A/N: I would like to dedicate this to one of my bestest friends in the world and she is also my muse for this story. She knows who she is. And all of my friends who put up with my insanity.
Going Minnesotan
In which the team heads to Minnesota.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Blake, if you don't stop, I'll…I'll… I'll…" A small girl yelled at a boy a few years younger than her. It was snowing, very hard. School had been canceled; all the children were running around.
"Claire, you'll what? Stutter at me?" The older boy threw a snowball at the girl. It missed and hit a tree. The tree shook and some snow fell out. "Awesome!" The boy, Blake, kept throwing snowballs at the tree. Then a particularly hard one shook the tree very hard, and out fell… a dead body. They both screamed. The man was wearing a Navy uniform.
Play NCIS intro, NCIS HQ
"TONY! If you do not shut up this instant, I will kill you with my pen!" Ziva yelled exasperatedly. Tony had been humming songs from Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer for the past 30 minutes. He began humming You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.
"Why, Ms. Grinch?"
"How about it's annoying?"
"Well, Ziva, someone's not in the Christmas sprit!"
"Tony, I'm Jewish."
"Yeah…well… I guess. At least your not the only one who's Grinch like this year. Has anyone else noticed Gibbs has been in an especially… He's right behind me isn't he?" Tony asked seeing the look on his co-worker's faces. "Hi Boss!"
"I've been especially what, DiNozzo?"
"Festive, boss, festive!"
"Agent Gibbs! My office, now!" Jenny yelled from the catwalk. Gibbs ran up the stairs and into her office.
"Ya, Jen, what do ya need?"
"Jethro, we have a case."
"Okay." Gibbs started walking to the door.
"In Minnesota. I need you to work well and be cooperative with them. Do you understand? I can't keep covering your ass."
"Great. Abby will be coming." And with that Gibbs walked out. Jenny sighed; this was going to be a long case.
Gibbs walked out of the office to check on his team. Ziva and McGee were working; Tony was staring out of the window watching the little snow that had started to fall. Gibbs walked down, balling up a piece of paper, and then throwing it at Tony.
"We got a case." Everyone started to grab his or her gear. "In Minnesota." Tony and McGee groaned.
"Why is going to Minnesota bad?"
"Well, see Ziva, Minnesotans are nice, but it is really, really cold there." As McGee was explaining he pulled up a weather report. It said: Monday-5, Tuesday-3, Wednesday-4, Thursday-0, Friday-7, Saturday-1, And Sunday-2.
"Oh, that's very cold."
"Yeah, bring all of your warm clothes. Mah Gee, go tell Abs. You two go get pack be back at 1100. Our flights at 1300." Everyone ran his or her separate ways.
McGee took the stairs two at a time to tell Abby. Loud music blared; Abby was waiting at the door. "Abby! We're going to Minnesota!"
"What! But it's cold there!"
"But Gibbs asked for you specifically to come."
"Oh, That's so… sweet! Do they have Caf-Pow? Is there snow? Ooo, I wonder…."
"Abby. Gibbs says go get packed at be back at 1100." Abby started talking a mile a minute turned into her office, but when she turned back McGee was gone.
1100
"DiNozzo! Where are you? Gibbs is going to kill you! Don't call me Probie! I'm not your Probie still!" McGee yelled into his phone. Gibbs took his phone and yelled at DiNozzo: "DiNozzo get your butt down here in 1 minute." And slammed the phone down.
"Thanks, boss." Everyone was there except for Tony. Tony's car pulled up and sprinted for everyone. Gibbs just grabbed his bag and went to the car. It was a silent car ride.
"We're going on a trip, we're going on a trip! Ow! Boss…" Tony made the funny noise he does when he gets headslapped.
"DiNozzo, shut up! It's Minnesota!"
"Yeah boss, Minnie-soda."
"Tony, are you okay?" Ziva looked at Tony.
"Tony is doing a very bad and mean Minnesota accent."
"Abby, why do you care?"
"Well, Toonneee, one of my bestest friends is from Minnesota."
"Abby, is she also goth?" Ziva asked.
"No."
"Well what is she?" Ziva pushed for an answer.
"Maddy's a die hard trekkie/ totally sci-fi geek! She knows everything about Star Trek and a lot about Lord of the Rings! Maddy's really short and a total ninja! I wonder if she still lives in Minnesota? I think she also became a forensic scientist."
"Wow, McGeek sounds like your type of woman." McGee blushed.
"Flight for Minneapolis is now boarding." A robotic voice rang out. The team ran toward the gate. "Please hand me your tickets." Gibbs shoved them at the flight attendant. Everyone walked in quickly. Gibbs shoved Abby and Ziva into their seats, 3 rows from the back, together. Then DiNozzo and McGee into the 2nd to last row. And Gibbs sat in the very back daring anyone to sit there. The plane was pretty empty. I mean, who wants to go to Minnesota in the winter.
"Ziva! Are you excited?"
"Ummm, I guess."
"It's supposed to be really fun, I mean other then the whole snow and cold thing it's really cool. Ooo. I sound like Palmer."
"What?"
"I said I sounded like Palmer."
"DiNozzo!"
"Sure, I sound like Tony…?"
"No, DiNozzo is pulling my hair." Abby's mouth opened in a o. "DiNozzo, if you don't stop I will kill you with a hard short bread thing." Ziva threatened holding up a packet of airline cookies. Tony gulped.
"Can, Can you do that?"
"Would you like me to demonstrate?" She shook the cookies. "Hmmm. There are a lot of witnesses, so maybe."
"Gibbs! McHero! Please! Abby!" Tony squealed. No one came to his rescue. Tony whipped around to look at Gibbs. But Gibbs had an ancient pair of head phones plugged into an old cassette player, and he was asleep. "Ooo, we should take a picture!"
"Even think about DiNozzo and I will head slap you so hard that your head will be stuck looking down the rest of your life. " And rested back down into his seat. Tony turned back to find the rest giggling.
"What so funny? 'Cause I know for a fact that was not funny. How can you think that that's funny? I'm disgusted." Tony turned to McGee who immediately wiped the smirk off his face. "That's what I thought, Mr. Probie. Ya know that smiling can hurt you geeky types."
"Tony!" Abby slapped his arm. "Leave my geek alone. BE nice."
"Fine, my bad Probilicus."
"Abby, you owe me 10 bucks." Ziva smirked at the Goth. Abby forked over the bill.
"What?"
"Abby thought you wouldn't call McGee any nicknames. But I knew you would. Yes Tony, you are that easy to read." Tony's mouth opened then closed, and opened again.
"Humph."
Then there was an announcement over the speakers: "Howdy there, this is your pilot, Jim Forks speaking. We're going to taking off in few minutes. So just sit back in your seat and relax." Then the intercom cut off. Everyone lay back in his or her seats.
After a half an hour in the air, Abby got bored and complained to McGee, who set up a movie and traded with Ziva. Ziva and Tony talked about stupid things, and then Ziva fell asleep on Tony's shoulder. Tony fell asleep soon after.
Abby looked behind her noticing that it had become unusually quiet. When she saw this she nudged McGee. McGee grinned like a kid on Christmas morning. And together they said one word: "Blackmail." Abby and McGee each took a few pictures. Then the plane began dropping altitude. Abby stared out the window into the wide expanse of white with speckles of buildings.
45 minutes later (I don't travel much so didn't quite know how to write in the airport);).
Everyone stood out on the curb of the waiting area. Abby was sporting a long, black coat. Ziva had a purple coat. McGee had a black one like he normally wore. Gibbs just wore his sport coat. And Tony was trying to be tough and just wear a sweatshirt. Ziva was shivering, but only Tony noticed, well Gibbs noticed, but let the younger man deal with it.
"Ziva, are you cold?"
"Well, Tony, what do you think? It is freezing here."
"Yes! I have found our ninja's weakness. Ow! Zee-vah, what was that for?"
"Tony, I grew up in a desert."
"Right, knew that." Tony pulled Ziva close to him. It felt good to have her warmth.
Just then a big black SUV pulled up and a smiling man stepped out. "Hi! I'm Stuart Scott. My boss sent me."
"Hey. I'm Tony DiNozzo."
"Officer Ziva David."
"Tim McGee."
"Gibbs."
"Abby Scuito! So nice to meet you!" Abby jumped up and down.
"Abby Scuito?"
"Yep, that's me."
"Oh I know why that sounds familiar! Our forensic scientist Maddy McQue wouldn't stop talking about you. Poor O'Mara is down there with her."
"O'Mara?" Tony asked, puzzled.
"Yeah little Probie. Just joined NCIS a year or 2 ago. Well the bossman is waiting and he does not like to do that for sure." Stuart ushered them into the car.
"So, Scott, what's the Midwest branch of NCIS like?" Gibbs asked trying to weasel information out of the young man.
"I really like it. The team is in general really young. They are all special in their own way, but you gotta meet 'em to understand it."
"How long does it take to get to your HQ?" Abby asked bouncing up and down in her seat.
"10 minutes. So anyone watch the Ohio Nebraska game?"
"Of course dude. Can't believe Nebraska won! They need me back on the team."
"Tony you played at Ohio?"
"Yeah."
"Oh. I played for Nebraska. Huskers All The Way!" Tony and Stuart argued about football the whole way, leaving the others feeling exhausted. "We're here!" Stuart exclaimed as they pulled up to a newer building.
"Nice place, husker."
"Just leave your bags in the car if you want. Come on they're waiting for you guys." Stuart led them in to an office that was very familiar. The walls were orange and everything else the same.
Tony gasped as he saw a brown haired woman sitting at a desk. All he saw was the back of her head and it looked very familiar. "Kate…?" The woman turned around. It wasn't Kate but it definitely a relative of hers. She had blue/green/gray eyes, not brown. And tan skin.
"No, my name is Bia."
"Did you know a Kate Todd?"
"Yeah. My name's Bia Todd. She's my aunt. Her oldest brother's kid. That would be me." She smirked.
"She was your aunt." Gibbs told her.
"Was?"
"She was killed 2 years ago in the line of duty." Tony said solemnly.
"Oh my god." Bia's eyes watered. Then she began to be angry. "Why did no one tell me? Why? She was like an older sister to me. That's why I hated it here, because she wasn't here and I wanted to be with her and like her. That's why I became an agent. How did it happen?"
"Shot by a sniper." Gibbs said. "She died a heroes death."
Bia wiped a tear away and stood up and shook her head. "Well okay then, what are your names?"
"Todd, Scott! What are ya doing standing around?" A Latino man yelled from the elevator.
"Umm, well boss… the DC team's here." Scott said indicating the team.
"Right. Justin Ignacio Silva. Call me Nacho everyone does." Nacho noticed Tony smirking. "Hey you with the spiky hair. Uh huh you. Don' t even bother with the jokes cause this genius here has already done it." He jabbed a finger at Stuart, who smiled and bowed, while Bia rolled her eyes.
"Right. Tony DiNozzo."
"Abby Scuito."
"Tim McGee."
"Hola, Ziva David."
"Gibbs."
"Stuart! Where's O'Mara?"
"Um, I think he went out for lunch with Kendall." Stuart mumbled.
"¡Dios mio! (Good God) That girl will be the end of me. And we've only been here 3 weeks." Just then the elevator dinged open. A man and a woman came running out.
"Hey boss!" The man yelled. He had short brown hair and his face was covered in freckles.
"Jack, introduce your self to the DC team."
"Hey, I'm Jack O'Mara." He waved.
"Hey, Kendall Kowalski!" Kendall was tall, blonde and seemed as if she smiled a lot.
"Hi! I'm Abby Scuito! This is Tony DiNozzo, Tim McGee, Ziva David and Gibbs. Is Maddy here?"
"Here why don't we take you down to her lab. I'm sure everyone would be glad to join us." Bia said with a glare. They all obliged. Everyone jammed into the elevator.
"Bia, how are you tan in the middle of winter?" Tony asked, also receiving an elbow from Ziva.
"My mom's Brazilian. Full name's Beatriz Isabela Todd. That's why I'm so tan."
"Do you speak Portuguese?" Ziva asked.
"Yup."
"I speak the basics." Ziva said.
"So Kendall, what do you do around here?" McGee asked.
"Umm, I keep them on track, I'm in charge sort of, unofficially." She grinned. Then the door dinged open. Abby sprinted into the lab ahead of them.
The lab was covered in movies posters from assorted sci-fi movies. A small woman stood with her back turned to them. Bia signaled for them to be quiet, and she ran forward and jabbed her sides. Maddy slowly turned.
"Bia, that is never going to work, you know that right?"
"Sure. Freaky Vulcan."
Abby ran forward. "Maddy! I've missed you so much!" The pair jumped around.
"McHobbit! How many coffees have you had today?" Bia yelled over the squeals.
"I dunno 6,7, maybe 8." Maddy shrugged.
"Oh meu dues. (Oh my god) You, my smallish freak, are special." Ziva and Nacho smirked, being the only ones able to understand the young woman's exclamation.
"Maddy, meet my team. Ziva, Tony, Tim, and bossman, Gibbs!" Everyone waved. Tony looked closer at Maddy.
Maddy was maybe 5 foot 2. She was wearing jeans and a shirt that read: 'Stun? I'm setting mine to kill!'
"Live Long and Prosper. I like the shirt." Tony signed to Maddy.
"Live, Long and Prosper! Oh, Tony you have no idea! Maddy is the ultimate trekkie/hobbit/hitchhiker/Jedi whatever you call her." Abby exclaimed. "She is also a ninja."
"Well maybe not a ninja." Maddy said.
"Well Maddy, I hope you know we have our own ninja here, Ziva." Tony said.
"Tony, what is your thing with calling me a ninja?"
"I dunno, possibly because you are!"
"Tony, do you have a death wish?"
"What are you going to kill me with?"
"Ooo, here's a light saber." Kendall said, handing Ziva the plastic model.
"Light saber?"
"Zee-vah, it's an imaginary weapon from an amazingly geeky movie…Ow!" 3 different people, Maddy, Bia and Abby, punched Tony in the arm. Maddy gave Tony a hand gesture that only Bia got.
"Maddy! When are they all…Ooo, there here! Yay! Yay! I'm Amanda King, the ME!" A blonde woman ran bouncing around. "Call me Mandy!" Everyone introduced himself or herself for hopefully the last time.
"Hey. Hey! HEY! Just wondering why we dragged our butts down here in the first place?" Gibbs yelled.
"Umm, well the guy killed, was part of a top secret project and it may have been leaked. But we won't start working till tomorrow as the FBI needs to verify some crap." Nacho explained.
A/N: YEA! I hope you like it and reviews are generally enjoyed. I will probably be posting more as I am grounded from watching NCIS *sob *. I hope you like the part with Kate's niece. The older brother would be like 10 years older than her. Again, would like to thank my friends who put up with me and inspire me! I live in MN, so expect some actual places next chapter! Lots of Love, review lots and smile, Smallish Ninja Hobbit
Quote of the Day:
Tony: Oh goody, double jeopardy.
McGee: Oh jeez.
Ducky: Oh dear.
Jenny: Oh crap.