Seventh Grade was very different than CJ had experienced school to date. The school CJ attended went all the way to grade 8 but the middle school classes were on a rotation. CJ liked the idea of being in a different class with a different teacher every 45 minutes. Multiple classrooms with multiple teachers meant many opportunities to pull pranks and have many suspects who would have been in the classroom.
It was only mid October and CJ had been able to set up a few pranks that she found particularly funny and to date none of them had been linked to her. Over the past 6 weeks she had replaced the photocopier toner cartridge with an empty one at the end of everyday and place the full cartridge back in the box that had been in the recycle bin. Although her favourite was still in effect; she had put her homeroom printer colour cartridges in the printer in the wrong slots. So every time someone printed the colours were all mixed up. Her homeroom teacher had tried to fix it and when she was unsuccessful she called in the school IT guy, and he couldn't fix it. It wasn't a problem they thought of and CJ enjoyed that fact immensely.
Halloween was fast approaching and she was trying to figure out what she could do. She didn't want to target her homeroom as she felt suspicion would start to move in her direction. The science lab was very Halloween'ish'.
CJ needed to do a bit of research. And lucky for her she had a wonderful Halloween loving lab rat that could help out. That afternoon CJ went to NCIS headquarters after school to begin the research. She stopped by the bullpen and dropped off her bag on her way through. As the elevator door opened CJ could hear the entire team talking with Abby. Her stomach did a flip flop as she realized that she didn't really have an excuse to be here that was legitimate. Quickly she decided that she needed to talk to Abby about a 'science fair' project, that way she could ask lots of questions and not raise suspicions.
She exited the elevator and walked into Abby's lab quietly waiting to see if anyone noticed her. She liked to see if she could enter rooms without drawing attention to herself. It was a skill both her mother and Uncle Gibbs had and seemed to be rather useful. Unfortunately she was only 2 paces in before everyone turned and greeted her with a smiles and / or waves.