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Sean's jaw is agape as he stares at me blinking slowly with an almost comical look on his face. Looking down at my outstretched hand, he leans forward to shake it seeming to shake himself out of his reverie. With a renewed confidence, he gives me a dazzling smile saying, "I'm Sean Myers."

I snort slightly and grin replying, "I know."

He looks slightly put out but then with renewed enthusiasm he turns to his father and with raised eyebrows, he makes a face as if to say 'Explain?' The director is watching all of this with appraising eyes and at his son's face he moves to sit down. Gibbs looks towards the new director who gestures for him to leave the room. Gibbs's face hardens and he looks at me quickly making sure I was ok. I nod to him slightly and he squeezes my arm as he leaves the room with Ziva on his tail, her face a mask of wariness.

The director presses his fingers into a tent shape again and leans back in his chair once again watching the two of us with sharp, alert eyes. I raise my eyebrows slightly hoping he would get to the chase quickly. His son sitting next me is fidgeting in his seat glancing at me quickly every couple seconds. I sigh deeply through my nose and lean forward in my chair. Smiling slightly the director sits up straight and clears his throat to begin.

"Sean, as you know, since you wanted to go to public school rather than have a private tutor, the security team and I decided that we would allow this only if you would have a NCIS special agent with you at all times," the director starts. Sean nods and tries to look at me covertly, failing epically. The director smirks again before continuing, "And recently it was decided that Agent Spiare would be filling this position."

Director Myers nods to me now and I take this as my cue to tell Sean about myself. Turning in my seat to face him I start, "As you know I'm Samantha Spiare. Like you I'm also sixteen." At this Sean opens his mouth looking a little surprised. "What?" I ask at his look.

"Nothing," he mutters, "You just look older than that."

"I hope that's a compliment," I reply laughing lightly. He opens his mouth to reply but I wave him off. "OK so I graduated with a degree in criminal justice with a minor in forensics a few months ago and I've been working here at NCIS since then…" I trail off not knowing what else to say.

Director Myers picks up where I left off, "Since Agent Spiare is the same age as you we've decided she is the best match for your security detail. She will start school with you in a few weeks enrolling as one of your classmates. No one at school can know who she really is and hopefully she will be able to pass as a normal high school sophomore."

At this I scrunch my nose slightly trying to decide if the director doubted my abilities to pass as a normal girl. I let his comment pass and continue for the director who seems to be gauging my reaction. "I will have all the same classes as you and make sure no harm comes to you," I promise nodding my head.

Sean looks at me with a small smile and nods slowly. With a contradiction to his earlier actions Sean quietly says, "Thank you for this. You don't know what this means to me." I reply with a smile of my own and get up, figuring that this meeting is coming to an end.

Looking to the director I ask, "So is that all?"

Director Myers nods slowly looking thoughtful, "Yes… But before you leave, my wife wanted me to ask you if you would like to have dinner with us tonight."

Caught by surprise I'm quiet for a second before answering, "Sure, thank you."

Before letting me walk out the door, the director calls me back once more. "My wife won't be here to pick up Sean for another hour, would you mind being his escort in the building?" he asks ignoring his son who was clearly beyond embarrassed. Laughing I nod my consent and look towards Sean who is getting up to follow me. Opening the door I gesture for him to go first and we both walk towards the elevator. The tension in the air was palpable so I punched the floor that housed the break room.

As we step out of the elevator, Sean gazes around the hallway slowly taking it all in… not that there's much to take in. The hallway is relatively normal with a few doorways leading off of it with signs that say things like, 'Authorized Personnel Only' and such. Sean seems to be frozen in place so I grab his hand trying to steer him towards an arch at the end of the hall which leads to the break room. When I pull him forward dropping his hand, Sean is snapped out of daydream and follows me obediently.

Entering the break room I gesture to a table, and sit down slouching in my seat the way only a teenager can. "So," I say drawing out the oh sound. "Do you want to tell about yourself? You know, that way I'll know what to expect," I cut myself off before I start to ramble which I tend to do especially when I'm nervous. And normally guys don't make me nervous… and it's not the fact that Sean's a guy ( a very good looking one at that)… it's the fact that this will be my first chance to really prove myself to the director, to Gibbs, to the team, and to myself, and I don't want to screw this up.

He glances at me with an almost amused smirk on his face and I narrow my eyes daring him to say anything about my ramble. He shakes his head and smiles, "Well I'm trying out for the soccer team this week so I'll know if I make it by Friday. Hmmm. And I'm taking all Honors classes… English, Chemistry, Geometry, and World History along with Spanish, Gym, Driver's Theory, Business Law, and this new class on computer forensics."

When he named the last class you could hear the excitement in his voice and I smiled encouragingly. "Well it looks like we'll have a good class schedule this year," I reply leaning back in my seat. Suddenly across the table, Sean jumps as his phone vibrates within his pocket. He smiles sheepishly while retrieving it.

He glances up at me saying, "My mom's here already. I have to get to try-outs if I want to make the team." He finishes with a sigh and stands up slowly stretching his arms. I follow him out and escort him to the lobby of the building continuing to chat with him about the classes we'll take.

Stepping out into the sunlight I shield my eyes with my hands, and sweep the area for possible threats. Sean gestures to a car, "That's my mom… well I guess I'll see you tonight."

I smile in reply but before he closes the door I yell, "Good luck!" He gives me a thumbs-up as his mom drives away. Turning back to the building, I never even noticed the man sitting in the unobtrusive car across the street watching my every move.

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