Kiss Me, Probie

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 4500 and 4800 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Now what?
AN: No particular warnings on this chapter — if any of the plot threads bothers you, you've already stopped reading. Also, oops, forgot to post Ch. 49 over here, so you get a two-fer today.

Chapter 49
Chapter 50

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 10,000 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Now what do they do?
AN: Really important author's notes on this chapter.

First, this one comes with a hankie warning. Kyrie's read the penultimate and antepenultimate scenes at least a dozen times and still cries during them. Wanted to give you fair warning. If you messaged me earlier concerned about a particular storyline and where it might go — you know who you are — this is the chapter you might want to skip.

Also, because of the storylines, characters are considering paths you might or might not agree with. I've tried to keep the thoughts as authentic to the characters as possible. If you disagree with a character's thoughts, please pause and consider whether you think it's something that character in that situation might think, say or do before blasting me. If you still think it's OOC or poorly written, fire away.

Chapter 47

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 5600 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: The collision of a million plot threads starts ... now. ;)
AN: If you haven't seen the final arc of last season (S7), there are many, many spoilers ahead in this last arc of Life.


Chapter 45

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2000 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Sleepy agents and the calm before the storm.
AN: If you haven't seen the final arc of last season (S7), there are many, many spoilers ahead in this last arc of Life.


Chapter 43

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 5500 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Some cases hit harder than others.
AN: Be warned, there are mentions of child abuse in here, but nothing worse than has been in earlier chapters.


Chapter 41

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 4600 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: It's been a long week and everybody's ready for a break.
AN: Sorry for skipping last week, gang. It was a perfect storm of a week for work and I decided that to preserve what was left of my sanity something had to go. The end of this week isn't looking much better, but the next chapter is almost done — one scene to go that I'm finishing up tonight. As always, huge thanks to Kyrie for editing and thanks to the NCIS tweeps for keeping me sane last week — Sandbar17, TaylorGibbs, Harempriestess, Serenagarde (who let me borrow her name for Josh's new GF!), Rocks_and_bugs, Joyltom, MargyNCIS, Smackalicious and a bunch of others I'm forgetting. And a special thanks to Jesse Stern, whose smile tweet had me grinning through most of the hellishness. :)


Chapter 38

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2700 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Can the team find the answers? And what happens when they do?
AN: Another short one - I've been so swamped with work that I got behind and Kyrie sent me back twice for a rewrite on a chunk of what was supposed to be this chapter last night. We still couldn't get it nailed down, so I settled on a shorter chapter rather than no chapter today. :) Huge thanks to Kyrie for editing, especially when I'm writing last-minute the way I have been the past few weeks. Fortunately, my schedule gets much less crazy in two weeks! Also, did not see Recruited until after I wrote this, so any similarities to the Vance-Gibbs discussion of the issue are completely coincidental.

Chapter 36

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 3900 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: They have a plan - now what?
AN: Thanks, as always, to Kyrie for her wonderful editing. :)

Chapter 34

Pairing/character: McGee/DiNozzo, Sarah/OMC, Jimmy/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 7000 words
Disclaimer: Sadly, not mine — CBS and DPB own them. Fortunately, they let me play in this sandbox. :)
Summary: Ducky and Gibbs stake out the coffee shop, joined by Burley. Does Ducky have good news for Sarah?
AN: Happy New Year! I figured out this week that I wrote about 475,000 words in 2010, and I didn't start until March. Not bad coming off a five-year fiction-writing hiatus. :) Unfortunately, between work craziness (ask for a quiet desk shift and you get a plane crash) and holiday plans, writing time has been tough to come by the past couple of weeks, so I only have one chapter written after this one. I'm hoping to have 33 done to post next Sunday, but I figured I'd give some advance warning that I might miss a posting date. If I do, I'll just skip and post that Wednesday as planned. I'm hoping I won't have to, but then, I was hoping for a quiet night at work Friday, too.

Chapter 31