Thanks to all those who reviewed, it made me feel special :) I am glad this is going so well, and I had fun writing this. This chapter is pretty much a background, but next chapter will be more eventful, and it will have my darling Abby in there as well

Disclaimer: as usual, I own nada, David Belassario does

Again, all mistakes are mine

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All seems calm in the NCIS bull pin, Agent Gibbs is in with the Director and Agent Dinozzo is upstairs talking to our witness Josh, and Agent's McGee and David were helping me sift through the crime photos. Agent McGee finds the picture I wanted and I ask him if he would get a close up on the car that was sitting in the parking lot behind the gate at the scene. Agent David goes to update the BOLO when I hear the voice of the third Agent working under Gibbs, Tony DiNozzo.

"BOLO for what?"

"Well we cleared the course and headed everyone as they left but we don't have any record of this 99 Toyota leaving, the owners a Greens keeper at the club."

Just then Agent McGee steps in and throws an idea out as to why we didn't see his escape. Before I could get another word in, Agent DiNozzo speaks once again.

"Good catch McGee." McGee? Does he not think I am competent enough to find something like this? He is almost as bad as Gibbs

"Ah, actually it was my catch."

Before he could get another word in I walk over to McGee but out of the corner of my eye I saw Agent DiNozzo mock me and I knew at that moment that him and I weren't going to get along. No more than a minute later I hear the slightly irritated voice of Agent Gibbs and I look up to see his standing there with the Director.

"Well that was weird, I thought, you were, still up in MTAC"

"What do you want?"

"Um…..we….."

"We just found an unaccounted for vehicle from the Navy Club"

I see him shut his phone and walk down the stairs but as I watched him I could just feel the glare from the Director, but I decided to ignore it and walk off with his team to go find the Toyota.


As we arrive at the scene I see the owner is in custody which makes me breathe a sigh of relief. As we get out of the car I see Agent Gibbs tell Agent DiNozzo to go interview the suspect, but I inform him that he is already in CID custody and that my people will handle it. Of course, he doesn't take well to information like that so he just turns to Agent DiNozzo and asks what he is still doing there. Of course he doesn't listen to me, what was I thinking?

"Divorced right?"

"Three times"

I scoff at that, and just look at him.

"Only three?" I watch on as the drug dog starts barking and my men get ready to take action but still intend to keep the conversation with Agent Gibbs

"Well I will be sure to let my superiors know how you assisted."

I turn back to my team, fully unaware of the smirk that Agent Gibbs just threw at me, and watch as they unload a bundle of Marijuana. I turn to Agent Gibbs and see him smiling so I look back at the bundle.

"Okay, drugs, that still doesn't mean he didn't planted the bomb"

From the smirk that reemerged from his face I could tell that what would be coming out of his mouth would be something that I would dislike.

"Well you can have that interrogation"

I smirk, believing he is done but he threw over his shoulder how he was going to look for who did. I turn back to my team, but his smile just bugged me. He seemed way to glad to send the interrogation my way, but I couldn't do anything about so I would just wait until later to bring it up.


Little did I know that later would be down in his basement, but the insufferable bastard just wouldn't leave my mind, so I knew I had to confront him. I walk up to his front door and ring the doorbell, he doesn't answer, which doesn't surprise me one bit. I ring it again, and again, three minutes later I decide that enough is enough and I turn the door knob, surprised to find that it wasn't locked. Of course, what was I thinking, this was Agent Gibbs, why would he keep his door locked?

I walk into the house to find it dark. I go to call his name again but as I do I see a sliver of light coming from downstairs, I walk up to it and open the door to find stairs, as I enter I see him there, standing by what appears to be a boat.

"Agent Gibbs, I….I've been ringing your bell for the past three minutes"

"Yeah, I've been meaning to fix that" I let that one slide and start walking down the stairs

"Well the door was unlocked so…" I didn't have time to finish my thought because he interrupted me, not surprising.

"So this would be trespassing and not breaking and entering?"

I muttered an uh-huh as I looked around his basement. I was darkly lit but I could see well enough, he has tools strewn about here and there, I noticed there wasn't any technology around, as I walk over to him I can see him painting in words, I look upside down and see the word Kelly.

"Kelly?"

"Is there a reason you broke into my house?"

"This is a joint investigation, I thought we could share information" I see him put down the paint brush, roll his eyes, and look up at me

"Beer?"

"Beer? Wha….I…." I didn't have time to finish, my confusion clearly shown because he pointed to his desk. I took a bottle and started opening it, but continued my conversation.

"I got the results on the swabs from the Toyota. There were traces of diesel fuel and uh fertilizer" Man, he has a nice butt, wait, I shouldn't be thinking this…focus Hollis, focus

"Same thing that McVeigh used to blow up the Federal Building in Oklahoma"

"Yeah. Guy driving the Toyota was a greens keeper"

I run my hand across the polished wood of the side of his boat

"I know. He's around fertilizer and diesel fuel all day. It was a bad lead. Anything you'd like to share?"

"I've got some sardines upstairs"

"I meant about the case. But then you knew that"

I found it sad that I knew him well enough to know that he knew I was talking about the case. I walk around a little and then it clicked.

"Girlfriend Is Kelly your girlfriend?"

He just looks at me and shakes his head, but it is the look in his eyes that told me that I should back off, and if I would have known then that I knew now, I wouldn't have touched the subject again. I stare at him, defeated.

"Okay, look. C.I.D. intel did a profile on you for me. I know you flaunt authority, especially in front of a female"

"A female write that, too?"

"Yeah. She also wrote you were a sniper, a good one, but your eyesight's shot. You're injury-prone, if not in a state of near death-wish fulfillment. And though you're pressured and impatient, you're also passionate and loyal, in spite of the fact that you don't trust anyone"

I scratch at some chipping towards the top of the boat, but before I could go on he puts his hand on mine and moves it away from the boat. I tried to stop the fluttering in my heart but it didn't help so I just go for the stare.

"You are going to have to trust me"

"Is there anything I should know about you before we get involved?"

I just stare at him, a million things running though my mind. And not one of them dealing with the case.

"Involved?"

"In the case"

I keep my voice as level and professional as possible, but my heart is beating so hard, why am I feeling like this?

"You can have NCIS Intel do a profile on me if you'd like"

"Oh, I could"

I just stare at him, okay, is this how it is going to be? Akward tension that neither of us want to deal with? He then looks up at me, his custom smirk on his face.

"But I like surprises"

He turns back to his boat and I roll my eyes and take a long swig of my beer. Yep, this was going to be a long case


*poof*

up next - they almost get blown up, and Mann meets the infamous Abby.

hoping to get this up by tomorrow before I leave for a trip with my best friend

hope yal liked it.

peace