Sorry that this has taken so long for me to post, writers block is a right annoying thing! This chapter is based on the episode 'Sandblast' with my own twist, hope this will make up for the waiting ^_^
Chapter 6
Gibbs and the team had been called to their latest crime scene, a golf course. One of the bunkers had been rigged with an explosive and unfortunately it had been tripped by a father and son golf team, killing the father; Colonel Fredrick Cooper. The team had just pulled up at the course to find bomb experts combing the area to try and find anymore explosives left un-tripped.
"Oh great." McGee moaned. The team looked at him. "Poison ivy, just looking at it brings me out in a rash." Tony chuckled.
"Well don't look at it McGee; take DiNozzo and search the perimeter." Gibbs's attention was turned from his team to the army uniformed personnel standing in front of him.
'Great.' Gibbs thought. Suddenly his attention was captured by a voice from behind him.
"Agent Gibbs?" Gibbs turned around to find a female army officer standing behind him. She held out her hand.
"Lt Cornel Hollis Mann, Army CID." Gibbs shook her hand. She gestured to Ziva who was crouched a little away from Gibbs, inspecting something in the grass.
"Officer Ziva David?" She questioned. "Army Criminal Investigative Division has excellent intel."
"Good. You can use it to support our investigation." Gibbs said walking towards Ziva, slightly ignoring her.
"Our joint investigation." She replied following him. "With army in the lead. This isn't the Navy Army club; it's the Army Navy club." Hollis said emphasizing the 'Army' part of her sentence. Gibbs walked towards the bunker.
"That is a dead marine, at the Army Navy club." Cornel Mann looked at the body, a sad expression on her face.
"The Cornel's son said he saw what he thought was a spider web in the sandtrap."
"Bunker." Gibbs interrupted.
"What?"
"It's called a bunker, not a sandtrap."
"A trip wire?" Ziva called.
"Possibly, as you can see there isn't much left to go on." Hollis sad sadly, nodding her head towards the bunker. "Of course there is a lot of ground to cover."
"18 holes." Gibbs added.
"Wanna split up and search?" Hollis asked.
"Sure. My team will take the crime scene; yours can have all the others." Gibbs said with a smile. Hollis smiled.
"You're not taking away my crime scene, end of story." Ziva looked up at Gibbs's battle with Hollis Mann.
'Jenny isn't going to like this!' She thought.
"But if you ask nicely," Hollis continued, "I'll let you have the body." Gibbs turned his head when he heard the engine of a van cutting out. He smiled.
"I don't have to ask as my ME got here first." He nodded in Ducky's direction.
Hollis crossed her arms.
'Oh yeah, Jenny is really not going to like this!' Ziva smiled to herself.
"If this is going to be a pissing match, you had better have bought your umbrella." Hollis said with a smile in Gibbs's direction.
The conversation was interrupted by DiNozzo's cries from the edge of the bunker.
"Got some good news Boss!" He said heading in their direction. Ziva lowered her head and swallowed her laugh.
"Did I miss something?" He whispered to Ziva.
"If he wasn't already married, Gibbs would have just found ex-wife number 5." Tony's eyes widened.
"What have you got DiNozzo?" Tony smiled at Ziva.
"Found this outside the blast radius. It must have got carried, looks like part of a detonator."
"I checked the neighboring tee's myself." Cornel Mann butted in. Tony smirked at her.
"Well maybe you should have checked the trash cans?!" Tony said in his sarcastic tone. "Looks like a hole in one boss." He said dropping the evidence into Gibbs's waiting bag.
"Nice work."
"Thanks." Hollis looked shifty.
Ducky had taken the body back to NCIS HQ and was examining it, when Gibbs and Hollis arrived in autopsy.
"But I forget to follow through, and the ball just goes a couple of feet! Not nearly as far as you travelled, my friend." Ducky said to his patient.
"Talking to himself?" Hollis whispered to Gibbs.
"The body." Gibbs said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Ducky, who had obviously heard them turned to greet his visitors.
"Cornel, your CO requested copies of my autopsy reports, which he shall have." Ducky said.
"And the report is…" Gibbs asked.
"Well, cause of death was explosive dismemberment." Ducky said holding up one of the victim's feet.
"Yeah got that part." Gibbs said. Ducky gave him a look.
"What we don't have are any traceable fragments from the explosion." Hollis slipped in, trying to defuse the tension.
"Yes Abby was complaining about the evidence, which you collected for her, present company accepted of course." He said to the body.
"Bomb shell was plastic Duck…"
"Which means the fragments disintegrated." Hollis ended his sentence.
"Yes." Ducky said with a smile. "But not all of them. I managed to pull a few fragments from our body. The water in his body managed to cool them down before they disintegrated allowing you some evidence." He pasted Hollis a small evidence jar containing some of the small fragments he had pull out of the body.
"Get it to Abby." Gibbs said walking out. Hollis nodded a thank you, and headed after him.
Gibbs and Jenny walked out of M-TAC, and stood on the balcony overlooking the Bull-Pen.
"Is it just me or did the Sec-Nav seem nervous?" Jenny said with a sad expression. Gibbs just gave her a look. She smiled before her eyes were caught by Hollis talking to McGee.
"What's she like?" She asked. "Is she up to the job?"
"I'll let you know." Gibbs said with a cocky grin.
"What?" Jenny asked.
"Jealous?" Gibbs asked with a smirk. Jenny playfully hit him on the arm.
"Don't need to be. My husband knows what will happen to him if he so much a flirted with another woman."
"Yeah, the couch does feel a bit lumpy sleeping on it." Gibbs said with a smile as he went to answer his ringing phone.
"Gibbs."
"Hey boss, it's DiNozzo." Gibbs dropped the phone from his ear, and whistled loudly.
"Up here DiNozzo." He waved as Tony chuckled.
"That's weird 'cause I thought you were still in M-TAC…" Tony said sheepishly.
"What DiNozzo?"
"Erm we…"
"Just found an unaccounted for vehicle from the Army Navy club." Hollis finished.
"What she said boss." Tony added quietly. Ziva through a smile at Tony, he smiled back, and walked over to Ziva's desk and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks." He whispered.
"You're welcome, my little hairy butt." She said with a chuckle. Hollis looked at the two of them, her eyes widening with realisation of the nature of the relationship between the partners. She looked back at McGee who was busy typing on his computer, updating the bolo they had out, and then turned her head back to Gibbs, who was talking with Jenny, who all of a sudden let out a laugh.
'What is going on here?' She whispered to herself.
"Do you think she had figured Tony and Ziva out?" Jenny asked nodding her head towards the Bull-Pen. Gibbs smiled at her.
"I think the whole of the agency had clocked what is going on between Tony and Ziva." They slowly walked over to the door to Jenny's office.
"What do you fancy doing for your birthday next week Jen?" He asked placing a hand on her arm. Jenny smiled.
"Oh how about a night with my husband on a private island somewhere?" Gibbs laughed.
"That could be arranged." He said in a low tone. Now it was Jenny's turn to smile.
"You know I will be just as happy with a night in, with my 2 favourite girls and my 2 favourite guys. Maybe we could invite the team and go out for dinner at some point, but I would love to spend my actual birthday with family." Gibbs smiled.
"Maybe dad could come up from Stillwater and we could make it a birthday weekend? Dinner with the team and family on Saturday and we could go out just the two of us on Sunday?" Jenny pushed open her office door and pulled Gibbs inside.
"Sounds perfect." She said and kissed him. Gibbs kissed back, unfortunately then his phone rang.
"Damn it." Jenny laughed.
"Don't worry; we can finish this off later tonight." Gibbs smiled and answered his phone.
"Gibbs… I'll be right there Tony." And after kissing his wife a quick goodbye, he left.
Gibbs, Tony and Hollis pulled up underneath a bridge on the outskirts of the town. The bolo had come back with a hit after someone had spotted the car they had been looking for which had been unaccounted for at the Army Navy Club and they had come to investigate. Army officers had already arrested the driver of the car they had come to search and the dog they had called was barking waiting to get into his job.
"DiNozzo." Gibbs said gesturing to the prisoner.
"Army CID has it covered Agent Gibbs, I'M sure they can handle the interrogation." Tony was unsure of what to do. Gibbs turned to him, and Tony quickly left to follow the prisoner. Hollis rolled her eyes, before deciding to ask her question.
"Divorced right?" Gibbs decided to humour her.
"Twice." He said technically not telling her a lie.
"Only twice?" Hollis smiled. 'So he's free' she thought to herself.
"I'll be sure to let my superiors know how you assisted in the case." She said nodding towards the car, her way of telling Gibbs she thought the case would soon be over.
The army officers popped the trunk of the car, and a package was seen. The officers scrambled over the package, before shouting the all clear. Gibbs and Hollis walked over to the car. One of the officers pulled a something out of the car, throwing it onto the floor.
"Marijuana." He called out.
"Ok drugs." Hollis said, hands in her pockets. "Doesn't mean he didn't plant the bomb." Gibbs just smiled.
"You can have that interrogation," he said putting his hands in his pockets and walking away.
"I'll go look for the guy who killed our marine."
And there is the first part of my next set of chapters. I want to try and draw the relationship between Hollis and Gibbs out a bit, before I bring it all crashing down for Hollis. I've never really liked her as a character, purely because she came between Gibbs and Jenny, sorry but I will always be a Jibbs forever fan! Anyway as always read and review and I will have a new chapter up soon. Hopefully with everything dying down a bit at school and work, I can get back into a regular writing schedule.
Beth ^_^