Dead Not Gone
"Your old partner, Kate, she was pretty, yes?" Ziva asked quizzically as she settled into her chair.
"Yeah I guess she was, but w-why are you asking that anyway?" Tony finished, a little bit flustered.
"Well you are a man, and you seem to notice these things, I would think that that would be the case, even with a partner, yes?" Ziva strolled casually up to Tony's desk and perched on its edge.
"Ziva what do you want me to say? She was really pretty but she's dead now, I don't have a chance with a dead girl" Tony stood and walked by Ziva, just close enough that she could see his eyes watering.
"Now this is not the usual Tony" She murmured to his stapler which she was absent mindedly turning over and over in her hands. The only thing I got from this was that Tony has some bottled up issues, thought Ziva, perhaps I ought to as someone a bit more…insightful.
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"Hello my dear" said Ducky, not turning away from the body of a young woman who had received a bullet through her heart. "Did Jethro send you for my autopsy report? I'm afraid you shall have to return empty handed I-"
"Ducky, I am not here for Gibbs, I-I have a question for you." Said Ziva walking over to stand beside the medical examiner. "Where is Palmer?"
"Up in Abigail's lab and dawdling for far too long, I shall have to call up and-"
"No don't," Said Ziva abruptly stopping Ducky in his tracks half way to the phone. "Can we keep this between us?"
"Well of course my dear, but you'll first have to tell me what 'this' is."
"I meant this conversation. I have a question for you."
"Yes we have established that my dear, please go right ahead and ask."
"What was Special Agent Todd, like Ducky?"
"Ahh Kaitlyn… She was very responsible, very smart. She almost never took advantage of this, but I believe that if she wished to, she could have read anybody. She had the ability to read feelings as if they were a book, quite an admirable talent indeed." Ducky said still examining the corpse.
"And she was funny, yes?"
"At times I suppose. Her relationship with agent DiNozzo was quite comical, they acted like children at times, sister and brother." Ziva nodded, this sounded familiar.
"Was she the type to seek revenge?" Ziva asked,
"Well dear I suppose that depends, as it would with anybody, but Officer David, she was a very nice young lady and I highly doubt she wiuld have done anything rash had it not been warranted."
"I see, thank you doctor."
"Of course." Ducky replied turning to the corpse momentarily, "And Ziva dear,"
"Yes doctor?" Ziva responded turning away from the door.
"May I ask what this was about?"
"No I'm sorry doctor."
"I see, please let me know if I can help with something, you do not seem yourself today."
"I will doctor." With that Ziva strode out of autopsy.