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M through R › NCIS
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
17
Views:
17,659
Reviews:
19
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own NCIS, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Interlude
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything, but an inspiration pipe would be handy
Author’s note: So I’ve started this chapter up a million times over the past month or so. And it never turns out right. So I rewrote it for the last time and I’m posting it as a sort of… interlude… (that’s a word, right?)… For further action to come. I know it sucks donkey balls, but I will fix it, I promise. I just need to move on from this chapter.
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Officer David had confronting feelings. Eavesdropping was, after all, one of the key elements in being a spy, but eavesdropping on a conversation between Abby and Gi bbs’ current girlfriend was making her a bit uneasy. When she first approached the lab, she heard some sort of squabbling so she held back and thought she’d wait it out and let whoever was arguing settle whatever it was they needed to settle. Then it was Abby and Hollis Mann. And they were quarreling over… Gibbs? From what she could make out, this was the case. And when two women fight over a man, the smart thing is to stay away. And keep it to yourself.
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Tony sat at his desk, playing with paper clips. This thing that he wasn’t mentioning was eating away at him like acid. McGee saw it, but whenever he asked, Tony would give the same reply: “I know nothing”. And now he just sat there, trying to work, but not managing. It was too much to wrap your brain around it, really. The more Tony thought about it, the more wrong he thought he was. He couldn’t have seen it right. Gibbs and Abby would never…
“I mean, his back was to me” Tony thought. “I couldn’t really see what they were doing. Right? They were probably just hugging, like they always do. He brought her a CafPow! and she told him some good results and got a hug. Abby was a very hands-on person. She liked to hug, punch and cuddle. And she liked to be hugged. Gibbs understood that and didn’t seem to mind. So… They were hugging. And nothing more…Right?”
“Who was hugging?” Tim asked, looking up from his computer screen.
Too late, Tony realized that he might have said some of this out loud. Or at least muttered it.
“Nobody, McNosy. I was just thinking about… um… a movie… I saw last night.”
“You saw a movie that involved hugging?!”
“Why, yes, Timmy. Yes, I did. And with a girl, no less. You know how chicks get at those movies… Well, maybe you don’t.”
McGee just pouted, as he mostly did as these little insults. With Tony in the mood he was in and the mood Gibbs was in, the best course of action was to stick his nose to the screen and find something useful. He looked up shortly just to see Ziva walk in, looking preoccupied. Well, great. Just great! Everybody was acting so weird today. Maybe it was the thought of giving the lead up to the lieutenant colonel. But knowing Gibbs, that wouldn’t really make a whole lot of difference. Speaking of which, he really needed to get back to work.
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“Two days and this is all you have? I thought you were, and I quote: ‘the best in your field’! I asked for results and this is all I get?”
Mann was huffing and puffing at Abby. All the data she had gathered summed up to a big fat zero. Well, at least it did in Mann’s head. Abby could think of a couple of scenarios that would fit all the evidence, but she wasn’t telling Mann. Hollis wanted lead on the case and lead she got. So Abby stood, gaze nailed to the floor in pretend shame. She couldn’t really give a flying fornication it Mann could solve this or not. If Abby was going to help anybody, it was going to be her team.
“I don’t get it! I just don’t get it! You came highly recommended, Miss Sciutto. But apparently your reputation is undeserved.”
As he always does, Gibbs chose just that time to walk into the lab, CafPow! in hand.
“Are you accusing my forensic specialist of something…Hol?” he all but growled, taking care to point out the word ‘specialist’.
Unfazed by the gunny’s sudden entry, Hollis just smiled, not looking at him but at Abby.
“I gave your lab tech the evidence two days ago and so far she’s come up with nothing. Maybe she was… otherwise preoccupied. Was she, Jethro?”
“I don’t know what she was, Hol.”
“Oh, I think you might”
“Nope”
“Will you two just stop it?!” Abby yelled, getting sick and tired of all the verbal bruising one person could take for a day.
“I did the best I could with what you gave me. Give this stuff to anybody else; they won’t give you half the results in twice the time. I am ever so sorry if the results don’t add up, but solving the case is your job and not mine. So would you please remove your ungrateful self from my lab and let me get back to work?!”
Both the gunny and his current companion gaped at her. Abby stomped her foot and pointed to the door as Hollis began to walk out. Gibbs hadn’t moved.
“Aren’t you coming, Jethro?” Mann asked, a pinch of annoyance in her voice. “We have a case to solve.”
“I know. Head to Ducky’s and I’ll meet you there in 20.”
“Only 20, Jethro? My, my. You took longer than that last night… Then again, might be the company.”
Hollis chuckled bitterly, before leaving the lab.
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TBC…
Author’s note: So I’ve started this chapter up a million times over the past month or so. And it never turns out right. So I rewrote it for the last time and I’m posting it as a sort of… interlude… (that’s a word, right?)… For further action to come. I know it sucks donkey balls, but I will fix it, I promise. I just need to move on from this chapter.
____
Officer David had confronting feelings. Eavesdropping was, after all, one of the key elements in being a spy, but eavesdropping on a conversation between Abby and Gi bbs’ current girlfriend was making her a bit uneasy. When she first approached the lab, she heard some sort of squabbling so she held back and thought she’d wait it out and let whoever was arguing settle whatever it was they needed to settle. Then it was Abby and Hollis Mann. And they were quarreling over… Gibbs? From what she could make out, this was the case. And when two women fight over a man, the smart thing is to stay away. And keep it to yourself.
----
Tony sat at his desk, playing with paper clips. This thing that he wasn’t mentioning was eating away at him like acid. McGee saw it, but whenever he asked, Tony would give the same reply: “I know nothing”. And now he just sat there, trying to work, but not managing. It was too much to wrap your brain around it, really. The more Tony thought about it, the more wrong he thought he was. He couldn’t have seen it right. Gibbs and Abby would never…
“I mean, his back was to me” Tony thought. “I couldn’t really see what they were doing. Right? They were probably just hugging, like they always do. He brought her a CafPow! and she told him some good results and got a hug. Abby was a very hands-on person. She liked to hug, punch and cuddle. And she liked to be hugged. Gibbs understood that and didn’t seem to mind. So… They were hugging. And nothing more…Right?”
“Who was hugging?” Tim asked, looking up from his computer screen.
Too late, Tony realized that he might have said some of this out loud. Or at least muttered it.
“Nobody, McNosy. I was just thinking about… um… a movie… I saw last night.”
“You saw a movie that involved hugging?!”
“Why, yes, Timmy. Yes, I did. And with a girl, no less. You know how chicks get at those movies… Well, maybe you don’t.”
McGee just pouted, as he mostly did as these little insults. With Tony in the mood he was in and the mood Gibbs was in, the best course of action was to stick his nose to the screen and find something useful. He looked up shortly just to see Ziva walk in, looking preoccupied. Well, great. Just great! Everybody was acting so weird today. Maybe it was the thought of giving the lead up to the lieutenant colonel. But knowing Gibbs, that wouldn’t really make a whole lot of difference. Speaking of which, he really needed to get back to work.
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“Two days and this is all you have? I thought you were, and I quote: ‘the best in your field’! I asked for results and this is all I get?”
Mann was huffing and puffing at Abby. All the data she had gathered summed up to a big fat zero. Well, at least it did in Mann’s head. Abby could think of a couple of scenarios that would fit all the evidence, but she wasn’t telling Mann. Hollis wanted lead on the case and lead she got. So Abby stood, gaze nailed to the floor in pretend shame. She couldn’t really give a flying fornication it Mann could solve this or not. If Abby was going to help anybody, it was going to be her team.
“I don’t get it! I just don’t get it! You came highly recommended, Miss Sciutto. But apparently your reputation is undeserved.”
As he always does, Gibbs chose just that time to walk into the lab, CafPow! in hand.
“Are you accusing my forensic specialist of something…Hol?” he all but growled, taking care to point out the word ‘specialist’.
Unfazed by the gunny’s sudden entry, Hollis just smiled, not looking at him but at Abby.
“I gave your lab tech the evidence two days ago and so far she’s come up with nothing. Maybe she was… otherwise preoccupied. Was she, Jethro?”
“I don’t know what she was, Hol.”
“Oh, I think you might”
“Nope”
“Will you two just stop it?!” Abby yelled, getting sick and tired of all the verbal bruising one person could take for a day.
“I did the best I could with what you gave me. Give this stuff to anybody else; they won’t give you half the results in twice the time. I am ever so sorry if the results don’t add up, but solving the case is your job and not mine. So would you please remove your ungrateful self from my lab and let me get back to work?!”
Both the gunny and his current companion gaped at her. Abby stomped her foot and pointed to the door as Hollis began to walk out. Gibbs hadn’t moved.
“Aren’t you coming, Jethro?” Mann asked, a pinch of annoyance in her voice. “We have a case to solve.”
“I know. Head to Ducky’s and I’ll meet you there in 20.”
“Only 20, Jethro? My, my. You took longer than that last night… Then again, might be the company.”
Hollis chuckled bitterly, before leaving the lab.
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TBC…