DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NCIS OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS!

DEAD DOESN'T MEAN FOREVER

Ch 1

Gibbs felt the urge building. He never questioned it; he simply reacted and discovered what he needed to know. He gave his agents a cursory glance. "Going to see Abby," he barked walking toward the elevators.

Tony, Tim and Ziva all exchanged quizzical expressions. They had been working on cold cases for three weeks now. No new forensics had come to surface, so what could Abby possibly have for Gibbs?

Abby smiled without turning, hearing the elevator ding. She didn't know how he did it, but she loved that she knew he would come to see her without her having to call him. This was the news he'd always hoped she'd deliver.

After all the years she'd spent secretly working on his pet project. After all the times she'd told him results for their active cases, sending him subtle hints on the lack of success for what he really wanted to know about. It frustrated him, but whenever there was a small step forward, he would read it in her eyes and thank her with a kiss on her cheek.

Now she had solved it. They would still need specialized equipment to implement it, but she succeeded on her part.

"Whatcha got for me Abs?" his standard question was laced with the anticipation for what he was expecting to hear.

She spun on her heels to face him, smiling as her black-haired pigtails swayed back and forth. She clapped her hands together and said the words he'd been waiting years to hear, "I did it Gibbs. I finally broke it all down and I know, I know it'll be a success. Whatever 'it' is?" She hoped to hear him explain, but he just grinned and handed her the Caf-Pow he picked up for her.

"I knew you could do it Abs," he praised her giving her the biggest kiss on the cheek and a hug.

Abby swelled with pride. This was why she'd gotten into science, aside from all the neat 'babies' she got to work with.

Gibbs turned to return upstairs. Once in the bullpen he faced his junior agent. Tim looked up wide-eyed.

"With me McGee," Gibbs hooked his finger for him to follow. Gibbs led him to a conference room. Once the younger man entered the door, his boss closed and locked it. Nodding at a chair indicating that Tim should sit, he pulled out his own seat.

Folding his hands on the table Gibbs looked at the anxious man. "Easy McGee," he soothed. "I was wondering how that 'project' was coming along?" he inquired.

Relaxing, but brimming with excitement, Tim told him, "Another week and I should be ready to test it out!" Gibbs half smiled and his eyes sparkled.

"That's good news," he put a hand on McGee's shoulder. "I had the utmost confidence in you."

Tim didn't know what Gibbs' plan was for his invention. It had limited use and not a hundred percent of that was legal. 'Of course there were things it could do, if given the right elements. But only someone with a great scientific mind…OH…Abby had found something for him. But what?'

Tim watched Gibbs leave the room. 'What was he planning?'

On the way back to his desk, Gibbs was planning when to approach Tony with is request. If Tim's tests next week were successful he wanted to move ASAP. It hadn't been easy to reroute cases in the past, but it would be necessary, so he could follow through when everything fall into place.

Ziva still had some contacts overseas that would allow him to complete the final step of his master plan. It had taken years to get to this point and nothing would stop him from seeing it through to its fruition.

Hand-picking the best of the best, finding just the right combination of agents had taken a few years longer than he'd expected. Then he had to mold them into the trusting individuals he needed, that they would follow his lead with no questions asked.

Surely when all was said and done they would be aghast at his knowledgeable planning- he threw them of with his phony ignorance of technology. But they would also be amazed and understanding. All the questions they never dared to ask would be answered, at least most of them.

'Soon,' Gibbs nearly shivered. 'I will have my dream fulfilled.' The smile on his face caused raised eyebrows around the bullpen, but for now no one said a word.