We all return to NCIS squad room, but unlike early there is no laughter or joking, we're in mourning. I want my sister back, I want to start over, I don't know who to live without her. I am sitting on the morgue table next to my sister.
"Kate, you can't be dead. I need you," I cry as there is a ding in the background but I can't hear it. All I can her is Kate's body hitting the ground and her body, not moving. Never moving, not ever again.
The morgue is dark, but there is light entering from the hallway outside, I never bothered turning the light on, I didn't even releaser that it is dark. My fear leaving me in my shocked state, just looking at the bag carrying my sister, my best and lonely friend. Ducky enters the room and hangs up his umbrella, with his coat and hat. The door hiss closed behind. Ducky moves to the slab and opens the body bag on it, without even seeing me as he opens Kate's bag. She looks like she's sleeping because I closed her eyes, she need them closed. He turns on the light about her and just gazes at her body for a moment. A look of pain and sorry on his face. When he looks away with a sigh, he sees me sitting there looking at my big sister, the only family that clam's me.
"Oh, Caitlin. I am so sorry," Ducky say to her before looking at me and saying, "Alice you shouldn't be here. Not for this."
"She shouldn't be alone. She might need something," I mumble without thinking about it. She needs something, her life back.
"Alice, head up to the squad room. You don't want to be here for this," Ducky say to me softly while coming to stand in front of me.
"She can't be along."
"She won't be. I'll be here until you return with Ari's body," Ducky promise which makes me get up before I do something I have never done before, I hug my father. I need someone to hug me, someone with my DNA, Kate is the only one with my DNA that's ever hugged, and I have to change that.
"Want do I do know Ducky?" I cry to my father.
"You live for your sister," Ducky informs me before leading me out of autopsy.
"Some birthday," I mumble. Kate dies and it's my birthday, she was going to make me her famous cake, a cake I'll never eat again. Along with her bad cooking, she might not be able to cook, she can bake.
"Go on," Ducky orders me while calling the elevator and placing me on it while he returns to my sister.
I arrive to the squad room to see Gibbs sitting alone in the dark, just like I was. I quickly walk over to him, he doesn't look up when I arrive but he does grab my hand. I almost lean all my wait on his shoulder when the elevator door opens showing McGee and Tony leaving and walking to us. Both of them are soaking wet making me look sadly, what a great weather, we're in mourning and it's raining. That's too fitting, but I guess it doesn't just happen in the movies.
"Found Ari's sniper's nest, boss," Tony reports more businesslike then I have ever seen him.
"Roof of the abandoned office building to the east," McGee adds to the report while Tony takes the evidence back from his inner jacket pocket, showing three bullet casings.
"Didn't police his brass," DiNozzo say as Gibbs gets up and circus's his desk leaving me on my own. He takes on of the evidence bag from Tony and holds it under his desk lamp.
"They're Lapua. 308s," McGee informs Gibbs making Tony give him a look, "I… I didn't mean that you couldn't see that, boss."
"I can't, without my glasses," Gibbs admits with a shrug. Making Tony and McGee exchange looks, that's not Gibbs, Gibbs continues, "Lapuas. Match-grade sniper ammo. You guys find any bullets?"
"Uh, none that matched the casing. I left three guys on the roof searching," Tony reports but after a moment of silence Tony adds, "McGee and I'll get back to the roof, boss."
"Tony, you're soaking wet. Go put some dry clothes on," Gibbs orders Tony who flinches back when Gibbs hands him the evidence, he than pats ton on the back, making Tony l\stare at Gibbs in disbelief and then exchange another look with McGee.
"Ari's rooftop wasn't much higher than ours," Gibbs states while remembering Kate's death, "Rooflines behind where lower. No telling how far a full metal jacket bullet would go after killing Kate."
"How's he know it was a full metal jacket?" McGee asks Tony while I lean on Gibbs desk, she's really gone. This isn't a dream, why couldn't it be a dream?
"Didn't you see Kate?" Tony ask him in surprise.
"I didn't want to."
"Her head was intact."
"So… she didn't look bad?"
No. no, not at all, probie. In fact a little putty right here," Tony comments before tapping where Kate was shot but on McGee before continuing, "and she'll be good as new. Course, she was having a bad hair day, though, right back here, 'cause a full metal jacket'll put a hold the size of a grapefruit tight about there," Tony states before smacking McGee in the back of the head.
"Tony. Please."
"I'm sorry, kid," Tony says while patting McGee on the shoulder.
"Three rounds? Only one hit?" Gibbs asks us.
"He must've popped off a couple of rounds while you were weaving across the roof."
"I was standing still when Kate was shot."
"McGee lasered the distance at nearly 600 meters."
"572," McGee corrects Tony.
"Slight shift in the wind, he misses you, he hits Kate," Tony attempts but I think back to the moment Kate's life is deaded. Her hair isn't moving, not at all.
"There was no wind," I state making them looking at me.
"What're you saying, he was aiming at Kate? You're the one he wants to kill!" Tony asks me before turning to Gibbs for the finial moment.
"Ari had a thing for Kate," McGee exclaims.
"What are you talking about?"
"She told me that he was always coming on to her. in autopsy, when he kidnapped her and let her go."
"She never told me that."
"Gee, what a surprise."
"What?" Tony snaps at McGee before hitting him in the back of the head again, "Huh?"
"Don't do that, Tony," Gibbs snaps at Tony making Tony look confused while Gibbs looks at the briefcase that McGee's controller was in. Gibbs asks, "When was this hit, Tim?"
"When I was pinned down."
"Ari have a shot at it?" I ask him while finally moving away from Gibbs desk to Gibbs where I grab his hand again.
"Our car was between the controller and the terrorist. There was no way he could have hit it. Boss, I'm… I'm sorry, I should have realized it was Ari," McGee exclaims in shame.
"Why didn't he pop McGee?" Tony asks making me glare at him.
"Isn't one person enough for you?" I snap at Tony. Kate's dead and all he cares about is why McGee's not dead.
"Oh, thanks, Tony," McGee says hurt.
"All I'm saying is, you're sizable target. The controller isn't," Tony defends himself.
"You saying I'm fat?"
"No. I mean, maybe a little around the waist, under the chin."
"He didn't have an angle on Tim," Gibbs cuts in.
"Wow. You own that shooter from the warehouse a thank you. He saved your life."
"The bullet entered here. Could've ricocheted into the car."
"Well, I'll get on it," McGee exclaims.
"Abby should be here by now. Tony, see what you can pull off that brass," Gibbs orders Tony before handing Tony the evidence back before he release my hand and walks away, but calls back to us, "I'm going for coffee. Can I'll buy you come?" making Tony and McGee look after him in
"No," Tony answers him.
"Thanks," McGee also answers.
"Please," I state while looking at Kate's desk, I want my sister back.
"That's a first," Tony mumbles once Gibbs has left..
"He called me 'Tim,'" McGee states in surprise.
"He patted my back."
"It's kind of nice."
"Nice? I don't want nice. It's not Gibbs, if he's nice," Tony exclaims before Tony and I walk away from McGee towards the back elevator.
"I want Kate," I mumble again, I'll give anything, even my own life for my sister back.
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Tony and I walk into the lab to see Abby sitting at her computer with black lipstick, pigtails and laughing at nothing.
"Abby," Tony calls to her making her stop laughing and turn to look at us."
"Hey, Tony, Alice," Abby exclaims.
"You okay?"
"I will be, soon as I tie up my pigtails. There. What can I do for you?" Abby ask but we just stare at her, "What?"
"You're weirder than Gibbs."
"How so?"
"He offered to get us coffee," I mumble making Abby look surprised.
"He's being nice," Tony answers her but that one's not so surprising.
"Gibbs is always nice," Abby exclaims.
"To you and Alice and Ducky, maybe, to me…. Growls at, smacks on the head."
"Which makes you feel wanted."
"Yeah."
"What d'ya got for me?" Abby asks making Tony hand Abby the evidence with the shell casing the killed Kate.
".308 casing from Ari's sniper's nest."
"You would have to give me the most popular calibre in the world."
"Well, hey, I just found them. Can you tell what kind of gun he used?"
"A .308," Abby answer with an eye roll.
"Abby. What model? We need to know so we can kill Ari," I beg of her softly, trying not to cry again.
"You don't know?"
"Would I be asking?"
"Well, how'm I supposed to know?"
"Because you're the firearms expert," Tony say to her.
"That I am," Abby agrees with putting on latex gloves, "And when I'm done, I will tell you: the propellant, the primer, the percentage of nickel and copper in the brass, whether or not all three rounds were fired from the same weapon, which you assume, but I can prove or disprove. I will tell you who manufactured the ammo, the batch number, and perhaps where it was sold. I will also, with some degree of accuracy, tell you if it was fired from a lever action, a bolt action, a semi-automatic, or an automatic weapon. However, there is no way in hell I can tell which of the 87 different .308 models fired those rounds."
"The rounds are Lapua."
"What?"
"Lapua made the ammo. Logo's on the round."
"Tony, I'm gonna miss her," Abby cries making me loose it and cry too. Tony pulls us both into a hug as we cry.
"Me, too," Tony agrees.
"I want my sister back," I mumble as a bullet shatters the glass on the window. Tony pushes us both to the ground while laying on Abby while I curling up into a ball on the floor.
"You hit?" DiNozzo asks us.
"No. you're heavy," Abby stains making Tony get off her while waiting me for an answer.
"Why is he doing this?" I cry to him.
"Sorry," Tony apologize to Abby while pulling her against the wall then coming back to get me and pull me over too.
"God, no wonder you're so heavy. Tony, you're all muscle," Abby exclaims while feeling his leg. He pulls his gun out, ready if he needs it.
"Abby, shh9!"
"Packing a nice body, too."
"Hey, is this how you deal with getting shot at?"
"I don't know, it's my first time."
"Abby!" Gibbs hisses.
"Boss, down!" Tony calls out before Gibbs turning off all the lights in the lab before moving over to us where he sees me curled up against the wall. He comes over while placing his arms around both Abby and me.
"You okay?" Gibbs asks Abby.
"Yeah," Abby answer him.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah," I mumble into Gibbs chest where I bury my face.
"Close off Anacostia Park between the bridges. It's a crime scene," Gibbs orders Tony who nodes while getting up making Gibbs grab his leg and hiss, "Hey! What if he has a night-vision scope?"
"That's a good point, boss," Tony says before crawling out of the lab as I grab a handful of Gibbs shirt.
"I'll get you bulletproof glass," Gibbs promise Abby while picking glass out of her hair with the arm around her.
"There's no such thing, Gibbs," Abby informs him.
"Oaky. Bullet-resistant glass."
"Ari didn't shoot at you and hit Kate by mistake, did he? He's after me now."
"I was walking by that window when he fired."
"You're just saying that to make me feel safe."
"I'll keep you safe, Abby. Both of you," Gibbs promises us before kissing our heads before adding, "I promise."
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"Are you sure you want to go in here?" Gibbs ask me while pulling me into his arms in the elevator.
"I need too. I… I need," I stumble over my words but Gibbs gets it.
"If you need to leave. Just do it," I softly orders me making node.
"Ari fired into Abby's lab," Gibbs informs Ducky as we walk into autopsy and he cover's Kate's face.
"Good lord," Ducky exclaims in surprise.
"It had to come from across the river, from Anacostia Park."
"Was Abigail hurt?"
"No, she's scared," I answer him softly.
"Tony's with her," Gibbs adds.
"In the lab?" Ducky asks while walking to the other end of autopsy.
"In the squad room, writing up an incident report," Gibbs reports while I walk over to my sister and gently pull her cover back so I can see her face, it might be the last time and I don't want to forget what she looks like. Gibbs says to Ducky, "You should've brought in another ME, Duck."
"Couldn't," Ducky states while returning with a bottle of alcohol before continuing, "Not for Caitlin," He then pours the spirit into two glasses.
"I've lost men in combat. You hope you won't, you know you will."
"This is different."
"But it shouldn't be. Kate was an agent. She knew she had to lay her life on the line," Gibbs snaps making me whimper, my sister did just that and it's wrong. Ducky goes to cut Gibbs off but Gibbs continues, "But you're right. It's different."
Ducky and Gibbs continue to talk but I just can't listen, I just focus on my sister. I wonder what she would say if she was alive, or if we would be at home, eating cake and watching TV. Or talking about boys.
Gibbs walks over to me once he is finished talking to Ducky, he watches me have to stop myself from rubbing my sister's hair, smoothing it out. I want to touch her but if I do, she is really dead then.
"Come on," Gibbs says softly to while pulling me into the side of his body. Once I am against his body, he leads me out of autopsy and back into the elevator, he hits the button for the garage to see if McGee has found our missing bullet, or at least one of them. Once the doors are closed he asks me, "Are you okay?"
"She's really done. I want my sister back," I whimper trying not to cry but when Gibbs pulls me into his arms, I begin crying in pain.
"It'll be alright. We'll take it one day at a time," Gibbs promises me.
"You promise?" I mumble, what if he doesn't like me anymore? What if he breaks up with me?
"I promise," Gibbs promises before we leave the elevator to see McGee staring at Abby's ass as she leans in the car that McGee hide behind when he was shot at by Ari.
"Oh! I found another one!" Abby exclaims as we stop behind McGee, looking over his shoulder.
"Boss, uh, we-we-we found a .308 slug," McGee stutters out after spinning around when he feels Gibbs presence behind him.
"Two. They were plugged in the trunk," Abby reports while holding the second bullet in her tweezers making McGee get another jar for her to drop it into.
"These fired by that dirt bag in the warehouse?" Gibbs asks while looking at the bullets.
"Yes. Those I found in the right side of the car," Abby explains while pointing to the holes in the car making Gibbs move over to it. Abby continues, ".9, mil. Slugs."
"Ari missed with his first shot, hit the controller with the second," McGee explains as Gibbs runs his finger around a large hole in the car's side.
"Where were you before you took cover?" I ask McGee.
"Uh, right here," McGee informs us while squatting down to demonstrate where the bullet hole is.
"Tony's right. You do own that terrorist a thank you," Gibbs says making McGee look at the hole and then away from the car in fear. He looks at the hole again before standing up.
"Gibbs you can't say that," I state at him.
"What?"
"Tony's right. Last time you said that Kate died. Those words are cursed."
"He didn't police his brass again. Metro PD found a .308 casing in the park next to tire tracks," Tony reports while walking over to us.
"And?" Gibbs asks him.
"Nothing. I was waiting for you to tell me to tell them to bring the evidence here ASAP."
"What, I have to tell you that DiNozzo?"
"You always do."
"Tell Metro PD to…"
"Already did, boss," Tony cuts Gibbs off making him give him a dirty look and head to the elevator, "Oh, and by the way, the director wants to see you up at MTAC."
"Why are you baiting Gibbs?" Abby demands of Tony angrily.
"Trying to get him to stop being nice."
"I like him nice," McGee comments making Abby and Tony give him a look for a moment before hitting on the head together.
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"Tony. Where are we?" Gibbs asks as he walks into the squad room with a red head. And the sight of her makes me feel very unconfutable, is he going to leave me. She is closure to his age than I am, so has more in commune with him that I came.
"McGee and Abby are working firearms analysis. I'm matching tire tracks to vehicles," Tony reports while looking at the women over the photograph he is looking at.
"No one is to leave the building. McGee's on protection detail with Abby. I'll be back in an hour," Gibbs orders before leaving with the women. Tony watches over his desk, staring at the women's legs.
"Really Tony?" I ask him while getting up.
"Where are you going?" Tony asks me.
"Coffee," I answer making Tony get up to go with me, but I add, "From the kitchen down the hall." Once I say that Tony relaxes and sits back down at his desk as I walk to the kitchen.
"I'm dead, and this is your first coffee," Kate mumbles from her spot on the kitchen table as I make my coffee.
"What's that mater?" I mumble.
"Normally you'd be on your fifth or so. You can't put your life on hold because of me, or I'll come back and kill you."
"How? You're dead."
"I'll destroy your belt again."
"You do that and I deface your grave."
"There's the Alice I love," Kate says before disappearing in front of me, leaving me with a sad, small smile.
"I love you too, Kate," I mumble while taking the two coffee's I made. I walk back to the squad room to see an unknown women with a visitor badge at McGee's desk, and for some reason, I am glad it's not Kate's desk.
"You can't help because I'm here to stop special agent Gibbs from killing a mossed officer," She says with a heavy Israeli accent.
"Ari Haswari?" Tony asks her.
"Yes."
"I'd wish you luck, but I want the bastard dead, too," Tony whispers to her as I walk in placing Tony's coffee on his desk.
"And I will kill him, he killed our agent," I state making her look at me.
"Thanks," Tony says while sipping his coffee.
"Who are you?" I demands of the second unknown women in half an hour.
"Ziva David. Mossad. Who are you?" Ziva asks me.
"Alice. Mossad, so you're the fucking morons who worked with the FBI to kill my sister? Lovely. Ari dies, and if you try to stop us, you die," I promise her before I move over to Gibbs desk where I have placed a photo of Kate and me, at the hospital. I am sleeping and she is reading a book with a smile on her face, it's a great photo of her.
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"You're not a wealthy family," Ziva say to Tony who is working the hundreds of papers on his desk.
"Really," Tony asks Ziva in fake surprise.
"Born and raised on the east coast. New England boarding school. Spent some time in the Midwest and Philadelphia."
"How would you know that?"
"Because she's Ari's handler and he needs to know who to kill us, easily. Meaning everything they can get their hands on about our life," I explain to Tony making Ziva glare at me. She is pissing me off, I want her gone.
An elevator dings as Ziva gives Tony a secretively smile but I just glare at her, she helped Ari kill my sister.
"Shalom, Jen," Ziva greets the red head with Gibbs.
"Shalom," Jen says to Ziva before kissing each other cheeks.
"Did I miss it?"
"Yes, you did, but we didn't," Jen answers Ziva making Tony and I go over to Gibbs.
"You first," Gibbs orders.
"Ziva David, mossed. She's here to stop you from whacking Ari. Yours?" Tony asks.
"Gibbs, this is Ari's handler. She profiled Tony. She knows his whole life, including his schooling. If she known's Tony, she known's all of ours too. If she does so does Ari," I whisper to Gibbs as I curl up into his arms.
"Director Jenny Shepard. Same mission," Gibbs informs us while rubbing my hair.
"Which agency?" Tony ask Tony.
"Ours," Gibbs answers making Tony laugh thinking Gibbs' joking but he's not.
"Yeah?"
"Special Agent Gibbs, Ziva David, Mossad," Shepard induces the bastard's handler.
"Ziva. Director Shepard has spoken often of you," Ziva says to Gibbs.
"Really?" Gibbs states.
"Ziva and I worked anti-terrorist ops since 9-11. You saw one today in MTAC," Shepard explains making me scuff and roll my eyes, how many terrorist have we been up to, at least half a dozen, their doing such a great job.
"That was yours?"
"I only acquired the Intel," Ziva answers Gibbs ask her phone begins ringing making her say, "'Scuse at me." Ziva walks her away with Gibbs watching her, as Tony stares at the new director.
"Yes, I really am the new NCIS Director," Shepard states.
"Yeah," Tony nodes before she leaves giving Tony the view of his arse, "Wow." Gibbs smacks Tony on the back of the head while walking off for the moment, "Ow… good to have you back, boss."
"Miss David; whose get cut off if Ari is not a Mossad Mole, but a terrorist?" Gibbs demands of Ziva once she finishes her call that was in Hebrew.
"Mine, I suppose, since I'm his control officer," Ziva admits making me smirk.
"Ah, they promote control officers young in Mossad."
"They have to. The good ones are dead at your age."
"Do you know how we located Ari's terrorist cell?" I ask her with a smirk.
GPS fix off his encrypted cell phone. He wanted to you know the terrorists' location so you could stop the missile instead of them, which would have necessitated blowing his cover."
"Right. Nope he wanted us in place to kill Kate."
"Only an NSA satellite can GPS an encrypted phone. Ari didn't know I had that asset," Gibbs informs her.
"You give him less credit than he gives you. Who hung up first? You or him?" Ziva ask making me think back to the call, we both hang up, "Ari knows a fix takes only nineteen seconds. When Sharon visited Bush, Ari's Hamas cell kidnapped Agent Todd. Why didn't he kill her instead of freeing her to warn the Secret Service?"
"I don't know. Why don't you arrange a meet and he can tell me?" Gibbs overlaps her when I look like I'm going to cry again and grabbed the back of his shirt tightly in a fist.
"Ari Haswari is a Mossed operative undercover in Hamas. He hasn't turned on us, or you. He didn't kill Agent Todd."
"Gibbs, even if you're right, we owe them proof," Shepard informs Gibbs.
"That's all we ask. Don't kill the wrong man."
"Like Mossed did in Norway?" I ask her innocently.
"That stink cost us dearly," Ziva yells while banging her hands onto Gibbs desk.
"Not as dearly as the Palestinian waiter you killed," Gibbs gloats her.
"Ziva, assure your deputy director that even though Ari Haswari is a suspect, no action will be taken unless we have evidentiary proof," Shepard orders Ziva, breaking the tense standoff, Shepard then turn to Gibbs and orders him, "Proof before action." Gibbs stares at her for a long moment before getting up to walk to the back elevator with us following him.
"I don't like her," I inform Gibbs after the elevator door closes.
"Me too," Gibbs agrees with me. Before turning to Tony, "I want you on Ziva's ass."
"She's not really my type, Boss," Tony comments making Gibbs smack him on the back of the head.
"I never thought I'd hear that," I state before freezing, that's Kate's line. I can't use Kate's line.
"To tail her," Gibbs orders Tony.
"I knew that," Tony mumbles.
"She's been in contact with Ari. That's the only way she could know I hung up on him."
"Ooh. I don't want you to get pissed…"
"I thought you wanted me pissed."
"I did. It was kinda weird when you were being nice. Not that you're not nice, I mean, uh…"
"Will you spit it out, DiNozzo?"
"What if Ziva's right and Ari knew you traced the call? Maybe he wasn't the sniper."
"She is right. Ari wanted me to raid the warehouse. He set me up. And it cost Kate her life," Gibbs informs Tony as we get off the elevator but Tony doesn't.
"IS he a mole or a terrorist?"
"Whatever gets him killed," I state.
"Whatever works to play his game," Gibbs answers him at the same time.
"And if Ziva leads me to Ari?" Tony asks Gibbs.
"Shadow him and call me."
"So you can bring him in?"
"Yeah, so I can bring him in," Gibbs promises when the elevator door closes he adds, "To autopsy."
"The FBI database gave me six weapons whose rifling patterns fit the bullets you recovered," Abby reports while smacking McGee's hand away from the guns. She continues, "I've been able to eliminate all but three: two SWAT weapons, the Tango-51 and Braco-51, and this…"
"My old friend. The marine M3-A1 sniper rifle," Gibbs cuts her off while picking up the gun, reverently and then aims it at a wall.
"It looks sweet the way you hold that, boss," McGee comments, wrongly.
"Sweet?"
"Uh, yeah, it's am expression, it means…"
"Yeah, I know what it means, McGee. You think Ari looked sweet when he shot Kate?" Gibbs demands of McGee while replacing the rifle back with the other two.
"Of course not, boss."
"Uh, my vote is for the Tango or Bravo-51. What d'you think, Gibbs?" Abby asks Gibbs.
"Your test runs show more gouging than Ari's. He was hand-loading and moly-coating," Gibbs states.
"Moly-coating?" McGee asks in confusion.
"Yeah. Molybdenum disulphide. It's a lubricate. It decreases barrel wear and increases accuracy."
"McGee, run a trace on Tango and Bravo-51 sales, last six weeks, tristate area. Check the bravo first," Gibbs orders McGee.
"On it, Boss," McGee agrees before leaving the lab.
"Any prints on the brass?"
"No. is your gut tell you something?"
"Yeah. I need coffee."
"No, Gibbs. Come on. This isn't just another investigation. Todd was your agent, but Kate was my friend, so can you stop it with the John Wayne stare and tell what your gut says?" Abby snaps at Gibbs when he just stares at her for a moment before saying.
"What don't I believe in, Abby?" He overlaps her.
"UFOs, mystics, coincidence, saying you're sorry, excuses, I could go on all night."
"As a marine sniper, I used hand-loaded Lapua .308, boattail, full metal jacket, moly-coated bullets."
"Gibbs," Abby begins after a pause.
"Know what a sniper calls a Bravo-51?"
"No," Abby and I answer him.
"A 'Kate,'" Gibbs explains making my face fall, Ari killed Kate with a Kate. Gibbs grabs my hand to pull me out of the lab, leaving Abby alone.
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Gibbs is sitting at his desk, trying to think of a way to get Ari, while I am sitting on my spot on the ledge behind his desk.
"Jethro. I know it's been a difficult fay for both of us," Shepard says while walking up to Gibbs desk, ignoring me.
"That's what my DI used to say. Never believe him," Gibbs states before she turns to leave, "Jen. You going to dinner with CBC?"
"I am."
"Don't do that interview. Please."
"I'll see if I can delay it a few days."
"Good."
"Good night, Jethro."
"Night," Gibbs mumbles as Shepard calls the elevator to see Ducky already in there.
"Ducky! How nice to see you again!"
"And you. Congratulations," Ducky says to her.
"Going home?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Ducky," Gibbs exclaims before getting up and rushing towards the elevator but the door shuts before we get there.