Chimerical

McGee texted Abby back. “Do you think he’d really do that?”

“If you push him too far, he’ll definitely try.” Abby quickly responded.

“Are you sure this isn’t one of your chimerical conspiracy theories?” McGee questioned.

“I don’t have chimerical conspiracy theories, McGee.” Abby responded and ignored the rest of McGee’s texts.

McGee sighed as his texts went unanswered and glanced up at what he assumed Gibbs meant when he referred to the lost Probie. “And you are?”

“Here to stay.” Gibbs had specifically told her not to fall for any hazing and that she did not answer to McGee when he’d had to be called out of his meeting with Vance to get her set up since McGee was nowhere to be found.

“As you wish.” McGee responded annoyed that she wouldn’t tell him her name. Grabbing the cold case files on his desk, he took them over and handed them to her. “Here you go, you can work on this.”

“Oh, Gibbs already gave me an assignment. I’m quite certain those are still yours.” She smiled sweetly at him which only aggravated him more. Technically, the assignment had come from Tony, but Gibbs had left her with Tony so it was essentially the same. She figured it would sound better if she said Gibbs gave it to her.

Grumbling loudly, he stuffed them into his bag with his computer and stormed out before Gibbs could see him still in the office.

The probie then returned to the conference room DiNozzo was in to claim the 20 bucks DiNozzo had promised her, if she managed to irritate McGee when he finally returned to his desk as he’d been ordered. Gibbs had brought her by and left her with Tony to finish getting her setup when McGee couldn't be found. He’d needed to return to the meeting with Vance and didn’t have time to search down McGee.

Tony had explained a few things, given her an assignment, and then taken her to her desk. When McGee still wasn’t there, he’d offered her the opportunity to earn 20 bucks while at the same time getting a bit of his own revenge on McGee. He’d then returned to the conference room after letting her know that if she had questions she could find him there.

He’d considered having Abby copy the footage from the bullpen once McGee returned and had to deal with the probie, but instead decided to set it up himself. It had been a while since he’d rigged the security cameras to automatically copy to a secure drive and it was about time to remind people that just because he didn’t normally, didn’t mean he couldn’t.

Though when Gibbs came upstairs and told him about Vance’s case and incidentally about what had happened in Abby’s lab, he did text Abby for that footage. He was sure Abby had recorded it. McGee’s expression was bound to be priceless. The thought of that actually lifted his spirits and almost made him forget about what was happening with Ziva.