A/N Thanks those who reviewed and for your suggestions. I'm sorry about the spelling mistakes for names and things, I'm going from memory when I write it and it was obviously flawed. And I hope that the structure is better now, I've been told before that my stories look like essays sometimes. This chapter was just a little chapter. And don't worry there will be lots of twists and turns in the story just like in NCIS episode, and I hope it will be interesting...

Chapter 7

Meanwhile at the Oval Office

Lex Luthor looked at the blank screen. He chuckled. That Gibbs reminded his of someone.

THWAK!

Luthor went flying. In seconds a hand was wrapped around his throat. When Luthor's mind caught up with his body, he saw who the attacker was.

"Bruce. I was wondering when you would grace me with your-" the hand around Lex's throat tightened slightly "-p-presence." Coughing a little to force his airways to work, Lex did not seem deterred.

"I heard out mutual acquaintance had a nasty accident." Lex could not help but smile in the face of danger when he knew he was pissing it off.

The slits of Batman's cowled face narrowed, "Tell me what you know."

"It would be easier for me to undergo your interrogation if you weren't chocking me and shoving me up against a wall."

In a blink of an eye Batman returned to the shadows on the far side of the room. Any closer and he might do something that he would regret, 'Not me, but the others would regret...some of them would at least.'

"What do you know," Batman did not ask, he demanded an answer from the President.

A wide grin spread across the President's face, he so did love being the bearer of bad news, "There's a rift in the ranks," pausing for dramatic effect, "if I were you I would do an in-house investigation rather than seek out old enemies."

Luthor could see the wheels turning in Batman's head, he thought 'Well one more for the road.'

"And Batman, it might interest you to know that the NCIS investigation of Superman's murder has uncovered something," Lex paused smiling as he used his hands to straighten out his suit that had gotten creased during his unfortunate tussle with Batman and finally sat down, "a feather."

When Lex looked up Batman was not there anymore. 'I hate it when he does that.'