwing a picture of the building down on the table.

"It's a security test. The guards at the building don't have a clue they're being tested." Gibbs said taking a sip of coffee.

"Ok. But one question." Tony said.

"Which is Dinozzo?" Gibbs asked forcefully.

"Why are you not letting Sam in on this deal?" Tony asked.

Gibbs sighs. "Cause she opted out. She'll do intel from here." Gibbs said. Everyone nodded. Tony was still leery about his daughter not being part of this deal.

ABBY'S LAB

Samantha Abby and Gibbs were up in there looking at the powder that Abby would put on her hands. "So all is set Abs?" Gibbs asked.

"Yeah. It's all set Gibbs. Do the 3 musketeers have a plan yet?" Abby asked.

"I don't know fixing to go find out." Gibbs said finally noticing Samantha who was sitting quietly at a computer.

"Sam?" Gibbs asked.

Samantha looked at him. "Yeah. Sorry was checking on something." Samantha said turning to him.

"What's on your mind?" Gibbs asked.

"Nothing important." Samantha said.

"Spill it." Gibbs said.

"Look I know they're bound to get caught. Just make sure I don't have to put every piece back together." Samantha said.

Gibbs nodded. "Gotcha. He'll be at your doorstep tonight at 9 pm. Mentally or physically wounded." Gibbs said standing. Samantha nodded.

4: PM

Samantha was putting her reports on Gibbs' desks when the Director came down. "Agent Dinozzo." He said.

"Hi Director." Samantha said.

"How is the 'intel' coming for the mission?" The director asked.

"It's slow but it's coming. Agents Dinozzo and Todd were taken into custody in the building. Agent McGee said that the feed was disrupted so we won't know nothing til they're released." Samantha said.

The director caught site of Gracie's photo. "She's cute. She take after Ari at all?" Vance asked.

"Not that I know of. People may think she's a reminder but she's truly not. She's the best part of me." Samantha said.

"I can tell. Everyone may think that I am here to break this team up. But I'm just here to run the Agency." Vance said.

Samantha nodded. "Understandable." She said sitting back at her desk.

"Well I'll let you finish out so you can go take the beautiful child home." Vance said going back up the stairs.

8: PM

SAMANTHA'S APARTMENT

Samantha and Gracie were watching tv when the apartment buzzer was sounded off. Samantha gets up and goes to the door. "Who is it?" She asks.

"Me and Gibbs." Tony said.

"Poppa and Grampy." Gracie said running over to the door.

Samantha picked her up and opened the door and gasped at the bruises cover Tony's face. "Grampy what happened to your face?" Gracie asked fixing to lunge at Tony.

"Whoa there peanut Grampy has some bruised ribs as well." Gibbs said taking her from Samantha. Tony was carefully sitting down on the couch when Samantha came back from the bathroom with supplies for his face.

"Gracie would you go into your room and get that picture you drew for Grampy and Poppa today at school?" Samantha asked.

"Ok." Gracie said scrambling out of Gibbs lap to her room.

"Ok quick what went wrong?" Samantha asked looking to Gibbs.

"Yeah. What were you, Vance and Sec Nav talking about earlier?" Tony asked wincing when Samantha dabbed alcohol on a cut on his face.

"The building we were investigating? There's a breach in security. We were able to break in." Gibbs said.

"Yeah no kidding. Just me and Kate got caught and almost tortured. Something went wrong." Tony said.

"You're done." Samantha said cleaning up.

"Thanks. You know I think I'm gonna go and play with Gracie. Least she ain't throwing me to the lions to see if a DAMN the building has a security breach." Tony said irritated.

Samantha waited until she heard the bedroom door close that's when she turned on Gibbs. "What the hell happened?" She asked.

"Like I just said. There was a breach in security." Gibbs said.

"Abby called me and told me that Lee walked out of the office free. Plan gonna work?" Samantha asked.

"I hope so. Or we all have problems." Gibbs said rubbing his face.

Samantha was gonna speak when Gracie came out of the bedroom and laid her head on Samantha's lap. "What's wrong Sweetie?" Samantha asked.

"Grampy is sleeping on my bed. What's wrong with him Mommy?" Gracie asked.

"He got hurt at work. And he's tired. I bet he wouldn't mind if you crawled in with him. It's past your bedtime anyways. So why don't you go brush your teeth and crawl into bed next to Grampy." Samantha said.

"Ok. Night Poppa." Gracie said hugging Gibbs.

"Night peanut." Gibbs said.

Samantha saw Gracie run into the bathroom. "She's the best medicine right now for him." Gibbs said.

"Gibbs. Don't make me regret helping you." Samantha said.

"You know I won't. I'll bring some clothes for Tony in a little while." Gibbs said leaving.

Samantha walked and stood in the doorway of Gracie's room. Tony was facing the window his arm draped lightly over Gracie. Both sound asleep. "Give me strength to help Gibbs. And possibly betray the one person who I always turn to." Samantha said quietly.

TBC