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" You work with him!"
Jenny winced and then, for some beautiful reason, she heard Cynthia's voice from the catwalk, "Director Shepard you're needed in MTAC."
Jenny jumped up, and made her quick escape, glancing over her shoulder and calling, "Sorry Haley. Ummm you can find my office right?" and by that time, all that Jenny had left to do, was to sprint up the stairs and lock herself into MTAC for whatever God sent problem that needed her assistance.
Haley was left in a middle of the squad room, amused and slightly annoyed.
"I really hate it when she does that." She said turning to Gibbs.
He smirked.
"Ditching you?"
"Leaving out information. She knows better than to ditch me. Usually she just gets lost." Haley grinned. "Anyway, if I wanted, I could probably get into MTAC."
Gibbs raised an eyebrow.
"You a hacker Agent Miller?"
"Haley."
"Gibbs." He gave her his hand for a handshake.
He had good grip.
"I know. And I can hack as long as the algorithms aren't too complicated, but that isn't what I meant. I wasn't kidding about the top secret clearance."
He gave her a look and she smiled smugly. "Everything cleared, except for code blue. Which I guess is very very black ops and alien abductions."
Then suddenly it occurred to her that they were standing in the middle of the squad room, talking about top secret clearance, and he didn't really have a clue who she really was, and on top of that he was still giving her a weird look.
"I was Jenny's partner." She said with a knowing smile.
Gibbs' eyes widened and then glanced at Ziva who gave him a small nod.
"I thought Mossad was starting young with Ziva as a control officer."
"Less is more" she quipped, and added after seeing Gibbs' concern, "No need to worry Agent Gibbs. Mossad is not starting a child program. I am simply a one of a kind."
Slowly Tony had been inching towards Gibbs and Haley and finally had the courage to pipe in, "So Mossad knew your parents, or something?"
Haley turned to Tony. "I don't know. Eli says not, but it is unlikely that he did not have some interaction with them. Since I could walk I knew only Eli as a parent. Raised on Hebrew and English, until I was five and then picked up Spanish and French. Quite an elaborate childhood. If you want my full background I'm sure Ziva would be more than happy to explain it to you, Agent DiNozzo."
Tony raised an eyebrow and glanced at Ziva, and then exclaimed, "Lemme guess, you had operations which included NCIS and you ran backgrounds on all of us!"
Haley gave him a questioning look.
"Uh, no. Ziva just mentioned you in an email."
Tony face fell and Ziva snickered. Tony shot her a glare and sauntered back to his desk. The conversation had slackened and Haley found herself in a semi-awkward silence. At times like these, she would usually make a suggestive comment (usually about Jenny), or shoot something. Neither of these sounded like a good option, so she opted for sitting on Ziva's desk and catching up with the older woman.
"So Ziva, you getting bogged down with American paperwork yet?"
"Not yet. More with their idioms than anything else."
"Idioms?" Haley questioned with a raised eyebrow.
Tony playfully interjected "Our dear Ziva has a habit of butchering American idioms."
Haley grinned, "Smooth, David."
Ziva glared at the younger woman and decided for a change of topic. It wasn't her fault American idioms made no sense!
"How is Father, Haley?"
Haley rolled her eyes, "World dominating as ever," she said with affection only Haley could give to that statement, "Although I think he is going through a mid-life crisis, which is annoying as hell. The other day he asked me some question about there being any goodness in the world. I swear to God, I almost shot the guy! Like what the hell? I might actually have to kill him. Gonna be a pain in the ass to stash the body though..." She trailed off.
Ziva smirked, being used to Haley's antics. The rest of the team however seemed a little unnerved by Haley's statement. McGee looked afraid, Tony was shrinking into his chair, and even Gibbs raised an eyebrow.
Haley saw their expressions and smirked.
At that very moment Jenny Shepard was standing at the top of the cat walk observing the whole scene. The call to MTAC had been incredibly short, SecNav being aware of Jenny's situation, had given her tomorrow off.
Jenny looked down on her Ex-Partner and smiled. Haley was certainly a fighter. She had just lost her whole team and was already joking and laughing. Not that it surprised Jenny very much. Even in the beginning, Jenny could tell Haley was tough like nails. And it had killed Jenny to leave her like she had left Gibbs, but if anyone would forgive her, it would be Haley.
Jenny had never expected Haley to meet Gibbs. That was half the reason she told her about them.Oh well, what was done was done, and Jenny couldn't do anything about it. She just hoped that Haley would be discreet about it, after they talked. And with that she called down,
"Miller! Gibbs!"
Both Haley and Jethro looked up. Jenny jerked her head towards her office and turned around. They would get the message.
Haley jumped off Ziva's desk and waited for Gibbs. As he left the bull pen he said, "Dinozzo, I want Munroe's last address."
Haley smirked as she heard a feeble, "Yes Boss!"
"Still the same old Gibbs." She said.
Gibbs looked at her and smirked.
"Yeah. Probably." Gibbs liked the new teenager. He didn't know much about her, but figured if both Jen and Ziva liked and trusted her, she was alright.
"Agent Gibbs, as much as I respect you, please stop staring at me." Haley looked back from the stairs and grinned.
"Do I intimidate you Haley?"
"Not at all Gibbs. It's just kinda creepy. But if it makes you feel more comfortable, I'll try and ignore it." Gibbs smirked and held the door open.
Haley rolled her eyes. "Thank you Sir Gibbs but I am capable of opening the damn door. By myself."
"Ah. She's gotten to you." Gibbs said.
"Who? Jenny and feministic way of thinking? Not at all. I'm just being obnoxious and smart-ass-like." Gibbs actually let out a small laugh as he barged into Jenny's office.
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