(A woman huddled against a man looking down at a hand uncovered from the beach.)
The salty pacific wind blew upon silhouettes of lovers walking hand in hand giddy with first love. One trips pulling the other down to the white beach sand. Laughing, lying upon one another. One sees a hand with a ring just peaking from its hidden place beneath grains of sand. Shrieking, they scramble to stand as if they were burnt from the setting sun.
(intro.)
(Gibbs looking pissed. Tony and Ziva behind him, looking surprised.)
Ding! "Argh! Tony that is not how it happened at all." Agent McGee said walking away from Tony who was grinning like he just won something important. "Oh come on, Probie. Who was that delicious young thing I saw you with Saturday night?" Tony continued as they walked to their respected desks.
"What is Tony babbling about now McGee?" Agent David asked looking up from the mountains of paper scattering her desk. McGee looked over at her. "Tony happened to see me out on the town this past weekend and wants to know who I was with. And I happen to think it's not his business."
"Come on Probie! We're co-workers and I need to know who would find your computer geek speak that interesting. Cause seriously, she needs to get her head examined" Tony said.
"I happen to find your computer knowledge very useful McGee. But I thought you and Abby were an item?" Ziva asked. "Well, me and Abby. I don't know, we're more than buddies and she flirts with me. But I can't seem to get past that stage with her, so I happen to have found somebody else." McGee answered.
From up above Gibbs watched his team work through their morning ritual of playful banter. He was about to make his move to disrupt them when Director Shepard tapped him on his shoulder motioning him to follow her to M.T.A.C. control.
"Jethro, I need your team on a special case" said Director Shepard. In the low light of the control room it took a moment for Gibbs eyes to adjust before he was able to make eye contact. "We're looking in to that green card for sailor case right now. Don't you have another team that could handle your new case?" Gibbs replied.
Director Shepard rolled her eyes only Agent Gibbs gave her back talk when she asked something of him. "Gibbs, you can hand your green card case off to Martian's group. A Navy admiral was found dead and buried on a beach outside of Pearl Harbor. Being that this is a high profile case I need your team to handle it" She replied. Gibbs gave her a sideways smile and asked. "Ok, that's what the pentagon told you. Now what's the real reason."
Those eyes got her every time. Like deep pools of mercury they absorbed all her diplomacy and got right to the heart of the matter. "Jethro, the body was rear Admiral Prince. He helped guide me to where I am today. The local NCIS agent in charge believes a slave trade was happening under his watch and he was killed for it. I know him Gibbs, he wouldn't be involved in something like this. And I need somebody I can trust to prove that" Shepard said.
Gibbs took a swig from his coffee cup before answering. "Jenny, I'll do it. But I'll be going after the truth. So if he is guilty, I prove that too."
"Thank you Jethro" Shepard replied.
Gibbs moved in close to her and whispered. "Don't thank me yet, I know those NCIS agents won't like me taking over their case. You better be ready for complaining on their part." Jenny smiled as she watched Jethro Gibbs throw away his empty coffee like a misused children's toy.
"So like I was saying, Ziva. McGee here needs to let me in on who he is dating. The brotherhood of man deems it necessary" Tony said.
"I've never heard of this brotherhood Tony" Ziva answered. Tony threw his hands in the air like a referee signaling a field goal. "That's cause you're a woman Ziva" Tony said.
"That she is DiNozzo" Gibbs said as he slapped him on the back of his head. "Ah, boss what I was saying to Agent David was…" Tony started "Pack up we leave for Pearl in 1 hour" Gibbs interrupted. "Pearl boss? As in Hawaii?" Tony inquired.
"Yes Tony, now move out!" Gibbs said. He walked briskly past them towards autopsy.
"Ducky! I'll be sending you a corpse air mailed from Pearl. I'll need a full work up ASAP." Gibbs stated as he entered sterile environment of autopsy. Dr Mallard looked back at Gibbs as he latched the door shut on one of the crypts. "Ah Jethro, Quite right I'll be expecting it soon then. Did you know the term ASAP comes from the English version for the Boston tea party. It was the knowledge at the time that since the tea had been packaged in wooden crates and sealed with a form of wax to prevent the salt air from ruining the tea on its long journey from the home land. That the Captain first ordered the words as soon as possible to chase down the people that had thrown the tea over in the first place and not actually worried about the tea itself."
Gibbs patted Dr. Mallard on the back. "I have to get going to Hawaii Ducky. Just make sure the idiots that touched the body didn't ruin all the evidence." Gibbs turned back around and walked out leaving Ducky to recall a time that he gain knowledge from a student that a turned a closed case back opening regards to evidence tampering.
The warm tropical breeze crested the team as they exited the airport. "Sir we've been expecting your team please follow me" a marine guard said. Tony looked around quickly before entered the waiting hummer. "What's the matter Tony?" Ziva asked. Tony looked back at her disappointed "I didn't even get laid" he replied. McGee just shook his head.
The trip form the airport was uneventful and before long Gibbs and his team were being issued on to the base. "Please take us to where you have the evidence stored for the Admiral's case." Gibbs told the marine driver. They pulled up to a plain looking building. If it wasn't for the bold red-cross over the door frame, Tony wouldn't even known this was the medical center.
"Agent Gibbs, DiNozzo, David and McGee to see the head med-tech" Gibbs said. "That would be me. Dr. Vaughn." A man with salt and pepper hair said. As he stuck out his hand, that looked like old leather from being out in the sun to long.
"I need you to send the body of Admiral Prince to my lab in D.C." Gibbs stated taking the man's hand in a firm handshake.
"I'm sorry; the family requested his body to be cremated. It was carried out just yesterday. I'm afraid you're too late" Replied Dr. Vaughn.
This was going to be a trickery case than first imagined Gibbs thought.
(Gibbs looking pissed. Tony and Ziva behind him, looking surprised.)