Hey guys! This is my first english NCIS FF about Ellie Bishop. It is originally written in german by me, but I tried to translate it as well as I can :D Since English is not my native language, I beg your pardon if something is wrong.
Have fun with my first chapter and leave some reviews :)
- 1 -
It was 8 o´clock on a Monday morning when Ellie entered the HQ.
Surprisingly, both of her colleagues were already there.
It wasn´t that new for McGee, but Ellie was wondering why Tony was here so early.
"Good morning!", she greeted both of them friendly and let down her bag, before she sat down at her desk and unpacked her laptop.
McGee greeted her back, only DiNozzo wasn´t reacting.
"Also a good morning to you, Tony!", she addressed him directly and looked at him.
"Yeah..morning!", he mumbled, earning a sceptical look from Bishop.
Something was off. She stood up and walked over to McGee´s desk.
"What´s wrong with him?", she asked her co-worker.
"Tony´s Dad is back in DC.", he answered shortly and both of them new, what this meant.
"Ouh..", Bishop said and went back to her desk.
For a while, no one dared to say something, when Ellie finally broke the silence.
"Is your Das living with you again?"
"Oh, no…for no money in this world, no. He wants to, but I´m not really looking forward having my kitchen set on fire again. No, right now, I am booking a room for him in the Adams House. I really hope they have some free rooms."
"When does your Dad arrive?"
"He already landed, but he has an important meeting with one of his customers before he is coming to me.", he smirked.
"Oh come on, Tony. He just wants to spend some time with you!", McGee exclaimed.
"Yeah, and that´s the problem!", DiNozzo said and stopped typing on the computer.
"What do you mean?", former NSA analyst Ellie Bishop wanted to know.
"Well, I mean.. I really like the idea that he comes visiting me. I mean, I am his only child, the only person he has. I am his everything and he is mine. But everytime, when he arrives, something happens where I need to kick him out or he needs something. I don´t know. These visits mostly have nothing in common with really wanting to see me. But who knows? Maybe this time, everything is different!"
"I would be happy if I could see my family this often without driving a whole day. I mean, I last saw my parents when Jake and I…", Ellie began, but stopped in the middle of her sentence.
"Yep, what I mean is: be happy and just let it happen!"
"What is now with you and Jake, Bish?", Tony wanted to know.
"What should there be? We filled in the divorce papers, he moved out and directly in with Taylor. We are separated now for 2 months, since then I did not see him and believe me, I really do not need to see him again this fast."
"I need to disappoint you. Grab your geer. Dead marine in Norfolk. NSA is on the case too.", Gibbs suddenly interrupted the talk.
"Is Jake involved in this case?", Ellie wanted to know.
"Yes, he´s in. Is that a problem for you, Probie?", he answered.
"No, it´s okay. We are all grown up!", Ellie smiled, grabbed her bag and followed her team into the elevator.
Arriving in Norfolk, the agents and Ducky and Palmer were welcomed by NSA analyst Martinez.
"Hi, I´m NSA Analyst Martinez. Our victim is right there. Feel free to perform the autopsy on him."
With this, Ducky & Palmer went straight to the dead body on the ground.
"We´ll check the sourrounding area and take some photos.", McGee & DiNozzo said and went off.
Gibbs stuck with Bishop and Martinez, who turned around to her former colleague and hugged her.
"How are you holding up? I heard from Jake and you."
"It´s alright. But I would prefer not to talk about it. Is he here?"
"Jake?"
"Yeah.."
"No, I told him to wait in the office. I thought it would not be a good idea to have him here, when I knew that you would come."
Thankful, Bishop looked at her former co-worker and nodded to her.
"What do we have? Who is our victim and why is the NSA involved?", Gibbs asked.
The three went closer to the dead body.
"This is Sergeant Louis Crawford, 35, stationed in Norfolk. He just came back from mission in middle east. He was one of our informants.", Martinez explained.
"Informant? Who did he look at?", McGee asked, when he came back and got a hold of the talk.
"I´m sorry but I can´t answer that question!"
"Martinez, come on. Maybe the person he was looking at is his murderer. Who did he look at?", Ellie asked again.
"Ellie, you know as good as I that I can not talk about current operations of the NSA. I only know that he looked at this person with our agreement in middle east. And your soon-to-be-ex-husband was his superior. I just can´t tell you who this person is without putting the national security in danger."
"When did he came back to the States?", Gibbs wanted to know.
"Three days ago. He had all the important information and we, mostly Malloy, wanted Crawford to come back to the US. He was supposed to come to our HQ and we wanted to talk about our next steps.", Martinez explained.
"Any idea, why he was in this erea?", DiNozzo asked, slightly confused.
"No, sorry. I can not imagine what he should do here. I mean it´s far away from our HQ and yours too."
"Jethro!", Ducky suddenly shouted.
"What do you have, Duck?", Gibbs answered his friend.
"Our fellow friend was shot. First bullet hit him in the leg, which made it impossible for him to run away. Second bullet hit him in the shoulder and he fell on the ground. Last and deadly shot was the one in his head."
"Execution.", Ellie remarked and photographed the wound on the Sergeants head.
"Very true. But this is not the only interesting thing. He held a chain in his hand."
Palmer gave the chain in a bag to Tony. It was a plumb tag with a palm branch incraved."
"Did he take it from his attacker?", Tony thought loudly.
"Yes, Anthony, this could be a possibility. Well, we will bring to the NCIS now. After the autopsy, we will know more. Mr. Palmer, are you ready?"
"Still trying to tell me that this murder does not have something to do with the mission?", Gibbs turned around to Martinez.
"I said, I don´t know."
"Martinez, you do know something. Tell us who the person is he was looking at.", Ellie begged her friend.
"Bish, really! I can´t say it. If I talk, the mission would have been for nothing. Crawford would have died senseless."
Ellie shook her head and turned around to DiNozzo.
"Could I have this chain?"
"Ellie, no..", Martinez tried to get her off.
Bishop just looked at her confused and walked a few steps away from the group, the chain in her hand.
"Could be talk to Mr. Malloy about the Sergeant than?", Gibbs asked.
"Yes, this can be arranged, but.."
Suddenly Ellie interrupted the talk.
"Are you bloody serious?", she screamed at her former best friend.
"Ellie, what´s wrong?", McGee aked and Tony positioned himself between the women.
"When did you want to tell me about this?! Just because Jake and I are divorced does not mean that I should not get this kind of information."
"Which kind of information, Ellie?", Gibbs asked and looked at his agent.
But she kept staring at Martinez, which was still shocked by her friends reaction.
"Ellie, please. We just tried to protect you and furthermore, you aren´t working for us anymore. This is a NSA case."
"And still, you should have told me. It´s about my life and it´s my damn fight. Therefore you just can´t holding back information."
"We had no choice."
"Oh, you always have one."
"In this case? No.."
"STOP!", Gibbs shouted and pushed the women apart.
"What is going on here? I have enough of these games. What´s the matter?"
Ellie sighed and hold up the chain.
"This chain here.."
"Ellie…", Martinez warned her..
"Ellie?! Who is it?", Gibbs told Ellie one last time.
Silently, she answered: "Parsa. It´s Benham Parsa. He´s alive!"
A/N: so appearantly, parsa is still alive ugh. i try to update tomorrow to let you know what happens furthermore.