"Tony!" a voice shouted from DiNozzo's bathroom. "You're using the hot water again aren't you?"
Tony snickered from the kitchen. "Sorry Izzy. It isn't me." He twisted the hot water tap a little bit more.
"You really got to pay your hot water bill Tony." Another shout came from the bathroom. "Your girlfriend ain't gonna like a cold shower."
Tony turned off the tap and looked through the fridge. His younger cousin Isabella was staying with him. She had a fight with DiNozzo snr and created a lot of problems between her uncle and herself. Being a drop out of the DiNozzo family he took his little cousin in just until everything was sorted with her and the family. It wouldn't take to long, Tony hoped.
Izzy came out of the shower with a towel wrapped around her body and her hair. Her eyes were sparkling blue and her hair colour was the same colour as Tony's. She looked at the kitchen sink and then at Tony's face. "You were making my shower cold weren't you?"
Tony shook his head. "How could I do that to my baby cousin?"
"I'm not a baby anymore Antho." Izzy frowned popping a piece of bread into the toaster.
"One never ever call me Antho again and two, you're barely legal." Tony looked at her. "Now go pull some clothes on."
Izzy went into her room and pulled on some clothes before going back into the kitchen. "So Tony, your B'day is coming up soon. What you going to do?"
Tony placed Izzy's freshly made toast onto a plate and pretended he didn't hear her. "There's butter in the fridge."
"Will you butter my bread Tony?" Izzy pouted not saying anything about the sudden change of topic.
"You aren't a baby anymore Iz." Tony took a sip of his freshly made coffee and headed to the door. "I'll check in on you later."
"Hypocrite." Isabella muttered as she bit into her toast.
NCIS
"Morning Gibbs." Tony chimed on his way into the office.
"Your late." Gibbs stated.
"Sorry boss." Tony placed his bag on the floor. "It won't happen again."
"You said the same thing yesterday." Gibbs flipped through some papers in his hand and then looked at Tony. "What's the matter with you lately?"
"Nothing boss apart from lack of caffeine." Tony sat behind his desk and looked over to see Ziva's desk. "Sir where's Ziva?"
"With Abby." Gibbs replied.
"Why is Ziva with Abby?"
"They are talking."
"About what?"
Gibbs turned around and stared at Tony. "Why don't you go ask them?"
Tony quickly got up and smiled. "Just about to do that Boss."
Once he reached the lab he heard two sets of laughing voices coming from the lab. "Good morning ladies." Tony smirked. "What are you two doing?"
Abby grinned and Ziva frowned. "Girly stuff." They said together.
"Ah, so I'm guessing you want me to…?" he started.
"Leave." Ziva smiled sickly sweet.
"Where's McGee?" Tony asked as Abby hugged him.
"Getting checked out by Ducky. He's sick." Abby informed.
"Tell him to stay away from me." Tony grinned.
"I have a question?" Ziva looked serious. "When is the case flood going to end?"
Tony raised an eyebrow. "Ziva we haven't gotten a case in two weeks. Don't you mean case drought?"
Ziva waved her hands. "Whatever, when are we getting a new case?"
"Right now." McGee walked into the looking serious.
Tony frowned. "I thought he was supposed to be sick." he whispered to Abby.
Abby nodded. "He has a rash on his…"
"Abby!" McGee shouted.
"But." Abby grimaced. "Sorry Tim."
"Again McGee?" Tony smiled. He then looked at the frowning Ziva. "I'll be rubbing this in forever."
McGee shook his head. "Gibbs wants us upstairs now."
Tony and Ziva nodded to Abby and went upstairs with McGee.
NCIS
"McGee? What'd you find out?" Gibbs asked his Junior Agent.
McGee who had just walked in with Tony and Ziva grabbed some papers off of his desk. "Um…" he flipped through them and looked at Gibbs. "Ex-marine, Thomas Edwards, found in DC woods dead." McGee looked over to where Gibbs was standing a few minutes ago to find no one there.
"Elevator McGee." Tim spun around and looked towards the elevator where Gibbs, Tony and Ziva were all stepping into.
"Oh, right boss." McGee bolted towards the elevator, just making it. "Police found ID about three metres to the left of him and haven't touched the body since leaving it for us."
"Good work McGee. Now where's my coffee?" Gibbs asked.
"Coffee boss?" McGee frowned. "You didn't ask for a coffee."
The elevator stopped moving and Ziva and Tony were glancing between each other trying to be sensible. "Do I need to ask for a coffee?" Gibbs asked.
"Oh that coffee sir. Right away." McGee scrambled out of the elevator with a snickering Tony and Ziva not that far behind.
NCIS
The trees were tall and the ground was rough. The sky was blue and the wildlife was limited to snakes and small mammals. DiNozzo took all of this information in so he could think of the ways that the event which led to the dead Marine took place. If that made any sense…
Everything mattered and that was one of the first things Tony ever learnt. Everything mattered.
Ducky frowned as he went over to inspect the body. "I believe he has been dead for not to much more than a week."
"How you figure Duck?" Gibbs leaned over the body but knew perfectly well. After all he had seen many bodies.
"Well there is some decomposition but not enough for it to have been here for longer than two weeks." Ducky lifted the marines arm with gloved hands and inspected the skin. "These bruises were not caused by fists. No, I do believe this fellow had a rather painful and slow death. See these injuries by his forehead? That was made from a bat. Metal, most probably. I'll do a thorough search back at the lab."
"Someone bag the body." Gibbs called and three field agents ran to his summon.
"Tim? Isn't it DiNozzo's birthday soon?" Ziva asked McGee quietly while Tony was distracted.
McGee shook his head. "I don't know. Ask Abs, she knows everyone's birthday."
"She doesn't know either." Ziva told. "That's what I was asking her before."
McGee looked at Ziva and frowned. "Why do you want to know so badly?" he took a few shots of blood splattered on a tree.
"Because," Ziva stated. "Everyone has celebrated their birthdays except for him. Doesn't he seem like the guy who would go all out for his birthday?"
McGee looked over his shoulder to where Tony was scribbling some notes as he interviewed the guy who found the body. "Yeah he does but there is a lot about Tony that we don't know about."
"But he's so…open" Ziva started.
"Only about other people. Yeah, he says stuff about himself but it's mainly making other people feel bad." Tim nodded he then squinted his eyes as he looked at the bottom of the hill. "Hey what's that?"
Ziva looked at to where McGee was pointing and frowned. Together they edged down the hill until they saw the familiar shape of a body, half buried in the dirt. "Boss, you might want to see this." McGee shouted so his boss could hear.
The sound of shuffling feet reached Ziva and McGee's ears and the sight of Gibbs and Tony popped up by their sides. "We just found him Boss."
Gibbs frowned slightly and looked at his crew. "Take photos, call the baggers and take him to the lab."
Tony looked around and saw another body mound. "Boss I think there's more."
Gibbs, Ziva and McGee followed his line of vision and saw a hand sticking out of lumpy dirt.
"Tell them I want a complete search of these woods within two kilometre radius of where the original body was found." Gibbs looked at Tony and McGee. "Tony, ID these two. See if they have any connection with Edwards. McGee, I want you to find out about the guy who found them and see if they've seen anyone else in these woods." He then looked at Ziva, "You're coming with me."
Ziva followed her boss over to his car. "Where are we going Boss?"
Gibbs looked at her. "We're going golfing.