TAKE A BITE OUT OF PRANKING
By peppe1951
Summary: Tony finds out the hard way that pranking isn't always a funny thing. Warning: Discussion of the disciplining of an adult. Don't like? Don't read! Disclaimer: NCIS belongs to CBS.
Chapter 1
"Jethro?"
"Yes, Ducky?" replied Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
"Have you punished Anthony recently," the ME asked while at a crime scene.
"No…why?" asked Gibbs.
"It looks like someone has…just watch him for a while and you will see what I mean," replied Ducky as he turned his attention back to the body he was investigating.
Gibbs looked at his senior agent a bit closer and soon saw what Ducky had. Tony was walking as if his butt had recently had a close encounter with his belt or paddle. He winced as he walked, well in reality limped around the scene taking pictures at different angles.
"DiNozzo!" he barked and motioned for Tony to join him.
Tony stopped what he was doing and moved as fast as he could to Gibbs' side.
"Yes, boss?"
"Why are you limping?" Gibbs asked bluntly and to the point.
"Oh, that…it's just an old football injury; sometimes the weather aggravates it," lied Tony with a straight face.
Gibbs nodded at his explanation…the weather did the same with his knees, too. "Okay…have you finished taking pictures?"
"Yes."
"McGee!"
"Yes, boss," replied Tim as he jogged over.
"Do we have an address for Pvt. Morgan?" Private Morgan had been the dead body they had been called out on.
"Yes," replied McGee as he handed over the address he had found from his laptop.
Gibbs glanced at the address before handing it to Tony with the orders, "Check this out and take Ziva with you."
"On it, boss?" replied Tony as he took the paper with the address written on it and collecting Ziva on the way limped to their vehicle.
It wasn't until Ziva and Tony had returned with the evidence they had collected from Pvt. Morgan's apartment that Gibbs realized that DiNozzo had lied to him earlier; when he walked by Tony's desk just as his agent was sitting down.
He had just returned from a coffee run when DiNozzo sat and heard for himself the muffled gasped on pain erupting from Tony's mouth. Gibbs looked immediately at Tony and saw the pain etched upon his agent's face and knew that this wasn't some resilient pain left over from an old football injury.
"DiNozzo! What happened and don't tell me that it is from an old football injury…that lie won't work again!" barked Gibbs in anger mixed with concern.
Tony gave Tim a quick glance that Gibbs recognized as a plea for silence and knew that whatever happened to his senior agent McGee was either party to or had direct information on it and he would get to the bottom of it ASAP.
"DINOZZO! MCGEE!" barked Gibbs, "with me," he added as he walked quickly to the elevator with all confidence that they would be right behind him.
The two agents scrambled to get in the elevator with their pissed and overly concerned boss before the elevator doors closed and was greeted by a tense silence that permeated the elevator until they reached the bottom floor when Tony began to protest.
"Boss; I'm fine. I don't need to be examined by Ducky!"
Gibbs turned a deaf ear to Tony's complaints and stood aside allowing his two agents to precede him into Autopsy with Tony protesting the whole way.
"DUCK! I need you to examine DiNozzo!," ordered Gibbs without explanation catching the ME just as he was about to cut into Pvt. Morgan.