Banal

McGee knew the facts of what Ziva had done were rather banal. She’d stolen so much data it would take the NCIS analysts a good few months to go through it alone. Which meant that most of what he had to show Gibbs and Tony were dry boring banal facts.

He knew that no matter what the outcome of this meeting, the team would be forever changed. He only hoped there would still be a place for him on the team. Setting down the pile of banal facts on the table, McGee started to explain what was going on. “Here is all the proof you need for Vance, but it’s boring. Needless to say Ziva has been very busy and using her access to steal as many secrets as she can.”

“What? Since when?” Tony asked, startled, not having expected the conversation to go this way despite McGee’s phone call.

“I don’t know. I only started monitoring her a week ago after the changes in the team and her obvious anger. I grabbed as far back as I could when I realized what she was doing earlier today and I’m pretty sure that what I have isn’t all of it. Fortunately the really secret stuff she didn’t have access to, but the number of lesser secrets she’s revealed is astronomical.” McGee tried to explain, despite not knowing the full extent of things, yet, beyond that it was really bad.

Gibbs and Tony exchanged looks before Gibbs nodded and left to tell Vance.

Tony remained with McGee. “Good job, McGee. Let’s call Ziva and see just what she thinks she’s doing. Maybe we can tack on some extra charges to the obvious espionage charge going on here.” As Tony pulled out his phone to do just that, he continued. “Can you trace the data she’s sent to whoever received it? Maybe we can wipe it out before they can use it or copy it elsewhere. I know most of what she passed on isn’t earth shattering as frankly she didn’t have access to the highly classified stuff, but this is still going to be a major blow for NCIS.”

“I can try. It depends on how much security is on the other end of it and for that matter in between. Also, you and Gibbs will want to review the security camera footage before handing it over to Vance. I think Ziva’s gone a little beyond crazy on some of it.” McGee tossed out half heartedly, not looking forward to the fallout from this one.

“Well grab your computer and start working on it. Then we can call Ziva and find out together what she’s up to.” Tony ordered before trailing off as something terrible dawned on him. “And after that… Ugh. We’ll have to call Fornell. Espionage of this level is an FBI thing especially since she’s technically an American Citizen and an agent now.”

McGee quickly grabbed his computer and returned to the conference room. He knew without being told that this was going to be top secret. They wouldn’t want this getting out to the masses before an appropriate level of spin could be put on it.

He was grateful that Tony was still working with him. He hoped this boded well for his future on the team and wasn’t just Tony doing what was necessary for the situation, like he was prone to do, usually at the cost of his feelings and sometimes something worse.