Jimmy loved the spring. He sighed as he got out of his car at the navy yard. Everything was blooming, well what there was to bloom, there wasn't a whole lot of foliage around NCIS but still, it was a pretty sight. Jimmy Grimaced thinking of the particularly nasty meat puzzle he would have to sort out with Dr. Mallard today. Meat puzzles were his least favorite kind of autopsy to do. They were never easy! Jimmy slapped himself on the back of the head as agent Gibbs liked to do. Of course they were never easy. The killer had intended that. This kind of thinking was exactly what got him the weird looks from the rest of the team, if he could even be considered part of the team. Jimmy was a replacement for their wounded colleague, a reminder how Ari had ripped their team apart. Jimmy sighed. Would he ever fit in? He really had no option but to continue to try.
"Jimmy!" A voice called from behind him. Jimmy turned. "Hey Jimmy! Wait up!" Kate called from behind him as she slipped a pair of heels onto her feet. A grin pasted itself of on Jimmy's face. To see agent Todd in such a state of disarray was a rare sight indeed. Kate was just so, organized, so collected, so beautiful… Jimmy gulped and halted.
"Hey Kate! What's up?" He asked as she caught up to him.
"Not much, you?" Kate returned as they began to walk again.
"Same. Pretty nasty meat puzzle in autopsy." She cringed at the thought at what had happened last time Ducky and Jimmy had had a meat puzzle. "Yeah just what I thought." Jimmy chuckled. Kate cracked a smile.
Now he isn't bad at all, even pretty good company. She thought to herself just as they reached the entrance to NCIS.
"See you later Jimmy." Kate threw him a smile.
"Later Kate." He replied as they parted ways.
Maybe I am part of the team.