Penny couldn't turned her eyes away from the perfect mixture of Robert McGee and the woman who had stolen his heart away from her, even in her mind she refused to give that woman a name.

But how was this possible, Robert's young son had perished in a car accident not long after his birth.

Flashback

Penny heard the soft knocking at her front door after another sleepless night, pulling on her robe she walked to the door mentally make a list for the things she had planned for the day ahead. All those plans came to an abrupt halt when she saw the figure standing outside her door.

"Robert, I thought you wouldn't be stateside for another two weeks?" Penny said tying her robe just a little tighter around her waist.

"Penny.", her name came out somewhat between a gasp and a sigh.

"What's wrong? What happened?", even though the man in front of her had broken her heart into a million pieces, for some unknown reason she was still desperately in love with him and would do anything to ease his pain.

"They're dead, Penny. They are both dead." the man sobbed leaning heavily on the frame of the door.

Penny pulled her husband into the house and put on a pot of coffee, while the coffee brewed she picked up the phone and called the divorce lawyer to cancel the meeting they had for today. She would reschedule once she had dealt with this crisis.

Robert and Penny had talked through the day and long into the night. Several decisions where made the would not only affect them but their son and even their future grandchildren though neither of them were aware of the implications of the choices they made that night.

The next morning Penny visited the British Embassy in Washington and Robert reported for duty at Norfolk, agreements made that would follow them the rest of their lives.

End Flashback

Penny had never regretted the decisions she had made that night until the moment Trent Kort walked into the interrogation room.

At that moment everything she had fought so hard to protect and keep secret shattered. She realized that she wasn't a brave woman that had used her mind to control her life and that of her loved ones, but instead she had been a pawn in a game that someone else was playing.

With that realization she turned frantically to Gibbs, " Oh my God, you have to protect Tim and Sara."

"Ms Langston, I think you need to tell us everything you know about Mr. Kort and how does this affect your grandchildren."

Penny fought hard to reign in her emotions and look deep into the eyes of the other people in the room. When she figured out that they didn't know half of what she originally thought they did, it occurred to her that she might still have the upper hand and could keep her end of the bargain she made all those years ago, but first she had to get her grandchildren out of the line of fire.

"I want a lawyer present and Timothy and Sara brought to me before I say anything else."

She sat back in the uncomfortable chair and gave both men a hard stare, knowing that she may have just bought enough time to figure out what they knew, and to decide a course of action that would continue to protect her family and her husband's legacy.

Vance had been observing the interrogation in the next room and figured that now was a good time to make his presence know, "Ms. Langston, I if you give me the contact information for your attorney, I will be more that happy to contact him, however until I am one hundred percent sure that whatever it is you are hiding is a danger to your grandchildren I cannot authorize the use of government funds on unnecessary protection details."

Penny turned to the man who had just entered the room, "Excuse me? Who exactly are you?"

"Leon Vance, Director of NCIS."

At that Penny turned the full force of her overbearing nature onto the man, "Well I would hope as the Director of this Agency that you would put the well-being of the people working for you into consideration. As a dependent of a retired Navy Admiral, I have just informed you of a threat to one of your agents and his family and you are more concerned with the cost of providing the need protection needed, than his well-being."

"Ms Langston, I am well aware of who you are and who your husband, son and grandson are in regards to this Agency. That does not give you the power to decide who and what I do with the Agents under my command. I will provide protection to every Agent under my watch, however you are not an Agent and currently I do not believe your motives are in line with the well-being of the military branches this Agency is sworn to protect. If you have something you wish to say that might change my opinion fill free to do so but until then the only thing I can offer you is the advice of the attorney you have requested."

Penny crossed her arms in front of her chest and glared at the three men in the room. The only time the steel in her eyes seemed to soften was when she glanced at Kort but that was only briefly.

AN: What's Penny's game? Hope you enjoyed and as always please review with your thought and comments. :) stray