Author's Note: My OFC, Leann Hollaway, is probably going to feature in several of my stories. Unless noted at the beginning of the story, each story will be a stand alone.
Title: Stakeouts, Headaches, and Avoidence
Author: steffenyp
Pairing: Gibbs/OFC
Rating: M
Summary: Stakeouts can lead to all kinds of things, some expected, some not so much.
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Chapter 1
It had been two weeks of boredom as the team staked out the storage facility believed to be the headquarters for a drug trafficking ring led by a Navy Lieutenant. They had gotten an anonymous tip that had led them to the storage facility and evidence of drug trafficking, but unless they could catch the Lieutenant in the act, the case would go cold.
Team Gibbs had been assigned the case and the team had broken into pairs for twelve hour shifts in an apartment across the street from the storage facility for surveillance. Tony and Ziva would take the midnight to noon shift while Gibbs and their newest team member, a strawberry blonde in her late thirties, would take the day shift. McGee would remain at the Navy Yard to oversee all of the technical aspects of the stakeout.
Special Agent Leann Hollaway had been assigned to Gibbs' team when Director Vance decided that they were putting in too many hours of overtime and needed another team member to ease the load. Plus a fifth team member could also help Abby in the lab on occasion also easing her load. Things were awkward at first, but after the first few months of getting to know each other, things began to settle down and Leann fit right in to their tight knit little group. Her personality seemed to fit with some aspect of each of the others and it didn't take long for them all to accept her. Now, almost a year and half later, none of them could imagine the team without her.
Leann sat at the window of the apartment watching the street outside of the storage facility while Gibbs watched the monitors for the cameras that had been set up in storage locker fourteen. They were eight hours into their twelve hour shift and there had been no activity at storage locker fourteen yet again.
Leann hadn't been feeling well for the last couple hours, but did not want to say anything for fear they might miss something. This was the last night of surveillance. If they didn't catch a break tonight the case would be shelved and the team would move on. Leann was fighting a throbbing headache and stiff muscles as she kept an eye on the street. Rubbing at her temples in an attempt to ease the pain in her head, she was startled by the cool touch of two hands at the back of her neck.
"Relax a bit Lea, this bastard will show up or he won't, either way he eventually will be caught. Guys like him get cocky and sloppy at some point," Gibbs told her as he began to massage the back of her neck.
Everywhere his fingers touched, the pain seemed to vanish as if by magic. After several minutes, the pain in her head was a little more tolerable and Gibbs went back to the monitors. The rest of the shift was just as quiet as the rest and at midnight, Tony and Ziva arrived to take over. Gibbs and Leann had ridden together to the apartment and Leann was grateful for that considering she couldn't have driven herself home with the headache she had. She spent the ride back to Gibbs' house where her car was parked once more rubbing at her temples. She was concentrating so hard on trying to ease her headache, that she was surprised when the car stopped and she looked up to find they were parked in front of Gibbs' house.
"Come on," Gibbs said after getting out of the car and going around to open Leann's door. Too tired and in too much pain to argue, she exited the car and followed Gibbs to his front door.