Fic: Life Is Made, 7/50, PG-13

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Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, pre-Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 6000 words (This one's shorter than the last, but it's just a lull - Ch. 8 is a monster!)
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Dwayne works his first case with the team, and yes, this was written before Worst Nightmare aired.
AN: First, huge thanks to Kyrie, as always, for her stellar editing. Also big thanks to everybody who's been reviewing this story! I've gotten way more reviews per chapter for Life than for any of my other stories, and it's been a treat to read about all the parts people like! For those wondering, the storyline I mentioned last chapter was Jimmy and Abby, and that picks up more here before really getting going next chapter. Oh, and so far every episode, including the preview for Royals and Loyals, has either a scene or a character development that is in a Breathe story, though the Short Fuse and R&L bits are in chapters you haven't seen, one from Life and one from the partially written story that comes after this. I've either gotten *way* too far inside the characters' heads, or the writers got McGee to hack my brain. :) If Gary Glasberg does bring Daddy McGee into an ep the way he said he might after I asked on premiere night, if he comes in as a Naval Academy instructor, I will be... Well, I don't know what I'll be, but speechless is probably a good place to start. ;)

Chapter 7