Chapter Ten: Buck
Buck Wilmington, around this time of year, was usually the type to be the one to give presents. This was probably the first year that someone had actually gotten something for him.
"Well," he put his hands on his hips. "This should have surprised me."
"Guess Buck's the next target," Nathan grinned as he ambled past. The medic glanced at the box on his friend's desk and shook his head. Whoever Tony's accomplice was, they were good.
No-one saw anyone arrive or leave the offices since the team left for lunch.
After the video conference with their NCIS counterparts, and hearing Ziva's thoughts about Tony, they were all pretty much convinced that Tony was their Serial Valentine. Vin was the only one who didn't know about anything since he was always being carted off by some team or group or other and his teammates didn't have the heart to keep him from having the fun he seemed to be enjoying.
And it sort of helped that he did, in fact, know who seemed to be giving them presents, or at least who the accomplice was. The others did, after all, swear to keep from asking pestering questions…
Soon, the other four were there, gathered around the box on Buck's desk.
"Well," JD questioned. "Aren't ya gonna open it?"
It really wasn't much to look at. An ordinary thin box that seemed to have nothing in it at all. When Buck opened it, however, it revealed two tickets to an upcoming concert in Nashville, Tennessee. A concert that hadn't even begun selling tickets for, the same concert that Buck was salivating over since he had heard about it around Thanksgiving…
"They're good," Buck shook his head, eyes excited as he picked up the pair of tickets. One for him and one for either an old friend or one of his many lady friends… It wasn't nearly as hard as he first thought to choose between them. "Whoever Rookie managed to lasso in… They're good…"