CHAPTER 2: OLD WAYS
In the bull pit, Tony introduces himself to the beautiful blonde waiting by
the lift.
"Hi, I'm Tony DiNozzo!" he shows that deadly smile.
"Hi, I'm Victoria Smith" she begins to act like a schoolgirl with a crush.
"So, what is someone like you doing in a place like this?"
"Someone like me?" the smile fades and anger starts to appear on her face.
"You know someone as beautiful as you is hard to find around here."
"Thank you, I am here on business." the smile reappears
"Oh, what kind of business?" Tony is looking puzzled and starts to think
that Kate has set him up again with another girl who is going to prove her
point and puts his foot right in it.
"Did Kate put you up to this?"
"why yes she did!"
Tony now knows it's a trap and decides to play along to get back at Kate.
"So you know her then?"
"Oh, yes!"
"welll i'm sorry for wasting your time but i'm not into that whole hiring
women while i'm at work!"
"Excuse me?" she says with a rathe anry looking expression.
"You said agent Kate Todd put you up to this, so i assume your one
of those women."
"Yes i do know agent Kate Todd, We met 10 minutes ago! She told me to introduce myself to you but
I was too shy."
"Oh so you're not one of those women then?"
"What women?"
"You know the ones you pay for?"
"How dare you!" she grabbs his shoulders and knees him in the groin.
"Ooohhhh!" Tony falls to the ground holding his groin and rolling around on the floor.
Kate and Abby exit the lift and Kate introduces Victoria to Abby who by now has a huge
smile on her face and her arms folded, Kate giggles at Tony realising that he must
have tried to come on to her because she is blonde slim and beautiful, just his type.
"I see you've met Victoria, Tony?"
"Why yes Kate I have." he says gritting his teeth pain still obvious in his voice.
Kate smiles back and walks to her desk, Abby and Victoria follow, Kate
tells her all about Tony and every now and again they all look at Tony and
giggle like schoolgirls. Tony is obviously becoming annoyed and walks quickly to his
desk slumping himself on his chair and muttering to himself.
Ziva enters, once again she is 30 minutes late (even after McGee's directions earlier
that week she is still finding it hard to work out the U.S. driving system.)
She knows that Gibbs will have his say or shout as the case may be but
today she is not in the mood to take his crap. She notices the three
women at Kate's desk and begins to wonder who the third is, she
knows she has not seen her before.
"Tony who is that blonde over there?"
"What makes you think i know who that is?"
"Oh come on Tony, there isn't any blonde in the United States of america
you don't know!"
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"Whats wrong Tony? she come to her senses and turn you down?"
Tony just gives her that smile that only a man in pain can give. She is
starting to wind him up and the pain that he is feeling from the knee to his
groin is starting to really sting.
"Fine! i will go ask her myself"
Before Tony even has a chance to move in his seat she dives in the direction
of the Blonde and shortly after a few seconds of them chatting she turns to
Tony gives him the screwed up face to signify pain and starts laughing
along with the other women.
In the elevator the Phone rings and Gibbs answers in his usual way.
"Gibbs"
"Agent Gibbs, there has been a body found washed up ashore near Quantico, we
believe it is one of the men you have been looking for!"
He puts down the phone and exits the lift and enters the bull pit to inform the others.
Tony still feeling the effects of 30 minutes ago is at his desk with his
head in his hands looking as black as thunder but still feels the pain.
"DiNozzo, I need you to round up Kate and McGee."
Gibbs grabbs his sig out of the drawer and loads it.
"Why boss? Something happened?"
"A body washed up near Quantico, I want you, Kate and McGee to make your way
there, I will follow shortly with ducky."
"Sure Boss"
Tony picks up the phone calls Kate and McGee, grabs his gun and heads to the
parking lot to get the car.
Gibbs driving in his usual style arrives at the crime scene shortly after the others
and is horrified to see Special Agent Veron, Agent Smith and FP Emma Harvey.
"You have got to be kidding me!"
"Afraid not Boss according to the sheriff they have been here for at least 30 minutes"
Tony informs Gibbs.
Gibbs looking slightly past explosive now, confronts Special Agent Veron.
"Agent Gibbs, glad you could make it!" says Veron
"If you think you can take this case from me you are gravely mistaken" says Gibbs
"Oh well if it takes you this long to get to a crime scene it is a good thing we are
here to clean up the mistakes" says Veron with a small smirky smile on his face.
Agent Veron walks over to his team and Gibbs is left standing there blood boiling
as he counts to ten (not his usual way of relieveing stress but his boat is at home
and he has to finish up here first)
"DiNozzo!" Says Gibbs
"Yes boss" he says running to Gibbs
"Smack" was all that greated him as he approached gibbs (this one was harder than
usual as Tony was moving at the time of impact).
"Ouch" said Tony
"Go take pictures"
"What was that for"
"Smack" again as Gibbs starts smiling
"Get Back to work DiNozzo!"
That was what he needed he thought as he returned to the group.
Back at the lab Abby and McGee are working on the latest case, Abby gets a
little time before the results are ready that she decides to ask McGee about
what happened earlier that day.
"McGee?"
"Mmmm." he replies with his eyes still shut firmly.
"McGee why won't you look at me?"
"Am.Well."
"Tell me." she says inquisitively.
"I.....um." still keeping his eyes shut.
"Well?"
McGee is about to open his mouth and tell Abby when Tony walks into the lab.
"Hey Abs!" , "Probie."
"Hey Tony! McGee was just about to tell me why he won't look at me." Says Abby
"Oh is Probie scared that if he looks at a pretty lady that he might wet his
pants!"
"No!"
"Oh Tony do you think I'm pretty?"
"No you look like hell."
"Tony you're so sweet!"
Gibbs enters the lab with a serious look on his face, it is obvious that today
for him was not going to be a good one.
"DiNozzo, you were meant to have left 10 minutes ago!"
"Sorry boss I....!
"Go DiNozzo!" gibbs shouts, tony is still standing there looking
dumbfounded as his eyes meet Gibbs'.
"NOW!"
"Yess boss"
"McGee, that means you too!"
"Oh, sure boss"
He hands Abby her usual bucket of Caff-Pow.
"You know what I like!"
"What have you got for me Abs?"
"Well the tests I am running on the scrapings under the victims nails still
has another 15 minutes, the gun found at the scene is rather old and heavily
used but I did find a print on it and ran it through AFIS and it came up as
a Navy Engineer Andrew Segal."
Gibbs starts towards the doors walking his normal nobody stop me
kind of way.
"Good, Ill call McGee to find out who this Navy Engineer is and I will check with Ducky
to see who we have joining us."
"Hold on a second Gibbs!"
Gibbs pauses in mid step catches his balance and turns towards Abby.
"Abby I haven't got time for this!"
"It will be worth it I promise!" she says with her usual 'i won't hurt a fly' pout.
"It better be!" says Gibbs
"Do I ever let you down?" she asks
"Abby!"
"Sorry Gibbs, well the bullets recovered from the body are made of silver
not copper used with modern guns but there is one problem, the bullets do not
match the gun that we found."
"Good work Abby!" he says as he signs 'not a good day' to her
'right' she signs back.
Gibbs leaves the lab and heads to Ducky in autopsy.
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