<span style="font-family:Fredericka the Great"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">She read all of his messages on the screen, and then nodded and typed up some of her own. <i>That's good, it'll keep Gibbs from cursing out technology, and shooting it with his gun. Also.. Thanks McGee.. I appreciate you doing all of this for me. I think that I might also be able to use this to practice some lip reading, too. </i>She pushed her hair out of her face, and turned serious. When Tim handed her the microphone, she turned serious, locked eyes with him,</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(77, 255, 166)"> and spoke into the mike..</span><br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"><span style="font-size: 15px"><i>"</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"><i>Be honest with me, how are Gibbs and Tony <u>really</u> </i><i>doing? Don't feed me some line like they would. How are <u>you</u> really doing? I know that Gibbs tries to ignore the bad stuff and instead focuses on revenge or anything but what happened. And Tony, he either follows in Gibbs's footsteps, or he dives head first into the class clown routine to hide all of the pain that he's feeling. </i></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family:Fredericka the Great"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(77, 255, 166)"><span style="font-size: 15px">And you.. well.. you channel Gibbs in the fact that you hide your pain. Tim..<br/>
don't do that anymore."</span></span></span></i><br/><span style="font-family:Fredericka the Great"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"><span style="font-size: 15px"><br/>
Kate was well aware that she wasn't acting like herself by calling Tim and Tony by their first names, but she wasn't feeling like herself, and didn't care. Besides, if she was a little off her game, it was to be expected. She had taken a bullet to the head, and couldn't hear for the time being, so it would take a little time for her to get her bearings and get back to normal. The brunette carefully set the microphone down onto the tray, and turned to the laptop and began to type.</span><br/>
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<i><span style="font-size: 15px">How long are you on babysitting duty today? Not that I'm not grateful -- I am. More than you'll ever know. But, I'm awake now, and you need to get back to living your life. All of you do. I'm going to be okay, and we need to start working on getting back to normal.</span></i></span></span>