AN: Shameless not quite Tiva. This is my entry for part two of the Write the Wrong challenge. More of a character study than anything.
Yoga and the Fine Art of Perception
Weasley's Revenge
Of all the possibilities that had struck him, when the call came in at five AM, this was definitely not one of them. When the dispatcher had said "yoga accident" he wasn't sure what to expect, but this sure wasn't it.
Anthony DiNozzo had been with NCIS for eight long years, and never once had he come close to seeing anything this bizarre. Sure he'd seen acid trips gone bad, a Koala on a submarine; hell, one time he'd worked a case where a Petty Officer, consumed with grief, tried to burn himself along with his dead wife. But never anything like this.
He wasn't sure if the emotion bubbling inside of him was amusement or sadness, or maybe it was last-night's dinner that was making him feel so uneasy.
He felt bad for her sure; the poor woman was only trying to find some peace.
His internal soliloquy was interrupted by an accented voice. "What, Tony? Never seen yoga go bad?" She teased him lightly.
"I'm not sure whether I should cry or laugh," he stated in a very serious tone. The pose she was stuck in was funny enough, but the fact she was dead made the situation decidedly less than amusing for him.
"I'm going to laugh. I have done this pose before, and cannot figure out why—or how—for that matter it went so wrong. It is one of the easiest poses…" she continued to field out her reasons for being so befuddled, but he stopped listening.
"Not that, Z, It says a lot about modern culture." He tried to be very serious again.
"What that everyone is fat and inflexible." She teased him.
"If you'll give me my moment, I was just thinking about how, even when someone is trying to find peace, they can't. That's the way the world is today." His answer was succinct and well thought out.
"Tony, today is no different than any other. Peace comes only when you let it." Her speech done she snapped a picture of the scene, "In the meantime, I'm going to shoot these photos."
He nodded at her assessment. "Yes, Zen master, of course you are correct." She hit him admonishingly on the arm.
"Bag and tag, idiot." She smiled at her teammate. Maybe, she decided, Tony is deeper than he usually lets on, and all it took was a yoga pose gone badly.
AN: Not my usual but I quite like it. Please leave a review.