A/N: Okay chapter 4...finally I hear you scream. I have been rather busy lately and I had only written half of the chapter. But now…it is complete. Enjoy ;oP
Disclaimer: Don't own a thing. "I'm gonna smack you so hard your grandchildren will feel it." - (probably not the exact words but hey!) I know that this quote isn't in this episode but it was the best line I could think of to use. God bless Abby ^_^
The Mummy and His Money - Chapter 4 - The Crooked Mummy?
DiNozzo had gone out to the safety centre to find out where there mysterious pod had come from. Caitlin and Jethro were alone in the bullpen. Kate was looking for Lt. Schilz service records and Gibbs was…Gibbs was watching Kate. "Quit staring." Kate said, not looking away from her computer screen.
"I'm not staring. Merely making sure you were ok."
"For 36 minutes? I call it staring."
"Okay, so maybe I'm a little distracted." he confessed.
"You've been hovering around me and staring at me for the past few weeks." she got up from her computer and picked up some papers off the printer and walked over to her husbands desk with a file.
"I just want you to-"
"Take it easy?" she cut in.
"Exactly. I don't want you to over exert yourself. Not in your condition." she rolled her eyes at his statement.
"It's not a condition. I'm pregnant."
"What's that?" he asked, pointing to the blue file in her hand changing the subject. The last thing he wanted to do was aggravate his pregnant wife.
She leisurely dropped the file on his desk. "This is lieutenant Schilz's service record. Reported missing at sea off the Eisenhower."
Jethro smiled at his wife and passed her the file back. "Amend it. He's no longer missing."
"The carrier was a day out of Norfolk at the end of a six-moth deployment in the med."
Jethro got up and went over to the filing cabinet to get a file, "When was that?"
"Erm," she scanned the document, "March 4, 1994. Declared a deserter 30 days later and received a dishonourable discharge."
Gibbs shook his head, "Dishonourable?"
"He was charged in absentia, with theft of government property." she clarified.
He moved away from the cabinet to his desk, "The cargo-pod."
"Ha, nope $1.2 million from the Eisenhower's safe. He was the Disbursing Officer." Jethro spun 'round and joined his wife to look at the file.
Tony emerged from the elevator, practically shouting over to Kate and Gibbs, "I've spent 3 riveting hours at the safety centre, sorting through squadron records." he put his bag on his chair, "And I found the aircraft that dropped the pod." he said triumphantly, grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
"Well?"
"An F-14 Tomcat."
Kate and Gibbs continued to look through the file. Gibbs walked back behind his desk, file in hand, "From a squadron on the Eisenhower?" he asked.
"Yeah," he looked faintly surprised by the question, "VF-212. The Red Wolves" he curiously made his way to his boss' desk.
"Coming home from deployment?" Caitlin asked, flicking through papers.
He eyed her up for a moment, 'They already know?' "Yeah, after six moths in the Med. Do you know the names of the Tomcat crew?" 'What the heck?"
"It's safe to say that Lt. Schilz wasn't one of them." Gibbs chipped in. DiNozzo looked between his boss and co-worker in amazement.
"Why ride in a pod when you got a seat in the cockpit?" Jethro looked up and smiled at his wife. They were enjoying teasing Tony. He could see it in her eyes and no doubt she saw the same in his.
He continued to look between the two wondering what it was he was missing, "The pilot was a Lieutenant Commander Farnsworth."
"Ha, good news Commander, it might have taken 10 years but we've located your luggage." Jethro laughed lightly at her comment. He loved her sense of humour, and her sarcasm too. He remembered the time when she'd dragged him out for a drink one night after he had finished work. They weren't married yet, nor engaged. She had excused herself to go to the ladies and when she returned she saw some woman chatting him up. She had fire in her eyes as she marched right up to them, "Excuse me, can I help you?" she asked the woman.
"No thanks. I'm fine."
"Yeah? Well I'm not!" she seethed at the woman, "Do you wanna step away from my boyfriend? Or am I gonna have to remove you?"
"Make your move." the woman dared her.
Jethro kept silent, the best thing to do where an angry woman or in this case women are concerned.
"Ok, I'll give you three seconds to get lost."
"Or what?" the woman stared icily at her.
"Or I'm gonna smack you so hard your grandchildren will feel it." The woman wore a smirk across her face but once she caught the menacing look in Caitlin's eyes it disappeared and so did she.
"Wow." was all he could say. She smiled sweetly, gave him a quick kiss on the lips, took his hand and dragged him off to the bar. "I think I need a drink, and you're just the man to buy me one since I rescued you." He couldn't help but smile and agree.
Back to the present. "Lt Cmdr Farnsworth's RIO, Lt Lynch, is the owner f the golf clubs."
Caitlin stood behind her desk with a questioning look, "RIO?"
DiNozzo looked pleased, 'Ha, something she didn't know.' "Yeah stands for Radar Intercept Officer. A.K.A a GIBS, one 'B'." he looked at Gibbs, "That's short for 'Guy In Back'" Caitlin rolled her eyes, 'show off'.
"Hey, question for you boss. Why do you have 2 'B's'?"
"The second one's for 'Bastard'." Kate said before her husband could. They shared a smile.
"What else you got, Tony?"
"The VF-212 flew off from the Eisenhower for Pax River, the day before she docked at Norfolk."
"'She?". It's named after Dwight David Eisenhower for God's sake."
"Maybe, she was named for Mamie."
Gibbs stared intently at his computer screen, ignoring the banter coming from his agents. "Flight path took'em over lower Maryland."
"That's where the Tomcat lost the pod." Tony said looking at the map on the plasma. "Nobody reported being whacked on the head by a cargo pod, so a cursory search was done and then it was wrote off."
"This was spring of '94?" Gibbs asked, he knew the answer but there was no harm in being thorough.
Tony turned to face his boss, "Nahah," he said pointing and wagging his finger at Gibbs, "Either Abby estimated how long that pod's been in the ground or Ducky figured out how long it took for our mummy to mummify?"
"Nope."
Tony sighed, "Ok, How'd you know what date?"
"I pulled our Lieutenant's service record."
He looked at her, "Oh, so you took the easy way."
"Not so easy. Our mummy went UA with $1.2 million."
"He was the Eisenhower's disbursing officer." they filled him in.
"So our mummy is a crook."
"Who tried to make a getaway in a cargo pod?"
"Why not?" Tony asked, yup he was definitely missing something.
"At 30,000 feet the air is cold and thin. He'd know that." Tony nodded in agreement, "And where's the money. It wasn't in the pod and if it was Abby would be screaming 'Lotto' already."
"Good point."
"On Lt Schils' service record it was reported as never found."
"Tony, I want you to pull our files on the investigation since you're an expert on looking up names." Tony looked up from his cell phone, "And stop texting or whatever the hell it is you're doing."
"Yes boss." he stuffed the cell into his jacket pocket.
"I wanna talk to the NCIS special agent onboard in '94." Gibbs turned to walk away.
"What if they're not with us?"
Gibbs spun back 'round , "I wanna talk to," "the NCIS Special Agent onboard in '94." Gibbs and DiNozzo said in unison.
Tony crossed the bullpen back to his desk and mumbled incoherently to himself.
Before completely leaving the bullpen Jethro turned to his wife, "Our mummy had a wedding ring."
"And a wife to go with it."
"You got a current address yet?"
"No, not yet."
"Work on it." she nodded at her husband, he loved being the boss. "Oh, and god work, Katie." he winked at her and left to go and see Ducky.
Kate sat at her desk, smiling. "It's only because you're his wife." Tony remarked.
"You struck me as the jealous type, DiNozzo."
"I'm not jealous!" he frowned and decided to set off to work.
"He'll probably give you a 'good job, DiNozzo' if you can prove to be an expert on looking up names."
"Grr." he growled. She smiled her sweetest smile at him. He mumble something to himself again and Caitlin couldn't help but chuckle.
A/N2: What'dya think? Let me know ;oP
