Underlying Secrets (NCIS Fanfiction)

[2] A New Team and a Missing Kid?

Sorry for the wait! I started on the chapter and never finished it! Now it is and I have it here! Enjoy!

To say in the least, the first impression she'd been expecting from her new team wasn't what she received. Instead of the usual eager greeting, she was met with the scowl of a man with salt and pepper hair and what looked to be a woman with dark curly hair, a bronze-skinned man with brown spiky hair and a man wearing a weird uniform with a bright orange tie and a bunch of badges. 

"Vance, what is this?" the scowling man asked, gesturing to Dawn.

Vance smiled and then looked down at the dog standing next to him. "Sitzen."

"Sit," Dawn translated, and immediately obeyed. 

"Gibbs, DiNozzo, Ziva, McGee meet your new teammate," Vance started. "Dawn."

To say that Gibbs was pissed when he saw the dog at Vance's heels is an understatement. His scowl went deeper than Dawn could imagine and his blue eyes went stormy before he looked at Dawn sitting next to Vance. Of course, Dawn naturally thought that he was pissed at her so she avoided eye contact at all costs since she couldn't stand with the "Sitzen" command still in play. Dawn wasn't allowed to disobey the human handling her and if she did she could expect pain from her collar. At least that's what she learned when she was being trained. 

"Why wasn't I told about this?" Gibbs asked Vance after looking away from Dawn. 

"I assumed you had been told that you were being assigned the first NCIS K-9 officer to your team," Vance answered the scowling man. "Didn't Director Shephard tell you?"

Gibbs looked Vance in the eye. "No, no she didn't."

Gibbs abruptly walked away from the bullpen and up the stairs towards Director Shephards office. Vance stood there awkwardly as Agent DiNozzo, Ziva, and McGee looked at him questioningly. 

"Well then," Vance said clapping his hands together. "I'm just gonna leave Dawn here in the bullpen."

Vance looked down at Dawn. "Blieben"

Dawn stayed exactly where she was as Vance walked away towards the elevator. 

"Oh, and she was trained with German commands!" Vance called as he walked away. 

The elevator opened with a ding and Vance disappeared from sight. DiNozzo the walked up to Dawn and crouched down in front of her with a mischievous smirk on her face. 

"German commands, eh?"

//0.0\\

Being a service dog has its perks but what DiNozzo had told Ziva to say to Dawn in German was a little over the boundary of what a service dog is trained to do. She sighed mentally and wondered what she'd be doing at that moment if she weren't a service dog and just a regular old pet. She envisioned herself as the pet of a little boy with too many siblings to be noticed by his parents so he had her, his best friend and loyal companion. But sadly, that vision would never come to be true due to the fact that in reality Dawn was a service dog and she would spend a majority of her life as a service dog until she retired from service. But the fact still remained that Ziva should have recognized what DiNozzo was telling her to command the K-9 to do. Seriously, who commands a service dog to steal a meatball sub!?! Seriously, it's just ridiculous that DiNozzo even thought of telling Ziva to command Dawn to steal McGee's sub not to mention the fact that Ziva actually fell for his trickery. 

"Bringen," Ziva commanded pointing to McGee's desk.

"Retrieve," Dawn translated. "Well, here goes nothing!"