Undercover
Disclaimer:
Don't own any of them
Spoilers:
None that I know of
Pairing:
Tony/Kate
Rated:
PG-13
Chapter 1
Gibbs
walked into the office a half an hour late getting smart
remarks
from Tony until Kate silenced him with a look, that's
when
they
both noticed his limping.
"What
happened boss?" Tony asked concerned as he got up to
help
him.
"I
broke a few toes working on my boat last night. And I'm
fine
Tony."
Gibbs waved Tony off and sat at his desk and was about to
reach
for his constantly ringing phone when Kate interrupted him.
"How
did you break your toes working on your boat? And why
were
you
working
on your boat anyways, I thought you had a date last
night?"
Tony's
eyebrows shot up and an evil grin spread across his face.
"Ha
ha
ha boss! I can't wait to hear you explain this one!"
"Don't
hold your breathe. Aren't you two supposed to be
finishing
up
those
reports that were due on my desk two days ago?" Gibbs fixed
them
both with a look and finally was able to reach for his phone
and
get down to business.
Kate
looked across at Tony who was still grinning like a fox. She
could
see the little wheels turning in his mind as he worked out how
Gibbs
broke his toes. "Pigs," she muttered as she turned back
to
her
computer
and began finishing up her report on the last case they had
been
working on. An African-American Marine had been hung outside
his
house by a fellow Marine who came from a long line of the
Ku-
Klux-Klan's.
Kate was still trying to figure out how the Marine
had
gotten
past the psych evaluation. When they picked him up he was
screaming
obscenities about how whites were the chosen ones and that
all
blacks should swing. When she had told him to shut up, he had
started
in on how incompetent women were; Tony had had to hold her
back.
"Hey
Kate," Tony called brining her out of her reverie
"have
you
heard
whether or not he's getting the death penalty?"
"Nope,
I haven't talked to anyone at JAG yet." She smiled
briefly
at
Tony
before getting back to work.
A
few hours later Gibbs was shouting into his phone, making both
Tony
and Kate's heads snap up. "What the hell? Damn, all
right.
I'll
be
right over." Gibbs didn't usually lose his cool, so who
ever
it
was
on the other line had just said something to really get under
his
skin.
"What's
up boss?"
"Nothing
that concerns you yet, I'll be back in a few
hours."
Gibbs
limped
his way up the steps and into the elevator with a scowl on
his
face. It wasn't until the elevator doors were closed that
Kate
felt
safe enough to speak.
"What
the hell was that all about?"
"I
dunno, but Gibbs didn't look to happy. Maybe something
about
an
ex-wife?"
Tony asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Which
one?" Kate replied with an amused grin.
Tony
flashed her one of his mega-watt smiles, "I always knew
I
liked
you.
Hey," he said checking his watch, "you wanna go
grab
some
lunch?
I'm starving."
"Sure,
you want to try that Indian place on 10th street?"
"Sounds
good, you're buying."
Part 2
Gibbs
walked/limped into the office of his old friend Special Agent
Jeffrey
Cunningham with an uneasy feeling. Jeff had first contacted
him
a few months ago to get some ideas about a case he was working
on.
Four couples who had attended a couple's spa in California
had
gone
missing and then had been found dead, the women had been
strangled
and the men had been stabbed. The first couple had been
found
in the woods just outside where the spa's property line
ended.
That
had been six years ago and the case had been considered dead
until
three years later when the second couple had gone missing.
Each
time the police investigated they were hit with dead ends
everywhere
they turned. Neither of the couples knew each other or
had
any enemies. Both were well off but not extremely wealthy. It
seemed
like two separate cases except for the cause of death which
was
the same. Also, the positioning of the bodies was the same.
The
bodies
were placed on their sides facing each other with there eyes
open.
The police were once again at a dead end and had put the cases
on
the back burner, waiting for something new to come up and break
the
case. When the third couple was found a year and a half later,
the
local police had handed the investigation over to the FBI,
hoping
that there resources would be able to shed some new light on
the
murders. The FBI had closed down the Spa for a few months,
questioned
all of the staff and gone over all of the couple's
cabins
with
a fine tooth comb, still nothing. Agent Cunningham was one of
the
bureau's best Profilers and he had been asked to go over the
files
of all of the workers, none of them had fit the profiles and
so
he'd had to move on to more pressing cases. Until this morning
when
another couple had been found, a young navy diver and his wife
who
had been on their honeymoon. That was why he had called Gibbs,
now
it was his case and Agent Cunningham was more than happy to hand
it
over.
"Gibbs,
it's good to see you. Hey what happened to your
foot?"
Jeff
asked
as he stood up to shake Gibbs hand.
"Boating
accident, what have you got for me?" Gibbs sat down
across
from
Jeff and reached for the file that Jeff handed to him.
"Second
class diver Brian Crassey and his wife Julia Crassey were
found
along the property line of the Ying and Yang spa in
northern
California.
Crassey was stabbed and his wife was strangled."
"Local
authorities?" Gibbs questioned as he skimmed over the
file.
"Are
more than happy to hand over the reigns to you, as am I.
This
case
has us all stumped. How long will it take you to get your
team
ready?"
Gibbs
smiled, "How long will it take you to get the
documents
ready?"
Part 3
Tony
was sitting at Kate's desk typing on her computer when Gibbs
shouted
his name, making him jump in his chair and causing his knee
to
smack against the desk.
"Shit!"
He yelled as he grabbed his knee and attempted to
stand
up.
"What the hell was that for?"
"What
are you doing at Todd's desk?"
"Helping
her finish a report."
Gibbs
gave him a questioning look but walked over to his own
desk,
"Where is Kate by the way?"
"Down
in the lab with Abby. Hey where were you today?"
"I'll
explain in a minute, let's go down to the lab and
talk
to
Kate."
Gibbs began limping towards the elevator with Tony in tow.
"You
want me to carry you boss?"
"Ask
me something like that again and I'm going to tell Kate
you
were
screwing around on her computer."
In
the lab
Tony
and Gibbs walked into the lab and found Kate and Abby deep
in
conversation.
"Gibbs!
I heard about your little accident, Good to know I'm
not
the
only
one around here who sometimes likes it rough." Abby gave
Gibbs
a
mischievous look as Kate tried suppressing her laughter.
Gibbs
fixed his stare on Kate whose laughter quickly stopped. "I
swear
it wasn't me. If you're going to glare at someone,
glare
at
the
boy behind you with the one track mind."
Tony
opened his mouth to say something but Gibbs cut him off, "My
love
life besides we've got a knew case."
Tony
Kate and Abby listened intently as Gibbs explained to them
about
the case.
"So
when we headed to California boss?"
"As
soon as the FBI sends us some of the documents you guys are
going
to need."
Kate
gave Gibbs a suspicious look, "What documents?"
"Driving
Licenses, Credit Cards among other things."
"Whoa
Whoa Whoa! Why do we need all of this stuff boss?"
A
wicked grin spread over Gibbs face which made all of them
feel
uneasy.
"You
two are going under cover and posing as a married
couple."
"What?
No, no way am I going to pretend to be married to
that…"
"Whoa!
What the hell did I ever do to you?"
Gibbs
began walking out of the lab when he called back, "Well for
one
you were just screwing around on her computer."
"Tony!"
Gibbs
was still smiling as the elevator doors closed and he heard
Abby
yelling at Kate to be careful around her microscope and for
Tony
to stop using her as a shield.
