Title: Colby Hates Twitter
Characters: Colby Granger, Don Eppes
Rating: PG
Spoilers: 3x24 Janus List, 6x03 7 Men Out (sort of)
Beta: Unbetaed. All mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: I do not own Numb3rs and/or anything related to it.
Author Notes: Finished! Thanks for those who read and reviews! Made me happy... :)

Colby yawned as he read the information off his computer screen. After the little incident last week, Don said he wasn't going to punish him for taking a dive at the pond, while in truth was he got stuck doing desk job for a week, so far.

So, while Don went to see Charlie to find out if the professor had something new for their current case and David, Nikki, and Liz went to interview a suspect, he got stuck with another background search.

Awesome!

Opening a new window, he opened his Twitter account. He figured, a quick look wouldn't hurt, since no one on the team was at the office.

Sadly, Carr was.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" The agent spoke, made Colby remembered what happened last week and he had to fight the urge to snap at the guy.

"Well, at least I'm not reading it out loud!" Colby said instead, without looking away from his monitor.

"I didn't think I spoke that loud, okay?" Carr defended himself, for the umpteenth time. "He'd find out from Dispatch anyway."

"Carr, get lost," Colby replied in annoyance. He knew it didn't matter but he was annoyed that he got stuck inside the office. If the other agent didn't walk away soon, he didn't want to think what he might do to him.

Carr said something under his breath as he left, which Colby didn't hear. He didn't want to know. He was just glad the guy decided to leave him alone.

Signing in, he saw a follow request. He went to see who wanted to follow him. If it was a possible spam account, he'd reject the follow request. If not, well, he'd still check who the heck it was. He wouldn't just add anyone he didn't know.

DAE_Feds

Colby frowned at the account name.

Feds? Federal agent?

He clicked on the account name. It had very little update, only had five, and mostly was about what the person saw on the road. And a useless first tweet as a sign that the account was active.

Colby's frown deepened. The user didn't put anything on the bio so he couldn't guess whether it was safe to accept or not. The person had only small amount of follower, and following list. It was actually balanced between the two lists, so most likely the accounts that this person followed, the person got a follow back.

The agent decided to see who that user was following, so he could make a better judgment and decided it was better to accept or reject. Most accounts were safe. They were real accounts, and not spam or anything. In fact, most of them, Colby himself was following. So it was obviously quite safe for him to accept the request and followed the user back.

Now he was really curious. Nothing on the profile could make Colby figured out who the user was. But that user followed most accounts that Colby was following. And because he hadn't found any accounts from his old friends, most accounts on his following list were FBI agents. So it was safe to say that this DAE_Feds was an FBI agent as well.

But who?

"Colby, got anything?"

Don's voice surprised the hell out of him. Colby quickly closed his Twitter page and looked up to see Don already standing next to his cubicle. "Uh, nah. Jacobs is clean. So are Carver and Donovan," he immediately answered. His heart was beating so fast, he thought it would burst out of his chest.

Don frowned at him. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Colby quickly replied. Too quickly.

Don studied the other agent in curiosity. Something was definitely bothering him. "Are you sure?"

"Well, can you tell me how long I'm gonna stuck here?" Colby asked, just to distract his boss from finding out about him opening Twitter instead of doing checks. Why should I care about that anyway? he quietly thought.

Colby didn't like Don's smirk before the guy walked away. The younger agent rolled his eyes and went back to his computer screen. Then a sudden thought occurred to him. Back when he was undercover, he checked the files of his team. He did it reluctantly, but he read them. And Don's full name was Don Andrew Eppes.

D. A. E.

He looked up sharply to see Don got busy with his phone as the agent made his way to the elevator. The Idaho-boy had a very bad feeling. He opened his Twitter account, opened the page of DAE_Feds and saw an update. A very recent update.

DAE_Feds Someone wants fresh air. Might not happen anytime soon though…

Looking up again, he saw Don looking towards the general direction of his desk. Actually, he was looking at his desk. Colby just smiled, a very stupid smile, he was sure of that.

Don made no respond as the elevator door opened and he went in. Either he ignored Colby's smile or didn't see it. Either way, it didn't matter. Colby waited until the door was closed before looking back to his monitor. He had a worried look on his face.

Damn! Accept or reject?

Note: I can't think of anything better to use as Don's account name that wouldn't give him up the moment Colby saw the account name. A bit uncreative, I know... ;P Anyway, thanks for reading this til the end. :)