Wester
"Abby's Lab," says Abby cheerfully on her phone.
"Abby, is Sarah there?" says Joy, in a worried voice.
"Yes, she is, do you want to talk to her?" Abby looks to the inner lab, where Temperance is telling Sarah, who is laughing wholeheartedly, and at Matthew, who has a resigned expression on his face, another misadventure from the Buchanan siblings. Sometime he would let a small smile escape, then Temp would slap him in the head and he would tickle her, just to cause more laughter from Sarah.
"No, listen to me, I want you to lockdown the lab, and don't let Sarah, Matt or Temp out of it until either Gibbs, McGee or I come to you."
"What? Why? What's going on?"
"Abby, please, don't ask questions I can't answer right now, just ensure Sarah won't leave the lab," says Joy.
"But," she looks at the three young people laughing, "are they in any danger? Are we being invaded?"
"Abby," Joy sighs, "just Sarah's sanity might be in danger, so just do it, ok? We'll be down there shortly."
She disconnects, and Abby runs to the door and locks it.
"Who was it?" asks Matthew from the glass door threshold, with Temp hanging from his neck like a monkey.
Abby, scared, turns to them, and Temp immediately sees that something is wrong and lets go from her brother's neck.
"What's happening?"
"I don't know, but whatever it is, I received orders to not let you guys out of the lab until either Gibbs, McGee or Buchanan, I mean, our Buchanan comes."
"What do you think might have happened?" says Sarah.
Matthew looks down at her, worried, "whatever it is, it can't be good."
NCIS NCIS NCIS NCIS
Director Vance stands up when the doors of his office are opened abruptly, and Gibbs and another gentleman enter his inner sanctum. His secretary rushes after them, terrified of his wrath.
"Sir, he didn't wait, he just came and…"
"It is ok," says Vance, watching Gibbs stare at the other man with his famous glare. The stranger is dressed up to the nines in a commander uniform, his cap almost being squashed by his furious hand against his chest, "you may go, and close the door after you." She curtsies and closes the door, leaving just the two very angry men in his office.
Director Vance studies the stranger, and for some reason he seems familiar, but he can't figure out where he could have possibly met this man before.
"Agent Gibbs, care to explain why have you felt the need to invade my office?" He asks still staring at the stranger, who surprisingly had not folded under Gibbs' glare.
"Director Vance," he says without taking his eyes from the stranger, "let me introduce you to Commander Kieran McGee," he growls, and Vance has to struggle not to show his surprise at the revelation, "Agent Timothy McGee's father."
Commander McGee takes his eyes from Gibbs, and turns cunning eyes to Vance. Leon feels his skin crawl at the malevolence and coldness in his eyes, as he studied Vance's face, clothes and desk. For a moment Vance imagined that he saw a faint trace of disdain on his face, but Commander McGee squashed it very quickly, smirked broadly, totally fake to Vance's eyes, and stretched out his hand to be greeted.
"Nice to meet you, Director, it is a pleasure to meet the great figure behind this great agency."
Sleazy, but efficient, thinks Vance.
"To what do we owe the honor of your visit, Commander?" Let's play your game, thinks Vance, glancing at Gibbs who is still silently glaring at the other man.
"I believe there is some kind of misunderstanding, as your agent here," he glares at Agent Gibbs, "refuses to take me to my daughter."
Ah, Director Vance turns to Gibbs, who in turn communicates something through his eyes to the Director for some seconds.
"I see," Gibbs smirks at Vance's acting skills, "and why would the lady in question request your presence?"
"Why? You ask me why?" Commander McGee is starting to show his true colors, glaring at the director with hatred, "she's my daughter, I came to take her home, where she will be protected."
"She's inside a federal building, surrounded by several armed federal agents, she can't get more protected than that," says Gibbs.
"But you are mistaken, as she's vulnerable, now look what the news stations are saying about the McGees' name on the TV, this I can not abide, she must go home, and must go home now."
There's a soft knock on the door, and the door is opened just a gap to show the secretary, "Director Vance, Agent McGee would like to participate in the meeting."
"Ah, now that useless boy wants to give us a piece of his mind," growls the Commander, and Gibbs has to restrain himself from decking the older man.
"Bring him in," says the Director, and a very distraught McGee enters his room, and the secretary closes the door behind him. He looks at Gibbs first, then at the Director, then at his father who can barely contain his disdain for his son.
"Dad, I think you'd better leave," he says.
"I won't leave until I see Sarah, and she will leave with me," growls the Commander.
"That is yet to be decided," says the Director firmly, glaring at the eldest McGee.
"Agent McGee," says Vance, "can you confirm that this man is your father?"
McGee closes his eyes for a second, and sighs, "Yes Director, he is."
"Any reason why he shouldn't be granted access to Sarah?" asks Vance, and he's surprised at the transformation on his agent's face, from distraught to firm conviction, totally serious.
"Because he's a worthless father who'd never really cared about her, and who is just worried about the shame and disgrace we might bring to the McGee name." He looks at Vance, "I bet that he just came out of nowhere because he saw her name in the news, and decided to turn our lives hell again."
"Oh, I will show you who is worthless you little…" says Kieran, just to be stopped by a hand firmly on his shoulder, "SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN!" Gibbs pushed him to one of the chairs.
"YOU ARE TAKING THE BOY'S SIDE?" roars Kieran.
"I'm taking the side of my agent, with whom I had the pleasure of working for several years," growls Gibbs, "I see no boy in this room."
"Dad," says McGee, approaching the three men, "Sarah is fine just where she is, she doesn't need the aggravation of having you trying to weasel your way into her life again."
"Listen, boy, you were always useless, I knew I should have taken her from your mother and later on from you, you infected her with your weakness, now see the news, she almost caused a bigger disaster, if she had squealed more people could have died."
"Dad," tries Timothy, just to be interrupted by his father.
"You didn't protect her!"
"There was nothing I could do, I wasn't there."
"I could have protected her!" shouts Kieran.
"Like you protected mom from your buddies? I don't think so," roars Timothy.
Commander McGee stands up, faces his son, and shouts to his face, "She was a slut, he said she was a willing participant!"
"She was hurt and you took his side!" shouts McGee back.
A beefy hand rises automatically, but Kieran is surprised to have his attack stopped by a firm grip on his wrist.
"Don't you dare touch him!" growls Gibbs, barely containing his fury, glaring at the eldest McGee with hatred.
The two men start a staring contest, none giving an inch.
"I see, so you are on this little wimp's side?" he snarls, and Gibbs squeezes his wrist painfully.
"Let me make this clear for you, Commander McGee," Gibbs growls the title, showing that he has no respect whatsoever for a man who rises his hand to hit his son in front of his employers, "Sarah is under federal protection, and until the investigation is closed, you will not get near her, you will not disturb her, you won't even breathe the same air she breathes."
"If by any chance I find out you tried to talk to her, or get close to her, without me or her brother's presence or authorization, we will have you arrested."
"This is an abuse of authority," he takes his wrist out of Gibbs' reach, "I will have you reported." He turns to Director Vance, "aren't you going to reprimand him?"
"For what? For upholding the law? Agent Gibbs is correct, Sarah McGee is under NCIS and FBI protection, and she will remain under our protection until further orders are received. We won't give her custody to someone who claims to be related to her, but up until now has never graced us or her with his presence," says Director Vance.
Commander McGee looks from the Director, who did not reprimand his agent as he had expected, to Agent Gibbs, who was still staring at him with fury. He frowns, as he had not expected resistance from this side, apparently, his wimp of an eldest son had found someone to stand up for him, always hiding behind someone else, he thinks.
He looks at his son, who surprisingly is not looking at him with fear, but with shame. His own son, that wimp, is ashamed of his father, the father who always tried to make a man out of the worthless creature he was.
"This will not end like this," he says to no one in particular, then stares at his son, "you won the first time in court, but you botched this time, dragging our name through the mud, as I always feared you would do. I'm ashamed to have you as my son, and I have all intentions of taking Sarah away from your pernicious influence, whatever it takes."
"She's not a minor anymore, dad, she's an adult. You can't order her around, she's the owner of her own life."
"And look, where did she end up? In the headlines of all the newspapers, as the crackpot who almost caused the death of dozens of people. It is because of you that she's such a weakling, if she had stayed with me, such thing would never have happened."
"No, dad, if she had stayed with you she would probably be dead," growls McGee, advancing against his father, "because she would have never met the man who ended up saving her life."
His father raises his hand again and stops, but McGee is not afraid anymore, and just incites him further.
"What, dad? Aren't you going to hit me? I have some news for you, I'm not thirteen anymore. If you hit me, you will be arrested for assaulting a federal officer."
Both McGees stare at each other, until finally the Commander turns to the Director, and salutes, "It's unfortunate that you did not meet my expectations, Director," then the commander glares at Gibbs, and starts to leave the office, but before he does, he stops before McGee, and hisses "you will pay for humiliating me this way," and marches to the door.
"Don't let the door hit your ass when you leave," shouts Gibbs, and when Commander McGee opens the door, three people stand up from the sofa in the outer office. It's Tony, Ziva and Joy. Joy glares at him, and the Commander frowns at her, then he glances at the two other agents, to which he did not pay any attention previously.
"David, DiNozzo, escort Commander McGee to the main gate, and ensure he leaves in the first taxi," orders the Director from inside the office.
Both agents take a side of the commander, and forcefully escort him out of the building. Before leaving though, he glances back to the small brunette agent, who is staring at his son's back with a tortured expression on her face.
I can definitely use that to my advantage, thinks Kieran.
a/n: Don't worry guys, Gibbs will deck him. Sometime soon. If the Buchanans don't stake his head to the wall before.